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You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

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I guess a more general version of the point is that in the last 50-ish years, everyday language has borrowed more and more of both the terminology and structural features of technical language. This happens for a lot of reasons. But I think it's mostly not a good thing. For one, being abstract and technical is not actually very useful in the messy real world, where concepts are fuzzy and vague and most things of importance are not quantifiable. For another, if natural language borrows too much of the authority of science and the law, it might find that there's not enough left afterwards for science and the law to do what we need them to do.

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If you haven’t changed your url in years tell me why as someone in your same boat it’s for science

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well yeah, that's why whoever's working is ready to fight at any given shootout. makes perfect sense!

Finally watched the rest of the John Wick movies and was like wow, the writers really left themselves some world building conundrums now didn't they? I wonder what tumblr has to say about that, because y'all always have great takes on the background lore of things

And what do I find

xreader headcanons about how much John Wick likes tickles

GIVE ME THE HEADCANONS ABOUT THE ASSASSIN ECONOMY

Do they own the entire supply chain to mint the coins? Are there assassin gold mines? There's an entire telecom industry so there must be special kevlar factories and a whole faction dedicated to cleaning up bodies. The more I think about it the more Discworldian it becomes.

Like with everything riding on so much infrastructure and guild "services" there SHOULD be assassin insurance but the world is set up in such an eye-for-an-eye way that there CAN'T be traditional insurance so how do they maintain economic stability?

But then the police showing up in the first movie and never again implies that "under the table" is in fact a kind of alternate high logic/high wickedness fae dimension where they CAN always keep replacing killed leadership with new equally talented people, money doesn't actually matter in terms of basic necessities but it does matter in terms of status, and why the manager is always in.

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Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

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This is the most real MTG post of all time cause I'll give you one guess which of these two cards was an absolute menace in standard and had to be banned and which one hasn't seen any play since getting reprinted

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when you want to play your video games but dont have the energy for it its like who wants to be my proxy that does the gameplay while i watch and make every decision in the game from the comfort of my bed

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this also means you can erase the ink with any heat source, such as a clothes iron. My sister uses them to mark up sewing projects!

Today I learned that erasable pens aren't truly erasable. The eraser doesn't remove the ink from the paper, it just heats is up via friction causing a chemical reaction in the ink which turns it clear. Now I want to experiment with it, see of the clear ink will oxidize over time and reappear.

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is this orange or yellow.

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labubu matata

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i cant believe this

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The government in your traditional, steampunk setting, has decided to put a steep bounty on any rust monster.

This goes about as well, as this sort of thing tends to.

­From my knowledge of history, this will only end with happiness!

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lovely friends and gorgeous people of tumblr.com, i invite you to please reblog this post and put in the tags something that has brought you happiness lately! anything at all, any joy, slight or miraculous, wholly at your discretion!

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animation seems hard i deadass can't tell the difference

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Anyone else fuck with individual songs? Who is the artist? I dunno. What album is it from? Shut up. What year was it released? *tim allen grunt* What's the title of the track? Fuck you. But it goes like this: *poorly memorized chorus*

I love that song. Do not ask me anything about it.

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