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I recently got an on-campus job. During the interview process, I requested that I not be scheduled on Friday nights or Saturdays as I am a Jewish student.

My boss immeadiately brightened and rushed to explain - "Of course ! Of course! We want to accomodate you! We have another worker who takes off for Ramadan. Do you need to take off for Ramadan?"

I shook my head, incredibly confused. "Uh. That's. Not my jurisdiction. I'm good." Boss nodded but was sure to add "Let me know if that ever changes. We can help you with Ramadan."

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I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

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🐱 Devon Rex

📸 Nataliia Khudiakova [Cattery Magic Elite]

🎨 Cinnamon with White

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Kendrick Lamar x Not Like Us (Super Bowl)

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⬆️🔊😆 Stephen Fry settles the argument as only he can.

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tumblr user 1: i think we should listen to rap more

tumblr user 2: i am only two years oald and i like to listen to baba black sheep

tumblr user 3: i love rap songs they have on babaworld it is really awesome and i like to listen to them all of the time

tumblr user 4: can all of you shut up

tumblr user 5: i think i might be pregnant with bob dylan's baby and im feeling maternal rn

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Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl 2025 Halftime show

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its always Do you have a job and Do you have a boyfriend its never Hows your blog and How are your friends from your blog

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that tubi flesh hat ad was frankly uncalled for btw

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let’s whisper!

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let’s whisper!

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Me: man, all I have is a protein, rice, and sushi nori, what am I gonna eat that isn't just a boring plain rice bowl???

The humble onigiri: