caffeinated discoveries

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

The more you learn about submersibles, the stupider the OceanGate fiasco gets. While Titan was going for the highly immersive Titanic experience, Fendouzhe was helping researchers explore a massive trench in the sea floor with hundreds of fossils dating to as far as 5.3 million years ago, on top of an already impressive list of other accomplishments.

i genuinely don't think there's much, if anything, hotter than someone clearly having a blast doing something they're really good at. doesn't really matter what it is. the combo of competence and joy is absolutely lethal to me

problem i have is whenever i read write say or hear "sugar baby" my brain is like oh yeah, i know what that is! pretty sure we can reliably derive meaning for this term based on other definitions that precede it in our internal lexicon, like "sugar glider" and "bush baby". we are definitely talking about some kind of small arboreal marsupial with large eyes. it's probably not ethical for this wealthy patron to be keeping one as a pet

"'Effect' is a noun, and 'affect' is a verb," reprimanded the schoolteacher. The students merely looked on with dull affect, bearing no genuine desire to effect change in their own vocabularies.