Ad Astra Per Aspera

possible advantage of forcing students to study Shakespeare in highschool: Shakespeare is so old that he doesn't land on one side or the other of the culture war; so he is a compromise option. Plus, he is a classic, so any demands for censorship seems extra absurd. And in this way we can smuggle novel to them ideas to the highschool students.

this caption is so deceptive, this video is so much more than that

Opinions on the John Green bullying thing make an excellent arsehole test. Every time I've seen someone try to justify it or laugh it off or claim it wasn't a big deal or say he deserved it I've thought "huh I bet that person's an arsehole" and when I check their blog I've been proven right every single time.

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

maybe the problem is that people care about other people too much. so if you say, here's a political agenda that'll make you rich, they'll be like, wait, won't this also make other people rich? i don't want that. i'd rather have the other people be poor. i'm very sensitive to the condition of other people, you understand, such as people i read about in the newspaper, and people i hear about on tiktok – and i want them to be poor! ideally i'd be put in charge of making sure that the other people are poor, but someone's got to do it. whereas if you don't care about other people you're like, shit, i want to be rich! sign me up! what's the next thing that's as useful as the refrigerator, i want that. why isn't energy too cheap to meter, i want energy too cheap to meter. i want every disease to be cured because otherwise i might get one, et cetera. and the most politically viable way for me to get what i want is for the political order to make everyone else rich also, which i don't care about

New friends' regression to the mean: if you meet someone who is cool/wise/etc and make bids on that basis, you probably saw them at an unusually good time or at their strongest domain. As the friendship builds, you'll discover more worse-than-initial things about them than better-than-initial things.

Ah, that's the concise terminology for describing what I was trying to explain when talking about how whenever I discover a new band, oftentimes the first song of theirs I ever heard remains my favorite of their songs.

its crazy how if america goes down the drain theres no backup

isn’t that what USB is? backup for USA?

Despite President-General Thurston's efforts, the United States of Boise was never accepted as the legitimate continuation of the United States of America outside of the former borders of Idaho.

Me, passing a car covered in horny thirst-trap anime girl stickers: while I personally find this to be cringe, given the national push for censorship, I must concede that this is technically Praxis.

I am always thankful i don't have the type of mental illness that makes me incredibly dependent on the outcome of an ongoing entertainment property.

#of all the posts i've seen tagged with#project hail mary#this might be the funniest