As hard and as ruthless as a rose petal

the solution to the Mathematician's Lament is to teach calculus in early grade school if not kindergarten & i am being 100% unironic

mathematician's lament pdf on github

This is the moment where Grace lets go of Earth... Rocky is where his home is now and just doesn't know it yet.

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement

oh... that can't possibly be pareto efficient... that's scary...

Instead of the Monkey’s Paw, you find the Clown’s Nose, which instead of granting your wish in the worst way possible will grant it in the funniest way.

Item: the Cursed Clown Nose. Obviously to use it you have to put it on and give it a honk

okay no hang on because assuming it takes half a second for each bill, this would in fact take over five days of nonstop bills

wishing everyone over five days of nonstop bills 🥰✨

tv show. white man. hes sad. he has to do important thing but its hard. his girlfriend died probably. TWSIT!! theres another white man. maybe MORE. hes sad too but for different reason. its very deep probably. theyre best friends but not gay but maybe they are haha fandom!!! every girl dies or goes away. just not gay white man friend. 10 seasons 100 million viewers. what will moody white men do this week.

This post just turned 10 years old which is pretty fucked up actually. When I made this post people would say things like “actually supernatural only has 8 seasons” but here we are in 2023 so who’s laughing now. Not me I want to die

some days are really hard and it can be difficult to understand why. but usually its probably because my blood is haunted

friend described a moby dick opera, complained all the parts were men so it was missing a lot of the usual singing roles and now i cant stop thinking about a moby dick opera where the sea, the ship, the whales, the color white, (maybe the harpoons...?) etc are played by women