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Okay, but what if I've never plucked a rooster and I'm not too good at ping-pong, and I've never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall, and I've never kissed a chipmunk and I've never gotten head lice, and I've never been to Boston in the fall?

You're safe

artemis iii crew getting announced tomorrow everyone say your goodbyes to ryan gosling

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

big fan of "one william" as a quantity. keep it up

It makes me think of the mysterious Williamcoin I received in the mail recently.

holy shit, you found it. one william dollar.

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

Kid today (probably like 6 years) came up to me and was like "teacher teacher what's your name" and i was like "asha :) also im not a teacher" and he was like "okay asha asha asha I need help" and i was like "okay buddy what's wrong" and he showed me this chunk of metal he'd found sitting in the sun that he was just carrying around and it was super sharp and super hot from the sun and he was like "my hand hurts :(" and i was like "ok. put that down. does it still hurt?" And he did and was like "no." and then he picked it up again and immediately went "my hand hurts :(" again and then I was like "kid. put that down and stop touching it" and he was like "ok but when I touch it my hand hurts :(" and i was like "Please Just Stop Touching That. If you dont touch it your hand won't hurt" and this went on for like another 2 minutes before i got him to realize that if he stopped touching the metal it would not hurt. Kids are so fucking weird man

I'm going crazy — every time someone at work says "I use AI for X" they follow it up with "but it is often wrong and you have to double check it and correct it" WHY is adding an additional fact checking step a better process!! Listen to yourself!!

"i use it to search my notes" girl that's what ctrl+F is for!!!

the use of both "modern" and "timeless" to describe this act is truly something to behold

you start beating them and mid match they beyblade their fucking controller to their dominant hand

This is awesome! As someone who is really into traditional spinning and yarn making from natural materials its really cool to see different processes used with different plants

What I love about this is that it conveys the mindboggling amount of effort required to do fibre, especially fibre from plants. Like I appreciate this is a piece of gentle fiction in its own way, like all the calm pastural crafts videos, but even that can't hide the fact she was stripping bark for what felt like days. And the fiddly shit of setting up a loom, too. Just mad amounts of work.

And this is also actually a minimalist type of fiber processing. Linen, for instance, requires a lot more work to get the fibers out of the plant -- you have to let the stems rot to break them down. She also doesn't spin the ramie fibers at all, just uses them as threads.