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I was in the Philippines crashing at my homegirl's plate and I saw a shadow move behind me in the TV reflection. TELL ME WHY she told me the next morning 'Oh that's my grandma. She usually stays upstairs but I guess she was curious about you.'

Terrible idea. You're going to end up having to slowly ride it down while attacked by multiple waves of leaping/flying enemies without cover.

The Heaven’s Gate article tucked into the corner feels like a harbinger of what’s to come

My 3yo is basically having a full-on intellectual meltdown about the grocery store self-checkout machines that say “closed” and can’t be used. “The adults can’t keep these machines operational for arbitrary, inscrutable reasons. What other incompetences are they hiding from me?”

People out here inventing new, unnecessary failure modes. I do not want my car door to need its camera repaired. I do not want to bring a hairdryer outside to unfreeze my flush-with-the-car handle

"Darkness. A crowd of people with jerry cans and bottles greet a water tanker with enthusiastic cries. No, this isn't Africa. Not Sudan, not Mali. This is a city that recently hosted the Euros and concerts by Rihanna and Beyoncé. 1/3

It is the 20s, goons cross the Canadian border to buy legal goods and smuggle them back home for illegal distribution It is the 20s, goons cross the Canadian border to buy legal goods and smuggle them back home for illegal distribution

Totally ruins it when a fantasy story is revealed to take place on a named planet. Now it's "in space", making it sci fi

Your new yard has so much room for activities, Chesnyy @servicerotties 💕

What @theo ?

Periodic reminder that floating point sum is not associative. The order you sum floating numbers affects error accumulation.

10 years ago my hard drive died. i lost a lifetime of mp3s. but i still had the xlm file—yesterday my friend helped me convert it to csv; it felt like looking through a lost treasure chest. made a playlist of songs i had forgotten about but loved from my late teens to early 20s:

Amazing.

I did NOT read this as it was intended.

What is the humanities equivalent of "I liked math and then they added letters"

The fact that one of Bosnia and Herzegovina‘s two constituents is Bosnia and Herzegovina always feels like someone trying to disprove set theory. Would a set of Bosnias that don’t contain Bosnia contain itself?

There's no music during the firebombing scene in Grave of the Fireflies. There's no cinematic contrivances to make the scene more exciting or heart rending. It's eerily silent. Because that's what Takahata remembers from living through it as a child. The silence.

horrible for her if real but kinda a clever way to find out if someone uses your bathroom. the temptation to pop on and weigh yourself “just for fun” is probably strong for some people

Wait a second...the government is trying to absorb the Internet Archive? Is that what I'm reading here? Seems bad