Pet peeve: People asking for high res photos instead of scans of ID.

You understand that this is a task designed to be almost impossible, right? Photo IDs are reflective. Unless you've got a very very well set up lighting rig, you're nearly guaranteed to have glare or shadow.

Science girl Physics in action

I love 'skill issue'. the more I think about problems in my life as skill issues the better my life gets. it's so good. most powerfully psychoactive meme I've been exposed to in a long time

succumbing to a progressive narrowing of things that are deemed healthy cannot itself be a healthy mindset

the best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. another good time would've been 29---

i actually can't even count how many better times there were than today due to the cardinality of the reals. Georg Cantor had to invent a new type of infinity to describe how hard you fucked up

'From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded'

If you believe this, then you cannot receive a gift without also feeling an obligation.