There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

I go on Facebook once a year to check who still wishes me happy birthday. A few years ago I read a fascinating book on the Congolese Civil War, started looking up militia commanders who’d been interviewed, realised they all had Facebook accounts and started sending them friend

That's not how anorexia works, and GLP-1s aren't approved for kids. Don't pathologize a preteen or teenage girl's (extremely reasonable) attempts to control her overeating and desire to be healthy.

Last summer, my Uber driver to SFO insisted we listen to a "catch a cheater" radio show. The host calls suspected cheaters and baits them into sending a gift to their affair partner. He thought it was the funniest shit ever. I didn't have the heart to tell him I was poly 😅

Hypothesis: the cleanliness of your house is actually inversely proportional to the total amount of cleaning product you have under all your sinks

Remember that ICE sympathisers want the kind of society where if someone is hurt, you IGNORE THEM, you KEEP MOVING AND DON'T TURN TO LOOK, because it's probably a trap or a scam.

Texas nomad couple during their wedding wearing traditional clothing and a strange piece of jewelry called a "Cauwlt Revaulvah" which is a piece of metal jewelry meant to represent a mythical Texan weapon said to be able to kill a man from a hundred yards away

emojis can try but they will never embody the sheer, unadulterated joy like :D does

Allie ✞ But I don't think it's honest to go "this just means you have to show up in person" while also doing everything possible to make that completely illegal. This is intended to mean that no one can obtain early-in-pregnancy abortions at all; that is the objective.

Gianpaolo Your civilization has already ended when this is how you think about politics.

The whole "don't stab Jews because you can't know if they support Netanyahu's policies" is a terrible argument. You're actually allowed to have any opinions you want without getting stabbed. It used to be a whole thing we believed in the west. Don't cater to third worldism.

"Don't engage with that, it's rage bait from a monetized account in Nigeria" Oh and god forbid I help a Nigerian man feed his family.

The greatest thing I got from my time with hobbyist astronomy was the sense that eg Saturn is located relative to me. There is a direction that Saturn is and I can point to it if I am precise. Sometimes I would be pointing "down", but it is not in a separate magisteria.

Cool, you've outlawed MAiD. And the treatment still isn't covered. What now?

A new time capsule is buried in Lincoln State Park, Indiana, to be opened 25 years from now, in the distant year 2026.

"You'd rather have a recession than high inflation!? But you might lose your job and have to get a new one!" Oh, you mean the new job *I already had to get* just to keep pace with inflation???

Gero xlr8harder Very few people have that kind of money