we’ve got this umbrella and we’re not getting wet. we must not need the umbrella

one time a popsicle turned me bi

me reading LotR: such a shame that Denethor son of Ecthelion, Steward of Gondor, was driven to madness and despair by the misleading visions of the Palantír

me picking up my phone 5 seconds after waking up: alright, let’s see what fresh hell is going on in the world this morning

say you have 100 million dollars. you invest it very safely and conservatively and get a return of 5% per year. you now have a permanent income of 5 million a year, without doing anything to maintain it. 5 million a year is $13,700 per day.

if I were forced to try to spend on average $13,700 a day, I don’t know how I would do it without just giving most of it away. even after I’d satisfied my wildest fantasies there would be so much left over. to have that level of wealth and continue trying to get more should be treated as a mental illness

and that’s only 1% of 1%, i.e. one 10,000th, of a trillion dollars

a couple years ago basically this exact same story happened with Anne Hathaway. there was an interview in a British publication where she mentioned she was an arsenal fan and it was published with the headline “Anne Hathaway reveals she’s a secret gooner” which was received differently by audiences who are not familiar with British sports teams

the Anne Hathaway kind, or the to Anne Hathaway kind

they keep talking about how it’s for ecological protection but never explain what one thing has to do with the other. how does limiting umbrellas protect the environment?

I don’t understand how anyone is still pushing coal. shifting to renewable energy sources has been a national conversation for decades at this point, anyone who was heavily invested in fossil fuels has had plenty of time to diversify into clean energy and come out ahead through the transition. I could understand twenty years ago someone saying “no, we can’t switch to solar, I only own coal mines, I’ll lose so much money!” (I don’t endorse it, I think people who think like that are morally disgusting and the world would be better without them, but I understand why that would motivate their opinion). but if they haven’t seen which way the wind is blowing and invested in wind in all that time, they deserve whatever they get

I try to do an activity that requires attention, both mentally and physically; for me that’s usually playing guitar, but it could also be cooking, organizing, some kind of craft, whatever. usually what’s keeping me stressed out is thinking about how stressed out I am, so if I can distract myself from that and force myself to think about something else, it breaks the feedback loop, and doing something physical gets some energy out. not sure if it works for everyone, but it often helps me

the simple forms of conservation you probably learned in school are not entirely accurate. you probably learned that neither energy not matter can be created or destroyed; whatever you do, the mass you begin with will be the same as the mass you end with, and the same is true, separately, for energy. that’s not actually true; mass can be converted into energy, and vice versa. the correct form of conservation is that the combined mass-energy is constant. mass can be destroyed, but only if a proportional amount of energy is created. the coefficient of that proportionality is the square of the speed of light. that’s what E=mc² means. that’s how nuclear weapons work, and why they’re so powerful. c² is obviously a pretty big value, so when a small amount of matter is destroyed, it creates a large amount of energy

similarly, energy can be converted into mass, but doing so makes it much “smaller.” c² units of energy will become 1 unit of mass. and mass, of course, interacts with space-time

Seattle suburbs

I’ve often imagined a little comic strip where a dentist goes to the doctor. the doctor draws blood for tests, or gives an injection, or just pokes/cuts the dentist for no reason. the doctor then says “you’re bleeding because you don’t shower enough”

the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German “hoh mann” which is literally “tall man” (hoh is related to high)

E1, about 41.2Hz

hope they have simultaneous heart attacks on stage

so basically it’s a language problem, not a biology problem? people are incorrectly assuming that any group of species with a word to describe it must be monophyletic, and therefore include all unrelated species which would make it monophyletic?

are they gonna fix the bug where it didn’t turn everyone gay?

if the line at a cafe is long enough that the position of the sun will have noticably changed between the time I enter and the time I sit down, I’m probably just gonna go to a different cafe

too edgy?

three pieces of bread. the outer two each get pb on one side, the inner one gets j on both sides