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need to hire someone to follow me around constantly massaging my neck and shoulders

fuck IQ, poast AIME scores

I got... I think a 1? or a 3? lmfao

I was just happy to qualify 😭

"STEM majors are stupid and bad and evil b/c they've never taken a single humanities course" is definitely a take

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sometimes this argument makes sense but then sometimes it comes across like they think "humanities courses" are some sort of magical panacea that will fix whatever made-up problem they're complaining about.
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RT @halphelt
Petition to make humanities courses mandatory in any stem field so that scientists can stop spitting this hogwash
twitter.com/halphelt/status/13

it's getting warm and I don't like it

what I want is the appearance of warm weather (sun shining brightly, birds singing, everything in full bloom) but like... in a range of 55-68°F and no warmer. please.

oh and also no pollen, that'd be pretty dope too

RT @__justplaying
@cheascake the original word is "mansplain"; "explain" is the gender-neutral version you can see it from the x

ovarian reserve testing is just counting your eggs before they hatch

so I think part of why I love reminiscing about 90s American kid culture is that it helps me find & focus on those shared threads, as trite as they themselves may be. helps me feel "included", retroactively.

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a big part of this is how disconnected from the culture I felt growing up as an immigrant. took a while to learn English, mom never let me eat the popular junk foods, I was the kid who brought weird lunch, dressed differently from the others, was awkward & autistic as hell, etc

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for others, it's a way of connecting to the culture & feeling included. I don't miss Dunkaroos, nor do I miss my childhood, but the Dunkaroos remind me of my childhood, and knowing that many others feel the same way helps me feel more immersed in the shared culture.

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currently eating Dunkaroos & thinking about how people experience cultural nostalgia in 2 different ways. for some, it's straightforward nostalgia — cultural artifacts that remind them of (& make them long for) a different, perhaps "simpler", time (usually their childhood).

RT @leaacta
I've actually never written a compiler because I was too busy being cool & normal

extraordinary
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RT @IainFletcher8
@jordanbpeterson I mean if your ideas fit neatly into the mouth of a supervillain you might wanna take a moment and think about that.
twitter.com/IainFletcher8/stat

(there are, of course, other reasons to be against genetically engineering babies to be smarter — I'm only talking about the one, here)

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"we shouldn't genetically engineer babies to be smarter b/c the rich will get to do it first" is a really crabs-in-a-bucket mentality. the same mentality that opposes automation b/c it'll take away jobs. is temporarily unequal progress *actually* worse than no progress at all?

RT @ollybot_redux
category more like cat egregor-y amirite

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