So I was a “gifted” child and if you’re “the smart one” it’s really really really hard to say “I don’t know that” or “I’ve never heard of that”. I am probably better at figuring out what someone’s talking about from context while bluffing than I am at any other skill because it was super important to me. I still…

The crazy part is the people in my feed who are decidedly not famous, but follow almost only/all famous people, and either don’t realize that this is a paid promotion or don’t understand(/care?) that they’re not going to be paid when they mimic these posts. Nearly every rando that I went to high school with posts…

The movie might be dumb but T feel obligated to defend john green (the writer of the book). He has actually succeeded in writing really solid and well written YA fiction. Paper towns is basically trying to destory the whole idea of “manic pixie girl.” Also, like anyone who can make a book about two kids dying of…

Damn, there is alot of anti Chinese sentiment going on. Yep they have pollution issues that might be unique to their population densities, maybe similar issues in India and other countries but they need to do their own thing to get I right for their needs before it reaches the ‘western standards’ of cleanliness.…

After deep water horizon, would you prefer they use petrolium? Do you think that mining coal is particularly safe? It’s not like we have a lot of risk free power options that deliver the levels a developing country needs to expand. With a molten salt reactor, that risk is pretty damned low.

Cities are more efficient than any other type of inhabited area.

One of the things I’ve always hated about historical fiction is the plethora of white men who, despite living in racist towns during racist time periods, are not racist at all and oppose racism. Did such people exist? Yes, certainly a few of them did, but they were far from the majority. Yet historical fiction would…

Storytime: when my dad was in his twenties working at his first job after college, he managed to get a little time on a company computer to play around. So he wrote up some code to render an image of the Mandelbrot set. It took a long time to compute, of course, so he was very proud of the final result.

poor kanye. you’re “crazy” instead of eccentric,”angry” instead of passionate and “arrogant” instead of confident. i’m 100% sure that no racism’s involved. can there ever be opposite stories to ones like these?

Small as it seems (in all reality), “Because Star Wars,” IS quite a good answer to what reason is there to even go on another day? I have SUCH high hopes for JJ’s episode; so high. Is it even possible, in any world, he could do WORSE than Lucas did to his OWN franchise?

My purpose and really, the only reason I know of that keeps me going is that death would hurt my friends. Still waiting for that “stop existing”-button. Because I imagine if no one knows you ever existed, they will not get hurt when you are gone.

other things that remain magical mysteries to americans:

Why does it now take longer to fly from LA to Honolulu? Because LA sucks and Honolulu blows. Yuk yuk yuk.

We modern humans seem really good at creating environmental feedback loops that come back to bite us in the ass, don’t we?

Meh. Just a phone for people spending money for the sake of spending money.

I’d argue it equally applies to what Apple is apparently doing with the new Macbook as well. Because if there was an issue with the existing Macbook Air, it’s that it was too thick.

I don’t really care for thin anymore. Nor do I think that prize title of thinnest should be anyone’s objective anymore.

Battery life, durability, smoother/no lag operation, waterproof, and larger integrated storage or leave the microsd capability, would be what should improve in increments.

They have about as much credibility as People That Think Thousands of Years of Burning the Shit We Dig Up Out of the Ground, Building Massive Cities, Clear-Cutting Old Growth Forests, Polluting the Air We Breathe and Using Environmentally Detrimental Agricultural Practices Is Having No Effect on the Earth’s Fragile…

And then you whine and complain when prison staff is using lots of force to deal with inmates who are going bonkers from only having a cell, a bed, and meals.

Reddit promotes rape.