(…) It Will Easily Be Seen In What Consists The Difference Between A Man Who Is Led By Emotion Or Opinion

shot: all actions are allowed chaser: none are without a price

When I see mosses, I think about how they function similarly to sensors or organic bioindicators. For example, you can potentially determine when an environment is contending with pollution merely by looking at moss from a distance. But moss can also be collected and thoroughly examined in a laboratory.

This post is a stand-in for a very real complaint that I'll eventually speak of at a later time.

Internet likes from distant friends or total strangers hold more weight than those from close friends and family, who are biased and feel obligated to like you.

“On the use of the phrase ‘on the’ and the colon-delimited subtitle in academic papers: A meta-analysis”

Today I learned that in 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote one of the earliest descriptions of germs, going on to say,

"...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose, and there cause serious diseases."

The germ theory of disease would not be widely accepted for another 1,900 years.

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

My "this isn't complicated" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt.

imagine being a billionaire. like, you put in work, nearly fail, but push onward anyways. you develop something novel. you make it scale. you push the envelop to do something that's never been done before. but then, part of the thing you win in the end game is a bunch of communists saying you should die or that you should be forced to hand over what you've earned smh. what an infantile ideology