Local Man Fond Of Linguistic Garden Path Sentences Friends To Hearing His Boring Puns.

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.

The loss of “lurk moar” has really ruined the youth culture because under any clip or meme you’ll see kids commenting “context?” even if it is eminently googleable.

it does suggest that "friendship" is a rare and serendipitous thing

why should anyone be friends with anyone else? what do they get out of it?

maybe everyone else has, like, peripheral ports and protocols that make it click

"wow ur so good at math" ah ha but you see. you dont ever get good at math. you stay bad, but now youre bad at harder math

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

way more meta than you, OP. all jobs involve a cartesian plane. all thought/philosophy is math. even waiting tables is math. mathematicians have simply formalized the domain by minting and using the appropriate symbols. qed

The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

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Acne is all like, "Hey, you don't have any meetings? That's cool. Well, I'm going to take a leave of absence until you need to have a bunch of face-to-face interactions. See you around!"

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

Mosquitoes exist. Yet so do things that are metaphorically mosquito-like. I'm not really a fan of this at all.