Another Thought About "gen Z And Gen Alpha Don't Know How To Use Computers, Just Phone Apps" Is That

people vaguely saying 'the horrors' as shorthand for 'life problems, don't worry about it' in conversations where the problems are not going to be delved into has got to be one of my favorite new Ways Of Speaking that has emerged. like it's polite and vague and succinct enough for impersonal conversation but also extremely honest. it's very funny. The Horrors. we all know of them.

I am going to eat this entire candy cane.

Oh my gosh I’m back!!

I left Tumblr not much after the Yahoo buyout, and now I’m back!!! Even got the same url, fuck yeah!!

Calculus is ruining my fucking life. Every time I see a thing inside another thing, I can't help but wonder how to apply the chain rule. It started with abstract things like syntax trees, but I got jumpscared by a banner ad showing penis-in-vagina sex and all I could think about was derivatives. v'(p(x)) * p'(x), where v(x) is vagina and p(x) is penis. Now, how to find v'(x) and p'(x). . . ?

Everything is secretly about sex, except sex, which is secretly about calculus.

so i just learned something really fucked up about US coinage...

a quarter weighs EXACTLY 2.5 times as much as a dime.

as a consequence, quarters and dimes have the same value-to-mass ratio.

and this ratio? $20/lb.

this means that a pound of any mix of quarters and dimes is worth exactly $20.

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will