age reveal 😂 honorable mentions: - Fable - Majora’s Mask - Asheron’s call - Sonic the Hedgehog (1st game 🥲)

aw man we lost b

the duality of man

how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS?? cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved??? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single. monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH??? birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about. there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait. squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES. and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT??? your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to??? the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR. I’M SORRY????? we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????

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if you have ever met a biology major, you would understand that a leetcode medium is like navier stokes millennium problem level to them

We have passed the event horizon and hardly anyone has noticed.

Ok I’ll bite. What is corgi?

we're forming an advisory board to determine the future of everything. upon careful review, you will not be invited to join.

idk what corgi does and at this point i’m afraid to ask

I know it’s pedantic to say this is a picture of a millipede rather than an insect but I think it deeply undercuts the premise that one is being more rational than everyone else to not even get the most basic facts of entomology right.

How high are we going??

"Can't wait to be post-economic so I can finally be worthy of love" - every SF technology brother this week

everyone: jev jev jev my grandmother:

This concept from @jaredrhoads is right on. "In healthcare many people accept the assumption that the point of health insurance is to keep people healthy. It's actually not. The purpose is to protect against financial catastrophe stemming from some expensive medical-related episode or expense. The problem is, that makes one's insurance card function less like insurance and more like a complicated pre-paid coupon. That is causing serious problems."

People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left. People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right. Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.

You cannot expect genuine interactions from transactional people.

“Precisely C.S. Lewis's point in The Screwtape Letters: the enemy doesn't need to ruin you, he only needs to distract you. Screwtape finds that a reliable way to lead a patient to hell is to distract him with jargon, for instance. Have the patient evaluate ideas not by their content but by their labels ensures that he never engages meaningfully with their content.” Timely.