orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

US friends, in case anyone could use the reminder I'm hearing that open healthcare enrollment is closing on the 12th of Dec! Get it while the getting is good!

if they release a third game in the pokemon sword shield line with added content and all the pokemon they should call it Pokemon Gun

Balls like a coinpurse with Two jumbo marshmallows inside

they reinvented homestuck in mbmbam again

there is an industry of selling poor Americans' blood for export and it is worth more than our soy and corn exports.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor-late-stage-capitalism/263175/

when Marx said that capital was vampire-like he did not know how fucking prescient he was

guitar is woodwind if you fart in it. trumpet can be percussion. synth? that's a power tool. fuck it up

white leds don't emit light directly - they excite a phosphor, similar to how a crt works.

and we're slowly using them to replace orange sodium vapor streetlights.

what i mean is, someday the sky over _every_ port will _literally_ be the color of a television tuned to a dead channel.

@dankwraith @garfiald See also:
- the statement “planets revolve around the sun” is technically an approximation
- the “scientific method” as taught in public school isn’t how scientific work is actually done
- too many science-lovers idolize individual “gods” of science and spin narratives pitting them against alleged religious prudes
- Science as an elitist institution is different from science as basic human curiosity possessed by everyone

people have actually successfully assassinated Kissinger several times but the problem is that killing Kissinger transforms you into the exact same Kissinger

So this one was inspired from one of @dankwraith's posts earlier today about heliocentricism vs geocentricism, because fun fact: the sun isn't even the thing at the centre of the solar system