There was a guy who got approached by a flight attendant for doing calculus on a plane. Some other passenger had reported him for doing something in Arabic, which we all know could hijack and take down the plane!

Korn means “grain” in German, so both the name and illustration suggests this is made from fermented grains.

My life has been pretty trauma free, but even I sometimes benefit from trigger warnings. Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for certain themes.

I was once on a long flight to attend the funeral of a close friend, and was watching a movie on the flight. I didn’t know there’d be a funeral scene, and that hit way harder in the state of mind I was in at the time. I don’t regret watching the movie, but it did give me a glimpse of how triggers work, in a form probably much milder than how people with real trauma would experience it.

In general I often find that accommodations for people with special needs often also benefit the general population. Accessible web design is often more pleasant to use in my experience, and probably easier for search engines also.

You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.

TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.

Also he keeps deporting the transition teams.

Not to mention that business, especially stuff with a long lead time like a new manufacturing facility, needs one thing above all else: predictability. And there is no predictability in a country run by Trump.

Grossest president so far

I have a job like that, but I also have kids, so…

If there’s an activity or skill you’ve been wanting to get into, you could try taking a class in that. You’ll meet some other people at your approximate skill level, and it’s an opportunity to socialize.

I’ve personally met a lot of people through climbing gyms and dance classes, both activities where you’re often paired up with one other person. Bouldering is great for smalltalk as well, because people are often eager to discuss approaches to the problem.

Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve also met some friends through work colleagues. A colleague of mine was going hiking with friends and invited me along, and since the friends didn’t work in the same company as us it felt disconnected enough from work for me at least.

As a Norwegian, focusing on one kind of math per year sounds absolutely bizarre. We did a bit of everything every year in the 90s at least, and I doubt it’s changed. How do you not forget everything if you learn it one year just to not touch it again for years?

In college each group of subjects have a separate class, but doing that in high school sounds nuts.

She’s in the House, Schumer is in the Senate. It’d be like asking a fireman to put out a fire while he and his truck are two counties over, and complaining when they tell you to get help from your local fire station instead.

Kubrick was in charge of faking the moon landing, but he insisted on shooting it on location.

Does following the 3 laws of robotics increase profits? Does ignoring them increase profits? Are tech bros empty husks without a shred of shame or empathy? Is this too many rhetorical questions in a row?

It’ll probably work, too, if he does it a month before midterms.

That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.

That cat looks like it’s seen some shit.

What happened to those Italian pasta straws? They looked promising.

Getting rid of democracy won’t turn the US into China, it will turn it into Russia.

Late stage capitalists: Am I out of touch? No, it is democracy that is wrong!

The C-section for the third kid was scheduled, right? I could see how a doctor would be less inclined to have a nervous husband watching during an emergency as opposed to a scheduled procedure.