Metaphors are ok I guess but I hope they don't seriously believe that humans aren't capable of evil (or good) without supernatural help.

IKEA just took the concept to its logical conclusion and made the store a literal maze.

Honestly she had a lot of good advice about con-going, washing well was just a small part of it.

FEBKAC: Fire exists between keyboard and chair

I can’t even picture what it means to give more than one fuck, just give a fuck or give no fucks.

Hey, why the long face?

I hope someone in the Ukraine government said “tanks a lot!”

Somehow while scrolling through I read that as “Canadians have three eyelids”.

“The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very brightly indeed”

I didn’t know that. Why haven’t I ever heard of a state de-certifying a police department, in spite of (gestures at everything)?

Yeah, a complete lack of consistency or shared standards. In a sense, that’s the “system” of policing in America.

The way I see it, America doesn’t have “the police”, it has 17,000 different police organizations that all have their own standards and don’t necessarily communicate with each other at all. To many people this is a feature, not a bug, as they want local standards over stuff like policing and not national standards.

Japanese schools do that have lunchrooms afaik, they eat in the classroom.

I love Calvin and Hobbes but Watterson is a grumpy old stick in the mud.

A few years ago I talked to a fisheries science PhD and he explained that despite being an absolute staple in many countries, we know almost nothing about tuna. They show up near the surface in some common places and they can be caught there, but then they go deep underwater and come up somewhere else. No one can track where they go; it’s all guesswork, even after doing it for thousands of years.

Edit: not knowing anything about them also means that you only know when you’ve overfished them when it’s too late.

And then he didn’t even remember her face and had to find her by her shoe size.

I tried to buy a dress to be Princess Vespa to my wife’s Barf but I couldn’t find one even remotely the right shape and size. Sigh, I guess I’ll have to go as Lone Starr..

At times like this we’re just looking through a tiny pinhole into an entire world of domestic problems.

In linguistics I’ve heard that expression used a few times. All kinds of other living things have ways to communicate with each other, but human language is one of the very few that can communicate about temporal or spacial displacement, i.e. you can talk about things that the listener can’t see in exactly that place and time, like what you had for breakfast this morning or what the weather is like in Alaska right now.

It was originally believe they only human language can do this, but now it seems that bee dances have that function as well.

Yeah sci-fi has conditioned us to associate “temporal” with time travel.

It sounds like the study isn’t about arrest rates or anything like that.

If you’re right though, it’s another point that shows that arrests have no preventative effect on crime.

They mean that car thieves will just choose some other street or other time to steal cars.