I classified a lentil curry recipe on my website as "easy" and a friend of mind disagreed, pointing to the chopping it required and it never occurred to me that the necessity of chopping would disqualify a recipe from being easy, but here we are. And I guess that makes sense?
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Feb 23, 2023, 9:00 PM -05:00 Pistachios. The clams of the nut world.
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Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) on X
How did Russian cosmonauts know where they were? The Globus INK (1967) showed the position of their Soyuz spacecraft on a rotating globe. It is an analog computer built from tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the wiring (which inconveniently had been cut) and we powered it up. 🧵 -
Feb 19, 2023, 5:11 PM -05:00 The Popular Vote as a Psychological Coping Mechanism
In 1931, a book was published in German under the title "100 Authors Against Einstein", attempting to refute the Theory of Relativity. By some accounts, when Einstein was confronted with this book, he is reported to have said something along the lines of:
Why a hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough."
I have no idea if this is for real. Still, though, it's pretty good, right?
To be clear, Einstein was talking about physics, not politics or philosophy, but even in the social sciences I find myself sympathetic to the spirit of this quote, fake or not, especially when faced with people who harp on an idea like the popular vote.
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Feb 7, 2023, 9:58 AM -05:00 I think I need to read some of this person's stuff. She apparently recreated Around the World in Eighty Days with 8 days to spare.
Nellie Bly - Wikipedia
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Jan 15, 2023, 9:09 PM -05:00 I got a "book nook" for Christmas - kind of like a book end, but more elaborate. Super fun, I want them all.
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Jan 10, 2023, 1:15 PM -05:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1612858374269407246?t=q20IaYO7hOGVMkrXawmc9g&s=19
I'm a big fan of Cincinnati chili, so cinnamon in meat dishes isn't so strange to me. Cinnamon and nutmeg are also essential components of French Canadian tourtiere.
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Jan 10, 2023, 7:54 AM -05:00 Raquel S. BenedictEveryone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
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Dec 25, 2022, 3:25 PM -05:00 I got a book nook!
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Dec 11, 2022, 10:42 PM -05:00 Annual Christmas tree snap
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Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) on X
Two things are true: Republicans are absolutely massive hypocrites on the "leave kids of politicians alone" thing, and also, we should leave the kids of politicians alone. (Assuming, of course, that those kids aren't also adults working in politics). -
Nov 28, 2022, 6:20 PM -05:00 I initially read this as "librarians love me for some reason". It was funny at the time.
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Lux Alptraum 🦋 luxalptraum.com (@LuxAlptraum) on X
Libertarians love me for some reason, why have none of them offered me $80k to be a bitch for a weekend -
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Nov 24, 2022, 7:46 AM -05:00 I remember reading somewhere that kosher/halal laws are much less about the laws themselves and much more about the group identity they foster. I imagine the obscurity of Catholic mass fulfills roughly the same function.
What you're saying makes a lot of sense to me.
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Lux Alptraum 🦋 luxalptraum.com (@LuxAlptraum) on X
I think fundamentally there is an us v them mentality built into Judaism that exists independently of antisemitism. A lot of traditional Jewish practice — especially keeping kosher — is about a forced insularity that separates Jews from non-Jews. -
Nov 23, 2022, 1:20 PM -05:00 I just read a quote that said that the brain is "a machine for jumping to conclusions" and I don't know why but this feels so true.
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Nov 16, 2022, 8:45 PM -05:00 I know, right? I wouldn't have thought that a show about the "bureaucracy of evil" could be so compelling and yet here we are.
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I’m finally watching Andor again after a three week break (my viewing companions had COVID) and my god it’s so good, it’s seriously way too good to be a Star Wars (sorry but it’s true) -
Nov 16, 2022, 7:35 AM -05:00 It's egg nog season, motherfuckers!
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Nov 15, 2022, 9:11 PM -05:00 I did a zoom presentation today and one of the audience took a screenshot of me talking. I looked pretty crazed. I'd be fucking terrified of me.
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Nov 9, 2022, 10:07 PM -05:00 Sunset over Point Sainte Charles and Saint-Henri
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Nov 8, 2022, 10:57 AM -05:00 I'm not sure what it is about this that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's the condescension or the "learning is beneath me" vibe I get.
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Bess Kalb (@bessbell) on X
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Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) on X
Not sure the Mastodon move is gonna be permanent and I am still On Here, but I'm also over there at jill@journa.host -
Nov 6, 2022, 9:23 AM -05:00
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Lux Alptraum 🦋 luxalptraum.com (@LuxAlptraum) on X
One of the funny things about Mastodon being “too hard” is that it reminds me that all of the internet used to be hard -
Nov 4, 2022, 5:42 PM -04:00 Does anyone else imagine that the earworm currently ringing in their head as they walk on the sidewalk is actually part of the soundtrack in the movie of their life?
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Oct 29, 2022, 6:37 PM -04:00 It's probably a reaction to Elon Musk taking over
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Oct 26, 2022, 9:50 PM -04:00 My cat is very photogenic
