I think it’s just confirmation bias that stems from the meme. I’ve had four cats in my life: an orange tabby tomcat, a black tomcat, a white and orange girl and a grey tabby girl. The orange tabby tomcat was the smartest by a mile out of all of them and the grey tabby girl was the dumbest by a 100 miles. Orange and white girl is the second dumbest and the black tomcat second smartest.

But people aren’t gonna post their average or smart orange cats or their dumb non-orange cats on the internet because it doesn’t fit into a specific meme/sub/community. So now it seems like there’s heavy correlation, but there really isn’t.

You’re like that one power user on old school forums that you would see everywhere and everyone else would know and respect them lmao

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I truly don’t understand how people have friend groups as adults. It was a pain in the ass to get my 6 friends (two separate groups of 3) together for my birthday with a month notice. One of those friends has a big friend group from high school and now that they’re all around 25 they’re starting to find out just how little opportunity there is to get 12 people together who all live in different places now, have partners, jobs, some even kids already.

Aboriginal Australians also had ‘constellations’ that were the dark spots in the sky as opposed to the stars. I didn’t know some Inca did that as well.

She’s Dutch, so she can and does pronounce it the correct way.

Imagine thinking in 2023 that there’s still such a thing as ‘useless data’

There was in the Free Territory of Ukraine under Makhno. Of course they were brutally crushed after 3 years because their succes and freedom was a threat to the Bolsheviks, and their legitimacy, who had already abandoned their ideals for power, as is inevitable when you concentrate power that much.

Right now all my lectures at school are by this one professor who is notorious for just rambling incoherently for an hour and a half, and all of them are at 9 am. You can’t expect me to not just turn off my alarm when it goes off at 7 in the morning with only that to look forward to.

I had a burn out and had been home recovering for about 4 months from January, and only slowly building back up since May, and have been back fully since late August, so it definitely feels like this. Time passes really quickly and unremarkably when you sit at home doing ‘nothing’.

We have (very loosely translated) ‘the innkeeper trusts his patrons as much as he trusts/knows himself’ in Dutch. Or semantically more accurate would be ‘an untrustworthy innkeeper distrusts his patrons’.

Acquaintance is that word for me. I just type ‘aqu’ and my phone handles the rest. God help me if I ever have to write that down without access to the internet. I also let my phone handle ‘necessary’ because I never know how many c’s and s’s there are and where they go.

but as with any discipline, a big part of how much fun it is to learn has to do with how it’s taught.

I teach (technically still in college, but true enough) basically the opposite of you, history, and this is very true. You can make history lessons fun and engaging and challenging, but it’s also very easy to make them boring. Unfortunately, as you are also aware of, it’s difficult to make these interesting lessons with the constraints of time (of which administrative bullshit takes up a lot), class sizes and government-mandated curriculums and tests.

Last year I had my internship at a pretty shitty school with abysmal guidance and support which meant I was teaching all on my own even though I shouldn’t have been allowed to, and basically no curriculum. That sucked, but it also meant I had basically total freedom in what and how I taught, and the classes were 12 students maximum. I pretty much only did engaging and fun lessons for 4 months straight.

I’ll do that when I actually have to be somewhere, because I don’t see the point of making my last half hour of sleep shitty and I really have to get up anywah, but I’ll definitely snooze on the weekends. I’ll set my alarm at a time I find reasonable, but I’ll often wake up and think ‘fuck it, it’s Saturday’ and sleep in anyway lol

5 years for me lol

I have a really hard time understanding the lyrics when I listen to songs (maybe because I’m autistic and have some auditory processing issues) so I’m often wildly wrong about them.

I used to hang out with hippies and artists and the age range is quite large there. There was this dude in his 70s who would casually talk about the time he helped get rid of a body after a murder acquaintances of his did in the 60s or 70s or something. He was actually put on trial and got convicted in the 80s when one the people who did the actual murder couldn’t live with the guilt and confessed but managed to get it overturned when he appealed and got acquitted, in part because they never found the body because like 5 years after they disposed of it they put a new highway right over it. Old people are fucking wild lol

You don’t have to assume Jesus existed, you just have to accept the historical evidence which there is plenty of

My cats are always the most interested in getting a piece of something that is very toxic to them. Which to be fair is a lot, but still. They’ll be looking at my breakfast like mom can I please have some F R U I T 🙀