Cartesian coordinates and symbolic notation did come shockingly late for how simple they seem, both primarily due to Descartes in the 1600s. but that's more of a "let a bunch of stuff happen in the following centuries if you introduce this early" thing than personal benefit

hillary clinton was instrumental in the bombing of libya, which resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths and it becoming a failed state with slave markets. why would you feel sorry for her about anything?

i finally switched back to firefox when they killed adblock on chrome. theres some annoying aspects (it's worse at autofilling usernames for saved passwords) but overall very much worth it

(turning "location services" off is not enough. you need to scroll down and turn off the "annoyingly ask you to turn on location services constantly" switch as well)

footrot flats mentioned!!!!

they could at least trying doing it with songs that are actually good, or have some kind of air of sophistication. not fucking ac/dc

god that's an awesome set of songs to do that about. topping out at "eh yeah pretty good the first time you hear it i guess"

wow you got funding for working on the recipient of perhaps the biggest misallocation of capital in human history. that must mean you're really smart and doing good work

well maybe you should consider living your life in such a way that it is

it actually happens in texas every now and then, but that's largely because ERCOT is an isolated grid so that they can avoid having it federally regulated via the interstate commerce clause

there were like 4 distinct times over 20 years of my life where I went "ah fuck it I only need to retain long division well enough to pass this test" and then it would come back and haunt me

well, sort of

i think this fits into my "everything is cheap (pejorative) now" theory of society. where's the craftsmanship?

even in games 6 and 7 we outhit them 8-4 and 14-11 (slightly narrower at 10-8 and 18-16 for walks+hits). baseball!

in this context, baseball having a 162 game regular season and then 3/5/7/7 game series in the playoffs seems constructed to drive me insane

i have a brain problem where sometimes i think too much about what the point of playoffs is and i risk being unable to enjoy sports. like if your goal is "determine who is the best team" then do it soccer style and make them play a bunch of round robin games and whoever has most wins is it

no building in LA is even one tenth as fuckable, due to earthquake regulations