I used to think the poles holding up traffic lights were hollow, and there was a person sitting inside throwing switches to change the lights while looking at a watch to keep the timing fair.
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I used to think the poles holding up traffic lights were hollow, and there was a person sitting inside throwing switches to change the lights while looking at a watch to keep the timing fair.
I heard this one from a teacher as well when I was very young! And it may well have been the same teacher telling us that blood was made of white blood cells and red blood cells, and I knew from my deep work in relevant fields (paints and crayons) that this combination did not result in blue.
Congratulations!! All the best to you both. 💕
My engagement was the happiest time of my life, right up until the wedding. Ever since then, my marriage is the happiest time of my life.
But bad, as everyone surely knows, means good.
Not a lie, it’s how I remember it working (and complained about at the time) but it’s entirely possible they changed things since I deleted.
Shannon Wheeler’s work has been criminally underrated for decades.
I almost never wear hats unless it’s very cold out and I need a winter hat. So, it would have been a wooly knit hat to keep my head warm.
*This does not include when my spouse and I are shopping at a clothing place and we try on goofy hats off the rack for the lulz.
I most disagree with identifying Anonymous as a group. It was meant to be a label under which anyone could do anything, granted power through what it was specifically not, and the attempts by people both within and without to make it a group destroyed the value of the Anonymous label.
After an abusive relationship had ended and I was rebuilding my life, I spent significant effort going through my stuff and getting rid of things my abusive ex had given me. They may not actually have been cursed, but I certainly felt a lot better when they were gone.
Musk still forces his own tweets, his advertisers, and whatever else he chooses into your feed, even your “following” page. You can’t block it.
*EDIT: maybe not anymore? See replies.
Something alive which can scream.
Don’t look up my running belt!
I got the remaster of We Love Katamari when it came out summer of last year. While I wouldn’t exactly say I’m “stuck” (I quickly and enthusiastically completed the main game and 100%ed all the achievements) there’s a bonus level in which you are asked to gather one million roses and I’ve only got around 40,000 so far. While you can continue building this up over time, I’ve no idea how many years of blowing the occasional hour on it this goal will take.
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“This is the worst case of intronitis I’ve ever seen. You can even hear the theme music.”
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Watch your tongue, young man, watch it! 🫵
Officer Cat is about to start interrogating that mouse.
When those words become a threat, someone else must now have their rights protected. This is mostly where the limitations on “Freedom of Speech” come from.
A good expression I’ve heard along these lines is “your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.”
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