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Emily
@the_aiju
scientist girl with the big swirly glasses
- it was such a weird thing as a kid that everyone kept calling me a “computer genius” bc i knew how to…read what it says on the screen. what was up with that.
- this post is bait for the kind of person who heard of the exception that years ending in 00 are not leap years but who has not heard that every 400 years there is an exception to that exception
- buddhist hell is a much more striking concept to me than christian hell. while the damned are simply trapped in christian hell, those comdemned to buddhist hell can leave at any moment — all they have to do is simply stop being angry about being in there. they just won’t.
- being a good person is like meditation in that you will only get gains from it if you are fully and totally at peace with the fact that you will not gain anything from itThere are no benefits to being a good person
- your mission, if you choose to accept it: figure out the ideology behind this post
- Replying to @the_aijuyou’d get an error like “Could not connect to printer, please verify it is turned on and connected” and all the adults in the room would panic about how the computer has a virus and i would verify the printer is turned on and connected (it wasn’t) and that was magic to them
- “philips screws are designed to strip” is one of those “sounds like a crazy conspriacy theory but true” things haha
- people who are bad at emotions usually have no fucking clue how much they’re just offloading their emotional mess to other people who are good at emotions. once you realise that it makes the whole “pah, emotions! i just ignore em” dismissals a lot more sinister
- video games will be like “this is the capital of the empire, the largest, most prosperous city in the world” and then it will appear to have a population of about 30
- guy walks into a bar, people are shouting numbers like “123” “496” “708” and laughing every time. he thinks to himself, “ah, i’ve heard of this, i’ll say a random number they’ll love me” and says “1357”. everyone silent. bartender says “man we just don’t like the political xkcds”
- all hands on deck, we have a situation unfolding: they figured out how to make ads for autistic peopleThis might be the best ad I've ever seen - I mean, you go from having no interest to considering signing up in about 10 seconds.
- you may think this is silly but humans get stuck all the time as the dog in more abstract versions of this exact situation and a lot of ‘healing’ moves are just the higher-dimensional equivalent of opening the invisible doorHad to literally open invisible door for him.
00:00 - hate to admit it but the Big Hack to learn a language as an adult is to actively listen to the language a lot while being fundamentally okay with not understanding most of what is being talked about
