I had to go get all my Nazi passports notarized and I could tell from the look on his face that the notary had never notarized a Nazi passport before

Just asked this girl Hannah how she spells her name and she just said “two of everything darling” iconic

Geostationary launches can accept some big changes to their launch window, because the target effectively moves with the launch site.

The fact that the simulated world in The Matrix is set in the '90s aged way better than it had any right to.

Did you know, there are more hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system?

Naming contractors in my phone contacts and now I know how occupational surnames came about.

“A live singer does make a restaurant feel more expensive” is one of my favorite Jenny Nicholson-isms

Finally sat down to work my way through her 4 hour breakdown of why the Star Wars hotel failed I kind of held off bc I was like, how interesting could it be? turns out that the Star Wars hotel is one of the most fascinating corporate hubris clusterfucks in recent memory

very skilful and nuanced frame from a school priest on the death of a bully

I rewatched one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and I forgot that at one point the East India Trading Company straight up blackmails Davy Jones into working for them. It’s like if Amazon captured a Lovecraftian elder god but only made it deliver packages. It’s genius.

The memorable grammar lessons are the best ones.

awake at 2am with a very runny nose and im feeling this post big time

Behold!

"I wasn't meant for Excel spreadsheets. I was meant to fight in Caesar's legions." Dude, the Romans would have gone nuts for Excel

It's hard to blame people for being confused by social security when the program was specifically set up this way to confuse them. Why? Because the fundamental logic is so clearly unsound: the average person is promised more money out, in real terms, than they pay in.

Google exists bc of a grand bargain: scrape the open web, and profit from directing traffic to the best sites. Around 2010, the betrayal began. YouTube artificially ranked above other video, then over time maps results injected, shopping, flights, events. Now AI answers.

I think a lot of people overestimate just how much Internet - especially the old Internet - the Wayback Machine has saved. There seems to be an assumption that everything which has ever existed online *must* be out there, somewhere, and that isn’t true.