The Salem Witch Trials: the famous time when the richest, most powerful men in society were, to varying degrees, betroubled by the extensive documentation of their terrestrial crimes

have you ever considered that the moon is moving away from the Earth by roughly 1.5 inches a year, that it cannot be stopped, and that it will eventually break the Earth's gravitational pull entirely?

This is blackout poetry to me

Incredible what can happen when you give money and decision making power to Someone Who Really Likes the Thing

I just can't imagine replying to a post about weird centrist reactions with a weird centrist reaction.

That face says "I'm in love and I know where I am right now."

In retrospect, a big part of why I've generally only quit jobs when I move across the country. That feeling like you can't just up and work somewhere else.

Non-fiction sales are in a decade long freefall, you think I've got a table full of it for my health?? Get, literally, out of here!

im so tired

Knowing you might even place 11th or 10th if you could just put some enthusiasm into it, but you simply can't

I assume that in this context "detained" means briefly held up by passersby shouting "take me with you!" and not interfered with by law enforcement

Yeah! It's not a strawman just because it's presenting a hyperbolic version of one facet of criticism as its predominant form, while ignoring more moderated, nuanced, and salient points of view! Now if you'll excuse me, I'll just be doing a quick search to refresh myself on what a strawman is...

I can picture it so clearly: like a broken wine glass in a napkin slung between the arms of the rig Ripley wears at the end of Aliens. That's the life!

Human bodies are famous for handling being pushed harder than they're physically capable of going! What are they gonna do, break down inexorably over time?

Usually, when I tell someone to "read a book," I'm being facetious. I generally believe they have, indeed, read a book. It's meant to belittle their misunderstanding of basic facts, not literally describe them. In this case, though...