the milgram experiments, the stanford prison experiments, satanic panic, stranger danger.

i've been genuinely unmoored by how much of conventional wisdom about human behavior from my youth has turned out to be just plain fake.

This is how you all sound to me

So, fun fact: The Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine was made of coquina, which is a type of 'rock' composed of compressed sea shells. The people working on it expressed concern that it was too soft to hold up to cannon fire. When it did come under fire, the cannonballs just hit and stuck

Does anyone else find the subthreading on here very confusing? I feel like I spend too much energy figuring out who is replying to what

I would like everything to stop happening for a little bit, please

I am insanely grouchy this morning and the safest thing would be to isolate me and possibly put me down for a nap

“If I leave there will be trouble. If I stay there will be double. So I really gotta know: should I stay or should I go?”

This is not the first time I’ve noticed that musicians, as a rule, suck at cost-benefit analysis.

your reminder that casually dismissing air conditioning as a decadent American luxury is extremely foolish and ignores that it’s saved millions of lives around the world

(And heating homes in cold climates uses more energy than AC does).

me: *waking from a ten year coma*

dad: well look who finally got up

[Beck voice] in the time of NFTs they stole my monkey