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[girlandgeese]

Note to self

Stop thinking: “I’m not talented enough to execute this concept.” Start thinking: “I’m going to be a stronger artist when I’ve finished this piece.”

[404youbroketheinternet]

This is a fixed mindset vs. a growth mindset.

Your abilities are not static, and any challenges you have, anything that turns out different from how you imagined, is not evidence of failure, just a struggle towards improvement.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Tragic news like half the ways people talk about magic in fiction could irl be applied to maths

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"magic is the threads that tie the world together, the unspoken web at the heart of the universe" that's mathematics babey!

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

You ever think about how when you gauge if it's safe to cross the road based off how fast and far away the cars are you're actually doing difficult calculus subconsciously? Almost like maths is something you have an inherent understanding of in many ways but in order to advance in it and truly understand it you have to learn it in an academic setting? Almost like many magic systems?

[firebirdeternal]

The difference between Math in Our World and Magic in a Fictional World is that math is description and analysis and not Causation. You can use math to describe and talk about forces and maybe understand them and ways to utilize them better but you can't recite an equation to walk through a wall.

[purronronner]

maybe you can’t

[glittervajayjayy]

[guerrillatech]

[esoomris]

Wow.... so you’re telling me you took an action that resulted in the death of one person...... to save the lives of many people.... who would have died if you did nothing??? that sounds so familiar

[lullabyes22-blog]

It wasn’t ‘taking an action.’ 

I was just enjoying myself.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

by 徐大花xudahua

[swampmaiden-deactivated20150305]

you see a tiny sign planted in the ground. bending down to read, you just make out, in impossibly tiny script "a mundane clump of dirt; much beloved by god, like any other"

[maybe-someday-eventually]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The coolest person in the friend group

[bespeckledbauble]

had a couple friends question why I won't make an insta or twitter or tiktok and I wanted to say something semi intelligent about the unique culture and user interaction of this hellsite and unfortunately every salient point went through the car wash of my brain and it came out like

[catchymemes]

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[thealphapigeon]

My coworker just completely killed me by casually throwing "you can lead a horse to water but if you drown it you have to walk back" into the conversation

[saltedpapples]

#is this like don't bite the hand that feeds you?

Just throwing in my own interpretation but considering the play on the original - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink - I would say it means, you can try to help someone but if you force that help upon them (forcing the horse to ingest water) it might as well do them a disfavour (the horse drowns because it wasn't prepared to drink) as well as have unexpected consequences, your relationship might suffer (you now have to walk back)

I would say another expression with similar meaning is "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"

[schzunabe]

drinkw ater highly recomend

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[mousemilf-deactivated20250508]

when i was a child my dad made up a fake holiday called big sandwich night the weekend after thanksgiving, during which we got the longest bread we could find and built a big sandwich together and then cut it up and ate it. we got really fancy ingredients and each built our own section of sandwich before cutting it. building the sandwich together represents community or teamwork or something. and then we would put our christmas tree up and the holiday season was officially kicked off with big sandwich night.

i grew up believing this was a real holiday that americans everywhere celebrated until when i was like 8 i asked a friend if they were excited for big sandwich night and they were like what the hell are you talking about riley. kind of shattered my worldview. but we still celebrate it and ive spread the tradition to friends and partners.

big sandwiches of years past:

as weve included more people weve started having to graft loaves together to make a sandwich big enough for everyone. but it still communicates the core idea of everyone eating the same sandwich together in fellowship.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[squeakitties]

[injuries-in-dust]

“What precisely does this accomplish?”

[mugwomps]

He’s so very expressive

[findersfeeders]

Omg can i just be the Internet’s resident nerd?

The use the back of the spoon because corn starch and any hydration makes a non-Newtonian fluid. This particular type of non-Newtonian fluid basically develops forces parrallel to the surgace passing thru it. The wider the surface, the more resistive force. (This is how oobleck, aka corn starch + water, does its magics!)

The dough will probably get (momentarily) more solid while mixing with a bigger surface. I can’t imagine that behavior is good for incorporation or creating a stable reaction.

BTW I learned this studying mosquito flight and snowboarding (avalanches are also non-Newtonian).

[melcirsium]

Yep. Tried making pão de queijo (tapioca starch) by hand with a whisk and it did NOT GO WELL.

Luckily the stand mixer paddle handles starch just fine, or the thin end of a spoon if going by hand.

[rainbowroadonsteroids]

[cellarspider]

Just so people know--Martin Scorsese hasn’t tweeted since 2015. So unlike when his daughter Francesca asking her dad about Goncharov, this is part of the joke. Still, it is a very good part of the joke.