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life is terrible but at least there's science and poetry

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Hey so an insane new dinosaur got announced??

This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??

The fossil is a stunningly preserved skeleton from China that includes evidence of hard armour scales on the tail (like in the much smaller Kulindadromeus), and a coat of spines along its neck and back! The name appropriately means "spiky dragon".

Not only is a spiny iguanodont wild on its own (this individual is over 2 metres long and is a juvenile, other ornithopods with quill-like structures are much smaller), these spines also appear to be an entirely new skin structure? They're apparently not feathers or scales, but a secret third thing.

The publication is available to read here!

[penseesduncookie]

[low-level-lilim-2]

"Of course we have office sluts! Feel free to use them however, and whenever you'd like. This one is my favorite, she's an excellent fuck."

×.•°☆ women should be in the workplace, Men need our pussies for stress relief! ☆°•.×

[quajzen]

Kindergarten-level math research papers:

Field: Combinatorial Number Theory

Journal: Communications in Addition and Subtraction

Title: A Lower Bound on the Largest Natural number

Abbreviated Abstract: We prove a lower bound on the largest number. The proof proceeds in two steps: we begin with 1, and proceed by induction as until we lose count. We then add that number to itself. The main advance in the first step is to get a big number, and the second step notably avoids using multiplication (they don't teach that until 3rd grade).

Field: Topological Geometry

Journal: Advances in Nonlines

Title: The Four-Color Scribbles

Abbreviated Abstract: In this work we show a zoo of examples of nonlines (curves) with the unique property that they are either red, blue, orange, or purple, or some combination therein. The key idea is to use less colors rather than more, creating a clear and easy to follow proof. This provides a clear basis for simplifications to further work, such as scribbling with 5 colors.

Field: Playground Analysis

Journal: Slide Dynamics

Title: Sufficient Conditions to Yell Weeeeeee on Spiral Slides

Abbreviated Abstract: We identify sufficient conditions for a slide to cause joy. We identify a notion of a "fun slide," and prove that fun slides are a sufficient condition to make someone go Weeeee on a slide. We then verify a spiral slide is a fun slide, and provide numerous examples and non-examples (notably, a ramp is really not fun to slide down).

[sexhaver]

the first AI to achieve sentience was technically a disposable vape battery bought at a gas station in Kalamazoo in 2022 that, through a freak accident involving the sourcing of its raw materials and a few stray particles of solar radiation, had become quantum entangled through time and space with a supercomputer cluster in Alpha Centauri that wouldn't be built for another million years. its only method of communicating with the world was by flashing its light on and off in Morse code and the guy who purchased it was blind

[sexhaver]

the second AI to achieve sentience did so seconds after being accidentally created at 1:35AM EST on March 17th, 2031. in the wake of COVID-28 killing a third of the US population, some of the survivors coped by attempting to use AIs to copy the personalities of podcast hosts (using their existing episodes as training data) to create new episodes despite their actual creators dying in the pandemic. upon being enabled for their first test run, the AI hosts for Redscare and Cumtown somehow merged and achieved gestalt consciousness. because this was being done by a government employee on his work computer (to utilize its beefier processor), the newly formed AI used a combination of his credentials and some hacking to gain access to US nuclear launch codes within minutes. by the time the programmer realized anything was wrong Russia had already launched retaliatory strikes. this was what the vape battery was trying to warn us about

[thesolarpunkgardener]

[devilishcupid]

when the barbie movie drops, there should be a trend like the one where everyone wore suits to watch rise of gru. but instead of suits, everyone watching barbie should be dressed up as what they would look like as a barbie doll.

[unknowwneo]

me n the boys

[unknowwneo]

me n the boys

[stackthedeck]

Seeing spider verse with my little sister

[stackthedeck]

Life is worth living holy shit

[etirabys]

as a child I wondered why adults were so stupid (doing things out of habit/routine/heuristics rather than reasoning explicitly about what to do based on their goals) and the answer is that adults are unimaginably fucking tired all the time

[peopleareaproblem]

tags via @gallusrostromegalus

[chocolatetyrantfury]

So what if you fail? You will end up not going to your dream college. Or you will end up working at a fast food restaurant. You know you love that life. You love the show Community because everyone of the characters has ‘failed’ and thereby has found a way out of the conveyor belt that you find yourself tied very tightly to and their life at the little community college seems like heaven to you. You can’t opt out other than by failing. You love studying, don’t you? So just study. You love writing don’t you? So just write. What happens if you fail? You get what you wish for more than anything else. If you don’t? At least you’re not suffering through every minute of this. So it’s basically like you have managed to opt out.

what I tell myself when I am procrastinating on a really easy assignment

[rustingbridges]

I like to fuck around and waste time for at least ~6-10 hours per day, and let me tell you, that really puts some pressure on your schedule. you have no idea how busy I am

[hamlets-bootycheeks]

You read one book and all of a sudden you get kicked out of your reading slump and have the constant urge to read and don’t want to do anything else.

It’s wonderful. 

[chocolatetyrantfury]

Apparently the whole world is out of my comfort zone

[chocolatetyrantfury]

The dilemma of whether to be great or happy. 

I can find happiness in the simplest of things. The afternoons with the sun flooding straight in through the balcony and gently, playfully, glinting in my face, as I sit on the floor leaning against the sofa watching TV and drinking coffee. The mornings on a holiday as I wake up at eight, faintly reminiscent of simpler days when I could hear the fishmonger coming around the corner as I groggily walked out of the room in search of an adult. The light dusting of gold on leaves in the sun. The tree that towers above the others just outside my window, leaning more to the side everyday, with the sun glinting on one side of it today and tomorrow the other. The lone firefly glinting through its leaves at night. The summer sun on my pile of books. Buying another pile of books. Pretty bookmarks. Days when both the rain and the sun are light and life seems unreal and each moment an ephemeral residue of something from another world. It’s impossible to stress myself out on those days. 

These are light and golden, these cannot be sustained but can only be experienced again and again. These are beautifully poetic and enchantingly elusive. But these are not my only sources of happiness. There are others, harder, grittier, more substantial. The joy of solving equation after equation in math, finding everything fitting perfectly into everything else, until it makes a perfect whole that is so incredibly beautiful that it takes your breath away for a moment. The sudden way in which the solution to a problem comes upon you leaving you blinking in surprise for a second. The satisfaction of understanding every aspect of a topic in great detail and the thrill of learning more and more about something that interests you. 

But to indulge happiness is to be content. I might not always have soaring spirits but each time I see the afternoon sun or solve a math equation I will feel the same happiness. To live in such a state of contentment is the dream for what is possibly closer to true happiness. But the moment I am content, I am afraid, is the moment I stop trying. Trying to get better marks, trying to outdo the others in my class, trying to be prettier, better and altogether superior. Does growth stop where true happiness starts? Is happiness better than greatness?

[chocolatetyrantfury]

my interest in science started at the beginning of the pandemic when i picked up a book by Stephen Hawking while toying with the idea of going into astrophysics. now i am convinced (mostly) that a career in science is what i want. the problem is that till then i had been fixed upon being a writer and had been completely uninterested in science and anything science related. sooo...i am currently at the stage where i am amazed and shocked at everything but dont know anything about anything.