And when she says that, she doesn’t mean finding a supplier. Once you put the tweezers down, you’ll never find them again

First and hopefully last

Yeah, this was meant to be the only good thing about Brexit

Deine ich_iel Zuhausis würden es bestimmt merken, wenn du aufhören würdest Maimais zu pfostieren

360° “back” around to dinosaurs confirms that birds are still just dinosaurs

What

Okay, but sperm literally comes from the Greek for seed. Semen comes from the Latin for seed. Seed is used as a euphemism for semen in English. The exact science might not work out here, but humans have been using seed as an analogy for sperm/semen for thousands of years at least

That’s brilliant, I hope it’s true

I was considering doing a masters in Germanic linguistics (graduated last year). I would’ve enjoyed it, but I have a job now that lets me actually save up money, while still allowing me to indulge my academic interests in my spare time, and I’m certain I made the right choice. I know for a fact that at the end of the day, doing a masters would have ultimately meant one or two years’ delay to the start of my career and basically no advantage in the job market. Maybe this goes more for humanities students (although I imagine it’s also the case for a lot of STEM students), but I think this video by Dr Jackson Crawford is a really good sympathetic and pragmatic approach for people considering going into academia.

Oldest trick in the book

Bouba and kiki

This is how our lizard overlords felt when humans first achieved flight

I like to imagine [21] doesn’t mean the 21st citation, but rather that there are 21 citations for that statement

I’d rather 6 weeks over the summer and then extra weeks added to other shorter holidays

Hee hee

Squash? Don’t you mean squish?

Silence LLM

Wait, didn’t I just see a meme about- ach ja, Kühe sind unterbewertet

It is shocking how many people just don’t drink water. I understand it tastes different in different areas and tap water isn’t always safe to drink in certain areas, but even then you can get bottled water, as much as I hate the concept of putting water in plastic bottles and charging huge markup on it

If you’re paranoid about food poisoning, maybe cook your own food.

Edit: Just realised he’s not worried about someone trying to poison him, he’s worried about poisoning himself