I, for one, am ready for the sun to consume us all.

My first job out of college was in a hospital. When you see doctors outside of their own setting, you quickly realize that >90% of them are pretty stupid at literally everything else. I was an accountant processing travel reimbursements for business-related professional expenses (mostly vacations disguised as conferences and workshops for CMEs) and many of them just could NOT understand why they weren’t allowed to claim alcohol on their travel reimbursements. Literally, the IRS will not allow it. And even if it did, state law forbids it, too. Sometimes, I got angry emails because they couldn’t claim miles for taking a detour to visit a relative before going to their destination after I adjusted it as if they drove directly from work to the airport. Shit like that. I was good friends with the IT guy there and he had many similar gripes. Most of his job was arriving on-site to plug machines in because they swore up and down on the phone that the machine was plugged in.

I’m convinced the majority of doctors are just average intelligence people who spent a decade practicing and mastering a skill. That’s it. Anyone can be a doctor if they can be allowed into med school and sink the time and effort into becoming one.

For those who don’t know, Martian solar eclipses suck compared to ours. The near equal relative size of the sun and moon to Earth is why we get such awesome eclipses.

Perks of having a planet-sized object slam into your planet during its Hadean Eon.

Male honey bees:

My school is in a nicer town tucked away in the armpit of Southwest Oklahoma. The library was actually quite well stocked and had lots of books in the system. We even had two copies of all the Harry Potter books. Side note: One year, I heard the movies were pretty faithful to the source material so I watched a few of them and did really well one year because of it. We had a copy of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which was worth a whopping 118 points and I’m sure was never touched. I’m sure it’s still in there. There were a whole two shelves stacked full of Louis L’Amour, and I had a western kick in the 10th grade so that was convenient. I liked Bendigo Shafter and Comstock Lode. The Walking Drum is also a good book.

My suggestion would be that instead of tying AR points to kids’ grades, create a rewards system to incentivize reading. I can’t speed read, and the pressure of being on a time crunch for something that negatively impacts my grade if I can’t finish on time was always disheartening and took away from any joy I could have derived from books. Most of the kids in my class could finish one or two books in a school week. My wife will tear through one in a day or two. A similar book is a 10-14 day minimum investment for me. I’ve learned to accept that about myself in adulthood, but man, it really made me feel terrible in school because English, language, writing, spelling, and related subjects were always some of my favorites. Always being behind my peers because of my reading soured the experience for a long time.

I don’t know if this is an ADHD thing or just not liking being told what to do (perhaps some of Column A, little of Column B), but god did I hate reading when I was made to in school. I’ll spend hours reading Wikipedia articles on some niche shit. I’ve spent plenty of time reading books I liked on my own time. But meeting my Accelerated Reader points goals was always a slog, and I’ve grown to really resent the system.

You can! You set it up like this:

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If you put any text inside the brackets, it makes it a hyperlink instead of an image.

I love to love the things conservatives hate.

Anomalocaris means “weird shrimp” so I get the feeling the Cambrian freaks out the nerds sometimes, too.

I will be watching a three hour video essay, get distracted, read posts on Lemmy, then go back to my video 15 minutes later. I realize I have no idea what was said in the last 15 minutes so I have to back up to the last point I definitely know I wasn’t distracted. It will take me ten hours to watch that video.

It’s the NYT’s mini crossword puzzle

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“$3,000 setup to play a game from 2010.”

I have an RTX 4070 that I’ve been using to play Half Life. I’ve owned my copy for a while, but have never played it.

Drives my wife crazy lol

I was walking my dog around the yard last night. We don’t have any lights in the backyard so I always go out with a flashlight. Pointing it at the ground, I could see them emerging by the dozens.

So anyway, the flashlight gets put up for a few weeks.

Fun fact: Neptune was discovered on 23 Sept 1846. It takes 164.8 Earth years for it to complete an orbit, which means that the first full Neptunian year since discovery happened 12 July 2011.

https://www.space.com/12249-neptune-completes-orbit-discovery-1846.html

Pluto won’t do this for another 154 years.

Exceptions to rules almost always exist.

Bees are all midwesterners confirmed.

The only time I forced Linux on anyone was when I gave my youngest brother a free laptop a couple years ago. It’s the laptop I had in college in 2011. It has a Sandy Bridge mobile Core i7. It’s too slow to run modern Windows. I told him he’s free to install Windows, but I don’t have a license to give him. For checking emails and web surfing, though, it was enough, and running Linux wasn’t going to give him trouble with that. To my knowledge (and to his credit), he still runs Linux on it.

It probably does, actually. Idaho isn’t exactly known for good sense, people first policies.

Man, I remember when Steve-O got his butt pierced. Good times.