Things you ponder

[wease]

Yeah. Go before if you can.

[tree_]

It depends on what kind of person you are and what kind of visit you are intending on. If you ask in advance and asked what kind of visit they would like, you could cater to their wishes. Openness and honesty and communication is key.

[B]

I know Starbucks wants to phase out single-use, disposable cups, but their mobile order feature is, from what I can tell, wildly popular. I wonder how they imagine pre-making drinks for people who order through the app while also asking that person to bring a reusable cup.

[tree_]

I wonder why baseball thinks 1.000 is one thousand

[Jorge]

I wonder why baseball thinks 1.000 is one thousand

In Spanish we use periods instead of commas for thousands, and commas instead of periods for decimals. It's caused a lot of confusion for me

[tree_]

interesting

would you say a woman is on her comma?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[BurtReynolds]

interesting

would you say a woman is on her comma?

Yes

[JuanHamm]

Why isn’t anybody else bumping the Barry thread

I haven't watched the new episodes yet

[doug rr]

Why isn’t anybody else bumping the Barry thread

I haven't watched the new episodes yet

we're 2 seasons behind...it just got lost..not the show just us watching things

[tree_]

Why is it that one” plays” an instrument? Why not like, “operate” an instrument? “Perform” me a song instead of “play”?You don’t play other arts and crafts. You don’t say play me a painting. I play a mean knit.

[BurtReynolds]

You ever notice some people walk in a way that makes them completely repugnant? Like, wtf is wrong with you? Are you under attack? Walk right.

[BurtReynolds]

The belief that non-scientific approaches to knowledge are invalid is itself unscientific. Discuss.

[BurtReynolds]

"Dark star" - besides being a cooler name - is a more apt name than "black hole". Why did we stop using it?

[bodysnatcher]

"Dark star" - besides being a cooler name - is a more apt name than "black hole". Why did we stop using it?

Probably bc “Dark Star Sun” isn’t as good of a song title

[BurtReynolds]

I don't know about that.

[spike]

Because holes can swallow things, but stars cannot?

[BurtReynolds]

Stars swallow lots of things, don't they?

[bodysnatcher]

I’ve only seen mouths on stars in cartoons but I assume animators got their inspiration from somewhere, so yes?

[BurtReynolds]

We should change stars to "yellow/red/etc holes".