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Shoulda stuck with marshmallowey goodness.
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Soon, linguists will be wandering around everywhere, saying things like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" and "more people have been to Russia than I have," and speech will become unintelligible.
I think "Tiger King" would make it even more baffling
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As the 'exotic animals in homemade aprons hosting baking shows' YouTube craze reached its peak in March 2020, Andrew Cuomo announced he was replacing the Statue of Liberty with a bronze pangolin in a chef's hat.
This is super true. Pursuing a degree in physics was very challenging coming from a rigorous mathematics background because of how heavily physics relies on tricks, approximations and hand waving to avoid having to do hard math. A lot of it was learning ways to solve classic calculus problems that would result in an F on a calculus test.
It was very good for me to learn to think about mathematics from this perspective.
E.g., a classic Physics 1A lesson: sin x = tan x = x; cos x = 1. This can seem insane at first blush, but these formulas are really the first-order Taylor* expansion. These formulas are quite accurate for small angles.
* Or Maclaurin if you want to be pedantic.
It was very good for me to learn to think about mathematics from this perspective.
E.g., a classic Physics 1A lesson: sin x = tan x = x; cos x = 1. This can seem insane at first blush, but these formulas are really the first-order Taylor* expansion. These formulas are quite accurate for small angles.
* Or Maclaurin if you want to be pedantic.
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I could type this into a solver, which MIGHT help, but would also mean I have to get a lot of parentheses right...
"Millennial" is most often lazy slang for sloppy complaints about a feeling you have about the "youths of today."
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I thought millennials weren't having kids, let alone sending them to college.
Nashville, Tennessee
Possibly it's time to just give up and let "millennial" mean "kids these days" and come up with a different name for the generation that came of age at the turn of the millennium, since that is how 70% of people and 100% of angry thinkpieces about Kids these Days use it anyway.
Columbia, MD
Ironically, I've been having these same arguments for at least a decade now. I thought we would have moved on by now, but somehow the snide complaints about millennials continue.
I support this, in part because "The Europa Clause" would be a great title for a political action-thriller.
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Where is Jed Bartlett from TV's west wing? He should be first. He was the best president we've never had.
Tom Hanks seems to be about seven places too low on this list.
New York, NY
Suffern, New York
Ties are broken by whoever was closest to the surface of Europa when they were born.
Ties are broken by whoever was closest to the surface of Europa when they were born.
Does this mean IMNSHO means "in my not-so-honest opinion?" Truly an acronym for the modern world.
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Definitely "humble", which is why I've _never_ used 'imho'. Never had a humble opinion in my life.
I wholeheartedly cannot bring myself to pronounce PNG as "ping".
East Helena, MT
HTH HAND
Sherman, TX
Team 'IF'
San Diego, CA
tabs after a period, lolol
Uranus
I met someone once who called it SQULL. I should have punched them when I had the chance. Also, two periods.
*edit* And it's always been humble.
*edit* And it's always been humble.
Shelbyville, Kentucky
"Ugh, TMI." "Yeah, that's some tantalizing meat info."
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