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best thing about learning a new skill is realizing how good the people who are REALLY good at it really are

#like when i started learning guitar and then listened to hendrix #or started boxing and watching Ali and Mayweather #and once you're able to understand more clearly all the little nuances #that the people who don't know would never see #it just opens up a whole new appreciation

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anon who had to leave home for the first time a few months ago here. idk if you remember me, and sorry if this is weird.

I've had a lot of bad days since i left, and some of the hopeful stuff you post about has helped me through some of them. And helped remind me of the good days I'm having. I stayed on a commune for a while. I went skiing for the first time. I've seen weather as low as -20°, and with how things are looking where I'm staying now, I'll be seeing weather as high as 100 soon.

Today there was sun, and I got up and made myself my favorite food. Thanks for reminding me everything will be ok.

it's not weird at all, this really means a lot to hear. i'm so glad you're doing well! sounds like a hell of an adventure, i really wanna go snowboarding sometime. the coming spring is bringing me a lot of good vibes and i hope it is for you too

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i'm really glad this post got so popular, it's great to see people getting so inspired by something i came up with while debating whether or not i could put my marie calendar frozen dinner in the oven with the plastic on or not

“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time

#my reasoning was that if it was gonna burn my house down #they would've made it clearer that you were supposed to take it off

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another

a haiku i wrote in 3rd grade

#this one feels like the result of low level carbon monoxide poisoning #was i exposed to a gas leak as a kid? #it would explain quite a bit

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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a haiku i wrote in 3rd grade

#i'm fully prepared to believe that i probably wrote this while actively under a table

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if anything happens to me it was Boeing

two turbines, each powered by the steam from a simmering pot of refried beans. the waste heat they generate all goes towards continuing to refry the other's beans. the future.

#bean engine #guys trust me it'll work this time

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two turbines, each powered by the steam from a simmering pot of refried beans. the waste heat they generate all goes towards continuing to refry the other's beans. the future.

#infinite energy #perpetual motion #beans??

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i hate when birds try to hop away from you but they go in the direction you're walking in so you kinda chase them for a little and they fly away like fuvk sorry buddy didn't mean to blow up your spot like that

#sometimes i'll stop and walk a little diagonal #or to the side #so they know i'm chill

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#oc #webcomic #they might definitely be a little too high #but it's a little bit of a self insert if i'm being honest #so i can't be too humble

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forget giving victorian children baja blasts and takis, i'm gonna show a roman peasant the US interstate system

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Sorry didn't want to crowd that post about Groundhogs, but I recently read a paper about groundhog day and how American groundhogs are more a hodgepodge of unreliability. There is not one Master Groundhog, and it's clear some of these groundhogs are clearly slacking (I jest!)

Famous American groundhog Punxsutawney Phil (from the OG Pennsylvania) has only a 30-40% accuracy rate depending on how long ago you measure. And only a handful of groundhogs (out of 41) are above 50%

Staten Island Chuck and Chuckles (from Connecitcut) are the most consistently accurate groundhogs at 60% with Sir Walter Wally ranks about 58% HOWEVER all 3 are massively outshined by Beardsley Bart (pairie dog) and Sand Mountain Sam (oppossum) at 78% and 75% respectively (José Luiz Martiéz, CT Mirror 2022) Now this gets into "how do you measure if a guess is right" territory for these exact numbers so some of this is all over the place. Wiarton Willie gets reported as having a 25% accuracy rate a 39% accuracy rate (Canadian Encyclopedia) or a 54% accuracy rate (Ross et al 2021)

But the MOST ACCURATE GROUNDHOG is by far the Canadian Oil Springs Ollie with an 83% accuracy rating. The worst is Buckeye Chuck with a 10% accuracy rating who, out of the last 15 or so predictions, was wrong about 14 of them While there was no significant relationship between latitude and correctness when measured, a big problem is that groundhogs actually emerge in March, not Febuary and at least in Canada that means groundhogs have to be woken up to predict the weather or else they live in a zoo and are not out there in nature reporting from the field

It is unlikely any more scientific evaluation of the accuracy of animal meteorologists will be conducted with hard rigour, but it would be fun to see! I hope these Fun Facts were interesting!

^^^ groundhog meteorologist facts for your monday morning

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do non-americans know about the groundhog we all trust to predict the weather every year or-

#he lives in gobblers knob #i hardly know her knob

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just got the greatest idea for a movie

Muppet Farm

It's animal farm but with muppets, à la Muppet's Christmas Carol, but they play the entire thing completely straight.

Every human character is Michael Caine in a different costume. Link Hogthrob is Napoleon.

It's time, Hollywood. Don't be cowards.

#the muppets #animal farm

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checking in on that post from june. You on chrome still ?

firefox or die

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Welcome back! - anon that kept giving you crabs all that time ago

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Hey, I know it's fun to make fun of Henry Kissinger. But you know what's even more fun? Donating to organizations that help undo some of the damage that Kissinger inflicted on various countries. Here's a couple of links!

Cambodian Children's Fund (I donated $50 to this one- that's enough feed 26 families by providing 5 kilograms of rice each month!)

FAFG (This is a charity that helps Guatemalans find loved ones who disappeared during the Guatemalan Civil War.)

The Halo Trust (This charity is dedicated to removing landmines in Angola. Since 1994, they've destroyed nearly 100,000 landmines!)

Children of Vietnam (This charity helps impoverished Vietnamese families.)

TECHO-Chile (A really great charity that focuses on housing and community-based projects in the slums of Chile)