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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This one is a little different. On the first week of some college introductory economics class, the teacher was basically just reading from the textbook we all had, some historical figure who was a member of the “Council Of Seven” or something like that, when a student raised her hand - “Ma’am, what was the Council Of Seven?” - the teacher paused, and said - “Can you bring it tomorrow, as assignment?” - and actually giggled. This was in the 90s, pre-internet, looking up something like that was not a trivial task.

    The teacher might have thought she was being cute and/or deflected her own shortcomings, but the actual effect was that we immediately lost all respect and trust for her, no one ever raised a hand again in her class, we all immediately went into rote robot mode for the rest of the semester, disengaged on a gut level.







  • This makes spiders only the second known arthropod species, after bees, to sense and use electric fields.

    But birds use the magnetic field to navigate, correct?

    Because humans don’t feel Earth’s electric field, its role in biology is often overlooked.

    Speaking of the magnetic field, there is purportedly an Aboriginal group in Australia that uses a subjective form of orientation terminology baked into their language or syntax, that forces their speakers to maintain an intricate and complex awareness of their surroundings and place in them.
    Anyway… these people seem to be able to sense fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field, for example - they can tell when a solar storm is hitting the atmosphere.





  • i’M tOo LaZy To bE bOtHeReD WiTh BaSiC CiVic DuTy, So i BeLiEvE aNyOnE oNLinE wHo TeLLs Me ThAt bOTh ParTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe? LoL_!!!_ 🤣🤣🤣
    i’M sO pUrE!!! 😇🤪🤩

    Millions of self-destructively lazy, stupid mediocre people shouted in unison (again):
    Vote for a woman? When PIGS fly!!!

    Or if Biden had remained in the race:
    sLeePy JoE! LoL!









  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzScIence
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    “What the hell are you kids doing down there in the basement, that you need these more specific units?”
    “Um… nothing, sir. Everything is quite all right, quite all right.”
    “Hrumph! Very well then, I shall be in my study. And do try to keep the bloody racket down, for chrissakes!”
    “Yes sir, thank you sir, goodnight sir… Whew… that was a close one!”