Logarithms and exponentials were pretty important for understanding the pandemic. Understanding logarithms and exponentials is important for getting the behaviour of interest (which, if you want to use credit cards, is pretty key).

More generally, learning maths gives you the skill to be able to learn how to do all these key life things like budget etc… — it gets you numerically literate. Means when something comes up like (for example) scaremongering over vaccines, you know enough about maths and stats to interrogate the statement made and determine whether you believe the study. Just teaching the skills without their basis is flawed imo.

The M part of STEM is pretty important for taxes, finance and budgeting.

Kung fu panda-core

Implication is if they were going at the final speed they ended up at the whole time, both could have got through.

The preference on ingredients and recipes is a big one. If you’re creative in what you cook and do interesting stuff, then what you make can def beat ordering off a set menu for catering to your specific tastes. I like to do pan seared sea trout with a butterbean, sorrel, garlic olive oil, lemon thing done in a pestle, with grated beetroot + crème fraiche on the side, with asparagus and mushrooms.

The other point is you can grow your own ingredients, and particularly heritage varieties that are bred for flavour but don’t transport well can be soooo good. I grow the asparagus, beetroot and sorrel, and forage mushrooms for that recipe (well, for general use and get used in that recipe). Garden produces apples, pears, plums, damsons, herbs (incl niche ones like sorrel, lovage, savoury), black/white/redcurrants, runner beans… all of which taste miles better than those varieties that have to be transported, or are flat out hard to get.

Things I do not do well are things that require economies of scale (e.g. deep frying, ramen etc.), or cuisines that I’m no good at/don’t have the ingredients for.

+1 to tall people deserve showers. I’m 6’5/1.96m and it’s SO ANNOYING HAVING TO SPEND MY ENTIRE SHOWER SQUATTING RAAAA

yall are fucking nasty

There’s nothing nasty about eating a girl out smh my head.

Not only that, but also using them as props to try and make a point feels a bit bleargh.

Yes, so hanged is the correct form

No it isn’t

“The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall yesterday, or you hung out at the mall last week. Only use hanged when referring to someone who has been killed by hanging.”

• Merriam Webster

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Haha I sing I’d wish they’d sack me practically every morning. I’ve got a soft spot for rebel songs. Being English it gives some sense of national pride in the long history of protest in this country, going back to the chartists, and gives some hope that we can be better

Couple of niche favourites: I really like the Amnesia Japan mini album, and Girlsong.

Edit: Girlsong https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0H0LitymjEk&list=RD0H0LitymjEk

I know this one by heart haha. Chumbawamba have a good selection of antifascist songs

Worth mentioning the first ‘witch’ story is Equal Rites, if people want to start the series at the beginning (not that you need to!)

Channel 4 once did a documentary dissecting large animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Nature's_Giants

Including a whale, an elephant, etc

It’s been an hour; any news?

Yep, I certainly agree. We can celebrate justice being done without unequivocally celebrating him as a person.

I’m still a bit icky on him though in that the song he did about the female cop raised a few homophobia and transphobia alarms. When all the other cops are getting diss tracks based on unplugging his video or looking at a lemon pound cake, why is she getting 13 min on the implication that she eats pussy and has a bigger hog than afroman?

(Obviously not saying he deserved his house raided with no due cause — only that I’m not sure he’s a nice guy necessarily)

The question is what time control you set your dessert to?