Ursula K Le Guin was so ahead of her time. She clocked Rowling's writing as uninspired, derivative and mean. Le Guin tried to tell us and people hated her for it. Now we're all saying it.
A month ago I spoke to a Brazilian coworker who was confused why western countries were concerned about issues in the middle east (e.g. Palestine). Now at the Olympics, is//rail is making such an ass of themselves that I think there will be less confusion in the future.
i think there's a lot of animals that look scary but are very shy, so if you act confidently and quickly they won't retaliate. and this explains the Australian approach to wildlife, which looks reckless to Americans but is the safest way to deal with snakes and toebiters.
@AnnaVidot Imagine getting forced to eat straight vegemite if you do badly in the Olympics though. Gold every time (until the coach gets shut down for cruel and unusual punishment).
When you work on using cutting edge technology and bioinformatics on species which we barely know anything about, its a great asset to believe in destiny and invisible, benevolent all-powerful beings.
Its funny how many religious people, usually Christians, assume scientists are against religion. My research group works on evolutionary genetics and I've met one atheist in the past 5 years. Most are agnostic, but I've met Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim as well.
I always sit at the front of the train so I didn't realise how crap the platform was for the back of the train. Gap between door and platform was wide enough for me to fit in sideways and 2 steps lower wtf. Some of us have short legs!
itโs quite wild that a state thinks it can and should be able to drive an incredibly famous person out of public life because that person is of the nationality that it is currently committing genocide against. really mad shit
IOF fired 355 rounds at a 6yr old. While she cried because it was dark and she was scared, surrounded by dead bodies of her family. The last thing she said was she didnt want to make her shirt dirty with the blood pouring out of her mouth because it will trouble her mom to clean.
@4Tier_Bridge His name is Tennant there's a easier pun about him owning a house right there that doesn't rely on an unrelated piece of media. Its cleaner.
Speaking at the @PressClubAust, Australiaโs Attorney General @MarkDreyfusKCMP on whether criticism of Israel is antisemitic: โwhen people are singling out Israel and applying a standard to Israel that they do not apply to other countries, then potentially thereโs antisemitism going on.โ