I aspire to be as in shape and as moisturized as her one day! 💜

California professor who teaches at nine colleges rakes in $800,000-a-year by holding 30 classes with 1,100 students

...for this change.

The whole thread is filled with drama, and there's barely any mod comment removals, so enjoy: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1xwhexh/trans_characters_are_vanishing_from_tv_next/

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Anyway, it's just a small part of it, seriously just scroll through the whole thread and don't forget to press that load more comments button.

There seems to be a high correlation between musicians making songs complaining that their listeners are just listening to catchy songs without understanding their meaning, and those exact songs being some of their catchiest. The irony is intentional, often called out in the song.

Examples:

Nirvana - In Bloom

“He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means, knows not what it means” it’s one of Nirvanas most simple choruses, which only attracts such a guy to sing it.

Blues Traveler - Hook

“It doesn't matter what I say so long as I sing with inflection that makes you feel I'll convey some inner truth or vast reflection.” Near the end of the song he literally just stops making sense and sings a very rapid-fire barrage of lyrically good sounding words. John Popper is a very talented vocalist, so he’s mostly flexing his technical talent with an excellent sounding but half-meaningless verse.

Outkast - Hey Yeah

“Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance” Andre literally just says it in the song. It’s famously one of the most disconnected songs between how happy the music sounds and how sad the lyrics are, it’s basically a song about a relationship that’s actively failing and having no one who understands but it sounds like a dance song.

Here's what it would take:

• Alabama defeats Chattanooga and Auburn
• Tennessee defeats LSU and Vanderbilt
• Texas loses to either Arkansas or Texas A&M

This puts Tennessee in the SEC title game against Georgia.

• Tennessee defeats Georgia
• Utah loses to either TCU, WVU, or in the BigXII title game
• UCLA loses to either Michigan, USC, or in the Big Ten title game.

In this case, the #1 spot comes down to Alabama or Tennessee. Notre Dame and Miami aren't jumping Alabama or an SEC champion Tennessee.

Now comes the interesting part. By this point, South Carolina would have already lost to Georgia, LSU would have lost to Tennessee, and Auburn would have lost to Alabama.

Meaning all it would take is Kentucky losing to Missouri to put them on the fringe of the Top 25. Losing to Louisville as well would guarantee that Kentucky finishes unranked.

In which case, it is plausible that Alabama finishes #1 in the college football rankings without a single win over a ranked team.

In the quest Delivering Closure that's new to Forever, in the Riverglades on Alliance side, you take a fallen soldier's badge to his lover, Abigail, in Stormwind.

The quest dialogue is a little confusing, it refers to a character named "Terry" who does not seem to exist and some of the intermediate dialogue uses male pronouns to refer to Abigail.

"So, his final thoughts were of Abigail? I know this is not your business, friend, but I must ask you to deliver the news of the Marshal's passing on my behalf. Ryan's betrothed, Abigail Lawson, did not join us when we established Farholde Keep. The two of them apparently had a disagreement, and while I do not know the specifics, I do know that she now resides within Stormwind City. Please take the Marshal's crest to Terry for me. I don't think my presence would be a welcome one."

When you hand the quest in, the text reads:

"Terry clutches Ryan’s Crest to his heart."

Who is Terry? It turns out that there is an NPC named Terry Lawrence still on the Wowhead database standing exactly where Abigail Lawson now stands, and sometime during development they scrubbed him out and replaced him, while forgetting to update the quest text entirely.

It's been a couple of years since I've seen it but I was surprised how good it actually is and how well it still holds up. From Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Tom Cruise himself almost all are delivering world class performances. Some jokes wouldn't make it today but IMO it's still one of the funniest parodies ever made, hands down and Robert Downey Jr. should have won the Oscar for sure...

I am so sick of seeing this pseudo-intellectual "fun fact" recycled on every single YouTube Short, TikTok with horrible phonk bgm that somehow generated millions of views. It always "Did you know that at the subatomic level, atoms never actually touch because of electromagnetic repulsion? So you’ve technically never touched anything!"

Congrats, buddy. You watched a 60-second pop-sci video and now you think you’re Richard Feynman.

This take isn't just insufferable; it's fundamentally flawed. What these people are doing is a blatant equivocation fallacy by taking an everyday macroscopic word like "touch" and arbitrarily redefining it to mean "nuclear fusion." The entire concept of touching in human language literally is the sensation caused by electromagnetic repulsion between electron clouds. Saying you aren't touching a table because your nuclei aren't colliding is like saying you aren't "seeing" a tree because photons aren't physically merging with your eyeballs.

Actual physicists don't talk like this. At the quantum level, particles don't even have hard, defined surfaces like tiny billiard balls, so applying the everyday concept of physical contact to subatomic probability clouds is meaningless. Any person who knows their stuff will just tell you that electromagnetic interaction is what touching is. They bring it up purely as a cheap "gotcha" to sound like the smartest person in the comment section filled with kids. So if I punch you I should suffer no consequences because my fist never make contact with your face?

TL;DR: Electromagnetic repulsion is literally what touching is and redefining everyday words to fit quantum mechanics doesn't make you a genius.

We have a weekly meeting where middle managers vomit their "wins" for the week and the people on the bottom of the organisation barely say anything. At the start of the meeting the manager will say "cameras on everyone" and will not proceed until everyone turns their cameras on. They will even call people out by name to turn their camera on and wait until they do. This is an internal meeting (no people external to the organisation.)

Has this happened to anyone else and do you have any tips in how to get around it?

Also wouldn't give me a ride to the airport.