Axel Schmidt

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I bet "Surgery Technology International" would be excited to receive my latest paper on quasi-elastic electron scattering from light nuclei.

Kahless tells us time is the one enemy no warrior can defeat. In the end, it is how you spent your that time matters most. Spend it being honorable, strong, and kind. Do this and time will not be your enemy, but your gift to those who will be glad to have known you.

this is objectively hilarious

Today’s mood: “Here, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King

There are more of us than there are of them.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

surely just a coincidence.

Grounds for divorce

Yes! This!

Finally, someone else agrees that tritium is a lifestyle.

I regret spending time watching that.

$@&% me, the gate agent working the flight to Cincinnati is named Albany.

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Oooh that’s my turn on, when I read the phrases “In summary…” and “As a result…”

Photo of a Dunkin Donuts in DCA airport with sign reading, “Reagan runs on Dunkin”

Oh man! I thought he was dead.

Just found another occurrence in the wild of “one bad apple,” to label one person’s misbehavior as isolated, with zero awareness that the phrase continues “…ruins the bunch.” Maybe consider using “bad egg?” I’ve cracked a bad egg, and I’ve never see one contaminate a neighbor.

More, please!

NEXT ARRIVES THE HOUR OF LIGHT SNACK AND RETURN SOME EMAILS. THEN SOX-YANKEES.

Just a friendly reminder: you can live your life in metric, regardless. As a first step: switch your weather app units to C, and within 6 weeks you’ll have adjusted. Step 2 is your GPS

This is so freaking funny! 🤣

“The Washington Most CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here's how. Small gradual exposures to heat can help the human body build tolerance to rising temperatures, experts say” (real article, put in a word bubble coming out of a frog that is in a pot of boiling water)

ha. oh.

Trans rights are human rights, but the bad news is people also hate human rights.

I know that college football feels like such a frivolous thing to care about right now, but I really do feel like the world is a better place when Pitt plays WVU once a year. Thoughts and prayers that the brawl survives whatever cataclysmic tectonic shifts happen next.

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I received this very oddly specific spam, which is especially weird considering I'm a physicist for whom cows are abstract spherical objects.

That feeling when you politely let someone go in front of you in the TSA line, and they end up getting the random ding for extra security. 😆

a football player with the word patriots on his shirt ALT: a football player with the word patriots on his shirt

🤣🤣🤣

BREAKING: Trump is pressuring the Nobel committee to change the name of the award to the “Nobel War Prize”