Reject tikataalik who left the water to walk alone on land, accept tiddalik who sucked up the water so all had to walk

Old soul. He’s probably 32/33 is how old I’d estimate?

This time you can’t fool me, I know all ten of the TF2 classes.

hell yeha dude

How is Lanky getting on recently, I heard he was going through some shit.

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Amazing

I found Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction by Sun Chaofen very useful. I think it was a teacher who recommended it to me. It has two chapters on syntax. It was very easy to read for both language learners and linguists (I was studying both at the time).

Chinese Grammar Wiki is good too, they have standalone pages for most sentence structures. A good starting point would be:

https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Grammar_structures

https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Basic_sentence_order

https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Sentence_Patterns

I personally don’t like the wiki format, I prefer books and articles, but the wiki is always good for consultation.

I’ve seen shooting stars and had seen about a handful already that night though. This didn’t move like a shooting star, and was much brighter, even as it accelerated. Still, I doubt my eyes and recollection enough that I’m happy to go with that it was a shooting star.

They’re both very relatable. My UFO story is far less dramatic but.

I was watching the stars while camping once, just idly while walking to the toilet block to go brush my teeth. My eyes started following a satellite, which are immediately noticeable because they follow predictable paths across the night sky. Suddenly, the satellite I was following turned on a dime and reversed, roughly 170 degrees off its original course and then rapidly accelerated away until it was too fast to follow. It didn’t decelerate or visibly ‘turn’, it just bounced like someone hit it with a baseball bat. I just kinda stood there for a moment, wondering what I’d seen. My brother was nearby and I thought of asking him, it was only a year ago but I don’t remember if he saw it too and commented or not.

I guess what could have happened is that the course of the satellite intersected perfectly with that of a shooting star of equivalent brightness, shooting in the opposite direction. I’m not smart enough to know if shooting stars accelerate like that though.

Now I have to discard all of my learnt Genshin knowledge because it’s suspect.

I like this one (though I imagine if it were me I’d have flipped out). I believe whatever the transforming creature was was probably laughing the whole time. Sounds like real tanuki stuff.

I reqd a thing a while back about farts and it said that if you don’t fart then the gas finds another way out (burps, or through your pores or sth) so actually not farting can make you more stinky. Farts can be a controlled release.

Oh yeah I absolutely hated having two hours back to myself in the day from not having to commute, wearing comfortable clothes the whole day, the choice to cook my own healthy meals rather than pay for food court slop, making my own coffee and saving money, and having time and energy to see my friends and family more often. It was terrible for my mental health.

Liking dark souls really is the dark souls of liking things

Second date at the art deco maccas:

reflecting on a moment you felt truly alive

Once upon a time, I went on a white water rafting trip in the New River Gorge as a small child, and we stopped at this weird bricked drainage grotto thing that felt very Indiana Jones-y to me, and most of the adults were scared to get out of the raft and swim into the grotto to the little waterfall in the back, but I was out of the boat the second they said we could. It was mysterious and wonderful and weird and exciting.

What a lovely experience. Thanks for sharing ☺️

Oh actually, shout out in the intro to Hannah Gadsby great comedian worth checking out.

Ty for the tag. I didn’t get a notification for it I’m not sure why but I saw the post so all good.

What interested you in this book club?
There are many autistic comrades on hexbear so I want to learn more about it.

Are you neurodiverse? Do you know someone who is?
I don’t think so? I don’t know to be honest. There are things in the introduction I related to and others I didn’t (apologies for jumping ahead on a question, I felt it was better to answer it here). I don’t think I’m autistic though. I have colleagues I believe are neurodiverse and people I interact with through work and volunteering.

What stood out to you about the introduction? Any choice quotes? Anything you relate to?
I don’t know when the introduction ended, I’m listening to the audiobook and got to about an hour in, so I hope I’m not covering ground for the next chapter. I liked that Price is narrating it himself (right? Or did I get that wrong). No quotes stood out to me. I think I’m gunna hold back from commenting too much until I’ve listened a bit more?

You could curse them so they can never say whatever day of the week it is at that time, they can only say it relative to a day that’s either three days before or three days hence.