Actually, the grout does look more puke-green than it should.

Bold to assume the mint gives you a choice in whether you “keep” it.

I think they want fewer brambles, because blackberries are neither the most-voluminous nor the most-annoying part of the bush.

Should definitely be in the “penguins” zone.

*Royal Institution

Faraday’s lab was at the RI.

Only if your class has access to speak with dead, and you’ve chosen it as a spell known/prepared.

Definitely read the book. The book is about the existential elation at discovering a solution to a dire problem, so knowing a poorly-communicated version of every solution will likely ruin the book for anyone serious about the hard Sci-Fi.

You know shit’s fucked when The King In Yellow, the very manifestation of the idea that knowledge can kill, is having to defend the value of education.

Every day we stray further from god toward lost Carcosa

If you didn’t have plate tectonics, you’d have a lot of problems with the atmosphere, and there’s a decent chance that life wouldn’t evolve, as the energy differentials generated by tectonic activity are those which life hangs onto, from nutrients, to oxidation, to geothermal heat.

The fuck do you mean “they both died because of it”? Are you suggesting the horse-drawn cart that crushed his skull in the street was involved in some conspiracy by Big Uranium? Or perhaps you are suggesting that the horse was suffering radioactivity-induced delirium?

Excellent catch. You can also see that both major ticks say 6’

Sounds like you would enjoy either “The Hungry Gods” or “Children of Strife” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If you choose to read Children of strife, you really need to read the first three Children of Time books first, though.

When has that fact ever stopped kids from playing with the sticks?

Still a better system than Boston, having navigated both MANY times. To call Boston’s streets a “system” is an insult to the very concept of order.

As someone who drives through Boston often: it’s the worst-planned city I’ve ever seen. I am fairly convinced that the underground tunnel system is actually creating an eldritch sigil of chaos (a la Good Omens), and it is not uncommon to encounter a seven-way intersection, where two of those ways are train lines, but aren’t marked, so at night, you can accidentally find yourself on train tracks. It’s like if someone bargained with the Fey to make a city.

I would point out that they also have long asses.

As in “topographically”, which specifically refers to land surfaces?

Edit: For the record, each of the following refers to a completely different thing:

• Typography: fonts & stuff
• Topography: land surfaces
• Typology: classification
• Topology: mathematics of objects and their geometric and morphological properties

*topologically

(Typography is text font stuff)

Yeah, it’s not as clear here that the entire joke relies on these being written out. I personally think this whole joke would actually work best as a person passing notes during a test and trying to cheat THAT way.

Smbc? This is just a compound version of smbc’s original comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2349