Panda Escapades

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
everlastingrandom
sololangs

everyday i mourn that my parents did not make me study five languages during my critical window of language acquisition (2 to 7 years)

kailan-sunshine

Hi! Language teacher here!

If there isn't a fluent speaker around to practice with regularly, it doesn't matter how many languages you make a small child study. They aren't going to speak any of them.

I can also confirm (anecdotally) that my adult students learned much quicker than any of the kids I worked with, and exponentially faster than any of the toddlers I taught.

If you want to learn a language, go learn it! You are fully capable of doing so as an adult, and you didn't miss any windows.

nettlewildfairy
pangur-and-grim

I've mentioned this story on here before, but I still feel really bad about it. so in my writing class, this older woman was talking to me about a book she read. specifically about how disturbing she found a scene near the end, where a dragon/demon/thing has evil nasty sex with a lady. and I was like "that's disgusting, please tell me the title so that I can avoid it!"

and then a few classes later, someone asked me what I was reading. without thinking, I said "oh, it's [book title]" and FROM ACROSS THE ROOM the older woman twisted around to give me the surprised pikachu face. I felt so guilty.

callmestannismaybe

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theprofessional-amateur
aweekerfuffle

You're a doctor. You've been taught the phrase "first, do no harm."

A patient comes in with a flesh eating bacteria that is rapidly spreading up their leg. The only way to save their life is to remove their leg.

So what do you do? To help the patient is to accept that you must also harm them.

You're a good doctor. Of course you remove the leg and save the patient's life, because trying to exercise a choice that will result in no harm is impossible where there are only two bad outcomes, but one is unquestionably worse.

This post is for for leftists in the US who still think either not voting or going with a protest vote in the next two major election cycles is an acceptable choice, when you know full well the Republican will cause more harm.

quasi-normalcy
everythingismadeofchaos: “awed-frog: “When an archer is shooting for fun He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind. His...
awed-frog

When an archer is shooting for fun
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
Or sees two targets –
He is out of his mind.

His skill has not changed,
But the prize divides him.
He cares
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting –
And the need to win
Drains him of power.

Zhuang Zhou (369 BC - 286 BC)

everythingismadeofchaos

There’s also the fact that if some rando drew in your math textbook they probably draw stuff all the time so they’re probably really good at it. Fish the fast food napkins out of their trash and I bet you find sketches of seagulls trying to steal burgers or whatever they’re fixated on.

Drawing a lot makes you good at drawing. This concept is strongly generalizable

sailor-arashi
anneriawings

OKAY CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THE FUCK YOU SHIP A PACKAGE OF COOKIES TO A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN NEW JERSEY, ONLY TO HAVE IT NOT GET THERE ON TIME BECAUSE IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN GUAM?

I JUST



GUAM?

phantomrose96

IM CRYING REAL TEARS MAH DUDES THE COOKIES ARE IN GUAM

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KATIE TRIED TO SEND US COOKIES OUTTA THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART AND JUST

“OHHHH THESE COOKIES WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO NEW JERSEY, PHIL? I THOUGHT YOU SAID

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anneriawings

12/27, 8:37PM CT

ITS STILL IN FUCKING GUAM

anneriawings

12/28, 12:18PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE IN HONOLULU GUYS THEY ***FINALLY LEFT GUAM***

anneriawings

12/28, 10:22PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE FINALLY ON THEIR WAY TO NEW JERSEY


GO COOKIES GO


@phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper​ @homebeccer GET READY

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anneriawings

lol i was looking through my history to find the tracking number page and

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anneriawings

12/30, 12:39AM CT

@phantomrose96 @homebeccer @cupcakecreeper

holy fuCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

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THE COOKIES ARE ALMOST THERE

phantomrose96

The saga of Katie’s Guam cookies is my Anime of the Season

anneriawings

THEY’VE ARRIIIIIIIIIIVVEEDDDDD THEY’RE ON THE FRONT DOORSTEP

anneriawings

COOKIES ACQUIRED

homebeccer

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THE THRILLING CONCLUSION

also as a bonus visual here’s a rough approximation of these cookies’ journey

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anneriawings

how the FUCK did this blow up and get so many notes

anneriawings

SO FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES, @homebeccer @phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper AND I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD ACTUALLY COST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO INTENTIONALLY SEND THESE COOKIES FROM TEXAS TO GUAM TO NEW JERSEY AND???????????????


AND 

IT’S

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IT’S

IT’S NOT AN OPTION IT’S NOT AN OPTION I CAN’T I-

I COULDN’T EVEN HAVE SENT THESE COOKIES TO GUAM EVEN IF I’D HAVE TRIED 

phantomrose96

Cant believe we uncovered the Guam Cookie glitch folks

Its not even an in-game feature

crowreys-wormstache

Oh my god it’s back

anneriawings

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H O W

anavar-immela

I’ve had this sort of thing happen.

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At least it explained why the package took so long to get here.

phantomrose96

I appreciate that they have an Entire Stamp for “Missent to Nepal”

No one said “hey let’s stop missending things to Nepal” they just said “let’s make a stamp for this” and called it a day.

I’m gonna get Missent to Guam tattooed on my arm in commemoration. 

sharkgal4

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

offonaherosjourney

Get Moist von Lipwig in charge of the US postal service ASAP

korasonata

Ok I know this is super old now but I work at a post office and I was curious about the price so I did some digging and I still don’t have a definite answer because THE REASON it says “no shipping services available” is because all shipping services were actually suspended to Guam at the time. As in no packages, parcels, letters, or mail or any kind could be sent to Guam. So not only is it mind boggling that it got sent so far in the wrong direction of its intended destination, but because nothing should have been able to get in to Guam period.

You QUITE LITERALLY could not have sent these cookies to Guam if you tried.

byrdsfly
prokopetz

Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

bear-disguised-as-a-human

This is how I found out that Ada Lovelace was Lord Byrons daughter

prokopetz

Well, yeah. That's why she received the unusual education which laid the foundation for her later discoveries in the first place. Her mother, Lady Byron, firmly believed three things:

  1. It was her responsibility as a mother to ensure that Ada didn't turn out like her father;
  2. Fundamentally, the thing that was wrong with Lord Byron is that he was a poet; and
  3. The opposite of poetry is math.

Ada Lovelace's biography handily illustrates how well this theory worked out in practice.

arqueete

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