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One of the weirdest parts of when Catholicism ends up back in the headlines is finding out every Protestant denomination has some sort of specific and deeply held set of opinions about us when I grew not knowing the difference between a Lutheran and a Baptist.

Americans love to compare the size of their shitsville states to other countries as if they themselves built the physical land

Idaho now has more firearms than the whole of Canada.

A lawyer and a farmer are sitting on a flight. The lawyer proposes: "If you can't answer my question, you pay me $5. If I can't answer yours, I pay you $500." The lawyer asks a difficult science question. The farmer doesn't know it and pays him $5. The farmer then asks: "What has three legs when walking and four when flying?" After hours of searching, the lawyer gives up and pays the farmer $500. Curious, the lawyer asks, "So what’s the answer?" The farmer reaches into his pocket, hands the lawyer $5, and goes back to sleep.

going to festivals after a certain age is embarrassing lowkey lol

Hot take: shower beer is performative as hell, and I honestly don’t see the appeal

as a firmly middle millennial i wonder sometimes if there’s a single cultural trope or inheritance my age group produced that has aged well. our mount rushmore is like, jim from the office, heckin doggo parlance, buzzfeed, reaction gifs. sad stuff

The jazz question is simple: it's very fun to play, it's not very fun to listen to. To enjoy listening to it you must have a combination of technical skill and vivid imagination and be able to imagine yourself playing. It differs in this way from other high skill genres, which can be passively enjoyed at any technical level. You can train passive musical appreciation and get more out of classical music, or other complex styles, but not so for jazz, because jazz is an inside joke