Finale

– You don’t remember any of their phone numbers? Not even your mom’s?
– I‘m young, remember?!

– OMG, you look hot!
– Well, duh, it’s still me!
– No, you look sweaty…

– Back in the day when I wanted some strange, I would grab a Wall Street dude coming out of spin class. I knew exactly what his body looked like, I knew what his sweat smelled like, and I knew for sure there would be no emotional attachment. I could simply hate-fuck his capitalist brains right out his prick.
– Before Lehman Brothers went down, Neri went down on Lehman Brothers.

– Luschek just commented “believe women”. And he did the fist emoji, but he changed the skin color to white, instead of keeping it Simpsons yellow. Who does that? That’s some white supremacist shit right there.
– Maybe I am not the best person to be advising you on this, considering you blackmailed me into giving you a blowjob.
– That was consensual blackmail. And now, we are living in non-wedded bliss.
– Joe, the best thing you can do as a straight white man is shut the fuck up.
– But that’s crazy. I get it, men have been abusive assholes throughout time, but I am not one of those guys. I’m just trying to get the facts straight.
– The only thing more annoying than you being a nice guy is your need for everyone to think that you’re a nice guy. It’s not gonna happen, but this will blow over, ’cause the world doesn’t really care about anyone, and it certainly doesn’t care about women.
So, sit tight and let it pass.

– What did you think about it? And be brutally honest, but lead with the positive, because I might shut down and not be able to process the criticism.

– So, what’s the difference between the racisms?
– Capital-R racism implies that the racist assumes racial superiority or performs deliberate acts of discrimination. Casual racism is about negative prejudice or racial stereotypes concerning race, and is most often unintentionally offensive. They both have negative impact, but casual racism makes me laugh, so I indulge.

Are you asking me to Marie Kondo my wife?

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Fear

Fear is the anticipation that something is about to occur and the anxiety that it’s going to be terrible. It is a part of our basic biological make-up, evolving alongside humanity as a primary survival instinct.

Fear keeps us alive and competitive as a species, compelling as to avoid danger and making us fearful of pain, afraid of death and cautious of the unknown.

On a larger scale, fear guards as against the breakdown of society and culture by reinforcing behaviours that are biologically advantageous:  wariness of outside threats and prohibitions against socially deviant acts such as murder and incest.

When the things we fear actually happened, we experience horror. Horror is the dark realisation and subsequent revulsion that the world is now fundamentally, shockingly and permanently altered.

Despite all of this unpleasantness, we enjoy horror because it is equally conformist and subversive. It is a right of passage in the test of courage. It reinforces notions of good and evil. It creates a rush of heightened emotions. It allows us to safely experience taboo subjects. It reflects the landscape of our nightmares and dreams.

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How to measure time

International Atomic Time

(TAI)

Coordinated Universal Time

(UTC)

Universal Time

(UT)

  • Fixed-length seconds and days
  • Fixed-length seconds
  • Seconds vary in length to match Earth’s rotation
  • Not in sync with solar time
  • Doesn’t drift more than half a second from solar time
  • Perfectly in sync with solar time
  • All days have 86400 SI seconds
  • Some days can have 86401 SI seconds
  • All days have 86400 sun and not SI seconds (different length)

Historically, time standards were often based on the Earth’s rotational period. From the late 18th to the 19th century it was assumed that the Earth’s daily rotational rate was constant. Astronomical observations of several kinds, including eclipse records, studied in the 19th century, raised suspicions that the rate at which Earth rotates is gradually slowing and also shows small-scale irregularities, and this was confirmed in the early twentieth century (decreasing roughly by 0,002s per century).

For this reason, there are several different ways to measure time:

  • based on Earth rotation around axis,
  • based on atomic clocks and the SI second,
  • based on Earth rotation around sun.
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What is a second?

  • Sonnensekunde: Commonly, ​1⁄86400 of a mean solar day (24 * 60 * 60 = 86,400). A mean solar day is an average of the time the earth takes to rotate around its axis.
  • Ephemeridensekunde: The fraction 1/31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time (note: 24 * 60 * 60 * 365 = 31,563,000). This definition is based on earth’s rotation around the sun.
  • Atomsekunde: The time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom. This is the International System of Units (SI, Système international d’unités) definition of a second.
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