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Uma Reid
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"MY DOG ONLY HAS 2 BILLION NEURONS IN HER BRAIN??? AND HALF ARE DEDICATED TO OLFACTORY PROCESSING??? MY DARLING GIRL :(((" — Apr 14, 2026 04:38AM
"MY DOG ONLY HAS 2 BILLION NEURONS IN HER BRAIN??? AND HALF ARE DEDICATED TO OLFACTORY PROCESSING??? MY DARLING GIRL :(((" — Apr 14, 2026 04:38AM
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"Maybe it’s just me, but I’m struggling to see the incisive wit and satire I remember this book having. The characters are not funny enough to be caricatures, they are just sort of boring. Especially Lizzy. The reader is told that she is uniquely intelligent and perceptive, but more perceptive comments are made by most other characters. Maybe it’s just me and my tiny vocabulary against the genius of the classics" — Feb 10, 2026 11:38PM
"Maybe it’s just me, but I’m struggling to see the incisive wit and satire I remember this book having. The characters are not funny enough to be caricatures, they are just sort of boring. Especially Lizzy. The reader is told that she is uniquely intelligent and perceptive, but more perceptive comments are made by most other characters. Maybe it’s just me and my tiny vocabulary against the genius of the classics" — Feb 10, 2026 11:38PM
“Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow.”
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
“The philosopher Ian Hacking uses the term “looping effect” to describe the way that people get caught in self-fulfilling stories about illness. A new diagnosis can change “the space of possibilities for personhood,” he writes. “We make ourselves in our own scientific image of the kinds of people it is possible to be.”
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
“Oh thank God. I can’t imagine explaining “sleep” to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Work fast."
"Yeah." I point at the screen. "First I have to wait for my computer to wake up."
"Hurry."
"Okay, I'll wait faster."
"Sarcasm.”
― Project Hail Mary
"Yeah." I point at the screen. "First I have to wait for my computer to wake up."
"Hurry."
"Okay, I'll wait faster."
"Sarcasm.”
― Project Hail Mary
“Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
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