@ezrabutler

Trying to calculate the probability of having a meet-cute in the gluten-free aisle of Tesco.

Tesco, on average, has a wider variety gluten-free products in a single aisle than most other stores.

Which means people are more likely to spend time in that aisle deciding on what to purchase.

There is a theoretical possibility of a meet-cute anywhere, but I would suggest that common interests (like the mystery shelf at a bookshop or the gluten-free aisle in a Tesco) have a higher probability.

Frequency definitely matters, but is every trip equal? In a bookstore, you are usually looking for something new, but in a supermarket, you may simply be purchasing the same products.

Is a better question to create a matrix of the places with the highest theoretical probabilities for meet-cutes?

Art history is history.

Why does Threads shadow-ban any post mentioning the extinction of dragons?

I don’t have the emotional bandwidth to defend ellipses today.

In a world filled with Puritans, be a Spinoza. Or at the very least, an Orwell.

In a world filled with Crusaders, be a Copernicus. Or at the very least, a Galileo.

Are nostalgia studies designed by anyone under the age of 45 inherently flawed?

The best way to get me to research something myself is to tell me that the “general consensus among scholars” is something which is wholly counterintuitive.

By how they use things, it seems like people really want a mashup between microblogging (Twitter) and bulletin boards (Reddit). Maybe with photo sharing (Instagram) sprinkled in.

I’ve forgotten everything I wanted to write about.