Okay so when you look up why boats float, you tend to find terms like "buoyancy" or "water displacement", but the explanation is much more intuitive. Boats float for the same reason a beach ball floats: density. 1/

Say you want to use this button to become gorl. I've seen this one miltiple times with replies saying "pushes button 100 times," because at a 1% chance per push, you'll hit 100% after 100 pushes, right? WRONG So what is the actual probability, and why? Let's math! 🧵1/

I have some time to kill while waiting at the dentist, and I haven't done an infodump thread in a while, so why not. This time we're talking about levers! Let's see how far we get until I need to face the music. And by music I mean the drill. 🧵1/

Much of language change stems from the core human trait of laziness (not derogatory). In fact, the modern English plural forms "man - men" and "foot - feet" both come from the exact same two changes compounded together. Let me explain. 🧵1/