Elise Kramer

@elisekramer.bsky.social

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Linguistic anthropologist @ UIUC.

A painting of an orange cat. The cat's face looks like Ron Perlman as The Beast, with a dash of Trump. Its body looks like it popped its head out of the cavity of a roast turkey. There are also two cans of cat food that actually look okay.
The handshake meme. One arm is "Castilian Spanish speakers" and the other is "Indie pop singers," and their linked hands are "palatalizing /s/"
Despite all of these factors which would lead to a lower jump, the low gravity would more than account for the differences. The following is a simple physics explanation of how to determine how high the highest high jump would be if it took place on Pluto: Assuming that what is constant is the amount of potential energy, mgh, which the jumper can create, then the height attained is inversely proportional to the acceleration of gravity on the planet's surface, g. Since g on Pluto is one sixth that of Earth, we can assume that the jumper would be able to jump six times as high on Pluto as on Earth. However, since the mass of the jumper on Pluto would be approximately doubled due to the mass of the spacesuit which he must wear to prevent his brain from dribbling out of his ears, and since h is inversely proportional to the total mass of the jumper, we can assume that the jumper would be able to reach a height three times that which would be attainable on Earth. Therefore, the highest jump ever, which is 2.45 meters, attained in 1993 by Javier Sotomayer, would be approximately 7.35 meters on Pluto. Of course, it would most likely be lower than that, due to problems discussed earlier in the paper.
There are the obvious differences. Because Pluto is so far away from the sun, it would be very dark and very cold. It would be necessary to set up large stadium lights and heaters. Of course, the problem we run into here is where to plug these lights and heaters in. Surely there are outlets here and there, but are they connected to anything? Is there an electric company on Pluto? And even if there is, are the outlets polar or nonpolar? In addition, the atmosphere of Pluto is not safe for humans to survive in. Because of this, the competitors would have to compete in large, bulky, extremely heavy space suits. This would not only weigh them down considerably; it would interfere with the running and jumping motions as well. Also, the soles of the space suit boots are well over the regulation ½ inch thickness. This cannot be changed. If the soles were any thinner, it might result in a leak, which would result in your brains dribbling out of your head through your ears.
The High Jump perhaps represents man's ascent into greatness. One second you are soaring through the air with the grace of an eagle, the next you are falling, a frenzy of arms and legs, and finally, you hit the ground like a sack of beans. It was Neil Armstrong who best summed up the symbolism of the high jump when he said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Of course, as most anybody with half a brain knows, he said that when he became the first man to walk on the moon. Which leads me to wonder… What would the high jump be like if it were held on the moon? Better yet, Pluto?
A Telegraph headline: "The Americanization of English reveals something dark about society." Subhed: "Many parents are happy to allow their children consume videos made by companies that have no obligation to care for them"
A screenshot of a powerpoint slide with a bunch of examples of people judging the new "The Oval Office" sign taped to the White House exterior
A photograph of people holding protest signs in front of the Champaign County Courthouse
Pinocchio sings that he has no strings to “hold him down,” but given that he was a marionette, the strings would technically be holding him UP. Are we to understand this as a purely metaphorical use of “down,” or is there dramatic irony here, wherein Pinocchio misperceives that which animated him as that which held him back?
The table of contents for the special issue of Discourse Studies "Scaling Stories"
A cropped segment of the previously posted screenshot, showing that the original post tagged "Steven Pinker and 9 others"
The same slide as previously posted, but with added information. 54 out of 429 ADIEU clues contained exclamation points (12.6%). 67 out of 300 ADIOS clues contained exclamation points (22.3%). The venn diagram data is only based on the 30 most popular clues for each word.
A venn diagram titled "Comparing crossword clues for ADIEU vs ADIOS." The intersection includes bye, farewell, goodbye, later, cheerio, so long, parting word, toodle-oo, sayonara, and ta-ta. The ADIEU-only section contains bye-bye, au revoir, and arrivederci. The ADIOS-only section contains ciao, toodles, see ya, catch you/ya later, and I'm outta here.
A bumper sticker that says "the despair is never ending, yet I remain silly." There is also a drawing of a cat wearing rollerskates and a party hat.