In that case, what are we?

Meat suits hung onto skeleton hangers, obvi.

Or even more foundationally, proteins doing things with fatty membranes.

Basically piles of highly organized goo.

Hrm, it sounds like the teacher already knew the answer.

Maybe stop wasting the time of the student then!?

You're welcome.

But surely you must understand how someone, having failed all of their classes and then dropped out of school altogether, understands complex matters better than the people who are brilliant, have international acclaim, and devoted like 5 decades of their lives to study that same thing?

Or you know, at least watched this 11-minute video?

And if you do, can you explain it to me? :-P So far all I have is "Might Makes Right", but somehow that seems to be lacking something...

100% this is it.

It's a good thing you added "acorn" there!

WHAT'S HIS NA... oh, the Onion, right. Practically the only "real" news source left, even if a little fuzzy on the details:-).

There are many ways to fail. At this point though, I'm not sure there are any ways left to "succeed". If I were pressed for advice I'd say for someone to do what they think they would regret the least:-|.

You mean like... oh purpose!?

There was a time long ago I did that to help them with their business. I've learned a lot since then and now I don't do that anymore.

I AM - Thank you for your service! :-D

And now as thanks, a picture of a cat for no reason whatsoever - as is tradition!