so i noticed that graph is based on data collected in 2011, and i got curious. the most recent one they have now is 2016.
also the website is a wonderful resource i’ve been exploring. it breaks down the intimidating complexity of US politics to help busy folks who want to understand better but don’t know where to start. and as someone who is neurodivergent, the charts and graphs they use are so helpful for comprehension!
I can’t remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it
“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”
no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it
The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.
The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign
I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.
Deep breath everyone. People are code switching. So that they can talk about sex and death. This is not cowing to censorship, it is language flowing around it. ‘oh we can’t say ‘sex’? Fine I’m just gonna say ‘She Bojangles on my Hardee til I Jimmy John’ which is in fact much more explicit than ‘we had sex’.
You understand that when someone says ‘self delete’ or ‘auto terminate’ that they’re discussing suicide. You understand that ‘unalive(v)’ means 'kill’ and that 'unalive(adj)’ means 'deceased’ without having that explicitly explained. Because it’s a valid construction in the English Language.
If you comprehend the meaning of the words, language is working. It’s doing its job of taking ideas and concepts from the head of one human and conveying them to another. Linguistic relativity does not in fact prevent the transmission of ideas and concepts.
Put down your copy of 1984, take a breath, and pick up a copy of A Clockwork Orange.
the issue here isn’t whether terms like “unalive” are comprehensible or not though. it’s pretty obvious what they mean, and I don’t see anyone disputing that.
what’s unsettling is that people are voluntarily mincing words that are so integral to the human experience. death is natural. sex is natural. why are we so uncomfortable talking about them that we need make up new, softer words?
censorship is, unfortunately, an undeniable fact of modern media and being online. we are adapting to it, yes. we’re still communicating the ideas that corporations are trying to censor. and yeah, some of us are effectively code switching in order to bypass the censors. but I can tell you from personal experience that there are definitely people who just talk like that now. like all the time. they’ll say “unalive” to my face, in person, completely seriously. that is what’s worrisome to me. it doesn’t seem like “rebellious youth culture” to me. it seems like the opposite of that. it seems like corporate interests seeping into our genuine, private, offline interactions where they shouldn’t have any control.
Last time I checked, this kind of thing has not and never has been solely the wheelhouse of private companies.
Censorship is generally done by governments. The euphemism treadmill is often operated by sincere and well-meaning activists.
If people are using this kind of language offline, they have responsibility for their own actions. Not some vague collective Other boogeyman.
And frankly, this isn’t even remotely the first time e-euphemisms have escaped containment. It’s just the first time y'all noticed.
Made this because my other “ms paint tips” post is going around, but the images in it were only made as supplemental material for a paper i had to write and dont include all the necessary information on how the tricks work. As a result people are getting very confused when they try them out to unfavorable results. I hope all those people find this post and their confusion can be cleared up.
“adult who logs on and works themself into a furor over teenagers not having perfectly articulated opinions and thoughts on the world” is quickly becoming my least favorite genre of Poster Du Jour
“this teenager is overly skittish and prudish about alcohol and drugs” i was like that as a teenager because i was a sheltered child and not every person in the world enjoys substance use or has the proclivity for it and that’s fine
“this teenager has conservative ideas about sex” theyre literally at a point in their life where they’re only beginning to grapple with sexuality, that’s their business and barring some far flung outliers it’s probably extremely weird that you care about what a kid you dont know thinks about sex
“this kid’s opinion about this complex issue is ill-informed and not as articulate as it could be” that is normal because they are a child
“this teen online doesnt understand queer history” maybe you should gently guide them as a peer in your vulnerable community instead of trying to dunk on them for your followers
“this kid on the internet is a loser because [x]” if youre an adult and say stuff like this i have to assume youre projecting bc you were bullied in tenth grade
The problem with Victor Frankenstein isn’t that he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. The problem with Victor Frankenstein is that he’s exactly as smart as he thinks he is in one very specific area, and he just expects that to automatically translate to every other area of his life and is taken completely by surprise every single time it doesn’t.
maybe he could have had a career in academia after all
ok i've been called a sex freak tranny too i get where you're coming from but like also please be more careful with extremely vague posts about Problematic Kinks
no. people’s openness about what two consenting adults can do in private has no bearing on how likely they are to be child abusers or close ranks about child abusers & thinking there is some correlation is a sign that your stance on sexual abuse is mediated more by disgust reaction and aesthetic associations than by structural analysis. there is a pretty hard and obvious line between not condemming consensual sex acts between adults and being a pedophile and thinking that it’s some sort of spectrum or slippery slope there imo speaks poorly to your conceptualization of why SA is a bad thing.
people love to say that X or Y kink Normalizes Abuse, but, like, actually think about communities where sexual abuse is ‘normalized’ in society. is the problem with the catholic church that it’s too pro-kink? is the problem with US professional gymnastics that it’s too pro-kink? is the problem with the amish that they’re too pro-kink? was the problem with the british entertainment industry in the 1970s that it was too pro-kink? is the problem with the prison system that it’s too pro-kink? &c. &c. &c.
sexual abuse doesn’t happen because people are degenerate perverts and everyone is too accepting of that, sexual abuse happens because society is full of institutions that give adults structural power over children and men structural power over women. giving credence to the former, even in the form of thinking you have to be “super careful” about perverts, is a straightforwardly reactionary position.
Don’t tell me any of u guys actually think autism is a “destigmatized disorder”
The entire anti-vax movement is built around the unfounded idea that vaccines cause autism. There are people and organizations dedicated to “finding the cure” for autism. Autistic people, including children, are seen as “creepy” or dangerous. You cannot, in good faith, claim that autism is “destigmatized like anxiety and depression” just because it’s kind of trendy between a bunch of autistic bloggers on this stupid website to make jokes about “my autism beam” or whatever
Also anxiety and depression aren’t destigmatized either
The rainbow infinity symbol is and has always been the autism symbol.
It was always exclusive to AUTISM. Stop with this bullshit. You’ve been spitting this bullshit on twitter too and refuse to listen to ACTUALLY AUTISTIC people who are correcting you.
The rainbow infinity symbol is the symbol for autism, not neurodiversity. I don’t fucking care if a random google search tells you otherwise.
“Twenty thousand cocks for ten thousand guys” is actually a statistical error. Cocks georg who lives in a cave and has 9999 cocks is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
Verbing nouns is great, but for my money nothing beats adjectiving nouns. If I can find an excuse to describe something as “wizardy” it makes my whole day.
Arguably even more fun to adjectiving them with “ish”. A catish creature. A wizardish man.
Top pic is a single tile, and bottom is how it looks filling a 1920x1080 canvas.
Made this for my icon set project by scanning in a piece and then tweaking it to be straighter and tile better. Free to use for anybody else who wants it– no credit needed, including for commercial applications, etc etc.
My betrothed and I were driving along recently, and as it’s winter there’s all sorts of Christmas lights and decorations up.
As we drove past a particularly festooned yard my betrothed said, “I should just go steal all those decorations. Like some kind of anti-Santa.”
“Do you mean like a Grinch? That’s- that’s what they call people who do that.”
My betrothed did the blank stare of someone who had absolutely forgotten that the Grinch existed and was calculating whether to backtrack what they’d said.
Instead, they doubled down with, “No. The anti-Santa.”
Today they expounded on this theory by adding, “If there’s an anti-Christ there should be an anti-Santa.”
Islamic Relief also offers the option to donate to Yemen and Sudan efforts. Please, if you’re able to, spread this to other people and communities beside online spaces.
again, if you find yourself continuously drawn to internet discourse and engaging with it to the point it’s hard think about anything else
read about moral ocd or ask a professional about it. i promise that is not normal or “just being chronically online”. there are treatments and experts who can help navigate your obsessive tendencies
it’s gonna be alright. having the most correct discourse opinions says nothing about you as a person. you’re gonna be ok
my rule of thumb is if i grabbed any dude at 7/11 and asked him about the discourse and it sounded like a different language to them, i’m not allowed to obsessively spiral over it
First, you gotta get a cool cup. I got this one from a thrift store for a very affordable price. But if you can’t find one, a standard clear cup or jar should suffice
Now, you don’t need a decal, but I recommend it because they’re cool. I just got some sticker vinyl, traced and cut out the Wii logo and some stars
Now for the drink!!
Start by making or buying jelly. If you make it, you should do so a few hours before you intend to make the drinks, as it will need time to set. You can find jelly at most any grocery store.
Get your cup and add ice and jelly. You should cut the jelly into small pieces or use cookie cutters to make fun shapes. I recommend you don’t add quite all of the jelly, as you’ll need some for the top later
Next, add your flavoring syrup of choice, I recommend blue raspberry or melon. You should be able to find them at any restaurant supply store
Then, add carbonated water. Flavored sparkling waters also work fine, as they don’t taste like much. You should be able to find some at any store that sells drinks.
Next add Calpico, this is technically optional, but it tastes way better with it, so it’d highly recommend it. You can get it at practically any Asian market, or normal market if you live in Asia
Now, add some ice cream, or something of the sort, I use vanilla.
After that, you can top it with some whipped cream, jelly shapes, cherries, really anything!!
I would also recommend using a straw to drink it, because you will need to mix it up a bit. but you can’t really mix it before hand, because it will ruin the cool gradient affect
If anyone makes this, please rb with your results!! I wanna see!!
i was in the library and the lights went out and i whispered “dark academia” and only one person laughed but ive been having a bad enough week that it felt like a win so cheers
thanks everyone :’)
you’re right obviously this joke is too funny to flop like that. what really happened was i whispered “dark academia” and the girl next to me turned around and kissed me, with tongue, and everyone clapped etc etc
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