wherever this is y'all should just start saying random words like they were slang. Every time they ban some of your made up words, make up a few more. Let them ban ten words at once and come in using ten more the very next day. Really make a game out of driving them nuts
Just walk around saying shit like “That’s so blizzy. I dig the dharma. Get sippy with it, homeswizzle.”
Literally make the slang you want be “insert random word” so that any random word can be the term and you pick it up from context. “Holy shine-button, that flicks bee-butts my grizbaby. Very dealt of you.” Make them ban the entire dictionary.
I hope somebody from there saw this and is doing it. My whole family excels in this kind of rebellion, btw.
I spent one single year in a private high school, and they had a dress code, and the dress code said t-shirts must be a solid color and have a pocket.
Now i didn’t mind solid color t-shirts, but i hated how the shirts with a pocket looked. So after failing to get away with wearing pocketless shirts… I borrowed a sewing machine and made a solid colored t-shirt with a pocket over the belly button like a silly little kangaroo. Facing the principle the next day, i pointed out that the student handbook clearly stated that all t-shirts must have a pocket. I asked him if my shirt had a pocket. I asked him to show me where the rules detailed the location on the shirt that a pocket must be. It was a private school so they simply suspended me for a day (which went on my record) and when i got back the student handbooks had all been reprinted with a sentence added to it specifying that t-shirts must have a breast pocket on the left side of the chest. Being the cause of a whole new student handbook edition gained me a small amount of notoriety, but i was so low on the social totem pole at that school that it didn’t do much for me.
The next Monday, i showed up with a t-shirt entirely covered in pockets, front and back. In the principle’s office again, I asked him if my shirt had a pocket on the left side of the chest. I asked him to show me where the rules said there must only be one pocket. I was suspended for a day and the next day there was ANOTHER student handbook reprint, and the school threatened to bill my parents the cost of reprinting all the student handbooks if they didn’t get me in line. My parents basically laughed at them but asked me to not make them have to fight my school as they were already short on time and money. So i gave up on that and began amusing myself finding neck ties that met the letter of the dress code but pissed off the administration.
I could tell you a couple more things i’ve done, but i’d rather tell you what my brother did.
To promote recreational reading in The Youth, my younger brother’s public high school instituted a 25 minute “free reading period” in the day. Every student had to spend that time reading. You could read anything, you could even read a magazine, but you had to be reading.
My brother thought the whole thing was a stupid way for the school to spend their time, and especially stupid to be applied to him. Our whole family reads excessively – when i was in high school i was reading, on average, one entire book every day. My brother was more well adjusted than i, so i’d guess he was only reading 3 or four books a week, tho, while i was reading a lot of fiction with a little philosophy and history, he was reading a lot of, like, theoretical physics.
ANYway, he was like, this is stupid for many reasons, i’m going to sit quietly and use this time to catch up on some of my homework. But the teacher he had during that time period didn’t like that and made a big deal out of insisting he actually spend the time reading. He was sent to the principles office, where he explained that he did not need extra reading time, cited studies that indicated the “free reading” time would accomplish nothing and was a waste of time for both the administration and the student body, and ended with a reminder that what he WANTED to do was sit quietly and do school work, which any school should be happy about.
The principle said he understood my brother’s position, but that he couldn’t make exceptions for a single student. As per the instructions to the whole school, it didn’t matter what he read, it could even be unpublished writing, but he had to be reading. My brother, already veteran gamer both on a computer and around a table, immediately saw an exploit and seized this mistake (gods, my family really can be the worst lmao).
He asked the principle to put in writing the rules as stated AND that he would not make an exception for a single student. The principle, not understanding the kind of people we are, gave it to him in writing. At which point his fate was sealed.
So the next day my brother came in with a packet of paper he had printed at home. When the time came for “free reading” he took out his packet and began reading. When the teacher came over to make sure he was reading, she was enraged to discover he had a packet of about 25 pages completely full of the repeated letter “a”.
“I’m reading it tho” was his response. “This meets the definition of reading” “No it’s just a letter, you can’t be reading it unless it’s words.”
The next day he showed up with pages completely filled with “words words words words.” He was sent to the principles office “See, those are words,” my brother said, “so i must be reading.”
“no that’s not reading, there’s not a single sentence on these pages” The principle must have been stupid, anyone who ever met someone from our family could have seen what would happen the next day, when he showed up with pages full of “These are words in a sentence.” over and over
He was again sent to the principles office. The principle discovered that, like a man with a monkey’s paw, he could not define reading in a way that met the rules as stated but would prevent my brother’s shenanigans. He tried to insist my brother read from a recognized publisher, but my brother pointed out that this was not the rules as given to the rest of the student body, and the principle could not make an exception for a single student. The principle tried to tell him that he was making an exception for him anyway, and my brother told him that unless he was given an exemption from “free reading” time entirely, he would not recognize any rules that violated the written agreement they had. The principle implied my brother would face consequences for this behavior, and my brother implied he would talk to the local paper about being repeatedly harassed for *checked actual notes* following the rules he had been given, all in an effort to prevent my brother from sitting quietly and doing actual schoolwork.
My brother returned to class shortly thereafter with a note from the principle explaining to the teacher that my brother was exempt from “free reading”
anyway, the moral of this story is, when a rule is ridiculous, you can often find a way to make the authority figures look ridiculous for trying to enforce it.
so again, i hope these kids just start using any and all words in a way that sounds like slang. Start using school-related words as slang “what’s up, my exponent? You ready to get absolutely conjugated this weekend? it’s gonna be sooo decimal!” Let them ban THAT. Make them pull their hair out trying to avoid admitting the rule they want to make is “don’t be cooler than we can understand”
wherever this is y'all should just start saying random words like they were slang. Every time they ban some of your made up words, make up a few more. Let them ban ten words at once and come in using ten more the very next day. Really make a game out of driving them nuts
Just walk around saying shit like “That’s so blizzy. I dig the dharma. Get sippy with it, homeswizzle.”
Literally make the slang you want be “insert random word” so that any random word can be the term and you pick it up from context. “Holy shine-button, that flicks bee-butts my grizbaby. Very dealt of you.” Make them ban the entire dictionary.
I hope somebody from there saw this and is doing it. My whole family excels in this kind of rebellion, btw.
I spent one single year in a private high school, and they had a dress code, and the dress code said t-shirts must be a solid color and have a pocket.
Now i didn’t mind solid color t-shirts, but i hated how the shirts with a pocket looked. So after failing to get away with wearing pocketless shirts… I borrowed a sewing machine and made a solid colored t-shirt with a pocket over the belly button like a silly little kangaroo. Facing the principle the next day, i pointed out that the student handbook clearly stated that all t-shirts must have a pocket. I asked him if my shirt had a pocket. I asked him to show me where the rules detailed the location on the shirt that a pocket must be. It was a private school so they simply suspended me for a day (which went on my record) and when i got back the student handbooks had all been reprinted with a sentence added to it specifying that t-shirts must have a breast pocket on the left side of the chest. Being the cause of a whole new student handbook edition gained me a small amount of notoriety, but i was so low on the social totem pole at that school that it didn’t do much for me.
The next Monday, i showed up with a t-shirt entirely covered in pockets, front and back. In the principle’s office again, I asked him if my shirt had a pocket on the left side of the chest. I asked him to show me where the rules said there must only be one pocket. I was suspended for a day and the next day there was ANOTHER student handbook reprint, and the school threatened to bill my parents the cost of reprinting all the student handbooks if they didn’t get me in line. My parents basically laughed at them but asked me to not make them have to fight my school as they were already short on time and money. So i gave up on that and began amusing myself finding neck ties that met the letter of the dress code but pissed off the administration.
I could tell you a couple more things i’ve done, but i’d rather tell you what my brother did.
To promote recreational reading in The Youth, my younger brother’s public high school instituted a 25 minute “free reading period” in the day. Every student had to spend that time reading. You could read anything, you could even read a magazine, but you had to be reading.
My brother thought the whole thing was a stupid way for the school to spend their time, and especially stupid to be applied to him. Our whole family reads excessively – when i was in high school i was reading, on average, one entire book every day. My brother was more well adjusted than i, so i’d guess he was only reading 3 or four books a week, tho, while i was reading a lot of fiction with a little philosophy and history, he was reading a lot of, like, theoretical physics.
ANYway, he was like, this is stupid for many reasons, i’m going to sit quietly and use this time to catch up on some of my homework. But the teacher he had during that time period didn’t like that and made a big deal out of insisting he actually spend the time reading. He was sent to the principles office, where he explained that he did not need extra reading time, cited studies that indicated the “free reading” time would accomplish nothing and was a waste of time for both the administration and the student body, and ended with a reminder that what he WANTED to do was sit quietly and do school work, which any school should be happy about.
The principle said he understood my brother’s position, but that he couldn’t make exceptions for a single student. As per the instructions to the whole school, it didn’t matter what he read, it could even be unpublished writing, but he had to be reading. My brother, already veteran gamer both on a computer and around a table, immediately saw an exploit and seized this mistake (gods, my family really can be the worst lmao).
He asked the principle to put in writing the rules as stated AND that he would not make an exception for a single student. The principle, not understanding the kind of people we are, gave it to him in writing. At which point his fate was sealed.
So the next day my brother came in with a packet of paper he had printed at home. When the time came for “free reading” he took out his packet and began reading. When the teacher came over to make sure he was reading, she was enraged to discover he had a packet of about 25 pages completely full of the repeated letter “a”.
“I’m reading it tho” was his response. “This meets the definition of reading” “No it’s just a letter, you can’t be reading it unless it’s words.”
The next day he showed up with pages completely filled with “words words words words.” He was sent to the principles office “See, those are words,” my brother said, “so i must be reading.”
“no that’s not reading, there’s not a single sentence on these pages” The principle must have been stupid, anyone who ever met someone from our family could have seen what would happen the next day, when he showed up with pages full of “These are words in a sentence.” over and over
He was again sent to the principles office. The principle discovered that, like a man with a monkey’s paw, he could not define reading in a way that met the rules as stated but would prevent my brother’s shenanigans. He tried to insist my brother read from a recognized publisher, but my brother pointed out that this was not the rules as given to the rest of the student body, and the principle could not make an exception for a single student. The principle tried to tell him that he was making an exception for him anyway, and my brother told him that unless he was given an exemption from “free reading” time entirely, he would not recognize any rules that violated the written agreement they had. The principle implied my brother would face consequences for this behavior, and my brother implied he would talk to the local paper about being repeatedly harassed for *checked actual notes* following the rules he had been given, all in an effort to prevent my brother from sitting quietly and doing actual schoolwork.
My brother returned to class shortly thereafter with a note from the principle explaining to the teacher that my brother was exempt from “free reading”
anyway, the moral of this story is, when a rule is ridiculous, you can often find a way to make the authority figures look ridiculous for trying to enforce it.
so again, i hope these kids just start using any and all words in a way that sounds like slang. Start using school-related words as slang “what’s up, my exponent? You ready to get absolutely conjugated this weekend? it’s gonna be sooo decimal!” Let them ban THAT. Make them pull their hair out trying to avoid admitting the rule they want to make is “don’t be cooler than we can understand”
wherever this is y'all should just start saying random words like they were slang. Every time they ban some of your made up words, make up a few more. Let them ban ten words at once and come in using ten more the very next day. Really make a game out of driving them nuts
Just walk around saying shit like “That’s so blizzy. I dig the dharma. Get sippy with it, homeswizzle.”
Literally make the slang you want be “insert random word” so that any random word can be the term and you pick it up from context. “Holy shine-button, that flicks bee-butts my grizbaby. Very dealt of you.” Make them ban the entire dictionary.
I hope somebody from there saw this and is doing it. My whole family excels in this kind of rebellion, btw.
I spent one single year in a private high school, and they had a dress code, and the dress code said t-shirts must be a solid color and have a pocket.
Now i didn’t mind solid color t-shirts, but i hated how the shirts with a pocket looked. So after failing to get away with wearing pocketless shirts… I borrowed a sewing machine and made a solid colored t-shirt with a pocket over the belly button like a silly little kangaroo. Facing the principle the next day, i pointed out that the student handbook clearly stated that all t-shirts must have a pocket. I asked him if my shirt had a pocket. I asked him to show me where the rules detailed the location on the shirt that a pocket must be. It was a private school so they simply suspended me for a day (which went on my record) and when i got back the student handbooks had all been reprinted with a sentence added to it specifying that t-shirts must have a breast pocket on the left side of the chest. Being the cause of a whole new student handbook edition gained me a small amount of notoriety, but i was so low on the social totem pole at that school that it didn’t do much for me.
The next Monday, i showed up with a t-shirt entirely covered in pockets, front and back. In the principle’s office again, I asked him if my shirt had a pocket on the left side of the chest. I asked him to show me where the rules said there must only be one pocket. I was suspended for a day and the next day there was ANOTHER student handbook reprint, and the school threatened to bill my parents the cost of reprinting all the student handbooks if they didn’t get me in line. My parents basically laughed at them but asked me to not make them have to fight my school as they were already short on time and money. So i gave up on that and began amusing myself finding neck ties that met the letter of the dress code but pissed off the administration.
I could tell you a couple more things i’ve done, but i’d rather tell you what my brother did.
To promote recreational reading in The Youth, my younger brother’s public high school instituted a 25 minute “free reading period” in the day. Every student had to spend that time reading. You could read anything, you could even read a magazine, but you had to be reading.
My brother thought the whole thing was a stupid way for the school to spend their time, and especially stupid to be applied to him. Our whole family reads excessively – when i was in high school i was reading, on average, one entire book every day. My brother was more well adjusted than i, so i’d guess he was only reading 3 or four books a week, tho, while i was reading a lot of fiction with a little philosophy and history, he was reading a lot of, like, theoretical physics.
ANYway, he was like, this is stupid for many reasons, i’m going to sit quietly and use this time to catch up on some of my homework. But the teacher he had during that time period didn’t like that and made a big deal out of insisting he actually spend the time reading. He was sent to the principles office, where he explained that he did not need extra reading time, cited studies that indicated the “free reading” time would accomplish nothing and was a waste of time for both the administration and the student body, and ended with a reminder that what he WANTED to do was sit quietly and do school work, which any school should be happy about.
The principle said he understood my brother’s position, but that he couldn’t make exceptions for a single student. As per the instructions to the whole school, it didn’t matter what he read, it could even be unpublished writing, but he had to be reading. My brother, already veteran gamer both on a computer and around a table, immediately saw an exploit and seized this mistake (gods, my family really can be the worst lmao).
He asked the principle to put in writing the rules as stated AND that he would not make an exception for a single student. The principle, not understanding the kind of people we are, gave it to him in writing. At which point his fate was sealed.
So the next day my brother came in with a packet of paper he had printed at home. When the time came for “free reading” he took out his packet and began reading. When the teacher came over to make sure he was reading, she was enraged to discover he had a packet of about 25 pages completely full of the repeated letter “a”.
“I’m reading it tho” was his response. “This meets the definition of reading” “No it’s just a letter, you can’t be reading it unless it’s words.”
The next day he showed up with pages completely filled with “words words words words.” He was sent to the principles office “See, those are words,” my brother said, “so i must be reading.”
“no that’s not reading, there’s not a single sentence on these pages” The principle must have been stupid, anyone who ever met someone from our family could have seen what would happen the next day, when he showed up with pages full of “These are words in a sentence.” over and over
He was again sent to the principles office. The principle discovered that, like a man with a monkey’s paw, he could not define reading in a way that met the rules as stated but would prevent my brother’s shenanigans. He tried to insist my brother read from a recognized publisher, but my brother pointed out that this was not the rules as given to the rest of the student body, and the principle could not make an exception for a single student. The principle tried to tell him that he was making an exception for him anyway, and my brother told him that unless he was given an exemption from “free reading” time entirely, he would not recognize any rules that violated the written agreement they had. The principle implied my brother would face consequences for this behavior, and my brother implied he would talk to the local paper about being repeatedly harassed for *checked actual notes* following the rules he had been given, all in an effort to prevent my brother from sitting quietly and doing actual schoolwork.
My brother returned to class shortly thereafter with a note from the principle explaining to the teacher that my brother was exempt from “free reading”
anyway, the moral of this story is, when a rule is ridiculous, you can often find a way to make the authority figures look ridiculous for trying to enforce it.
so again, i hope these kids just start using any and all words in a way that sounds like slang. Start using school-related words as slang “what’s up, my exponent? You ready to get absolutely conjugated this weekend? it’s gonna be sooo decimal!” Let them ban THAT. Make them pull their hair out trying to avoid admitting the rule they want to make is “don’t be cooler than we can understand”
wherever this is y'all should just start saying random words like they were slang. Every time they ban some of your made up words, make up a few more. Let them ban ten words at once and come in using ten more the very next day. Really make a game out of driving them nuts
Just walk around saying shit like “That’s so blizzy. I dig the dharma. Get sippy with it, homeswizzle.”
Literally make the slang you want be “insert random word” so that any random word can be the term and you pick it up from context. “Holy shine-button, that flicks bee-butts my grizbaby. Very dealt of you.” Make them ban the entire dictionary.
I hope somebody from there saw this and is doing it. My whole family excels in this kind of rebellion, btw.
I spent one single year in a private high school, and they had a dress code, and the dress code said t-shirts must be a solid color and have a pocket.
Now i didn’t mind solid color t-shirts, but i hated how the shirts with a pocket looked. So after failing to get away with wearing pocketless shirts… I borrowed a sewing machine and made a solid colored t-shirt with a pocket over the belly button like a silly little kangaroo. Facing the principle the next day, i pointed out that the student handbook clearly stated that all t-shirts must have a pocket. I asked him if my shirt had a pocket. I asked him to show me where the rules detailed the location on the shirt that a pocket must be. It was a private school so they simply suspended me for a day (which went on my record) and when i got back the student handbooks had all been reprinted with a sentence added to it specifying that t-shirts must have a breast pocket on the left side of the chest. Being the cause of a whole new student handbook edition gained me a small amount of notoriety, but i was so low on the social totem pole at that school that it didn’t do much for me.
The next Monday, i showed up with a t-shirt entirely covered in pockets, front and back. In the principle’s office again, I asked him if my shirt had a pocket on the left side of the chest. I asked him to show me where the rules said there must only be one pocket. I was suspended for a day and the next day there was ANOTHER student handbook reprint, and the school threatened to bill my parents the cost of reprinting all the student handbooks if they didn’t get me in line. My parents basically laughed at them but asked me to not make them have to fight my school as they were already short on time and money. So i gave up on that and began amusing myself finding neck ties that met the letter of the dress code but pissed off the administration.
I could tell you a couple more things i’ve done, but i’d rather tell you what my brother did.
To promote recreational reading in The Youth, my younger brother’s public high school instituted a 25 minute “free reading period” in the day. Every student had to spend that time reading. You could read anything, you could even read a magazine, but you had to be reading.
My brother thought the whole thing was a stupid way for the school to spend their time, and especially stupid to be applied to him. Our whole family reads excessively – when i was in high school i was reading, on average, one entire book every day. My brother was more well adjusted than i, so i’d guess he was only reading 3 or four books a week, tho, while i was reading a lot of fiction with a little philosophy and history, he was reading a lot of, like, theoretical physics.
ANYway, he was like, this is stupid for many reasons, i’m going to sit quietly and use this time to catch up on some of my homework. But the teacher he had during that time period didn’t like that and made a big deal out of insisting he actually spend the time reading. He was sent to the principles office, where he explained that he did not need extra reading time, cited studies that indicated the “free reading” time would accomplish nothing and was a waste of time for both the administration and the student body, and ended with a reminder that what he WANTED to do was sit quietly and do school work, which any school should be happy about.
The principle said he understood my brother’s position, but that he couldn’t make exceptions for a single student. As per the instructions to the whole school, it didn’t matter what he read, it could even be unpublished writing, but he had to be reading. My brother, already veteran gamer both on a computer and around a table, immediately saw an exploit and seized this mistake (gods, my family really can be the worst lmao).
He asked the principle to put in writing the rules as stated AND that he would not make an exception for a single student. The principle, not understanding the kind of people we are, gave it to him in writing. At which point his fate was sealed.
So the next day my brother came in with a packet of paper he had printed at home. When the time came for “free reading” he took out his packet and began reading. When the teacher came over to make sure he was reading, she was enraged to discover he had a packet of about 25 pages completely full of the repeated letter “a”.
“I’m reading it tho” was his response. “This meets the definition of reading” “No it’s just a letter, you can’t be reading it unless it’s words.”
The next day he showed up with pages completely filled with “words words words words.” He was sent to the principles office “See, those are words,” my brother said, “so i must be reading.”
“no that’s not reading, there’s not a single sentence on these pages” The principle must have been stupid, anyone who ever met someone from our family could have seen what would happen the next day, when he showed up with pages full of “These are words in a sentence.” over and over
He was again sent to the principles office. The principle discovered that, like a man with a monkey’s paw, he could not define reading in a way that met the rules as stated but would prevent my brother’s shenanigans. He tried to insist my brother read from a recognized publisher, but my brother pointed out that this was not the rules as given to the rest of the student body, and the principle could not make an exception for a single student. The principle tried to tell him that he was making an exception for him anyway, and my brother told him that unless he was given an exemption from “free reading” time entirely, he would not recognize any rules that violated the written agreement they had. The principle implied my brother would face consequences for this behavior, and my brother implied he would talk to the local paper about being repeatedly harassed for *checked actual notes* following the rules he had been given, all in an effort to prevent my brother from sitting quietly and doing actual schoolwork.
My brother returned to class shortly thereafter with a note from the principle explaining to the teacher that my brother was exempt from “free reading”
anyway, the moral of this story is, when a rule is ridiculous, you can often find a way to make the authority figures look ridiculous for trying to enforce it.
so again, i hope these kids just start using any and all words in a way that sounds like slang. Start using school-related words as slang “what’s up, my exponent? You ready to get absolutely conjugated this weekend? it’s gonna be sooo decimal!” Let them ban THAT. Make them pull their hair out trying to avoid admitting the rule they want to make is “don’t be cooler than we can understand”
If game of thrones hasn’t normalized incest by now (pulling over 10 million views in the 7th season alone) then a small fandom ship most certainly won’t
Spn ran for fifteen fucking seasons, it ran for over a decade, and wincest was consistently one of the two or three most popular ships. And it had no measurable impact on real world abuse. Maybe you think fandom is uniquely dangerous (why, idk, but this tumblr after all) but a pretty good rule of fandom is that if Spn couldn’t do it, fucking no one else is going to manage it.
Once in college, at 3 AM, I couldnt get my printer to print out my assignment that was due at 9 AM, so I emailed my professor with “i am sleeping beauty and some day my prints will come. In the mean time here is an electronic copy”
And she emailed me back in like 5 minutes telling me she’d laughed so hard she startled her dog awake
i looooove seeing artists & writers proud of their work!!!!! i looooove captions & authors notes that say things like “i’m quite happy with this” “i love how this turned out” “i had so much fun making this”!!!!!! i loooooove when the act of creation is joyful & we take pride in what we make!!!!!!!!!!
Had a dream that tumblr came up with a new creature called Greachur and it looked like this
brother of the alot
upon further research:
i had a dream a while ago of a very tall, long-legged creature with a thin, grey fur coat. it didn’t have any horns and it was like double the height of a semi, but this post reminded me of that
“how can m/f ships be good-” first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we’re no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family
this, this exactly. i am begging people (especially in fandom spaces) that gender doesn’t and shouldn’t define a relationship. believe me i am a big fan of yaoi and yuri — i’ll eat that shit up any day — but just because a relationship is m/f does not mean it’s inherently boring or “bad”
bi people exist, trans people, pansexuals, those on the ace spectrum — just because a relationship is m/f doesn’t mean it’s cis
not only that, but believe it or not there are good cishet relationships! both in reality and fiction (which is the focus here) there are plenty of wholesome and interesting dynamics to work with, it’s just that most mainstream media now just seems to pump out the exact same stories over and over again with these flat cishet characters so that’s all anyone ever sees. m/f is not inherently bad, the narrative is
the lack of knowledge ppl have abt animals is astounding to me. which is what the ungulate poll is teaching me. probably just bc i was always an insane animal kid and knew what a saiga was by age 7 but like what do you MEAN you think a dolphin is a fish HELLO???? is that not common knowledge?????????
what is a fish
i mean if we’re being technical about it they’re not WRONG you know like all mammals are fish if you try to define “fish” taxonomically. like im talking abt ppl not knowing dolphins are mammals but thats besides the point. fish is just a body plan, really, generally accepted as fully or semi aquatic animals with gills, digitless limbs, and a spinal cord. there’s two extant infraphyla of what we would consider “fish” which just so happens to also encompass every vertebrate as well. gnathostomata includes the class chondrichthyes (cartiliginous fish such as sharks and rays) and superclass osteichthyes (bony fish, which is the majority of extant fish, and every tetrapod, which means every mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian). so like there’s no way to classify “fish” without 1. leaving out huge chunks of what we would consider fish or 2. including every tetrapod ever as well. so like yeah “fish” is just a body plan pretty much bc there’s absolutely no way to classify them taxonomically
ok but like. what IS a fish
all fish fall under infraphyla agnatha (jawless fish like lampreys) or gnathostomata (jawed fish). there’s a lot more than fish in those groups but all animals considered fish fall into these two infraphyla
one of the more upsetting things you notice if you look back at older european weapons is that nobody fucking named any of the types of flail so you’ve gotta describe them by appearance every single time
me: this is so clearly a distinctive and recurring type of flail that would have to be used in an entirely different way than a normal flail. people fought with and against this hundreds of times. people died to this. they had to have a name for this. it CANNOT just be called a flail again
The supposed “naturalness” of disasters is a form of ideological camouflage for the fact that many dimensions of a disaster are preventable.
Even when the hazard itself is natural, like the earthquakes devastating Mexico, the effects are socially determined. Meanwhile, the battering ram of hurricanes in the last month was doubly so, exacerbated by the unnatural role of climate change that the government and special interests continue to let go unchecked. It’s easier – and more convenient – to dismiss disasters as an Act of God than to address them as failures of government, infrastructure, and preparedness.
I worked at a Starbucks and some customer at the walk up came to complain there was a lady selling tamales in the parking lot and we were all like “oh whoa really?” And literally all of us left the store to buy bags of tamales
are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane
Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.
what the fuck 😁
Yeah this is a thing
Are you serious
Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.
… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.
No they’re very real
Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada
It’s fun
Oh, it’s a blast.
Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???
Yeah, it’s not a permanent store. A company will rent an empty building for the 2-3 months before halloween, sell halloween stuff, and then clean everything up and disappear until the following year. And they’ll usually set up in different buildings from year to year. They just find any good-sized empty store space that will give them a cheap, short-term lease.
It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:
So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?
that is exactly what we’re telling you
So this means you DON’T have Halloween stores all year round??? I’ve been bamboozled. My only reason to ever visit the USA has been DESTROYED.
I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!
I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!
I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!
I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!
So this graph appears to be from an organization called Marriage Pact, which… look, I don’t care enough to actually research this, but they seem to be AI/economics bros (who also worked at a self-driving car company) who have weird ideas about online dating. Their thing is a “viral dating experience” powered by machine learning.
Their logo is literally on the graph.
As for the study itself, it’s not actually asking how most people meet these days; it’s comparing traditional and nontraditional relationships on a bunch of different axes, to see how people stay together.
Oh, and speaking of axes? You notice anything about that last number? 2020 is what statisticians call a confounding factor. No one was meeting people at the bar, or going out with their friends, or even spending much time with non-immediate family in 2020, even though they very much are in 2024. 2020 was so goddamn weird that it warped the graph for everyone.
How much did it warp the graph? Well, we don’t have the data points…. because the lovely AI bros of the Marriage Pact smoothed out the graph. So we don’t know. But this graph is trying to sell you something.
This is your frienbly remembly to fact check your tumblr posts before you succumb to doomerism. Thenk.
Also, my immediate thought on looking at this graph is how did they do their sampling?
Because there are three options - the first is a longitudinal study or metadata analysis of asking people how they met their partner over the course of 70 years.
It is obviously not this, because the shape is wrong - the curves are too steep. If this is what you’re measuring, a couple who met through friends in 1960 will *still* have met through friends in 1980, and 2000, etc.
But in this graph, around 35% of the couples met through friends from the period of 1980 to 2010, but only about 8% in 2020 - which suggests that 87% of people who met their partner through friends had a break up/died between 2010 and 2020.
This is clearly not the case. So, they are measuring both new relationships started AND how they met, which they could either do:
a) through a longitudinal/metadata study, covering 70 years - which would be a valid approach. Every 2-5 years, ask a sample of new/newish couples how they got together and how long they’ve been together, or compile a bunch of studies over done on this over the years.
This is a sound method and might produce that graph, although it may also explain that sharp online uptick through sampling bias - where are you most likely to advertise a survey, and who is most likely to fill it in.
But… looking at the very small text under the image, I don’t think that’s where they got the sample. They talk about “analysis of the original survey” - singular. Which, unless this is a longitudinal study of 70 years standing, means this is a recent, self selecting sample for a self-report survey, part of which asks people to state the start year of their current relationship, and where they met.
Which means they’ve got a broad sample of people - some of whom have had relationships of up to 70 years in length, and some of whom have clearly met last week (assuming the survey was done in 2020) how they met.
Which means we are counting data of couples who have had their Diamond Wedding as being on a par those of people who have been together six months. Can we say survivorship bias?
Even if they’ve factored in previous relationships (as in “were you dating in this time period, if so, how did you tend to meet people?”) we are veering in to really sketchy self report and there is NO WAY this data can be seen as representative.
For one thing, what is the sample size of people who were dating in 1950 compared to that of 1980? These people must be 85 at least.
And if it is continuous measurement, how have they accounted for the fact that someone dating as a teenager in 1960 would be a 20somethings in 1970 and a 30something in 1980 - which is going to skew their dating and socialising habits ENORMOUSLY?
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6 year old asked me why i dont like mr beast and i didnt have an answer that a small child could understand so i said he tried to eat a homeless person a long time ago
Spreading misinformation to children because you don’t believe they’re mature enough to understand a topic is actually not a good thing. At all.
it’s true tho he ate that homeless person up. He went yum yum and shit it was brutal
Nah one straw is no problem bro. I’m the strongest camel ever, I’m carrying like TEN THOUSAND straw right now. If I can handle ten thousand straw then what’s one straw gonna do? Stands to reason. Just chuck it on bro, it’ll be fine.
the staggeringly huge record breaking trade surplus this year suggests that Chinese workers are still significantly underpaid relative to their productivity, so it will be interesting to see if this imbalance continues to narrow over the next decade.
According to a China Macroeconomy Forum study cited by SCMP, during the period of COVID, wage growth for high and middle-income groups dropped from 8% to 4%, while wage growth for low-income groups dropped from 8% to 0%.
okay looks like 2022 is going to be a bad year for wage growth
updated these figures for the past few years, here is some csv:
Chinese wages rose 33% from 2019 while US wages only rose 21%, however due to the strong dollar the gap between them has not narrowed much, with Chinese wages actually dropping slightly below 21% of US wages.
(take this almost random selection of figures with an enormous grain of salt, but it does suggest that the Chinese export boom will not end unless and until the US decides to stop running a trade deficit).
