Does anyone have recommendations on good social norms for beginners? I’m looking to start conforming more but I’m not sure which norms will provide the most social currency. Thanks
I’m open to arguments about how Fahrenheit isn’t really more arbitrary than Celsius and how base 12 for feet can be convenient for fractions and so on, but how do you fucking justify having different miles for land and sea
I will actually sort of defend nautical miles: they are a rationalized, legible unit created specifically for purpose. They are the arclength of one minute of latitude at the equator, and so are a very useful standardized measurement for naval purposes. By contrast, regular miles are just some random unit whose definition stretches back into the mists of time from something the Romans did. I will always vouch for rationalized systems of measurement.
It is unfortunate that they named them “nautical miles” instead of just giving them a completely new name, but since they’re close to regular miles (basically by sheer coincidence), I can see how the temptation occurred.
somehow I’ve never considered nautical miles but I’m willing to accept them if referred to as naughty miles
thing that is really funny to me is when the same pop cultural symbols (the hunger games, star wars, v for vendetta, the joker movie) that in “the west” get associated with being either a Cringe Liberal or a Reddit Edgelord, are referenced freely by like rioters or even straight up guerilla soldiers in the “global south”
this pride month will be the tenth anniversary of same-sex marriage being legal in all 50 states ;-;
and ironically the United States is collapsing but for other reasons
i dunno, maybe God punished America for gay marriage by sending Trump
hey i think you both should kill yourselves
Real centrism has never been tried,
it’s not real centrism until you get fascists and communists telling you to kill yourself in the same thread, otherwise it’s just sparkling contrarianism 😤
“ohh 00s diet culture isn’t back because of ozempic, you’re overreacting”
idk i keep seeing previously size-inclusive brands remove plus-sized versions of their clothes from their catalogues entirely, even lines specifically aimed at bigger sizes are cutting their size range down and chopping the bigger ones. i keep seeing mean skinny tiktokers get famous because they said something rude about fat people. when i ask my doctor about weight loss (which my country’s gender treatment clinic requires before i can access even preliminary talks about hrt), i’m immediately offered drugs about it - drugs which, according to the doctor, we don’t know the long-term effects of. but surely! surely it can’t be worse than being fat!
like why are people acting surprised? we’ve made being extremely wealthy the aspirational aesthetic to strive for, made ‘being skinny and having a lot of time and money to stay beautiful’ a not only viable but lucrative carreer for people, and then released a drug that is wildly expensive and will make people thin.
of course people are gonna make being thin the ultimate status symbol again - it more than ever before signals wealth and leisure-time.
like, do you think it’s a coincidence that people are back to constantly spouting 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ again? and pretending being fat is a matter of lacking self-control around cake or whatever? as if people haven’t spent decades trying to get these fucks to understand that actually healthy produce and the time to maintain your body are extreme luxuries in our society?
anyway my broke fat ass can’t find pants i like and can afford because the size-inclusive lines i’d have shopped at previously have axed anything over a size xl
and like. i’m not even that fat. what the fuck do people bigger than me do. it’s really heinous right now for fat peeps.
Was chatting to another nurse about the floor I’m on right now, and that nurse said, referring to the charge nurse tonight, “oh yeah, she’s a power hungry monster, she’d be charge nurse every shift if she could.” And then later the nurse said she had only stayed long (a 16 hr shift, can you imagine) because her girlfriend was also working late, and I was like “oh who’s your girlfriend?”
This person is containing their gender as a private string, which would be a line of plain text contained on their own machine which would be free to edit, and not as a public constant Boolean, which would show on everybody’s machine, would be read only without possibility of edit, and would be a binary true false statement.
So basically, “It’s my gender, it’s not a binary, and I’ll do what I want with it!” 🤍💜💛🖤
also “you are not entitled to know it"—some private variables have "getter” methods that allow others to read the value, but many also won’t, and will only be accessible to their owner!
this is the funniest fuckig thumbnail ive ever seen and it won’t let me find the post in the tag please god. please. i need intrusive thought donald trump on my blog i’m begging
my therapist suggested i imagine my intrusive thoughts in the voice of donald trump bc i do not possess an ounce of respect for him or trust in his competence. going thru it today so i made this. hope this helps
i never fucking get how you’re supposed to measure the waist in online shopping. do you mean the whole circumference or half? and if it’s half, what arbitrary point on my body is half??? FUCKING TELL ME!
if this is the whole circumference then the largest size they have would be 30 cm too small for me. like what do they mean here
thank you online shops that get different models to model different sizes, i love you, it’s so much more helpful
telling starving tgirls who complain about no hrt gains to “eat like a teenager” is slightly incorrect; in a sense, she already is eating exactly like a teenage girl. tell her to eat like a healthy teenager
The human body’s response to HRT is actually admirable in the sheer indifference. Just pure I Don’t Give A Shit, I Just Fucking Work Here compliance to the new instructions. You can get testosterone injected straight into your body and it doesn’t even question where that shit came from, coming back from a coffee break and just going
“Okay, everything seems to be in ord- oh fuck now what? Oh huh. Alright fine. New orders came in, cancel the menstrual cycle. Dig up the genetic balding patterns from somewhere, I don’t fucking know they’re buried somewhere in the dna. I’m greenlighting the growing-hair-on-your-toes thing. Yeah just cancel the ongoing maintenance processes, new orders came in so this is apparently what we’re doing now.”
Oh, and we need to build a penis. How? No fucking clue, use whatever we’ve got lying around. We’re going to have to McGyver the fuck out of this dick.
“Punishment works!!!” We’re drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don’t think it works guys
BJ has a very clear understanding of Objectives unfortunately he lacks that level of comprehension when it comes to tactics methods procedures etc. Thus: his Behaviors.
this is the single best description i have ever heard for a cat
executive dysfunction is literally like. ive had a random dollar on my floor for two weeks and i dont know when ill fit it in my schedule to pick it up. people dont realize this
My grandma’s on and off again boyfriend that she cheated on grandpa with died today.
RIP to Nana’s side piece. Though they never married, Grandpa died in September and she brought his long term competition to Thanksgiving that year.
Grandma and Grandpa had a shotgun wedding when Grandma was 19. Grandpa went off to Vietnam which left her, a severely mentally young mother, alone. Never heard a complaint about her side piece Jeff. He seemed to make her happy and for that I salute him.
I’m an only child so I have to discuss sensitive family drama with my 38,000 followers instead.
My grandmother broke up w my grandfather through a letter and he just pretended to have never read it. They got married and had three kids.
My grandmother confessed on her death bed that:
Her and Grandpa were in a relationship with their best friends
The four of them have been in a relationship since they were teenagers
They flipped a bottle cap to see which girl the boys would marry
Their children could have either man as their biological father but their biological mother is the mum that raised them
The past two weeks has been chaos since her confession 😂
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