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While people don’t post for engagement, it certainly doesn’t do any harm..
also people on here love to shit on LA and yeah sure it sucks but honestly like all cities kind of suck to some extent, LA has its merits as well. i get if you don’t want to die in a car crash it probably isn’t a great place to move to but if youre OK with that (it’s the american dream to die on the highway) then you can be pretty happy there.
so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig
Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken
once tried desperately to make my friend understand that yolks were not, like, a liquified potentiality of chicken, and she looked at me for a while and then said, “but they’re both yellow.”
Laios Touden isn’t stupid. He’s weird and pretty much universally viewed as being autistic-coded, but he isn’t actually unintelligent. He’s just as intelligent as Kabru. I get that it’s funny to call him an idiot, and he is sometimes, but it’s out of character to depict or treat him as one all the time.
Whenever I wear a band shirt and no one asks me to name five songs, I get a little sad cause I was PREPARED for that moment with my favorite songs ready
I’m telling this story again b/c fuck it but anyways I was playing D&D and one of my friends went “brown bear brown bear what do you see” and on cue three of us turn to him and like, death metal screech “ALLLL”.
The dude goes completely pale faced. I saw true horror in his eyes.
He didn’t know the joke.
So apparently dude just had three of his best friends demonically screech at him for no goddamn reason.
I do not think I will ever cause that level of sheer terror and confusion ever again in my life.
The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn’t have peaceful epilogues.
Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I’m sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn’t. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it’s so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn’t put in all that work for nothing, and you aren’t, either. You can’t save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There’s no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.
so I’m filling out pediatrician intake forms for my newborn son and I get to the demographic section and I was already chuckling about putting a marital status…
yes hello my 3 day old son responds to only Old English, thank you
just because someone is your favorite character doesnt mean theyd have the same moral alignment as you. wheatley from portal wouldnt say “my pronouns are he/him, thank you for asking!” hed say “what uhh. what does that mean. um. you mean the nouns im most "pro” at is that what youre saying? i like to think im pretty pro,, at all nouns really. umm lets see… apple, kazoo, bubble, happy, door, umm… cake. not too fond of cake really i think its alright but. not my Favorite. if it were up to me though id eat a whole cake in one sitting. if i were a human. not a human, clearly. also not sure if id, know what cake even tastes like. if i tried it. no tastebuds. no Mouth… no. hole. anywhere on my body. haha um,, well anyways id. id say im pretty Pro Nouns. dont see why anyone wouldnt be… what? you mean what i Go By? what do you. ohhhh. ummm. the male ones. the male pronouns. if i can remember what they are… definitely the ones for guys. manly men. like me. pretty sure im a man,,,“ and you need to accept this
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just because someone is your favorite character doesnt mean theyd have the same moral alignment as you. wheatley from portal wouldnt say “my pronouns are he/him, thank you for asking!” hed say “what uhh. what does that mean. um. you mean the nouns im most "pro” at is that what youre saying? i like to think im pretty pro,, at all nouns really. umm lets see… apple, kazoo, bubble, happy, door, umm… cake. not too fond of cake really i think its alright but. not my Favorite. if it were up to me though id eat a whole cake in one sitting. if i were a human. not a human, clearly. also not sure if id, know what cake even tastes like. if i tried it. no tastebuds. no Mouth… no. hole. anywhere on my body. haha um,, well anyways id. id say im pretty Pro Nouns. dont see why anyone wouldnt be… what? you mean what i Go By? what do you. ohhhh. ummm. the male ones. the male pronouns. if i can remember what they are… definitely the ones for guys. manly men. like me. pretty sure im a man,,,“ and you need to accept this
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While people don’t work for engagement, it certainly doesn’t do any harm..
don’t ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you’re a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.
I gotta naysay here. Seatbelts do a LOT of harm. Not everyone can wear one and not everyone wants to risk it. Just among my own friends and people I know in general; 4 females had a breast cut completely or partially off due to a seat belt. 6 people had their throats cut, to an obviously non-lethal degree. 2 had their stomach’s cut open to a horrifying degree that I won’t elaborate on.
Not even counting the uncomfortably awkward belt locations for particularly large, small, fat, skinny people. Females with large breasts get the joy of holding the belt in place or adjusting it every couple seconds.
They’re awkward, uncomfortable, painful, and can often cause the injuries in an accident. Sometimes it’s just better to forgo the belt.
Those injuries caused by seat belts more than very likely would have been deadly had they not been wearing them. To have enough force to cut skin or cut off a breast in an accident is far more than enough to cause someone to go flying through the windshield of a car, to slam them into the steering column, or through a window resulting in deadly injuries or causing an even bigger accident for other drivers now that your body is in the road along with your crashed car. Are you really going to risk being a smear of ground meat on the pavement because your seat belt was a little uncomfortable or it might cut you? Then I got good news for you, there’s a wide variety of devices made specifically to make seat belts more comfortable and reduce that risk.
These make it so that your seat belt won’t cut your neck, a simple sleeve of padded fabric that velcros around it, meaning you can put it anywhere on the belt.
This one does something similar, by readjusting the positioning of the seat belt to move it farther away from your neck and hey, helps a bit with having boobs in the way.
They even make ones for children too.
Boobs still in the way? While it’s pretty silly looking, this helps keep the seat belt in place so you don’t have to keep adjusting it.
And if you’re overweight, they make seat belt extenders so you can still be safe.
But maybe you’re still unsure, then listen to the CDC and all of their sources.
“More than half of the people killed in car crashes were not restrained at the time of the crash.1 Wearing a seat belt is the most effective way to prevent death and serious injury in a crash.Seat belt use is on the rise. Laws, education, and technology have increased seat belt use from 11% in 19812 to nearly 85% in 20103, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. “
“Most drivers and passengers killed in crashes are unrestrained. 53% of drivers and passengers killed in car crashes in 2009 were not wearing restraints.1Seat belts dramatically reduce risk of death and serious injury. Among drivers and front-seat passengers, seat belts reduce the risk of death by 45%, and cut the risk of serious injury by 50%.4Seat belts prevent drivers and passengers from being ejected during a crash. People not wearing a seat belt are 30 times more likely to be ejected from a vehicle during a crash. More than 3 out of 4 people who are ejected during a fatal crash die from their injuries.5Seat belts save thousands of lives each year, and increasing use would save thousands more. Seat belts saved almost 13,000 lives in 2009. If all drivers and passengers had worn seat belts that year, almost 4,000 more people would be alive today”
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The number of those who escaped injury [by wearing a seat belt] increased by 40% and those with mild and moderate injuries decreased by 35% after seatbelt legislation. There was a significant reduction in soft tissue injuries to the head. Only whiplash injuries to the neck showed a significant increase.”
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Fifty-five percent of those killed in passenger vehicle occupant crashes in 2008 were not wearing a seat belt…”
“Wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury by almost 50%. For children, the risk of fatal injury is reduced by 71% with the use of child safety seats.“
“Of those thrown completely out of a vehicle in a car crash, 75% died. Only one percent of people totally ejected from their cars had on a seat belt during the crash. Over 30% were not wearing seat belts.“
Conclusion? Wear your fucking seat belt. Tell your kids to wear their fucking seat belt. Tell your friends and family to wear their fucking seat belts. Time and time again it’s been proven that you are significantly more likely to survive a crash if you’re wearing one. Most people think they’re uncomfortable, but when you’re in a crash it can save your life. I’d rather be mildly injured than dead.
Wear your seat belt.
2017 and people are still trying to spread the myth that you don’t need to wear a seatbelt.
People really don’t wear a seatbelt????
This reminds me of a story from WW1
When they first introduced Helmets to the troops fighting in trenches the number of head injuries suddenly skyrocketed and people wanted to take the helmets away again.
Until they realized that the reason for this was the fact that most of these head injuries would have been fatal if it wasn’t for the Helmets.
You always need to look at the bigger picture.
Do not forget about survivorship bias. The only reason those people are here to complain about seatbelts is because those seatbelts kept them alive in the first place. Always, ALWAYS wear your seatbelt.
WEAR YOUR DAMNED SEATBELT
It drives me nuts, personally, that all of the adults who insisted that I wear a seatbelt as a child Now as adults refuse to wear seatbelts themselves. Now I have to sit there and play the grown up to people 30 plus years older than me insisting they put their seatbelt on every time I’m the driver. I just took a road trip with my parents, and literally it was every single time we got in the car I had to tell them (My mom in particular, who kept randomly just taking her seatbelt off while we were zooming down I-95 and made a big face every time I told her to put it back on - you’d think after a while she’d figure out that she could not do it secretly, because I have a newer car and the moment a passenger takes their seat belt off while the car is moving it starts screaming at you until the person puts their seatbelt back on).
Why are people like this? Le sigh.
Why do people think they’re tough for doing things stupidly wrong for no reason?
You’re not charging into gunfire on the battlefield, you’re driving 85 miles per hour commuting to work on the freeway.
You’re about to scatter your limited brain matter all over the pavement because you were too busy looking tough on the internet to use a free safety device.
love when im watching a documentary and im like “yep thats an egyptologist alright”
oh my god?
*hisses in Egyptologist*
So for those of you who don’t know yet, this is Colleen Darnell, also known as The Vintage Egyptologist on Instagram where she goes full colonialist in 1920s/1930s clothing complete with pith helmets and using Egyptians both living and dead as props. (Not kidding: she takes Aesthetique™ photos in tombs.) She’s married to John Darnell, who was formerly her professor and PhD supervisor at Yale, and it’s quite a well-known scandal in Egyptological circles that the two were having an affair before and at the time of her working on that PhD. John, who was married during that affair, eventually divorced his wife and then married Colleen.
In the field, they’re considered bad scholars. Beyond the Yale scandal, beyond the fact they’re being ridiculously colonialist in the way they present themselves and their “vintage fashion” choices, which they will extend to wearing on actual digs in Egypt itself, their condescending attitudes bleed through in their scholarship. A scholarship that’s mediocre at best to begin with. However, because they (especially Colleen) have such a strong social media presence, they keep getting asked for docus or to serve as consultants for popular media (e.g. Jodi Picoult heavily consulted them for her novel The Book of Two Ways and whoof it shows), and most people won’t question their fashion choices because “ohh aesthetic”.
However, by far most Egyptologists despise them for their academic dishonesty and refusal to acknowledge the loaded history behind their chosen mode of dress.
forgive me father for i have sexualized an older man
dude in the other side of the confessional, smoothing back his more salt than pepper hair, tugging at his collar, breaking into a slight nervous sweat that highlights his crows feet and laugh lines: Is that so?
What does your oc think of death? How do they react to it? Are they at peace with it, or afraid? Do they have their own beliefs or religious views about it?
Chuck Tingle: good evening, my good chums King: oh excellent! it’s chuck tingle! King: he’s great, he’s always so funny Tingle: actually, chums, this is serious horror King: what
King: what? you’re not doing funny erotica anymore? Tingle: i never did funny erotica, chum King: i King: what? Tingle: that was serious erotica King: i King: what? Barker: boy, was it!
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, i call this the tale of camp Damascus Stephen King: oh good i could use a good laugh! Tingle: it’s not a comedy, my good chum Tingle: it’s actually a harrowing tale of conversion camp torment torn straight from the headlines King: i’m laughing already! Poe: steve King: no wait sorry King: sorry that really came out wrong
Tingle: Rose is a typical teenage girl Tingle: loving jesus Tingle: obsessively cataloging obscure minutiae Tingle: sounds always escaping her throat
Tingle: “luke, i’m being haunted by demons that dress like target employees” ejaculates rose Tingle: “maybe you should pray on that” extrapolates rose’s father luke King: wait she calls her dad by his first name? Tingle: why yes my good chum, just a normal teenage thing that teenagers do Joe Hill: yeah steve get with the program
Tingle: rose sees these demons whose gums have receded to provide an unnatural length King: an unnatural length? Tingle: that’s correct, my good chum Tingle: an unnatural length Barker: ok look Barker: i’m just gonna ask the question everyone’s thinking Barker: are you chris pine?
Tingle: why would you think i was chris pine, my good chum? Tingle: certainly i would consider that to be an absurd premise Tingle: the very idea that i and Hollywood heartthrob chris pine would be the same person Tingle: how mirthful! Tingle: the very idea fills me with mirth!
Poe: clive, don’t harass chuck Barker: hey, i’m just asking questions Poe: you’re being very rude Poe: besides everyone knows chuck is actually will wheaton
Koontz: guys if you want to know chuck tingle’s real identity Koontz: you should ask a detective Poe: Barker: Barker: wow from the mouths of babes, huh?
Barker: so nobody knows his real identity but i’m pretty sure he’s chris pine Barker: what do you think? Arthur Conan Doyle: can he touch cold iron without pain? Barker: Barker: edgar i’m gonna let you answer this one
Poe: uh well i haven’t actually directly observed chuck handling any cold iron Poe: but i’m pretty sure he could do it Doyle: i’m not convinced Doyle: i have reason to believe that this chuck tingle may actually be one of the fae folk Poe: Barker: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: King: of course! King: it all makes sense!
Doyle: now this chuck tingle Doyle: would you describe him as puckish? Doyle: possibly impish? Poe: oh no not anymore Barker: he’s serious now Doyle: damnit! Doyle: there goes that theory
One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.
It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.
Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of “how can this be stopped, and prevented” instead of “you’re going to regret this!”
Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”
How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?
Please.
OP: Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented” instead of “you’re going to regret this!” [emphasis mine]
Punishment enthusiasts in the notes: "so you’re saying we should never stop anyone from doing bad things? and we should just sing Kum Ba Ya until they stop being mean? you’re an idiot and you should be punished, probably”
contemplate, for a moment, that you just might be able to stop someone from harming people while also taking care to minimize the harm you do to them
and if you don’t think you should have to worry about that: why not?
I teach Intro to Psych, and I’m lecturing on operant conditioning next week. I always tell my students this story:
When I took this class, lo these many years ago, I remember thinking, if punishment doesn’t work very well on animals (because it doesn’t), why does it work on humans? Specifically at the time I was thinking about spanking kids, which I had grown up with as normal parenting behavior in the 80s, but also punishment in general.
And it wasn’t until years later that I realized that the answer is - IT DOESN’T. And research absolutely backs that up.
Punishment is one of the least effective ways of changing behavior in humans, too! The behavior change you do sometimes get is people trying to avoid punishment, but that doesn’t mean stopping the behavior you punished - it often means just finding ways to do it that are less likely to get you caught. Lying, hiding things, being sneakier about it. And that’s when you get any change at all.
Spanking, of course, has whole other issues - namely that it turns out children learn by watching others, not simple conditioning, so spanking them makes them more likely to be violent themselves.
Look, the behaviorists were wrong in that they thought conditioning was the be-all end-all of learning, when in fact life and psychology are far, far more complicated and messy than that - but even they knew that punishment isn’t nearly as effective as rewards. (Neither is as effective as addressing the underlying motivation behind the behavior, which they wanted to ignore entirely, but even they knew this much.)
If you’re telling yourself that your desire to punish people is rooted in wanting to change their behavior, please accept what decades of science has told us: IT DOESN’T.
I’ve lost so many friendships and family relationships now because I refused to be punished. If you care about me or if you love me, you would not punish me in revenge to validate your feelings and anger. It’s shocking how many people get to their 30s+ and seem to think that punishing someone until they perform and dance how they want is the ultimate method of communication and conflict.
Just don’t do it fam! The people you care about in your life will REALLY not appreciate being made to feel like a punished dog!!
One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.
It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.
Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of “how can this be stopped, and prevented” instead of “you’re going to regret this!”
Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”
How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?
Please.
OP: Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented” instead of “you’re going to regret this!” [emphasis mine]
Punishment enthusiasts in the notes: "so you’re saying we should never stop anyone from doing bad things? and we should just sing Kum Ba Ya until they stop being mean? you’re an idiot and you should be punished, probably”
contemplate, for a moment, that you just might be able to stop someone from harming people while also taking care to minimize the harm you do to them
and if you don’t think you should have to worry about that: why not?
I teach Intro to Psych, and I’m lecturing on operant conditioning next week. I always tell my students this story:
When I took this class, lo these many years ago, I remember thinking, if punishment doesn’t work very well on animals (because it doesn’t), why does it work on humans? Specifically at the time I was thinking about spanking kids, which I had grown up with as normal parenting behavior in the 80s, but also punishment in general.
And it wasn’t until years later that I realized that the answer is - IT DOESN’T. And research absolutely backs that up.
Punishment is one of the least effective ways of changing behavior in humans, too! The behavior change you do sometimes get is people trying to avoid punishment, but that doesn’t mean stopping the behavior you punished - it often means just finding ways to do it that are less likely to get you caught. Lying, hiding things, being sneakier about it. And that’s when you get any change at all.
Spanking, of course, has whole other issues - namely that it turns out children learn by watching others, not simple conditioning, so spanking them makes them more likely to be violent themselves.
Look, the behaviorists were wrong in that they thought conditioning was the be-all end-all of learning, when in fact life and psychology are far, far more complicated and messy than that - but even they knew that punishment isn’t nearly as effective as rewards. (Neither is as effective as addressing the underlying motivation behind the behavior, which they wanted to ignore entirely, but even they knew this much.)
If you’re telling yourself that your desire to punish people is rooted in wanting to change their behavior, please accept what decades of science has told us: IT DOESN’T.
I’ve lost so many friendships and family relationships now because I refused to be punished. If you care about me or if you love me, you would not punish me in revenge to validate your feelings and anger. It’s shocking how many people get to their 30s+ and seem to think that punishing someone until they perform and dance how they want is the ultimate method of communication and conflict.
Just don’t do it fam! The people you care about in your life will REALLY not appreciate being made to feel like a punished dog!!
i swear if the wizard doesnt let me out of his abandoned salt mine soon im gonna fucking LOSE IT
what did you do to be put into the salt mine
i MAY have eaten his special wizard meal. but i think he should let me out tbh
was it good? was it worth it? are you able to bear the weight of your sin?
im not gonna lie it was fucking delicious i would fucking do it again. wait shit youre the fucking wizard in disguise seeing if ive learned my lesson arent you. fuck.
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