Hey I’ve been having a lot of generalized fatigue recently and I appreciate the notes on this post, so I thought I’d put it back in circulation.

microwave a potato for ten minutes, then cut into chunks and smash on an olive oil-ed baking sheet. Bake in oven for 20 minutes at approx. 450 F with other veggie of your choice. Salt and spice/ top with whatever you like, I did chili oil today. Nutritionally reasonable and vegetarian

Rice made in the rice cooker, using whatever carton of broth I have on hand. Add some butter, mix an egg into it, and microwave for a minute to make sure the egg is cooked. Top with shredded cheese if you want.

is it weird if i say i genuinely wish there was more positivity aimed at people w large chests

"having a large chest is the beauty standard" no having a large chest is the Sexual standard theres a difference. i can only even be Hot and everything i ever wear will be deemed too sexual for every single situation. tank top shows too much cleavege or side boob a button up is always too busty and a crop top will always show too much skin. having a large chest leads to so much back pain and sexualization and complaining about it makes people go "ahh grass is alwahs greener/you are the beauty standard, why complain?" like genuinely i urge yall to watch anything with a larger chested woman and notice, REALLY notice, that her chest is her entire personality. notice that people critiqing misogynist charavter designs alwayd tend to rally in the statement that large chest=misogny, casting aside the Many Many Many women and people who look like Me and just . have a large chest? and exist? and deserve respect and not to be seen as nothing more than a sex symbol by both sides? idk ikdayy

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

Living with a chronic illness means never having enough energy to get through all the basic, practical tasks you have to do in a day. Which means that every day there are more and more tasks which didn't get done and have to be carried over to the next day. Eventually the list becomes so long that you have to accept that many of the things on it will never get done, and you end up living with a kind of graveyard of undone tasks which you go through life trying to ignore because you're just not able to do anything about them.

Ok so thanks for voting on this but i need you to reblog it too

Ok so thanks for voting on this but i need you to reblog it too

Netflix doing a little house on the prairie remake is going to be so fascinating like how are they going to try to make that storyline woke. Just how…. ( i have an idea of how and i think it will involve laura ingalls befriending an indigenous girl her age or something in the style of anne with an e but it really won’t be able to reckon with the author of the book referring to “savages” all the time)

I guessed it

you people aren't CASTING

I wonder to what extent cryptocurrency has contributed to the current inflation crisis. Like. We have this whole secondary economy where every day millions of extremely-low-confidence dollars are being converted into a deceptively-high-confidence commodity currency which is either hoarded without being spent or gets converted into more commodity currency. That's a nightmare scenario. That does really bad stuff to economies.

No, if I understand those studies correctly, the ones that indicate that crypto can't be used as a hedge against inflation simply find that when money is put into crypto as an investment, it does not generate a significant return on that investment above decrease in value due to inflation. This doesn't lead deductively to the conclusion that crypto doesn't play some causal role in inflation, I guess, but I was thinking that if we could blame crypto in some regard for the inflation crisis, some justifying evidence for that might be found in some correlation between the value of crypto holdings and the value of the dollar. But if they both change value at roughly the same rate, in roughly the same direction, with inflation, then that reduces my confidence in the claim that crypto is exerting an effect on inflation any more than the existence of the US dollar is, relative to the US economy. Of course, crypto could still affect rates of inflation somehow. As natalieironside suggests, economic actors might be evaluating crypto as a good investment and then investing and reinvesting into cryptocurrencies (to keep their value out of government-backed currencies) at a scale that spirals into the value of that (or those) government currency falling. But that still seems unlikely to be the case to me if cryptocurrencies that non-insiders would want to invest in (i.e. the ones that are more stable) are affected by inflation just like traditional currency. Especially since some of those more stable cryptos do, iirc, maintain that stability through some mechanism that responds to the value of the dollar? Again, though, I'm not a crypto or economic expert. I'm just curious about the possibilities of economic damage caused by crypto.

I was thinking more in terms of good money in competition with bad money. My suspicion is that dumping your assets into crypto has a similar economic effect to exchanging all your dollar bills for gold coins and burying them.

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

I think people who worship the past are among the least equipped to actually study it academically. Like you can say, "Ooh, I think Shakespeare was the greatest writer who ever lived!" and it's just like, okay, well, cool, but you can't really formulate any interesting research questions on that basis.

There's an entire cadre of people who bang on about "Enlightenment Values" and another (somewhat overlapping) cadre of people who have Grecian bust userpics, and they're united in being, by nature, the suckiest philosophers in the world and having never actually read any philosophy. It's a brand identity for them.