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Entirely without apologies to Lee Greenwood
And I'm not proud to be an American,
where millions still aren't free-
worked to death in the farms and mines
to make my luxuries.
And fools who stand for the status quo
sell us out for rich men's pay.
There ain't no doubt, we stole this land-
God damn the U.S.A.!
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imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care
there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw
So many people say 'I hate kids' when what they mean is 'I do not feel comfortable around children, especially groups of children, and I do not want to be thrust into a caregiving role against my will (especially true of people perceived as women)'
But they haven't unpacked that because no one has asked them to examine it.
As a reformed kid-hater I agree! Learning about child development, having developmentally-appropriate expectations for children, and understanding them as individuals and part of an oppressed class makes a world of difference. They didn't ask to be here and they don't get to choose their parents or where they're born and they have very little control over their lives. Also recognizing:
- I resented being pressured into caregiver roles (especially as someone who was involved in church when I was younger), and the assumption that I should have/want my own kids because I'm a woman
-my own misunderstood sensory, communication, and social differences as an undiagnosed neurodivergent person led to overwhelm in "kid-friendly" spaces, even during my own childhood
- There should be adults only spaces, but kids can't learn to be a part of the community if they're not included
today I found out my mother doesn't know what dandelions are and now I'm wondering what other strange secrets she's been quietly harboring
Where do you live that you don't have dandelions?
we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation
So after extensive interrogation I have an update:
my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.
the truth is actually weirder
she's aware dandelions look like this
she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions
she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?
she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.
gosh I enjoy this website
then wtf is a daffodil......................
Please help I am thinking of a tumblr post and I cannot find it
The last comment is “she died but she’s fine” above that is “is she okay” and I think the OP was an absurdist thing about someone (a celebrity?) starving to death after a week on the “eat like you’re on good stamps” challenge thing
OP: Seen up close, it's silk thread, and step back, it's a painting—Suzhou embroidery (suxiu苏绣, chinese embroidery art originated in suzhou city).
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Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air
First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success
I feel like the Arizona license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here
Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71483251/mazda-driver-seattle-pulls-into-elevated-train-station-on-tracks/
I greatly enjoy this view I saw in an instagram post
If you live in the UK you need to see this
Protect Internet Freedom from now until forever. It's important existentially! Americans stand with UK citizens in our struggle against government censorship
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag
Got the link via @finalducc
If you live in the UK, please be sure to take part in this!
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You guys have my whole heart for sharing this I had no idea will be filling this out and encourage all my fellow brits to do soo too. If you’re not from the UK please keep sharing this around we have till the 26th May to submit these in.
This whole thing was set up without our say we all need to make sure we’re heard.
i need data for a statistics project for school, so be my sample data, worms. i need thirty people minimum so if there aren't enough voters yet i'd love if you could help. thank you very much. worms.
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I gotta say, everyone reading Dawkins for filth over the Claude thing is VERY funny.
"People who believe in gods, spirits or a conscious universe are falling prey to a litany of common cognitive fallacies. Here's a book where I clearly outline how easy it is to misunderstand probability, intent and determination, and to reach these conclusions. Let me explain just how easy it is to mistakenly believe in concepts of magic or a conscious force in an unconscious world, and show how it is wrong. This book will be a worldwide bestseller that will get me, a famous biologist, recognised the world over by non-biologists, and will define the sort of person I am seen as forevermore."
"Also I spoke to this computer for three days and it is definitely a person."
#very Arthur Conan Doyle of him
#to the surprise of absolutely no one who knows a) the history of science b) the philosophies of the folks in Dennett's circle#this is literally the most normal development I've seen in that area#completely on brand#and Dawkins specifically is just plain the weakest thinker of the lot when it comes to religion and cognitive things#but having someone who spends their lives scoffing at something fall into it is the most normal thing in the world#as is the career path of spending one's life on something and eventually recognizing that said work was empty#two sides of the same coin
I think the problem with Dawkins is that he genuinely is an extremely insightful biologist and excellent biology writer, and his biology books did massively influence evolutionary biology for the better. And he made the mistake that a lot of people who are really good at thinking about one thing make, which is that he kind of assumed that he was really good at thinking about everything. I watched a lot of people in the rationalism community make this exact mistake; they'd cut their teeth on something that was easy for them to understand, be told how smart and insightful they are, and eventually start assuming that they were too clever to be wrong and that their initial impressions of something are actually reasoned responses and definitely the truth, no further analysis needed, because they're Smart Rational People.
Look, I'll trust you on that one, because from the very beginning of Dawkins starting to write anything about the humanities, he became a sort of perpetual annoyance, because students would bring him up and colleagues would just have to go, with varying degrees of being diplomatic about it, "Guys. You're talking about a dude that has, at this point, read less than you all have about the subject and doesn't have the introspection to understand that. He needs a 101 course. It's that bad.
"He's an arrogant idiot who maybe has the cred in his own field--maybe, because we're not the same kind of arrogant idiot, and we're not going to assume his field is giving him credit for nothing--but in our field, you are not to treat anything he is writing as anything other than a particularly bad, if eloquent, student essay."
It's been how long, twenty years since The God Delusion? That's how long people in the humanities and social sciences have had to deal with undoing Dawkins' outsized influence; and how long I personally have been wondering if something like this would pop up eventually, or if Dawkins would luck out and get to die before winding up at the logical endpoint of his philosophies.
With that said, I fully agree on the rationalists, and generally on the "lots of people who are really good at thinking about one thing". People have clowned a lot on physicists being the poster children for this, but this happens in every single field. E.g., I don't think the humanities or social sciences are exempt from this, to the contrary--even in relatively closely related fields. Historians can't do contemporary fact checking to save their lives; anthropologists think they can do deep work in wildly different cultures without knowing languages; sociologists don't know the historical context and reinvent the wheel every single damn time, et cetera. (And the less mention of how badly we all do when we venture further out, the better. It's stupid.)
As a general phenomenon, this makes me about as melancholy as the inevitability of death. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that will guarantee avoiding this specific trap. Trying to avoid it explicitly makes you more likely to fall into it, and the numbers of people who are just never famous enough that we learn about them doing the same thing openly are staggering.
But I would be lying if I said it weren't personally satisfying to see a wider recognition of Dawkins not being an authority in the area of religion, but rather a primary source for colleagues specializing in that area. It's twenty years past time, and I'm looking forward to the conference papers about it.
When The God Delusion came out I was so excited for it because his previous books were so so good and then I read it and was like "oh. Oh, this dude ONLY knows biology." Which is completely fine, it's great to have a specialty, but boy was it tiresome to see him constantly driving outside his lane with such arrogance. Like watching a world class violinist start obsessing over playing the kazoo really badly, never improving (because he's such a great musician so why would he need to learn anything) and taking over every radio station with his Terrible Kazoo Music. And you grit your teeth through it because someone out there is trying to ban all music and replace it with fart noises and the kazoo nonsense is technically on your side in that particular fight even if he's doing other bullshit but like. If he stuck to the violin and we gave the kazoo to someone who could play it (or if the violinist bothered to learn the kazoo properly) then it'd all go a lot better.
People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]
additions from the og artist (credit)
“Holy shit two cakes,” I mutter to myself as I do fucking anything these days, this post was a godsend
I know it’s not July yet, but guys, happy 10 years of “two cakes”. This post on god has been a godsend not only as a writer myself but as a friend of artists and writers who I love to encourage. This was legitimately a game-changer.
OP thank you so much for this.
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look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons
whatever. go my scallops
last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops
there's a massive, underreported subculture on this site that i can only describe as secular mormonism if mormons voted democrat
zero moral nuance
queer-inclusive but still misogynist
don't have to be from the US, do have to act like you are
ostensibly welcoming to everybody, mysteriously white as hell
terrified of the idea that sex could be enjoyable for anyone
absolutely incapable of structural critique, everything is individual moral choices
enforcement through public humiliation and isolation accountability :)
fear of infiltration by a corrupting outside influence - asserting a right to privacy or failing to publicly demonstrate moral in-group status is treated as a confession
the worst music you've ever heard in your life
shunning out the unwanted making a callout post + harassment campaign
and this isn't even getting into harm that's genuinely necessary! i read a book recently that was intended to educate people in healthcare about medical trauma, written by a medical professional who found that there weren't existing resources to help her cope with the aftermath of the extremely traumatic c section that saved her life. the whole tone of the book was "i know you've never thought about this before, but walk with me through this case study" and it's aimed at other medical professionals! it's aimed at the people who are doing this harm, and so many of them think that people aren't allowed to find it harmful just because it's necessary!
so many trauma resources assume that your trauma is from a specific person or people who treated you in a way that society deems unacceptable. if your trauma doesn't fit that profile then you're left sitting there like. idk i dont think most of this stuff applies to me. where are the resources for people like me.
if you were ever scared or in pain and were told that you had to grin and bear it because it's necessary for you to do the thing that scares and hurts you, you are allowed to say that that was traumatic. you are allowed to say that you were scared and in pain and that even if this was the least bad option, even if it was lifesaving, it still was not okay. something being necessary does not inherently make it okay.
i think i still have mild trauma from a dentistry-related thing some years back, and it was completely voluntary and i wanted it, just, the experience was actually really upsetting. like, totally worth it in overall outcomes, just. wow, yeah. i do not want to ever do that again.
i have more than one thing that saved my life and traumatized me.
I'm a juvenile diabetic: relatedly, I used to be crippled by CPTSD. it turns out, infants dislike needles, and having your primary caregivers administer them daily can be bad for those relationships. I had no sense of trauma as the etiology of my issues for a while, because I couldn't find any 'abuse' in my history.
I remember talking to a psychologist: guy was like "are you absolutely sure you weren't abused as a child? I am literally a therapist, so you can tell me". when I demurred, he was like "truly? because you really really come across like you were, and I meet a lot of people with that history".
it was only after a parent mentioned that I'd go quiet and waxy during injections (tonic immobility, in retrospect) that I started to consider whether the lifesaving medical care I received had negative psychological effects.
This is a common gateway to pseudoscience. People experience trauma from receiving, or from seeing a loved one receive, lifesaving medical care and aren't able to find the space to process that it was necessary, the alternative was worse, AND it was really and truly awful. People who are afraid to go back. People who need accommodations to make necessary medical care less stressful and scary, and can't get them.
Having anything at all done to your body by force and without consent can be really traumatizing. I got traumatized by medical experiences that weren't life threatening or unusual just because it was so many repeated experiences of being powerless and I was only ever told "you just have to get over it"
I used to feel so ashamed about this that I felt like I wanted to crush myself in a hydraulic press.
...now I write sicko fanfiction about it.
“why are you, as someone in their 30s, still on tumblr” oh so you think you’re gonna be normal when you’re my age? you think you’re gonna be CURED?? you think the witches’ curse will have been lifted by then?? cmon now
(removes the heating pad from my lower back) also baby this is my house???
how old are you
under 30
30+
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I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔
Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep
Uh oh
Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding
@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."
But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife
