Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

I'm tidally locked to something but I haven't figured out what it is yet

"magic isnt real" ok lol so explain how that djinn from chicago and some unnamed second party were able to close the sandstorm portal in time

I just lost my job

why do so many freaks go right to “there should be exams or tests before you have kids” when the real solution is better social services, robust infant and child development education that is accessible both financially and schedule/distance accommodating, and resources throughout any stage of a child’s life. genuine question like did you think about any social development before going straight to eugenics

Look i am not even a proponent of parental testing measures. However. having *entire classes* on parenting, and "robust social services" (notoriously misused to steal kids) is much more eugenics-minded than having a simple 10 question test to assess that potential parents know that they should (1) feed shelter and clothe their children and (2) refrain from bullying or physically harming them.

there’s just no way people would lie, right? like we don’t do that, we’ve never lied about consequential things. right?

Umm.. 🫵your m🫵utual runs a 🫵 bug porn sideblo🫵g 👍 ignore my hand ✌️ i cant control it right now 👍✌️👍👉stop that

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

The thing about the whole "it all tastes the same to me" phenomenon is that it applies to every sphere of human experience, not just food. Sometimes a person's political awareness is so limited that they genuinely can't tell those two opposing positions apart – and while that doesn't excuse them, you can save yourself a lot of aggravation by learning to recognise when this is the case.

Sometimes I look at a thread and I think "okay, I recognise that you feel you're being sealioned here, but the fundamental problem is that you're trying to debate the thesis of The Wretched of the Earth with someone who thinks Avatar: The Last Airbender is an incisive denunciation of colonialism".

happy decade to the horrible beast i have wrought