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*cracks up*

Positive reinforcement at its finest. ;D

Also, maybe I don't want say how much I weigh (nessecary for "filtering by weight") beyond "I am a fat lady". And, I'm thinking of how you would even do that in one question, and it just becomes an overwhelming amount of response options.

Awe ☺️

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

I have a dear friend, who is much more of a STEM person, and I would like to print this out and staple it to their forehead. The amount of complaining I heard regarding their various (required) English classes as they got their degree drove me up a wall. Yes, I can see that you think it is silly and pointless to analize a novel when you're in school for nursing, BUT THERE'S A WHOLE ASS REASON TO LEARN HOW TO BREAK DOWN A NOVEL AND FIND OUT THE WHYS. Because irony is dead, this same friend also rails about how people are media illiterate all the time.

Slinking through the deep woods hunting wild gummy bears

I would let her kill me for sport

I fully understand why some ancient farmer saw the creature that had been hanging around his farm killing the mice and protecting his grains and said to himself, "I'm gonna pet that"

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

This explains why I find grimdark fantasy to be so juvenille.

Something that the US and China do have in common is everybody pretending to work for ten hours a day at their jobs while playing predatory gacha games on their phones

Not now, honey. Daddy is pretending to work so his boss doesn’t fire him. And also collecting scantily clad warriors in his mobile phone.

Excuse me, it's little dragons thank you very much.

okay you know those posts that are like "this male character archetype would be better as a woman"? you know what we need more of? female loudmouth braggart hero antagonists. women who are cocky and comedically vainglorious and beloved by the public and also objectively suck so fucking bad. I'm not kidding. I don't care how sexist the audience would be about that. I want to see a woman who should be played by whoever the female equivalent of Nathan Fillion is.

Katee Sackhoff and Starbuck need a word. Starbuck litterally is this. In the 2004 Battlestar Galactica she IS a genderswaped character of the vainglorious, cocky, asshole type. I mean, I love me some Eleanor Shellstrop, and I love that she was created as a female character, but we don't get her without Starbuck.

MY FRIEND IS FINDING OUT THAT HES COLORBLIND AND WE’RE ALL HELPING HIM THROUGH IT LMAOOOOOO

On the last one Deuteranomaly and Protanomaly are identical though

What I’m getting from this is that there are a lot more colorblind people in the world than even colorblind people know.

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WAIT! DEUTERANOMALY AND PROTANOMALY IS THE SAME! IT’S THE FUCKING SAME! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?????

The deuteranomaly and protanomaly ones are very similar but they are different. The purple section ranges out a little farther to the right in the protanomaly one. Not seeing the difference between might not indicate color blindness but rather difficulty with color differentiation.

The green is also slightly more vivid in the protanomaly strip than it is in the deuteranomaly one.

welp. one of the moots has tritanomaly colour blindness!

I’m not colourblind, but like, on the last one, deuteranomaly and protanomaly are identical to eachother- so are protanopia and deuteranopia-

They aren’t different?

Why is respectability politics more important to Americans than anti-imperialism

I’m so tired, dude. I can be anti-imperialist and also wish that my leaders would at the very least understand the weight and importance of the situations that they’re creating. I can multitask. I can look at more than one side of a cube.

Surely, pretending to have empathy and putting on a progressive mask isn’t necessarily better (or worse, really) than just going mask off? If you admit previous presidents were pretending, then what’s the value lost? You are seemingly outraged that the people who surround the president aren’t boring or competent, but why is being able to ignore what is happening valuable? They were evil before.

Sure, there’s stuff you haven’t seen before, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. You forgot the days where Obama was a war criminal and nicknamed the “deported in chief”. Where the democrats capitulated to the right on immigration, transgender rights and other issues. This isn’t a game or a performance, and your use of the word “fanbase” is concerning. Why is the impression of goodness that politicians imprint onto their populations so valuable to you? Also, not to be annoying, but why do you care about the destruction of a historical building that’s a monument to slave Labour and settler colonialism? So much of what youve mentioned feel like smoke screens and small placations made to distract and sheild those in power. This is a Democratic tactic

Anyone who pretends that Obama bombing places is the same as Trump bombing foreign countries AND cutting USAID AND cutting funding for medical research AND kicking people off SNAP AND cutting medicare funding so hospitals close AND AND AND is just flat out stupid. Or more likely, deliberately lying to push an agenda of hopelessness.

26. Which is fine, I've been meaning to read more and I should get on that. Also, just once I'd like to see one of these lists challenge themselves to one book per author. I mean, yes, many authors have written multiple great books, but allowing yourself to pick say 3 Dickens books means that books like another author has none and something gets left off. Rude. Or Huckleberry Finn. What the hell kind of great books list lists three Dickens novels but leaves out Huckleberry Finn. Fuckass list I'll tell you what.

“Welcome to the consequences of your own actions”. Congrats on free will, Three. Your actions are now your own fault