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Or it could be that 50% of Americans can’t read past an eigth grade level, and therefore can’t read subtitles quickly enough to keep up.

It depends on the person too. If dubs miss some important element of the original language, then we should try to make better dubs for people who need or simply prefer them.

Literacy isn’t a function of intelligence, though. It’s a function of an educational system that teaches children to read.

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the nu-atheist movement slowly turned in to the incel-blackpill-4chan fascism we’re dealing with now. A lack of religious belief doesn’t in any way make someone a bad person and we should be criticizing organized religion and all the harm it’s done. But the cynical dudebro atheist culture had a distinct ideology - it wasn’t about science so much as using the concept of science as validation for a bitter, joyless view of the world.

zombiesusingtheinternets:

“Imagine an adult liberation movement that called itself “boy power.” Or imagine that a diverse and complex, historically powerful global liberation movement which was combating the violent socio-economic and sexual oppression of a people had become known as “girl power.” Imagine a political platform for socio-economic revolution that was encapsulated in sound bites such as “we are all beautiful no matter what we look like” or “self-empowerment is self-confidence…” In 2001 the Oxford English Dictionary defined “girl power” as “power exercised by girls; spec. a self-reliant attitude among girls and young women.” The Cambridge Dictionary offers the following definition: “[T]he idea that women and girls should be confident, make decisions, and achieve things independently of men, or the social and political movement based on this idea.” This definition of girl power subtly encapsulates the popular transformation of the women’s liberation movement into a heavily psychologised, consumer-friendly, self-esteem movement. Feminism is implicitly reduced to an “idea” that girls and women should be confident, make decisions, and achieve “things” without male assistance.”