Kleines Püppchen, Freches Bübchen...

There is definitely a phenomena where people try SO hard to avoid anthropomorphism they end up looping around into this quasi-religious stance that humans have some essential non-biological quality that sets us apart from other animals. Like being so cautious about how you describe emotion experienced by a nonhuman animal that you go "that animal is not 'happy' it's just demonstrating a response to positive stimuli and receiving chemical reward signals" as if that's not also what human emotion is at the fundamental level.

it's always so funny how insistent people are that war "isn't inherently political" like you would be hard pressed to find something more inherently political

people from different countries actually just kill each other with guns for several years at a time for no reason

need everyone to understand that this is not some kind of obscure online discourse iceberg. this is the median american voter

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

The best thing about this is they all, objectively, did this to themselves. They could walk away at any time and try to get jobs like a normal musician. Not a good option, no, but an option. But they chose to stay on Mr bones wild ride for two decades, cashing that paycheck because the only thing worse than having the same job for 22 years is finding a new one. Working class legends.

i dont want a husband

the "we need this version of [x]" memes always have me in hysterics for some reason