Dept. of Propaganda & Re-Education

I was bulled extensively in elementary school, but 1. Mostly by my teachers and 2. Not during this, because we ALL had PBS Nature and as Deer, I was allowed to gouge, kick, bite, keep running even after being grabbed, or body-check the larger children into the picnic tables and other architecture.

You know, for realism.

There were 1 zombie, 1 vampire, 1 werewolf and all other at the start are human

Vampires and werewolves work as normal tag, but everyone tagged becomes a vampire/werewolf too

You can tag vampire as a werewolf and vice versa, but only if you tag the back, so face to face nobody wins

You can't tag zombie

Zombies are invincible, can tag vampire and werewolves even at front, turning them (and humans) into zombies, but have one downside. They have only 100 steps. If they run out of them, they instantly die and collapse to the floor.

Each dead zombie contains one antidote, which only humans can get by tagging zombie

Human with antidote can tag vampires and werewolves even at front, turning them into humans.

What happens if you as a vampire tag the human with antidote? No idea, playtest never got that issue)

I WANNA PASS NOTES

I WANNA BE EVIL

“Shakespeare wouldn’t have wanted this.”

“Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.”

And yeah this post is about my big dumb animal brain accepting the science behind narrow roads and the evils of certain types of zoning laws, but it's also about stuff in general. If you don't know why someone isn't changing their mind on something, it's probably because the information they're getting hasn't reached a critical mass in their monkey brain yet. Whenever you hear stories about people changing their minds on things or leaving a certain ideology the story never goes "A person on the internet did a slam dunk on me and then I changed my mind."

It's usually a long process that happens over the course of months or years. Seeds planted here and there that coalesce eventually into a new thought or ideology over the course of years or snap together or send someone down a new path after a certain event. Same with me about pedestrian-centric cities. For me the tipping point was finding this video, which isn't necessarily super special or the best and the guy who runs the channel, in my opinion, isn't the most qualified or the most sympathetic towards every city in every situation, but it was the feather that tipped the scales in my brain to "Oh, wait. Maybe everything I thought I knew about how cities work is wrong actually." But that video alone didn't change my mind. With the amount of stuff and people that have gradually and gently been giving me information over the past couple years, something else was bound to eventually change my mind.

People on Tumblr yelling about abolishing the car, if anything, slowed down me changing my mind. Every time I saw a person saying that driving cars is stupid and that cars are bad I took a step back into my old way of thinking in defense. Because I grew up only ever using a car to get around. Rhetoric like that felt like a direct attack on my family, who I know to be loving people who care about other human beings and who drive cars literally everywhere.

And you might say, posts and videos like that aren't actually an attack on people that drive or have to drive. Okay then. Why are they phrased like that? Because that makes you feel good? Because you're angry? Alright, your anger at how it's currently impossible to get around if you don't own a car and how people who don't actually want to drive are being forced to drive is reasonable. And now I understand why it exists. I'm kind of angry too now that I get how this stuff works. However, is calling the people you're trying to convince stupid to their face and immediately bombarding them with your most radical ideas that might be completely detached from their reality and how they understand the world really the most productive way to channel your anger?

What about a guy with a knee problem that lives in rural Appalachia? Do you think he is gonna be convinced by your angry rants about bike lanes? No. He lives on a mountain that he can't climb or bike up because he's disabled and has only ever known getting around in a car. What about a person who overheats easily living in a suburb in the middle of the desert? Do you think she is inspired by your green lush pictures of trolleys running through parks in The Netherlands? No. If she leaves her house for too long without ice water she could literally die and you're going on about getting rid of, in her mind, the only thing that lets her go to the grocery store and not faint.

there are two major types of understanding: facts and belief. facts have no emotional connection to them, things like “the sun is exactly this wide across” or “there are 47 species of frog in my local area”. if someone tells you different and gives you a source as to why on a fact, you’re very likely to just go “huh” and change your mind. however-

almost all knowledge the average person has on complex topics is held as a belief. beliefs are primarily emotional, and usually get applied to complex systems like big social issues. they’re very strongly linked to our morality systems and sense of right and wrong. this can be a problem, because-

it is physically and mentally impossible to force someone to change a belief. (short of like, violent brainwashing). if you hit a belief with contradicting facts, you make it stronger. if you attack someone for having it, you make it stronger. beliefs intensify every time the person holding them feels under threat and that includes lecturing or yelling. interestingly, this is probably why mormons send their young people out on missions. the rejection they get from people forces them to strengthen ties with the church.

so how do you change a belief? here are a couple of tips! for proof of concept, i once used this method to convince my uncle climate change was real.

don’t hit facts with facts. hit feelings with feelings. the person you’re talking to holds this belief because of an emotional connection. identify it, acknowledge it (and if you can, explain how you used to/still do hold the same values), and then present YOUR emotional link to the other side of the argument.

tell a story. don’t tell them how to feel. tell them how YOU feel. in OP’s example, they might talk about how much they loved their car, but how that changed when they gave it up, and how they see things now. give an anecdote that explains your point; maybe a day you caught the bus and a friend drove to the same place, and you got there first, or a day you read an amazing book on public transport, or how you found a great new coffee place while cycling to work.

ask them, gently, to think about it, and leave them with some resources. you can’t change someone’s mind in a day. just like OP says, you gotta wait for things to click. this won’t always happen right away or even on the first try, and you have to reach critical thought mass before they start to feel lectured/condescended to. give them some resources and encourage them to read up on your topic, or to ask you if they’ve got any questions. letting people come to their own conclusions WITHOUT being told what to think is the most surefire way to reforge belief.

(terrifyingly, this is also exactly how QAnon works - they tell you to “do your own research” and then flood search engines with fake anecdotes. if someone’s trying to reset your beliefs, always check where the resources they’re giving you come from.)

Learning about flyovers and pyrotechnics at American games being a thing

Non-americans discovering the size of American football stadiums....for high schools in texas. Also the size of our stadiums in general.

Going to baseball games as a side treat! Lmao.

Non-americans losing their minds over "like, 100 petrol pumps," at buc-ees.

Related: Americans often forget how huge target and Walmart is.

People discovering American BBQ

Non-americans being obsessed with mid American restaurant chains like Golden Corral and Taco Bell

A lot of them really did feel god in this chile's apparently

The rightful obsession with waffle house

New understanding of American Big Drink With Ice supremacy as summer creeps in

Begrudging acceptance of mandatory water breaks during games

Americans realizing we have a Team USA and we are not, in fact, just "hosting our friends" from around the world — mostly because we won our first match and our team is decent??? Not amazing but not the worst.

Side rant: us women's football team is legendary good and we should care about that more like. Hello???

Admitting Americans are right about air conditioning

Related: the english team did warm ups in Florida RIP, and also the there's a video of the French team just being like fuck the heat, fuck the sun, this is so hot...

Americans who do not normally care about international football but fucking love a sport and cheering so we're just hyping whatever team is nearby, like we see a party and just show up and learn the chant. Like sorry many of us don't know shit about soccer but if we see a bunch of people in viking helmets or kilts or holding a bunch of flags and cheering we're game.

TAILGATING!!!!

I already said this but American yellow school bus is an international celebrity

The Scottish drank Boston dry of beer apparently, like they quadrupled what Boston normally sells for fourth of July weekend. SAM ADAMS HAD TO GET AN EMERGENCY BEER DELIVERY.

Also the English team fans got kicked out of The Londoner pub in Dallas after drinking 5,000 beers and going over max capacity lmao

Free refill drinks, tortilla chips & salsa.

So many non-americans are going to be here for the 4th of July for our 250th anniversary which is going to be great and hilarious

Non-americans discovering ranch as a beloved condiment

Non-americans understanding American obsession with hamburger now

Japan's homebase is in Texas and the cultural differences are frankly great and also the Japanese fans are SO NICE and helped clean up the stadium after a match???

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

Textpost by "tapir worf" @‌eggy_egregore, that reads:

If you don't go outside every single day during the day and look at the sky, you are performing a punishing biological experiment on yourself previously reserves for prisoners

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