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movietonight

I wouldn't be a good sacrificial lamb I'd be like a huge bitch about it

bungerc0re

it's called a ball python because it is a python(🐍) that ball(🟠)

contemptible-scoundrel

nothing in the rules says a python can't play basketball

3liza

i gotta be real with you guys im just sort of stunned tumblr has been running an open-front ZenDesk form for tumblr TOS reporting this whole time that doesnt require any kind of validation except a fucking email address. this one fact alone explains every single "why did so and so get banned for no reason" event of the past X years. however it is equally baffling that i didnt notice it before now. i would say it is baffling they implemented it in the first place but like i said, the management of their website is verifiably not well

rabbiteclair

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

crowdrinkingcoffee

ayyyyyy, shoutout to bunnings stocking a colour called “ace of spades” for giving me this idea

phaeton-flier

Not enough people know about wireless-fireless

phaeton-flier

Not enough of you were reading ComicJK, a minor webcomic from the late 2000s whose last update was during the 2012 election

realflaminglily

this post made me look up the actual answer

and THERE FUCKING ISN'T ONE

they MADE IT THE FUCK UP! sure the "Wi" was probably suggested for "wireless" but the fucking FI means jack shit!!!! they just wanted to copy "Hi-Fi"!!!!!!

whalesharkcat

no it clearly stands for fireless, didn't you read the comic?

oliviawhen

Some little drawings about how un-ergonomic Brioche is.

orcboxer

by disagreeing with me on this topic, you're aligning yourself with everyone else who disagrees with me, which includes the Chaos Death Cult, and they chaos kill people so....

lokaror

we dont chaos kill that many people.

orcboxer

Well If You Say It's Not That Many

achillesinhighheels

It’s a tony soprano summer

godisafujoshi

What this means

uncensoredhijabii

strangestcase

Good news! This story exists, it’s called The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

asneakyfox

one reason internet discourse is so annoying is how often you run into someone who believes things that are provably factually wrong about something really important, but they came to the conclusion because they're in legitimate pain and the false belief seems to explain and validate the pain, so any attempt to dispel it feels to them like dismissal of the pain.

you run into this all the time in all sorts of different domains. people who believe in various sorts of medical woo - morgellons syndrome, wifi hypersensitivity, vaccine overload - because it seems to explain the chronic symptoms their doctor's ignoring. people who believe adoption is inherently evil because they've decided that the fact of being adopted in and of itself is what explains their childhood trauma, even though talking to them for five minutes reveals a bunch of other obvious unrelated reasons. other people who think NPD or BPD or some other personality disorder makes you ontologically evil because that's what explains why their parents treated them badly. various flavors of nationalist weirdo who believe a bunch of complete lies about the historical geopolitical relationship between <insert country here> and <insert neighboring country> because they seem to explain legitimate discrimination and trauma they've experienced as a member of the first country. terfs who got into that school of radical feminism because they are women who have a history of abuse by men and they've decided the explanation is that testosterone is a sort of evil supersoldier serum and that abuse is just the natural inevitable result of people with and without penises existing in the same space.

all of this happened before the internet, of course, but on the internet it's super easy for these people to find each other and form communities where they constantly affirm the false belief to each other, which makes it way worse.

the frustrating thing is that understanding this is what's happening never actually helps. it does not matter how much you say "i believe that your chronic headaches are absolutely real and extremely severe and you're not imagining them and they have a real physical cause, and I believe you that they're absolutely debilitatingly painful and it sounds so scary on top of the pain, and you deserve help. but there is strong evidence that is not true that the headaches are being caused by an invisible alien named glonzo who hates you personally." emotionally they are totally incapable of not hearing the last sentence as meaning "your headaches are fake and you have no reason to be complaining about them."

the best thing you can do about it is probably try to catch when you're doing it yourself, and remember that your pain can be valid whether or not a particular narrative that feels like it validates the pain is true.