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dollypudding

wyrmicelli

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

mlarayoukai

charl0ttan

something i actually just realized on call w some friends recently is how crazey it is that your online friends are as many as thousands of feet above or below u right now. like if you teleported to their location without changing your height above sea level, well your fucked in some way basically

charl0ttan

How high above sea level are you right now?

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Remaining time: 13 hours 34 minutes

#Coastal inhabitants stay winning!

I find it always so weird when there's housing development areas (usually a good couple decades old) and they are Prussia themed (both ducal and royal, aka East- and Westprussia). Hold on, I just found Silesia, Gdańsk and Szczecin as well - give it up! It's not coming home!

#personal

diana-lostandfound

Armpit hair just completes the look tbh. Tank tops look so goofy without it.

packpack-killkill

Southern Black-backed Jackal | Eugene Tulleken

king-shit-thembo

#MyBush

dragon-in-a-fez

the headline was funny but the full quote is killing me. why did she phrase it like that.

wtf-scientific-papers

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

dragongirl-casca

orangelit

it’s always like ”what someone else does to their appearance doesn’t affect you”. but it does though. that’s how social norms work. if everyone does [x] then [x] will be expected of me too. and i selfishly don’t want a lower salary for not wearing makeup, for not dying my hair when it goes grey, for not getting fillers.

bananonbinary

ive been taking a mandatory critical thinking class in college (honestly no complaints, ive always loved logic and this has been a surprisingly decently comprehensive and interesting class)

but sometimes it drops little things like this:

which. a) that's absolutely wild and TIL material. what the fuck. (wikipedia says versions of the treamill for power actually predate corporal punishment, but yes, in the 1800s prisoners were forced to use them as punishment. altho i would quibble at the word "torture." the point was more "indentured survitude" or "slavery," as the treadmill still like. did stuff. it wasn't JUST for the sake of pain, just free unethical labor. as opposed to something like solitary confinement, something designed just for torture reasons.)

b) all of that said this is how 95% of the notes on any given popular post sound

avicecaro

i want to shake many young women and say you can grow in private. and what i mean by that is that you don’t have to publicly self-flagellate when you don’t know something or when you say something a little insensitive or whatever else. you don’t have to report your Bad Thoughts and Ignorance to the crowd who waits to judge you. you do not have to pay penance. you do not have to issue public statements. nothing more is gained from burying yourself in shame than you could gain by thinking “oh i don’t know about this” and looking it up real quick, or thinking “hm, that wasn’t how i want to behave, i’ll do different next time” and then moving on with your life. no need to choke yourself with it.

joeyclaire

instead of “this person made good art so they can’t be a bad person” try looking at it like this: “this person made art so they can’t be a good person”

segamascott

djuvlipen

Non-exhaustive list of things my [anonymous] country did to Roma during World War II:

put a third of the population in unsanitary camps with no heating and barely any food that quickly became overcrowded and subject to epidemics

put another third of the population on house arrest in designated areas that ended up resembling the camps mentioned above

(we literally have no idea what happened to the last third)

forcibly sterilized an unknown number of Romani women

took an unknown number of Romani children, newborns and toddlers away from their parents to put them for adoption, to place them in white families or in orphanages

stole all their assets and money in spoliations that amount to at least hundreds of thousands of euros

deported at least 1,000 Roma to Nazi concentration camps

But my country still says it didn't contribute to the Nazi genocide of the Roma and still denies financial compensation to survivors and their families because "we didn't have it as bad as the Jews" and "Roma are used to living in filth and poverty anyway so they weren't too bothered by the camps" (yes that last one is something I heard from historians)

djuvlipen

This makes me think that the vast majority of people conceptualise the Romani genocide as the Romani version of the Shoah/the Jewish Holocaust. Because the majority of people are way more acquainted with what happened to Jewish people during WWII, they try to understand the Romani genocide by comparing it to the Jewish experience.

While it's true that these two genocides share many similarities, they remain fundamentally different. The Romani genocide wasn't subordinated to the Jewish genocide and anti Roma measures taken by Nazis weren't a collateral damage of Nazi antisemitic measures. Nazi anti-Roma racism is distinct from Nazi antisemitism. The reasons why the Nazis and co targeted Roma were not the same reasons why they targeted Jews. Some measures taken against Jewish people weren't taken against Roma, and some measures were taken against Roma that weren't taken against Jews. Most importantly, some common Jewish experiences were only experienced by a smaller number of Roma and vice versa. For example, the majority of Roma didn't die in camps but on killing Fields in the East; as a consequence, being deported to camps like Auschwitz was a common Jewish experience but wasn't a common Romani experience. While a large number of Jewish people were put in ghettos, a much smaller number of Roma went throught the same thing. On the other hand, forced sterilization was enforced on Roma in a larger extent than it was on Jewish people (in Ravensbruck, sterilization was carried on all Roma including children as young as 8; mass sterilization was enforced on Roma in Germany as early as 1935; mass sterilization also happened in Sweden). So for example, a common experience for Jewish people in my country was being deported to Nazi camps. On the other hand, the vast majority of my country's Roma weren't deported and deportation was thus an uncommon Romani experience. However, the Romani community of my country was targeted by house arrests (which put them at risk of police brutality, sexual violence and murder), transferring Romani children to white families, and intrusive medical procedures including sterilization; all measures that are also indicative of genocide, that were common Romani experiences of the genocide in my country but that were less common for my country's Jewish community.

So common experiences that came to define the Holocaust are Jewish experiences. And unfortunately this has been used against Roma. Often times I have talked about the Romani genocide and been asked, "were Roma put in ghettos? were they put in concentration camps? were they deported to death camps?" and because I say, "well, the majority of them didn't" I can tell that the other person starts getting confused and a bit irritated as they think I am exaggerating when using the word "genocide" when talking about Roma. But I am not, they are just confused because they are realising both Romani and Jewish genocides are actually two very different genocides, and because Romani experiences don't fit in the way they think about the Holocaust, they think what Roma went through was somewhat "less bad" or they take it as a proof no genocide happened.

To clarify, I am not saying that no Jewish person was killed in killing fields, went through forced sterilization or had their children taken away and I am not saying no Romani person was put in camps or in ghettos because I very well know this is not true at all. I am just saying that the experiences that came to shape the way people think about the Holocaust are experiences that were first and foremost lived by Jewish people to a larger extent (proportionally-speaking) than it was lived by Romani people – like ghettos and camps. While it is very important to talk about these experiences, it has often been done by historians, journalists and filmmakers in a way that marginalized or even excludes experiences that were lived by Romani people to a larger extent than it was lived by Jewish people – like house arrests, forced sterilization and child placements. I don't know if I am expressing myself clearly, I hope I don't sound like I'm dismissing what Jewish people went through, tell me if I'm wrong and I'll delete the post because I don't want to upset anyone

soheos

Men shalt pay 150 yen in silence

soheos

Something very biblical about this

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