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[incel-rights-advocate-deactivat]

[wizardarchetypes]

disturbed by how little ppl acknowledge the secondary health risks of vampire bites. if your vampire lover is drinking your blood you MUST be up to date on your tetanus shot. puncture wounds are at especially high risk for tetanus infections. just because your partner was born in 1312 doesn’t mean you have to die like it.

moreover they should be prepping the bite point with an alcohol wipe.

and while I’m at it, I’ve noticed a blithe disregard for health & safety when it comes to blood pacts. can’t believe I have to say this but you should absolutely NOT be cutting your palm open with the pocket knife from your belt holster (??????)

if you’re expecting to be in a blood pact/oath situation please just pick up some sterile finger lancets from the pharmacy. cannot stress this all enough.

[wizardarchetypes]

Please y’all!! tetanus is NOT caused by rusty metal. It’s a bacteria found damn near everywhere, and wounds infected with saliva are especially high risk for tetanus infections.

it’s also a common misconception that vampire saliva is antiseptic. Vampires spread that myth on purpose. They also CAN cross running water. Make them bathe and brush their teeth!!!!

[wizardarchetypes]

all the vampires in the tags saying they won’t do this bc the alcohol will make the skin taste bad are just telling on themselves. talk about a red flag.

[wizardarchetypes]

comparing your human lover’s body to an inanimate utensil & misreading this as a PSA for the vampire’s safety rather than the human’s. smh vampires continue to be so toxic 🤦🏼‍♀️

[tumblerculosis]

I’ve been obsessed with this tiktok for days now

[coffeedcait]

Person: "Hello sir." he pets the frog with one finger.

Person: "Have a good day. Actually wait a minute. You missed a bug, but I got you home boy. Hold on." he picks a bug up and throws it next to the frog.

Frog: turns around and eats the bug.

Person: "OHHHHH-" sings high pitched and angelic like he witnessed a miracle.

[aurpiment]

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

[estie-s]

"It's possible to assume": someone's about to be called a stupid fucking idiot in nineteen different ways

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

[prinnay]

Basically.

[sluttynurse]

[milsae]

rogue lady and mage lady

[tachiikoma]

[prokopetz]

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

[prokopetz]

#the best route is clearly to get really into a specific kink scenario and invent a world to justify it (via @salix03)

That's not even a joke. Developing a kink scenario so elaborate and so excruciatingly particular that it can only properly be contemplated in the frame of a world created specifically to contain it is genuinely closer to Tolkien's actual creative process than 99% of the stuff that plays at being heir to his legacy.

[tpwrtrmnky]

*cracking open your moral intuition systems* ohhh i see, there's the issue, you're running secularism on a kernel built for protestant morality.

Tricky one cause the kernel's built around creating the need for salvation from a higher power, and you'll have to change up a lot of the systems for evaluating your own and others' moral worth to avoid operating with a deficit when there's no inbuilt release valve.

You haven't been going around making up ad-hoc solutions for redeeming sinners instead of trying to patch out the notion of sin, right?

[elizabitchtaylor-deactivated202]

I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the “bystander effect”, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late. 

What I was not told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side and managed a gay bar. 

Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?

Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.

But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

this was one of the first lessons I had in psych too and we were never told about this either nor was it in any of the reading materials

[thelingerieaddict-deactivated20]

I never knew this.

[dsudis]

I also never knew this about Kitty Genovese, but I do know that, in fact, many of the dozen (not thirty-eight) people who witnessed some part of the attack (which took place after 3AM, on a chilly night in March when most people’s windows were closed) tried to help in some way.

One shouted out his window for the attacker to leave her alone, which did successfully scare the man off temporarily.

Another called the police but, seeing her still on her feet, said only that there had been a fight but the woman seemed to be okay.

And when Kitty Genovese was finally attacked in a vestibule where she couldn’t be seen from outside, Karl Ross, a neighbor, saw what was happening but was too frightened himself to go to her rescue–so he started calling other neighbors to ask what he should do. Eventually one of them told him to call the police, which he did, and the woman he called, Sophie Farrar, rushed out to help Kitty even though she didn’t know whether the attacker was gone.

Kitty Genovese died in the arms of a neighbor who tired to help and comfort her while they waited for the police and ambulance to arrive. Kitty was in fact still alive, although mortally wounded, when the ambulance reached the scene.

The man who saw the final stabbing? Who panicked and called other neighbors first instead of the police? The man who said, infamously, that he “didn’t want to get involved” because he was reluctant to turn to the police for help? He was thought to be gay himself. He was a friend of Kitty and Mary Ann’s. After being interviewed by the police he took a bottle of vodka to Mary Ann and sat with her, trying to comfort her.

So, no. I don’t think the evidence indicates that Kitty Genovese’s neighbors let her die because she was a lesbian, because Kitty Genovese’s neighbors tried to help.

See also: Debunking the Myth of Kitty Genovese (The New York Post)

A Call for Help (The New Yorker)

(Also, going by the content of the murderer’s confession, it was indeed a random attack.)

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

how on EARTH was this “scientifically” studied but the details gotten so wrong and the wrong as hell conclusion published and taught in schools?!?!?! where were those scientists observation skills?! on vacation?!

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

How to take facts and turn them into an urban legend that gets taught in schools: Make a bad made-for-t.v.-movie about it, watch it, believe everything the movie says, annnnnnnd go!  That’s how it gets taught as this supposed “scientific study.”  Someone got fucking lazy.

Spread the real deal, kids.

[tehriz]

A book about this, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction this year! if anyone wants to check it out try your local library!

[racefortheironthrone]

I want to add one crucial but telling detail: the story about the 38 witnesses didn’t come out of nowhere, it was handed to the New York Times City Editor by the Police Commissioner in order to distract said editor from asking unwelcome questions about a different case, and the story that was eventually written and which made headlines was almost entirely composed from police sources. 

At the time, the NYPD was coming under quite a bit of criticism about rising crime rates and the seeming ineffectiveness of the police’s response to the problem. In the Kitty Genovese case, even though people did in fact call the police, it took about an hour for them to show up and the first detectives didn’t arrive until three hours later (at which point they mostly spent their time interrogating Kitty’s girlfriend about their relationship, because for “some reason” they considered her to be the most likely suspect for the murder. In fact, the police wouldn’t catch the actual killer until six days later when he was picked up for having a stolen TV in the trunk of his car, at which point he admitted to having committed a total of three murders). It’s not an accident that one of the things to come out of the Genovese case was the establishment of the 9-1-1 system, because at the time that the attack happened, you had to call the specific number of a particular police precinct and it was up to the duty sergeant on the desk to take action - which was usually to send someone out from the precinct to the address reported, because cops on foot patrol wouldn’t be outfitted with two-way radios for several years. It’s more than a little convenient that at a time when the NYPD is coming in for public scrutiny about its ability to do the basic job of responding to reports of crimes in a timely fashion, the Police Commissioner happens to hand the City Editor of the city’s most prominent newspaper a story which puts the blame for the slow response on the apathy and inaction of New Yorkers, neatly absolving the NYPD for its ridiculously poor performance in this case in particular and its response to the rise in crime in general. 

It’s also quite telling that the New York Times ran with the story the way they did. It’s not like there weren’t people on the scene who said they had called the police, or that the basic facts about how many witnesses there were and what they had seen didn’t match the account that the commissioner had given. The writer the Times sent out chose not to include this information because “it would have ruined the story.“ The Times wanted to frame the story as a narrative about how the root of NYC’s problems was urban apathy and anomie - and the news organizations that picked up on the Times’ reporting and made the Kitty Genovese case a national and global story wanted to frame the story as proof that NYC was a dangerous urban jungle that deserved its decline because of the bad character of its residents.  I think the takeaway from this case isn’t just about sloppy scientific research, it’s that you have to always consider how official narratives are used to assign blame to specific individuals and groups and absolve larger institutions of responsibility. 

[sighinastorm]

Shocking: people in the past had their own motives for lying too.

[ouroborosorder]

can i get a monotone "yaaay" for kuuderes

[piranes11]

Friend: dude could I have some of your fries

Me: ( assenting hand gesture, managmaniously): until you are satisfied

[doveywovy]

idk guys sometimes you just have to accept a ship dynamic is unhealthy, insane, and sometimes abusive. and its not real people so those factors just make it interesting

please stop unfolding the origami crane and smoothing it out bc you got worried the paper was hurting from the bends

[pochowek]

Visit Original Link

[tanadrin]

going one step beyond "d&d style fantasy world but with functioning economics" and into "fantasy world where instead of adventurers you have roving parties of economists and you have to choose which school/subfield combination to spec into"

... ...hmm wait no this is too good of an idea

instead of dungeons you venture into ENCLOSURES, regions of the world where the allocation of scarce goods has failed, and productive economic activity has ceased. your job is to confront the rent-seekers, toll-trolls, and zombie firms therein, while negotiating lemon bazaars, toxic assets, and poison pills to liberate the stranded capital therein and return it to general circulation. these may suffer from AUTARKY (cut off and forced into self-sufficiency; stagnant, risk-averse, prone to hoarding); CAPTURE (trapped in the grip of a rent extractor who sits on the flow of wealth and strangles it); COLLAPSE (the local economy has broken down and is trapped in an equilibrium it cannot escape from); or UNDEATH (distorted, misshapen regions of the market corrupted by subsidies, keeping alive that which should have long ago passed away), or some other malady.

your SCHOOL determines much of your spell/ability inventory, and gives you access to TALENT TREES to further specialize:

Classical Political Economy: Physiocrat, Ricardo-Smithian, and Georgist talent trees

Marginalist: Lausanne, Austrian, and Marshallian talent trees

Chicago: Price Theory, Monetarist, and New Classical talent trees

Keysnian: Neoclassical Synthesis, New Keynsian, and Post-Keynsian talent trees

Marxian: Classical Marxist, Sraffian/Neo-Ricardian, and Dependecy/World-Systems talent trees

Institutionalist: Old Institutionalist, New Institutionalist, Public Choice talent trees

Behavioral: Heuristics & Biases, Experimental, Neuroeconomics talent trees

Environmental: Resource, Green, and Blue talent trees

Evolutionary and Complexity: Schumpeterian, Nelson-Winter, and Econophysics talent trees

Provisioning and Stratification: Feminist, Capability Approach, and Stratification talent trees

your SUBFIELD gives you a role in the Chartered Company and enhances spells associated with that role; not all SUBFIELDS and all SCHOOL specializations are viable

all parties of course need at least one generalist Macroeconomist, who can quickly take stock of the ills besetting the Enclosure and stabilize the situation while the rest of the party gets to work (but who is ill-equipped to deal with particulars)

and they probably need one generalist Microeconomist as well, who can observe individual incentive structures closely and redesign small-scale mechanisms on the spot

an Empiricist can be adept at discerning real symptoms from coincidences, but requires a lot of setup time and is weak under pressure

and Economic Historian can call upon the lore of similar Enclosures other economists have encountered before to amplify your Company's powers (but may misdiagnose new problems)

your Trade Economist can sense exchange rate and price gaps between the Enclosure and the outside world, and facilitate reconnecting it with the rest of the economy

your Monetary Economist can sense debt overhang and credit conditions, inject liquidity, and restructure debt--but bad fiscal policy can also make everything much, much worse

at the heart of each enclosure you will of course have to fight a terrible enemy--creatures like the Seignior that prints money every round of combat, the colossal Golden Golem whose Golden Fetters aura causes slow but inexorable deflation (making your Company's real debts grow), and who is immune to interest rate cuts; the Trust, a hydra-like beast that is best vanquished by a cunning Public Choice economist; the Debt Lich, kept alive by unnatural market confidence; and the Twin Monster of Stagflation, one of whose heads breathes inflation and one of whose heads breaths unemployment.

your reward for success of course is the adoration of the people, who find their standards of living increasing again where you have liberated them. and, of course, a reasonable percentage of the liberated capital, to invest as you see fit (including in THEORY PAPERS from which you learn new spells). you also earn xp points which you can use to increase your stats, or to write papers arrogantly attempting to apply the principles of your profession to areas way outside your field of expertise.