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if the truman show came out in 2020 trumans life would be livestreamed 24/7 and the twitch chat would be absolutely wildin. poggers

parakeet

whenever truman was preoccupied like sitting at the bus stop checking fake reddit on his phone or whatever it would be like that live stream of jackson hole wyoming before they took the chat away

important psa

Awh, I always thought they were so pretty and had no idea they could be harmful

christianmarvel

Can someone transcribe this? The water is really loud.

petit-bon-homme

“Hey everybody! Here we are in the southern Appalachian mountains. We have a pristine Montane stream ecosystem, as you can see all around us here. I thought I’d make an educational video this morning. It involves this practice right here [gestures to rock pile]. As our national parks and national forests fall victim to human pressure, more than ever, this is something we’re seeing more and more of. Hopefully we can make this video go viral. This stream, as you can see around us right here, is a breeding ground for North America’s largest salamander, the Eastern hellbender. They can get up to 2.5-3 feet long. It’s part of our natural heritage in the eastern United States. When people do this right here - what they consider to be art - they’re actually destroying the breeding ground for the Eastern hellbender salamander. The Eastern hellbender will use flat rocks such as these to make nesting sites in these streams. So here’s what I would like everybody to do. If you care about our Montane stream freshwater ecosystems like this one around us here, when you see something like this, this is what I recommend doing: [kicks down rock pile]. Take the rocks, throw them back into the stream. The Eastern hellbender utilizes rocks like this. It actually feels pretty good to do this! [walks to other pile] This is not actually art, okay? This is destruction of our freshwater ecosystems. So I would like to encourage everyone: when you see this [gestures to second rock pile], do this! [kicks pile] I’d like to return our streams to their natural state for the organisms that live here. Thanks, and have a good day.”

gendernewtral

also! don’t do this on beaches! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/people-are-stacking-too-many-stones/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wideopenspaces.com/rock-stacking-natural-graffitti-ecological-impact/amp/

https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/leaving-no-trace-rock-stacking

thesearchforbluejello

Fantastic! Yes! They're very harmful to many ecosystems and should never be considered art!

BUT

If you see one of these rock piles on an established trail, do NOT for the love of god kick it over. In places where a trail forks or moves over features like talus fields, trail crews sometimes build cairns to mark the trail where spray painted blazes can't be used or would be easily missed (e.g. on rocks that commonly become wet, painted blazes are harder to see).

There are multiple takeaways here:

1) Making cairns yourself is BAD. Don't do it.

2) Cairns are not ever properly used in rivers.

3) If you see a cairn on a trail, LEAVE IT. If it does need to be removed, the trail crews working for the National Forest Service/NPS/AMC/whatever or Rangers will remove it when they do trail work.

If you only ever read one post of mine, please make it this one. YESTERDAY my mom and I were hiking in the Pemigewasset Wilderness of New Hampshire, and on the trail we hiked there was a fork with half marked by a cairn so hikers knew to go the right way to pick up the blazed trail. If someone had removed that we probably would have been fine because there was an old logging road on the other side eventually leading to the road going through the notch, but elsewhere that could have killed us. It's very easy to get lost in wilderness, and no matter how prepared or experienced you are it can prove fatal.

TL;DR, please note this statement by the National Park Service.

(I am aware this statement specifically is from NPS, but this goes for your National Forests, State Forests, etc as well.)

Photo tax:

A good cairn, built by a trail crew to mark the trail ascent over open face granite on the Baldface Loop over North and South Baldface in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I took this when we summited in 2018.

sneakyfeets

Yeah for real cairns are necessary on trails

#psa

cundtcake

oh my god

memecage

I am currently studying memes academically. I thought you might enjoy the current proposed “ages” of internet memes

surprisebitch

OP please post the link to the academic journal or the paper when your research gets published

sketchy portrait for @hoodie_that

#ffxiv #art

shiroishi888

Commission for @ryku_ffxiv

#FFXIV #art

herbwicc

Lol heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring, the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass, and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you’ll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this lmfao

What did you do op?

a Mistake

“Money can’t buy happiness!”

Me:

k-eke

x’D

#art

the-imperial-nuisance

WoL, on their first quest: I hope something good happens today.

WoL, roughly three years later: I hope whatever bad happens is at least funny.

#FFXIV

willxiv

when you ask fufucha how to chop down a tree

#FFXIV #memes

I return.

the-real-seebs

How do you win an argument where the other party doesn't listen to logic and facts and neither does their supporters?

Okay, so. Analogy time! Persuasion is like giving someone directions for a trip. You must start with finding out where they are now.

Why is it that they aren’t listening to logic and facts? People normally listen to logic and facts. If they don’t, there’s a reason for it. It might well be an emotional thing rather than a logical one, but it’s absolutely there.

When people accuse me of “not listening to logic and facts”, I’m pretty sure they’re wrong, but I do get that accusation a lot. I get it from people who are angry and upset that I’m not accepting their positions. But often, they haven’t actually presented any kind of reason for me to do so, they’ve just yelled a lot about how important it is.

My experience has been that most people who endorse ideas reasonably close to fascist ideas is that they’re doing it because they are afraid. Of what? Well, that varies. But with the Nazis and Nazi-punchers, for the most part, both sides are justifiably afraid that the people on the other side want them injured or dead. (In fact, the belief systems are basically parallel; you could write a single book with a few blank fields to play Mad Libs with, and it would describe both of them.) But there’s precursors. Violent nationalism and unfocused racism are mostly rooted in fear of violence and economic insecurity. Both of these are things actively promoted by politicians because they make people compliant and easier to control, up to a point. And not just one “side” of the political spectrum. US Republicans and Democrats both encourage fear and tend to advocate policies that increase economic insecurity in the people they are offering to “help”, so those people will feel reliant on them. Perhaps more importantly, they actively encourage people to fear economic insecurity more than it actually exists.

But the biggest and most fundamental thing that will make people refuse to listen to you is stunningly obvious and stunningly easy to address: It’s that they don’t think you’re listening to them. You’re not treating them like a person who matters, why should they treat you like one?

When I was doing MMOs more, I used to talk people down from transphobia. I had about a 50-70% success rate in single conversations. Obviously, everyone had already tried bombarding them with logic and facts. So I’d ask them about their feelings on the issue, and acknowledge that it could feel pretty weird being asked to call someone “she” when you can tell they’re “really a guy”. And I’d talk with them about how it’s sorta rough how you have these instincts about how gender works, because obviously our species has instincts, and then people expect you to just override those instincts and say things that feel wrong and go against your instincts. And they’d agree with that. And then I’d talk about how the instincts sometimes get sorta wired up funny, and that’s what “trans” means, that someone’s got the *instincts* for a body type they didn’t end up with. And they’d say “I never thought about it like that”. And they might not suddenly become sensitive or supportive, but you know what? They stopped advocating violence and picking fights. Because someone had actually fucking listened to them. The key here is that 90% of the conversation is me listening to them, not me telling them things I think.

When people say “you can’t convince [x]”, I mostly think “git gud scrub”.