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yall my world was just turned upside down i just found out the mongols used colors for directions and west was white and thats the best proposed theory for why belarus is called belarus ie white [west] russia

tchaikovskaya

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[ID: OK, was anybody going to tell me that the Black and Red Seas are named after Asiatic languages’ cardinal direction color system, or was I just supposed to read that on Wikipedia at 4 AM myself?]

catsbeaversandducks

The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt: Cat Version

Illustration by Inna Ruda

shitacademicswrite

madronasky

nightbringer24

Contrary to popular belief, there are three states a cat in a box might be: Alive, Dead, or Bloody Furious.

- Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett.

hentired

Why did "lmao" stick around but "rofl" die. Any theories on this

hydok

almostsweetmuse-deactivated2023

he's an international treasure actually

sexygaywizard

Had a dream that tumblr came up with a new creature called Greachur and it looked like this

friendlyneighborhoodmadbi-entist

brother of the alot

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024

upon further research:

wandering-aloneo-o

i had a dream a while ago of a very tall, long-legged creature with a thin, grey fur coat. it didn't have any horns and it was like double the height of a semi, but this post reminded me of that

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024

like this?

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Posts from a split second in the future

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Drew the things

callmebliss-got-swamped

300000000% what it feels like walking around with my sibling

closet-keys

why none of them got into The Good Place

exigencelost

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

egyptiann

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

thedreadvampy

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

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filthyprotozoan

“sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up” yea it was fucked up that was the entire point they made in the show. thats why they spent multiple seasons fighting to change the system of the Good Place vs. the Bad Place.

eggil

Biggest indicator of US decline: You could buy 6 BigMacs with 1 hour of minimum wage in 1980, but today you can't even buy one, despite minimum wage more than doubling.

It's over.

crownedpatriot11

Fs for the USA

quendergeer

explaining purchasing power collapse to an american: imagine no burger

unashamedly-enthusiastic

The Big Mac Index is actually a thing economists use

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thesylverlining

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

quantum-jump

Or, as my dad put it,

Sympathy: I know how you feel Empathy: I feel how you feel Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?

paramourblessings

Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?

autisticcaleb

Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.