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saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

victusinveritas

Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!

foone

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the body of a God?

aroedmundpevensie

there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects

stitchposts

adisastar

made a fun little mug and cup set for when i paint

littlestpersimmon

Free Ornamentation III. This work is dedicated to the public domain ♡

weepingwidar

Heeyoung Noh (Korean, 1995) - Be Quiet! I Won't! (2025)

lokh1

i think they should give everyone one free mri. just so we can see what the fuck is up with our brains

xenobotanist

This would actually be immensely useful.

If you think about it, doctors pretty much only perform an MRI when they expect an abnormality. So they don't have a lot of "regular" brains for data to compare to. Just a few test subjects.

Giving everyone an MRI would result in a plethora of information, not only as a basis for comparison but possibly also displaying the incredible diversity that exists.

GIVE EVERYONE AN MRI

eldritchanchovy

I once read an anecdote that was basically: Person Gets An MRI To Test Out New MRI Machine, Finds Brain Tumor That Turns Out To Be Harmless, And We Have No Idea How Common These Harmless Brain Tumors Are

png-archive-chaos

I roll up

northirish

I felt the cold, bony and clammy hand of death itself upon me, worst handjob I ever had

weirdtranssexual

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

if you can’t read or write 500-1000 words with relative ease you have a serious problem

weirdtranssexual

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

how are you going to function in society if you can’t read 1000 words at a time

prof-grace-aspen

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

Pick a topic you like, and that's what you're going to read about. Set a minimum word count, and read until you get to it. Start small. Smart easy. First try, it might actually be agonizing.

That's it for the day. Just hit the word count.

Next day, read to the word count again. Read something new! It will be easier today.

And easier the next.

And you will naturally find yourself extending how much you read per day.

weirdtranssexual

yes! the brain must be exercised like any other part of the body to get stronger! no matter what place you’re at you can do stimulating activities to exercise your brain!

mageofthemarsh

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.

"I ain't reading that" becomes "I can't read that" which becomes "I didn't read before I signed it because the guy telling me to was convincing and now I don't have anything".

heywriters

^^ There is so much profit in exploiting illiteracy and ignorance.

On top of being scammed, receiving accurate medical treatment relies on you knowing how to do your own research, and too many doctors take illiterate patients less seriously.

If you become a victim of a crime or are accused of a crime, you need to be able to read the papers a cop or lawyer puts in front of you. They can happily take advantage of your ignorance if you give them a chance.

This list goes on! Landlords, real estate agents, accountants, car mechanics, bankers, phone companies, customer service, contractors, childcare workers, e.g. any other human you rely on just to live your life will expect you to be literate and capable of making smart decisions. It is not their job to supplement your ignorance. It is not any well-meaning individual's job to make sure you paid attention in the same classes they did. And most of them know this and will not wait for you to figure things out.

It won't be a scam, it will just be business.

spiderhungry

Landlords ESPECIALLY will take advantage of you. I was recently sent a 33-page lease with a clause in it that is blatantly illegal in California. If I had signed it, it wouldn't have held up in court, but not every renter knows their rights. And being able to read is an important step in learning your rights and standing up for yourself.

sokka-with-his-hair-down-2

“the parallels between Zuko and Sokka-” hey HEY. I am grabbing you. The parallels between Katara and Azula. Both the younger, gifted bender. Each one being the inverse of the other: a living, breathing what if. Katara being horrified at what her bending can do when pushed to its limits vs Azula always trying to push hers further. Katara instinctively trusting everyone so easily, even though it burns her sometimes, and Azula saying trust is for fools, fear is the only reliable way but still losing everyone she cares about in the end. Katara yelling at her dad and being hugged in return vs Azula doing everything possible to please her father still being harshly reprimanded, so you know exactly why they both turned out the way that they did. Katara’s trauma being connected to losing a mother vs Azula’s being connected to having a mother. Katara ultimately being the one to take down Azula and standing over her, staring pitifully because that’s who she could have been, in another life. is this thing on

orpheuslament

hannibal & true detective have a lot of crossover potential because between rust cohle, hannibal lecter & will graham not a single word would be exchanged without it being jam-packed with double meaning & philosophical & metaphysical queries that are impossible to follow if youre not in the same weird ass frequency & marty would hate every fucking minute of it