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fuckyeahchinesefashion

heartwarming moments posted by cnetizens

notoisstrange

Once keeping company with male beauties. now....

c4tr0nac7

veliseraptor

It’s your birthday and I want people to know!

ladies and gentlepeople, my wife

so-much-for-subtlety

in 2015 we didn’t have AI psychosis so people had to make do by believing a dress was white and gold

thickness-protection-program

Because it was

queer-as-city-folk

Is the gold in the room with us right now?

thatoneliquidbicricket

yes. the dress is gold.

...

the dress has always been gold

r u saying this doesn't look white and gold to u???

...

queer-as-city-folk

what.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

it's a white and gold dress in cool blue dim lighting w/ bright warm light behind it, making an optical illusion. we're not fucking doing this again

im-mender

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

oh god fucking damn it

kaban-bang

I know tumblr likes to exclusively make it about bloody hospitals but this is what Color Theory is about

sr-roto

audio On 😂😂😂

plainclothes2025

Oh my god?!!!?!!

xiaq

as soon as she said “you know how they fuck, right?” I was like “please god let me hear the words ‘sexual dimorphism’ come out of Kate McKinnon’s mouth” and then I DID. Beauty.

anxietyproblem

yanhuitianyao

"You didn't say that when you told me to trust you."

parkchanwoohoo

Josh Johnson's delivery is so funny 😭

derinthescarletpescatarian

I really love this thing that Josh Johnson always does, where he tells you the setup for the joke, then digresses with a long story that provides context, then reminds you of the setup of the joke in a single line and waits for you to tell the punchline to yourself before he says it. It gets the audience (and me) howling with laughter very single time. A very "we're all in on the joke" style of comedy.

unsolids-your-snake

I'm starting to go the opposite direction of all the "you're a literal baby infant until 25 bc your bwain is a baby bwain :(" shit

We should be treating teens as more adult than we do. I don't mean some lowering the age of consent creep shit, I mean presuming competence. Get a job, learn life skills, learn to cook, be fully responsible for a pet, walk places alone (in daylight) or with a friend, have intergenerational friendships, teach skills to littler kids, be someone people can trust with more than wiping their own ass. Be someone they themselves can trust to do stuff and go places. We're stealing children's confidence by treating them like they can't do anything. Treat them like they can and should do many adult things and more will find the confidence to practice at them.

Yes, the brain isn't finished growing when you're like 15. No, you shouldn't get treated like a preschooler till it is. The general experience of adulthood is like 90% practice 10% maturity I think. The maturity is needed but it doesn't account for much if you just do nothing.

maximumsalt

YES. And with support! Teach your teens to make their own doctors appointments by sitting by them in case something comes up they don't know the answer to. Show your elementary schoolers how to cook a meal. Teach them how to read a map and guide you where they want to go. Kids are capable.

kla1991

Your brain develops when you fucking use it, so let teens use their brains!

moniquill

Everything here except 'get a job' because education is already a full-time job.

I say this as a person who did labor for money as a child and teenager and should not have had to.

dduane

And especially: *teach your kids, however small, what they can do in emergencies." That learning (because you trusted them with it as important) will sink deep into their brains and help them cope for the rest of their lives. They will know, from tiny times, what coping looks like. It'll lead them toward strengths they never knew they had.

When I was still nursing in NY and occasionally helped out our colleagues in ER, several times I saw small children who'd been taught what to do save their whole families from burning buildings by having been coached in how to use the phone to call for help and say what the trouble was, even when their parents and other older kids were unresponsive.

Teach your kids to rely on themselves, even when "people who'll tell them what to do if they're not sure" are unavailable. ...Because they may not always be available.

scientia-rex

Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.

Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?

Me: I am going to eat you

scientia-rex

lololol "does too"

does it? not for women after childbirth

does it? not if you want to see an effect size of greater than 1 kilo (2.2lbs)

does it? not if you'd like to see a maintained loss greater than 3.3% of your body weight

does it? not for people with type 2 diabetes

does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.

I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords "weight loss" and "exercise," and I'm tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I'm right, and you need to adjust your worldview--ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It's good for your blood vessels, it's good for your strength, it's good for your brain.

But it won't make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that's about it. If you're looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight--but the effort will almost always result in your body going "oh shit, we're living in a famine" and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.

scientia-rex

#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?

Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.

elfwreck

Regular exercise helps your general health. Builds muscle. Reduces your heart rate. Keeps your body generally fit and flexible. Often, reduces stress because it gives you time to focus on something other than whatever was stressing you.

Eating good veggies helps digestion, your skin health, emotional balance, and has plenty of other benefits.

Exercise and eating green leafy vegetables have very minimal effects on weight. The biggest effects are on people who gained weight because of a debilitating condition - exercise and diet can help them get back to the shape that's their body's natural condition with their normal metabolism. Usually not quite to where they were before - bodies try very hard to hold on to mass after illness or injuries - but bodies also want to find their normal equilibrium.

Exercise will not turn a fat person into a skinny person. It has plenty of health benefits; "being skinny" is not a health benefit.

Repeat: "Being skinny" is not an indicator of health.

And occasionally I share this one around again:

A few years ago I was getting a pap smear. The doctor—whom I had just met that morning—had me in those cold metal stirrups and was rooting a

sugarkat

They did that thing on TikTok again, except this one guy did the arrangement

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capricorn-0mnikorn

This got me teary-eyed. This encapsulates all that is best about humanity:

The urge to make art

The capacity to be moved by art

The way we can make friends out of strangers

The willingness of those former strangers to help when asked

While adding their own individual creativity to the mix

All with the goal of supporting the artist

This is what it's all about man, you dig?

sithholocron-deactivated2012090

spockglocksrocks

sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet

cameoappearance

i’d reblog this even if it was a still image

derinthescarletpescatarian

I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?

cameoappearance

Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?

loreweaver

literally everyone

elfwreck

Everyone. No, really… everyone.

For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.

For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.

For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.

For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them.

For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.

For new RenFaire workers: Here’s how to pronounce “zounds.”