Dead-Optics

Which is basically blindness. I think you'll find there are many different kinds. Playing Professional Devil's Advocate since before you were born. Probably.

[scissor-lizard]

For those of you familiar with the ~Languages of Love~ mine and my fiancee’s are words of affection and physical touch. We work very well together. My fiancee’s parents’ only language of love is gifts. Expensive gifts. 

My fiancee naturally knows that these gifts are meant to translate into affection, and appreciates them properly. I, however, have trouble with this. I don’t need the gift. I don’t want the gift. I in no way shape or form ever indicated that I did. And now I have to profusely thank them for this expensive object I could never afford that is now sitting in my house taking up space. It’s like they want to “fill” our apartment and I don’t want that at all. 

My mother had a small hoarding problem, so I grew up in a fun, loving, but always messy and cluttered house and I don’t want to live like that. It took me years to get rid of all the crap I’d collected as a kid because I was never taught to get rid of anything. No, a washing machine or a panini press are not going to turn our sparse apartment into a hoarder’s nest, I understand that she is trying to be generous and I thank her for it but I wish she’d find another way to express it because it doesn’t translate well with me. Am I being too selfish?

[dead-optics]

Sooooo you don’t actually like it if I want to send you expensive chocolate?

[scissor-lizard]

Whoa there pal, let’s not jump to conclusions here

[dead-optics]

Good. I finally got a job so expect some in the near future.

[scissor-lizard]

For those of you familiar with the ~Languages of Love~ mine and my fiancee’s are words of affection and physical touch. We work very well together. My fiancee’s parents’ only language of love is gifts. Expensive gifts. 

My fiancee naturally knows that these gifts are meant to translate into affection, and appreciates them properly. I, however, have trouble with this. I don’t need the gift. I don’t want the gift. I in no way shape or form ever indicated that I did. And now I have to profusely thank them for this expensive object I could never afford that is now sitting in my house taking up space. It’s like they want to “fill” our apartment and I don’t want that at all. 

My mother had a small hoarding problem, so I grew up in a fun, loving, but always messy and cluttered house and I don’t want to live like that. It took me years to get rid of all the crap I’d collected as a kid because I was never taught to get rid of anything. No, a washing machine or a panini press are not going to turn our sparse apartment into a hoarder’s nest, I understand that she is trying to be generous and I thank her for it but I wish she’d find another way to express it because it doesn’t translate well with me. Am I being too selfish?

[dead-optics]

Sooooo you don’t actually like it if I want to send you expensive chocolate?

[just-shower-thoughts]

Good atheists deserve a place in heaven more than good religious people, because their good behaviour was never stimulated by any rewards.

[dead-optics]

What if I told you that the Atheists’ good behaviour was also stimulated by rewards? The only difference is that these rewards don’t manifest after death in some pleasant sounding afterlife.

In that sense, if everyone is only about getting rewarded for their behaviour, Atheists and Religious really aren’t that different at all.

[dead-optics]

[scissor-lizard]

[scissor-lizard]

@dead-optics again, thank you for this hideous gem. It’s surprisingly accurate when thrown at another human, it is serving me well. I approve.

[dead-optics]

You’re very welcome!

[dead-optics]

As Tumblr’s value heads to zero, a look at where it ranks among Yahoo’s 5 worst acquisition deals

When it comes to acquisitions, Yahoo has a long and illustrious record of overpaying for companies and then running them into the ground.

I did not know Yahoo owned Tumblr. I suppose that means this site is less popular than I thought it was.

[mahakavi]

I hate alcohol culture and I especially hate when my friends are caught up in it. I hate that drinking is seen as a rite of passage, and I hate that turning 21 in the US means you have to publicly declare and prove that you love alcohol by making terrible decisions all day and night. I hate that it changes people, and I’m not talking about the drinks themselves but all the lead up to it and the aftermath. I hate that getting “shit faced” is an actual goal and not even for a vague sense of enjoyment but rather as a notch on your belt because you haven’t lived until you’ve gotten drunk…or some shit like that. I hate how alcohol manages to amplify all your worst qualities. I especially hate alcohol in the hands of men, for whom it is yet another tool (or excuse) to be violent and predatory. I just really hate the culture surrounding alcohol.

[dead-optics]

Interesting thought exercise: Replace every noun/verb involving alcohol with sex. Or pot. Or literally anything else at least mildly popular in pop culture.

[dead-optics]

Should probably point this out:

If you google “Iowa caucus results 2016”, the top four candidates are Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson.

4 out of 3 of these are non-white.

Ted Cruz is of Latino descent.

Marco Rubio is of Cuban descent.

Ben Carson is of African American descent.

Trump is white. (Just in case you were wondering.)

Now, if you add Cruz, Rubio, and Carson’s votes together, you’ll find that 60% OF REPUBLICAN IOWANS CAUCUSED FOR NON-WHITE CANDIDATES.

60%

OF >>REPUBLICAN<< IOWANS.

CAUCUSED FOR NON-WHITE CANDIDATES.

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS???

[dead-optics]

But The Associated Press learned seven email chains are being withheld in full from the Friday release because they contain information deemed to be "top secret."

Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has insisted she never sent or received information on her personal email account that was classified at the time. 

Hold on a tick... If Clinton never sent or received information on her personal email account that was classified at the time... Then why are those seven email chains being withheld?

If information is deemed unclassified, then shouldn’t it stay unclassified?

If information is deemed unclassified, then it makes zero sense to reclassify it, right?

If those seven email chains are being withheld from the public... that means the information the chains contain was classified the whole time... right?

[dead-optics]

Doctors can report some mentally ill patients to FBI under new gun control rule

The new rule will be part of the Obama administration's gun package.

While the 1993 Brady law prohibits gun ownership by individuals who have been involuntarily committed, found incompetent to stand trial or otherwise deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or others, federal health care privacy rules prohibited doctors and other providers from sharing information without the consent of their patients.

Under the rule, which takes effect next month, for the first time health providers can disclose the information to the background check system without legal repercussions.

Even if you haven’t done a single illegal thing in your life.

I guess the Obama administration views pretty much all of the mentally ill who fall under this law’s stipulations as a ticking time bomb.

[o-dellbeckham-deactivated202101]

[goldnpoc]

💀💀💀💀💀

[donoharm777]

no offense but fuck you Macy I’ll literally knock your lights out sis

[discipleofkreia]

JUST BECAUSE SHE GOT SURGERY TO LOOK LIKE A PUERTO RICAN WOMAN DONT MAKE HER ONE

[scissor-lizard]

Well if you mix several beautiful paint colors together you get a disgusting blob of putrid brown sooooo she’s not wrong

[dead-optics]

Hold on... Caitlyn “Bruce” Jenner can undergo surgery to become a woman... and people regard her as such. But Kylie Jenner undergoes surgery to become Latino and that somehow doesn’t count?

Why not?

I mean... if Caitlyn Jenner can do it, why can’t Kylie do it?

If Kylie’s surgery is somehow illegitimate, doesn’t that render basically every other surgery of this kind illegitimate as well?

I’m confused, Tumblr. :c

[dead-optics]

U.S. report warns of ISIS creating fake passports - CNNPolitics.com

A new intelligence report shared with law enforcement warns of ISIS' ability to create passports utilizing seized Syrian government assets.

Didn’t somebody say something about a “robust” vetting process?

[brainbubblegum]

Babby Jesus- World’s first metal-head?

[dead-optics]

Joseph has cat ears in the fourth pic. You’re welcome.

[dead-optics]

Now There's Video=> Jimmy Carter Bans Iranian Immigrants from US, Deported Students During Hostage Crisis - The Gateway Pundit

The liberal media and Republican Party elites erupted this week after Donald Trump announced his plan to ban Muslim immigrants ...

I mean... why not?

[dead-optics]

Racism vs Statistics

So you’ve got two neighborhoods. A predominately white ‘hood, and a predominately black ‘hood.

Let’s say, statistically, crime is more likely to happen in the black ‘hood. Is it racist for a given police force to patrol the black ‘hood more often than the white ‘hood? If crime is statistically more likely to happen in the black ‘hood, are the police racist to dedicate their resources where the crime is more likely to happen?

Alternatively, what if crime is statistically more likely in the white ‘hood? Is it racist for a given police force to patrol the white ‘hood more often than the black ‘hood? If crime is statistically more likely in the white ‘hood, are the police racist to dedicate their resources where the crime is more likely to happen?

Are the police racist if they dedicate their resources where crime is more likely to happen?

Is math racist if the statistics say that a minority is more likely to commit crime?

is math racist if the statistics say that a majority is more likely to commit crime?

[dead-optics]

U.S. Code of Law Regarding Trump’s Recent “Anti-Muslim” Statement:

8 U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens (f)Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

Welp. I guess Trump isn’t proposing to break the Law.

Does that mean that the Law is racist?

[scissor-lizard]

Is white boy logic an actual thing or is it some kind of joke meme thing that I missed somewhere down the line?

I wish I could chalk it up to another Tumblr culture meme, but it’s an actual thing that has been observed by countless people, myself included. It’s basically the flow of a mindset shaped by entitlement because of their race and their gender, and ignorance because of their age/lack of experience/complete lack of empathy. Usually these individuals are English-speaking. 

Of course it doesn’t apply to all white boys, but it does seem to be something that more often they have to unlearn rather than learn. “White boy logic” embraces ideas such as: the double-standard of acceptable male sexuality being different than the somehow scandalous female sexuality, the idea that women are either sluts or prudes and neither deserve respect for their choices, that women who are nice to them are either interested in them or leading them on in some kind of sick female mind game, bring into existence the fictional “friend-zone” and the parasitic “nice guy syndrome,” and general lack of human respect and false sense of “fair play.”

For example, in hs I started texting a classmate that I thought was sweet, but after a month I decided he wasn’t for me and politely explained that I’d rather be friends. He was angry that I “led him on.” The idea that I “led him on” heavily implies that I had shortchanged him, that I had failed to give him something he expected, that I owed him something in return for his time. But I never promised him anything, and I owed him nothing. The idea that I did was classic “white boy logic.”

[dead-optics]

That’s very interesting. Isn’t it inherently racist to label that as “white boy logic” though? I mean, labeling a train of thought that leads to unsavory actions that literally anyone could think and do a “white male” action sounds kind of exclusive and maybe a little hurtful?

What if a black person uses “white boy logic”?

What if a not boy uses “white boy logic”?

What is this train of thought called if anyone other than a white boy uses it?

Is it possible for anyone other than a white boy to use this logic? If not, isn’t that both racist and sexist?

Why not just label these unsavory thoughts and actions as “that person is being a selfish jerkbag” instead of implying an entire skin shade and entire set of genitals is at fault?

Why do people even have to drag skin shades and genitals into this if everyone can potentially perform this “white boy logic”?