we're really not that different, me and you

The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies or talents or gifts and we try to hide it because we're afraid that it makes us seem weird or it will turn people off, but that's a mistake. What makes me unique has brought every person I love into my life. ~Ned, Pushing Daisies

[justsomeantifas]

netflix: we don’t have commercials so how do we get that sweet ad revenue

the duffer brothers: lets just make the show the commercial

[catchymemes]

[gahdamnpunk]

Someone call the manager

[kawuli]

For any random billionaires who want to buy back a portion of their soul by fixing (part of) the world, I would like to suggest starting a Research and Development Fund for Boring Shit.

- Agricultural statistics are terrible–everyone uses FAO data, everyone bitches about how the FAO data is wrong, but it’s the only data available. Ditto for pretty much all statistical data in countries that don’t have well-funded national statistics programs (and for many who do). Figure out how to fix this. It’s hard to solve problems if you can’t even measure them.

- Low cost, low maintenance rural/peri-urban electrification and water infrastructure. NOT “let’s invent a clever new thing.” There’s 1001 of those already. Make a fund that villages can apply to or something. Make it super easy to apply: “I want x number of solar panels and y metres of electrical cable.” Okay! Here’s $1000 (or whatever, but that’s the order of magnitude we’re talking about), go electrify your village! Don’t know what you need? Let’s put you in touch with someone who already did the thing, they can give you advice. Monitoring: buy a guy a motorbike, pay him to go fill out a checklist: “did they do the thing? how many houses have light bulbs now?” What if people just bribe the checklist guy? Pay him decently, make it cheaper to admit you fucked up than to bribe someone to lie for you, and you’ll get a lot less lying!

Do that for 5 years. Assess the hopefully thousands of projects you’ve funded. See what you learn.

- train nurses. train vet techs. train teachers. train extension workers. fund literacy programs. build roads. sure, the government should do it, but guess what? that doesn’t actually matter. 

Think SMALL. Hire people who know the area they’re working in. Give them lots of flexibility and minimal paperwork. Fund a bunch of shit and see what works where–because no, whatever GiveWell et al. claim, we don’t know all that well, see my first point in re statistics. Care less about efficiency and more about giving people chances to try stuff out. Don’t just SAY you do this. Actually do it.

There’s lots* of donors who want to fund “innovative” “evidence-based” programs that claim they’re going to Fix The Whole World Sustainably through Empowerment Gender-Aware Climate-Smart Capacity-Building Self-Sustaining Development Goals Success Revolution. And that’s fine! We need those too.

(*relatively)

But let’s have some more organizations that will fund boring shit that’ll probably work, or at least not fuck up too badly.

[hvitserkk]

Old, forgotten gods in a land without gods.

[shashabusiness]

American Gods season 2 ~ March 10

[trix-witch]

Hot take but sign language should be taught in schools as a language option and all cinemas should provide subtitles on all their movie screenings

[evermore-fashion]

Elie Saab “Charms Of China” Fall 2019 Haute Couture Collection [x]

[dearest1]

does anyone else imagine a scenario so vividly that you begin to make facial expressions or gestures to go with it??

[passthatdutchbymissyelliott-dea]

my biggest insecurity is that i cant cartwheel. what do i do when im full with glee? just fuckin stand there, it haunts me everyday

[bulbiedorf]

The only people to blame for children under the age of 10 having “addictions” to smart phones, tablets, and technology in general is the parents. I don’t want to hear people complain about their 4 year old knowing how to play with the settings on their ipad. You put the iPad in your kid’s life. You gave a 4 year old their own ipad. They learned to use it. You did that. It’s your fault. Don’t blame kid’s for poor parenting, incompetence, and laziness when it comes to raising children.

[pipistrellus]

Hey you know that really disturbing thing where you yawn and your salivary gland shoots a concentrated spray of saliva out of one of its horrid nozzles like you’re a venom spitting snake for some godawful reason

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

What are your thoughts on Steve being able to wield mjolnir? I’m not a ‘worthy steve’ believer.

mjolnir got confused cause it sensed steve kicked 2012 steve’s ass and went ‘whoever punched that stuck up hoe deserves to lift me tbh’

[pajamaslam-deactivated20190101]

the switch from ‘a girl worth fighting for’ to coming upon the decimated village in mulan is THE MOST kick-in-the-teeth mood change IN ALL OF CINEMA

[furikomaru-deactivated20190920]

That scene shift did more for our generation’s understanding of the horror of war in ten seconds than Game of Thrones did in eight seasons, and it did it without showing us a single dead body. 

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Remember when they subtly but clearly told us a little girl had been murdered?

[norseminuteman]

It’s almost like you actually don’t need to depict graphic murder, rape, and torture to elicit a serious and emotional response from your audience. 

[sirobvious]

Avoid video games that use extrinsic motivation. A video game should at least mostly rely on intrinsic motivation, meaning that the playing of the game itself is the fun part, not the reward you get for playing the game. If you don’t enjoy the gameplay, but you want to earn lootboxes, you’ve fallen into the intentionally exploitative system operating within so many games nowadays, and you need to find another game, because you’re not having fun.

It doesn’t sound serious, but this kind of thing can make depression way worse if you’ve already got depression.

[smitethestate]

This post got me to stop playing Overwatch and I’m eternally grateful.

[note-a-bear]

That’s also a core difference between a game trying to exploit the human brain’s tendency toward gambling addiction and a game that exists to entertain.

Like, it may sound like I’m reaching, but op described (pretty closely) the operation of gambling addictions. It’s also why the depression aspect is so real. You’re feeling a withdrawal, of a sort, when you can’t play the game.

[the-unlucky-thirteen]

Have I already told the person this thing? Have I only thought about telling them? Have I only dreamt about telling them? Or am I going to tell them and find out I already told them 3 times before?

[spitblaze]

[saddest-faery-gothmother]

*snort*