[dajo42]

no, mother... you should have read my supposed "school field trip" permission slip closer.... i foresaw your betrayal a mile away.... im afraid, mother, it is you who has been sold to one direction

[futuredocstring]

i think representation in media is actually really important because recently i fucked up my leg and wasn't able to walk for a while,so i got pretty depressed, and one of the only things that cheered me up was, as stupid as it sounds:

"maybe next month I could cosplay Viktor from Arcane!"

[transgenderer]

every criticism of effective altruism seems to value the lives of africans at ~0. its like arguments about vegetarianism but vastly crazier, because it's yknow. it's human children! theyre not even that far away! you could take a plane and go see them! EA matters, a lot!

[sequel2heaven]

The recent NY Post hit piece against effective altruism basically says it outright. Giving money to people who live in the third world "takes away building relationships with your neighbor, that impulse to give locally"

Lives saved in Africa are just abstract statistics, numbers, and caring about them makes you a nerd. Lives in the first world are real people, and if you withhold from them their chicken nuggets and opera houses you must hate human flourishing.

[caffeinatedmouse]

Mouse MD: the patient needs human bites to live

[self-loving-vampire]

One pitfall when trying to analyze fantasy settings based on real world history is ignoring all of the worldbuilding implications the magic has, and I notice some posts here are maybe a bit over-eager about sharing such information to the point where they fall into it.

For example, posts saying that fantasy settings where gender equality and queer people are normalized are unrealistic because in real life the child mortality rate was very high and etc.

Except they're talking about a story is not set in Real Life Medieval Europe but in a world with versatile healing magic made accessible even to the poor to some degree through church charity or government public health institutions, and even spells or magical items that can instantly and completely transition someone.

Or that one post that was going around about how expecting the demon army to surrender after the defeat of the demon king is "great man theory" but in pretty much all fantasy settings that have such a thing as a demon king he's usually a demigod who can legitimately solo armies, is physically near-invulnerable, and obliterate entire cities.

Killing the demon king in such a setting would be less like assassinating the president and more like erasing the enemy's nuclear weapons. It's actually credible that the balance of power might start to shift from there even ignoring the effects on morale.

If you ignore stuff like that you might actually be engaging with the setting less than the rationalist fanfic writers.

[self-loving-vampire]

It truly is like self-parody how self-described empaths constantly dehumanize people with low empathy and are fully incapable of understanding that perspective beyond some kind of ultra-sadistic caricature.

[futuredocstring]

I always suspect people who base their morals on empathy, because for them "I have no empathy for you" = "you are not human and your life is worthless", and there are usually quite a few groups they have no empathy for.

[bo-an-aro]

“sex/romance/empathy makes us human,” they say. awful. pathetic. what makes us human is the urge to set things on fire

[sullina]

you’re actually correct!

Cooking is the one thing that only humans do and can be directly linked to the increase in our brain size

[detrout]

Burning the mammoth flank just a lirtle instead of eating it raw gives grug more calorie to think. Grug thinking about color symbolism in silence of the lambs

[leveragehunters]

Behold, a (hu)man!

[kirkegarde]

The bird that torments Prometheus learned something

[shithowdy]

[self-loving-vampire]

It's still so incredibly twisted how if a woman doesn't wear makeup or has "masculine" interests (which is a stupid concept on its own) people not only attack her and assume she only does that to appeal to men* but also act like they're being feminist for doing so.

If anyone at all should be getting called a pickme I could at least understand if it was misogynistic tradwives or something, not just women who don't fit in with gender conformists.

*A lot of men seem to actually prefer it when women wear makeup and act "feminine" actually. That's the gender role that gets enforced.

[self-loving-vampire]

The level of gender essentialism you have to be on to jump to the conclusion that women who like things like sports or video games are just lying for the sake of attracting men and can't simply prefer that stuff to makeup and celebrity gossip is disgusting.

[self-loving-vampire]

I think we need to start recognizing that this whole sentiment is straightforwardly sexist.

Women who have "masculine" interests don't have all internalized misogyny. They don't need to be herded back into the "feminine" cage and start enjoying shit like astrology instead of video games.

[evilsoup]

straight line from this stuff to the tradwife movement imo

[self-loving-vampire]

In a shocking, completely unpredictable twist it was the tradwives who were performing for the sake of appealing to men. Always have been.

[self-loving-vampire]

Why are the girls gaming with their bros the ones getting hit with this label when the tradwive influencers are out there saying not having children by 30 is a sin and acting like this?

[good-fwiend-in-wome]

shoutout to flags that look like landscapes fr gotta be one of my favorite genders

[jonnystrebor]

Not to forget:

[homunculus-argument]

I enjoy experiencing surgery for the same reason I enjoy plane travel: I am not responsible for anything. As soon as I have stepped in and professionals have taken charge, I am in the hands of fate and my fate is in their hands. I have become cargo, the doer of jack shit. I am getting a good grade at being a faultless meat slab, something that is both normal to want, and possible to achieve.

[markovchaingang]

actually the chances of you getting any of the outcomes of rolling 2D20 are all highly unlikely (P<0.05) so statistically speaking you won't get any result at all for your attack roll

[sigmaleph]

the fact that you did get a result means we can reject the null hypothesis that the dice were fair and kick you out of the group for using loaded dice

[depsidase]

[sleepystrawberrybunny]

[tooies]

reblog and put in the tags what your childhood password that you just stuck with is!

[looseinthecatroom]

[freakoutgirl]

Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.

[futuredocstring]

I should fire the person in charge of my brain's soundtrack on account of them having 0 subtlety.

for example, why is the song 'fighting gold' stuck in my head now? oh, that's right, I saw that stupid 'tumblr gold' post about an hour ago, so gold + the syllables kinda match.

[brellstudiosart]

the obligatory trolley problem post

[deanwinchesterapologist]

just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

[callmemanatee]

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.