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I am known as the Amorphous One, and this is a place for mass panic disguised as boredom. Also, probably cute and interesting things on occasion. Maybe, if I'm really bored, some art and writing stuff. Sometimes, people call me Richard. It's kinda insulting, but I don't care.

[vodcar]

country gnomes,

take my bones

[cryptidfuckery]

to a place,

they don't belong

[annabellioncourt]

see shit like this is the reason that it’s so hard to turn my back on this website. Where else, pray tell, are you going to find this kind of quality nonsense.

[druggeddraccus]

west virginia

[grichl88]

Knowing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was initially inspired by a road in Maryland has really kinda sucked the majesty out of the song. I still love it, but I often wish I could've seen what Danoff and Nivert saw because these days the area that inspired them is way over-developed.

[pietriarchy]

[asexualgeorgecostanza-deactivat]

[joey-wheeler-official]

[piss-bong]

[canopycapers-deactivated2022111]

[schmendrick-lamar-deactivated20]

[journeymanfool]

[dowereallyneedthis]

[favoritefightingfrenchgoth]

[disorderfaking-deactivated20200]

[guerrillatech]

[mornington-the-crescent]

[grichl88]

This is how I know I'm not a real programmer. Although, I also don't trust any app and whenever somebody expects software to work I just laugh derisively.

[prokopetz]

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

They like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

[ithelpstodream]

[rururinchan]

I found sources. 

The word “man” was gender neutral and referred to both sexes until the 13th century

The female specific pronoun “she” was invented in the 12th century. 

The word “girl” was gender neutral and referred to children of both sexes until the 15th century

High heels were invented for men and were worn predominantly by men until the 16th century

From the mid 16th century to the 19th century boys would typically wear dresses until the age of 7

Until the early 1930s pink was considered the appropriate colour for baby boys and blue was the colour for baby girls

In 2017, a Christian couple pull their 6yo son out of a primary school because his classmate is transgender - citing their “traditional beliefs”  IMPORTANT NOTE: Last source is transphobic and from a pro-life website that attempts to defend the dumb ass couple. Feel free to ignore it if you prefer, but it was included for the sake of accuracy. 

[randomishnickname]

Reblogging because verifiable sources make every information 70% better. Thanks for the addition!

[emt-monster]

Please reblog if you know anyone who might take party drugs.

[smeliot-deactivated20220528]

this is so important

[arkhamarchitecture]

Also important information: A cop cannot arrest you for something you already took. You can tell a cop to his face that you just injected black tar heroin in your veins and as long as you don’t currently have any on you (including things like syringes or residue in a pipe), there’s fuck all he can do about it.

I take police reports for a living. The number of people who will happily tell someone “Well officer, this fight started because I smoked crack cocaine earlier,” is astounding and also not at all illegal. The criminal charge is for Possession of a Controlled Substance. If you don’t possess any at the time, there’s no crime. The only thing you can get dinged for is if you’re actively on a drug and driving, in which case - DUI.

Please, please, please tell EMTs what you took. They’re not going to rat you out to the cops and even if they did, you will still be okay.

[kenderfriend]

Spreading the word, being honest with paramedics and doctors can save your life

[ruby-white-rabbit]

So i went on a date to a haunted house and made friends with the girls behind us. As we’re going through, one of them is holding my hand and a guy leaps out and separates us. I panic as my date is pulling me along, I reach back for her and grab her hand in a group of three other performers and start getting out if there. After a bit I look back to check on her and I discover I’m holding the hand of a six foot tall zombie creature and not a 5'2" girl.

Cue the most terrifying realization of my life.

I had basically kidnapped this performer from his section and abandoned the girl and her friend behind us.

[ruby-white-rabbit]

Yes, I screamed. My date thought it was Hilarious.

Yes, we found the girls. Turns out when I grabbed the performers hand, he grabbed theirs so our group wouldn’t be separated. So there was just this zombie in the middle of our group line for like fifty feet

[kyuubinu-deactivated20190226]

This is like a Scooby Doo bit I love it

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

Mark Zuckerberg lost $119 Billion dollars on the stock market today (7/26/18). This is the largest loss of wealth in a single day in modern stock history.

This will literally not change his lifestyle or effect his livelihood at all. He is still a multi-billionaire.

If I worked every single day, for the rest of my life, at $15/hr - which is more than twice the national minimum wage - I would never make even 1/1000th the amount of just the money that Zuckerberg lost today.

If I worked every single day, for the entirety of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed (200,000 years) - at $15/hr - I would still not make one tenth of the amount of just the money he lost today.

And he is still a billionaire and will lose literally zero luxury or well-being from what happened today.

You want to know how absolutely grotesque modern wealth inequality is?

There you go.

[grichl88]

Yes, but it's stock. He wouldn't lose anything anyway. At the worst, you lose what you put in. Stock is almost meaningless, unless you take incredible risks, have a commanding investment in a company, or get very lucky. And then you still either need to have nothing to your name and no way to earn money, or you need to sell stocks to use anything you make.

[babyboomerbullshit]

whyyyyy do we need cursive anywayyyy

[reading-wanderer]

Most people don’t even use cursive for signatures. Eventually, they all just dissolve into squiggles.

Plus Some people’s cursive can be pretty unreadable even when they do put in the effort.

[atreefullofstars]

Oh noooooooo, society is chaaaaaaanging, what will we dooooooo~???

[pom-seedss]

I was taught cursive, told I would need it in high school when we started writing essays.

Teachers didn’t accept anything in cursive. By the end of highschool teachers were not accepting hand-written essays and everything had to be typed. Though, they assured me cursive would probably be a thing in university because you have to write essays in class sometimes too and wouldn’t have access to computer to type it up.

In university, we were warned, that cursive can be a faster method of writing, but harder to make legible when writing quickly. We were warned if the professor couldn’t easily and quickly tell what we were saying, it would count as not having written anything. This included in-class exam essays on a time limit. So no one used cursive.

So while I was constantly being assured that cursive would be very useful when I grew up, it only became increasingly obsolete.

Why would we continue to teach obsolete skills? Why waste the time?

That being said… kids are exposed to a lot of different fonts… some of which are cursive. I think they can figure it out.

[polycube-deactivated20220309]

cursive is more of an art form than it is a way of life now a days and i appreciate the beauty of the script but its not practical unless you can do it really well and quickly for anything school related tbh.

[girlwhobringshay]

Apparently younger historians are having issues because they can no longer read first person accounts. Imagine getting your hands on letters written by Jesuit Missionaries in modern day Quebec in the 1600s. You’d be stoked, until you realized it was all written in cursive and you need someone to “translate” it for you. (This is a very specific example because the only recent history class I took was Early Canadian History in uni in 2009 and a lot of students couldn’t read the primary sources)

I’ve worked as a teacher and we avoided teaching the kids cursive (it was ESL in Japan, they had a hard enough time grasping lower and upper case letters), but I’d make cursive worksheets if the kids asked for it. And they loved those worksheets even though (or maybe because?) no grading was involved. They said it looked beautiful and encouraged them to learn more.

I work in an office now, and recently got rid of 90% of our paper files and made them digitally accessible. If I couldn’t read the cursive of the people who had worked in that office years before me, I wouldn’t have been able to properly identify the correct places to store and tag each enrollment form and application. I would have had to have help from someone most of the way to “translate” the cursive.

When I am listening to someone and taking notes, I use cursive because moving my hand helps me retain information better. It’s faster too. I can’t take notes in print because it’s time consuming and distracting. With cursive I see blocks of words and they don’t move around the page as much (thanks dyslexia). When I’m writing notes for other people, I write in print. When I’m writing for myself, I use cursive.

Does that mean you have to like cursive? Of course not! But it served a purpose for most of the English language’s history.

History = the period of human existence in which we record our experiences in the written form*.

Pre-history = the period of human existence in which we didn’t record our experiences in written form*.

*what constitutes “writing” is hotly debated, but let’s say; hieroglyphs = writing, stick figure horses on a cave wall alongside hand prints = not writing

Cursive can be beautiful and fun. It can help you see things differently. It can actually improve your reading if print just doesn’t work as well for you.

No, I don’t have my font setting set to this.

Writing in cursive isn’t nearly as useful as it used to be, and forcing it on people is stupid. But I think it should always be available to learn because you never know when it will come in handy. I’ve needed cursive more than I’ve needed anything I learned in math classes after algebra, that’s for damn sure.

[grichl88]

I think most of what we learn in elementary school and even middle school is largely useless to the majority of people. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not worth learning about, but I think a realistic representation of its purpose is necessary so that kids don't have the impression that they can't excel at anything in the future based on the inability to grasp or do something correctly. Although, I do think language is still extremely important.

[paperstorm]

Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x

[redhead4eyes]

Welp

[grichl88]

Also 2nd Amendment talks about MILITIAs. We have these things called the MILITIA ACTS. Those Acts define what a militia is.

[skullxcrusher-deactivated201501]

nostalgia is a liar. nothing was ever as good as you remember it to be. there’s a reason you don’t talk to that person anymore, there’s a reason you’re not part of each other’s lives. don’t trust nostalgia. grieve. reflect. move on.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Incorrect.  Batman Beyond was as good as I remember it.

[galexy-astra]

LET 👏 RETAIL 👏 EMPLOYEES 👏 SIT 👏

[the-real-skye]

The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.

The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers.  No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it. 

Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this

Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.

Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters. 

It stops this…

Then the employees have to do this

[journeymanfool]

Aldi’s is so great. They also usually give really big reusable bags instead of multiple tiny plastic ones

[grichl88]

Meanwhile, office workers are trying to stand more often. The savings at Aldis are really impressive too. Reminds me of Trader Joe's...

[pr1nceshawn]

What You Say About Mental Illness vs What You Actually Mean.

[mao-tenno]

Fuck. How is College Humour this on point?

[thelastenvoyyy]

They should make more of these!

[prettycakemachine]

Eggs Benedict is really showing that catnip mouse who’s boss.

I recommend unmuting.

[babyanimalgifs]

[elliehopaunt-deactivated2025073]

worth watching for the end

[heavymodelheavymodel]

[paininmyassachusetts]

Imagine being the one guy to show up to a KKK meeting who isn’t a fed

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

I just imagine no one realizes the other guys are feds and everyone’s trying to be over-the-top racist to fit in so no one realizes they’re a fed, and everyone’s wondering if the one actual KKK guy is the one other fed since he’s not racist enough

[paininmyassachusetts]

You got the ATF there, the FBI, the CIA, all sorts of alphabets, and in walks Billy Joe from down the road.

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

I want a tv show about this

[pennsylvanian-patriot-deactivat]

I just remembered this greentext

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

I was thinking about this story

[grichl88]

This is an incredibly human story.