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I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid
‘i saw your social cue but am ignoring it in the hopes you learn to use your words and communicate like an adult. hope this helps’
intentionally ignoring social cues in the hopes that someone will take that as you sending a cue for them to “communicate like an adult” is so fucking funny bro. social cues are a part of adult communication whether you like it or not.
body language and non-verbal social cues are an inherent part of hominid communication regardless of what language or culture you’re a part of. If your autism prevents you from reading social cues that’s unfortunate and people ideally should be sensitive and willing to accommodate that, but if you are able to read social cues and you’re willfully ignoring them because you think that they shouldn’t be used as tools of communication period, then you’re a a dipshit who’s intentionally making people uncomfortable for the sake of some fucked up ideology that any anthropologist or linguist or adept communicator will tell you is unserviceable to the human experience.
Please explain how being more upfront and less reliant on implicit cues does not also benefit or even harms neurotypicals.
I don’t need to. the basis of my argument is that body language and social cues are an inherent part of not only human communication but primate communication as a whole whether you like it or not. any linguistic anthropologist will tell you the same thing. It’s not about what is or isn’t the most beneficial route, although I don’t believe that eliminating nonverbal communication actually would be beneficial for most people.
verbal communication only makes up a tiny percentage of overall human communication, with some estimates putting it at under 10%. If you’re a functioning adult member of society the onus is on you to be able to pick up on social cues, even if it’s hard or if you’re only able to do it imperfectly, it’s a skill that you need to develop. I used to be horrible at it too, but I recognized its importance and I made an effort to look out for them and it has greatly improved my quality of life.
Indignantly expecting other people to acquiesce to my social preferences and deliberately ignoring people’s social cues because I want to force them to say what they’re trying to signal (which they often aren’t even doing deliberately, btw, body language is that innate that it’s rarely something people use consciously) is a form of manipulation and is just generally an asshole thing to do.
Social cues and non-verbal communication exist for a reason. Acting like we should deliberately try to phase it out in favour of everyone being vocally up front about whatever is on their mind is not only completely infeasible, but also just generally a horrible idea for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes saying what you’re thinking or feeling out loud is not always a safe option, or will make certain situations worse and it’s better to be subtle and tactful.
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This video has been getting AI accusations and it isn't! All these types of woods exist! Though some of them are local names, I was able to track all of them down! Here are all the woods shown in the video!
Purpleheart Wood: Peltogyne genus, native to Central and South American rainforests. Freshly cut it's light brown, then turns into rich shades of purple. It turns brown in UV light so it has to be finished with a UV inhibitor to keep those gorgeous colors.
Namnu (various): A type of precious wood found in China/South Asia, sourced from various different species of trees, hence the different examples shown here. High grades of the wood are known for the optical effect shown in the video. Unfortunately the types of trees that produce the wood are all critically endangered, which is why the examples shown are all items or pillars or fragments of pieces. The species are all strictly protected and new trees cannot be harvested.
That example in the video is just that one video that goes around with the inside of a tree that's been struck burning while it still stands, but sometimes trees that have been struck by lightning and are cut down can have neat burn patterns in the wood (example), as the lightning goes to ground, so some people might want that. Who am I to judge.
Chicken-blood vine wood: Species is Spatholobus suberectus and it's only that bright when it's cut, it dries to a more woody color. Here's a page with examples of what the wood looks like when it's dried and some things made with it.
Amber wood: This one took a while. There's a video out there claiming this is "petrified amber wood". That's not possible, I'm a geologist I would know. Since the video is in Chinese originally I presume, "amber wood" must be a translated local name. It's sandalwood, which has that gorgeous bright red color. Even tracked down the video the clip is taken from. "Chandan wood" is another name for sandalwood. Which smells amazing.
Rosewood: The most well known of the woods here in my opinion. There's a number of rosewoods, all in various shades of pinks and reds. True rosewoods are from the genus Dalbergia. Sadly they're all endangered, but illegal harvesting continues.
Purple hainan huanghuali: Dalbergia odorifera, the Chinese rosewood.
Pink oak - Likely pink ivory (Phyllogeiton zeyheri). You need a permit to cut down one of these trees, but it really is that pink. One of the most expensive woods in the world, up there with sandalwood.
Burmese huanghuali: Rosewood...3! This is either Dalbergia oliveri or Pterocarpus indicus, but given that Pterocarpus indicus is descripted as having purplish heartwood, I'm guessing it's Dalbergia oliveri. Though it's not a true rosewood, Pterocarpus indicus is also sadly endangered.
Liudao wood: This is Abelia biflora, though it looks like it has been reclassified as Zabelia biflora recently. Either it only looks like that when the bark is being peeled or it's the lighting in the videos. BUT this wood is used in making Buddhist prayer beads because of both its grain pattern connects to philosophy and its mention in Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Thank you for all that work!! I recognized some of the woods (since my siblings in law woodwork) but not all of them, and was going to look into them when I woke up, but you've gone and brought up all the treasure from the rabbit hole!
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i need to adopt this phrase into my vernacular immediately it has so much zaydie energy
my job in the comune will be to fuck your mom
mine is to make love to yours. step your game up.
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my father is a libertarian so nice try but he would never be “pro state”
Okay the WEIRDEST THING is going going down right now
So some guy in Michigan in the US has just found a letter in his grandmother’s house; it seems to be a pen pal letter from 1973ish, and it’s from a young Welsh girl. In it, she lists:
Her name, and the names of her brother (Gwynedd) and sister (Catrin)
Their ages
Where she lives in Wales (Denbigh)
Her hobbies, including horse riding and reading pony books.
So this American dude decides to take a photo, whack it on Twitter and ask the only Welsh person he knows if there’s any way to track this Welsh girl down, because you know, ALL WELSH PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER, OBVIOUSLY
Except
I am furious to report that it has worked
Welsh person he tags doesn’t know, but takes up the challenge. Someone reckons the Catrin might be a woman who translated a hymn book once, and checks the foreword to see that the dates and ages do seem to be about right. Someone else suddenly has a brainwave - wait, isn’t she the mother of Steff, the comedian?
My husband gets tagged, takes one look at this letter, and is like “That is 1000% my aunt.”
So now it’s 20 to midnight, Steff’s aunt has obviously not yet seen the excited message to put Twitter out of their misery, and my mother-in-law is currently on the phone gleefully telling us that when that letter was written her sister had never sat on a horse in her life before, and she’d lied to an American pen pal for clout before the internet even existed.
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A Welsh comedian, Elis James, does a radio show which has a segment called ‘Cymru Connections’ where another Welsh person calls into the show and he has 1 minute to question them about their life until he finds someone the both know. I’ve never seen him fail.
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