Approaching Middle Age

Philosophy Teacher

[theactioneer]

Future Hunters (Cirio H. Santiago, 1986)

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[json-derulo]

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[cloudyfacewithjam]

[despazito]

Another one for "objectively funny crimes should not be punished"

[stuckinapril]

I’ve been thinking a lot ab this

[red-berin]

Kyle Gordon's back

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[abigailspinach]

[ryebreadgf]

something something the poetry of science etc

[ryebreadgf]

woah

[dramaticwriter]

yeah

[fairycosmos]

i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

[durnesque-esque]

Fun fact: they've done studies and money DOES buy happiness, but it tops out after a certain amount (nowadays around $500,000)

So yeah, having food / bills / medicine & a fair amount of leisure covered by income DOES buy happiness, but excess wealth depletes the effect exponentially.

[goldencordcoaching]

Another way of putting this is that money doesn't buy happiness, but relief from financial worries ABSOLUTELY buys happiness, and there is a dollar value on that.

[ihadnointentiontoblog]

I prefer to think happiness is not something you can buy, rather, it has the capacity to cause immense pain through it's inequitable and random distribution.

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[ihadnointentiontoblog]

The True Story of Haitian Zombies (Insights from an Insider) · Visit Haiti

Discover how the unique Haitian zombie mythology, was shaped by deep-rooted beliefs and the trauma of slavery. Click to learn more!

[probuccalfat]

50 cent was lowkey the most important man in my household growing up like it went 50 cent then jesus christ

[probuccalfat]

i vividly remember my parents arguing once and my mom yelled “you’re not even half the man 50 is” then my dad slammed a door and left. these people raised me

[cunt-force-therapy]

Jesus had 5 wounds and 50 cent has 8. I know who suffered more for the sins of humanity

[probuccalfat]

i’m pretty certain that’s the exact thing my mom said that got me formally asked not to come back to youth group on wednesdays

[ihadnointentiontoblog]

Patron Saint of Hating and Pettiness

[chels]

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Daniel Craig is not fucking around

[beautifulbisexualqueen]

Absolutely love Daniel Craig going off in this!!

[diomdes]

me, as i force a dollar bill into the self-checkout machine: thats right…..good boy……vore president washington

[diomdes]

im begging all of you to stop reblogging th is

[stripedturtlenecksweater]

Your actions have consequences

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Nature Documentary: these deep sea creatures can withstand crushing pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch!

Me: they’re not withstanding a goddamn thing. The pressure is a part of them. Their interiors and exteriors are equalized. Just because your respiratory system is built around a pair of fragile poppable bubbles-

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You don’t know me