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vibevendor

this is so stupid but i felt extremely inspired by those felt banners @middlenamemothman made

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milk of magnesia with universal indicator + HCL

thatsthat24

Science Rules

shitsuren-chama

das gay

bonkalore

do you like the color of the sky?

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chocolatefrcg

Meet UFO Head! She’s out of this world!

sucboy-deactivated20200423

Yes I have a nightly routine it’s called being Insane in my room till I pass out

whatamicrobiallife

I do this thing called “committee meeting.” It’s a really fun game. So to start, you need to find someone commenting on a scientific post on some social media app (I use TikTok). This person has to come off incredibly arrogant as if they know science, but their comment should show that they know nothing (for example: people saying masks don’t work or anti-vaxxers). Once you find this comment, committee meeting starts. These people clearly think they know their stuff, right? Well, let’s interrogate them as if they were a PhD student and you were their committee member. Start asking questions like “are you 100% sure on your opinion?” Begin presenting real facts and then proceed to ask “well have you heard of this?” If they make a glaringly obvious mistake, go ahead and go “really? You mean COVID-19 IS the flu? The COVID-19 whose in a different phylum from influenza? You sure?”

From my experience, this leads to 2 outcomes: 1) they stop replying after getting overwhelmed and 2) they delete all their comments after getting overwhelmed. I feel bad when they get overwhelmed, but if you’re going to act like a scientist in the comments, then you’ll be treated like a scientist.

Now... what’s the point of committee meeting? Does it change their minds? Most of the time, no. My hope is that they never use that argument again, but I don’t think they’ll suddenly wear masks or get vaccines. The point is to prevent someone else from believing the anti-masker or anti-vaxxer’s comment. I don’t want them to exist in their own vacuum spewing lies. I want to present truths and point out the flaws in their logic, so people reading the comments won’t fall for their flawed reasoning. And from the likes I’ve gotten from my committee meeting comments, I think it’s worked.

Tip: Don’t call the person you’re debating names or insult them directly.

Note: You don’t have to argue with strangers on the internet. It’s stressful and annoying. I enjoy debating people. Don’t feel obligated to do this if you don’t enjoy debating people and it’ll cause you undue stress.

abessive-art

Funny guys. Fungi. Afungus.

inahiddenplace

I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go

alexundefined

It gets destroyed by adults not believing in you and telling you to pick a realistic career. And by society creating all these obstacles to the point that you’re too tired to try.

thechargrey

But they’re not really unrealistic, SOMEBODY is going to be an olympic swimmer and it might as well be you.

thechargrey

Actually I want to talk about this a little more than I did, because olympic swimming is incredible and works perfectly to talk about attaining goals.

I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. I’ve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion.

And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didn’t have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.

Right, that’s great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when they’re 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom.

And then at 33 years old she decides she’s bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck I’m 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.

And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.

So basically what I’m saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.

And lets say olympic swimming isn’t your jam? That’s cool too. There isn’t a single skill in this world that you can’t learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because you’re not allowed to be, but there’s a reason for that). Whatever you want to do you’re probably going to be bad at first, and I’m talking really shitty.

Van Gogh got started in his 20′s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah you’ll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think you’re bad. If you stick with it though, if you’re willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain it’s given you,

then you might just paint Starry Night.

ooksaidthelibrarian

#looks like there’s still time for me to learn how to draw … YES. As someone who started drawing at 35 and who always was like: ‘eh, I can’t draw a stick figure to save my life, but I would love to be able to’ this is near and dear to my heart. If you want to draw, start drawing. Keep drawing. Be shit at drawing at first. Keep it up, doodle things on scraps but also draw stuff you don’t think you can draw. Challenge yourself, you will be surprised what you can do. It will be frustrating at times, but it will also be awesome. It is SO much a matter of practice and dedication, not talent.

arialerendeair

This applies for writing, too.

Don’t ever think for a second that it doesn’t! Want to start writing? Then write! You will get better the more you write, the more often, and you will improve, all of the time, as long as you dedicate yourself.