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i wonder how many of y'all realize you can just walk up to a person and declare that they are your lil guy, and most people will just go along with it.

(okay you have to have like, some relationship w them like, yk, going to school together or working together but S T I L L)

i kinda wish people would be more comfortable realizing they don't know shit about how stuff works and why they are the way they are

i'm stupid so like

i didn't

learn from me

your politics are dogshit and uninformed. as are mine. so is that guy's. just say "idk why they did that" and mean it earnestly because, over the last year or so, i've learned just how much is a shrug and saying "we don't have access to the information which would allow us to know why X thing happened."

so i've been collecting cool words and i wanna share:)

Pelagic - relating to the sea

Glib - (of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow

Steeplejack - someone who climbs high to repair steeples/chimneys

Yawp - scream or yell hoarsely or harshly

Somnolent - sleepy or drowsy

Stingling - To be incapacitated/stunned by a prickling or stinging sensation - tingling waves through the brain that cause a momentary stunning effect, often due to a drug such as antidepressants or stimulants.

Abatement - the ending, reduction, or lessening of something.

Supplicant - someone who supplicates;

Supplicate - Beseech, humbly/earnestly request/petition

butte - an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top (similar to but narrower than a mesa).

Callow - (usually in a disapproving manner) immature, someone without experience, “green”

Succor - something that you do or give to help someone who is suffering or in a difficult situation.

laminar -

(of a flow) taking place along constant streamlines; not turbulent.

Consisting of thin layers, plates, or scales of sedimentary rock, organic tissue, or other material. (Ie, of a composite, the layers that make up the structure rather than the surrounding matrix that binds it) (known as laminae)

oppidum - a large fortified town (Celtics association)

inspirator - one that inspires

commiserate - express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize.

Fertive: attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive; Guilty; Nervousness

Tenebrous: dark; shadowy or obscure.

bodacious

Remarkable; impressive; audacious; gutsy

Sexually attractive. Used chiefly of women.

Incorrigible

Incapable of being corrected or reformed; Firmly rooted; ineradicable

Difficult or impossible to control or manage.

assuage - satiate thirst or make something less burdensome

Slate - satiate thirst, to satisfy a craving, to lessen or moderate a force or intensity

Wherewithal

The ability and means required to accomplish some task. The necessary means (especially financial means).

(adverb) In what way; how

Demense

Possession and use of one's own land.

Manorial land retained for the private use of a feudal lord.

The grounds belonging to a mansion or country house.

adroit

Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft. synonym: dexterous.

Similar: dexterous Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts.

Dexterous, deft or skillful.

vacillation

Unsteadiness of purpose; changeableness.

Indecision in speech or action.

Changing location by moving back and forth.

Stave

A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure. One of the wooden planks in a stave wall. A rung of a ladder or chair. A staff or cudgel. A set of verses; a stanza.

To crush or smash inward, often by making a hole.

To keep or hold off; repel.

gossamer

A fine film of cobwebs that is often seen floating in the air or is caught on bushes or grass.

Something that is light, delicate, or sheer, such as fabric.

A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.

palaver

Talk; Idle chatter.

Talk intended to charm or beguile; talk intended to deceive; flattery

A negotiation or discussion concerning matters in dispute, especially in the traditional cultures of West Africa.

In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.

my least favorite modern myth is that knowing current events from the internet conversation or short form content about it makes you a "more informed voter"

bitch youre injecting propaganda directly into your veins, do you really think THAT is what "more informed" looks like?

prokopetz

The closer to the modern era you get the more fascinating "lost at sea" becomes as a backstory element. Being lost at sea in 1612 is a downright normal kind of lost to be. Being lost at sea in 2012 is like, okay, back up – I need to hear this one.

prokopetz

Like, come on, man.

iwilleatyourcookies

Kiribati has a wildly cool flag. Like, in my top 10 of national flags :)

Also, if you want to know why the US Coast Guard: The Marshall Islands are in the Compact of Free Association (essentially, limited imperialism but with continuous consent) with the US.

Yes, it is a cnc kink but for imperialism. Yes, that would be a weird sentence if i hadn't said it before.

i feel like people who are commenting on the insanity of the 2020s should just choose a decade after about 1800 and just fuckin dig in to the human side of it. Find recordings and letters and papers written by people of the time talking about how they feel about the world. or event the wikipedia page on the decade.

because like

i think most of it just comes down to 24hr news, us being young, and recency bias.

even the 90s were a wild time, and that was just about the most peaceful era full of international cooperation and minimal political decisiveness within the west.

im-literally-so-dun

Me because I got to witness a major historic event but it was a Good One for once

iwilleatyourcookies

fun fact!: most of the things we consider major historical events today will become trivia footnotes no one has heard of in a century.

Bet most of y'all have never heard of the Crimean War (1853-56)

Bet most of y'all have never heard of the Suez Crisis (1956)

Bet most of y'all haven't ever heard of the First Indochina War and the Fall of Dien-Bien Phu (1954)

Or actually, just look at how wild the 1950s were. Those events shaped the world. They were era defining. They were arguably more terrifying than the ones we have going on today. They massively impact you in ways you don't even know.

But they're... forgotten.

No one is going to remember these events like we do.

This is why I love learning history.

but the point isn't that these events aren't important, it is that you - just like every other human ever - are a repository of the things that have happened during your lifetime. And your knowledge will soon be forgotten.

But also, the humility of knowing that none of these events we care so deeply for and feel so suffocating while living through them will probably become an obscure trivia fact in a human lifetime.

and i just think that's neat :)

for fat acceptance campaigns, i feel like they've strayed too far into "but being fat isn't bad!" territory. which like. is fine. but you aren't going to convince many new people like that

you know what will convince people?

saying that having one bad trait doesn't make you worthless or evil.

that'll resonate with a lot more people :)

#yes i am just summarizing my last posts #shush

iwilleatyourcookies

i don't understand why this isn't said at all when discussing the topic but

the reason western society tends to look down upon fat people is really, really basic as i understand it.

Food is abundant, therefore, you always have enough food

Fatness is a symptom of overindulgence/gluttony

Not being fat is a symptom of self control and self care (again, broadly)

Society values self control and taking care of your body. Society absconds overindulgence(gluttony)/inactivity ("slothful"). Both of these are directly related to being fat.

In choosing mates, animals select for the ones who appear the healthiest. Humans are animals, we have a general idea of what "healthy weight" looks like, and we select for that because we associate that with "healthy."

And to be very clear, these are all extremely generalized ideas that aren't all inclusive. For example, not everyone has enough food. Not everyone who is fat is overindulging or glutenous. People who are skinny aren't necessarily healthy. etc etc etc

iwilleatyourcookies

Oh! But the point um

These are cultural associations. And it is going to be impossible to rip fatness from these cultural associations and values because... well, if we are being totally honest, the association is broadly correct.

A lot of fat acceptance campaigns try to focus on that bit. The focus is on "broadly but not always! See! Example! Also, look, being skinny isn't necessarily good!" but that won't convince anyone. Everyone implicitly knows it isn't always true. Everyone also implicitly knows that overly skinny is bad.

You may get some ground if you campaign on the grounds of (put way more diplomatically and kindly) that a character flaw doesn't make you a bad person. As in, having negative traits doesn't invalidate your worth.

And the ones which go on that route seem much more able to sway people.

iwilleatyourcookies

rounding a few things out:

The point of this is to give advice on how society views fatness so that you can tailor your campaigns better :)

Yes, I references the cultural nono's in terms of Christian sins. To be very clear, these ideas predate Christianity and exist well outside Christianity. The sins are just the easiest way to describe them.

I'm not saying you are a bad person or flawed for being fat. I am just saying this is how society views fatness, therefore, the best way to frame it is to say that it a flaw doesn't make you worthless or less valuable because we all have flaws. Essentially:

Arguing against the premise of fat = bad isn't going to work. Argue against the conclusion that 1 bad trait = bad person.

iwilleatyourcookies

i don't understand why this isn't said at all when discussing the topic but

the reason western society tends to look down upon fat people is really, really basic as i understand it.

Food is abundant, therefore, you always have enough food

Fatness is a symptom of overindulgence/gluttony

Not being fat is a symptom of self control and self care (again, broadly)

Society values self control and taking care of your body. Society absconds overindulgence(gluttony)/inactivity ("slothful"). Both of these are directly related to being fat.

iwilleatyourcookies

Oh! But the point um

And the ones which go on that route seem much more able to sway people.

i don't understand why this isn't said at all when discussing the topic but

the reason western society tends to look down upon fat people is really, really basic as i understand it.

Food is abundant, therefore, you always have enough food

Fatness is a symptom of overindulgence/gluttony

Not being fat is a symptom of self control and self care (again, broadly)

Society values self control and taking care of your body. Society absconds overindulgence(gluttony)/inactivity ("slothful"). Both of these are directly related to being fat.

i think it is moderately interesting that we as a society can recognize "white supremacy is bad" (largely) but then turn around and act like other forms of racial supremacy are "not as bad."

like ah yes, evil 1 and evil 2. evil 2 is obviously less bad, so it is okay now :)

NO THEY'RE BOTH FUCKING EVIL DUDE JUST SAY THAT???

WHY ARE YOU COMPARING THEM????

fucking lesser of two evils conundrum completely unprompted and without any benefit

disclaimer: i spent my day learning about the nation of islam and how fucking insane it is, yet how many people were just like "nah it's chill."

its also clearly a cult. so.

mylove-thresher

i don’t post a lot ab these sorts of thoughts on tumblr but dawggg I am so so so tired of all these issues in the world. I think that this is a very serious important post of mine and it won’t be the usual stupid stuff I say so fair warning

So many things are happing in the world. Many many cruel things. My family in Cuba is suffering from the shit ass government and the deplorable state of the country. Food is infested with vermin the government is elitist and there is barely anything. My grandma broke her hip a month ago or so and only recently was she able to get surgery with our help and money. Even then, she has no painkillers to deal with the excruciating pain that stops her from even sleeping. When I still lived there with my parents, they had to bike across the country or send out my grandpa to find milk, compotes and meat because there was barely any for my family and I to eat, at least some that wasn’t full of waste and chemicals. My grandpa even had to buy meat illegally at some point. Recently, there was a total shutdown of electricity in my country. So many cold foods that were barely preserved by the cheap fridges that barely got any electricity already got ruined. Families lost contact with each other. Many patients in hospitals died from lack of oxygen. And yet the family I have in Cuba could almost be considered fortunate in the current situation of the world.

There’s a bunch of wars in West Asia and Africa with so many people dying because grown ass men decided to be clowns. Palestinians are being executed for being Palestinians. I’m pretty sure they dropped 160 bombs in 10 minutes in Iran today or yesterday. There were many kids stuck under the debris. There were many people with a bright future ahead who died with those bombs. There were many parents killed by soldiers. Children are scavenging for scraps to eat and dirty water to drink. Let’s not forget about RDC, Rwanda, Sudan, etc. In the Caraïbes along with Cuba and other islands, Haiti is in shambles. The crime rate is insane. One of my friend’s dad died from a heart failure because he was terrified when he heard a gunshot in the middle of the night near his house there. USA is still sending people to camps because they weren’t born white or don’t identify as cishet. Recently many minorities have been killed in cold blood or have been discriminated against. Latin America in general is going through the usual Latin America shit I won’t even begin to dive into it because these problems have been here for long long years now.

There’s definitely a lot more issues than the ones I just mentioned in plenty of other places in the world but I can’t handle this junk. It’s so heartbreaking when I go on Twitter and see so many people mourning their dead relatives that they lost in a war that decided to include them without a warning. At the same time it’s infuriating to see so many morons (especially white people) fighting over whose country is better or righter and making jokes of the these serious situations. I can’t believe how you can be proud of your country for its heinous crimes or make light of the pain it is causing. As unrealistic as it is in 2026 i hope that people can get together and stop this nonsense in a non peaceful way. There’s no peace in these wars to begin with. I’ve seen a handful of peaceful protests (American ones usually) and it’s all a bunch of bullshit. Quit using your free time on weekends for them. Stand in the middle of the road with a bunch of other people on weekdays. Interrupt the economy that is trying to kill you by trying to kill the shit governments in the world in return. don’t know anymore!!! I’m not an adult yet and I feel far from becoming one no matter how close in age I am to it. Everything is happening around me and everyone else and it feels like there’s no way to stop it. But there has! To be a way! There has to be a way!!! To cease this madness!!! Kill all these people who think that they can toy around with death and rip innocent people apart!!! I can only beg people to shout this sort of stuff on any and every website and app.

I know saying this won’t immediately make everything stop happening, but eventually everyone’s pleas will stack up to a heavy pressure. Maybe you’ll be the final vote that will sway a decision. Maybe you’ll be the loudest voice to be heard. I feel insignificant putting this out here on tumblr because I’m just a random person behind a screen, but I know I should still put this out here anyway because I deeply care about this. Please do so too!!!

iwilleatyourcookies

It's not bad to be mad. That's how you affect the world and change it. Be angry.

But it is good to understand why things are happening so that you know what to be mad at ^-^

Like... bad things don't happen because "Grown men decided to be clowns." It's um... it's slightly worse than that.

tldr "The Bargaining Model of War." War is costly, it is always better to negotiate, but there are things that get in the way (frictions!)

If you want wars to not happen, you kinda... have to remove those frictions. Ironically, protesting the war can cause the war to be more likely to continue because the opponent will see that, decide that they have a better position in the future as the protests continue, and ask for more. Meanwhile, your government may believe that it isn't detrimental. Which is right? Who know. So, war continues.

Or, they can remove frictions as it provides information. That information may clear up uncertainty, and thus, war stops. But protesting is usually just going to move the expected outcome for both sides. Moving the expected outcome of both sides doesn't resolve the problem of both sides not having similar expected outcomes. Like, if you think the outcome is X and I think it is Y and X << Y, then X-6 << Y-6 too.

You can't kill the people making these choices and expect them to not happen anymore. Because they are fundamental parts of how the vague category of "stuff" works. You kinda have to realign incentives. Because we as humans act in accordance with incentives. Luckily! You probably live in a democracy! Incentives are aligned inherently with your opinion :D unfortunately, again, that doesn't change the math of war happening.

But the really unfortunate thing? The only thing we can do that would increase human suffering is getting rid of these governments. Because getting rid of governments is getting rid of stability. No stability means logistics collapses. Logistics collapsing means mass starvation, no electricity, no water, no heat, etc.

so it is a shitty ass trolley problem designed to piss us all off.

I know it isn't really cathartic or in line with why you posted this. And it probably won't help. But i do want to encourage people to be less... extreme because most of the time, the extreme ideas come from a place of just not knowing why. And not knowing why because no one has ever done a halfway decent job of explaining it would piss anyone off.

Protest things like the government being incompetent. Or solvable problems. Or like... how something works. Convince people through understanding and learning how to code language in a nonpartisan way. Code your language to fit the person. Try to learn what is going on and the fundamentals of why. Be the change you wanna see in the world. Just go forward understanding you probably know extremely little and you could accidentally make things worse. But you can't sit down for 30 years to master the subjects.

tim-kellaway

Doomsday could be today...

@everyone The U.S. Navy has deployed the E-6B Mercury—a "Doomsday plane" designed for nuclear command and control—to the Middle East amid regional tensions. This aircraft serves as a flying command post, ensuring communication with nuclear-armed submarines and land-based ICBMs if ground command centers are destroyed….

so be prepared for the worst… this lunatic might just crack this planet in two….

iwilleatyourcookies

I'm trying to avoid doing this but

this is what happens when someone who knows jack shit decides they know something.

Okay, firstly, kind of on the E-6B. Its mission is broader than that but you are just looking at the wikipedia summary so whatever. But it is both for strategic and non-strategic forces. In other words, it does command and control (C2) missions. Yippee

Secondly, every article I could find cited it being sent there in early March. Specifically, March 06. This implies that they probably wanted a C2 asset in the region which could easily communicate with submarines and relay transmissions for... stuff.

In other words:

No. Not today. Over a month ago. Before the war began.

Thirdly, this implies nothing about what anyone may do. This is because the purpose of this aircraft is to... you know... provide C2. Its job. So, it shows the US needs C2 in the region. Which means they need to move stuff around. On March 06, that was important because usually that implies combat operations. In April, it is just a footnote because yeah no shit the US needs C2 during active hostilities. Even during a "ceasefire" you need C2 assets.

Fourthly, the US has literally no reason to nuke Iran. There would be not a single benefit and a helluva lot of drawbacks. In other words, unless you believe that the president is somehow incapable of thinking and has absolute control over everything, lolno. And btw, as much as we joke, neither of those things are even remotely true when we are being serious. I just feel the need to clarify. Jokey =/= reality.

Fifthly, even if there were benefits to it and the US decided to drop a nuke, that doesn't mean doomsday. It means a lot of problems, yes. You completely upend the way the world works overnight and break the nuclear taboo. It may lead to a nuclear exchange in the future as a cascading effect. But in the present, no one would nuke the US in response to the US nuking Iran. That's not how that works. Because, say, Russia would end up getting nuked in return. Hence, MAD. Other countries, such as China, would end up having a lot more luck using it as propaganda to get what they want rather than ending human civilization for funzies.

Jesus Christ people, just use those two braincells competing for third place. It isn't hard.

feralratbitesu

self indulgence

iwilleatyourcookies

do you ever see art and that just feels like fetish art but don't dare to even begin to comprehend what the fetish is or could be?

it's like eldritch horror but for sex

so minor problem

i realized i was saying the exact same things about ai that my grandpa says about the internet

and

and i know he's wrong about the internet

and i think of the socrates "kids these days and their tablets" and how he hated writing for very similar reasons and i just

i don't think im wrong about ai

but

my grandpa doesn't think he's wrong about the internet

and socrates didn't think he was wrong about writing

and to be clear this is outside of like the corporate bs of ai it's the concept of using llms mostly

so i have kinda just concluded that i don't know and hope to break the cycle or something

teaboot

Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

teaboot

(Average Metropolis reader after investigative reporter C. Kent's 452nd article on yet another case of landlords/business owners/factories' continued use of lead pipes/paint/gas/glass knowingly exposing the public to dangerously toxic lead levels) what the fuck happened to this guy

teaboot

One day Bruce Wayne mentions in an interview that heroes like Superman are overrated, as the most effective way to reduce crime is to provide public resources and improve local infrastructure, then cites how neighboring city Metropolis has effectively lowered their violent crime by 13% after addressing their outdated water system and investing low income housing. the reporter conducting the interview suddenly starts looking a little uncomfortable

teaboot

To be clear, Clark is still a fantastic investigative reporter. He still has to track down the sources to prove all this shit

teaboot

"Who, Clark Kent? Yeah, we're pretty sure he's a Meta. Is he a superhero? Like what, "Lead-detector guy"? "Captain pipes?" Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and it's a handy trick, but it's lead detection, not laser vision. He's not about to go running around in tights any time soon."

sindri42

I just love the idea of a cape maintaining their secret identity by pretending to be a completely different and less impressive kind of parahuman.

roach-works

everyone assumes that kent is so squirrely around superheros because he’s just desperately hoping not to be conscripted to the JLA to fix their plumbing

teaboot

Local Metropolis Reporter Publically Recognized For Contributions To The City; Awarded Medal Of Distinction