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You know how modern society takes the effects of vaccines for granted and doesn't understand how bad diseases are? That's how zoomers are with cigarettes.

rainbowgod666

2019 ass post but at least you're correct

thebreakfastgenie

I mean I was also saying the same thing in 2019 and I'll keep saying it until the youth take big tobacco's carcinogenic boot out of their mouth.

phaeton-flier

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

phaeton-flier

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

theaudientvoid

centrally-unplanned

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

theabigailthorn

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

#bears

deepdwellingsteamboat

#pretty much what he said (insp.)

#SHRARCHER TRUTH #ent

We adopted a new cat! Angel (to go with our BTVS pet theme), 8 months old, and a master of lurking in the shadows. 😅 He is quarantined in our game room currently (a refinished garage), but every day we find him hiding in a new place... including behind the fridge & on a window shelf which are both only accessible by parkouring eight feet up, under the couch (classic)... and inside the washing machine (we have since secured that area 😬).

...… our other cat Drusilla is a) such a clumsy ground cat who sometimes fails even at jumping onto the bed and b) is too much of an attention whore to hide from possible human interaction (even when we first got her) that it didn't occur to us to catproof the place lol. Training for baby proofing one day??

#he is so little and hard to see #jazzy cat #honestly with Dru's personality we should have named her Cordelia

fangorn-forest

summer sufferers poll: would you rather have…

the ability to repel all bugs so they can’t touch/bite/sting you

the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside

no chafing ever again

Remaining time: 3 days 7 hours

digitaldiscipline

Freaks, geeks, and assorted weirdos - if you're on SSRIs, you definitely want item 2, as those will fuck with your heat sensitivity.

#I would like my perspiration to have the intended effect #instead of baking myself in oppressive dampness #hashtag Southern problems #a dry heat IS very different #also bug spray is less miserable on dry skin #instead of yet another gross layer of slickness

paksthestoic

star trek voyager characters on Open Mic Night in the mess hall.

Tom Paris: organized it. roped people into it. claims the first slot. spends his five minutes telling jokes like “I just flew in from the New Zealand penal colony and boy are my arms tired!!”. polite chuckles all around because he leans into telling awful jokes.

Harry Kim: technically perfect jokes delivered with too much nervous laughter until tom starts heckling and suddenly his five minutes is all crowd work

Tuvok: Tom did not expect him to agree, but Tuvok delivers a series of deadpan riddles and knock knock jokes to devastating effect. runaway success of the evening.

Chakotay: was NOT going to participate until the captain teased him about stage fright. observational humor, the type of person to pick someone out of the crowd and deliver his material directly to them.

Neelix: a TIGHT five entirely on leola root. stuns the crew with his self-awareness, makes them all wonder if he’s been inflicting Leola root on them for the Laughs this whole time

B’elanna Torres: does alright until tom also decides to heckle her. she throws the mic at him, chaos ensues, she does not complete her five minutes.

Seven: her jokes themselves are not funny. What gets people is when she informs them they may proceed to laughter. Similar to Harry in that they are technically perfect jokes. Some nervous chuckles, most people are relieved when she leaves the stage.

Kathryn Janeway: has been having a Good Time watching her staff do this, very alarmed when Chakotay says turnabout is fair play and she ought to get up on stage. no structured jokes, tells anecdotes from childhood/the academy that get laughs because for some reason people on her ship think she is straight laced and she’s always been That Reckless. Probably leaned up against a lectern or piano or something with a glass in her hand like Frank Sinatra the whole time.

The Doctor: demanded to “save the best for last”, absolutely distraught when people start yawning and getting up to head out. his fault for turning his five minutes into fifteen on the history of the commedia dell’arte style of improvisational theater

#voy #LOL

thebeeshaveknees

Quark can't say Fuck because Fuck is a valid ferengi name and he doesn't know what cousin Fuck did to the hu-mons that they say his name with such vitriol but Quark is proud of him for it

#ds9 #lmao *nodding along*

riioio

idek why but i cant stop thinking about the ferengis as bugs rn...

this started cause i was looking at photos of rom and he was reminding me of a silly beetle.. and thus my ferengi bug hcs are as follows!:

Rom - COCKCHAFER BEETLE

Quark - i always associate him with grubs/slugs cause.. he's Him... but in reality he would absolutely be a jewel beetle

Nog - ladybug!

(BONUS!)

Brunt - stinkbug

Ishka - butterfly (SPECIFICALLY indian leafwing butterflies)

Pel - hmm grasshopper or katydid perhaps.... court is still out on that one

((if anyone has better ideas on this incredibly specific and irrelevant topic, do let me know..!))

#awww cute!!!#what do you think for zek op?#ds9 #ferengi

people on forums polling for baby shower themes..... our theme will be "baby"?? and also "eating bbq in a park".... I guess this is how other people feel about themed weddings LOL

#jazzy baby

We've been planning out my Kira maternity cosplay, and it's become prescient. apparently pregnancy can make you more sensitive to allergens around this time, and every goddamn morning I wake before my alarm sneezing 🤧🤧. how very Bajoran of me

#jazzy baby #allergy meds are on the doc-approved list but they have been USELESS

tragicwaif

Supernatural is a tv show for peoples who are very sick,

#literally i could only watch it with half my brain at a time #which meant either actually literally sick or working out (a type of sickness)#spn

uberfluss

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

#💕💪👏📣🪄#magic strength support love #yep it's gonna be prego girl summer 😛

twiststreet

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

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#oh for sure this totally checks out #my best fic ideas come during a nice long walk!

thread-bare-theoretician

ok actually cordelia is such a badass from day 1.

it's s1 and they're surrounded by vamps. what's her response?

she saves jenny and willow and crashes her car into the school, no hesitation, drives straight through to the library. barely five mins later she's biting a vamp and asking him how he likes it 😂. pleasee

#YESSss fav #i loved her from the start #btvs