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I'll always think about Andrew's state of mind when Neil broke into his room, by picking the frickin' lock, and yelled at Kevin in French

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twitter saying everything im thinking rn

bensolosbluesaber

I am a teacher in the US.

I can barricade a classroom in less than a minute. I know that when the fire alarm goes off we lock ourselves in the room until someone confirms it's real so we don't get shot evacuating the building. I am trained to pack a bullet wound and apply a tourniquet. My classroom is organized with an active shooter in mind - filing cabinets in front of glass, big desks one shove away from blocking a door, hiding places out of sight of the windows. I have come to terms with the knowledge that I might die protecting my students when all I want to do is show them poetry is fun and teach creative writing.

heedra

not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

headspace-hotel

I agree with the idea of reducing meat consumption and making sure animals that become or produce food suffer as little as possible, I don't think I can agree with "eating animals is always wrong and unethical, eating plants and fungi has no such ethical problems" because like...plants and fungi also die. What happens when you uproot a carrot is also death

There isn't actually a hard boundary where all animals are conscious in a way that all plants or other organisms aren't. We've learned recently that many plants actively respond to their environment, Boquila trifoliata can see. Slime molds are capable of learning.

we don't really understand consciousness, it's possible that consciousness isn't necessarily limited to a single individual organism. Bryozoans are colonial animals made up of many tiny individuals, but they spread neural impulses throughout their colonies that coordinate their feeding tentacles and even allow some colonies to crawl autonomously. Bryozoan colonies can move or grow toward light and respond defensively to threats from other organisms. it is possible that creatures very unlike us are "aware" of their surroundings in some way

We don't really know how pain works in humans. You know how people say things like "the only thing you enjoy is dopamine and serotonin?" We know we have receptors for pain, but we don't know how the subjective experience of pain is generated from those receptors.

Living without causing the death of any other thing is not really possible, so we have to have a more complex/nuanced view than "death is bad for category A, but okay for category B"

Does a dying tree know that it is dying? Does this matter as long as it can feel whatever dying feels like for a tree?

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gUYS I DID A THING AFTER 398382827 YEARS

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Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for