Justrught

OCD, compassion and empathy + evidence based best practices. Investigating life, love, humor and what it means to "do good".

[thelatestkate]

[athirdgenesis]

"An old professor of mine had this great thing. He said "On the level of individuals and civilization, personality predates ideology." Meaning that before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole." -Brennan Lee Mulligan in conversation with Amy Vorpahl, Adventuring Academy S1E2

[apoemaday]

Instead of Depression

by Andrea Gibson

try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don’t even dream. It’s okay if you can’t imagine Spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave.

[justrught]

[mapsontheweb]

The Largest Community in Each Time Zone on New Year’s Day.

by u/ConsistentAmount4

[liberalsarecool]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[smbc-comics]

[theconcealedweapon]

Literally no exaggeration.

[astrodidact]

[artsyolivia]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[aphony-cree]

This made me think of all the “rules of etiquette” that my parents and grandparents generation always tried to drill into us but when we asked “why?” all they could answer was “because it’s polite”

So I looked up how these rules got started

-Don’t wear a hat inside: Medieval knights were more vulnerable if they removed their helmets. Because of this, removing it in a church or in the presence of royalty felt like a respectful act of humility. It’s rude to wear a hat indoors because 1500 years ago some soldiers wanted to show God and King that they trusted them not to stab them in the head

-Don’t put your elbows on the table: In the middle ages European royalty didn’t have dining tables in their banquet halls, they used a long board balanced on trestles and covered it with a table cloth. If you leaned on the table it would unbalance and topple. People are still telling kids not to put their elbows on the table because 1500 years ago some nobles didn’t want to be embarrassed by knocking over a make-shift table and ruining a feast

-Men should pull out a woman’s chair for her: There were several periods in Western history when fashion for high society women was so restrictive that they literally couldn’t bend over when dressed for dinner. Men are told it’s polite to pull out a woman’s chair because women used to have to wear clothing that made it impossible to do that herself

[aquilacalvitium]

So some dipshits decided to do a thing 1500 years ago and more modern day dipshits decided to keep that ball rolling

[gaybrofart-deactivated20240505]

Oof, wait till you learn about religion?!

[redrola]

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

[mysharona1987]

[internettythings]

[tparadox]

Input the year you graduated and the state you grew up in and it generates a list of “facts” you were taught that were already disproven when you read them in your textbook.

[feministism]