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I! Am! So! Depressed!

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My academic career is hanging in the balance and this is how you reply

I think it’s really weird that the average person needs a home and a car and an education to effectively function at all in a capitalist society but those things are all such an exorbitantly high price that the average person would never ever be able to pay for them one lump sum and thus we decided that upon entering adulthood every average person would likely have to sign their life away to various powerful banks to pay for these things and everyone was just like “Ok, that seems legit and not fucked up AT ALL.” and now it’s such an accepted and normalized part of society that everyone looks at you like you’re dumb for thinking it’s weird. I just think it’s really fucking weird.

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Money shapes perception, down to the millisecond.

One of the most powerful examples comes from Michael Varnum, a neuroscientist at Arizona State University. In a 2015 paper on empathy, he and his colleagues recruited 58 participants for a brain-imaging study: First, the participants filled out a self-report on their social class (level of parents’ education, family income, and the like) before sitting down for an EEG session. In the brain-imaging task, participants were shown neutral and pained faces while they were told to look for something else (the faces were a “distractor,” in the psych argot, so hopefully the participants wouldn’t know they were being tested for empathy).

In something of a dark irony, the respondents of higher socioeconomic status rated themselves as more empathic — a “better-than-average effect” that Varnum followed up on in a separate study — when in reality the opposite was true. The results “show that people who are higher in socioeconomic status have diminished neural responses to others’ pain,” the authors write. “These findings suggest that empathy, at least some early component of it, is reduced among those who are higher in status.”

one of my clients got reunified with her kid a while ago and her case closed and over the weekend someone accidentally drove over her kid with their car and killed him.

i keep thinking about people close to me dying or me dying and i’ll just start crying

my job is getting to be more and more emotionally taxing and idk maybe this will help

#personal

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Twin Peaks

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Ken Price

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bill nye: gender/sexuality/attraction they’re all spectrums me, who already knew this:

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Danielle Brooks for People: World’s Most Beautiful Issue, 2017

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Time Destroyer

feelin’ a lil blue

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A tenacious lover and his reticent boyfriend are forced to push the limits of their long distance relationship.

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For the night crew!!

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The next trailer is dropping in late May