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[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[introvertsnation]

[dogpuppy]

He is my princess diana

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

[sociallyawkwardrevolution]

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

[liquidstar]

My brother in arms and my sister in legs

[doubleca5t]

imo one of the funniest genres of dude is the ones who post shit on social media like "in 2024 I don't have time for fake friends" "so many people trying to betray you and stab you in the back, can't trust anyone but yourself" "I got a lot of enemies, a lot of people praying on my downfall" and then they work at like the mall or something like bro what kind of life are you leading there cannot be that many people out to get you

[doubleca5t]

upon further reflection the type of guy I was trying to describe here is just drake fans

[doubleca5t]

[depsidase]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

#my mom's first apartment after the divorce with my dad was $600 in 2018#now my wife and I are paying more than that to live WITH HER PARENTS in 2026#and grateful that that's such a relief compared to if we were out on our own#I swear to god I've watched rent prices triple since I graduated high school#and I'm still made to feel like there's something wrong with ME for still being at home

I paid $400 a month for a decent place in 2016. Four hundred of God's own dollars. Now I pay more than triple that to live in a literal tenement like a Charles Dickens character.

[catgirltitties]

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[junglejim4322]

I can’t believe I just looked at the notes on a post dubai and saw not a few but many people talking about their family members taking vacations to Dubai wtaf is the median class background on this website if you’re talking about your family taking vacations to dubai you should be donating to somebody every single day im not even joking

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

whoever said diamonds are a girl's best friend clearly has never met ibuprofen

[luimnigh]

Actually literally accurate. The song originates in the 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, while ibuprofen was invented in 1961.

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[cryingprussian]

"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

[zebulontheplanet]

I love when people say that using a wheelchair must save me from the exhaustion of walking. And it does to an extent, but it still makes me exhausted as well.

Using a wheelchair isn’t a one size fits all. Like yeah, some people use it for fatigue and it helps them a lot, but I use a wheelchair because I literally have too and I can’t really walk well anymore.

Wheelchair doesnt equal not being exhausted for a lot of people. Even for power wheelchair people, it can still be very exhausting.

[girlsadist]

masturbate 5 times a day, smoke a cigarette whenever u feel like it, take a shot as soon as you wake up, walk 7.8 miles every day, have sex on holy ground, eat 4 figs every single day and sleep 15 hours.

[enki2]

[lesbianbettyboop]

not to sound like a crazy sjw but parents putting little girls in frilly dresses/lavish clothes and telling them not to run, climb, play in dirt, etc lest they ruin their outfits or somebody look up their skirts is one of the most direct ways we as a society teach girls that they are only ornamental and cut their childhoods short