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it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

buying og re3 for 5 bucks feels surreal

harpsi-corpse

The cards see all.

catchymemes

mariakono

Man i feel really bad for the guy who wrote this article because the article actually manages to raise a very very very good point but the way the headline is phrased completely omits 95% of what they were trying to say

And because i know people won’t even bother to click and check the article itself i’m gonna screencap it, it’s fairly short, give it a read:

tl;dr: the article’s point isn’t “corporate satire is not funny anymore as in “we should stop making fun of corporations””, the article’s point is “corporate satire is not funny as in “it’s extremely depressing to live in a capitalistic hellhole and corporate satire aims more to poke fun at that without actually making you think about our world or giving you hope for a better future, and therefore it’s just lost its bite””

aurelia-which-means-sunrise

Thanks for the screencap, I did try to read the article but the ads on that site were insane.

lakemojave

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

lakemojave

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

whumpster-fire

Despite being only around 40 lbs in weight, Velociraptor could grow to a length of about 6 feet from nose to tail. I think these length estimates are only based on the skeleton, so tail feathers would probably add additional length.

The average 3-seat sofa is around 7 feet wide.

Based on this information, if Velociraptors were to be successfully de-extincted and domesticated, it would result in a pet more efficient at blockading an entire couch for its body size than any modern domestic animal.

imagine dragons? sorry, i don't listen to music for perverts