God's Mr. Bean

Beetle - 28 - they/she/e - ele/ela Barely glued together Junk Drawer of what could have been, tied at the handle and pulled along by what might be.

[emerald-dragonflame]

I had a vision

[onrtrp]

[skluug]

[infectiouspiss]

watching my boyfriend play tomodachi life and the first thing he does is make dan and phil. the second thing he does is make tommy tallarico.

[infectiouspiss]

[shamebats]

I think it's linguistically very interesting that Americans have come up with phrases like "I don't believe in [X thing or concept that very much exists]" and "[something/someone] makes me uncomfortable", the former betrays a very belief-centered mindset where material reality doesn't matter (the sentence "I don't believe in vaccines" should not make sense, it's like saying you don't believe in lamps, but what it really means is that they personally don't like/agree with it) and the latter phrase for example can't even be translated properly into my native language afaik. In Slovene you can say that you are uncomfortable, but you can't just fully make it about someone/something else. You can feel uncomfortable, a conversation can be uncomfortable (adjective), but your feeling of discomfort is yours, nobody is making you feel that way.

Which might not sound like a big deal but there's a huge difference between admitting that you're uncomfortable in the presence of large dogs VS saying that large dogs actively make you uncomfortable. Like they're not doing anything, the large dogs are just there, you're the one who's feeling uncomfortable, it's an emotion you are feeling.

Another American phrase I have a issue with is "I feel like" when you're expressing an opinion. Why are you saying "feel" when "think" is right there? If I had to guess, I'd say that you don't want to take full ownership of what you're saying. Thoughts and opinions are seen as more open to criticism than feelings.

I think it's all pretty telling. Also, the worst part is that it's spreading to other languages too. We have to actively resist the influence of the American mindset.

[shamebats]

I don't think Americans realize how odd it is to put that much weight on feelings, and to speak as if you have no agency over them.

"I feel like this is true" to me means you're admitting you have no idea. Feelings are an internal process happening only in your own brain, they're as subjective and irrational as you can get. So when I hear Americans say things like "this is my truth", they just sound like they're detached from reality and not a all concerned with being factual.

[shamebats]

If you're a teacher and you tell the class that 2+2 equals 4, and a student says "I don't feel like that's true", there's nowhere you can go from there... You can't have a conversation about material reality with someone who can just pull out that phrase and protect themselves from having to think too hard about anything. That's not a sentence that should make sense. Unless you've internalized a culture that knocked knowledge off of its pedastal and replaced it with feelings.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

I think it’s beautiful when what you loved doing when you were 6 finds you again when you’re in your 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s or

[goth-queen]

[cognitohazardous]

[catchymemes]

[gh0st-patr0l]

Btw I loooove starting a post like "also" "by the way" "and another thing" when there was fully no conversation or preceding thought. U will experience my posts en media res

[clair-deluneee]

i be like “it is what it is” and almost vomit from anxiety

[dogpuppy]

Confirmed. Paul is no longer among the living.

[bugs-are-buddies]

(via entomemeology)

[texasfartsupply]

reminds me of this unfortunate text exchange between my father and me

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

I'm trying a new productivity hack 💪 where when I have things that are stressing me out 😳 , instead of not doing them 🚫, I do them 💯

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Working great so far! 😊

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Problem! 😮 More things! 😭

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

she makes Mii so excited I'm gonna Wii my pants

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[libraflyter]

Note: after the end of Roe v Wade in the US, the maternal mortality rate (and the infant mortality rate) are showing clear increases in the states with the strictest anti-abortion laws.

Forcing people to carry high risk or non viable pregnancies to term kills.

[cikero]

girl how could someone have died 2100 years ago

ok

[star-funeral-under-the-sea]