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Falling asleep to Grey's Anatomy and waking up in the middle of the musical episode, not knowing what the fuck is going on:

Then, Callie:

#greys anatomy #meredith grey #callie torres #mark sloan #derek shepherd #alex karev #arizona robbins

doggosource

The best thing about dogs is you can act like something really good just happened and they’ll instantly start celebrating too they have no idea what the context is, they’re just always ready to party no matter what

mintytrifecta

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can you please elaborate on this

shortgremlinman

hey uhhhhhh OP. im begging you. tell us more

literary-squagon-deactivated202

OP this is gonna keep me up at night

mintytrifecta

DNCJSJSJDJSJ OKAY SO

Donald’s family is composed of three branches. The McDuck Clan, Coot kin and the Duck family.

Coots are smaller birds that often get mistaken for ducks and while Coot can be used as a last name like how Duck or Mouse are common last names in the duckverse (like Johnson or Smith etc) I doubt that Barks and Rosa went out of their way to give them a last name without it having some biological meaning as well.

Donald’s dad, Quackmore Duck, is the son of Elvira Coot and Humperdink Duck. Now, unfortunately we don’t know much about Humperdink’s parents but we’re given enough tools at our disposal to figure enough out.

Donald’s mother is Hortense McDuck, a fiery duck from Scotland. As far as I can tell, duck is all she has.

So that’s it right?? Donald is part duck part coot??

NOPE

THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE

DONALD’S PART GOOSE AS WELL

The guy who looks high at the bottom left corner of the picture there?? That’s Gus Goose. He’s a semi-distant cousin of Donald’s related to him from his father.

Now it’s implied from the family tree that the goose part for Gus came from Luke Goose which is fine and dandy and it could very well have been from him. But again, it doesn’t have to be the only source of goose in his family. (and it already isn’t considering Gladstone Gander canonically being half goose half duck)

Humperdink’s parents are unknown right?? Who’s to say he isn’t part goose as well? Maybe he got it from his dad or mom who knows they’re not in the tree. And if he’s part goose part duck, then Quackmore is goose-duck-coot mixed.

Going by all of this, we can say that Donald Duck is 2/4ths Duck, ¼th Coot and ¼th Goose.

mintytrifecta

macrolit

“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”

— Stephen King (b. 1947) American author Pet Sematary

ashstfu

i enjoy the simple things in life like sleeping, daydreaming, ignoring reality, listening to music, being delusional, recklessly spending my cash, being a disappointment to my family and eating fruits

dankmemeuniversity

aliciameade

Tumblr's stupid dash placeholder really elevated this post.

headspace-hotel

imagine comparing animal rights activism (veganism) to pseudoscience shit like astrology and magical thinking. acting like there isn’t mountains of scientific evidence pointing to the excessive harms of animal agriculture on both nonhumans and humans… very cringe!

I don't know how to explain to you that this is exactly how they get you.

Something that has mostly solid evidence backing it is just as good a gateway to The Pseudoscience Abyss as something that isn't evidence-based at all. The danger is in the thinking patterns it can lead you to.

There's a lot of rhetoric among some vegan communities about how going vegan is The Solution To Almost Everything (the 'original sin' idea where problems can be traced back to one thing), how The Industry suppresses evidence and people who work in The Industry can't be trusted (this is the foundation of a conspiracy theory), how people are only against the solution because they prioritize self-gratification (conservative evangelicalism at work!), and there is...a lot of misinformation.

Veganism is in an especially potent position because of its appeal to people who have already swallowed the "clean eating/purify your body with Natural Food" pill. Natural Food is the biggest gateway into conspiracy shit, period.

And it's very much entangled in questions of morality and strong emotions from people, which means people are vulnerable to forgetting their brains.

headspace-hotel

@xexed I regret to inform you that if the farmer that grew the crops that became your food ever watered them, they were treated with a chemical.

Water is a chemical. All food is made of chemicals. Everything with a chemical formula is a chemical. Avoiding "chemicals," eating things with fewer "chemicals," choosing foods "not treated with chemicals," it's all literally meaningless unless there's a specific reason a specific chemical is bad for human health.

Also, whether a "chemical" is naturally occurring/comes from plants/whatever has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not it's safe or healthy to eat. Foxgloves, 'destroying angel' mushrooms, oleander and deadly nightshade are all pretty damn natural. As is mercury, arsenic, uranium, and lead.

There's no such thing as a "natural" lifestyle or diet anyway. Most of the plants we eat are so heavily modified by thousands and thousands of years of domestication that they're completely unrecognizable from their wild ancestors.

Humans have adapted to radically different diets depending on the region they live in. We've evolved lactase persistence in some places so we can drink milk from other species! We've domesticated yeast to make bread! We'll eat insects, fungi, leaves, fruits, seeds, meat, fish, roots, you name it, we've tried to put it in our mouths.

"Natural" food is a marketing buzzword at best. There are valid criticisms of today's foodways, and ways our diets could be made better, but "natural" just straight up does not mean anything.

shieldfoss

But on the other hand:

https://shieldfoss.tumblr.com/post/181197714205/shieldfoss-argumate-you-eww-i-dont-want

headspace-hotel

Cool. Now ask the concerned people what "chemicals" they're worried about, specifically, and if they have an answer to this, there is more often than not plenty of existing evidence that the specified chemical has no harmful effects on humans in the doses humans are normally exposed to it.

The important thing to understand is...we study this stuff. We are capable of running experiments to test the body's reaction to various chemicals, and you can look into how we got our evidence and judge whether it was good enough for you.

Or maybe the answer is "Well, you can't trust that evidence, it was funded by Them." This is where a lot of "natural food" people end up, typically because they found somebody on Youtube or Facebook or some other website that tells them that (and that they need to buy Natural Supplements for A Lot Of Money). Once you go down that road, you're in Conspiracy Theory Land.

I understand where you're coming from, but most of the time, people aren't coming from this same place. Supplements have impurities? They could be potentially harmful? That's something you can...research to the extent that it's possible and take reasonable action on. But lot of people just don't understand chemistry well enough to get here. The "natural food" crowd is full of people who take completely unregulated "natural" supplements and/or put substances in their bodies we know are dangerous in the amounts and in the ways they're being used. They just...don't have this framework. The people selling the "natural" supplements aren't encouraging others to think in this framework.

If you have evidence to suspect that a particular substance used in food or otherwise in contact with humans is dangerous, or just not enough information to know that, that's reasonable and actionable.

If you decide a substance is okay when it's "natural" and suspect when it's not "natural," you're overgeneralizing and there's no way to get around it. There's a huge, huge amount of perfectly "natural" substances that Will Kill You or harm you over time. Even the Sun can give you cancer.

The only difference is that humans have generally been exposed to things "found in nature" long enough to sort of...work out whether you should eat them or not. Which is like science, but slower.

dalniente

Little anecdote to hopefully support what you're saying-- my spouse works in the lawn & garden department of a local hardware and general goods store, and has told me SO MANY TIMES about people coming in and asking for "all-natural" or "organic" pesticides under the impression that those are safer. They don't ask "which of these is safest to ingest if my kid eats a tomato off the vine from our garden," the question is just "which of these are natural," because the assumption is that the natural poisons are somehow less poison.

And that's a really dangerous thing to assume. Of course pesticides have a broad range of toxicity, and of course some organic ones are less toxic to humans than some synthetic ones...but some organic pesticides are more toxic to humans than their synthetic counterparts, and the idea that these poisons are somehow automatically safer or less poisonous JUST because they're derived from the byproducts of a once-living organism is totally off-base. Rotenone was used as an organic pesticide for DECADES (currently banned from use in the USA, I think, but it's been on and off the banned list so who knows), and it kills similarly to the way motherfucking cyanide kills: it disrupts electron transport chains in mitochondria. It is less toxic to humans than it is to fish and arthropods, but it is still very much toxic to humans.

Rotenone is natural. So is cyanide. So is arsenic. These toxins are not safer just because they're organic, and neither is anything else. You cannot safely assume "natural = good/safe," and way too many people do.

ebonykain

Did you know that the chemical we most often refer to as "Rat Poison" is natural?

Popularly used to not only kill rats and mice, but also SO commonly used in murder that it became a common trope in mystery and crime stories, and carried forward into cartoons.

The original Rat Poison was strychnine.

Strychnine was first used as Rat Poison around about in the 1500s. The primary natural source of strychnine is the plant Strychnos nux-vomica. This plant is found in southern Asia (India, Sri Lanka, and East Indies) and Australia

Isn't it pretty? So lovely! So natural! You can buy this tree and plant it in all organic soil and compost you made yourself, and never spray it with any pesticides so you can make sure to have THE most organic and all-natural poison!

Now, strychnine IS also used medically to treat a variety of ailments. It can be used for diseases of the digestive tract, disorders of the heart and circulatory system, diseases of the eye, and lung disease. It is also used for nerve conditions, depression, migraine headache, symptoms of menopause, and even Raynaud's disease.

But you can just buy nux-vomica seeds online or in some gimicky health food stores. Like @headspace-hotel said, there's no regulation. Especially in this day and age of the internet shopping! At least in the USA, FDA regulations don't apply to individuals purchasing pre-packaged foods from other countries when it's purchased in small quantities. Supplements all have warnings stating that they aren't tested by the FDA. Legit, if I wanted to buy some super duper all natural, organic nux-vomica... It is not hard at all

You can buy the raw seeds, as homeopathic liquid or pills, you can buy it as strychnine powder, or nux-vomica dietary supplement tablets....

Very natural pesticide! Very deadly to humans!

A lethal dose of is averaged at 1.5mg/kg. That is NOT a lot. The CDC shows it as a fatal dose can be between 50-100mg (or .0017 to .0035oz).

So yeah. You spread that around on your veggies and fruits to keep the critters from eating them? You're also going to be killing any kids munching in the all-natural organic garden.

Now...

On the other side.... Not all man-made chemicals are bad!! To quote my mom's oncologist: "all medicines are poisons, and all poisons are medicine. It's simply a matter of dosage and precise application".

Some of the chemicals in chemotherapy treatment are mustard gas. You know.... The chemical so terrible it's use in combat is an actual war crime? Yeah. THAT mustard gas completely manufactured/does not exist in nature... And it also saves a large number of people from dying of cancer.

The absolutist idea of natural=good and man-made=bad is flawed and getting people killed more often than you'd think.

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gollumunchkin

i just love ‘gloomy’ weather. i love clouds, fog, rain, crisp air, SNOW.. love love lovee LOVE

roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it

“No man is an island” oh really? Really? What about him?:

animate-mush

He is no man

themikeymonster

This turtle can kill a ring wraith

yiffmaster

most tumblr jokes are utterly embarassing to say in public but today i said to someone “bold of you to assume i have dignity” and i won’t lie it was the most powerful I’ve felt in years