All's Well That Collects Water From Underground

If I see stuff and think "that's neato" or "that's funny", it'll probably wind up here.

[notfarfromthepedantry]

A blog for things?

Formerly Notfarfromthepedantry

Tumblr is butts, so here’s a link to my new blog. That’s where I’ll be posting from now on.

[notfarfromthepedantry]

A blog for things?

Formerly Notfarfromthepedantry

Tumblr is butts, so here’s a link to my new blog. That’s where I’ll be posting from now on.

[notfarfromthepedantry]

A blog for things?

Formerly Notfarfromthepedantry

Tumblr is butts, so here’s a link to my new blog. That’s where I’ll be posting from now on.

[gasmaskaesthetic]

Air travel is a religious experience.

[ghostpalmtechnique]

It is hellish, yes.

[alexanderrm]

Imagine if you could go to churches or mosques and by reciting the right incantations be physically transported into the heavens, soaring above the earth before being physically returned to a different location as proof of the miracle that had just occurred, and all anyone talked about when discussing it was how uncomfortable the pews were and how sometimes the incantation takes longer than expected and the WiFi coverage in the sky is spotty.

[linguist-breakaribecca]

[baddiemode]

[mjandersen]

I have been here, multiple times!  By referring to the order as a “Little Rosa”, you don’t have to make as big a deal out of the fact that you’re seeking help.

And believe it or not, it gets better. Rosa’s also gives out sweatshirts to the homeless (or sells them to the general public) that has information on local soup kitchens and even computer training in the area, on an insert sewn inside the sweatshirt.

(Details)

[jessicalprice]

Reblogged again for these excellent details.

[aviouslyy]

Also you can buy slices for the homeless through their online store, from anywhere, not just PA!

[royaleomens]

here is the link for anyone who wants to buy slices for the homeless

[pardonmewhileipanic]

thank you for the comment about buying online! I am in canada but would love to help

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST

[hydrogen-by-moon-deactivated201]

[dobrodosao-deactivated20190618]

GOOOD

[canadiangold]

best thing i learned today: “The Loud American” role in Japanese businesses

[canadiangold]

nobody asked but imma explain anyway

no idea how it came up, but my programming prof was talking about his friend who works for Nintendo Japan who’s secondary role is The Loud American, and my prof explained what that was and how it came about

see, in Japan you do not talk back to your boss. you just don’t, even if they have stupid ideas and want the company to act on them. Like Nissan did sometime back. But since the other employees couldn’t do anything about this terrible idea that would ruin the company, they called in an American who had no reservations about telling the boss that their stupid idea was a stupid idea

and that’s just become a role in Japanese businesses, where they keep an American on staff who plays up the American stereotype and tells the boss what the Japanese employees can’t or won’t out of societal norms

[dobrodosao-deactivated20190618]

People, I have found my calling in life.

[hallease]

This was essentially my life from K - 12

[spaps-society-deactivated202603]

people do this to whites as well

[jayivahn-deactivated20170913]

“You’re white but you’re not white-white. Like, you’ll get angry because someone has an accent when speaking English but you don’t fuck your cousins.”

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I WOULD LIKE TO REPORT A MURDER

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[anem0nesiac-deactivated20231104]

[iamsuchagoodfriend-deactivated2]

[loloftheday]

If you think the headline is funny, read the article.

[kibumkim]

[dobrodosao-deactivated20190618]

and a baby alligator

[discyours]

People who believe that small children are proof that gender roles are natural are really on a whole other level.

A young child, using words she learned purely by mimicking the way others speak: I want to be a mommy when I grow up.

Y’all absolute Mensa candidates: Wow. This child is a blank slate. Completely unaffected by society. Guess lady-brains truly are the only explanation here, science deniers. 

[discyours]

Babies cry with an accent within a day of being born, and can even observe sounds while they’re still in the womb. There’s no stage of life where people aren’t already affected by socialisation, everyone who believes that nature can truly be separated from nurture is naive as fuck. 

[luminifera-archive]

I absolutely love this post just because of the “y'all absolute mensa candidates” at the top.

[crazy-pages]

So there’s this part of the mammalian brain called the neocortex. It’s the part of the mammalian brain which is basically a blank slate that just process input, figures out and predicts patterns from that input, and suborns autonomic processes to higher-level abstract patterns it works out from all that data. (On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, excellent neuroscience book, I highly recommend it). And humanity’s whole Thing is that our neocortex has become massively oversized and completely taken over our brain, to the point where it directs the action of the rest of the brain rather than the other way around like in other mammals. That’s basically our whole schtick as a species, being run by this massive blank-slate pattern matching machine rather than preprogrammed instincts.

Other mammals are instincts with some learning thrown on top, but humans are basically only learning, with some residual instincts to make sure we don’t fuck up too bad. That’s one of the reasons why humans take so much longer to develop motor skills than other species, because our brain has usurped the typical mammalian in-born neural motor programming with a blank slate that has to just like … figure that shit out on it’s own. Human babies can’t even see properly when they’re first born, even though they have perfectly functioning eyes, because our brain replaced all that silly mammalian visual recognition software with the neurological equivalent of a blank sheet of paper, a pencil, a shrug, and “you’ll figure it out, go get ‘em tiger”.

And that’s a huge advantage! Evolution can only adapt a species really, really slowly, to changing conditions over millions of years. Typical mammalian neocortices are a fantastic patch on that which allow adaptation over the course of a creature’s lifetime, but they don’t allow for that adaptation to be passed on, and it’s still just a patch on the greater impetus of evolved instincts. But humans. Ohohohoh. Humans are nothing but adaptation. Our ability to mimic and pass on behavior means that we don’t need a lot of those built up evolutionary behaviors which change so slowly, because we just can figure that shit out by mimicry and raw learning anyway. So we just ditched most of it and a lot of what’s left now comes with a “you can learn to override this if you need to” feature. It’s a way, way more flexible and adaptable system than that old clunky “being a bunch of preprogrammed mental software” thing other mammals use.

So the idea that you can assume anything about humans’ intrinsic instincts by looking at their behavior when young is just ridiculous. From the moment we’re born we are tiny pattern matching machines, intaking and copying everything around us, because we literally do not have enough instinct left as a species to exist without pattern matching other’s behavior. We can’t even fucking see without having to learn it from scratch. But yeah, I’m sure intrinsic gendered social skills and housecare aptitude made the evolutionary cut when fucking sight and walking got the axe.

[apathbetweenthestars]

Source

[literallybyronic]

brb drowning myself in the toilet

[shingeki-no-helpme-deactivated2]

THE ONE WRITTEN BY JESUS

[mizumanta]

I AM VERY CONFIDENT I AM IN STARBUCKS RIGHT NOW

[hi-can-i-take-your-bullshit]

i don’t know if we’ve reblogged this already but it can be reblogged again

[bipolarblueberries]

“I’m not really mentally ill, I’m just faking this.” - A mentally ill proverb

[sapphic-space-syren]

i said this to my therapist and she just looked at me and said “so do you think i went to clown school”

[micdotcom]

Watch: Still unsure if white privilege exists? This should clear it up.

[sex-and-metaphors-deactivated20]

she literally tried to deal drugs to the cops I just.. fucken.. WHAT 

[757bg-deactivated20180207]

He didn’t arrest her he warned her it was illegal….. Warned !!!!!!! Wtfffffffffffffffffff

[prokopetz]

A new co-worker tried to assert his nerd dominance over lunch by explaining to me what Dungeons & Dragons is.

[mathweasels]

Rate the efficacy of his depiction on a scale of 0-100%?

[prokopetz]

He seemed to be under the impression that the Dungeon Master has their own secret character (also called the Dungeon Master), and that becoming powerful enough to fight this character is how you win the game.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Shoulda been like “actually you win by kicking the DM’s ass irl in the parking lot”

With a completely straight face