'being low-profile' just means no wizard hat, right? you can still cast Call Lightning with violent abandon, right??
(here's Miffy's new outfit for level 6 !🥳)
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'being low-profile' just means no wizard hat, right? you can still cast Call Lightning with violent abandon, right??
(here's Miffy's new outfit for level 6 !🥳)
Does the satisfaction you get from completing a thing make up for the frustration and disappointment of continuing to participate in it after you stopped enjoying it?
Just because you start reading/writing a story or watching a show doesn't mean you have to finish it. Don't let the sunk cost fallacy or some need to finish things you start ruin your enjoyment of your free time.
I will forever love that Marie Kondo moment where she says you should thank a shirt you never wore for teaching you that you don't like that kind of shirt.
If a piece of media has taught you that you don't like something, thank it for that and let it go. Then go into your future armed with more knowledge about yourself and your preferences.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-12/deadly-collapse-at-amazon-warehouse-puts-spotlight-on-phone-ban
[ID: tweet from Erica, The White Trash Socialist @ HerosNvrDie69 dated december 11 reading,
“Amazon knew we were facing life threatening storms last night. We ALL knew. They made the choice to send workers into a giant unsecured warehouse and now workers are dead.
Amazon murdered people last night.”
this is in response to a tweet by Charles Jaco @ CharlesJaco1 dated december 10 reading,
“Emergency response officials in the IL suburbs of St Louis say “50 to 100” Amazon workers are trapped under rubble or inside a mammoth Amazon warehouse/fulfillment center in Edwardsville, IL after walls collapsed following a tornado.”
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link to erica’s tweet
link to charles’ tweet
https://nypost.com/2021/12/12/amazon-workers-killed-in-tornado-identified/
The victims, whose ages range from 26 to 62, had been working at the facility in Edwardsville when both sides of the building collapsed inwa
Police identified them as Deandre S. Morrow, 28, of St. Louis, Mo.; Kevin D. Dickey, 62, of Carlyle, Ill.; Clayton Lynn Cope, 29, of Alton, Ill.; Etheria S. Hebb, 34, of St. Louis, Mo.; Larry E. Virden, 46, of Collinsville, Ill.; and Austin J. McEwen, 26, of Edwardsville, IIll.
Fire Chief James Whiteford said that rescuers had been able to save 45 employees from the facility.
He said rescue crews would continue to search the rubble for several days for survivors, though they were not optimistic about finding anyone else alive.
…Amazon said it employs about 190 workers at the facility, but the company was unable to determine how many workers were in the facility since the tornado struck during a shift change and drivers come and go.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their loved ones, and everyone impacted by the tornado,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement.
[this was posted the morning of December 12, 2021]
I cannot believe a multi billion dollar corporation cannot summon better PR than “thoughts and prayers” but there you have it.
Love how Maul constantly bitches that Kenobi “left him to die on Naboo” like my guy did you forget what you were doing on Naboo
“Actually Maul I left you under the assumption that you had already died. That you survived despite being cut in half and falling into a seemingly bottomless pit, out of sheer perversity, is not on me.”
“i also choose this guy’s dead wife” was easily the #1 funniest thing to ever be written on the internet.
you can know the punchline but you can’t stop it from punching you.
i do also feel the need to add that phil8248 really liked the joke. he said his wife had always had a dark sense of humour, even about her illness and death, and seeing the joke made him feel like he was laughing with her one last time.
What happens if tarantula no longger need the frog?
great news! that just straight-up doesn't happen.
tarantulas can live for well over a decade, and female tarantulas can expect to breed multiple times before they finally kick it! and since there's always the expectation of there going to be a new clutch of eggs in the nest every year, there's no benefit in getting rid of the frogs that will keep those eggs safe.
a female columbian lesserblack tarantula will treasure and protect her frogs until the day she dies, and then those frogs will go into the care of whichever of her daughters inherits her burrow! it's an eternal cycle. a cycle of frog.
breaking news i tried to post my year in review and tumblr will not let me post the post they themselves created. also there was an error. i would expect nothing less
look: our neanderthal ancestors took care of the sick and disabled so if ur post-apocalyptic scenario is an excuse for eugenics, u are a bad person and literally have less compassion than a caveman
Yes but they also when extinct which implies whatever they were doing at the time wasn’t fit for their environment.
So, it’s been awhile since I took a human evolution course, so some of this might be a little out of date, but
1) Whether or not Neanderthals went extinct is still kind of up for debate, and seems to hinge largely on whether you think that Neanderthals are a H. Sapiens subspecies or not, which often seems like a mildly pointless argument to me since it’s largely a fight about which definition of “species” to use
2) Even if we argue that Neanderthals are our direct ancestors and never went extinct, several Neanderthal *traits* (like their noses and their forheads) *have* left the population. Care for the disabled is not one of them.
Saying “Neanderthals cared for their sick and injured and are now extinct, therefore care for the disabled is maladaptive” is like saying “Dodos are extinct therefore beaks are a terrible idea”
Statements about “less compassion than a caveman” still stand.
–Peter
I teach human evolution to college students, so in addition to that, here’s what we know. There’s some citations (and footnotes) behind the cut, if you’re interested.
So Neanderthals aren’t our direct ancestor- more like a branch of the family tree that didn’t lead to us. Close cousins- close enough to breed- but they evolved outside of Africa about 400kya, while our species evolved in Africa about 200kya*. This is important because it means that altruism can’t possibly be a Neanderthal trait that left the population during the evolution into modern humans; we didn’t evolve from them, so it’s not like we can say “well, this was maladaptive in our ancestors.” This is a behavior you see in two temporally coexisting species (or subspecies), and I do mean two, because it wasn’t just Neanderthals practicing altruism. We did it too.
We have really good evidence that early Homo sapiens sapiens (i.e., us, just old) also took care of their injured, elderly, and disabled. At Cro-Magnon in France, a few individuals clearly suffered from traumatic injury and illness during their lives. Cro-Magnon 1 had a nasty infection in his face; his bones are pitted from it. Cro-Magnon 2, a female, had a partially healed skull fracture, and several of the others had fused neck vertebrae that had fused as a result of healed trauma; this kind of injury would make it impossible to hunt and uncomfortable to move. This kind of injury can be hard to survive today, even with modern medical care; the fact that the individuals at Cro-Magnon survived long enough for the bones to remodel and heal indicate that somebody was taking care of them. At Xujiayao, in northern China, there’s evidence of healed skull fractures (which would have had a rather long recovery time and needed care);
This evidence of altruism extends past injured adults, as well. One of the most compelling cases is at Qafzeh, which is in Israel. Here we see evidence of long-term care for a developmentally disabled child (as well as a child who had hydrocephaly and survived). Qafzeh 11, a 12-13 year old at time of death, suffered severe brain damage as a child. Endocasts (basically making a model of the inside of the skull, where the brain would be) show that the volume of the brain was much smaller than expected; likely the result of a growth delay due to traumatic brain injury. The patterns of development suggest that this injury occurred between the ages of 4 and 6. They very likely suffered from serious neurological problems; the areas of the brain that were injured are known to control psychomotricity. This means that the kid may have had a hard time controlling their eye movements, general body movement, keeping visual attention, performing specific tasks, and managing uncertainty; in addition, Broca’s area might also have been damaged, which likely would have affected the kid’s ability to speak. Long and short of it, without help, this kid wouldn’t have survived to age 12-13.
But they did. They lived, and they were loved. When they died, they were given a funeral- we know this based on body position and funeral offerings. Mortuary behavior was common among both Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens, and this burial was particularly interesting. The body was placed on its back, its legs extended and the arms crossed over the chest. Deer antlers were laid on the upper part of the chest; in the archaeological context, they were in close contact with the palmar side of the hand bones, meaning it’s likely that they were placed in the hands before burial. This points to Qafzeh 11 being valued by the community- why go to the effort for somebody you don’t care about? Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.
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“Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.”
Would you be alright with me borrowing your words when someone poses the above comments’ line of thought to me?
Of course! (And feel free to use anything else in my anthropology tag.)
Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.
Since a lot of folks on Tumblr like to write, a really slept on form of activism is writing letters to the editor of your local newspaper and pitching opinion pieces. I see posts from folks on here all the time that could totally be adapted into short LTEs or even full op-eds.
These can be written for any issue, but if you're interested in doing this for climate action, the Citizens' Climate Lobby has a great tool that will find all of your local (US) newspapers and allow you to easily send LTEs to as many as you'd like with only a couple of clicks. (The tool says to write about the Energy Innovation Act but really they're happy to have you write about anything). The tool doesn't work outside of the US unfortunately, but most newspapers will list an email address on their website which you can send LTEs to directly.
Here is a simple outline and example of how to write an LTE, which only needs to be about 200 words or fewer:
Reference something in the news or a specific part of a news story from your local paper.
Transition into how that news relates to climate change.
Identify a solution.
Present a call to action.
Optional tip: consider including the names of senators or members of congress. Politicians usually have staff who search media for references to them, and "tagging" them like this helps put your issues on their radar.
And that's it! You can talk about any problem or solution you're passionate about, whether it's carbon pricing, EV vehicles, reducing flights, plant-based food systems, or anything else, and they're supposed to be super short so you don't have to worry about knowing all the details or citing specifics or anything stressful. But feel free to spice it up beyond this basic outline as well. Watch CCL's video on writing effective LTEs here for more guidance.
Whether or not your LTE gets published, encouraging media coverage of climate action matters. Climate change is critically under-reported, and just showing your newspaper that their readers care about environmental issues is a meaningful form of activism.
This is also true of literally every issue out there. For example, in my local area, they just hired a cop who got dismissed from a larger police department for posting racist things on social media. Local activists are looking to get him removed, and one of the ways to keep pressure on the police department is to have a letter to the editor in the local weekly newspaper every week. I wrote one a few weeks ago. We’re keeping the issue alive both for people in the community and for the officials making the decision. This isn’t just “we made a decision some people didn’t like, and then we moved on and people forgot about it” this is “we made a decision some people didn’t like, and many people are constantly and consistently objecting to it for a wide variety of reasons.”
Is it a magic bullet? No! But it helps shape the conversation in our local community. It helps make sure there is a conversation about the issue, and that it doesn’t get swept under the rug and forgotten.
instagram is not allowing accounts with BLM related links in the bio to post or comment until the link is removed.
here’s a twitter thread talking about the same thing. https://mobile.twitter.com/rauhling_bizzle/status/1469691121110437890?s=21
I want to preface this by saying this is not victim blaming. This not calling people online lazy or grifting or whatever.
But an underlooked proponent on why some people are nearing homeless and crowdfunding heavily rn is bc society has failed you by making it as inconvenient as possible to learn about social systems and programs that already exist to help your situation as well as not having enough programs and aid.
Lemme give some examples. I have been unemployed for 10 months. My mom told me about a paying job training program a month ago after I already decided to mive in with her to find work, because nothing was coming up in my own city. My best friend didn’t know about affordable housing assistance in my state until she talked to my dad about it on a chance encounter. Some people on here have to see posts about much cheaper alternatives to their current prescriptions or medical plans because its not in the interest of their doctors paychecks to tell them about it. I would have waited to get vaccinated and not have crowdfunded for Uber money if I had known they were going to give free vaccine rides the next month. But I wouldn’t have really known this until I opened the app once that program started, because it is in their interest to keep taking my money until its their desired time for me to reap their “generous” services.
What I’m trying to say is that this is an under discussed aspect of how capitalism fails people. When you are forced to make your life and work and finances so singular and self interested, you are cut off from community and equivalent social services to proper government assistance. You literally don’t know that there is help somewhere out there for you unless you’re told.
I believe a professor I had called this “cultural wisdom” but I haven’t been able to find the social science articles that expanded on this. It’s a practical knowledge of local systems that allows someone to function and thrive in that system. The example she used was having an understanding that banks can hold your money, but the practical aspect of accessing your money (in a convenient and easy manor) was knowing about ATMs and how to use them. But unless you have an account or someone ready to inform you, there’s no dedicated time or milestone where someone learns this.
And that’s just with a machine designed to give you YOUR money, let alone complex social service programs.
I want everyone who crowdfunds for hospital bills to know they probably don’t have to oay them at all. Just find the financial aid office of the hospital. It’s on the website BY LAW. Find the form. Fill it out. Get the bills canceled or lowered! You don’t need crowd money, you need the government’s money that’s already set aside for your medical care.
GO TO, MESSAGE, OR CALL YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Libraries are focusing more and more on community resources, support, and outreach. If you genuinely don’t know something or feel uncertain or are in a new situation, a reference librarian will not only help you sort your thoughts through their reference interview but then help you arm yourself with knowledge from reliable and often local sources. It doesn’t even have to be a question to Ask A Librarian. You can simply say “I’m in this situation now. I don’t know what to do next./I’m not confident I know everything I should or want to know.”
“i don’t understand how you just get so much stuff done under pressure and like don’t freak out” i just go into autopilot bro like i genuinely do not know what happens in high volume situations. i let my body deal with that shit. not for me
if you completely block off a whole portion of your mind you’ll find that it is actually quite peaceful and you can move very fast, almost ungodly so, and achieve a lot while feeling absolutely nothing
i have been informed that this is not how normal people process and handle stress.… . dam that shit’s crazy. sorry y’all have to deal with it in like a rational healthy way
So for the record as both a long-term user of this feature and someone who had what I’m about to talk about happen to her:
If you rely on this too much you are at ever increasing risk of it not working anymore, very abruptly, at a really horribly inconvenient time.
You are also at risk of it working less and less over time when you have no other coping mechanisms in place.
And finally even if it continue to work, you are doing continual damage to your ability to handle non-crisis situations! And increasing the chance that you will start unconsciously turning everything into a crisis.
All three of these options are Sub-Optimal, to say the least.
(this is because this method is essentially harnessing the dissociative capacity of the brain for moments of extreme trauma more or less At Will except the will involved amounts to convincing your amygdala to let go of the right juices by convincing it that the tiger is in fact right there. It can be a superpower! But it’s also, well. Risky. If you find yourself literally doing it for everything, be aware that it’s kind of like running an engine at max at all times without ever really replenishing the oil. Eventually you will start burning shit.)
I don't think people realize how some people need abortions because they want to be pregnant. I really genuinely want a child. However, if abortion becomes criminalized, it becomes incredibly dangerous for me to be pregnant. I am physically ill and have multiple health problems that make me susceptible to having various pregnancy complications, miscarriage, and birth defects (that lead to stillbirth). Hell, I have a higher chance of maternal mortality than most women. Banning abortion puts me at severe medical risk. Miscarriage is now under legal suspect and is continuing to be seen as "potential" abortions or just flat out manslaughter; I could be interrogated by the police or even prosecuted in the court of law for having a miscarriage. I could have a pregnancy complication that cannot be resolved because a law prevents me from having an abortion, and I could, at best, be rendered infertile or, at worst, end up dead. I could be forced to go through an excruciatingly long and painful birth so that I can hold a dead infant in my arms because the law wouldn't let me get a "late-term" abortion. The list is endless. Don't let anyone tell you pregnancy is a safe procedure. It is not. Abortion is healthcare.
Deodorant Recall: More Than 30 Brands Flagged as Potentially Dangerous | Fatherly
"Deodorant Recall: More Than 30 Brands Flagged as Potentially Dangerous | Fatherly" https://www.fatherly.com/news/deodorant-recall-benzene/amp/
A chemical that's known to cause cancer was found at more than nine times the upper limit.
FYI, y'all.
It looks like the deodorant brands Secret and Old Spice in particular are being recalled, just fyi.
The headline is a bit misleading, too- it’s only body sprays. Here’s a full list of the products being recalled.
Old Spice High Endurance AP Spray Pure Sport
Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Stronger Swagger
Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Pure Sport Plus
Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Stronger Swagger
Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Ultimate Captain
Old Spice Below Deck Powder Spray Unscented
Old Spice Below Deck Powder Spray Fresh Air
Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh Twin Pack
Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh
Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh
Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Waterlily
Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Lavender
Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Light Essentials
Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Rose
Secret Outlast Invisible Spray Completely Clean
Secret Outlast Invisible Spray Protecting Powder
Old Spice Pure Sport 2021 Gift Set
RB’ing for the people who use body sprays on my follow list.
Okay so I'm actually somewhat involved in this recall currently at work. I don't know all the details, as I am a lowly contractor and they don't share details with us. But I am one of the people who does some of the QA testing on aerosol antiperspirants, so I have to know some things.
Old Spice and Secret are Proctor and Gamble brands
As they are all made with the same base ingredients (the difference is really the perfumes for the different scents) literally Every P&G aerosol AP is getting recalled
They think the problem is coming from the propellant, and they think that problem is coming from tue supplier of the raw materials for the propellant
Hence, every aerosol ap is made from the same raw materials so they are recalling everything to be safe.
This isn't the first time an aerosol product has been recalled this year for the same reason. Remember when Aveno recalled all their aerosol sunscreens? Same reason. They found benzene in the propellant.
I'd bet $100 in the coming months there will be more aerosol recalls from other manufacturers. There are only so many distributers of raw materials in the world and they sell to everyone.
The article lists other brands (that aren't owned by P&G) that also found benzene in them. They haven't recalled yet.
So maybe stop using aerosol products on your body for a while. Can confirm for the Old Spice and Secret scents that all of the aerosols have an invisible solid counterpart. So if you like a particular scent you can find it in stick form. Just remember there is a difference between an Antiperspirant-Deoderant and just Deoderant. AP-DOs make your pits stop sweating and make you smell good. DOs just make you smell good.
I mean, if we really wanted comic book movies to be faithful to the source material, rather than spending $100 million on one movie, what you’d do is give $20 million each to five different directors, release all five resulting movies in theatres at the same time, and make sure that each movie’s plot refers to the events of all the other movies’ plots in such a way that whichever of the five movies you watch first will be entirely incomprehensible and every possible viewing order is wrong.
And while the same actors are playing the same roles in all the movies, you only know that because the credits say so. One guy’s a himbo in one, a traumatized hero in another, a cruel asshole in another, a compassionate genius in another, and is in one scene in the last but has no lines. Whichever one you saw first is the one that sticks for you.
Nah, to be really faithful to the source material, in some of the movies all male characters are played by one actor with different wigs on and all female characters get one actress with their wigs. And the specific actors used between them change all the damn time.
And occasionally you switch from one cast with normal acting choices to one of the two-actors-and-a-fuckton-of-wigs ones every twenty minutes or so, without acknowledgement or explanation.
How to deal with little brothers. (via)
These cats have people names.
Based on the tone of the person scolding him at the end, I think we were one more reprimand away from “Robert!”