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bill gates is directly responsible for the delta variant lol

by preventing non western countries from producing generic versions of the covid vaccine and instead forcing these countries to fight over a limited amount of doses he allowed a large outbreak of the disease in india which mutated the virus to be especially virulent. its literally the gates variant.

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of course bill gates wasnt the sole decision maker behind the vaccine patents, but hes the most visible and the most vocal. there were a lot of parts in the scheme but ultimately the decision to keep other countries from producing a generic vaccine was a deliberate choice to maintain a pharmaceutical monopoly which has had incredibly harmful ramifications

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i think i would rather encounter multiple women who take astrology too seriously over even one guy who genuinely believes in sigma/alpha/beta male bullshit

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women who take astrology too seriously: hey bestie i made u a star chart

men who believe the s/a/b male bullshit: women should be enslaved

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Happy National Coming Out Day

I love you guys <3

like there’s this whole thing in this book about how your brain grows stronger and healthier by practicing responding to stress in healthy ways,

because if a stressor is predictable and you feel a sense of control over it, you habituate and stop reacting to it,

but if it’s random and unpredictable you have the opposite response and become sensitized, so your reaction actually gets more and more extreme.

(if you hear a loud noise at predictable intervals you’ll soon stop noticing or reacting, but if you hear it at random intervals you’ll become sensitive to it and anxious.)

so one way to help people who have adverse reactions to reminders of trauma is to give them control over how they’re reminded of the trauma,

because it helps the brain practice responding to stress in a safe way so you can habituate to the stress response.

which is why if someone tags something for a trigger and you still choose to look,

it’s actually an act of healthy resistance against your reaction to that trigger (because it teaches your brain to habituate),

but encountering something triggering in a random and unpredictable way actually increases your stress response and makes you more sensitive to the trigger.

so people who are against trigger warnings because “you have to learn to cope” are actually taking away your tools for learning to cope,

because encountering stressors in a way that further strips you of control over your trauma is never, ever helpful.

it’s a lot of stuff i kind of knew but integrated and explained with more context and science

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I feel like medical marijuana could seriously help the Hulk.

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You know something big just went down in a TV series when they play the credits without music.

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Dad bod is just another way of saying father figure.

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Concept: a movie theater that only shows Harry Potter films. The movies will be in 4D. The temperature will drop when dementors are present. Fans will blow on you during quidditch scenes. Enticing smells will be pumped in during feast scenes but don’t worry about feeling hungry because the theater will serve Bertie Botts, treacle tart, drumsticks, butterbeer, chocolate frogs and those tiny little pies that Mrs. Weasley makes. Instead of loyalty cups, you get discounts if you wear a Weasley sweater.