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[brucebocchi]

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“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

[swolerbear]

This is so fucking important, I cannot cannot cannot stress enough how important this is.

[letitrainathousandflames-archive]

Stuart Mcmillen drew an incredibly detailed comic version of this research and you can read it here

[mattefier-deactivated20221118]

When I tell you I screamed, I actually screamed 😭😭😭

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this is so sad. …

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[bercon]

(via My favorite D&D story)

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mmm haha

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ahaha mmmm

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dr pepper

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haha mm

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mm ha mmmmm hahaha

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[blackwaxx]

[vaginalbleeding]

THIS WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAVORITE VIDEO ON THIS WEBSITE

[verballthenouns]

I bookmarked this months ago and it still makes me laugh until I can’t breathe

[pk9614]

IT’S BACK

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Fyi the raccoon is fine and apperently does this often. Hes not going down the pipe but in the square at the top.

[sometipsygnostalgic]

your pitiful sidetracking is not going to disguise the fact we finally found Santa

[itsbats]

Happy Pride, ya’ll

[secondbeatsongs]

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“Call Me Maybe” with every other beat removed

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[transfemininomenon]

YOU’RE STUBBORN, JEANS STOLEN, NIGHT ROWING

THINK YOU’RE BABY?

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Viva La Vida by Coldplay turns 9 soon! 

This song reached #13 in the year-end charts for 2008

Let’s all take a look back and relive this nearly decade old classic.

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viva la vida turns 10 today!

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viva la vida turns 11 today!

[all-hail-mono-onion]

I LVOE THSI SONG OSFHEWILWWEFHUQWLIDUH I CAN PLAY IT ON THE PUANO

[ourinternalsoundtrack]

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Vitamin C - Vacation (from Pikachu’s Vacation)

[amtrax]

God that drumbeat still kicks me in the fucking teeth <3

[scienced-deactivated20250710]

Man this has the cheer beats, pipeline guitar riff, Green Onion organ motif, random sampling, unexpected rap, and a killer bass line. It may be the most 90′s Pop song I’ve ever heard, and it’s still so fun!

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[arirna]

[lonely-boiii]

OKAY BUT HOLY SHIT THAT ANIMATION IS SO FUCKING FLUID

[theirroyalbiness]

This is so cute and it’s so gorgeous omg

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[fabelyn]

Just to add that the song being in english isnt dubbing: the original japanese version was created with them singing all songs (at least all so far as of the time of writing this ) in english

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original post by @tammycat