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Phineas and Ferb is such an excellent intergenerational piece of media. A 5 year old can watch it and laugh at how Doofenshmirtz gets hit in the face. I can watch it as a 20 year old and laugh at its clever metacommentary on television shows. My dad, a 56 year old man, can watch it and absolutely lose his shit at a reference to the 1970s romcom show ‘Love Boat’.

sunnibits

Not gonna lie still thinking about the absolute bomb that was the Doctor Who episode where they reveal that the TARDIS requires like eight or something people to pilot and that’s why the Doctor looks ridiculous when he flies it… like.. that was SO simple and yet SUCH a good way to instantly convey so much loneliness… like bro.. bro it requires a family… a whole bunch of people… but they just fly alone and make do…

rui-cifer

When I was in undergrad, during my methodology class, my professor (and advisor) was asked, "How do you keep your journal articles jargon-free?" and his answer was, "After a certain level, you simply cannot, and to do so would actually make your writing bad historical writing." He then went on to compare two different articles by the same author written in a journal where undergraduates can submit, and a journal where only phd. can submit.

The difference in language was subtle but noticeable, because there is an implicit understanding that the article is written for someone who has the necessary background on the subject. The writer was able to not have to explain every concept in a journal for phd., since the readers were supposed to bring a baseline of knowledge, or know how and where to go to be educated (or who to ask). This is despite the fact that both were available via jstor.

There will always be people having conversations about things that are beyond your understandig on the topic. I do not instantly understand nuclear physics or computer science or organic chemistry, but I give credentialed people that I know aren't cranks the benefit of doubt that they know what's going on. This respect is often not extended to humanities people talking about their work because "blue curtain is just blue" people think the high school education they mostly rejected puts them on the same field of discussion as people educated on the subject. Yet, these are the people who get mad when they find that rudely interjecting into a conversation where everyone else is on the same page and saying understanding the conversation is too hard in an extremely hostile manner gets a answered with hostility.

The bottom line is, you aren't entitled to understanding everything you come across instantly. If you do not understand the conversation, it is your job to either get educated on the subject if it seems interesting enough, or move on if it seems incomprehensible and is not something you'd care about. If you enter a conversation you are not ready for, that is on you, not people bewildered at your antics.

rui-cifer

Specifically, I'm talking about people like this that leave dumb comments on any posts on complex issues that have words with more than 3 syllables.

It is absolutely a form of anti-intellectualism to say that all things should be understood to all people inherently or that conversations should be simplified until this is true. Sometimes, you are the one that needs to read a book until you understand. There is nothing wrong with being uneducated on complex subjects, but to then reject complexity since you did not instantly understand it is dangerous and only help people who seeks to undermine nuances in complex issues.

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tottosgreatadventure

boymiffy

obsessed with the concept of pinterest. like oooooh pretty pictures let me sort you into little boxes and get unrealistic amounts of joy from it

metalheadsagainstfascism

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Original Tweet by Daily Mail Australia reads "Christchurch mosque shooter was badly picked on as a child beggars because he was 'chubby' - so he turned to violent video games, sparking downward spiral"

Was retweeted by Jenny Trout and replied "Raise your hand if someone called you fat and you never turned to white supremacy and murdered 50 people over it."

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Honestly. I was horribly picked on growing up. I had NO friends. It led me to alternative and metal music, which ultimately led me to creating this blog and supporting Black Lives Matter.

I don't understand how people that are bullied can not have sympathy for minorities, whom honestly have it so much worse.

Like, shit. Have some fucking empathy.

-fae

depsidase

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MOOD

kikikid1412

Hey, radio DJ here! (Specifically a classic rock radio DJ on a handful of local stations that aren’t the big commercially own stations that do this).. There’s actually a reason for this. This is going to be an extremely simplified version of how this came to be (along with many other genre stations), but basically what happened was that before the mid 1990s, most radio stations just let radio DJs play whatever they wanted. It was the disk jockey’s job to find and play music that they thought their listeners would enjoy, or even just records that they liked themselves. It was usually the radio DJs who would discover bands and songs to play on the air and bring them to a wider audience. Of course there were issues like station managers not always allowing the play of music by black artists, or payola (where the radio DJs were essentially bribed to play a record which is illegal), but generally you wouldn’t hear the same exact songs with every DJ’s set. You also had a lot of unique personalities with radio DJs, as well.. For example Wolfman Jack with his snarling and growling on the air and him crafting his show to sound as much like a party on the radio as possible (and one of the radio DJs of his time to bring many black artists to a mainstream audience), or Dr. Demento and his crew of silly people adding on a peanut gallery to the comedy music he would play (including Whimsical Will and “Weird Al” Yankovic). During the 70s and 80s it also wasn’t unusual to often hear Stevie Wonder and The Beatles side-by-side, especially with many radio DJs breaking barriers to de-segregate radio stations. In the mid 1990s, however, a law was passed.. While originally companies could only own a certain number of stations (and if I recall correctly could not own more than one station in an area), it was changed so that companies could now own as many stations as they want. So, of course, big companies started buying up as many stations as they could, especially smaller ones that would play more of the weird stuff and inner cuts… And of course when a company is that big, they don’t want to risk failing, so they essentially gentrified their musical selections. They look at the numbers of what records are selling, they put together playlists for their radio DJs, and they have to stick to that. So, if you’re listening to a station that’s playing a lot of the same tunes, don’t blame your local DJs. Chances are they were told they have to stick to a certain set of artists, or even a certain set of songs.

adultingrefs

Glad capitalism ruined the radio

z-a-d-i-e

I think a case could be made that it also helped kill the record industry as a whole (or was a really big nail in it’s inevitable coffin.) Isn’t it funny how when everything is owned by big conglomerate companies who find it cheaper to automate everything rather than pay individuals that it all becomes worse for the consumers and the workers, which hastens the death of the entire industry.

jughead-is-canonically-aroace

[ID: tweet by jon drake @ DrakeGatsby. it reads “Find it really interesting that classic rock radio stations have like 40 years of songs to chose from and they all still agreed to play the same 18 ones on a loop and also 5 of them are by AC/DC” end ID]

transperceneige

in much more interesting news, today at work I got to explore an abandoned 500-year-old castle, seized by the state because of the owner's massive tax evasion

we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex

transperceneige

just want to point out that we found this door at one point

ragingpunsexual

I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like...

What humans see:

What Vulcans see:

nudityandnerdery

Vulcans seeing Kirk as a version of Gritty seems incredibly accurate, too.

frogmp3

europeans are so funny literally like “i can’t believe americans don’t have fresh bread” what the fuck are you talking about

lasemis

I can't believe americans think their store-bought sliced bread is real bread

frogmp3

there are bakeries in the united states LMAO i’m not going to argue with a motherfucker about bread

whitepeopletwitter

savedby-thebell-jar

I’m hard for her

thatdisasterauthor

Reminds me of my coworker who, whenever she sees a Tesla at a gas station or something, she’ll look over and go “Wow! The new Toyotas look really cool!”

The drivers LOSE THEIR MINDS.

elfwreck

There was a quote in the original Sharks Are Smooth As Hell thread (which I can’t find, at least not with this comment, attributed to raptorific): Apparently for dudes who’ve got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, “someone who’s wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they’re smarter than you” is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you’re just fucking with them, and as long as you don’t admit you’re fucking with them or acknowledge that there’s anything Off about what you’re saying, they won’t be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won’t be able to see that will literally never happen.