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Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

sea-salted-wolverine

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

sea-salted-wolverine

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

muffinlance

If your answer to any of those was "no", I cannot emphasize enough that this isn't just "bummer, guess it's gone forever". You can get that mobility back, it is actually very achievable with the right modifications for your level!

This is the very simple "starting from zero muscles" program I followed, highly recommend it or something similar:

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wallkett

I need to fix my human . Cause ive lost so much

sluttynurse

imagine if public transit ran 24/7........ in my beautiful world

userfpurteen

lizardsfromspace

The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact

thehalfricanhoodpoet-deactivate

I hope Black girls with anxiety have a good day today.

antiblackness-archive

I hope Black girls with depression have a good day today.

beeorchids-moved-deactivated201

I hope black girls with PTSD have a good day

freshest-tittymilk

I hope black girls with body dysmorphia have a good day

thereluctantwife

I hope black girls with verbally abusive parents gave a good day

dittohasadhd

I hope autistic black girls and black girls with ADHD have a good day

midnight-soulless-system

I hope black girls with schizospec and/or personality disoders have a good day today

peanut-jelly

i hope all mentally ill and or disabled black girls have a good day

uriigamii

I hope chronically ill & people pleasing Black girls have a good day today 🫂

thiccerthanaravioli

I hope black trans girls have a good day today

kisskiss-where-is-season-two

My ides tiramisu, if you even care

recklesslyinfatuated2

Oh, my word we care.

komy-0o

Shooting Stars 💫✨🤍

prettycottonmouthlamia

is she REALLY a failgirl loser or does she not meet the baseline competency you've assigned a woman

prettycottonmouthlamia

women characters will be competent workers and then go home and dress in baggy clothes and live in a mildly messy house and drink booze and people will trip over themselves to call her a loser

no-name-was-free

Usopp is the best or the second best of the crew in most non-combative tasks. Follow me: Banchina was a single mother that knew would die in a few years, and she sure as hell made sure her son was ready to survive after that. She taught him how to cook, sew, clean, fix things, medicate small wounds and so on and Usopp is a fast learner.

So now he’s the one to cook when Sanji need (or is forced to take) a day of rest; he’s the one cleaning arround, helping with laundry, he’s the one you go to if you cut yourself doing something stupid and don’t want to get scolded by chopper, he’s the one to sew back the crew’s clothes when they get ruined, he’s the one doing all those little things and everyone love him for that. They love him so much! Usopp really needs more love.

april

ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

iwantadamusername

⚠︎ Tip

Nap lengths are always randomised.

louizee-ly-yours

Kiss Cam at the game ❤️ Go Kuja Empresses, go !!!

tsarina-anadyomene

i'm not really sure we have a clear sense of what colleges are for

tsarina-anadyomene

We're heading in a direction where we're stuck in this prolonged credentialing system, where people get basically the same jobs with a college diploma that a high school diploma would have gotten you a generation or two ago. The college degree just serves to filter some moderately increased amount of discipline necessary not to completely fuck things up. But we're sacrificing four years that you could spend doing other things to this process.

Colleges are good to fund insofar as governments have an obligation to care not just about the survival but flourishing of their citizens. And I think in some ways college education can be genuinely conducive to that. It can hone your thinking, appreciation, give you new tools of reasoning, argumentation, analysis, etc. I won't say "critical thinking" because it's a handwaving phrase that sometimes seems to approach magic. In philosophy at least students seem to come out thinking demonstrably more clearly than when they came in. If nothing else, they're more articulate.

But it seems like the incentive structure is moving away from that. Undergraduate education is something everyone has to do, so it feels like more of high school where you don't really care and your interest in learning is basically nonexistent. Increasingly we see the softening of requirements, the easing of reading classics or influential recent work in favor of "accessible" texts and so on. And there is something to be said for accessible texts, but if you're going somewhere to learn and achieve things, then you should expected to work hard at understanding something. Many students want things spoonfed to them and will get angry if that expectation isn't met. I mean there are still (and probably always will be) students who go above and beyond and really take things seriously. But I fear they are becoming a smaller and smaller minority. It's anecdotal but pretty much everyone I talk to seems to think students are getting worse at doing their jobs as students.

gattsuru

I will also add that, not only has undergraduate education gotten worse at teaching people to understand (and learn to understand) things, it's also gotten vastly more expensive. The counterargument to the old conservative trope about majors in 'underwater basketweaving', after noting that dry reeds are not very pliable, is that it could well be fun, and worthwhile to learn. The counterargument to that is that you could hire an individualized tutor and several exotic cats for less than a semester of the average private college, and either the tutor or the cats could teach you more about how to weave.

(from here, do not buy exotic cats as pets)

Now, that's a funny illustration, but it's a lie, and not just because exotic cats cost a lot of upkeep and fall just behind horses in 'valid to eat fingers' count, and only if you use absolute measure rather than per-cat-i-paw.

It's a lie because if you want to hire an adjunct to personally tutor you, you'd have to pay out of pocket. Wash the money through a giant and hilariously inefficient system of administrators and corrupt officials, though, and... you'll either depend on a large pile of not-always-available subsidies or end up with a vastly greater pile of college debt that you can't pay with your degree, but the bill only comes due much later.

Don't worry, it's still more expensive after adjusting for inflation. Wait, did I say 'don't' worry?

Now, in a sane world, we'd have organizations that try to optimize for teaching people skills and the wonder of learning and self-improvement in an efficient manner, rather than gilding the lilies of three million Deans and an oversized set of very ugly architecture. And those organizations do exist! Local MakerSpaces, Arts Centers, and various skilled civic organizations do a lot of good work for less than the cost of a tiger. I've even volunteered for a few, and bought services from more.

((The latter is part of why I'm sure I'm not going to be able to practically learn to draw. No educational system can make a miracle happen.))

But you can't take a certificate from one of them, and go to a job fair, and expect anything but getting laughed out of the building. So a twentieth of the US economy is vanishing up its own ass.

hst3000

Tuition and academic testing were the gatekeeping to universities. Rigor and difficulty to graduate was gatekeeping for the degree.

Requiring a degree was companies buying that gate. They didn't have to filter a person's competence, the college did that for them.

But now anyone can 'afford' to go to college and the academic barriers are laughable. The degree means nothing because it literally MEANS NOTHING. The fact you have a degree tells the employer nothing except you enrolled in a college for 3-5 years.

Why would you expect a credential anyone can get to mean anything to anyone?

theconstitutionisgayculture

One of my dad's favorite stories is from his time working at IBM in the 70s. I've told it here before, so I'll keep it short and get to the point. Basically, IBM hired a bunch of MBAs and put them in entry level data entry jobs where my dad then had to train them how to do those jobs because their college classes did not teach them how to do entry level data entry. Essentially, these people paid thousands and went to school for four years with the expectation that they would get high paying upper level jobs, then got stuck with the same job they would have gotten if they'd been hired straight out of high school, complete with on the job training. The higher ups at the company didn't want to hire a bunch of managers though. They wanted to be able to say "X percentage of our employees are college graduates."

And that's what college is now. It's a debt factory that gives you a piece of paper that, if you're lucky, gets you an entry level job in your chosen field. But most jobs can be done without a degree. All you need is on the job training. For things where specialization is important, college makes sense, but it's never made sense to funnel everyone from high school straight to college. That leaves you with a bunch of 16-18 year olds being told they need to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives right now because college applications are coming up fast and they need to get them in or risk being--le gasp!--left behind. Which leads to kids choosing any degree that sounds easy or interesting because they're told that it's the college degree that matters. Not the skills you learn. That's where the joke about "underwater basket weaving" comes from, btw. It's highlighting the silliness of many college courses that have zero application in the real job market and zero marketable skills, but still put people into debt that they have to pay off for 20 years.

College as it exists now is one of the biggest and most well organized scams in operation.

the-davest-of-uncles

^^^^^ Far too many majors result in useless vanity degrees, preparing kids only to teach in that field...and no matter the subject, that market is saturated...or work in retail or food service.

tired-stressed-trying-my-best

I used to know this girl who was an illustration major, and her fiance was as well. when I first met them, their goal was to start their own little animation studio after they graduated. but as the wedding approached and they started making a more detailed plan for the future, it slowly changed until they decided that after they got married they would drop out at the end of the semester, they'd move somewhere with a lower cost of living, she would go back to working as a bank teller to keep them afloat financially while he went to trade school to become a welder, and they would do little animation projects together every now and then as a hobby. I think they made the right call.

there are things worth learning that are not worth going to college for, and definitely not worth majoring in. by all means, learn to play the violin! but don't major in violin performance. you wanna learn philosophy, then be my guest; I'm sure your local library has plenty of books on the subject. there are fields where a degree matters—I'd prefer to have a doctor that went to medical school, thanks—but if the degree isn't going to meaningfully increase your earnings potential, don't get it. and if it is going to meaningfully increase your earnings potential, get it at a college that you can afford.

and for heaven's sake, take a gap year, or two, or three. get a job. save some money. figure out what you want to do with your life. not only are you not falling behind by doing so, you're arguably getting ahead by getting workplace experience and building up savings.

theconstitutionisgayculture

there are fields where a degree matters—I'd prefer to have a doctor that went to medical school, thanks

Reblogging again to highlight this part because we're very quickly approaching a crisis point where doctors who AI cheated their way through medical school are going to be in ERs and hospitals. We already have doctors who use ChatGPT to "diagnose" patients. It's going to be so much worse when the current and next crop of doctors graduate and have no idea what they're doing in a real life situation. They're going to need to shadow actual trained doctors around and learn in small groups the way doctors used to be taught in the 1700s.

quasi-normalcy

Pleased to learn that the FoxTrot guy has gone the polar opposite direction from the Dilbert guy.

quasi-normalcy

This one made me laugh until I coughed.

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yellbug

i am so absolutely utterly scared that my insane grandfather in his 80s who runs miles every morning is going to leave me a bird in his will and i am especially scared he is going to leave me a large cockatoo named "captain hook". hook has been trying to make me his child bride since i was like 6 years old and every time i see him again which has only been a couple times with decades in between hook is like "you. it's always been you. ever since you were born i've known we were meant to be" captain hook you are a bird and i am a LESBIAN and i don't WANT an eternal sentinel captain HOOK!!!!!!!

yellbug

WAS TOLD AT CHRISTMAS DINNER THAT THIS IS INDEED REAL, AND THAT I AM IN THE WILL TO RECIEVE THE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER 👏 STOP 👏 BEINGSCARED 👏

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