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Everyone is talking about the end of the decade like it's only a couple weeks away and I don't understand because it is literally still 2016.
Are we all just pretending that 2016 actually ended when it was supposed to and we're not in some fucked up Twilight Zone time loop?
its been like 5 years can we all agree that hamilton was a fake woke liberal wankfest
Remember when someone on tumblr asked around if there was a filmed copy of the show anywhere they could watch online and Lin-Manuel Miranda personally responded and singled them out just to be pointlessly rude to them over it and shame them, lol. Remember how this show prided itself hard on hiring a majority cast of actors/actresses from under-represented races and backgrounds, and how Lin Manuel Miranda preached the importance of this representation, but then simultaneously shamed poor and underprivileged people for watching bootlegs of the show when it is otherwise pretty much only available to the wealthy who can afford the grotesque ticket prices (the crappiest seats currently cost upwards of $150 and that’s not even in NY) and travel costs. If Miranda actually gave a fuck about the under privileged people he soap boxes about the show reaching, he would provide DVD copies of the show for sale or have it air on CBS or something for people to watch. He’s literally been confronted with these arguments before and still turns his nose up because “it’s THEATER so it has to be on STAGE and I MADE IT so I SAY SO” lol. He would literally rather shrug at poor people and continue raking in millions of dollars. Anyways theater continues to be a medium that’s almost exclusively for the wealthy; there will never be a “woke” Broadway musical or play as long as the medium continues to be entirely inaccessible to the lower class.
Not to mention that when it was touring in the US, he had them skip over entire states they had to pass over/through anyway just because none of the sufficiently large venues were aesthetically pretentious enough. There is no real reason you can't put on a Broadway show in a smaller sized concert arena, and there's honestly no real reason you can't put one on in a larger sized community theatre either. Not every unconventional venue of the right general size would be functionally doable obviously, but I sincerely doubt that literally none of them would be.
It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments.
Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society?
You literally can’t.
The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle.
It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon.
I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue.
govts and corporations have deliberately put the onus on yr individual choices so the system can continue being as destructive/profitable
God bless this post this pisses me off so much Also this hyper-individualist shift of responsibility is largely an American thing and consumerism is framed as a solution- e.g., buy more shit that’s sustainable! That’ll fix the problem (buy a new, green water bottle! buy a new, green car! buy a new, green whatever-the-fuck that’ll just ultimately produce more waste)!
I took a course in sustainable engineering.
The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.
The vast majority of freshwater use is from industry and agriculture. http://www.worldometers.info/water/
The vast majority of CO2 emissions is from industrial and electrical generation sites and associated vehicles. http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html
Private individuals hardly make a dent, even in ideal conditions.
Thank you.
Extra important note for spoonies. Please don’t feel bad for needing disposable medical equipment, pill bottles, long showers, micro fiber blankets, packaged pre-made food, straws, paper plates etc. You’re not individually ruining the environment, you’re doing the best you can while taking care of yourself. The blame is on corporations.
This is so important!!!
So many things that people are leaping on bandwagons to ban ARE NEEDED BY DISABLED PEOPLE.
But no one cares! It’s just like the “Opioid Epidemic” and the knee jerk backlash to just cut them off. It’s ridiculous! It’s solving a problem by making another! But hey, it’ll make some people FEEL like they DID SOMETHING, so who cares who gets hurt? Who cares about the critical life threatening damage and death it causes? Because “Epidemic!” Because “straws are bad!” Because because because!
Because Disabled Lives Don’t Matter to Abled People.
That’s it. We’re already a burden to them. We’re already an annoyance. An inconvenience. We’re different, we’re weird, we don’t fit the mold. So, to hell with us! To hell with caring about us. Even thinking about us. Because it’ll save the precious turtles or birds or something. Because taking away everything that helps us survive is the only way to make people feel like they’re doing something about a huge problem like climate change, when it’s really just screwing people whose lives are hard enough.
I will forever reblog posts like this, because it’s SO fucking important.
It’s also interesting how people seem to specifically target the products that disabled people need but get really darn quiet when it comes to the products that abled people just consume for fun. Somehow our lives are inherently wasteful but those of rich people who buy fuel-guzzling private jets and huge caravans…aren’t?
Me: I love Smash! It’s such a fun PARTY game! :)
Competitive Smash Player Still Using a Gamecube Controller in 2018:
Listen I’m still pissed that Smash which started as a fun party brawling game got co-opted by a bunch of dick bag “git gud” assholes who literally took it and tried to turn it into every other fighting game out there.
I just wanna point out that all the “No items, stock only, no stage effects” crew all are complete trash at the game. They’re great at FIGHTING GAMES, but complete Garbage at Smash Bros. Because instead of trying to learn the game, learn to play around the items, learn which stages do what, they just turn it all off (when you first start the game all the items and stage effects are on and you can’t turn them off in any of the modes except multiplayer melee).
And then if you do wanna play with items they try to shame you and claim that you’re “ruining the game” or “cheating” because “you can’t win without using items.” Guess what asswipe the intention is to play with the items that’s why they’re their in the first place for free with the base game.
It’s not my fault you had to dumb down the game to succeed cause you don’t know how to use the fire flower or metal bunny ears correctly.
lmao I love this reply I get so heated about this but I’ve never put it into words. this is a hill I will die on
And they find their way into just about every kind of game! Just for context, for those who don’t know:
In “overwatch,” the character McCree carries a revolver with six bullets. His primary attack shoots one bullet per click with precision control. His secondary attack fires all six bullets in quick succession with massive recoil. One of his abilities is a Stun Grenade which stops you in your tracks for about a half second. When used together with PERFECT timing, this can allow him to kill an enemy in one go without letting them dodge or block the attack.
I once got matched with a teenager who had a full-on meltdown on microphone because our enemy was using this trick— not because he was frustrated at being killed, but because he felt that it was “cheating” to get kills in any way other than “land more headshots than the enemy.” Forgetting the fact that getting kills with any ability and any hero requires solid timing, positioning, and reflexes, he was FURIOUS that someone was using their entire kit instead of just being faster and having better aim.
People like this are essentially insisting on playing with one hand tied behind their back as some sort of power trip to show everyone that they’re better without “unfair advantages” like powerups and special abilities than everyone else is with them. The problem is, they’re NOT better without them than ANYONE is with them, and they throw a little tantrum about unfairness whenever they get beat by someone who doesn’t cut themselves off at the knee. It would be like if there was a football player who refused to wear protective padding because they believe they’re just good enough to avoid getting tackled, but they DO get tackled and complains about how “casuals” are ruining the game by wearing padding that puts them at a massive advantage over the people who are relying solely on the sturdiness of their own body.
Which, maybe that’s true, maybe you would be crushing it in a version of the game that doesn’t include powerups (or protective padding)! Too bad that’s not the game you’re playing!!
Detective on a Jane Doe case: I don’t know who she is, but I know a guy who will.
Akinator:
Is your character real?
Is your character a white female between the ages of 28-35?
Is your character someone who died under mysterious circumstances?
Saw this on FB and I think @warriormale would appreciate it
what the fuck kind of name spelling bullshit is Farha
why are white people so offended by arabic names like ho ur name is gabriella,,, high school musical came out in 2006 it’s not cute anymore
rip gabriella 2006-2016
Gabriella’s far better than Farha
Oh fuckkkkk LMAO
Lmfao. Bruh…. noooooooo
yoooooooooo
I’VE NEVER SEEN FARHA DRAG SOMEONE LIKE THIS
there is no medical component to a trans kid transitioning
if a little trans boy comes out to his parents & is like 4 all youd do for his transition is cut his hair, buy a new wardrobe, & switch pronouns & possibly change names
no one is gonna put a little 4 year old on testosterone OR puberty blockers until theyre actually about to start puberty & then they give them a few years to really decide if they want to start hormones
a trans kid existing isnt “child abuse.” child abuse is refusing to let your kid live their lives as they truly are & forcing them to present as a gender they arent
radfems who interact with this post will be blocked & your argument will not be read or even considered. i do not care about the opinion of a transphobe & my original post still stands.
Why is it?? That I can go through the whole day feeling fine and dandy but the second I lay down for bed impending doom settles on me?
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K so I get part native Canadian, I’m part Native American, but like why deny that blackwashing is a thing? I watched the whole video you linked, I’m just not convinced. Like it’s not fair even if there’s a history of whitewashing. If we’re trying to go for equality, there should be actual-ass equality
Exactly, there should be actual-ass equality. Which there is not, which is why “blackwashing” is not a thing.
Take a look at this graph from this 2017 report:
This is indeed almost identical to the 2016 report:
And the 2015 report:
From one Indigenous person to another, then, how does it feel to you to almost never see yourself on screen? (And I do mean never. The ‘other’ percentages of those graphs broken down further show native peoples rep is 0-1%. Which is why supporting independent film festivals is so important.) How does it feel to you when that number is decreased even further when non-native actors take native roles? That is why whitewashing is so bad on a statistical level, let alone the racism in deciding a white person is better to play a native person than an actual native, of which said roles are often either straight-up about or strongly connected to the character’s nativeness, as further discussed in the video previously linked. [Here it is again for context]This is no different when whitewashing other minorities.
Now, lets for a second pretend that Nick Fury in the MCU isn’t based on the Ultimate comic verse Nick Fury, who is Black. Since people love to use him as an example of quote, “blackwashing.” Take away Sam Jackson’s portrayal of Nick Fury in the first and second Avengers films, and you have a main cast that is entirely white. (Since Wanda and Pietro were also run through the whitewashing machine.) All white men, and one-two white women. Looking at the first film alone since with the added whitewashing things are even worse in Age of Ultron, yeah, this sure would have been accurate to the comic books, (again, pretending this is 616 Fury and not 1610,) but why would you want to be accurate to something that could instead be improved upon? Why would you look at a lack of racial diversity and decide to prioritize keeping the status quo, rather than challenge it?
TL;DR: “Blackwashing,” “brownwashing,” etc. does not exist because it is a false equivalency to whitewashing. It is a false equivalency to whitewashing because white people are not even in the slightest loosing representation when a white character is played by a racial minority, whereas when white people play minority roles, they are taking away from what is already very little representation for us. If we lived in a world where these statistics were not so drastically disproportionate, then there would be something to talk about. But if you are really wanting to support equality, you should focus on equitably supporting those who actually need it, not white people.
Wela’lioq wjit nike’ (thank you all for now).
(If you’re going to reblog anything in this discussion, please make it this. In fact I’d really like to see this reblogged.)
I am currently both a teacher and a student, and I am of the apparently controversial opinion that late work should always be accepted. Not just if they have a doctor’s note or their mom’s death certificate. Not just for one or two assignments a semester. Always.
“But that’s unfair to the people who submitted on time!”
I didn’t say you had to give everybody full credit. Drop the grade for each individual assignment by 5% for every day late until it gets down to 20%. Never, ever take it below 20%.
Here’s my rationale:
1. If you are a good educator, then you created that assignment in the first place because YOU WANTED YOUR STUDENTS TO LEARN SOMETHING. You still want them to have an incentive to complete that learning experience even if it’s not “on time.”
2. You want to prepare your students for the the real world, right? Well, if you missed a deadline (for example, submitting report cards), would your boss throw away everything you’d worked on, dock your paycheck, and tell you to try again next time? No. They would be upset with you, but they would ask you to take time out of your schedule to finish the project as quickly as possible. It wouldn’t cease to exist.
3. Based on point #2, if you are teaching high school or below, not accepting late work is holding children (who by the way, generally do not have full control over their schedules or what materials they have access to) to a higher standard than adults.
4. If you are teaching college or graduate school, you are working with adults who are taking years out of their lives and paying thousands of dollars to learn from you. Why make it harder for them than it already is?
5. You have or will teach students with extenuating life circumstances that they don’t tell you about (e.g. chronic illness, caring for children or sick relatives, abusive relationships) because they are embarrassed to share this information or have already been taught to shut up and stop making excuses.
6. You have or will teach students with learning disabilities that they don’t even know about. I was diagnosed with ADHD in high school after years of being treated like I was just a bad kid. I suffered from depression and anxiety for over ten years before I went on medication. I did not even learn the words “executive dysfunction” until I was in grad school.
In conclusion, yes, we all know that being a teacher gives you authority but that’s no reason to flaunt it by imposing restrictions that don’t exist anywhere else in the name of “education.”
All of this. In addition, I have a private and secret policy of not even imposing late penalties. Between poverty and an undiagnosed circadian adventurousness, my undergraduate career was one gigantic extenuating circumstance, but I was never docked marks when I turned in something late. For me to turn around and not extend the same grace to my students would be both ingratitude and hypocrisy.
I disagree. When a child hands in their work to me, they’ve essentially made an appointment for me to mark their work. As a teacher in England my workload is so high that I have to tightly schedule exactly when and how I’m going to mark assignments. If a student hands it in late, they’ve missed my marking window and I no longer have time to mark it. And if you think I’m exaggerating, think again. I have to schedule every minute of my day, and that includes huge chunks of break and lunch, too. If a child has a genuine extenuating circumstance then I’ll just schedule a little less sleep into my day so that I can mark it late, but I’m not doing that habitually, just because. Like it or not, the majority of the time a student hands their work in late, it isn’t because of some traumatic circumstance. It’s laziness. Additionally, students in England complete external qualifications. I am not even allowed to give extensions unless the student actually gives me a genuine reason. The sooner they get used to that, the better.
Yeah you’re probably a bad teacher and I’m willing to bet your students will suffer lasting damage from the way you treat them. Maybe find a different job.
u know that thing where an animals grow in a far off place and some idiot introduces him to a new habitat and it turns out its characteristics that help them in their own sometimes are too helpful in the new one and they become like an invasive species yeah thats the word i was missing anyway back to my point i think i saw a human version of that just now i was driving in tonights snow storm and i saw a man wearing a big ass cowboy hat to keep the snow off him and a bandit red bandana to keep it off his face and a big ass pancho to keep him warm and nice ass cowboy boots to keep his calves dry and he was prancing along while everyone on the road looked miserable and frozen solid and idk i guess the point im trying to make here is i feel like cowboys would have taken over russia if given the chance or something
cowboys are an invasive species
yeah thats what im saying
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i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Men automatically assume they’re more of an expert on something than any woman on account of their dicks. I’ve never met such an ignorant and narcissistic creature as a male
I’ll never forget a time when a fb friend of mine posted that she’s on her way to hospital to give birth. Women commented with “good luck” and other encouraging messages. A man’s comment was advice on how to give birth.
You have got to be kidding me
So I was talking about Jekyll & Hyde (the book) at a writer’s museum while we were looking at an Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit. I was giving my take on Jekyll, and my brother tried to counter it. I countered back easily, and then he said “well I’ve never read the book”
My dude………..stop
my ex, whose baking experience was pretty much limited to frying premade biscuit dough in boy scouts to make ‘donuts’, would constantly try to correct me or give me advice on baking
i’m a fucking pastry chef
met a dude at a party who was talking about physics and asked if i’d ever listened to any online physics lectures bc he listened to all of this one series and they were so helpful and maybe i could learn some physics too
i have a degree in physics
and am a published coauthor in astrophysics
the best part is that the woman who invented the term ‘mansplaining’ (her name is Rebecca Solnit and i highly recommend her collection of essays) came up with it when she was at a party one night and a man tried to explain a book to her, and wouldn’t let her speak long enough for her to tell him that
she wrote the bloody book he was mansplaining to her
You know I have plenty examples of this but that last one takes the cake so imma just let it be.
