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not to needlessly pathologize anyone but i do think it's kind of odd when someone tries to apply reasoning to conservative people (especially their family members or parents) like "they just don't care or want to learn" and then describe someone who very seriously sounds like they have a severely fixed mindset, probably by nature of growing up extremely sheltered in an environment where critical thinking was equated with unacceptable dissent, threatened with punishment and discouraged by being told that if you do X, you're evil and gonna suffer endless pain in the afterlife. and this is all barring any mental illness or other trauma playing a factor.

speaking from experience, growing up in an environment anything like this, there are basically 2 general outcomes to adulthood:

you manage to enlighten yourself, either by accident or through the availability of resources or a community that the generation before you probably didn't have, grow a thick layer of resentment and work to unlearn it and help other people understand how to unlearn it too.

or you surrender out of self preservation and fear, accept that it's reality and work to adopt every last bit of what you've been taught into your worldview to protect yourself as much as possible from a fate worse than this (and what could be worse than this?).

then you grow older, maybe you have kids you want to protect from the same fate, and suddenly authoritarianism feels like a place to call home when you spent your whole life growing up in an authoritarian household.

sure, you can call them a "bad person" if you want to analyze their beliefs and look at the harm those beliefs inevitably cause when adopted and implemented by way of government policy. but i find it odd that liberals have this permanent block on understanding the ways in which we are the result of our material conditioning and environments that we grew up in. it doesn't excuse causing direct harm or being a hateful bigot. but it does help contextualize why people feel this way beyond "they're just evil."

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kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

aloeverawrites

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

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parkchanwoohoo

Remembering when people used to write guides for how to make your character not a Mary Sue. Setting aside the misogyny and just how dumb/boring all that shit was, you hardly needed a GUIDE. The best female characters are raging assholes. It's so easy. That's step one and you're done baby

ward201

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parkchanwoohoo

teaboot

I tap the mic. “Most people don’t want to crawl down your chimney and steal your dog.”

the crowd murmurs uncertainly.

“If someone wants to steal your dog,” I continue, “there are easier ways to do that. They don’t have to crawl into a chimney.”

Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.

“People disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,” I shout. “Literally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?”

“I have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!” Someone yells, throwing a shoe.

“You seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?” Another cries.

“Only a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!” Says a third.

A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid

This is a metaphor

derinthescarletpescatarian

Probably gonna clean out my chest freezer soon. Excited to see what products are int he bottom that I've forgotten about.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I'm gonna clean it out because I want to use baskets in a rotating system to prevent stuff from getting lost in the bottom in the future. Will this system work? No. No it will not. Nevertheless, we continue.

jazzhaaaands

Its the effort you are putting in to make the system in the first place, i bet you can keep it up once you get started

I believe in you! Whatever you choose to do you can!!!

derinthescarletpescatarian

If organisational systems worked because I chose to do them then I'm know where all my scissors are right now

amemait

Really deep liftable wire baskets?

derinthescarletpescatarian

I wanted to but I couldn't find wire ones locally in the right size range :( so I'm having to make do with plastic. Hopefully I can find wire ones before the plastic ones break.

The deep freeze is two basket layers deep so my plan is to fill each layer with a selection of the stuff I intend to use. So I night have, for example, a veg and meat basket and a prepped meal and dessert basket on top, each sitting on the same type of basket below. When a basket is emptied, I rotate it with the one below and I rebuy and refill the empty one and it goes on the bottom. If I find that I'm using up half the stuff in the basket way faster than the other half (if I use up all the veggies when there's still a lot of meat, for example), then I can alter the proportions that I buy accordingly until I find the spot where I'm using up everything in the basket at approximately the same time.

This way I should be able to cycle through and use all my stuff instead of forgetting about the pasta sauce I made a year and a half ago that's freezer burned to all shit in the very bottom next to the spring onions I chopped up and froze before it could go bad and never put in anything. There'll be some seasonal stuff like icy poles that won't be consumed regularly enough to rotate but for most stuff it should work fine.

ward201

I suggest storing the scissors in your cheek pouches

derinthescarletpescatarian

The only thing more annoying than randos offering unsolicited advice on the internet is randos offering unsolicited advice on the internet that is very bad

derinthescarletpescatarian

Stop telling me to "just go to thrift stores!" when you know dogshit about the op shops in my area. Stop telling me to "just donate food to food banks!" when you know nothing about my food budget or ability to physically go there carrying food or the local laws and standards for donated food. Stop telling me to just drop into the local shops to get something when I post about wanting something at 11pm and you don't know the weather, my current health, how long it takes to walk to the shops or when my shops close. Stop giving me random bullshit unworkable advice about my schedule, my animals, my home organisation, or my ongoing renovations. I Did Not Ask. The next person to cheerfully tell me to make a list or take inconvenient photos of supplies or how to arrange my furniture gets fucking blocked. I've had three and a half decades experience piloting this body and brain and you haven't. Fuck off.

ward201

Hunt down a kangaroo and kill it with your teeth

monidoll

Tip: you can microwave stale croissant for 15-20 seconds and it will become soft and warm and nice. Cut it open, put butter in it. Peace and love

evil-tips

Tip: you can refrigerate stale croissant for 3-6 hours and it will become mushy and cold and unpleasant. It won't cut well, so just put a big clump of cold, hard butter on it. Strife and hatred.

maidthings

Tip: you can do nothing to a stale croissant for any arbitrary length of time and it will remain as is. Do not cut it, or add butter. Stasis and stagnation.

muffinrag

Tip: actually, if you do nothing to a stale croissant, it will grow a fluffy bread mold with many potential colors (white, green, etc), which, if left long enough, will consume the entire croissant for you. I would not advise cutting it. Adding butter may get you a second type of mold. Decay and rot.

everythingfox

Discussing baby’s future

melodiusfaux

They are both doing the "I want" chitter. They very much want to get up, but they have a sleeping baby cuddling with them. They must endure, but they will not be silent about it

pb-dot

Well well well, kitties. Looks like you want to get up but there's a little cat on you so you can't. Very frustrating situation there, can't imagine the burden of being held down by a little adorable kittycat. Couldn't, as the kids say, be me.

uncahier

Tumblr needed to see this

batsarebetterthanpeople

Saying that a certain group of people is too privileged to complain about the way that things are is its own sort of defense of the status quo

batsarebetterthanpeople

Like if a white person from the American suburbs who had doctors for parents says "the suburbs are set up in a way that's designed to alienate the people within them from their neighbors growing up there can be an incredibly lonely isolating experience" and you respond with "shut up you had everything you ever wanted growing up" you are sort of pretending that this asocial way of living we've set up based on harmful ideas like castle doctrine and individualism is in some way desirable for someone when the reality of the situation is that everyone is miserable.

sugarcoatednightshade

Same thing with the patriarchy. Men often complain about feeling lonely and alienated from society because our society encourages men to bottle up their emotions and treat everyone around them like property. The patriarchy hurts men too, and while complaints about the “male loneliness epidemic” might sound obnoxious, these men really are experiencing a real problem. It’s just that they often misidentify the cause.

mzminola

/looking at attitudes towards mutations in both verses/

So hey what happens when we combine the Vorkosigan Saga with The Witcher?

bogleech

this is like just a fourth of a whole musical medley addressing that you can’t live like the simpsons anymore. harsh :(

kisselexy

DID MODERN SIMPSONS JUST DROP A WELL PRESENTED TRUTH BOMB

asteroidtroglodyte

YO WHAT THE FUCK THE SIMPSONS REALLY JUST LAYING IT ALL OUT THERE

stupidjewishwhiteboy

I appreciate that they actually got Robert Reich to participate (although I imagine he was easy to persuade as his whole shtick is this kind of thing)