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or whatever. Haven’t been able to sign into this account in what feels like years. Might have literally been years at this point TBH, everything after about 2016 is an ugly blur these days. In the unlikely event you noticed my absence: hi.
When you remember the anti-vax movement
I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.
Ur right and u should say it
Reading this in 2021
Sometimes it feels like if it weren’t for gallows humor, we’d never have a chance to laugh.
Fun fact: after the American Physical Society held their 1986 annual meeting at the MGM Grand, the entire city of Las Vegas politely asked APS to never, ever come back.
Was it because the physicists were super-smart MIT-blackjack-team forerunners who took the casino for everything it was worth? Actually, the complete opposite: they didn’t gamble. At all. After all, they knew their statistics. Most of them were broke grad students who had no intention of throwing away their stipends on fundamental misunderstandings of Poisson processes. As a result the casino gaming floor was dead. Sometimes the winning move really is not to play.
Me the only time I’ve ever been to Vegas - had one beer and didn’t gamble a cent. Funny thing is, they happily welcome back hacker cons, and you’d think hackers would be at LEAST as aware of probability. Apparently not!
When I was a kid living in LA, we went to Vegas pretty regularly, since it was only about 4 hours away. My parents would find coupons in the LA Times in the off season and we’d go for a few days. Our whole family could stay in one of the fancy Strip hotels for like $20 a night, and there were $5 all-you-could-eat buffets with actually good food. Plus the arcades were amazing. And so was the hiking! Which is what we were really there for. Red Rock Canyon, with all its tiny caves that you can easily climb up to, is amazingly fun when you’re a little kid. Our vacations were very much subsidized by gamblers.
Relatedly, one time when I was a kid, a large chunk of my extended family went on a cruise to see an eclipse. Everyone on the cruise was scientists or science hobbyists. The crew didn’t know what to do with us! Everyone wanted the 6 pm dinner, no one wanted the 10 pm dinner that you had to dress up for. The casino was empty for the entire week. A group of passengers demanded that all the lights on the deck be turned off at night, even the pretty decorative ones, for at least an hour and preferably more, every single night. One night at dinner, my grandmother saw dolphins out the window, and as word spread the entire dining room emptied, even though it was still the middle of dinner. And that’s not even getting into how my grandfather started talking to the cleaning staff (who were not supposed to talk back) and found out they wouldn’t be let off work to see the eclipse, and within hours had formed an entire committee to go with him to demand to speak to the captain about this mistreatment of the staff.
There are… a lot of places where large groups of scientists probably aren’t welcome a second time.
my people
i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much
i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get
Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook
not comprehensive but heres some:
internet shaquille's basics but especially:
food safety + a recipe to demonstrate
how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)
a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles
and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:
again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics
recently my mother was telling my daughter that she needs to select home ecenomics as an elective for her next semester of high school i had to stop her there because they stopped calling it home economics back when -I- went to highschool in the 90s, and for good reason calling it home economics has two main reactions- boys who think its a class for girls and thus dont take it, and girls who think the concept of a home economics class is sexist and dont take it so when i was in high school they had broken it up into several specialized classes that take themselves seriously so that students know its about valuable life skills such as ‘enjoying light meals’, ‘light engine maitenence’, ‘repair and maitenence’, and some other class i forget the name of but really as it was about the finances of daily living its the only one that couldve justified the term ‘home economics’ but that name has been ruined so it sounded more like a junior accounting course so picture me, average 15 year old boy, hearing there is a class where you get to eat, and i can select this class instead of going to a sport where i will injure and embarrass myself, and how eager i was to learn the ins and outs of the kitchen to the point where i actually can make crepes from memory and have an interesting story regarding the day we as a class had to produce 3 separate crepe batches of desert, breakfast, and savory fillings so the savory filling happened to be beef stroganof. i tried to take the ‘learn how cars work’ class as well because thats actually a dirrect upgrade that was not in original home economics as well as a life skill for everyone, but the experience was ruined as the class was entirely gearheads so the teacher assumed everyone present did not need, you know, an introduction to what the fuck was going on and thought he could just trust yall to disassemble this here chevvy and strew its engine block across a table and i had to drop out nobody will expect you to use about 80% of the facts you learned in high school for the rest of your life outside of special cases, but i can guarantee you that memorizing how to make passable crepes is a skill you can exploit furthermore historically speaking home economics was a major, and i mean major boon to society at large, the united states board of home economics did some amazing things like proving mathematically how much time the average ‘housewife’ spent laboring during the 20s-40s and then said ‘if an 80 hour week is not a full time job then what is?’ in a nearly impossible to rebutt way, developed and distributed new recipes, gardening guides, home and commercial canning and preserving research and development to advance the science of not giving the populace food poisoning, developed and distributed clothing designs that were intended to be made at home but have since become the standard patterns for most workwear for about fourty years, did more to help people survive the great depression then 3 presidents, figured out what nutritional requirements humans actually have, how to clean things without creating mustard gas, and a hundred other quality of life advancements that get forgotten because they are more widely known for teaching schoolgirls in the 50s and 60s how to sew a button on their future husbands shirt if your grandma or great grandma knew anything useful, its more likely she learned it from the department of home economics then their own parents
You know, I know we need more and more math to survive in today's world, but removing all practical subjects from school is not the way to teach that. It just makes math into an abstract field that it is hard to see any use for.
Can you imagine if we actually integrated lesson plans across subjects, so we could learn fractions at the same time we're learning how to double a recipe in home ec? Or learning the formula for converting cm to inches as you're doing woodworking or textile crafts?
Like, there are so many things we can do, so many ways we could make knowledge and learning fun, and it really pisses me off that, in the current educational system, so many kids feel like they hate learning.
all high school algebra classes should include a field trip to both a grocery store and one of those rent-to-own furniture places more advanced math classes could arrive at a payday loan, perhaps with pitchforks
If you type, write, draw, game, or generally use your hands a lot (especially if you’re prone to RSI or Carpal Tunnel!) try these stretches as both a preventative measure, and on the spot relief. Take care of yourself and your body, friends!
Start with hands up, fingers stretched out. Stretch your thumb as far as you can over your palm. Hold and repeat 4 times.
Touch each finger to your thumb. Hold each for 30 seconds. Repeat on each hand 4 times.
Start with a fist. Open half way, hold for 2 seconds. Stretch fingers out, hold for 2 seconds. Repeat 4 times.
Start with one arm out, palm up. Pull your fingers back with your other hand. Hold for 10 seconds. Do the same with your other hand. Repeat 4 times
Start with arms up, palms out. Bend wrists down until you feel the stretch, but keep your fingers loose. Hold 10 seconds. Bend wrist upwards, until you feel it in your wrist and arm. Hold 10 seconds. Repeat 4 times.
yall: i support people with ADHD!! yall when an ADHD character shows any symptoms beyond uwu hyperactive: lol this character is so annoying. they should die
hey reblog this actually
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you can’t be assed to repeat yourself when they don’t hear you
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you’re going to mock them later on for being annoying
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you assume everyone with it is childish or unintelligent
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you mock them for stimming, having a hyperfixation or being forgetful
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you mock or ridicule people for the things it entails.
If I may add:
don’t say you support people with ADHD if your support begins and ends with teenagers.
Adults have ADHD too (and afab adults are often undiagnosed and untreated).
Adults have hyperfixations and audio processing issues and difficulty with memory and sensory issues.
Adults stim and experience RSD and have difficulty with punctuality because ‘time’ is not a concept our brains understand.
If you claim to support people with ADHD then mock adults as ‘cringey’ when they don’t magically stop being ADHD after they grow up, then you don’t support people with ADHD.
Louder for the people at the back!
I don’t mean to derail the thread, but I remember being told that only autistic people are “allowed” to stim (and I’m still shaky on what that actually is). Has that changed, or was I told that by a shitty gatekeeper or something?? I’m very confused about the whole issue and it’s frustrating.
When most people hear “stimulant seeking behavior” about ADHD, they tend to think strictly of coffee or drugs, when in actuality, our tendencies to fidget and bounce around is also stimuli seeking behavior. It’s also the trait people find most annoying about us and go out of their way to deprive us of stimuli, which, uh, doesn’t always work out how they hope.
For those of us who aren’t outwardly hyperactive but are mentally hyperactive (hi), mental forms of stimuli-seeking behavior can be the classic “watching a movie on tv and scrolling on your phone because one isn’t enough to hold my attention and yes, I’m paying attention to both, yes I am listening to you, please don’t shut that off.”
Music/audio, scents, and physical feedback can also serve as stims. I’ve found through working with my ADHD specialist that bilateral stimulation can help slow my brain down enough to focus, even amid a hyperfixation. It doesn’t always work, but it’s still helpful.
So yes, ADHD’rs stim. I’m going to be kind and say the person you spoke to was either misinformed about the many overlaps between neurodivergencies or has been hurt by NTs either trying to take their stims away or coopting them as fun toys to show how they don’t work and is understandably defensive.
yall: i support people with ADHD!! yall when an ADHD character shows any symptoms beyond uwu hyperactive: lol this character is so annoying. they should die
hey reblog this actually
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you can’t be assed to repeat yourself when they don’t hear you
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you’re going to mock them later on for being annoying
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you assume everyone with it is childish or unintelligent
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you mock them for stimming, having a hyperfixation or being forgetful
don’t say you support people with ADHD if you mock or ridicule people for the things it entails.
If I may add:
don’t say you support people with ADHD if your support begins and ends with teenagers.
Adults have ADHD too (and afab adults are often undiagnosed and untreated).
Adults have hyperfixations and audio processing issues and difficulty with memory and sensory issues.
Adults stim and experience RSD and have difficulty with punctuality because ‘time’ is not a concept our brains understand.
If you claim to support people with ADHD then mock adults as ‘cringey’ when they don’t magically stop being ADHD after they grow up, then you don’t support people with ADHD.
Louder for the people at the back!
I found a thread and decided… Hm… Maybe a need a little bit of sin afterall…
Renegade Legends, Prologue Page 6, is up on all of my platforms! Know anyone who likes webcomics, fantasy, marker art, or some unholy combination of all three? Pass it on!
DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/pointy-eared-fiend/art/Renegade-Legends-Prologue-Page-06-880314970
Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Renegade-Legends
Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/renegade-legends/prologue-page-6/viewer?title_no=628461&episode_no=7
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Why would you hide that in the notes
Hold off on the McChicken. Support fast food workers.
The strike is set for May 19 in the following cities:
Ya lo ha hecho más de una vez
Master of his craft.
Just a reminder for the people who need it: that shit is considered ‘unskilled labor’ by most. I don’t think I need to explain what a mountain of bullshit that is, and it isn’t any less true for other ‘unskilled’ jobs.
hanging out with other ADHD people is such a balm. i can interrupt them midsentence and go “look at that nice duck!!” and they’ll immediately turn around and go “oh my god that is a GOOD duck” instead of just snapping at me to pay attention
And then we can immediately go back to what we were talking about without transition
Hunger Pangs has ruined me. I can’t read a romance that features multiple ships or a love triangle anymore without a voice in the back of my head chanting “polycule polycule polycule”
Welcome to the inside of my head lol
Glad you enjoyed it!
everyone’s debating posts of the decade, best and worst, and i have yet to see anyone mention moon moon
for those who were not on here to experience this ridiculousness
Seriously. It caused so many memes.
Truly the greatest meme of our generation
I'm dying. I saw the original, but I've never seen any of the others. God bless you, Moon Moon.
MOON MOON WAS THE BEST
did not expect to see moon moon today
