Pass out

"Helps me focus, ADHD"

No real effect, unless combined with alcohol in which case it will perk me up for exactly one hour before I crash into a haze of intense sleepiness. not ADHD (probably), autistic,

Unpopular opinion: All games should have the option to enable pausing.

And to save almost everywhere.

Yes even in soulslike games.

I am an adult who has a full time job and responsibilities. I get to play maybe an hour a week. I do not want to lose that hour of progress because devs decided 'pause' was not allowed in their game and I had sudden unexpected things come up that meant I had to quit the game without saving/leave it playing and hope enemies wouldn't respawn.

Also it would massively increase accessability. I have fully working non-injured hands and they still need a break after a tough boss fight. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for people with joint pain, arthritis, etc, etc.

Feel free to require to not pause the game while going through menus and inventory and stuff.

Just give me a seperate button that pauses the game, with the word 'pause' written ont he screen while it's paused. And if the game is animal themed maybe have it display 'paws' rather than 'pause'. So I can go to the bathroom.

Feel free to delete that save when I load the game if it wasn't done at a dedicated save point.

Just let me quit out of the software whenever I need to.

An important message to heterosexuals, listen carefully: you do not, and I repeat do NOT, have to marry someone you actively dislike, don't enjoy spending time with and/or whose hobbies you despise. You do not have to do that!! stop doing that!!!

"hahaha I hate my wife and made an entire room of the house dedicated to evading her company"

"hahaha I hate my husband and I drink industrial quantities of wine to cope with having had kids with him"

MAYBE STOP?

Hi. I’m sorry. But literally as I was reblogging this the lady being interviewed in the doc I’m watching said something like “oh ya know, it was normal girl talk stuff like all about how terrible husbands are.” And I. Yup.

When I casually mentioned watching something with my spouse to my massage therapist he was absolutely flabbergasted we do that together. Even more so when we would still hang out and watch even if we didn’t care for the show the other liked just so we could be together after a day apart.

Or how we’d play games together. Or how we shared a large portion of our friend group.

And I just.... how... how else do you live with the person you decided to build your life with?

I have seen a distressing amount of married folks who legitimately just.... don’t care for their spouses at all. Like, they tolerate them, at best.

It’s not even like these are old married couples, where things changed or the magic faded or they grew apart, but relatively young folks in their 20s and 30s and their relationships were like this before they even got married.

I just don’t see the point if you don’t even enjoy one another’s company.

It's good to have hobbies you do separately so that you're not with your partner in 100% of your free time, but you absolutely have to spend time together as well.

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

How fucking old are you people?

normal amount

You see, there used to be a time (not all that long ago) when being offline was the default. And going online was the rare and wonderful thing that we (briefly) enjoyed.

It even came with happy modem noises.

They weren't happy noises.

They were polite and reasonable noises! The sound of protocol being followed! Negotiation and compromise!

The box would scream

Of happiness

...It was fine.

It's not like it was loading a game from a magnetic tape...

im in a painful poll mood lately sorry

Boiling with rage at all of these in different ways.

I hate the “curtains are blue” one but NOT for the usual reasons.

Sometimes the curtains are just blue and all deeper meaning to the choice is purely coming from the viewer. Which isn’t wrong, IMO, since creator intent is not the only lens through which to view art.

But I think it’s important to remember that sometimes symbolism is deliberate, sometimes its accidental, and sometimes it legitimately is just “the viewer projecting their own experiences onto the work and seeing something as deeper than it is”. (Also sometimes the symbolism exists but it means something very different than what the viewer is getting because the piece originates from a time and/or culture sufficiently different to their own that attached meanings to certain choices and depictions aren’t the same as what the viewer is familiar with)

I have zero issue with "My interpretation of the work, the curtains being blue means..."

...I just tend to find "The author made the curtains blue because..." frustrating due to it feeling like there's an assumption of insight into the author's mind that the author themselves might not have.

And I'll tend to assume people mean the former - my interpretation of their analysis, if you like - unless they specify the latter, since the latter feels like it's just... How do you have interesting conversation about the meaning of a work if we're just playing a one-upmanship game of who can guess the author's intent closest? I don't care what someone thinks the author is trying to say, I want to know what the piece is saying to them, you know? (And also prefer to engage with dialogue with the work rather than with an imaginary version of the author that exists only in my head)

Life hacks

ancient relics

These things didn’t happen that long ago!!!!!!

What is this ‘call waiting’ of which you speak? Our phone would go to engaged if we tried to dial someone on the phone and we didn’t get any notification if someone tried to phone us while we were on it.

people who make fun of autistic people are no longer allowed to use slime, weighted blankets, stress balls, or anything similar that originated and/or was popularized by the autistic community.

i very much agree, however, may i also propose:

Insulin costs like $5 to make. This is murder.

“Insulin has become so expensive…” Insulin doesn’t “become” expensive. Three pharma companies set the price: Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi. Their CEOs are: David A. Ricks ($16m/year), Lars F. Jørgensen ($3.5m/year), Olivier Brandicourt ($11.8m/year).

Buddy.

Pal.

“I’m deliberately not including [visible minority] in this setting because I don’t want to make it political” is itself a political stance.

I’m so goddamn mad that oil companies have known climate change is real for decades and did everything to stop people from acting on it. I want to burn their offices down. I want to throw their CEOs into a fucking pit. The world is being destroyed because some filthy rich fucks saw the end coming and figured making money off it was better than saving it. That’s pure evil, plain and simple.

Exxon knew about climate change almost 40 years ago and took steps to suppress the evidence

Likewise Shell.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory, this is a documented historical fact, and people’s heads should literally be rolling for it.

This video, which is a summary of that history, has been haunting me since I saw it – especially since I’m old enough to actually remember all this going down for myself:

(no human-edited captions. But since the narrator is an American Adult Man, the algorithm gets it mostly right)

I’m not saying he would win, but like….I get it

This is an interesting story because people my parents age are like “How dare he” and people my age are like “oh same”

What’s even more interesting is he’s not serious. In India there’s a culture of intense deference to parents. He believes that this is a very unhealthy way for people to live and so he’s using this court case as a way to tell people that the idea of “you must grovel in gratitude to your parents because they brought you into the world and fed and clothed you” is a bad thing and that parents have to feed and clothe you because it’s their damn job and they chose to have you.

He really gets on with his own parents and his mother has publicly voiced her support for him.

Tl;dr: This isn’t incel bullshit like the dude who’s parents evicted him last year, this is a political protest to unhealthy expectations parents have for their children even though he isn’t pressured into those expectations by his own parents.

In Irish, “December” is “Mí na Nollag” which is literally “The Month of Christmas” so I feel completely culturally justified in treating today like the beginning of one long holiday, honestly.

In scottish gaelic its ‘an Dubhlachd’ which effectively means the blackness and i feel like this is one of the fundamental differences between irish and scottish gaelic.

In Welsh it’s “Mis Rhagfyr/rhagfyr” which literally just means “foreshortening (month)” as in the days are short in this month.

Which I think is exactly halfway between the beautiful cheer of gaeilge & the existential dread of gàidhlig.

Hey just a quick reminder

Another quick reminder since i start seeing people saying “UwU both are good” in the tags and reblogs.

Reminder : it doesn’t matter how we portray them, they are dead so like let ppl have fun

But why does it matter dude I know it’s scientifically innacurate but ppl enjoying that innacurate version doesn’t have any negative applications???? Unless dinosaurs were brought back to life and ppl misidentified them or smthn it really has only negative impact keeping ppl from having fun with the fictional lizard dinos

It makes a big difference. People who make models for museums get passed over for projects because the owners don’t want to hear that their precious Jurassic Park lizards were actually weird birds, and “the public won’t get it anyway”. It makes a feedback loop so that even when people are presented with accurate depictions of past animals, they violently reject them. 

Scaly raptors are also a gift to the anti-evolution fanatics, who like to pretend that the rarity of big mainstream feathered dinosaurs is in some way indicative of conflict and confusion in the paleontology community. 

Also science is constantly attacked in popular media and it’s so important we stop questioning knowledge in lieu of popularity. Facts are rarely good news but how we react can be.

i have no problem with giant lizards in works of fantasy... The problem is when things that are purported to be dinosaurs, raptors especially, which aren’t feathery nightmares of death (Not all dinosaurs were feathery nightmares of death, obviously - T-Rex was a scavenger, pleanty of plant eaters - though hippos are very aggresive plant eaters, so you know that doesn’t mean placid either, I’m mostly thinking of various types of raptors there.)

(Also, having had personal close quarters experience of both birds and lizards. Trust me, after having been snuggled by a bearded dragon (she tried to bury herself into my armpit) and attacked by a goose, a hoard of chicken sized feathery death that are pack hunters and will rip my flesh from my bones is much more terrifying than a naked version of such)

any noun can become a verb if you don’t care enough

This point is invalid unless you use an example in your sentence

I CAN SENTENCE HOW I WANT THANK

BEAUTIFUL

you see thats why i love english

I like to velociraptor around my house at 2 in the morning.

GOOD

My headache makes me want to clothesline into a wall

why do these make some semblance of sense 😨

Because brains don’t brain logically

Brains do brain logically! But when english doesn’t logic englishly, brain brains by itself to logic that english !

I hate that this makes sense

I believe this is called verbing a noun. Shakespeare was a fan.

Know your history:

Gay:

LGBT:

Queer:

Homosexual

Think what you want, believe what you will, but every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.

Reblog if you are NOT celebrating April Fools’ Day on your blog.

This means no pranks of any sort, just standard blogging.

anyways, here’s my hot comic take: if you don’t want to use a character, you don’t have to kill them off. You can just make them go do mental health stuff. Like you could say that literally any character in a superhero comic is busy because they went on a year long cruise to avoid having a mental breakdown from the stress the hero life brings and everyone would be like, “yeah, sounds legit.” and then the writer after you doesnt need to bring in some bogus reason why a cool character they want to write was actually alive this whole time. everyone wins!

Or like they could be doing charity work or something! You don’t have to kill them off!

Open their next movie with a montage of them avoiding newspapers and turning off TVs and drinking tea before they finally get back into the game

This is called “put on a bus” and I think we should bring it back in fiction instead of shocking deaths.

To be clear, the ban is only on anyone working in or for any government agency or function. People are free to wear whatever TF they want in their private/personal lives.

I agree with this policy. Religion has no place in our governance. By removing all religious symbols from schools, hospitals, police and other public services they are removing any possible bias or appearances of preference or prevalence - in effect making sure government is purely secular as it should be.

Leveling the playing field should be championed and celebrated, not opposed. Those opposing things like this are self identifying would be tyrants.

People should have a right to express their identities however they wish and any action to prevent that is fascist and xenophobic. It’s not levelling the playing field if you’re telling Sikh men they can’t wear turbans, or Muslim women they can’t wear hijabs or Jewish people they can’t wear Kippas. These are symbols or their identity and we should all have the liberty to express ourselves however the fuck we want.

Why shouldn’t people in government funded jobs of all places be allowed to self express? If appearances make you biased, you are the problem.

Also this policy is literally illegal. It’s unconstitutional. That’s why the Quebec Government used the notwithstanding clause to overrule the Charter of Rights.

This isn’t secularism. It’s government sponsored bigotry.

It is going to lead to an increasingly dangerous climate of islamophobia and xenophobia for marginalized groups.

This is the exact opposite of a policy we should be adopting after the New Zealand Terrorist attack. This others people and creates a two tier system within the public service.

Also, like, highly doubtful any Christian symbols are going to be removed in order to fit this stupid ban.

Not to mention that the followup for Sikh men to “You can’t wear a turban at work” is “Our dress code requires short hair for men.”

At that point they either have to abandon an important tenet of their religion or quit their job.

Yeah, visible Christian symbols are optional.

Visible Sikh symbols are a requirement of the faith.

Even if equally enforced, attempts to ban visible religious symbols in Christian dominated territories aren’t ‘legislating secularism,’ they’re attempts to ban certain religions from public life. But then, doesn’t Quebec have a linguistic ban on non-French languages that ‘coincidentally’ has more of an impact on minority and endangered languages than helping ‘protect French from English’?

UK petition: Allow people to identify outside of 'male' and 'female' on legal documentation

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Opened: 12 February 2019

Deadline: 12 August 2019

Signatures so far: 13,902

Spreadsheet tracking signatures: here