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In a language that contains words like devotion, passion, enthusiasm, love, fascination, obsession, etc., I can’t help but regret this tendency to cram all those meanings into "hyperfixation," a word which manages to pathologize and medicalize the act of having interests.
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ik people get so mad but honest to god the hill i'll die on is that if you are not willing to put in the effort to properly take care of and healthily maintain your pet you should not have one.
I KNOW i know they're comfort animals that bring you lots of benefits, no matter the creature, but some of you guys are literally causing so much fucking harm to your pets it's unreal.
cats are not meant to be fat and are rather athletic animals that need much more enrichment and exercise than most people are even remotely willing to provide them with.
birds require a lot of precise care and are not meant to be touched or pet in places people love to pet them.
reptiles and amphibians have really strict environmental needs and get stressed super easily.
fish need way more space than most people are willing to give them.
rodents need more space and better environments to safely thrive in than what most people are willing to give them.
different dog breeds require vastly different care methods and environments for peak health and functionality.
contrary to popular belief you CAN'T just adopt an animal and give them the bare minimum (food, water, litter box) and call it good. you NEED to know how to take care of them. you completely control the trajectory of their health and safety.
people are out here hurting and killing their pets and acting like they have a god-given right to do so.
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When you think about, the world as most of us recognize it is really no more than 3000 years old. Of course there was writing and civilizations before, of course many of those things reach even us from even before that, but most of what we consider recognizable in the broadest strokes in our current times is at most 3000 years old.
If you think about it, most of Greek philosophy, even as I hate it being considered the first philosophical tradition it's still fundamental to the Western world, is roughly 2500 years old (Thales lived 624-546 BCE). The concept of China as a civilization is also about 3000 years old (Zhou Dynasty), you might stretch it to the Shang Dynasty (3600~ years ago) but anything beyond that probably can't be recognized as China.
And religions, which seem to be those incredibly permanent things? Islam is 1446 years old. Christianity 2000 years old (1992 years, if you believe the dates are correct and Jesus died at 33 years old). Buddhism is roughly 2400-500 years old. Judaism and Hinduism claim to be much, much older, but the series of changes they underwent are of a depth I cannot really even begin to comment on them.
So for virtually all people alive right now, if they were sent just three thousands years in the past (a blink in geological time), you would find nearly nobody who shared anything resembling your language, religion, culture or cosmovision, not even close. Beyond even the technological change. Or just the fact that most people weren't aware of other continents beyond their own.
Just again, something to think about when someone writes about "thousands of years". Even the shortest number that could be encompassed in that statement, three thousand years, yields a completely unrecognizable world.
#I dunno man I think it depends#like I'm Australian#this continent is home to the oldest contiguous human cultures on earth#which are estimated to be between 40 and 60 THOUSAND years old#like it really does depend on the mix of internal and external pressures a culture is experiencing
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My Wife: babe I think my dad might be autistic
Me: your face-blind, emotionally oblivious, picky eater of a father, who has numerous niche interests and the best-organized fly-tackle-box I have ever seen, might be autistic?
My Wife: you knew?
Me: you didn’t?
My Wife: babe I’m not ok I’m having a whole-
Me: you can hear the TVs, babe.
My Wife: What
Me, pointing at the special no-flicker lighting I installed in our house so that we never actually have to have the Big Overhead Light on: babe!
My Wife: … oh my god am I autistic?
Me:
My Wife:
Me: you didn’t know!?
My Wife: YOU DID!?
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i’ve been thinking about this video nonstop since the first time i saw it
the jaunty walk perfectly in time with the music. the tip of the hat the unaware or uncaring bystanders. the shaky camera with random zooming. the fact that this is seemingly happening in a park. this is peak media i can’t get over it
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this was in the notes on the post with the cobra video!
my family is indian but i don't live there, so i'm not a full expert in everyday approaches to cobra-catching. but i did hear a lot of stories about cobras as a kid (both fictional and true stories) (or at least allegedly true stories). and i don't remember any stories about, like, regular mortal humans catching cobras with their hands.

Yeah our snakes are very timid and we're warned to leave them alone and call a professional snake handler. Australian snakes are usually very safe animals (for humans) unless you don't know what to do or you're really far from medical help if you need it, which is why most of the people who die by snakebite here are naive tourists in the middle of buttfuck nowhere.
I don't know enough about cobras to have much of an opinion on that guy's technique but I sure as hell wouldn't be brave enough to bottle a cobra with no protective gear and no stick. He does look like he's done this before though.
#yeah for aussie snakes you should be more worried about your dog#they don't go for humans unless they're shit scared
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I don't know. This is far too reductive, of course, but I kind of think that there is a very real and notable difference between the way that violence was treated in the 1960s Star Trek, which was written in the shadow of nuclear armageddon twenty years after the bloodiest war in human history (and largely by people who had fought in that war), and in the newer series, where the writers' experience of violence comes primarily from action movies and video games.
Like, I think that there's a tendency of people in the present to imagine that people in the past were naive and...I really don't think that history bears this out. I don't think that subversion is always clever just because a trope can be subverted. I think that imagining that your enemy might be an actual moral actor with whom it's possible to reason is actually a great deal more mature than imagining your enemy as a bloodthirsty monster who will kill by nature.
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Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.
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bones and all
“Can you hear me?” he said. “Doctor?” From somewhere in the Doctor’s throat there came a low, rumbling sound. His heart sank. “Oh, you didn’t just growl at me,” he groaned. Once, not long after he’d met the Doctor, they’d landed on some nameless moon with a dense stone forest. There’d been reptilian things living there big enough to swallow a person whole. He remembered staring one in the face. That vast mouth opening, revealing rows of teeth like knives. In that moment he’d understood, fully and viscerally, how it must feel to be a mouse trapped by a cat. It didn’t make any sense, but looking into the Doctor’s eyes was giving him the same sensation. The Doctor gets dosed with nanomachines designed to induce a primal fear response. Gallifreyan basic instincts and human basic instincts are not the same.
#I think it's the chewing#when people do gore they always write about like. ripping and tearing and whatever#but how often have you torn a chunk out of someone's arm with your teeth?#not often I imagine!#there's some figurative distance there#but you KNOW how it feels to chew tender meat#it is a deeply mundane and thereby deeply visceral sensation#you KNOW how it would feel to chew a chunk of arm#and that makes it so so so so SO much worse#anyway great writing OP I had to keep looking away from my phone because it Got Me
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i said it was my favorite piece of media that i’ve hyperfixated on since the tender age of 12 and have not let go of since. i didnt say it was a Good piece of media
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you have been found guilty of faking a personality disorder for online clout now before we send in the venomous and homophobic snakes would you like your final bong hit to be alaskan thunderfuck or white yoda
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#fun fact: those youtube audience proportions are fake#it's just gender stereotyping on ad-based steroids#youtube thinks I'm a guy because I'm into tech and video games
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I believe this whole heartedly with my full chest
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