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Hippopocranuse

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A brand new podcast where your hosts Dr. Ruth Adams and Dr. Cal Meacham break down and discuss things people believe which are totally not made up. Episode 1 is now live.

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Roy Wood, Jr. reacts to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

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for real

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If you can’t reblog this, unfollow me now.

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Wil, I'm a white guy, you're a white guy, how do we help people understand not all white guys are dirtbags? How do we stop other white guys from being such dirtbags? Where can we make a space to educate our fellow white guys about how they are hurting others and themselves by being such dirtbags?

Step one: listen to women, especially women of color.

Step two: listen to non-white people when they tell us how white people screw up.

Step three: act on the things we learn when we listen.

Step four: NEVER NEVER NEVER just go along with some white person who is being a shitty garbage human because you don’t want to rock the boat. Call that shit out, and make sure they know that you won’t just stand there silently while they are racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist, etc. 

Step five: I’m serious about step four. These fuckholes feel empowered and protected by the silent and implied consent of other white people. Do not ever give them comfort or the feeling that they have a safe space to be racist, etc.

Step six: yeah yeah yeah free speech. That’s not the same as speech without consequences.

Step seven: Seriously, step four. You have to speak up, because when you don’t, you’re putting the burden of standing up to horrible white people on the very people they hurt and oppress. 

I’d love to hear from anyone else, especially nonwhite people, who have other things to teach me and my fellow white people.

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That's the same reason why he doesn't acknowledge Radical Islamic Terrorism.

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Self-Made Man

Here’s a message for all the far-right bootstrappers and self-made men out there. Here’s a list of all the things you didn’t do on your own when doing something as simple as making toast:

If you bought the bread at the store, you didn’t make it yourself. You didn’t pave the road yourself which you drove on to get to the store, or collect and process the petroleum that fuels your vehicle, or any of the materials that were used in the construction of your vehicle. You didn’t invent the automobile or any of the basic concepts that make it work.

If you made the bread yourself, you didn’t invent the bread maker you used to make it. You didn’t design or build the toaster. You didn’t invent the electrical components that make it work. You didn’t collect and smelt the minerals used in its construction. You didn’t invent the toaster in the first place.

You probably didn’t build the house you’re standing in. If you did, you probably didn’t collect and machine all the materials involved in making it. You didn’t smelt the metals for the wiring or discover electricity or invent how it could be harnessed to run machines. If you did, you didn’t learn how to do all those things on your own.

If you cooked the bread in the oven, you didn’t invent the oven or gather the gas/electricity used to run the oven. Same goes for if you’re toasting the bread over the stovetop instead of using a toaster. You didn’t create the mechanisms or infrastructure that makes all those things possible.

If you cooked the bread in an earthen oven you built yourself, you didn’t invent the concept of an earthen oven or develop the recipe for your bread completely on your own. You didn’t invent the hand-made tools that you used to construct and operate the earthen oven.

If you’re toasting the bread over an open fire, you didn’t invent the wire frame toaster you’re likely using to do so. You didn’t learn how to make a fire on your own.

Literally everything you do is the result of benefiting from the work of the countless generations that came before you. That’s what society is and how progress works. If you want to be truly self-reliant you would have to become a hermit and live completely separate from civilization in all its forms. And even then, the knowledge you have of how to survive on your own was taught to you by somebody either through direct experience or reading a book.

Get over yourself. We’re all in this together.

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1997: *misplaces a boolean operator while searching AltaVista for local tax code information; ends up on a Geocities fan-page about raccoons*

2017: *Googles “the name of the song from that meme where people spin”; the correct answer is the first result*

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Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

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What’s the most simple thing you’ve ever had to explain to a fully competent adult?

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I feel like the news is going so fast right now that almost everyone missed out on this gem of a story, so here you go