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If they really care they should become engeneers and create a better solution instead of telling people to stop breathing or walking or eating

ableds: having medical hardware and artificial joints is pretty problematic if you think about it. where did the metals come from? how is it sustainable?

ableds: asthma inhalers are damaging to the environment! think about the single use plastics and the propellants!!!

ableds: I get that you’re paralyzed but you don’t REALLY need a straw, do you? think about the poor sea turtles!!!!

also ableds: I just got my 5th monthly mystery box haul of stupid plastic garbage that’s gonna go straight into the landfill once I turn the camera off!!! 😄😝✨😆 #beauty #influencer #overconsumptioncore

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The emo/scene fringe is THE best haircut because it works for all hair lengths, it's androgynous, and if you are lazy to style it you can give it a middle part and get the most perfect combination between a wolfcut and a shag

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Normal people: no... computer is when keyboard and mouse and desktop shaped

Computer scientists losing their minds: why the hell is everyone choosing no? an analog calculator is a computer

Is an ipad a computer?

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yay puters ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

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trams are like if a train and a bus had a baby and then the bus abandoned the family when the tram was just a baby and the train raised it as a hardworking single mother

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love my pumpkin

scary my pumpkin

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i believe that the 'convenience' offered by biometric phone log in serves to acclimate the populace, to make the incredibly invasive everyday. i believe that in my lifetime it will become a standard, just as having the internet and a smartphone and a car are today, perhaps moreso, in that it may become an explicit requirment to obtain employment or even a government requirment. but cant really bring that up in my daily life, people think im crazy.

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Is that a methaphor or is there an actual thing on reddit about people drowning in pools?

If you listen to level one people on r/autism, backyard pools account for 60% of all diagnosed autistic deaths.

I do not like r/autism and don't think that one should learn about disabilities purely from online communities. Mmmaybe instead of mostly anonymous forums and shit, we should prioritize creating a library of high quality resources that we read with academic skepticism.

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People who think that replacing a wild ecosystem (left pic) with a solar plant (right pic) is "good for the environment" are seriously delusional. Solar panels require a global supply chain, (fossil fuel-based) mining and refining of rare-earth minerals, denuding of areas, and regular washing, all of which are extremely ecologically destructive. They also have a relatively short life and become problematic toxic waste afterwards. Humans have existed sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the advent of civilization and thrived - believe it or not - without any of these 'green' energy technologies. If we wish to survive and thrive again we must return to those ways.

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I fucking hate trends I hate how brands and social media take something like an ANIMAL or a FRUIT or a whole ALT SUBCULTURE and overexploit it for marketing for like 3 months to until they make it cringe and banal and no one likes it anymore. It's like someone takes your favorite food and chews it then spits it out in front of you.

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the problem with things like the hijab or drag culture or "trans rights" (as a catchphrase thrown everywhere by liberals) in the west is that they have been made out by the media and in political discourse to be these hyper-symbolic concepts used to embody the political split. so when a liberal or a conservative say they are pro-hijab or anti-hijab, pro-"trans rights" or anti-"trans rights" they are not really engaging with the history of the hijab or women in islam (as diverse as it may be across time space and class), they are not engaging with the content being put behind "trans rights", they are just using these issues as ways to posit themselves on the political spectrum. both sides agree that if you are pro-"trans rights" or "pro-hijab" you are a progressive liberal and if you are against it you are a conservative. but actually neither side is actually putting "trans rights" in the context of a neoliberal economy that makes people feel depressed and disconnected from their body while also encouraging people to buy more consume more resort to the plastic surgery industry (among others more) and of a political landscape where women's rights are being repelled while at the same time gnc people are still being very marginalized or even persecuted in some places; neither side is actually putting the islamic veil in context either, if they did they would realize there are many other things that signal women are being oppressed in many different ways in islam, many of them have nothing to do with the veil but it's the veil that has been consecrated in political discourse as "the" symbol of women's oppression in islam; they are not putting it in the context of imperialism that's been destroying every progressive movement in muslim countries for decades now while also propelling the growth of the muslim far-right or in the context of the economic/social marginalization of muslim communities in the west that has also been used as a ground for muslim fundamentalists to spread misogyny and homophobia. and i think the strength of feminism is that we recognize that positioning yourself as "pro" or "against" something is pretty much pointless and does nothing in the long term, we have to offer a third way that actually acknowledges and analyzes the root cause of women's oppression (as diverse as oppression can manifest itself) because that is the only way we can actually build a liberation movement for women. and this starts by realizing the conservative / liberal split keeps using women's issues to be performative while also undermining the impact of capitalism imperialism and racism on our present society