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oh fuck biden's polling badly!! i gotta go harass minorities on social media

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCshu

Base idea: there is a language which has two alphabets, and their use is gendered. Men use one, women use another.

Like imagine if English but men write only in lowercase and women write only in uppercase.

Or print/cursive.

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it's because when you know even a little bit about the context for why pluto was reclassified you know how absolutely stupid it is to treat one of probably hundreds of gravitationally insignificant snowballs on the same scale as jupiter or earth, and whining about the iau seems childish and ignorant

I've noticed something I find somewhat concerning and it's that for a lot of people, 'pluto is a planet' has fallen into the stock list of examples for what one might call 'science denialism', along with things like antivaxx, denying the existence of feathered (non-avian) dinosaurs, and flat earthers

there's a sentiment that goes like 'well, sure, you learned in school that the solar system has nine planets, but Science Marches On and we now know it has eight' and while certainly people should not take what they learned in school to be immutable law they should also like. have a concept of the rather significant difference between 'we've learned something new about the world' and 'we've decided to slice up the world in categories along different lines'

slicing up the world into categories is one of the basic operations of human thought and if you do not understand it well enough that you think 'people used to think the earth flat -> now we know better' and 'astronomers used to call pluto a planet -> now they don't' are analogous processes then you fucked up somewhere.

and if you don't think they are analogous, if you understand the difference i am pointing out and think it does not matter to the quest of listing stock examples of people disagreeing with things scientists say, well. you fucked up in a different place, probably.

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screw logging and worship. leshy concession stand worker

bonus

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procrastination !

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i can't tell if food be nasty because despresso americano or if this coffee flavored protein shake meal replacement thingy that says it expires in a month and had an unbroken seal somehow fermented

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this is still my favorite panel from any achewood comic ever

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consider reblogging to reach more people :3

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not to idealism on main but isn't prescriptive materialism kind of paradoxical

like if history is driven by material pressures

how does recognizing that help anyone escape the cycle of falling back into the same governance patterns? it's an immaterial thing to recognize that pattern and make decisions to challenge that pattern

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just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

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Johann Bach

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Mythical Beasts of Germany

by u/NeilParkinsonMakes

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Good mooooorning, you want a coffee?