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It's so important to remember that when it comes to developmental research, almost everything is confounded* with poverty (*hard to distinguish from). Breastfeeding leads to "better" children? Who has the time, energy, and family support to breastfeed? The middle and upper class (especially in the US which has no paid maternity leave, and guess where a lot of research comes from). So is it really breastfeeding or wealth? Self-control on the marshmallow test leads to better life outcomes? Nope, highly correlated with poverty. Less screen time is important for development? Guess who can pay for better daycare and take advantage of maternity leave? Guess who is stuck using a screen as a babysitter so their family can eat? You can't pick these factors apart; is it the sceentime or is it the thousands of small benefits a child picks up when their parent isn't barely keeping their head above water?

And anyone who replies to this, "Well then the poor shouldn't have children" I'll turn you into Soylent Green because, aside from that being eugenics and all the other reasons, guess what else is highly correlated with poverty? Access to birth control and factual sex education. The solution is to help people out of poverty

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we have to write poems in my creative writing certificate program, so I pieced something together from Belphie's medical reports

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Hi everyone! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

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False Malabar Gliding Frog (Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus), immature, family Rhacophoridae, Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India

stripes fade away on adults

photograph by Phillip Ross

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i want ONE DAY where nothing bad happens and everything is fine

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fighting the urge to lay down n take a lil nap

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free use kink is gonna cost a dollar soon

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I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.

When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can't do that with AI.

Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here's 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!

Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!

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i'm on a lot of nyquil right now

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Grease fire 🔥

PSA: Do NOT attempt to put out a grease fire with water! Water on a grease fire can cause an explosion. Instead, turn off the stove immediately and smother the fire with a metal pot lid, metal pan or cookie sheet. It cannot survive without oxygen and will soon burn itself out. If it is a very small grease fire and no metal lid is available, baking soda can also smother the fire. If the fire grows too large to smother, leave the house immediately and dial 911! Don't be like Vap! Be a smart cookie and stay safe! 

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Funny thing, I didn’t expect Maysilee to say she hated the mockingjay pin. Especially with how much the pin ends up meaning for the revolution, I thought it’d be more on the lines of “oh yeah I love it and left it home to keep it safe” or “oh yeah it’s my sister’s now.” But she didn’t care.

And that brings me to my point. The mockingjay was not THE symbol. It was just what happened to be around at that point in time. It wasn’t something that had universal meaning behind it until the revolution gave it meaning. At the end of the day, the symbol wasn’t even that important, especially on its own. Yes, it had the jabberjays and singing lore attached to it but I’m sure so many items meant similar things. It became important because of the meaning associated to it by the people.

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Hi everyone! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

And if you can spare a dollar, donate to ANERA!

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imagine if people still took last names from their trade like fisher, smith and fletcher. imagine some guy introducing himself to you as jonathan podcaster

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"do it scared" ok but I would like to do something some other way occasionally. Like at least once. For a change.