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clark reupload

edit: forgot the sweater comic

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I cannot emphasize enough how important learning more than one language is for like. broadening your horizons mentally. not only is it good for your brain health (numerous studies on this already) but also i do think speaking 2+ languages and actually utilizing that skill on a consistent basis builds your openness to different human experiences emotionally too i truly believe this

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love how heathers was like you cannot fix him. you cannot save his sorry ass. he’s going to blow himself up on the football field and you’re just going to have to live with that, babe!

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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"

Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.

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And here we were just talking about him the other day.

Download all his songs and sheet music for free here: https://tomlehrersongs.com/

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The vast majority of 'humans doing cool stuff in space' stories also tend to focus on the military or at least groups of humans following orders under a military command so

If you're critical of military propaganda but also love humans as spa e orcs and what not, I might be a bit more critical of that

The emphasis on military power dominating so much of the fiction in sci fi may also be worth consideration

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Some absolutely charming behavior from Instacart:

And a little video:

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Food delivery apps are anti-worker.

Can rich people please shut up about food delivery apps?

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Can rich people please shut up about food delivery apps?

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Is there a food you don't like that is considered very popular?

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Me waiting a little too long to empty and replace my menstrual cup

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It's crazy how little you can deviate from the stereotypical Standard Human Being (TM) and still get this. Why do you think this person with a working-class accent is stupid, exactly?

the problem of fandom reducing characters who are women and/or people of colour to sexist/racist stereotypes is definitely aggravated by the fact that a lot of fans simply do not pay very much attention to these characters in the first place then subconsciously paper over the gaps in their perception with things they’ve been culturally conditioned to believe are true about people in the same category as said character

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“The original orgies and bizarre sex were perfectly sufficient” I am always saying this

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Been thinking about this a lot recently

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Studies show that children who read for pleasure perform better on tests and suffer from fewer mental health problems. Here are some tips for fostering a love of reading.

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"You can just buy this" applies to a lot of things.

The thing about being a profoundly weird person is that it doesn't happen overnight. The kind of people who'll do shit that nobody else would actually genuinely do by pure accident already have an accumulation of low-level layers of weird but harmless choices that nobody else would make, which sometimes just happen to align in ways that wouldn't happen to someone else.

Genuinely, profoundly weird people don't go out of their way to do profoundly weird shit. They don't think "ok what is the quirkiest way I could respond in this situation?", it's just that their environment is already set up for weird things to happen, because of those minor, insignificant weird choices they've already made.

They're simply the kind of people who would unexpectedly find out that you can just buy medical label stickers online, immediately order a bunch, and then forget all about them for several months. Not supremely baffling, but also not something a regular person would do for shits and giggles.

And then only remember the stickers seven months later when they run out of regular clear tape while wrapping gifts, and figuring out that they can totally just use the stickers instead of having to run off to the store just to buy one tiny roll of scotch tape and nothing else. Again, perhaps not the solution that most people would make, but not completely unreasonable one.

That is the kind of a person who would take enjoyment in matching the cool bright-coloured stickers into the wrapping papers by complimentary colours, completely forget to consider what the labels themselves say, and therefore be the only person who could somehow accidentally use stickers that say "CAUTION: DO NOT INSERT INTO MOUTH OR ANUS" while gift-wrapping a cactus.

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Some observations on book covers