There is a reasonable and logical way to lower abortions.
Link to original tweet: https://twitter.com/aidanctweets/status/1131864744690900993?s=21
Is this a commentary on what trans women asking not to be deadnamed face or do married cis women who keep their names still face this?
It’s more of a commentary on trans People facing deadnaming.
The only problem with this (very well put together) analogy is that there are DEFINITELY still people out there who feel this way about a woman not taking her husband’s name.
it’s a great analogy for deadnaming but I straight ass thought this was a real life convo op must’ve overheard. I didn’t take my husband’s name and people still really think it’s their business to have an opinion on that.
Entangled by Kate MacDowell
REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.
no one is saying you have to stop calling yourself queer, and its great that you can reclaim a slur!! Its amazing to bring piwer to urself!!! But some ppl have trauma with the word and that needs to be respected by not using it on lgbt who are uncomfy with ut
Y'all are some of the most disingenuous motherfuckers. I am exhausted. And I am really done with this trauma argument.
A confession: I have been harassed and verbally abused with it/its pronouns before.
I don’t fully understand why some trans people choose to use it pronouns for themselves, and I don’t follow anyone who does anymore because seeing someone referred to as “it” upsets me.
However, I do not shame or belittle trans folks who use it/its pronouns in a reclaiming fashion because it’s none of my business and I am not a piece of obnoxious shit.
If you have trauma associated with the word queer, then you need to respect me and yourself enough to not interact with my blog.
This blog literally has QUEER in its url, name, and description. Every other post on this blog contains the word QUEER. This blog is about QUEER people, for QUEER people, by a QUEER person.
No one is forcing you to interact with this blog. No one is forcing you to interact with the QUEER community. No one is forcing you to apply the word QUEER to your own identity.
Block blogs that have queer in their url. Add the word QUEER to your Tumblr tag blacklist. Download one of the many different apps and browser extensions that exist and use it to hide posts with the word QUEER in them.
Try taking at least some responsibility for your own mental health.
You aren’t queer? You don’t like the word? That’s fine. Your feelings and your trauma are valid.
But hear this: y'all need to leave QUEER people the FUCK alone.
Stop adding “queer is a slur” to our posts.
Stop inviting yourselves onto our posts to whine about the phrase “queer community”.
Don’t reblog our posts if you’re going to tag them with “#q slur”.
Stop making discourse of our genders and sexualities.
Stop trying to create rules over who is allowed to call themselves queer when you yourself are not queer.
Stop sending us invasive messages demanding to know “how” we’re queer or if we’re “really lgbt”.
Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we aren’t surviving with our own.
Let QUEER people live.
god yes OP
“Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we aren’t surviving with our own.”
Holy shit. Exactly.
“I do not like the noodles of shame.”
First “War on Christmas” meme for 2018
anyway jeff bezos could eradicate homelessness. he could literally give each homeless person 100k and it would only take less than .5% of his entire wealth. what the actual god giving fuck
Why do you think they deserve it
Well shelter is a basic need, and would at the very least allow them a place where they can get back on their feet. Food water and shelter are necessary for a healthy body and psychology. There’s also the fact that they’re people too, and a little help goes a long way in making a decent community. There’s plenty of reasons
Yeah they need stuff, but why does every homeless person deserve 0.5% of someone’s income
You have five hundred apples, and just one day to eat them all.
You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.
It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.
You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.
What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity?
What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity
Reblogging for the very, very important lesson
Sometimes I wish there were a Hell if only for the visuals of a bunch of rich shit heads wandering around on fire asking “Where’s my money?!”
Bats illuminated by lightning
That’s about as Halloween as it gets….
Oooo bitch ain’t this THE MOOD!
Gross porn blogs:
What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!
Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.
Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.
So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.
But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.
So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.
Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”
Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”
Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”
So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.
It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet
hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!
FINALLY AN EXPLANATION
Episode 22: Flat Out Lies
Froggie’s Rules for Ruling Out Unruly Conspiracy Theories
Rule the First: Does this conspiracy require a large group of people to keep a secret for their entire lives?
Rule the Second: Does this conspiracy require hypercompetence in order to succeed?
Rule the Third: Does this conspiracy involve using the phrase “lizard people?”
By asking these three questions you can usually rule out most popular conspiracy theories.
First, people cannot keep their yaps shut. It’s just human nature.
Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” An Oxford mathematician ran the numbers and found the longest the 411.000 NASA employees could keep the moon landing secret would be 3 years and 8 months.
Second, many conspiracies require a level of competence only seen in movies. Most actual conspiracies that are revealed usually have a colorful cast of characters. A bunch of dumb people who did dumb things that helped them get caught. Like, say, keeping a recording of people discussing a secret payoff to a porn star.
So conspiracy theorists believe that the really juicy conspiracies are perpetrated by brilliant masterminds. They think there is top secret technology being used. Most estimates say that top secret tech is maybe 10 years ahead. But for many conspiracy theories, these top secret government programs would probably need to be a century ahead. They assume hypercompetence that just doesn’t exist.
Humans are capable of amazing things. From towering structures that kiss the sky, to an SR-71 Blackbird that can travel 2200 miles per hour at 80,000 feet in the air, to telescopes that can peer deep into the universe.
Or going to the moon.
In 1969, we had the ability to get people to the moon. However, we did not have the capability to fake the moon landing. That might sound backwards, but it’s true.
The technology and engineering involved in faking the moon landing would actually be harder to create and more expensive than just going to the dang moon.
A simple example would be the long parallel shadows of the astronauts.
The Sun is 93,000,000 miles away. It’s literally impossible to create a light source that accurately simulates the Sun’s parallel rays. They’d need to put a light much closer to the subjects in the photo. This would cause the shadows to diverge and no longer be parallel.
The only theorized way to create this effect would be to assemble an apparatus with literally millions of lasers all bunched together as close as pixels on your TV screen.
This was just not feasible in 1969. It’s probably not even feasible today.
The best lasers back then were big and honkin’. Making it impossible to assemble a million of them into some kind of an array that would fit into a soundstage. They were also reddish-orange in color. Which means the photos would look something like this.
And even if there was some hypercompetent 1960s lighting engineer that could miniaturize millions of lasers, make them white in color, and arrange them into a massive array… this impossible parallel lighting thingamajig would cost more than the entire 1969 budget of NASA.
Orrrr… there would need to be a hypercompetent computer scientist that could create a system that could render photorealistic computer generated images. Some kind of old school CGI.
Keep in mind that for Monsters University, it took Pixar’s render farm 29 hours to finish a single frame of the movie. Pixar’s supercomputer has 55,000 CPU cores processing these images.
In 1995, Pixar’s render farm had the computing power of half an iPhone.
For Toy Story, they had to create much simpler animation that was not photorealistic. The entirety of CGI in Jurassic Park amounted to 4 minutes and took 10 days to render.
NASA went to the moon 6 times and recorded hours of footage and took hundreds of photographs. So how could they render all of that footage?
The most advanced supercomputer in 1971 could do 1 billion instructions per second.
That sounds impressive!
And at the time, it was impressive!
However, an iPhone can do 3 times that now. And the most advanced supercomputer of today can do 200 quadrillion calculations per second.
Soooo…. 1000000000 vs 200000000000000000.
The point is, if you started to render a single photorealistic frame in 1969 it would not be finished yet.
Making matters even more difficult… all of the footage from the moon is on film. Film can be analyzed microscopically. You can see the grain even at high magnification. Which means they’d have to figure out a way to transfer the CG images to film without pixels. Or render it at 1 kajillian megapixel resolution so the pixels are so small they are indistinguishable from grain.
What I’m saying is… we went to the damn moon, okay?
Lastly, lizard people.
I don’t have much to say about them. Other than 12 million Americans genuinely believe shape-shifting reptiles control our government. Which is impossible because Trump’s shade of orange cannot be produced in nature. No organic being could change their hue to match Cheeto levels of orangitude.
In her testimony Dr. Chtistine Blasey Ford described a monster, and then Brett Kavanaugh came out and acted just like the monster she described.
If Kavenaugh was throwing a mantrum™ and acting out in public after just a few sips of water, can you imagine if he had some beers in him?
what the fuck is going on between poseidon and zeus right now
“Eyes the half of the continent that’s on fire”
Hephaestus can chill too TBH.
It’s okay to change your mind.
A while back a ton of people saw a video of a turtle with a straw stuck up its nose. I was one of them. It was very sad.
So when places started proposing we ban plastic straws, I was like…
“Yeah! Fuck straws!”
But then the disabled community spoke up and tried to inform everyone that plastic bendy straws are essential for people with various health issues. Without them, people might end up having to make the choice of whether or not they can consume liquids in public. And that really sucks.
This community put a lot of thought and research into this and was unable to find another material that could be a suitable replacement in every circumstance.
They proposed a system where you could just ask for straws rather than places giving them out all willy-nilly. This would still reduce the use of plastic straws significantly without screwing disabled folks.
I assessed this new information and…
I CHANGED MY DAMN MIND.
*gasp* “The Frogman is a flip-flopper!”
Naively, I figured most people who consumed this new information would do the same.
But it ended up being a mixed bag of mostly sullen disappointment.
As I read the comments on various articles I noticed a weird phenomenon where people magically transformed into materials scientists.
Disabled groups thought long and hard about this. These groups did some great in-depth research. And all these groups pretty much came to a unanimous consensus that there are currently no satisfactory alternative solutions. They also found that plastic straws are actually a drop in the bucket of our waste issues. Furthermore, the “straws on demand” solution would make that drop pretty frickin’ tiny. The overall risk to turtle noses would go way down.
Despite seeing these conclusions thoroughly presented to them, people would think about the issue for about 30 seconds and be like…
“Okay, but what about paper straws? What about reusable straws? What about this? What about that? I have a metal straw that works great! Surely that will do!”
These internet dunderheads actually believed their 30-second brainstorm would come up with a sufficient solution that has not been thought of yet.
As if the entire disabled community is going to be like, “We did all of this research, spent all of this time looking for alternatives, committed all of these resources to spread our conclusions, BUT WE NEVER KNEW ABOUT PAPER STRAWS! Thank you, kind stranger! You have single-handedly solved this dilemma!”
I just have trouble wrapping my head around the kind of ego one must have to think they could solve an issue like this with an internet comment.
What makes it worse is some of these “what about” comments would be replies to actual disabled people. These sudden experts in the science of materials would start suggesting straw alternatives. And these disabled folks, who are probably exhausted and at their wit’s end, must decide if they should give these individuals explanations of why these genius suggestions won’t work for them.
“I know you aren’t feeling well, but can you do all of the research for me so I don’t have to spend 2 minutes googling shit?”
And when you try to tell these people they are being ableist and kinda shitty, they act like a wounded animal. Suddenly they are the victim. THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO HELP! Not trusting people who live with these problems is the height of privilege. And forcing them to make their experiences relateable while remaining calm and polite is exhausting.
Then someone made this amazing chart that couldn’t possibly make it any easier to comprehend.
And people were still responding to it with…
“OKAY, BUT WHAT ABOUT…?”
In conclusion…
IT’S OKAY TO CHANGE YOUR DAMN MIND.
Also…
YOU’RE NOT AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU ARE.
(Unless you actually are a materials scientist and you are developing an alternative as we speak.)
@thebibliosphere for your discourse hell.
@sirfrogsworth thank you for this, and for perfectly encapsulating what this whole experience has been like as a disabled/ill person who a) recently found out using a plastic straw greatly reduces my neuralgia pain and risk of aspiration, b) talked about it on the internet and c) has been living with relentless hate email, and redundant “but have you tried…” comments ever since.
And thank you for thinking about the subject with critical compassion and changing your mind, and being open enough to talking about the fact that you changed your mind. I think some people think changing their mind means they’ve made some sort of moral failing sometimes, and would rather continue to be wrong/hurtful but feel right, than actually address their own behavior and question their motives.
So thank you. Again. For this and the *barks internally* caption, it’s a mood 😂