The Beatles sucked

“Now, I don’t have a sword, I have a fucking bonesaw. Because while I am a cleric, I also believe in the healing power of modern medicine. And by modern medicine I mean amputation.”

Bam, sex ed needs to include emotional and psych ed about sex too

Reblog this if you are against the porn industry

“Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them…or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

Holy SHIT

WELL THEN

Yep.

They actually tested me for a learning disability in high school because I was consistently failing math.

They discovered that I actually scored in the 80th percentile in that sort of learning.

Problem was, in every other subject, I was in the 99.8th percentile.

I had never learned how to study because I never needed to—and then, when something proved to be even the slightest bit challenging, my brain went

“LOL nope this is impossible abort”

Meanwhile, this entire time I’m scraping by in subjects like English. The assignments I did turn in, I’d score top marks—but I’d avoid turning in projects I didn’t think were “good” enough.

Essentially, my brain had two settings: “100%” or “0%”.

This sort of Baby Genius shit makes kids and adolescents neurotic and self-destructive.

We learned about this in Child Development. And we learned to reward hard work and not good job. Like don’t say to a child, “oh you are so smart.” Say “Oh did worked so hard.” Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

Decades of research have been done on this by Dr. Carol Dweck. When the emphasis is placed on effort (a factor people can control) rather than talent (an innate skill), it’s a lot easier to see mistakes as a learning opportunity rather than something you just won’t ever be good at. And kids who were encouraged by effort were also more willing to take on more challenging work and considered it a lot more fun, while the kids who were praised for their intelligence were reluctant to put themselves in a situation where they might lose that identifier as a “smart kid” by making mistakes, so they preferred to do work they were confident they could master. Also, the kids praised for effort wanted to compare their results to kids who got higher scores, to see where they made their mistakes, while those praised for intelligence wanted to compare their results to kids who scored lower, to reassure themselves.

Not only does this set up “smart” students for a lot of trouble when they enter college and start being regularly challenged, the effects last long beyond that. It can be very hard for the “you’re so smart!” kids to unlearn as they become adults and struggle with even common adult things, and are afraid to ask for help because of that lesson they learned from misguided praise that they are supposed to be smart and supposed to know the answers. 

…Honestly +1 here.  It’s very well researched and documented and yeah.  Making the emphasis on “You succeed and we are proud of you b/c you are SMART as an intrinsic quality!” makes failure/setbacks/difficulty -TERRIFYING- b/c if you’re “smart” it doesn’t happen and if you fail that means you’re not smart and that’s what everyone’s drilled into you as your main point of worth.

And the rates of anxiety disorders among “gifted student” kids are kinda horrifying.    

This is why “you’re so smart” means absolutely nothing to me any more. It’s used as punishment as often as it’s used as praise. 

You need both. Praise effort without giving more recognition to outcome, get people who work harder but never smarter. Praise outcome without recognizing effort, get the aforementioned. Praise outcome and the effort required, get people who value quality work.

Something I wish more people would understand…

The fundamental reason I oppose affirmative action. I would hate to be treated better simply because I was "diverse" (whatever that means).

Conservatives are fundamentally unintelligent people because they lack the basic perception or analytical skills to see that there’s nothing left to conserve.

If your entire political worldview can be accurately reduced to

muh republic muh taxes muh god

Then perhaps you should just keep your pathetically minimal ideas to yourself.

that moment when you claim to be open minded and end up having the intelligence of an actual lump of sand

imagine “God” as a pathetically minimal idea

“There’s nothing left to conserve”

. . . what ... what does this mean?

Never talked to @thaddeus-maximus because he’ll just text you random shit and then never reply back 😡😡😡😡

Yea

LMFAOOOOO

I know like 60 of these people from high school shjvlotfcxsessdhopjb

I’m confused these are very much liberal arts college things

feeling when entering a store

walmart- paranoia

7/11- certainty

target- home

super target- your estranged aunt’s home

macy’s- smugness

Home Depot- loss

whole foods- the kale feeling

CVS- the all knowing eye of God

dunkin donuts- a lady yelling at me in a brooklyn accent

walgreens- grandpa’s firm hand shake

costco- endurance

where’s libra

Harbor Freight: the scrap bin

Menards: Grandpa’s House

Rural King: Actually home

I get so confused by people who want to work at NASA still. It is a glorious age of privatized space travel and you want to go work for the government, making things that are a tax burden, and being less innovative than other agencies?

I’d love to work for NASA. NASA is a public operation so idk why you said it was privatized? I’m sorry, what other agencies have sent rovers to Mars? Have looked into the heart of other galaxies, or even universes? What agency discovered a mass cluster of black holes? NASA DID THAT. NASA is still incredibly relevant & continues to give results & break records & bring us pictures of other worlds we could only dream of seeing. I get so confused by people like you.

Interesting, if you give an agency billions of tax dollars and have them do some odd task they do it.

Who’s doing any of that cost effectively? *crickets*

OK I guess you science nerds might like it but most of the engineering nerds I hang out with like SpaceX farmoreover because they’re doing innovative stuff (CFRP tanks! God tier materials science! Reusable rockets! Potential to actually do something USEFUL!). Also their work ethos is much more like an engineer’s; thoroughly invested.

NASA is all pomp and circumstance (it all started with a space race) but privatized agencies show promise to make use of space travel and make it commonplace.

Like do you want to be with an agency that’s doing the same old same old or one who’s going to make publicly accessible, tangible, and practical use of space?