Hey weird question but what happens if you put two reasonably likeable anthropologists of wildly different cultures together in the same room? Do they study each other? CAN they? Is it like an infinite conversational feedback loop? I'm imagining two dogs eternally sniffing each others butts at the park
I don't know that I've ever seen someone make the Aardman Grimace in real life.
Truly a masterclass in harrowingly strained enthusiasm!
ngl this one made me realize I don't actually speak english.
I can understand bits of it, but I'm... I'm far behind
(anyone got a transcript ??)
[Video transcript: This is a TikTok by @AbiClarkeComedy. Both characters are played by the same person in different clothes. The characters’ voices remain cheerful throughout the video.
[Name spellings are chosen arbitrarily by me, please correct me if you have additional insight on this matter or other matters.]
Tracey, pouring coffee and smiling hugely: Morning, Jayle!
Jayle, with identical smile, taking off a headset: Morning, Tracey!
Tracey: What’d you get up to this weekend?
Jayle: Oh, I had a lovely little breakdown.
Tracey: Did you?
Jayle: I did, yeah. Really treated myself. I felt on the brink all week, so I decided to stalk my ex just to push meself over the edge.
Tracey: Jonathan?
Jayle: That’s the one.
Tracey: Oh, he’s got a gorgeous new girlfriend.
Jayle: I know.
Tracey: Nice.
Jayle: And he’s just landed himself his dream job.
Tracey: Ah. And you’re here. [glances around] Ideal.
Jayle: And that idea got me tearing up, so I pushed it a little bit further and tried on a dress from five years ago.
Tracey: [gasps] You bugger.
Jayle: Then I grabbed a bottle of wine, boxed McVitie’s, whacked on the news, accidentally opened up my phone on selfie mode, and mwah
[Jayle does a chef’s kiss]
Jayle: Sobbing.
Tracey: Ah, that sounds good.
Jayle: It felt amazing. There’s nothing like a good cry.
Tracey: You must’ve felt reborn.
Jayle: Oh, I certainly felt like I was being rebirthed by that dress afterwards.
Tracey: Mmm.
Jayle: Mmm. How ‘bout you?
Tracey: Oh, I just saw some family.
Jayle: Huh. [tilts head]
Tracey: [nods]
Jayle: Oh, so massive breakdown.
Tracey: Huge.
End video transcript.]
[Image 1: Three photos of stop-motion characters with bags under their eyes grimacing hugely]
[Image 2: Two photos of Tracey making this same expression in the video]
people are way too comfortable being dismissive of children and teenagers. if a toddler comes up to you and starts explaining skibidi toilet lore or if a 13 year old asks you if you want to hear about their mha ocs you have to listen with utmost sincerity or at least pretend to. this is the only way you will get into heaven.
genuinely depressing how people will dismiss the interests kids have because all it does is make them retreat into shame and never want to talk to you about anything again
people don't share information with you for no reason. nobody walks up to someone and starts explaining something they enjoy for no reason. If it doesn't pertain to a task or a mutual goal or a nearby danger, they're telling you, "I want to share a connection", and that's equally important. If you push them down, they'll stop trying. Don't make kids stop trying to build connections. Don't make kids stop looking for people who love them
Knowledge is empowering
you can literally get gender changers for like $3
And yes, that's literally what they're called.
Reblog if you got a gender changer for like $3
this is the last thing i ever pinned to my dark academia board and i can't ever add anything else. what else is there to say
"People wouldn't invent anything if there was no profit motive."
Well, that's clearly a lie.
Compare the empathy of Bohlin with the profiteering greed of Edison, Musk, etc etc . . .
I'm collecting these. where is this damn kitchen
Building online businesses
"I'm eating ancestrally!" I chirp in my hyper-modern white kitchen as I pour borax into sour milk and chug it
Does the bovine tuberculosis also reverse pharma damage or
"It's a neat marketing trick from tradwives to position themselves as a dangerous threat that feminists are desperate to take out. It helps sell the central, lucrative fantasy to credulous audiences: That female submission is a woman's natural desire, one that's being stolen from them by sinister feminist forces. And that you, male viewer, would be gifted with a compliant helpmeet of your very own, if not for those dastardly feminists. But these brave women of YouTube, with their picture-perfect make-up and slender-but-curvy physiques, will stand up to those bitches and restore your birthright: A smoking hot 22-year-old housewife who never talks back, never gets tired, never says "no," and never gains weight, no matter how many children she has.
...
The tradwives claiming otherwise on social media are playing a shell game. They sneer at feminists for working, but creating online content is work, and often quite lucrative for those who snag huge fanbases. They deride feminists for having ambition, but of course, building an audience in the competitive world of online influencers requires a striver. They want to sell themselves as humble, but the whole "tradwife" genre is built on being aggressively opinionated — and reaping major rewards, both in terms of attention and money. Most "tradwives" online are far more # GirlBoss than even the most outspoken feminist. Their viewers are just too gullible to know what they're consuming is a toxic fantasy."
The Beast that Bothers
I’d be concerned if I actually owned the house I live in, but as it is, I quite like that there’s flowers growing out of a hole in the brickwork.
Harrison Ford hating playing Han Solo made him better at playing Han Solo because Han Solo did not want to be there doing those things either.
I can’t remember what talk show it was after TFA but the interviewer was like “Did it make you emotional putting on the [Han Solo] costume?” and Harrison Ford was like “No. It made me money.” which was like the most Han Solo thing a person could say.
Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983) // dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Paul-Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934)
Will somebody please draw me with the Ghoul? Pretty please?
@reallyndacarter your wish is my command ma'am.
You guys are badass pals together now (romantic? if you want??? I wasn't sure haha)
Badass pals is fine by me. Thanks!
"A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
Google's search results are terrible. The top of the page is dominated by spam, scams, and ads. A surprising number of those ads are scams. Sometimes, these are high-stakes scams played out by well-resourced adversaries who stand to make a fortune by tricking Google[...]
Google operates one of the world's most consequential security system – The Algorithm (TM) – in total secrecy. We're not allowed to know how Google's ranking system works, what its criteria are, or even when it changes: "If we told you that, the spammers would win."
Well, they kept it a secret, and the spammers won anyway.
...
Some of the biggest, most powerful, most trusted publications in the world have a side-hustle in quietly producing SEO-friendly "10 Best ___________ of 2024" lists: Rolling Stone, Forbes, US News and Report, CNN, New York Magazine, CNN, CNET, Tom's Guide, and more.
Google literally has one job: to detect this kind of thing and crush it. The deal we made with Google was, "You monopolize search and use your monopoly rents to ensure that we never, ever try another search engine. In return, you will somehow distinguish between low-effort, useless nonsense and good information. You promised us that if you got to be the unelected, permanent overlord of all information access, you would 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'"
They broke the deal." -Cory Doctorow
Read the whole article: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task
