reading creationist articles about evolution out of some terrible urge of morbid curiosity and it makes me sad about general scientific literacy and the pop science idea of evolution
like creationists really emphasize how the “Darwinistic worldview” is driven by competition and only the strong survive etc. and there’s no reason for anything except for ensuring survival, so there is no reason for moral behavior or altruism and it’s SO FRUSTRATING because people like Richard Dawkins really promote that
But it’s not accurate! A lot of scientists now believe that cooperation is a fundamental driving force of evolution. the fact that we cooperate and take care of each other is a major reason why humans are such a successful species. Auuuugggghhhh
Mutualism is SO fundamental to Earth’s ecosystems. The mycorrhizal network, plant-pollinator associations, fruits,
“biblical angels” you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?
and I’m not saying don’t have fun with weird angels. I’m saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.
i think like i’ve said something like this before but i think a lot of people are only prochoice in a sexual revolution type of way
like they vocally support abortion as a way of pissing off who they deem to be puritanical arbiters of morality, which is how you get people insisting some abortions are eugenics and wealthy white women are exempt from lack of access to healthcare. they think the wealthy prudes are making prude laws against the cool groovy people.
This is Susan Robinson, one of the last people in the country who can preform late term abortions after the murder of Dr. George Tiller. This is from an awesome documentary called After Tiller, about the last 4 late-term abortion practitioners in the country. It’s a great watch and available on Netflix, would strongly recommend.
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.
If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.
Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.
Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things
Today, one of my second graders was working on shape name recognition, and we got to this picture of a pyramid shape with a wide-ish base. When he saw it, his eyes lit up and he turned to me with a huge grin on his face, pointed at it, and said “When the teacher forgets to assign homework” before bursting out into hysterics, covering his mouth and giggling.
I don’t understand what happened except this kid CLEARLY knows about the strong comedic and memeable value of mathematical shapes and emotions that I, an old millennial, cannot comprehend
I did, however, try to recreate this moment as the meme this child must have seen in his head
maybe he was thinking of the dancing triangle meme??
i have seen this gif with that exact caption before. this is absolutely the one he was thinking of
That kid saw one of the simplest geometric shapes and said that’s blorbo from my memes 👍
I will beat a MF with their own fucking shoes bringing the cocktail of chemicals near my child
why. we dont even really know whats in it so who cares.
Because we don’t know what the fuck is in them. There are no regulations relating to them, so they could have all the nast shit that was in cigarettes, along with literally anything else you can think of.
yeah but maybe they dont. and theyre not cigarettes theyre like electronic and different and also some of the flavors are like candy so its basically made for babies they love it
Have NONE of y'all heard about secondhand smoking. Just because it’s different than cigarettes does not mean it’s risk free.
Young LGBTQ+ people are one of the demographics vapes are disproportionately marketed to btw, along with people of color. These companies want your money, and they don’t care about what they have to do to your body to get it, or how much cancer it gives you. They want you addicted. I repeat, vapes aren’t your friend, they are capitalism trying to take advantage of you.
a lot of vapes are fruit flavored as well which means you get vitamins and nutritions and shit from it so they increase your health actually, i wish you people would do your research before commenting on my poats…
i was present a few months ago when my best friend found out that outlier isn’t pronounced “oot-lee-yay” and i haven’t been the same since
“average person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay” factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. No person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay. French Canadian Georg, who has mispronounced word for 39 years, is an ootleeyay adn should not have been counted
