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It’s more like, your life becomes less about you reacting to the world and more about you impacting the world around you. You go from showing up places expecting to be fed to being one of the people who brings extra food to events so everyone can eat. You go from mainly learning job skills to joining a community of practice where you share your knowledge and help those around you improve their skills.

It’s not all or nothing - you’re probably already sharing and teaching things you’re passionate about before 21, and you’ll be leading the rest of your life. And even successful grownups occasionally need a little help from their friends. But the ratio will shift and you’ll go from getting told what to all the time to being part of decision process, or even just staking out your own path and doing it. It’s pretty awesome. I mean, in joyed the last half of high school and all of college, but I would never want to go back to dependence.

For most people, life doesn’t truly begin until they’re 26-30 or older. The way we romanticize and obsess over youth is super harmful. Your life is not over at 21, I promise you. It’s just beginning

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I WISH ALL MY FRENCH FOLLOWERS A VERY GOOD JEAN MARIE LE PEN IS DEAD

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I think that one of the most common and most harmful tendencies which a lot of people fall into when thinking about politics is outgroup homogeneity, the idea that there's a much wider diversity of opinions among those close to our beliefs than there is among those far from our beliefs.

This is most commonly exemplified by the foolishness of "horseshoe theory," which places Centrist Liberal Democracy in the middle of all political thought and then argues that the various ideas diverging from this viewpoint are all basically the same. But virtually every ideological tendency has their own versions of this. Large portions of the right think that there's practically no difference between Hillary Clinton and Karl Marx. Meanwhile, on the left, there's often very little effort made to distinguish center-right liberal democrats, conservatives, libertarians, and reactionaries from one another.

But fascism is not communism, social liberalism is not Marxism, and conservatism is not white nationalism. These are all different ideas with different ways of viewing the world, offering different solutions for different problems. Being able to distinguish between them is very important for understanding the world! The conflicts, tensions, and overlaps between seemingly-allied ideological factions have huge implications!

I've always found a lot of value in the idea of an ideological Turing test: can you describe a given political ideology's viewpoint on an issue in such a way that a neutral observer would have trouble telling the difference between your description and one offered by an actual believer in that ideology? If not, you might not understand that ideology as well as you think

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Clock radio with cassette player. I could wake up to my choice of tape every morning.

*things such as video game systems are not included in this poll

**your own, not a family/shared computer

reblog for reach/bigger sample size!!

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reblog if ur bi, ur not biphobic, or ur best friend is a beautiful valid bisexual

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M*A*S*H | 3.07 - "Check-up"

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Hey, so, have you read Feed and all the Newsflesh books by Mira Grant (aka @seananmcguire)? They're fantastic and I love them and I totally had my heart ripped out and cried several times so much fun! Highly recommended!

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TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

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I don’t remember where I heard it, but someone online talked about how much of the 20th century conception of “Manhood” in American was based the trauma reactions of men who had been through multiple wars.

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

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Another easy preparation for a beef roast in the crock pot is to generously slosh a bunch of Italian dressing on top - enough to cover the meat and maybe 1/8 of inch in the pot. It’s got garlic, vinegar, oil, spices all in it already.

I'm trying to make a good pot roast in my crockpot, but after I take it out it gets dry. It's on "low" (whatever that means) for 8 hours. I've tried searing it before and still dry. It's submerged in plain water with some herbs and spices for that time. Am I over/undercooking it? It's a cut with low fat %, is that why?

I love you. I think you learned how to make pot roast from someone on Opposite Day, or perhaps April 1st. The only thing you got right is 'low heat for 8 hours'.

Choose a fatty cut of tough meat. Look for lots of fat marbling on a Chuck roast or Shoulder roast. Tough meat has a ton of flavor, and the fat keeps the meat from drying out. The long cook time on low heat, plus acids will make 'tough' meat into a pull-apart, melt-in-your-mouth glory.

Make sure the meat is completely thawed, NOT frozen.

Plain water and nothing else except herbs/spices is.... not what I'd do. A lot of flavor can come into the broth when you add whole carrots (minus the carrot top!) and quartered onions in there. I'm a fan of adding some big chunks of pumpkin or butternut squash and chunks of turnip as well.

I think using red wine for part of the liquid base, and adding a hearty helping of worcestershire sauce will also help the flavor and making the meat 'melty.' The acid and alcohol will draw more, and different flavors from the meat and vegetables that water alone cannot do. Makes it richer.

For my very best pot roast recipe, which had my wedding guests fuckin' clamoring to get the recipe; I cheat. I'm not ashamed of that fact. For the richest, most face-punchingly meaty tasting broth, go to an asian market (or online) and find a mushroom hot pot soup base. It'll be a thick liquid inside a bag, which you then dilute with water. Use THAT as the liquid base (remember to dilute it!), and add your wine and wocestershire sauce to it, along with those herbs & spices. Your whole face will be blown off with flavor. It's the best.

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If you already look like one of the pictures 2-4- physical therapy can reverse this. You don’t necessarily even need to see a doctor first, depending on what state you live in. I fixed my neck in my 30s.

OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

Tips:

Do the best you can

If it hurts stop

Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises

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To be fair, if someone offered me a collab with T-Pain, I don’t think I could say no, and I’m a Midwestern, white, middle-aged woman.

Well, at least it's only the second stupidest behavior we've suffered through from a billionaire who owns a social media platform this week.

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Shelters that take adult women will generally not take their teenagers, and shelters that take adult men will not take their children, so families that want to stay together might need to avoid shelters.

Shelters can also take your benefits. I know a guy who chose car over housing so that he can spend more time with his children (who live with their mom much of the time.) The one time he spent a single night in a shelter, they tried to take his disability checks because they were providing him services. They do give some money back, but none of the organizations he’s talked guarantee that he’ll enough money to keep his car, or that he’ll have a room every night. So he lives in his car, and either camps or gets hotel vouchers from charities when he has his kids staying with him.

Also, like, I'm sorry but if you've set up a free shelter, and people refuse to go because sleeping on the sidewalk under a freeway bridge is more pleasant, that's fucking on you, that's not on them.

You really can't compete with sleeping under the overpass so you are going to force people into shelter?

Unspeakably cruel and stupid.