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A friend and I were discussing what we're like when we're sick and we decided people usually fall into one of these five 'sick modes': *Everyone is probably multiple of these at different times depending on how sick they are and with what but we think most people have a mode they default to and become more often than the others*

Delicate Consumptive Victorian: you feel tragic and mournful but also beautiful in a sad way, you are in bed, sipping hot tea, others should quietly whisper about how you are too good for this world, too beautiful, too tragic... And bring you more tea

Sick Dog: you are curled up in a ball, you don't want anything, you don't need anything, but it would be nice if others could still ask you if you need anything

Sickly Child Emperor: you are dying and it's everyone else's problem, you need pillows, no! you need soup, no! You need absolute silence or you will not be the first one to die today

Plague Pit: you are curled up probably on the floor, no one touch you, no one look at you, this is between you and God and you already know He has no mercy left for you

Warrior General: you are not sick. You are in perfect health and you don't know why anyone would think otherwise. Illness is an enemy that can be intimidated and you must remain strong for your men! (You are going to pass out at the most inconvenient moment possible)

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Application of cardinal arithmetic; especially choiceless: allowing everyone to feel what's it like to have discalculia (at least i imagie it to be like that)

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A little boy just looked at me and went “woah! That girl is so tall!! I didn’t know girls could get that tall!” To his grandpa.

Grandpa talked to him about how he had tall women in his family and how pretty tall girls are and the boy said he should ask me out 💀 so grandpa was like “she’s probably already married”

Listening to this exchange was so cute and so gender affirming bc not once did either of them imply I was actually a man I’m gonna cry this was so sweet.

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Content warning: discussion of eating disorders

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This poll is about how your parents handled your situation.

"Badly" in this context means reactions like punishing you or blaming you, and "positively" in this context means they supported you, actively sought treatment, were helpful, etc.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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christianity would be like...at least 60% aesthetically redeemed for me if the eucharist was still an actual meal, like the sikhs have with langar. can you imagine? free meal after church? not just taking a little bite but *subsisting* on the flesh of god?

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horsethoughtbarn 5 name

if horses werent called horses what do you think they should be called

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With the weird shit coming out of RFK Jr about autism, I think maybe it's best that people do not seek an autism diagnosis if they do not need one. idk, shit weird and scary.

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adults disciplining children: i think i will communicate with this brand new human in the loudest, rudest, most obnoxious and socially off-putting way possible

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taken by a sudden vision of the roman catholic church as a sort of retirement home for wicked old sorcerers where the gimmick inside is everyone is too old for sorcery, making it vitally important that there be a sign outside the gates reading PIUS X RETIREMENT HOME FOR WICKED OLD SORCERERS. DAY-RELEASE PROGRAMME IN OPERATION

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"suffering builds character" WRONG!! LIFE EXPERIENCE AND SELF-COMPASSION!!!

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now if you thought "group" is an unhelpful and nondescriptive name for a mathematical concept. just remember that the broader category of mathematical concepts that groups belong to is called, a "category". so it could always be worse

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the concept of a 'theology degree' is so funny to me. it's like if you could major in calvinball.

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At one of the milking robots, several cows are lined up, nose to tail, politely waiting their turn. The cows can get milked by robot whenever they like, which typically means more frequently than the twice a day at a traditional dairy farm. Not only is getting milked more often more comfortable for the cows, cows also produce about 10 percent more milk when the milking schedule is completely up to them.

“There’s a direct correlation between stress and milk production,” Jacobs says. “Which is nice, because robots make cows happier and therefore, they give more milk, which helps us sell more robots.”

that's wild, love the discourse possibilities of fully automated robofarms actually granting farm animals more independence and autonomy and leaving them happier and more productive

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Any time I catch myself thinking it's weirdly specific that stories involving the beheading game were an entire genre of medieval literature, I remind myself that the TV Tropes page for media where the cast get shrunk really small and go inside someone's body in a tiny submarine is at the time of this posting nearly 300 entries long

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so, i've witnessed multiple instances of croatian children (approx. in the 7 - 15 age range, so like, generation alpha + younger zoomers) conversing amongst each other in english instead of croatian. the last time was at my local gas station, where i heard two girls discuss what chocolate bars they should buy in (grammatically correct but clearly accented) english before switching to (flawless) croatian while paying for their chocolate

anyone i've tried to talk abt this irl uniformly reacted with horror, all of them seemingly convinced english is eventually going to entirely displace croatian as a native language—but i'm not really sure that's what's going on. knowledge of english is a really new phenomenon in croatia (and the rest of former yugoslavia). really new—mastery of the language begins w zoomers, more or less. you shouldn't expect any croat over the age of 25 to speak english fluently, and any over the age of 35 to speak english at all. (millennials + younger gen xers are nominally fluent in german; their parents are nominally fluent in russian, and their parents are nominally fluent in german, again). it is perfectly reasonable for a young croat to assume nobody older than them—say, a gas station clerk, or the noisy old fart standing behind them in the queue—is going to be privy to the content of their conversation if they converse in english. this leads me to think these kids are using english as an adult-exclusive cipher. which is pretty fucking cool, actually, even though i imagine it's not really the sort of thing one should expect to have a long shelf life, esp. as older zoomers reach child-rearing age

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I'm thinking at some point in the pre-columbian history of mesoamerica some innovative cook must have come up with idea of the tostitos scoop-shaped tortilla chip. but the invention must have been lost by the time the spanish showed up. possibly it was lost in the chaos they caused actually. burning the library of alexandria... it's taken us centuries to catch back up