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Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

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i really want people to stop writing scientists as awkward, stilted conversationalists who don't understand idioms or emotions and start writing them as depressed alcoholics who swear like sailors unless they're in a specifically academic situation

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What the hell is happening???

A friend lost 200 followers. Someone else lost a bunch of followers too. And I also lost 100?

Is something happening?! Is there a purge?!

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oh i never know how to explain this properly but i looooooooooooooooove when a story just absolutely TELLS you something and it’s so obvious it goes right by you. like the equivalent of hiding in plain sight. i’m thinking in the original cut(?) of alien where they showed the full xenomorph, crouched and ready to pounce, but because we’ve never seen it before, we can’t tell what it is and interpret it as part of the spaceship. or it’s a detail that seems so out of place or wildly insane that you automatically ignore it and assume you misinterpreted until that exact detail comes back in a big way? (like when noah the raven boy flat out tells everyone he’s a ghost and they take it as a joke, so the reader does too) is there a tvtropes name for this i’m obsessed with it

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Okay this one is kind of really silly but I couldn't stop thinking about this today.

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from The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo

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what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe

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you guys. I got got.

I bought into the myth that it was easier not to question because it made sense on the surface

turns out it's a lot easier to say "American women couldn't have their own bank accounts or credit cards before the 1970s!!!" than "American women could do these things but there wasn't a lot of centralized regulation, and gender-based discrimination against them in these areas- especially married, divorced, or widowed women -was fully legal and rampant until measures were passed attempting to address it in the mid-20th century"

there was never a law saying Ye Shall Not Permit Women To Have Their Own Bank Accounts, Nor Yet To Take Out Credit In Their Own Names, Amen. and indeed many women did, long before those laws were passed. that doesn't make the discrimination not an issue! it just makes everything more complex than a single, punchy sentence

and like I always warn people against, I believed it. because it makes sense for a highly misogynistic society, and because I'd never been given a reason to question it

You Are Not Immune To Lack Of Historical Nuance, and Neither Am I

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I don’t like the way people speak about Neanderthals. They were humans too. They buried their loved ones in intricate ways with grave goods. They had graveyards. They cared for the sick and disabled members of their groups when they could. They raised and loved their children. Their culture had a degrees of gender equality not evident in other hunter-gather groups. They made soup. They were highly intelligent like their early modern human counterparts, they just didn’t have the benefit of cumulative knowledge like humans now do.

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@cardinalstar took out a commission for this freshly adopted kitten!

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heeppy hoolida

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So is it a universal problem with tumblr now that its not showing images fully (like cutting them off part way through the image) if theyre like the wrong aspect, or theres too many of them?

Every second post I'm having to click one the last image(s) at the base of a post to be able to see the whole image.

Or is this just a consequence of the fact that my internet hates the current weather of Drowning In Rain?

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So is it a universal problem with tumblr now that its not showing images fully (like cutting them off part way through the image) if theyre like the wrong aspect, or theres too many of them?

Every second post I'm having to click one the last image(s) at the base of a post to be able to see the whole image.

Or is this just a consequence of the fact that my internet hates the current weather of Drowning In Rain?

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Just because someone links a scientific paper to their claim doesn't mean they read the paper right (or read it at all beyond the title). Watch out for the disconnect between a person's claims and what the paper actually says.

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Should I be doing work? yes

Am i bored dealing with overly complicated survey recording data? also yes

Am i the one who did the recording and the consequences of my own actions? ... no comment