#just statistically unlikely

[homunculus-argument]

Any time you come across a post that says something along the lines of "most people are/have/experience" about something that has never happened to you, that isn't you, or that you don't have, and you want to swoop in to inform them that this is incorrect because you have been excluded from this sentence, consider asking yourself:

Are you 'most people'?

Due to the way that language works, it is literally impossible to form a sentence that encompasses every single possible scenario of what is capable of existing. Generalisations are an inevitable part of making language function. If a statement is talking about people in general, it's safer to assume that they're only talking about the statistical majority of people and not every single individual specific case, and if it does not apply to your own individual specific case, it is entirely possible to just conclude that you are not the statistically most common case.

If someone makes a post like "why do people keep memeing about ginger men being ugly, like 60% of them would look like fucking viking gods if they grew their beards and hair out", and that isn't your personal experience, it's good to consider that perhaps you are simply not a part of the 60%. You do not need to pop in to say

"What about me? I don't look like that and I have no norse ancestry. I don't know how generalisations or statistics work, so why am I being excluded from the majority, as the literally only redheaded 25% asian mestizo I know of?"

[decompose1]

"you have thousands of tiny mites and other bugs living on/inside you" being used as a gross scary fact has always been so funny to me like yeah that's how life works. do you think i want my body to be a sterile inhospitable wasteland? as long as the critters hitching a ride don't give me problems i just don't care. party it up in there. i'd rather be a nurse log than totally useless to nature

[mitamicah]

Today's morning mood is 'everbody secretly hates you and why shouldnt they bc you are a selfish prat'

...My favourite flavor, thank you brain /s

[lesbianralzarek]

ugh. my father insists on telling the family group chat whenever i take a lil half-step towards being a functional adult. "oh, ella is learning how to drive in the snow! also, did you know that shes taking a class to become a pharmacy technician?" dad im 25. your next youngest daughter is starting a master's program. shut the fuck up, not everyone needs to know i couldnt drive in the snow until now

[loverboybrightsideghost]

"reblog for something lgbt to happen to you" at this point i'd be grateful if something straight happened to me

[stabbingandorbeingstabbed]

genuinely if i had the chance to go back ten years and say one thing to 2014 kady it would be "do not fucking listen to serial no matter how much you hear about it on the internet" bc i had a mean true crime habit that spanned years after that and now im about to turn 32 and i don't know how the fuck i'm supposed to live alone once our lease is up bc i can't even sleep until the sun is up NOW due to paranoia and i have two roommates right down the hall like i genuinely do not think i can do it LMAO

[zapsoda]

getting into a relationship is like winning the lottery basically

[arwainian]

an author's note just said that "there's criminally few cassmako fics".....about the fourth most written for ship in the tag

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

People who go like "Yeah well Judy couldn't even wait two years for V before getting married 🙄" rot my brain

You date a couple months tops (maybe less) and then the girl (who you know works a very risky job) suddenly vanishes without a warning, for how long are you going to sit there in a city you were planning to leave just waiting for a ghost to show up come ONNNN

[tommybowefuneralattendee]

i am amazed that you managed to write 10k words about two absolute fucking losers having sex. a props to your writing ability, truly

dude it being cringefail nerdloser porn is exactly what gives me so much to say

[zerolostwalks]

. . .

[zwischenland]

how do you gain trust in the world and likelihoods again after something unlikely and terrible happened to you? these days i feel like i am living my life with the constant awareness that another awful thing could happen any moment (unlikely but not impossible, unlikely but what does it matter if it happens to you, unlikely but i am out of luck). i want to be rational again, but i think i have anxiety now.

[hotfuss]

Love to wake up in the morning only to cry for the third time about today's failed plan, I was supposed to go to a water park with a coworker but she bailed on me yesterday evening.

Having plans failing bc people bail on me and having to reschedule is unfortunately a running theme in my life + of all the 4/5 people I call my friends basically only one kept in touch and actually proposes to spend time with me (🙃) + but that really doesn't matter bc of the nature of my job, i have odd hours and definitively no days off on the weekend, at least in summer.

I love being in the water but I'm extremely shortsighted and I don't feel comfortable wearing lenses in the water bc I'm terrified I could accidentally open my eyes under water and lose them (and that shit costs me over 200 bucks every 6 months, they aren't cheap!), being without lenses means I can see colors and blurry shapes when I'm not wearing my glasses. It makes getting out of the water and reaching my belongings really awkward and anxiety inducing.

Last week I proposed my coworker bc I saw we had a matching day off and she was actually her counter off with the water park after me proposing the beach or the pool and it got me so excited!! I completely forgot about that, last time I went there I was still a minor!! I literally spent every day of this week thinking about going to my fave attractions and having fun in the water now that I bought a swimming suit that could properly contain my boobs and have someone being my support eyes. This bail really crushed me in such a horrible way, I was supposed to have so much fun today 😭😭😭😭

[lesbianralzarek]

ugh. my father insists on telling the family group chat whenever i take a lil half-step towards being a functional adult. "oh, ella is learning how to drive in the snow! also, did you know that shes taking a class to become a pharmacy technician?" dad im 25. your next youngest daughter is starting a master's program. shut the fuck up, not everyone needs to know i couldnt drive in the snow until now

EDIT: why did this post twice? tumblr is a webbed site you can use

[liesonthefloordramatically]

can someone explain to me why futzing with the LMS is like some sort of focus blackhole

every time I open it up to start building courses I look up and it's hours later

[snickerdoodlles]

*pinches nose bridge* even if there wasn’t 6 degrees of separation between AO3 and generative AI, has anyone in this tag even considered that if it was possible for individuals to fuck up generative AI or their training datasets just by writing a/b/o fic, then fascists, bigots, or even just internet trolls could and would fuck it up worse with hate speech