#learning through exposure

[oneluckydragon]

Thinking about how these two met. Get adopted, idiot.

More human!Echo.

[firestorm09890]

hey that's. hey. that's. not at all the same line

Ienzo-

[skiddo-xy]

I finally took the language placement test I needed to take to take Mandarin classes at my university and I thought it was going to be an actual test to determine my actual level and got myself so psyched up like yessss I'm going to make my timetable today and then turns out it was more of a small questionaire with questions like "can you recognize at least 20 Chinese characters (simplified/traditional)" while I had already selected "I have had SIGNIFICANT exposure to the language" . So anyways the automated email was like "yeah we'll look at your response and determine if we need to interview you or give you a placement test". But yeah that was a little humbling 🙃

[meowrimo]

one of my favorite things is learning about a character through my mooties love for them

[sev-says-so]

Shoutout to @hellhoundmaggie for being an awesome mutual. We don’t talk much directly but I see your likes and reblogs and that’s great.

[nexus-nebulae]

love watching weather science videos but like. why am i 1000x more interested in tornadoes over hurricanes. they're both spinning air

[asinglesock]

sometimes the horrible feeling in your stomach is anxiety but sometimes the horrible feeling in your stomach is because you are hungry. and sometimes you are both anxious and hungry. if you eat you might still be anxious but you will no longer be hungry.

[stellomiacis]

J’apprends le français! Si vous parlez français, vous pouvez me parler en la langue s’il vous plaît… Je vais essayer de comprendre. ^_^

D’accord, Je suis reviens l’apprends après quelques années. Je désolé si je ne pas bon à ça 😭 j’essaye mon meilleur!

[sableprince]

i really want to sit down and make a proper Real lore doc for these goobers and not just the paragraphs of shtuff from whatever-ago, but like....... (buries myself underneath the dirt) lazy!!!!!!!

[stickthisbig]

Hey man, ahead of this heatwave I'm gonna go ahead and rip the veil off of something for you:

The reason American Southerners have the luxury of saying that 90 ain't that bad and it's not unbearable until it's 100 is 1) prolonged exposure to high temperatures over multiple decades 2) our mindset for these living conditions.

You don't have number 1, and you can't just acquire it, so I need you to adopt number 2 immediately. How do you live like a Southerner in the heat?

Don't be a hero.

Stay inside. Buy a box fan, put it next to a bucket of ice, and wrap your arms around it like a lover. Do not leave the shade under any circumstances. If a dude makes fun of you for getting out of the sun, don't get mad, just think of a funnier insult to call him while you flip him off and go stand under a tree.

Southerners love nothing more than to exaggerate and lie to each other. Like I think we got off on the wrong foot when you walked in on us saying things like "It was only 110, I didn't even take my damn jacket off" when really, last week it was 95 at 10 PM and we were on the bed buck nekkid in front of the fan moaning incoherently and praying to die. So yeah, we can take extreme heat. We also want you to think we can take ludicrous heat. You must learn to talk shit and then be a hypocrite and a coward in your actions, because this will serve you best.

It sounds like I am joking but I cannot express to you how much I am not. Do not fuck with Mother Nature, because that bitch will kill you. Take every opportunity to lower your body temperature and drink water, because that is what all of us in hot climates are doing all the time, and that is why we are not dead, even when it seems like we should be.

(And yeah, we do go through like two and a half ugly weeks in April every year where everyone wants to absolutely just goddamn drop dead because none of us have our heat tolerance back, but we must go to work anyway, which must be a crime. And yes, when it gets below 70 we really all do short circuit and cover ourselves in seven jackets, except for Shorts Guy.)

[summerhighlandfalls]

Also can I say something controversial about Murakami (<- guy who is often saying something controversial about Murakami)… I think a lot of westerners who aren’t exposed to other modern Japanese authors tend to assume that the tone of Murakami’s books is 100% his own thing, and don’t realize that there’s a (imo) pretty distinctive style to modern Japanese literature that’s easy to pick up on when you’re reading the English translation. Because most anglophones don’t read books in translation unless they’re famous. For some reason

[wip]

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[centipedve]

been thinkin we need to read some more comics that aren't manga and this has garnered our attention ... not just one but FOUR insufferable loser men......

btw if y'all know any non-superhero comics that are fire let us know

[bulletbilltime]

Now that the initial frustration has faded a bit, I'm left with the same indifference I felt towards DE that I felt before any of the controversy reared up tbh. Like the moment I thought about it for 2 seconds, I just knew bringing back Max was going to be a terrible move, so I never really got all that hyped up for it.

I'll just be here planning my stupid crossover AUs and playing Paper Mario Tower of Trials waiting to see if it goes on a solid sale in December.

[burning2know]

An excellent refusal of popularized usage of a clinical term. So we should stop using the word "functioning" incorrectly. Nuance below.

In clinical practice, functioning is defined as "are you able to do the things you need to do to live your life". Everyone's life is different and very individualized. If you never need to have conversations in the presence of more than one other person or other noise, the inability to parse different sound sources does not impede function. But if you want to work as a bartender, you can't take orders, and that prevents you from doing a big portion bartending. But there are accommodations that can make that not a functional issue. If you work in a bar for deaf people, and every speaks using sign language, maybe you'd be fine. Functional bartender again. But if you decide you don't want to be a bartender, you want to make music tiktoks from your room, once again, not a problem anymore. The idea here is that everyone has their own way of functioning, and if your ability changes over time, there are ways to adapt your life to accommodate those changes. Similarly, if your life changes, what defines functioning also adapts to that.

Ideally, each clinician determines what their client needs to do by asking about their lifestyle and where they face challenges. The Client ultimately decides what they need and what their struggles are, and whether they can accept their struggles. And we all struggle. We mostly implicitly accept making typos on these tiny flat smartphone keyboards. But we find it unacceptable to be misgendered. Everyone'a life is different, and their tolerance for struggle is different (in quality and quantity).

Nobody, I reapeat, Nobody is particularly good at identifying where they struggle that without practice. Self-awareness and accurate metacognition isn't something that we constantly engage in, nor is it required to live a satisfying life (apparently). It's not an inevitable process on all levels, but it is something that develops over the lifetime (or not). So yes, of course a random regular person doesn't grasp how difficult this is and take it for granted that their version of normal awareness applies to everyone else. They don't even know what normal awareness is, because they can't know. And yet they're perfectly happy to sling around their criteria that they don't even fit in themselves. They never actually look under the bed (Hi Parasite 2019).

Lastly, what your life is isn't something other people tell you, it's something you identify because you and only you live your own life and have your own experiences. BUT, there are certain boundaries to such freedom of self-determination, and that's when we get to things like laws that prevemt people from harming themselves or other people (or corporations). It's in these systems where we can find issues with what qualifies someone as a whole human being.

And there are certain non-negotiables like hygiene. e.g. Do you need to clean yourself occasionally? yes. Getting sick all the time from weird preventable infections is not good. But it does not have to be a shower everyday! In many contexts, we can definitely expand what constitutes functioning, and that stuff IS just based on social norms and not be written into law or policy. And that's also where education and compassion and an open mind is huge, but provided there are the resources available (i.e. doctors and nurses not being overworked and stressed out all the time helps). But that's not something most regular people ever need to think about, even for themselves.

The idea of functioning in a clinical setting is one thing, but the way we talk about functioning in casual conversation completely mangles the idea.

Functioning pt. 2

The problem with "functioning" as a concept is not the indisputable fact that people have differing abilities, talents, and skills to differing degrees. The problem is that some abilities, talents, and skills are classified as "functioning," and real or perceived deficiency in them is grounds for pathologization and denial of autonomy. I can't play the trumpet, run a marathon, or dance on my toes. These are abilities that some other people have, but I don't. Yet no one is going to call me "low-functioning" or take away my rights because of this. Okay, but those are hobbies, not necessary for survival. If you don't have abilities necessary for survival, surely that's low-functioning. Except I also can't hunt or clean an animal for meat, forage for plants, or spin wool into warm clothing. I would be completely unable to survive without the structures of the society I live in. Yet I still do not face the legal consequences of being classified as "low-functioning." I am not denied human rights for this. Primitivists and fascists insult me for this (I don't care), but they have no legal power over me (yet).

Okay, but those skills aren't necessary for survival in my social context, a post-industrial capitalist society. Lacking abilities that are necessary life skills in my social context, that would definitely get me classified as "low-functioning", right? Except, no, I'm not very good at post-industrial capitalism, either. I can't file my taxes without assistance. I'm hazy on what the stock market is. The complex interconnected computers I use to manage my life might as well be run by tiny elves in hamster wheels for all I understand them. People might make fun of me or look down on me for this. But they don't classify me as "low-functioning." They don't take away my right to make my own decisions about my own body. But I have trouble filtering out different sounds, speech, and background noise. If I'm in a meeting or a crowded room, and people are have multiple conversations at once, I have no idea what's going on. I sometimes get a look on my face that others read as "confused." This is what makes people question my "functioning." Because I "look confused," and they don't think I can think. "Functioning" is not about what skills people have or how well they can survive. It's about how well they can perform normative behavior in their society, and about the assumption that people who do not perform normative behavior are less capable of thinking or decision-making. "But what about people who can't take care of themselves?" Irrelevant. You can't take care of yourself either. You live in a building you didn't construct, powered by electricity you didn't install and probably don't understand, travel in a metal box powered by a combustion engine to get food you didn't grow and products you didn't build in exchange for tokens with no intrinsic value and spend most of your waking hours doing meaningless tasks in exchange for such tokens. You can't conceptualize what it would mean to "take care of yourself" -- no, not even if you have a small garden or a few animals you like to imagine constitutes "self-sufficiency" (it doesn't). Which is fine! Humans are an interdependent species who shouldn't have to "take care of themselves."

But the concept of "functioning" is not based on skill level. It is not based on "how much support someone needs" (which would be meaningless in the first place -- all humans need roughly the same amount of support; the differences arise in who has the social privilege to access it and whose human needs are framed as "special" or "extra"). The concept of "functioning" is based on the unchallenged cultural assumption that people with non-normative traits are less human, less reasonable, less thinking, less capable of decision-making. As I wrote in this previous post, humans do not "function." Humans are not machines. Humans are thinking, feeling, decision-making beings. They do not need to fulfill any "function" in order to justify their existence or prove their ability to think, feel, make decisions. The right to exist, the right to communicate, the right to self-determination, do not depend on anyone's possession of any particular skill set.

[sitcomghost]

I'm following the story because it's evident that those in power are doing everything they can to prevent him from getting a fair trial. There were headlines yesterday about his "outburst outside of court" where he was "struggling". It makes it sound like he's unruly and crazy. I watched the video for myself.

He gets out of the car, sees the press, and attempts to communicate "It's completely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience". One police officer has a hand around his neck. Another slams him into a wall. They push and force him through the door. They wanted a perp walk of him in the orange jumpsuit but you can't have that without the possibility of him speaking.

Is he hot? Yes. And he's lucky he's an attractive white man. No matter if he is guilty or not, they have their suspect and they're sticking to him. They're going to make his life hell and try and smear and brutalize him as much as they can. This story isn't just one of a dead CEO and a suspect. It's how the justice system exists to protect capital.

Do not let any culture war facades trick you. Stay on this story, keep the pressure up. If we can do this for Luigi, we can do this for the thousands of Black and Brown political prisoners that have been ignored by the media. The fact that we as a nation did not erupt in mass revolt after COINTELPRO was confirmed is an indictment on us.

The fancams, the thirst tweets, they are honestly good for media exposure. They communicate to those in power that we stand with this man as he goes before the court and it becomes a gateway for people to learn about his case.

He's not a meme, he's a real person who, whether he fired those shots or not, is going to shape class consciousness in this country in the digital age.