#they are very DENSE

[actualmichelle]

There is something that feels so powerful about finishing off a bag of tortilla chips when one of the chips broke off part of my back molar :}

[crabplatinum]

my fave duo!! the beloved leader and his right hand short ass yapper scout :3 can u tell im absolutely exploding wanting to draw my pookies but struggling with the robots...

[nananukes]

If I had to explain this drawing, Izuku probably tried kissing her in a bicurious way and Katsuki got flustered cuz she's in love with her

[acornered]

I'm so Gelphie-pilled rn should I finish this???

[dragon-subway]

ok but what do you think cemeteries on coruscant are like?

[spaciebabie]

love loses

based on this post

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

[qprpbj]

my outsiders musical hot take is steve being reduced to ensemble is kinda not at all that serious 🥸

[shsl-fander]

Based off @gay-jewish-bucky

Davey: I've been dropping them the most insanely obvious hints for about a year now and still no response

Jack: Wow. They sound stupid

Davey: But they're not! They're much smarter than they give themself credit for, just dense

Jack: Maybe ya need to be more obvious? Like I don't know "Hey, I'm in love with you."

Davey: I guess you're right. Hey Jack, I'm in love with you

Jack: See! Just like that!

Davey: Holy fucking shit.

Jack: If that flies over their head then sorry Dave but they're way too dumb for you

Davey: Jack...

[tj-crochets]

The other post is getting too long so here’s the salmon plushie progress! Three more fins to make and attach, and eyes, but the first two fins are done and the fish is stuffed!

I filled it with mostly batting scraps, some fabric scraps, and a little bit of polyfil and it weighs about two pounds (that doesn’t sound like much but it’s a lot for a stuffed animal!)

[lunarharp]

more phoenix wright situations

[hubr1s69]

doing proper hairblockout today.... send me strength

[somecunttookmyurl]

there is an orange spot ladybird just. hanging out on my massage gun? which is. like. literally ive never seen a brown ladybird in my LIFE before but also

are you fucking lost, ma'am

[databuser]

Floaf sizes! (Ft. Floafy Uzi and Floafy N)

[slyandthefamilybook]

...And here we come upon a problem as basic as the nature of knowledge itself: all of our prodigious cognitive and computational abilities are inadequate to a full comprehension of our complex world. As humans, we remain heavily dependent on certain tools of perception and conception that our cultural and biological heritages have taught us are useful. These tools–such as language, causal logic, religion, mathematics–are indeed powerful, but they are powerful precisely because they reduce complexity to intelligibility by projecting our mental concepts onto the world. One consequence of this is that our recognition of significance is always what some philosophers call "theory laden," meaning that it is shaped by what our theoretical framework and cognitive tools encourage us to recognize as meaningful. Anti-Judaism, as I have argued throughout this book, is precisely this: a powerful theoretical framework for making sense of the world.

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After all, no matter how overrepresented the Jews may have been among the European "bourgeoisie," they remained a tiny minority of that class. How could that tiny minority convincingly come to represent for so many the evolving evils of the capitalist world order? More broadly, how could untold millions of Europeans (and not only Germans) come to believe–or act as if they believed–the claims of the Nazis (and not only the Nazis) that Jews and their conspiracies so threatened the security of the world that they needed to be excluded, expelled, or exterminated? According to Horkheimer and Adorno, the liquidation of the Jews of Europe was not grounded in "reality." It took place in the vast gap between and explanatory framework ("anti-Semitism") that made satisfying sense of the world to a significant portion of its citizens, and the complexity of the world itself.

They set out to explore that gap in a philosophical history of modern thought they drafted in 1944 and later published as Dialectics of Enlightenment. Their final chapter, "Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment," suggested that what gave anti-Semitic ideas their power was not so much their relation to reality, but rather their exemption from reality checks–that is, from the critical testing to which so many other concepts were subjected. "What is pathological about anti-Semitism is not projective behavior as such, but the absence of reflection in it." In their terms, the problem is a heightened resistance to reflection about the gap between our ideas about Jews, Judaism, or Jewishness, and the complexity of the world. From their point of view, anti-Semitism provides adherents with a cognitive comfort: the fantasy that the gap between our understanding of the cosmos and its fearful complexity does not exist.

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...[A]cross several thousand years, myriad lands, and many different spheres of human activity, people have used ideas about Jews and Judaism to fashion the tools with which they construct the reality of their world. The goal of my project, like Horkeheimer and Adorno's, is to encourage reflection about our "projective behavior," that is, about the ways in which our deployment of concepts into and onto the world might generate "pathological" fantasies of Judaism. And my choice of method owes something to Auerbach's conviction that the study of a given moment, problem, or even a single word in the distant past can teach us something about a much longer history, extending even to our own.

Selected excerpts from Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013 Nirenberg, David)

[loveofdetail]

imo the single worst set of dialogue-choices in bg3:

let's see, we've got--

after everything, thinking it would be good for Gale to go back to being Mystra's chosen

hey remember that godhood plan i've been discouraging you from this whole time? the game is giving me an eleventh-hour option to change my mind on that for some reason

blatant power hunger

as if it is so hard to imagine a possibility outside these. any other reason why the PC might not encourage returning to Mystra, besides power-hunger or lust for godhood. dunno about you but i can certainly think of other things the PC might have liked to suggest to Gale at this juncture!