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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

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this is just "MY freedom fighters vs. YOUR terrorists" all over again

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If anyone remembers the old story about how male prisoners were found to be calmed when their cells were painted pink; (oft cited to prove that the color pink has a calming effect on men) apparently this research was replicated with other paint colors and it was found that any color of paint has the same effect, including painting the walls the same color that they were before. As it turns out, you have to clean in order to paint, and people are happier when their environment has been recently cleaned. The obvious takeway is that correlation does not equal causation, but the even MORE obvious takeaway is the many times proved but seldom acknowledged law that one should never attempt to extrapolate general principles out of studies done in a prison

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Approximately 50% of the posts that start with "It's a huge problem in western culture that--" are actually about something which is a global problem, experienced in various degrees across many cultures. But OP is American with no global knowledge and is super afraid of looking conceivably racist so they have to include the part where this is a western culture problem, only, for sure.

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individual acts don't count, only collective action counts

Fandom Problem #6660:

An author I follow on Twitter had a meltdown because she researched her family tree and discovered her black great-grandmother eloped with her white great-grandfather and they had a happy marriage in spite of family and society disapproval.

"Good for them! Why's she so upset about that?" I wondered.

Then she revealed she'd thought her great-grandmother was raped by a white man and she was disgusted because instead "she was complicit in her own oppression." Dafuq? She wishes her great-grandmother had been raped instead of committing the awful sin of... having a happy interracial marriage?

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Feminism is a factory for creating misogynists. That's ultimately its sole (if not often-understood) purpose, and all it lastingly achieves in the world, especially today.

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An international team of scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France, has found that emperor penguins detoxify mercury with both sulfur and selenium, a new pathway for a marine predator. This new detoxification pathway for mercury has been unveiled in a study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials. Mercury is considered by WHO as one of the top ten chemicals of major public health concern. Mercury bioaccumulates in organisms along time and biomagnifies in aquatic and terrestrial food webs as the neurotoxic form of methylmercury. Understanding the internal detoxification processes of methylmercury in animals is essential for protecting wildlife and designing treatments against mercury poisoning.

Continue Reading.

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日本的なマリア像 Japanese-style depictions of the Virgin Mary

東京カルメル会 Carmelite Order of Tokyo

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you ever wake up from a dream amd immediately think "well that was a bit heavyhanded"

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Happy Thanksgiving, friends! This day wouldn’t be complete without these classic Scamp pie pics!

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Art by • Frank Frazetta

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the transition im crying

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