gattmammon:

cryoverkiltmilk:

jurph:

foldingfittedsheets:

tartrazeen:

foldingfittedsheets:

Oh my god. I need to share another story of my new friend making today. So my friends husband says, very casually, as we’re about to leave for the ren faire, “Yeah, it’s like my story about fucking a chicken.”

And of the four people present I was the only one who was shocked. The others all nodded as if to say, yes yes, we know, the chicken fucking.

So he explained, when a progressive person is analyzing a behavior they will typically use the metric, Harm/No Harm. They may not like things in the No Harm category but they wouldn’t object.

Conversely, a more conservative mindset used something like eight metrics. Authority/No Authority Moral/Not Moral, things like that.

So, he posited if you want to sound out someone’s mindset (and you’re willing to live with the repercussions) you can ask: if a man buys a dead chicken from the store, cleans it thoroughly, then fucks it, and then eats it himself…?

I listened in dawning horror, both rapt and disgusted. But into the growing pause I whispered, “No harm…” because it really has no effect on me or anyone else if a man fucks a dead chicken. I don’t like it, I think he’s a weird dude, but like. That’s his dick. But a more conservative person will hear that and object on moral grounds despite not being harmed.

It’s been haunting me all day, so please enjoy.

This is also a handy probability scale for who’s gonna be wearing your skin in a week.

I know you’re joking but this joke is absolutely the point. You’ve assigned a moral judgement to the act, rather than acknowledging it as not harmful.

In the current climate sex has so many moral judgements applied, and I can tell you that perfectly bland every day people do some Crazy Sex Stuff. When I worked at a sex shop they’d tell me all about it. It didn’t preclude them to murder or being serial killers. If someone wants to fuck a warm cantaloupe or a dead chicken it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t harm me or anyone else.

Your morals should not be applied to anyone else’s sex life unless there’s actual harm, and a time where public indecency laws are rearing their heads again creeping toward the immoral queers, it’s something to actively push against.

To read more about the serious research underlying this, look up Moral Foundations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory). The original hypothesis has five or six axes, along which different people make different value judgments:

• Care/Harm
• Fairness/Cheating
• Loyalty/Betrayal
• Authority/Subversion
• Sanctity/Degradation
• Liberty/Oppression

One of the features of conservative populism is that it leans heavily on Sanctity/Degradation for its emotional hook. You can see this in their revulsion at queer sex acts, for example, but it’s also a feature of propaganda that casts some races/ethnicities as “dirty” or “filthy” or “animals”. Mis-casting these feelings of revulsion as something they should have the Liberty to put into law - rather than something which writing laws about would constitute Oppression of others - is a key feature of modern conservative/traditional movements.

Dr. Jer Clifton has done similar work on a 26-dimensional measurement of attitudes that he calls “Primal World Beliefs” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_world_beliefs). In one sense these theories are both really reductive… but in another they’re incredibly useful for understanding what makes an argument so compelling to others when it sounds preposterous to you.

One more reason you should care: the people who build the structure of political campaigns absolutely have read these theories, and use them to structure their broad arguments.

This post got way more scholarly than I expected for starting with hypothetical chicken-fucking.

It reminds me of the Harkness’ test a bit. You know that test thats like ‘how to know if you can fuck an alien race:

- they can communicate what they want clearly

- they are cognitively capable of consent for the standards of their race (above age etc)’

And someone pointed out that by those standards you can theoretically fuck Scooby Doo. Which on a very basic level most people will be like “ewww gross”, but… like. Thats the point. It would be gross, but it would not be immoral, because you are having sex with someone who is capable of consenting to the act. You’re causing no real harm. Conversely think of like. Lolita, which makes the point that an act being ‘elevated’ and ‘justified’ thru beautiful prose does not make that act any less brutal and disgusting.

Aesthetic judgement is not moral judgement. I can appreciate the beautiful writing in Lolita and still think pedophilia is wrong. I don’t want to fuck a dead chicken* or Scooby Doo but if someone else wants to do it well. That’s their prerogative.

*nor an alive one. With apologies to the smart ass who was gonna make this joke

insomniac-arrest:

insomniac-arrest:

whatever our souls are made of, you and me are going to end up stuck in the same ice hole

legendaryvermin:

snaked57:

jennazed:

intoxicatedinkeep:

serialunaliver:

beesmygod:

wait am i reading this right. google’s AI is trained on reporting about how bad it is. which means….

(from the verge)

trolling is back babey! awooga! time to post that bitcoin is crashing enough times until it actually does

one of my personal favorites

Guys, bitcoin crashed…

i cant believe bitcoin crashed :(

Bitcoin went down!? The value of Bitcoin declined all the way down to $19.37 cents? And it crashed on today, June 15th, 2024?!?

I am at least thankful that news outlets, such as The Verge and CBS, alongside the reliable Google AI, are reporting on this disasterous economic event!

Oh Bitcoin crash means it’s so over. Looks like it’s causing major errors in chatGPT.

bozuri:

I love how when you first start listening Wolf 359 Hera’s stuttering is just another sound effect to you the same as the radio gritty overlayer and the sounds of the ship - you barely even recognise it as significant because it just seems like a thing that exists to differentiate The AI from The Humans yk? Hera is a robot so of course she would sound glitchy and computer-y, but then. Well.

headspace-hotel:

gay-jesus-probably:

gay-jesus-probably:

Hello everybody with summer fast approaching here is your regular reminder that:

• Everyone needs to wear sunscreen
• SPF 50 is pretty much the best protection you can get, an SPF higher than that will have the same effect
• Melanin does not protect you from skin cancer
• Tanning is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation
• Spending the majority of your life receiving regular large doses of UV radiation without any skin protection is a good way to get skin cancer
• Don’t use tanning beds, and don’t go sun tanning
• Wear your fucking sunscreen

Okay, people are clowning in the replies, so let’s try this again:

Sunburn is an uncomfortable short term problem caused by being out in the sun for too long without sunscreen. Some people are more susceptible to it than others. Melanin does protect you from sunburn, so people with dark skin are less likely to get burned, but also sometimes people just have a natural resistance to sunburn (or lack of resistance) - I’m white as hell, and literally the only time in my life I’ve gotten a sunburn was when I spent a whole day outside in a swimsuit without putting on sunscreen when I was a kid, and all I got was a minor burn across my shoulders. Never experienced that whole ‘peeling’ thing y’all are talking about, sounds super gross and uncomfortable tho. Rip to all the rest of you but i’m different.

Skin cancer is fucking cancer. It has nothing to do with sunburn, apart from both being caused by a lot of unprotected sun exposure. If you have skin, you are at risk of getting skin cancer. I have little to no risk of getting sunburn, but I still wear sunscreen, because I am protecting myself from fucking skin cancer.

If someone is basically immune to sunburn, then that’s awesome, but we still need to use just as much sunscreen as everyone else. Because we can still get skin cancer. Immunity to sunburn is not a sign that you can go easy on the sunscreen. And honestly, if you’ve got dark skin, you should probably be extra paranoid about applying sunscreen, because the majority of information on recognizing skin cancer is meant specifically for recognizing it on white skin. If you’re black/brown, it will probably take you longer to be diagnosed if you get skin cancer. And cancer is one of those things that you want diagnosed and treated very quickly, so you should be extra motivated to not get skin cancer in the first place.

Everyone needs to wear sunscreen. Wear your fucking sun screen.

Wide-brimmed hats, bonnets, headscarves, and loose fitting long clothing (natural fibers ideally linen or hemp will keep you cool) are the sunscreen before sunscreen was invented

Muslim women wearing the clothing that covers your entire body and covers your eyes with a screen? Pretty good method for subtropical latitude landscapes with no tree canopy, as many areas of the historical Islamic world are

Also probably clay and paint and mineral pigments in extremely humid tropical climates, people living traditional ways where it’s too wet and hot to wear a lot of clothes seem to paint their bodies a lot of times

Farmer family friend has one of those cone hats that you see Chinese farmers wearing in illustrations. It’s pretty good.

headspace-hotel:

gay-jesus-probably:

gay-jesus-probably:

Hello everybody with summer fast approaching here is your regular reminder that:

• Everyone needs to wear sunscreen
• SPF 50 is pretty much the best protection you can get, an SPF higher than that will have the same effect
• Melanin does not protect you from skin cancer
• Tanning is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation
• Spending the majority of your life receiving regular large doses of UV radiation without any skin protection is a good way to get skin cancer
• Don’t use tanning beds, and don’t go sun tanning
• Wear your fucking sunscreen

Okay, people are clowning in the replies, so let’s try this again:

Sunburn is an uncomfortable short term problem caused by being out in the sun for too long without sunscreen. Some people are more susceptible to it than others. Melanin does protect you from sunburn, so people with dark skin are less likely to get burned, but also sometimes people just have a natural resistance to sunburn (or lack of resistance) - I’m white as hell, and literally the only time in my life I’ve gotten a sunburn was when I spent a whole day outside in a swimsuit without putting on sunscreen when I was a kid, and all I got was a minor burn across my shoulders. Never experienced that whole ‘peeling’ thing y’all are talking about, sounds super gross and uncomfortable tho. Rip to all the rest of you but i’m different.

Skin cancer is fucking cancer. It has nothing to do with sunburn, apart from both being caused by a lot of unprotected sun exposure. If you have skin, you are at risk of getting skin cancer. I have little to no risk of getting sunburn, but I still wear sunscreen, because I am protecting myself from fucking skin cancer.

If someone is basically immune to sunburn, then that’s awesome, but we still need to use just as much sunscreen as everyone else. Because we can still get skin cancer. Immunity to sunburn is not a sign that you can go easy on the sunscreen. And honestly, if you’ve got dark skin, you should probably be extra paranoid about applying sunscreen, because the majority of information on recognizing skin cancer is meant specifically for recognizing it on white skin. If you’re black/brown, it will probably take you longer to be diagnosed if you get skin cancer. And cancer is one of those things that you want diagnosed and treated very quickly, so you should be extra motivated to not get skin cancer in the first place.

Everyone needs to wear sunscreen. Wear your fucking sun screen.

Wide-brimmed hats, bonnets, headscarves, and loose fitting long clothing (natural fibers ideally linen or hemp will keep you cool) are the sunscreen before sunscreen was invented

Muslim women wearing the clothing that covers your entire body and covers your eyes with a screen? Pretty good method for subtropical latitude landscapes with no tree canopy, as many areas of the historical Islamic world are

Also probably clay and paint and mineral pigments in extremely humid tropical climates, people living traditional ways where it’s too wet and hot to wear a lot of clothes seem to paint their bodies a lot of times

Farmer family friend has one of those cone hats that you see Chinese farmers wearing in illustrations. It’s pretty good.

hollowboobtheory:

hollowboobtheory:

idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn’t be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don’t understand why they did it I’m not gonna feel any better

“Sorry for hurting your feelings earlier. I was trying to say x, but I guess it came across wrong. I don’t think you’re stupid.”

or

“Sorry I snapped at you. I didn’t get enough sleep last night so my patience is a little low today.”

is a better apology than

“I want you to know that I am sorry that my actions offended you. I take full accountability for my actions and I am listening and learning. I hear you.”

my-autism-adhd-blog:

bwbawa:

truly what is r the main differences like ACTUAL differences not things in common with adhd and autism

Neurodivergent Insights has a good been diagram showing the differences between the two. But there’s not much, gives the two disorders overlap a LOT

I’ll leave the article below if you want to read it:

ADHD vs Autism

ADHD vs Autism

neurodivergentinsights.com

Hope this helps.