I think the missing piece of what makes “russian cat memes translated to English” so charming is that literally all the original posts are coming from one blog, like, it really seems to be just one guy running such a quality cat meme blog that it’s become necessary to adapt his work into other languages so everyone can appreciate it
God @ northern liberals w that “southerners deserve natural disasters for voting for trump” as if there aren’t a ton of poor people and people of color and other vulnerable people.. y’all think it’s the rich republicans that will die if a hurricane hits Florida??? Naw so shut the fuck up
NOBODY DESERVES MASSIVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE THEM.
Y’all pulled this circus act during the Gatlinburg fires too. Your beliefs are not more important than the lives of people
It’s not just republicans who live down here either- There are CHILDREN who are far too young to grasp the shallow, sick reasons why you hate them and their families.So get out of here with your “lol u deserve this” crap.
TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature.
The goat’s binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it stereoscopic vision, which was pretty odd for an ungulate.
fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die
fun fact: Drug addiction is a public health issue, and approaching it as if it were a law enforcement issue is prejudicial to addicts and will result in their suffering and death
if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, you’ll pretty much never be wrong.
now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. i’m pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times ‘to round the sharp corners off of things’ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that i’m going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. i’ve chosen not to, but i can’t blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.
anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people don’t enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people don’t get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they can’t put a name to – something that they can’t ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason – lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesn’t exist – they aren’t able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.
addicts aren’t some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because they’re Bad. addicts are you with a problem you can’t solve.
I think we come at the classism/ableism problem from an appreciable number of angles, but one I wonder about sometimes is…
…If we made work less grueling, and more rewarding, not just monetarily but in the sense that people get satisfaction out of their work and don’t dread going, maybe people would be less jealous of the unemployed and unemployable?
It would be nice if we could get people to understand that not having a job means not having financial security and independence, and how poverty is not actually a privilege… but in addition to that, I think people who aren’t motivated mainly by a strong will to hate and keep other people down might be less intoxicated by being able to think of themselves as hard working middle class heroes vs lazy poors who take their tax dollars if work wasn’t so fucking miserable.
There are a lot of stupid things people force employees to put up with- unnecessary performance reviews that are reduced to pointless nitpicking for the sake of the person doing the review being able to tell their boss that they’re doing the jobs, on-site policy changes that make things harder than they need to be, rude and demeaning co-workers and managers, work with no inherent reward (that is, when you complete it you don’t really feel accomplished)- that we don’t… have to do, at all.
I mean, yeah, some people will still want to feel self-righteous and mean because that feels rewarding to them regardless of how hard their jobs are, and some people will just pick up whatever prejudice their friends and family spout and find the idea of confronting that prejudice offensive, but like… it’s entirely possible some people would be more able to intuitively grasp that being unemployably disabled is not like having a sick day every day for the rest of your life, if they didn’t have to hoard up their sick days like dwindling rations?
People who find work rewarding will probably also be more likely to understand that inertia can get boring, and fucking depressing, really, really fast.
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