rapmom:

rapmom:

eggcoups:

rapmom:

Are knees not simply leg knuckles

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

They’re more like leg elbows if you think about it.

No. because an elbow is just an arm knuckle. Host your own ted talk.

Unless you go with the theory that knuckles are finger elbows. This is open for discussion

The joints are not similar, structurally.

bisexualdinahlance:

bisexualdinahlance:

Man @ my fellow white people sometimes you gotta take a step back and realize that even if you have been oppressed for some reason (whether ur queer or a woman or disabled) that we still… have white privilege like I know that’s hard for some of y’all to understand but plain and simple, we have ever since race as it is known today was conceptualized (about 500 years ago at least) benefited from white privileged and we continue to do so today.

Like when a poc (especially someone who is black since we yknow enslaved their ancestors and continue to keep them disenfranchised and enslaved through the prison system) says they don’t feel sympathy for a white group historically isn’t saying that what happened to them is okay, but even oppressed groups (like white women in the 17th century 👀👀) can still oppress other oppressed groups. White women may have been “considered property” and been subjected to marital rape but like, not only did black people experience all of that and more, (considering you know, black people actually were property) white women had a hand in the oppression and foul treatment of slaves, we know this for a fact. No one is saying that white women weren’t and aren’t to some extent still oppressed just that black women experience everything we do and worse because they are both female and black. Black folk have a reason to dislike white people, and honestly most white peoples utter lack of empathy towards the black struggle is not only disgusting but isn’t going to engender any sort of sympathy towards white people, especially women.

(Particularly when historically speaking, black women have always been key movers in the white womens feminist movements and then receive none of the benefits)

heyyy ummm my white followers maybe yall should yknow, reblog this instead of just liking it. even tho im addressing specifics this applies elsewhere

heartgemsona:

erotic-yoddeling:

bemusedlybespectacled:

nonlinear-nonsubjective:

sonneillonv:

castiel-for-king:

maliwanhellfires:

just-shower-thoughts:

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

consider the coconut

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

listen if an immortal feels brave and supported enough to come out we should respect them

Thank you.

shiraglassman:

lomarien:

sorcyress:

pervocracy:

I wonder if one of the causes of animosity towards “entitled millennials” is that many millennials are poor people who look rich.  There’s this growing class of people who wear nice clothes, have fancy new electronic gadgets, go out to eat nice food… and will never own a home or have a retirement fund or put a child through college.

It’s so easy to say “if you cut down on the avocado toast maybe you could save up”, and so hard to accept that a house these days is fifty thousand avocado toasts, and that’s why so many of us have just given up.  We don’t treat ourselves because we think the world will take care of us when we get older; we treat ourselves because we know it won’t.  Might as well feel and look good on the way down.

Good post. Good logic. Like, if I can save 10k a year by scrimping and being as miserly as possible, and therefore be able to buy a house in 30 years…yeah, I’m just gonna spend my 30 years being happy instead. Like, I’m definitely putting some money into my savings, but what’s the point when everything is so unattainably expensive?

Furthermore, the technological tools that millennials use daily, such as cell phones, are seen as luxury items by older geneations because those were luxury items back then. But technology changes. Cell phones used to require their own backpack, but now they fit in your back pocket. Over time, technology becomes more accessible and more affordable. Cell phones and the Internet are not so much luxuries anymore as they are necessities.

We need the Internet to apply to those retail amd fast food jobs everyone seems to think should barely pay minimum wage. We need cell phones so that we can be contacted about those minimum wage jobs. Land lines still exist, but they are becoming a thing of the past. Cheap smart phones and data plans exist and more expensive phones can be financed for around $20/month.

“When I was young, we didn’t have…” You can finish that sentence with cars, CD players, Bluray, color TV, the Internet, cell phones, Facebook…the list goes on and on. Having items that weren’t available in the past does not necessarily mean they are still luxury items today. And just because something was afforable in the past, doesn’t mean it is afforable or even available now as some technology dies out. Buying a house is not a necessity but a luxury–and it always has been–but it is not a luxury I desire. Houses are expensive and biying and selling property is a hassle I actually want to avoid. And there is nothing wrong with that.

TL;DR Society changes. Prices, accessibility, and necessities change. That’s okay. So let’s stop harrassing millennials and put that energy towards important things like providing access to good education and stable jobs that pay a living wage. Maybe then millennials might desire owning a house to eat their avocado toast in.

Reblogging with especial emphasis on the “daily parts of 2010’s life are seen as extravagance because they used to be luxury items” (like cel phones.) I think it’s taking a long time for the semiotics of that to catch up with reality.

Also, speaking of avocado toast, I will never get over the idea that anyone thought a healthy meal that costs $4 to make is the height of extravagance. It doesn’t even have any animal products.

This was true of every technological advance ever. Do you know how rich you had to be to have two radios? And how much animosity that would engender in your neighbors? If you had a washing machine, one day not too long ago, you were seen as living extravagantly. Was a time that if you had purple clothes, you were likely royalty, because only they could afford it. until some young whipper snapper invented a synthetic purple dye and suddenly everyone could wear purple for the first time. Was about a solid thirty years in which purple and fuchsia were everywhere.

My point is to suggest that this always happens.

There is nothing wrong with millennials.

You meant to say HUMMUS…Pardon me. I thought it was a typo. Presumed you meant “humans” but were trying to be silly (”hoomuns”) and were auto-corrected.

I was terribly confused.

This reminds me of one of the funniest jokes I ever did hear. Someone told it to me about fifty years ago and I’ve never forgotten it.

Late one night, a group of monks are sitting silently at their desks, carefully and painstakingly copying new manuscripts from ancient Latin tomes. Each man moves in cautious slowness, carefully moving letter by letter to translate the texts. Candles flicker. Paint pots are refilled by mute dedicants. The light flickers as each man blinks in the dimness, set upon pursuing his holy task. Of a sudden, one monk in the back of the room leaps to his feet with a great whoop! He begins dancing around the desks, laughing and clapping and shouting nonsense. The other monks are terrified; has the man been taken by the Holy Spirit or the Devil? What is this mischief?

Suddenly the monk takes a deep breath and bellows, “All along…it was CELEBRATE!”

Hahahahahaha…Gets me every time.

“Celebrate”, you see…instead of “celibate”.

Good yes?

Anyway, I am not fond of hummus. I have had some I like, pure and home made, but I personally do not buy it from the store and believe there are better ways of preparing legumes.