This feels almost like the actors and writers are doing Hollywood a favor...
having cousins is a great way to add some supporting characters to your life without needing to explain their motivations. they're just cousins
ok so. who has been on here (tumblr) for an entire decade of their life?
10 years +
7-9 years
4-6 years
1-3 years
less than a year
less than a month
So this is a visual representation of “are the new users you’re changing the entire app and website layout/features for in the room with us right now”.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months
This lack of notes is probably a big part of why TikTok seems to think they invented the meme.
They think WHAT?!
brendanicus asked:
Tell us about the wellness to fash pipeline tho
cryptotheism answered:
“Wellness” is not just alternative medicine, it is essentially a theory of the body which posits if something makes you feel better, you are better in some meaningful way. I would argue it one of the most commonly held nonreligious magical beliefs in the modern world.
Wellness as a concept has its genesis in the 1950s with “workplace wellness” programs, a sort of budget alternative to offering employee healthcare benefits. This was an era soaked in itinerant business preachers offering classes on things like “hypnosis at a management level” and “yoga to improve leadership abilities”. I am exaggerating for effect, but not by much.
The capitalist medical system regularly abandons people. We’ve all heard stories of profit driven pharmaceudical companies holding the ill hostage for extreme markup on life-saving medicines. People have real, legitimate, reasons to mistrust medical professionals.
Let’s say you have chronic pain, and everything your doctor offers you is either ineffective, expensive, or addictive. You are desperate for literally any release, so you start looking into other solutions. You will find an OCEAN of snake-oil salesmen willing to sell you “the secrets doctors don’t want you to know.”
What is frustrating, is that pain is actually partially psychological. Some wellness techniques may have an actual, medical, benefit on some patients. The worst thing a conspiracy theorist can have is a point. So now you actually do kinda feel better, and you have a sense of loyalty to the grifter selling you 300$ Sumerian Cock Oil Pills. These people are the core of the wellness industry. They are the examples that everyone else points to and says “Well it worked for them!”
Reactionary thought blooms in environments like this. If the medical industry can’t be trusted, what else can’t be trusted? At any given time, you are two clicks away from “vaccines cause autism.” Three clicks away from “Cavemen were 15 feet tall because they only ate meat.” And four clicks away from “The medical industry is controlled by The Jews to drain our wallets and keep us sick.” Echoes of Nazi attitudes towards German-Jewish doctors are a common backbeat.
Wellness itself is relatively harmless, (compared to the things it is adjacent to) but it acts as a sort of idealogical airport that exposes the curious to a deluge of potentially radicalizing communities. The longer you spend in communities like this, the higher the chance you’ll come across something that meshes perfectly with your own biases.
Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form
i know bad faith takes on the bad faith website are par for the course but like. you do realise there haven’t been wolves in the UK since the 16th century. There haven’t been bears in the UK since around 500AD. There haven’t been lynx in the UK for around 1,300 years. In other words: since before the USA was even a country. That’s not a gotcha, it’s just like. The UK is roughly the size of Oregon state (and Oregon has 6% of the UK’s population) so of course a newer country with hundreds of times the landmass and vast swathes of wilderness would have greater biodiversity just from the get-go, but the extinction of our major predators is not recent history. It’s really not about upperclass dandies (and frankly the USA has just as much of a questionable culture surrounding hunting & associated firearms as we do...) it’s just. You’re comparing apples and oranges here and trying to make a whole thing of it.
also: rewilding efforts in the UK are very much a thing.
The ecocide is still ongoing in the UK sadly and many people in power have ties to these practices or call it tradition, and it's considerably worse and more nature depleted than continental europe.
Humans inhabited North America for tens of thousands of years and the industrial purge of fauna and logging didn't happen until the very same people we're both I'm assuming descended from arrived here. Since then North America has tried to embrace more conservation efforts (well at least as radical as is allowed within neoliberalism) and we still have brainrot over wolves but at least we don't have members of parliament fearmongering over the presence of eagles and our animal shelters won't deny adoption to people who refuse to let their cats free roam outside.
North American hunting and British hunting are very different industries, we don't farm raise game to be released for shooting or heavily interfere with the ecosystem of hunting grounds anywhere to the extent of moorland management. We have people pissy about wolves potentially eating the deer hunters want to shoot but we don't have gamekeepers systemically eradicating any other species that might possibly compete with game, in general many hunters here have a more nuanced understanding of harvesting responsibly and conservation.
Both our countries suck ass (I am Canadian) but the UK is objectively farther behind if a bobcat sparks debate over whether they are too dangerous and controversial to reintroduce
sometimes I wish that every article naming how much a public service would cost (or how much it would cost to repair needed infrastructure for the service or to make the service more accessible to disabled people and poor people) would explain that number in terms of how much time it takes a billionaire to earn that much.
like "it would cost $8.6 million (or, a little under one hour of Bezos's earnings) to build a new public library building in this area which would serve 45 thousand people."
money is literally a social and political representation of how we are choosing to allocate resources. I wish these direct comparisons were made so people who haven't yet made the connection might at least start asking "huh... why should we allocate these resources to one person to do nothing with them instead of to 45 thousand people in the form of an essential service? why do we allocate this amount of resources to this one person every single hour of every single day but it's unthinkable to provide it to tens of thousands of people just once? why are tens of thousands of people (of which I am one), all of us collectively, less valuable than this one guy?"
- This is a good idea.
- When it comes to dealing with politicians talking about cost to the taxpayer, divide it by the number of people it will serve; annualize if appropriate. "This new library will cost $8.6 million, serve 45,000, and last at least 25 years - less than $8 per person per year".
I also like framing it in terms of what it saves, eg, this tram line will cost 5.6 million, reducing traffic congestion by 20%, save 500,000 per year in wear and tear on roads, save 0.8 million a year in health care costs related to pollution, in addition to incalculable health care savings by reducing stress of heavy commutes, increase tourism income by X, etc, etc, etc. We can't just talk about the costs of changing. We have to talk about the costs of continuing to do things the same way