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what's up I fucking despise the way we as a society have normalized caffeine addiction

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recreational space travel is objectively immoral

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How do I ever get anything done

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“how do i attain this aesthetic” do ya’ll not know how to be yourselves like wtf lol

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As a Texan, I second this ^^

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In 20 years we’re going to find out that “no kink at pride” discourse was a CIA psyop to reintroduce more traditional forms of homophobia (i.e. the defense of the innocence of children, Gays as sexually predative, etc) to millennial and gen z aged influencers.

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I’m scared to move to a big city honestly but so fucking excited too. I hate the suburbs and I HATE Houston

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This is the third time I’ve seen this anime, and every time my heart is torn to shreds.

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Islam has been practiced in China for about 1,300 years. The faith was brought to China during the Tang dynasty by Arab traders, who were primarily concerned with trading and commerce. But the religion spread through social exchange and slowly gained followers from among the local population.

According to Chinese Muslims' traditional accounts, Islam was first introduced to China in 616–18 AD by the companions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

Despite being a persecuted religion, especially since the Communist Revolution, there are over 60-80 million native Chinese Muslims today living throughout China, the largest groups being the Hui and Uighur ethnic groups.

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so i’m rewatching atla

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White people don't know what colonizing means they'll be like "You're colonizing queer culture!!" What if I colonized your eye sockets with my thumbs

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The way some people on this site talk about kink is so bizarre. Like fuck man calm down no one is gonna make you wear the gimp suit 🙄

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive

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People excitedly sharing their culture with you is the most beautiful thing…. thinking about when my childhood friend drew Mehendi on my hands…. when my bfs mum taught me how to make russian salad….. when a Māori student asked me to come watch her sing…. when an Aboriginal man drew stars on my face…. anyway the world is beautiful and so are the people in it

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I love the inclusion of fetish gear in fashion. Every time I see a woman wearing a harness with her outfit I go (:0

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the thing that really gets me about certain popular but incorrect posts which cross my dash of the “scientists were baffled until they talked to Normal People, who told them what was actually going on! ohohohoho, those silly ivory tower academics!” type is that aside from promoting a tiresome anti-intellectual narrative, they’re incredibly disrespectful to the actual process of science. which involves - brace yourselves - people being wrong. a lot, actually! science requires us to be wrong a lot! we put forward hypotheses and then we test them and most of the time we’re wrong. but sometimes we’re wrong in ways that move us closer to the truth. note that those stories exist because researchers did, uh, talk to people and change their theories when they acquired new information. if they hadn’t, the story wouldn’t exist at all. 

it’s also disrespectful to the non-academics who contributed - by reducing it to “oh, everybody knew this, it was just the silly researchers who never asked” it minimises the insight offered by the external experts (because they are experts! in their own fields!). it does actually take expertise and insight to put together archaeological discoveries and craft knowledge. if it was easy everybody would be doing it, you know?  

none of which is to say that there aren’t ~issues~ in modern science and academia with whose knowledge we privilege and people clinging to theories because they don’t respect or like the source of the evidence against them. but being wrong is not in and of itself the problem there. and turning the process of research into a stick to beat people with is a great way to directly impede research. 

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