Politically_Normal_Work_Account [hy/hym]

chat i’m hungover and have to work. help 😔

its very easy for a screenshot of a tumblr post to blend in with the rest of post and appear as if the screenshot is your own opinion. we drown posts to make it clear that it is not written by the author of the main post (and that its bullshit)

i think may depend on where in the west? perhaps its different in usamerica but here in in high school we were pretty much taught that the USSR was a nice idea but the leftist infighting that left stalin in charge doomed everything

but then again my teacher was chill with us openly siding with the soviets, so maybe she was just particularly cool

half way through the game your RDR2 stats show you as ill for no reason and you can’t cure it. this is hours before you find out. i googled it thinking it was a bug or i was stupid and found out the twist

unironically. i didn’t get my friends to stop going there by talking about israel, i got them to stop by saying “you know for another €2 we could go to the independent place a few streets away where you literally get better and more food”

i have absolutely no idea when but i must have encountered #15 before. the sight of that blasted me with more warmth and familiarity than should be possible for a fucking mug lmao

This actually isn’t that rare or as dire as it sounds – when people ask me Science Things that are out of my purview, i often say that my stem degree is mostly not about Knowing Stuff or being able to do infinite complicated math off the top of your head, its about knowing how to figure out how to do the math, how to derive the Knowing Stuff from first principles, and where to go looking for and how to understand the information that you need to have to do that.

how to conduct an effective web search

I was also given courses that could be described as this; it was about how to find scientific journals, which ones to trust and which ones not to, when and how to contact a researcher directly instead of going through their company/journal/department, how to access papers ‘legitimately’ and for free, how to find and ethically use digital information that is permissible in peer reviewed papers, navigating the guts of NASA’s old websites, how to scrape data, etc etc. Like, yes, sure, i suppose that that is just a very detailed and specific set of web-searches, but also, they absolutely would have had similar stuff in the pre-internet era, but it was just about library use, archival systems, and getting data physically posted to you instead.

These days, to not predicate modern science on access to the internet/worldwide data systems/computers would be like not assuming you’ll have access to a fucking microscope or a library. Like yeah sure, at some point you might not, but i guarantee that then you will have much bigger problems. Scientists don’t just know stuff, because that would require knowing almost everything in your field and that’s not humanly possible. We know how to find it out, either through figuring it out or looking it up

EDIT: i’m not saying that this ai shit isn’t shockingly and aggressively stupid, i’m just trying to make it clear that what your friend was talking about 10 years ago is almost certainly nothing like what’s happening now. This is new and insane.

well yeah, thats why it’s hexbear’s favourite podcast 🥰

i miss hereshowberniecanstill.win

yes. make the name on my bookmark bar make sense again

the US: *gives its the majority of its productive capacity to one country*

China: lol k

the US: *starts a trade war with that country*

China: lol k

the US: *can’t produce anything*

China:

the US:

My current “paladin” (zealot barbarian) is an extremely thinly veiled Fantasy Catholic and i fully encourage you to go that way when you can, its great. You can use it for comedy, commentary, tragedy, or all of the above, whatever. My guy is an ignorant spoiled prissy bastard but he’s been raised and educated explicitly to fill the precarious position of model minority within the church. His privilege hinges on supporting empire and desperately believing unserious contradictory shit that hurts people (including sometimes him). His dumbassery is funny but becomes crushingly depressing whenever we accidentally think about his circumstances for more than 30 seconds 🥰 the rest of the party’s reactions when he occasionally gets his leash yanked is always great fun

If you do a more serious interpretation, the mental gymnastics and willful ignorance you get to play with are genuinely wonderful, and if you want to take it in more of a jokey direction then you have a great real-life foundation to build comedy on that everyone else at the table is familiar with. i love your 2nd christian “hey check out this hot new thing my buddy mike invented - its called ‘papal supremacy’. yeah, he’s the papal, why do you ask?” thing too, very fun.

disenfranchise

no normal person talks like this, extreme moment

what the owl said, but also you cutting your partners’ hair isn’t exactly great for the hairdressers’ business. its like netflix telling you not to pirate lmao

when most of the dialogue didn’t have a voice over I was more invested

you can turn that off in the settings if that’s not your vibe, i didn’t like being read to either. i think you can have every word spoken, only the dialogue being spoken, or no voice-over at all

This is why there will never be a Sims 5

correct. how silly those sims players are

or a World of Warcraft 2

NO NO WAIT THE TREAT I LIKE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND BASED ACTUALLY

the guy on the left is lin manuel miranda and given the cringe he posts i imagine its taken straight from his twitter account, but idk who the other guy is

when hades 2 dropped everyone was freaking out about how Aphrodite must be trans because of her jawline, i assume its more of that. even when they do get the half naked skinny woman they say they want, they’ll still invent shadows to jump at. its not about whats actually happening, its about how chuds want to feel (persecuted and righteously furious)

DEI also means trans people and the evil lgbts. like, i read this to mean she has a ““trans woman chin”” which was the exact same problem these freaks had with aphrodite in hades 2.