A tip to make this a good experience for your kids: do it before they write their letters to Santa and teach them that part of cleaning out the closet is thinking about which toys they don't play with anymore and what kind of toys they still enjoy. It can help them figure out what they really want for Christmas instead of getting sucked in by glitzy ads. It also helps you learn how the child's tastes have grown because you can't always rely solely on their Christmas list
we been know
“Toxic masculinity is learned behavior and the teaching of it is systematic and unhealthy.”
In other news, water is wet.
Above comments discourage people from bothering to do these studies which are used to prove these points that, while obvious to many of us, are missed by lots of ignorant people. It’s necessary to be able to point at research to say “yes this is fact” when educating people. Please don’t dismiss the importance of research like this
Men being “naturally violent” or “biologically oppressive” is a very common anti-feminist talking point. Research like this is important even if it seems obvious because sadly, this is not obvious to everyone. As someone who grew up in the church and other conservative circles, I was taught that men’s negative socialized nature was hard biological fact.
This data is important & doesn’t deserve to be dismissed.
i view just enough horror and have poor enough visual processing that i legit thought this was a gore-drenched bedroom that i would nope the fuck out of
Yeah, I feel like the floor is going to squelch blood if I step on it, and if I touch one of those dangling red strings, I'm going to get pulled up, enveloped, and digested by the sticky red organic globules hanging from the ceiling.
no it's nice design cause in color theory red is associated with more positive emotions than negative 😁
What is this, a children's hospital?
hey pal while you're down there. this is awkward because you're a bear, and you're under my house and I feel like I shouldn't intrude, but. well I just hate the crawlspace so much and you seem to be fine with it. what I'm trying to say is can you just run this network cable over to the living room for me thanks
just because he's a bear, doesn't automatically mean he's in IT. that's a harmful stereotype. Some bears are more artistic, creative. Some are more into manual labor and crafts. I bet this guy likes doing pottery.
I am by no means an expert but it seems to me “your body does not belong to you” is a major theme of right wing authoritarianism and, interestingly, modern USAmerican thinking. This underpins so much from abortion to forcing kids to hug their relatives. Your body belongs to the state, or God, or your husband, or your boss, or your doctor. Everything from trans and gay liberation to forcing autistic people to look in your eyes to making cashiers stand for no reason. Your body does not belong to you, but taking care of your body is your responsibility and your responsibility alone, and if you fail in some way, you deserve the consequences.
since your body belongs to your rightful superiors, it's your obligation to maintain it to their standards, and their obligation to chastise you for failure.
History Summarized: Cyprus Breaks All The Rules
Oh this is cool.
fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data
Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.
Ooh I know this one!
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE
"women didn't invent anything"
Thank you Evelyn Berezin!
Women invented pretty much every major piece of technology, before they were completely pushed out of computer science. Programming languages, compilers, wifi, blue tooth, word processors, and so so much more!
I saw this and wanted to share it.
Learned some interesting things about the different treaties signed with Maori people. At any rate, this whole mess spawned this:
I saw this and wanted to share it.
Learned some interesting things about the different treaties signed with Maori people. At any rate, this whole mess spawned this:
Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉
wow! that was a fun accidental 2 hour session of video's game. now to go to the kitchen to check on my pet Pot Of Boiling Water...
Please note. The orange one is not included because A. He isn’t a billionaire. And B. Calling him obnoxious is too kind for him.
@emsails YOU'RE RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT
