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the-memedaddy
MeIrl
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sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all
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“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”
— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via mgrable)
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times. IQ tests measure how well someone takes IQ tests and that is it.
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The Good Place (2016-2020)
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adulthood be like: *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *wash
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Your sailor nickname is [what color your shirt is] [your first pet’s name]. You are [phone battery percentage] years old. Your ship is the HMS [last thing you ate].
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So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v
This reminds me of the time that a Hungarian doctor called Ignaz Semmelweiss noticed that the bulk of patients in a maternity ward treated by doctors were dying horribly, while the ones treated by nurses were more likely to survive.
He figured out that this was because the doctors were dissecting corpses inbetween delivering babies, while the nurses weren’t, and came up with his controversial “hey, why don’t we all wash our filthy, filthy hands before sticking them in a woman?” theory.
The result, short term, was that the mortality rate on this one maternity ward decreased by a ridiculous amount. They went from “write your will before you come here, because you’re probably gonna die” to “we’re not 100% sure, but you’ll probably live”.
The result, long term, was that Semmelweiss was hated by absolutely everybody, lost his reputation and had his career suffer terribly.
His eventual reward was that eventually people finally started sashimg their hands with soap before operations, history remembers him as a misunderstood hero, and the instinctive angry and defensive reaction so many people give whenconfronted with new ideas that conflict with their established view of the world is now called ‘the Semmelweiss reflex’.
Because some people care more about themselves not being wrong than they do about things in general being right.
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Source: instagram.com
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Push play and just trust me
This sounds like something that would be playing in a story set in Victorian London slums or something? I DON’T KNOW.
ITS A GODDAMN SHANTY
its appropriate anywhere from the wild west to a pirate ship to imperial russia a jaunty steampunk adventure to one impressive bard
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The beginning.
actually IIRC this was the first photo with a specific type of camera or equipment “cos THE progenative shitlord of cat memes was Harry Pointer. And around 1870 he decided that Au Naturelle photos of cats weren’t gonna cut it, and started doing shit like this:
then he realised HE COULD CAPTION THEM
and thus the dignity of the feline was forever destroyed.
The first cat memes.
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honestly, the thing bout depression is that everything makes me want to nap. virtually any trick from anyone to “wake up” my dumbass brain will transform into an excellent reason to go lie down
- take a shower so you’re alert? clean and comfy, the sheets would feel so nice, perfect time for a nap
- eat some food so you have energy? nice full belly, time for some rest
- go for a walk outside to break grogginess? need to take a break after that and lie down in bed
- exercise to get blood flowing? there goes all my energy for the day! definitely time to sleep
- meet up with a close friend? maybe I could curl up on their couch
- spending time with my girlfriend? lets lie down and cuddle
- reading or researching? I could lie down while I read and maybe nap after the next chapter
- writing? definitely earned a nap after writing two pages
- coffee? I could go back to sleep after that easy
- something just scared me and my adrenaline’s racing? time to lock myself in my room and get under covers until I feel safe and then pass out from overstimulation and exhaustion
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Estonians: “Eesti is remarkably one of the most unique and beautiful languages there is.”
Finns:
Finnish sounds equally as funny to estonians. I fell asleep on my couch one night and woke up at 3 am to a finnish advert and i honestly thought i was having a stroke, because why are all the words fucked up? Oh nvm. Finnish.
My mom once told me that she was in sauna with an estonian friend and they were both laughing their asses off at how the word pineapple sounds in each others languages
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I can’t fucking get over this oh my god
REVENGE OF THE FEMALE-PRESENTING NIPPLES
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Me: Alright I’m going to be super productive tomorrow!
Me, the second my alarm goes off: