This is also why I kinda scoff at pseudoarcheologists and pseudoscientists of the likes of Graham Hancock, who treat "mainstream" academia as some unassailable fortress of elitism. I'm not saying elitism isn't an issue in the field, but even without a formal education, there's...
I remember listening to these two archeologists a while ago talking about their work, and they said they occasionally work with people who are essentially hobbyists - random ranchers or landowners with zero formal training - who are nonetheless fully accepted by the local...(1/2)
Complete bullshit.
The March of Return happened. Palestinians had a peaceful march to the fence every day, and Israeli snipers laughed about how many kneecaps they destroyed.
It’s so fun to live in an era where nationalism seems like an eternal truth and then you read about the 19th century and realize the extent to which it was a revolutionary man-made concept
@NotPotBol Yeah, I'll never understand these people lol.
"As a Communist, let me explain how it's SUPER important that we uncritically accept bourgeois propaganda that seeks to divide the working class by blaming minorities for the failures of Capitalism" lmao
I really don’t get homophobic and transphobic communists. Like what are ya’ll even doing? Why are you taking the most socially progressive movement in history, a movement that is sometimes centuries ahead of society at large, and just deciding that actually it’s good when this 1/
Had a conversation with a fellow autist potential friend where we disclosed in nonchalantly literal terms the ways we’ve been told we’re annoying (to attempt to find out ahead of time whether either has a habit the other would find intolerable, rather than wait for conflict)
Scorsese’s AI bullshit has caused people to do that thing where an artist does something bad and then everyone retroactively decides all their previous work isn’t good and we have to leave that dumbfuckery behind. Just stop. Not every thought needs to be shared
Having no sex hormones obviously should turn you into an ethereal androgyne waif creature, but instead apparently it makes your entire body fatally collapse. Really unfortunate
The food replicators in Star Trek would never work because in reality when someone ordered “Earl Grey hot” i would yell over their shoulder “with cum in it” because it would be hilarious
There's a genuine phenomenon in Eastern Europe (and I imagine elsewhere ITW) where LGBT kids are more likely to be fluent in English than their straight peers, as they find community online in English speaking circles and learn the language through that.
Men secretly love that trans women exist because we are a class of women its socially acceptable for them to assault and rape.
Their porn habits (and my dms... 🤢) show they see us as women sexually, "transphobia" is just an excuse for them to express their misogyny.
Autism indicator.
Bad at identifying and/or appropriately judging the rationality of social cues → repeatedly accidentally making people uncomfortable, without knowing why → conditioned to assume you’re ALWAYS screwing up socially, regardless of your progress