it's getting a little serious

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punkitt-is-here
batsarebetterthanpeople

here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)

The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"

This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."

Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.

batsarebetterthanpeople

Ok it has become apparent to me that people do not understand what I mean by conservative on accident.

Nobody my age is voting republican. Let's be clear on that. With the exception of a small minority of gamer gaters and people who were raised in actual cults most people my age are either commies or good liberals who votes straight blue down the ticket. This is because of the greta thunberg effect. We're all afraid of dying of thirst because there's no water anymore at the age of 35. Wealthy white children are no longer safe with the republican party which has become less of a political party and more of a death cult, and white children are less wealthy than they used to be (I specify white because POC by in large never voted for the party of the southern strategy for obvious reasons). We as a generation are so insanely blue that they're trying to raise the voting age to 25 about it.

This liberalism and party affiliation doesn't preclude them from being conservative on accident. What I mean by that is... Well

No kink at pride is a great example. The assumption that pride should exist at all makes them think that they're immune to conservative logic but they're still trying to enforce a dominant ideology onto a minority group. That person who made the tweet about how you shouldn't have sex in houses where there are children in the other room and if you can't avoid it you're a sex addict. That's a great example of like straight up puritanism coming out of the mouth of someone who proports themselves to be a leftist

If you ever see a discourse that feels like an obvious psyop as an adult and you can't understand why these supposed leftist youths are falling for it it's because that kid has never had sex in the woods and had to try to buy plan b under their parent's nose. My generation is dumb about sex. We're dumb about drugs. We're dumb about theft. We moralize literally everything. We're so dumb about stranger danger that we never learned how to community organize so while the vast vast majority of us are crushed by existential dread about debt and climate change but we never do anything about it because we just don't know how to organize because we're raised to see everyone else as a threat and we never went to or organized parties as teens because our parents would always know and stop us.

They managed to invent a generation that hates capitalism but fully buys into individualism and who is supportive of queer people and way less monogamous than previous generations but who still buys into the base assumptions of the nuclear family and thinks sex is evil. The levels of politics going on here are way weirder and stupider and more complicated than "young people vote republican and watch Fox news"

hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon

I've never seen anybody explain it so well

strawbebbie-dyke
feralratbitesu

i think a lot of people just do not get how being tall and fat makes doing anything socially abnormal infinitely harder and more punishing than if we were skinny

feralratbitesu

like kink amd paraphilia shit aside as a fat person i straight up cant show my body without it being labeled violence. as a fat person im supposed to hide my body from view. im supposed to be ashamed and disgusted. thats how fat people are supposed feel. so anything even remotely based on aesthetics is immediately gatekept from me. fat people are the exception. nobody will say it but most people feel this way. people will say theyre accepting of abnormal behavior but as soon as a fat person does it its too far. nobody wants to see a fat person doing weird things bc being fat is weird so now its too weird

laurellament
elierlick

Shortly after the first Gulf War, Iraqi artists installed a “dog-like” George HW Bush mosaic reading “BUSH IS CRIMINAL” in the Al Rasheed Hotel. Everyone who passed through the hotel, where most foreign dignitaries would stay, would have to walk on the face of the president.

The U.S. military was apparently unhappy with the unflattering Bush portrait. Rumor in Baghdad is that they intentionally murdered the artist, Leila al-Attar, with precision Tomahawk missiles months after installation. A strike hit her house, killing her and blinding her daughter.

U.S. soldiers smashed the Bush mosaic with hammers and chisels in 2003. The notoriously Islamophobic commander, Lt. Col. Rick Schwartz, boasted that he threw a portrait of Hussein onto the floor for soldiers to stomp on instead as they trashed and pillaged the country.

helpimagoat

Just want to add some context too: most of this happened pre-9/11.

The mosaic is of George H. W. Bush and was placed after the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

In 1993, Bill Clinton ordered a missile strike on an Iraqi Intelligence building. 24 missiles hit the building and 2 others “misfired” and hit Al-Attar’s house killing her, her husband, and their housekeeper, and blinding her daughter.

genderkoolaid
genderfluid-and-confuzled

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I didn’t want to disrupt the post about hostile architecture I saw because it’s true that the main target is homeless people but I did want to mention that this architecture also hurts people who aren’t skinny. I want to preface this all by saying I am in no way trying to minimize how this impacts people experiencing homelessness I am just trying to add on to the discussion of how these are bad.

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You think that someone who can’t fit into those weird little yellow seats is going to feel comfortable? No. It will only make them feel bad or excluded.

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Look at this shit. It’s not good or nice.

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It only adds to the ways fat people are made feel unwelcome and though we already needed to tear this shit down because it makes life a million times worse for people experiencing homelessness and so this isn’t saying this is why you should tear it down. It is saying that our society is fatphobic and that sucks.

spoonie-waagosh

This isn’t a side effect, hostile architecture is designed to drive EVERYONE who’s “undesirable” from public spaces. Homeless people are the biggest targets but also disabled people, fat people, elderly people, etc. Other things, like anti-“loitering” measures and increased presence of police and security, drive out even more people, especially people of color and teenagers.

You aren’t disrupting or derailing discussions by talking about your experiences, we NEED to talk about the ways that different kinds of people are declared “unwanted” and pushed out of society.

cripplepunk-sylveon

Yeah, we no longer have “ugly laws” on paper, but in practice and architecture, we still absolutely do. If anything, we’ve gotten worse and more hostile towards “ugly” (unhoused, disabled, fat, etc) people in the past ten years- and this is exacerbated in the USA especially by the way communities are built to be car-dependent and segregated by class and race.

a-dinosaur-a-day

Anonymous asked:

How is the parasaurolophus used its horn for sound resonating idea seen nowadays?

a-dinosaur-a-day answered:

100% the leading hypothesis. we’ve even modeled what the sound would be like

impossiblepackage

Sometimes if I get the exact right/wrong amount of drunk ill cry a little bit because i will never hear a parasaurolophus call.

a-dinosaur-a-day

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Originally posted by historic-nerd

impossiblepackage

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impossiblepackage

i just

why would they need to be so loud? did they spend a lot of time spread apart from each other?

do you think they made contact calls, like parrots and other birds of today?

do you think they spread out foraging, calling out to each other?

"I am thinking of you. Are you thinking of me? I am lonely, but not when I can hear you. I will see you soon."

i just. fuck dude. i am once again having feelings about the parasaurolophus. i'm only crying a little bit.

a-dinosaur-a-day

I mean, thats *exactly* what we think they were doing!

Plus, lots of hadrosaurs (the group Parasaurolophus is in) lived alongside each other, and they all would have been that loud and constantly talking to each other. So they needed to be able to tell which calls were whose!

stirdrawsandreblaws
emptydragonseverywhere

I just learned Jansport is making adaptable bags for mobility devices and thought I should share

They even have audio descriptions

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[ID: a screenshot of the mobile Jansport website. There is a banner that says 'free standard shipping.' Under the banner is a link that says 'for audio description video click here.' Under the link is an illustration of 4 different types of mobility devices, each with its own adaptable Jansport bag. End ID.]


Jansport is a little pricey but it isn't like the adaptable bags are any more expensive than their other stuff, which is nice to see too!

william-ontheinternet

Oh this is sick

thesetwoutes

Jansport is pricey because it's the last bag you'll ever have to buy. Seriously, buy two Jansport bags, when one breaks you send it back to Jansport and they fix it and send it back to you. In the meantime you use the second bag.