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@socialistexan takes that make me feel insane

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shadow-banned-the-hedgehog:

shadow-banned-the-hedgehog:

When even eggs and bread are a luxury, the only thing left is eating the rich.

Every profit made on basic necessities is theft. Taking from the working class and giving to the obscene gluttons that run the world. The bourgeoisie.

Want to know a fun fact?

Basically as soon as this news came out, egg prices at my grocery store dropped from $10.99/doz to $3.99/doz.

Which not only is a pretty hefty drop, it’s the same price from before the so-called “shortage.”

Shine that fucking light, y'all, and keep the spotlight on. Let’s do beef next. I want to know why the fuck a single pound of hamburger is almost five bucks.

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brosef:

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dankmemeuniversity:

“These six-pack rings are 100 percent biodegradable and edible—constructed of barley and wheat ribbons from the brewing process. This packaging can actually be safely eaten by animals that may come into contact with the refuse.“ (x) 

They use food their food waste to make them, so it’s a safer alternative that cuts down on plastic waste and food waste

I also love that “Floridaman” is one word.

To the Celiacs in the notes upset that the ring is not gluten free:

WHY ARE YOU PURCHASING BEER?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN CROSS CONTAMINATION? WHY ARE YOU EATING OUT OF THE BEER COOLER?

WHY ARE YOU UPSET YOU CAN’T EAT THE HOLDER, DESIGNED TO BE EATEN BY ANIMALS, FOR THE CANS OF DEADLY POISON YOU CAN’T DRINK?

Do y'all go to Tractor Supply and yell at the cashiers because the horse feed might kill you?

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philosoverted:

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

Sorry it’s what to elves

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

Legolas said fuck the horizon

God I fucking love high fantasy

Gimli: Well I’m a dwarf but I can get to the Elf Heaven because I have my elf husband with me in this cool boat we built

Frodo: I’m a hobbit but I can get to Elf Heaven because I’m in a boat with these elves that invited me

Sam: I’m a hobbit and this tiny boat has no elves in it but if Frodo is over there in Elf Heaven yall cant keep me out

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One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro

I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.

Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.

After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.

This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.

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geek-with-two-names:

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tilthat:

TIL To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.

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because this and also because Jurassic Park–related advances in paleontology, et cetera, anyone who devalues the arts in favor of the sciences demonstrably has the wrong end of the stick

Science and Arts are not opposites, they are not rivals, they are the neglected siblings of the egotistical and over-indulged Sports and his best friend Money.

We, as scientist and artists, must unite. Science is an art, and art is a science. We hold hands and we make the world a much better place!

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One of the lawyers currently prosecuting Alex Jones got interviewed on knowledge fight. He talked about how he had to watch 150+ hours of Infowars content as background for the case.

He talked about how he had to take regular breaks because he could feel himself passively absorbing information against his will.

I can’t really articulate how validating that was to hear. Sometimes I worry that I’m being overdramatic when I say shit like “hey if you’re not careful, even casually browsing some types of conspiracy media can fuck with your brain” but here was an actual lawyer talking about how it affected him.

It’s not necessarily the content itself, but more how it’s presented. (in my opinion) I think Infowars could be considered an actual cognitohazard.

This is just how propaganda works. If you hear something often enough for long enough, you’ll eventually believe it.

Infowars is propaganda, but it’s more than just propaganda. Alex presents information in a distinct high-speed stream-of-consciousness way that drowns the listener in noise. It’s so fast that it almost forces the listener to construct a sort of idealogical scaffolding out of unconnected ideas just to keep up. I think it would be fair to call it hypnotic.

I know this sounds kinda scary but take some solace in knowing that, by how the lawsuit has been going so far, Alex is turbo mega ultra fucked.

Will Dissolve (facebook user reply to Insufferabley Intolerable Science Nerd post of the thread above)

“"fair to call it hypnotic”

Bahahahaha

Ok. As a practicing hypnotist with 25 years of experience, *of course* it is - it is, literally, a technique called a confusion induction.

The entire idea is that you bombard people with unconnected ideas so quickly that they get stuck in the gear-switch between ideas, and lose their ability to distinguish truth from fiction; it puts them in a highly suggestible state, and allows very rapid inductions.

“It also has a high level of subject discomfort; it’s very difficult to avoid falling for, even if it’s something you’re aware of, but once the subject is in a trance state, the ideas presented have to have at least some internal consistency or they’ll get rejected quickly.

The problem with the Alex Jones broadcasts is that he persistently tells people to tune back in - and usually, when someone first finds the Infowars site, they want to watch *all the things*, which habituates them very quickly to the induction sequences, and reinforces the "information” he gives viewers, really really quickly. They count on the initial archive panic to get people hooked.“

"But it’s not "fair to call it” hypnotic. *It literally is a teachable technique.*“

Huh, well son of a bitch.

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