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We found Joe Biden's burner account.

@ojvhteuhyhes Why do these people feel the need to lie about the science instead of just acknowledging it & saying ‘yeah but I don’t wanna do that’ ? That’s a very normal & much more reasonable position to take

reading comprehension is SOOO bad now, there’s genuinely no hope for us.

@KalOfTheRathi @oliveegger I’m going to lose bone density because of my personality? What the hell are you even saying

@SpandexDotGov @oliveegger its probably just your personality that might be worth trying to fix

Idk why men get so mad when women don’t want to lift heavy weights.. dancers don’t use any weights and are still incredibly toned, lighten up :/

This is a ceramic sculpture of a sheep looking down at its own reflection in water, created by artist Kenichi Nakaya.

The trending topics page has fallen so far

@ALiswatching @persimmongirl1 I didn’t know there were ethnicity based ones. I’m gonna have to look for one. Agreed, there are nuances that make a plain bmi value better or worse & we should be accounting for as many of these as we can. Doesn’t mean it’s inaccurate, just that it can be made more informative

@SpandexDotGov @persimmongirl1 Some bmi calculators indeed consider ethnicity rightfully so, personally I would also include body shape, fat around the stomach is much worse than, for example, fat around the legs, apple shaped probably face higher risks at lower bmis

maybe unpopular opinion but bmi is at least somewhat accurate for most people. the majority of people do not work out and do live sedentary lifestyles. yes, bmi is inaccurate for those with e.g. high muscle mass, but that is not the majority of people

@_itsallgood_ @leylaaa31 That’s pretty sad & even sadder that it doesn’t seem to be so uncommon

@SpandexDotGov @leylaaa31 my sister and I are 2.5ish years apart and were homeschooled all through our lives til HS graduation. we "should" have been besties but we barely talked then and we barely talk now.

as an only child I observe siblings like an anthropologist or maybe just a visitor to the zoo. Something I have been surprised by is how few adults are actually close friends with their siblings

@moosemarf124 @wtflanksteak nope sorry we're not doing let people enjoy things anymore. if wanting any type of standard is snobby then we need even more snobbery asap

Finding out people on booktok skip everything but dialogue makes reading 30+ books a year make a lot more sense.

@prionthot @leylaaa31 idk if this is the norm but the majority of my friends & family with siblings had some type of falling out & either dont speak or are only polite with each other. the few on ok terms are still not particularly close. toxic brown people family dynamics is all I can theorise

@leylaaa31 i am a fellow only child anthropologist. brothers in particular seem to often be not that close with each other in adulthood. and don't even get me started on eldest daughters.

@distrekzy8 @sadhog12 yeah I write them just to sort of have my thoughts out there, like an immortalised diary, and Im always a little taken aback when somebody likes one

@sadhog12 I write them for myself and get kinda scared when someone likes them lol

Writing letterboxd reviews for the 17 followers that never even read them

also pretty disturbing how you can trace this website's decline directly by the quality of Sridhar's reply guys. he's mentioned this before but it's really disturbing to click on any of his tweets now

This applies to basically every demographically founded form of pride. Just average cubiclecels cosplaying greatness because they have something in common with someone great, rather than aiming for greatness in their own way

@CuriousBunnie12 I’m fascinated by the way this woman views herself as the Arbiter of Truth. I think a lot of the offence she takes stems from the fact that that she views differing opinions, no matter how mild, as an attack on objective truth, because she can’t recognise her own subjectivity

the ones on here who preach about being feminine delicate tradwives have the most masculine and dude personalities. megha is overflowing with rage and testosterone and thinks spouting nonsense on here about art and beauty will satisfy her.

@Strangeland_Elf im really rusty on my art history but wasn't this the major anxiety during the invention of photography? and that's what gave us beautiful movements like impressionism? which people despised at the time for the same reason she's performing here? a reactionary myopia?

The last point I’ll make is that as technology has advanced I actually believe that, though art has lost its way a bit of late, that this loss of the “practical necessity” of art has illustrated the actual value of art in itself more clearly. At a time when we had no photography, paintings and drawings had to function as such. In order to show people an animal from a distant land or to depict the likeness of another person, you needed to draw it, when photographs were still generally black and white and extremely expensive, painting was still used to capture a lot of things in order to document them. But that was never all that art was and when photography stripped that away, I believe it revealed the even further purpose and application of art more clearly. Participation in creation. Artists have always been using their art in creative ways, using their imagination in depicting historical events, Biblical scenes, and mythological stories (often with a lot of creative license in clothing or… lack thereof) but when the practical application of it was “stolen” by photography, instead of making the artist obsolete, it allowed artists to explore the creativity of their medium even further. Yes, at a point in the 20th century I think this may have gone too far to where the craft and skill of art got overlooked in favour of “personal expression” and “social commentary” being the main thing that matter, but that doesn’t NEED to be the case. The 19th century was full of a lot of amazing art and the popularisation of the more stylised art styles from Asia lead to this beautiful stylistic mesh between East and West. It is foolish to miss the beauty in a thing just because it is not “classical” enough. We can and should strike a balance between “self-expression” and disciplined honing of a craft. We should not say that the technique does not matter to art, but we should also refrain from scorning unique style and expression when paired with artful skill and beauty. Even among artists of old there were distinct styles and expressions. It is good to speak beauty, but it is not so good to be so narrow in your view of beauty that you treat anything out of your preferred scope of style as devoid of beauty or as detestable. Starry Night is not ugly, the Hungry Caterpillar is not ugly, The Great Wave is not ugly and you are not more virtuous for thinking any of them are because they do not perfectly depict the actual look of a thing.

Megha should just be disregarded in general. She’s a very nasty, prideful person. I see people who turn their nose up at stylised art as the same types who turn their nose up at fiction, or at least the genres of fiction they deem “unrealistic” such as fantasy. They seem to detest human creativity when it imagines anything to be different than it is plainly visible in reality. For something to be “beautiful” to them it must perfectly reflect the outward appearance of a thing. But there is beauty hidden in the way someone experiences a thing as well. Vincent van Gogh’s art does several things. It gives us a glimpse into the way another person sees the world, in the most literal sense, but also in what artist chose to highlight, how he chose to paint a scene, that tells you what he noticed and thought worth painting. But his art also captures movement and emotion and how a thing feels. It captures the experience of seeing a starry night or being in a wheat field better than a more realistic painting of a starry night or wheat field would. You can look at a realistic landscape and marvel at the details but to make something feel like they are experiencing that landscape is truly a beautiful skill.

deadass thought it was just to write down ideas/ quotes/ reading notes. didn't know we were supposed to be doing all that. mine looks like the school notebook of a schizophrenic person

Started a commonplace book to keep track of my ideas, observations, stuff like that. Made the mistake of joining the reddit for commonplacing & now I feel like a woefully inadequate rube with an ugly handwriting & no desire for illustration

@shaunhundle @laurenhtexas I swear there’s an entire culture around commiserating over how hard bulking up is & people talk about it all the time but somehow these people believe it’s gonna happen to them by accident?

@laurenhtexas This myth has been around forever. Most people don’t know how much intense work (regular heavy lifting + the right diet) and time it takes in order to get “bulky”

“Luteal phase”, “hormones”, and “inflammation” have all become meaningless buzzwords that set off a red flag immediately for me. Also sooo many women are utterly terrified of becoming “bulky” as if some 10lb dumbbells are gonna do that to you.

@laurenhtexas I accidentally picked up the 10lb dumbbells during my luteal phase & now I look like prime Arnold Schwarzenegger & also I lost all my divine feminine energy & didn’t even grow my glutes :/