Remember ladies, if you don't think you're flirting, you aren't flirting. It's just that men have been programmed from birth to assume that every woman in the world is into him, and so they tell you that you're flirting even when you're not.
how does flirting work and how do you know if you’re doing it by accident?
You forgot the best part! He lost his job after his work got flooded by people demanding he get fired for being a sociopathic douchebag. AND THAT WAS AFTER HE DELETED HIS FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!
But hey man, an independent capitalist like you can understand the whole supply and demand logarithm that states how being a terrifying asshole to innocent strangers could translate in you being now relieved of your job. I’d love to listen to your anti-socialist views as you spout them from the back of the unemployment line.
Part of the cause of conflating racism with ignorance is, I think, pure classism. And it's part of the whole problem with treating racism as a personal failing, instead of a systemic problem.
If you’re white and live in America, the smarter you are, the less likely you are to say you agree with racist stereotypes or principles. But you’re not more likely than your dumber counterparts to actually want to do anything about racial inequality.
That’s the finding of a new study that looked at nearly three decades of answers to the General Social Survey, a survey that asks about attitudes on everything from government spending, to the existence of God, to race. By giving a short vocabulary test—something that’s a pretty good predictor of how well someone will do on a longer IQ test—the data shows roughly how smart someone is. From there, it’s possible to see how intelligence changes what someone thinks about race.
People who score lower on the vocab test are much more likely to hold racist stereotypes and say black people are “lazy” or “unintelligent.” They’re also more likely to disapprove of intermarriage, and not to want a black family living next door.
Smarter respondents disagreed, but held similarly racist views when it came to actual government policy. Almost everyone with higher verbal scores agreed that “whites have no right to segregate their neighborhoods,” for example. But half of those say they wouldn’t vote for a law designed to prevent prejudice in real estate transactions.
And while 95% of the “smarter” group say that black and white children should attend the same schools, only 22% support school busing programs. The lowest-scoring people actually support busing programs a little more (27%).
“I was most surprised by the finding that individuals with higher cognitive abilities were no more likely—on average—than individuals with lower cognitive abilities to support even the most benign opportunity-enhancing policies designed to remedy racial inequality, such as non-discrimination laws in the housing market, despite reporting significantly lower levels of overt prejudice,” says study author Geoffrey Wodtke, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
Among researchers, there are two competing theories about intelligence and racism. Some believe that prejudice is born out of ignorance and narrow-mindedness; the smarter you are, the theory goes, the better you can handle complex information without resorting to simple stereotypes. Several studies seem to support this idea.
The alternative theory: Smarter people are just better at rationalizing their prejudices. If another group is competing for resources—for example, if poor children are bussed in to your own kid’s elementary school—you might come up with reasons to tell yourself that’s not a good idea while still claiming that you’re not racist.
The new study seems to support this second theory; people with school-age kids are most likely to oppose busing, and unemployed adults are more likely to oppose affirmative action in hiring. And older generations are more likely to have racist attitudes even if they’re “smart”; if intelligence really was the only factor, they would have been more likely to be less prejudiced than their peers.
As Wodtke writes in the study, “A strong interpretation of these results is that whites with higher cognitive ability are simply more sophisticated racists than their counterparts with lower ability.”
this is why i’ve always thought “ignorant” was a misnomer for racists and racism because it made it seem that the only people who were racist were white people from backwoods with thick southern accents or something. i’ve known and met some seriously racist white people with advanced degrees, passports with mad stamps and a few “black friends.”
hell some of the most disgusting displays of racism can be found on college campuses. college campuses where people are launched into careers as lawyers, judges, scientists, psychologists, teachers, journalists and etc. black people already knew this, i feel, so this is another “news for white people” segment but if it means anything to black people is that we are once again proven to be right. black people have been saying this for a very very very long time about white people.
Water is wet
Yeah, but the number of white folk who think they can’t possibly be racist cause they’re well educated/smart is staggering.
Just go into any tech office.
There’s a thing in white people’s heads that ascribes racism to rednecks. “I am not a trailer-park-dwelling piece of white trash,” goes the thinking, “so I can’t be racist.”
Yeah, honey, you are. Own it and work against it. And if that feels tiring, just imagine what it might feel like if you could never stop thinking about your race and how it affects your life.
Okay, so, most of my theories about Star Wars are the usual ordinary ones. For example, I’m pretty sure that Rey is Luke’s daughter and Finn will be a Jedi.
I do have some crazy theories too though. Mostly theories that I make up to amuse myself, rather than because I think they would ever actually happen (see for example: Rey is a Force Baby, who came about when Luke got knocked up a.la Grandma Shmi. Hilarious but probably unlikely.)
Today’s theory is as follows:
Hux doesn’t have a first name.
Rey doesn’t have a last name.
Thanks to supplemental materials, we know who Hux’s father is. We don’t know anything about his mother.
I’m of the school of thought that says, by sheer logic, we know who Rey’s father is. But we don’t know anything about HER mother.
Therefore my theory is this: they have the same mother. Luke banged an Imperial lady who had previously banged Brendol Hux.
Now my evidence for this: Um. Mara Jade had red hair? That’s all I got. That and it would be hilarious. And Luke would make a great hippie stepfather.
1. I guess it would be reasonable to expect the dead customer to complain. 2. Pasteurize your milk, people. 3. Raw milk is a horrible idea when you're buying from a local source. Multiply the horribleness by a factor of 10 for each mile the milk is shipped from the source dairy. 4. This is some next level Darwin Award shit right here.
While you can’t just buy raw milk anywhere, there are some ways consumers can get their hands on the product, nonetheless, despite warnings from health officials that the unpasteurized product can carry dangerous bacteria. That risk proved fatal in one of two recent listeriosis cases that health authorities say are linked to a Pennsylvania dairy.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said one person in California and one in Florida were infected from raw milk in 2014, reports The Associated Press, and that the Florida victim died as a result of the illness.
Officials say the source is likely a farm in Lancaster County, PA, which isn’t licensed by or inspected by the state agriculture department. Though it doesn’t sell raw milk on the retail market, it does sell its product by mail order to a membership club.
Health officials say they didn’t make the link until January, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told the CDC that genome sequencing of a Listeria bacteria from chocolate milk produced by the farm in November 2015 was related to samples taken from the two affected people.
Both state and federal health officials say they’re concerned that there could be further contamination of raw milk and raw dairy products distributed by the dairy businesses.
The owner of the company said the dairy is still selling raw milk, and no customers have complained.
A lot of people are really concerned about who belongs in The Alphabet Soup Suffering Coalition and it’s actually one of my absolute lowest priorities ever.
Here’s why.
The Alphabet Soup Suffering Coalition is an abject failure. On every single level.
Instead of concentrating on the systemic violence and induced suffering and ideological attacks on each of the component members of the coalition, it concentrates on Identity and Fellowship and liberal assimilation.
Instead of even being a coalition (an alliance of folk fighting for similar goals), it treats itself instead like a single taxonomic group (people who are the same). Aka, the humans of type Mogaii/Queer are the ones included in this group.
Which is pretty silly because even varying forms of non straight sexuality can differ absurdly depending on your cultural group. Same with gender and the relationship between body and mind and those two with social grouping.
We don’t self concept the same, we don’t fuck the same, we don’t romance the same, we aren’t the goddamn same.
What we do have in common is we’re all suffering (to various degrees) from awful violence directed at us from a hellscape shithole society that is using the ideological devaluing of us as human beings as a way to consolidate power and divide and conquer the working classes, the poor and the dispossessed and marginalized.
And especially, for the Alphabet Soup Suffering Coalition, that violence and that ideology is based around how we deviate from and corrupt the established paradigms of gender and sexuality and family structure and bonding and expression, paradigms that are used to enforce capitalism and a host of other bad things.
But lmao who needs to actually fight the bad shit when we can instead fight over who’s part of “Club Queer Assimilation: The Fun Club Of Fun People Who Are Similar And Normal And Just Like You, Cishets”
General Ross: New York
Steve Rogers: Yes, aliens attacked. Did you not want us to do something about that?
General Ross: Washington D.C.
Steve Rogers: Yes, the government attacked. Would you prefer Hydra?
General Ross: Sokovia
Steve Rogers: ...okay that one's on two of us, but one of them flew away and the other one is working for you.
2016, and hotels STILL don't know how to deal with the internet. I love it.
Using an online travel booking site to find the perfect accommodations for your upcoming trip can be a simple and easy way to compare prices and make sure you get the best deal. But actual hotels aren’t exactly fans of such sites, and in a bid to bring customers to their own sites some companies are offering extra perks.
The Los Angeles Times reports that hotels have begun to offer guests who book directly from their websites freebies, such as room upgrades or free WiFi.
For example, the Hotel Amarando in Burbank is offering guests $25 in food and beverage credits or a room upgrade. The Beverly Hilton Hotel offers free WiFi for those booking directly with the hotel, while a hotel group in Hawaii is giving guests $20 in Starbucks gift cards each day of their stay.
“It’s becoming necessary for today’s hotel brands to stay ahead by enticing travelers in new ways,” said Matt Bailey, president and chief operating officer at Aqua-Aston Hospitality, tells the L.A. Times.
In addition to pushing the perks on guests, hotels are suggesting that if they book directly with the hotel they’ll avoid paying 15% to 25% commission for using sites like Expedia and Booking.com.
While the perks of booking directly with a hotel might be appealing to customers, travel agents maintain that comparing prices on third-party sites is helpful to travelers.
“Consumers want the ability to see and compare all of their options, and they can’t do that when they book directly with a hotel,” said Stephen Shur, president of the Travel Technology Assn., a coalition of online travel sites, noting that The American Hotel and Lodging Association, which recently called for legislation to combat fraudulent online booking sites, are exaggerating the downside of comparison booking sites.
Fun little trick I learned in therapy: validation. When someone is upset, don’t try to fix the problem, point out the cause, or tell them it could be worse. Just validate their emotions. Be like, ‘shit yeah man, that sucks. I’m sorry you’re going through that. I’m here for you.’ That’s literally all you have to do to make them feel better. Thank you and goodnight.
-resting no longer replenishes lost stamina. nothing does
-any food items in your inventory will be eaten at random. this will be accompanied by the “anxiety” debuff, which negates the positive effects of any item consumed
-as soon as the difficulty change is confirmed, your reputation with the player faction will be reduced to -80
-failing a skill challenge results in 10 psychic damage that cannot be resisted
-all skill values will be listed as “Not Good Enough” in the status screen
-attempting to interact with a companion may cause a hostile entity called “Your Brain” to spawn inside your character model. it spams debuffs and psychic damage and cannot be targeted
My great-grandmother was pregnant for over a decade of her life.
She was pregnant at least fifteen times, had over a dozen children. Raised all of them in a big rambling farmhouse in central Pennsylvania.
And I thought about her this afternoon, lying in bed with my spouse after my lazy weekend nap, snuggling him and burying my nose in his hair, taking deep breaths of the scent of his skin. This man who is the center of my universe, my best friend, one of two reasons why I literally decided I had to live and kept fighting through the pain after surgery when I really wanted to just let go and die: I held him closer and I thought of her.
I thought of how family myth tells us that after a decade of being pregnant pretty much constantly, she kicked my great-grandfather out of their house. How she made him go live in his workshop, and he came to the house for meals and to check in.
But he slept in his workshop.
Not because she didn’t love him, but because she did.
She loved him, and if they slept in the same bed together, these two people who had crossed an ocean together, had built a life together after getting out of Poland together, they’d have sex. And because cheap, reliable, universal birth control wasn’t available then, and she was terribly fecund, apparently, she’d become pregnant again, inevitably.
My great-grandmother was TIRED of being pregnant.
So she kicked her love out of the house, and he went. He lived in his workshop, on their farm, and they stopped sleeping together, in every sense of the word. My father tells me he remembers as a child his grandfather sitting outside his workshop, leaning back on his chair, and looking up at the house in which he couldn’t sleep anymore, just… sad.
They missed each other desperately from across the yard.
I listen to @adhocavenger sleep, to the sound of his breathing, a sound that’s as familiar to me as my own heartbeat, and I can’t imagine having to sleep away from him for long. To have to separate myself from my spouse or to have to completely eschew having the kind of sex they obviously enjoyed having. To not have him close enough at night that I can curl up to him and breathe in the scent of his skin.
And that, I think, is the sort of thing that I think maybe I take for granted. That I know I can be secure in the knowledge that I can have sex with my spouse when I want to, and not have a baby.
The personal is political. I do not want our country to continue to slide backward on reproductive freedom. I do not want us to lose our freedom, threatened and small as it may be.
There are a thousand small tragedies that we talk about from the Olde Days. The unwanted baby of the unmarried lass, of course.
But my heart breaks tonight for the story I was told as a child, of the lovingly married couple who had to sleep apart because she was just damn tired of being pregnant.
Because she’d been pregnant for a DECADE of her life.
Thank you for sharing this. I had never considered that aspect of the birth control revolution.
My great-grandmother also had twelve children and I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently as I debate having a second. Because I have a choice. We have options. She didn’t.
When you go to the grocery store, do you pay attention to what the person in front of you is purchasing? Do you watch carefully to see how they pay? Oftentimes you will hear someone tell a story about how they saw someone purchase lobster, or an expensive cut of meat with food stamps. These anecdotal stories also drive anger toward the poor for wasting taxpayer money. And the accusations expand from there: The poor use the money for tattoos, drugs, and other frivolous items.
One of the key items in the bill is a drug testing requirement, which has been proven to be a waste of time, resources, and money in other states that have tried it. This won’t be a rehash of several other diaries from the past year, but suffice it to say: Drug testing welfare recipients is a true waste of time and only benefits the drug testing companies.
The meat of the bill—and the truly degrading part—is here:
No TANF cash assistance shall be used to purchase alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco products, lottery tickets, concert tickets, professional or collegiate sporting event tickets or tickets for other entertainment events intended for the general public or sexually oriented adult materials. No TANF cash assistance shall be used in any retail liquor store, casino, gaming establishment, jewelry store, tattoo parlor, massage parlor, body-piercing parlor, spa, nail salon, lingerie shop, tobacco paraphernalia store,vapor cigarette store, psychic or fortune telling business, bail bond company, video arcade, movie theater, swimming pool, cruise ship, theme park, dog or horse racing facility, parimutuel facility, or sexually oriented business or any retail establishment which provides adult-oriented entertainment in which performers disrobe or perform in an unclothed state for entertainment, or in any business or retail establishment where minors under age 18 are not permitted.
Who knows where the state of Kansas is getting its information about how poor people are spending their TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) money, but it’s a safe bet the vast amount of them aren’t spending their benefits frivolously. And one item that is not on the list will surprise no one: If you are receiving welfare in Kansas, you can purchase a firearm with your your benefits.
This is a pure expression of the conservative doctrine of federalism: States handle things better than the feds because they are closer to the people.
But then came the debacle in Flint, when Michigan authorities embraced cost-saving changes in the city’s water supply and caused mass lead poisoning. Now members of Congress are blaming the EPA for failing to stop the problem — oblivious to the irony that they and their predecessors were the ones who denied the federal government the ability to enforce drinking-water standards in the first place.
See, this is what they do: they defund and obstruct and wreck the government we pay for, and then they complain that government doesn’t work, so they are the only ones who can be trusted to fix it … by cutting taxes and regulations and obstructing anyone who fights it.
And they never pay a political price, they never lose elections because of it, the Democrats don’t explicitly call them out on it nearly enough (or run elections based on conservative failure), and nothing ever changes.
And nothing ever changes because this sort of failure only hurts and kills the poor, and the vast majority of government doesn’t give a flying fuck about the poor.
Ever the adorable clown, the wonderful Edith the Dachshund impressively ran an agility course specially created for tiny dogs such as herself. While Edith may have gotten a teeny bit confused midway through, she performed exceptionally nonetheless.
Here's a video of me doing a full agility course…plus a few extra obstacles of my own accord! ????https://t.co/7QoCxsMrmB
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder testified this Thursday at a Flint congressional hearing over the water crisis. Snyder, who oversaw the state while its residents were being poisoned by the bacteria and lead-infested water, was the subject of harsh criticism from Congressmen Matt Cartwright who believes that the governor knew more than what he is saying about the tainted water supply.
Roasted.
Thank you, Rep. Cartwright. It was thoroughly enjoyable to watch this criminal be told he’s a phony and a liar to his face. Snyder’s led a privileged life where he’s never been in a position to be chastised by anyone, and he certainly deserved this one given that 100,000 people were poisoned under his watch. #Hate it!
Like given all the evidence of her character, the handmaidens, the almost spy training, and war experience…
She would have totally taken the opportunity to go undercover after birthing her kids. She knew they’d always be in danger if connected to her so she spread rumors of her death and now functions as a shadow broker in the star wars universe. Fighting an info war with the empire.
I’m for this.
Thx!
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So after we closed the shop tonight we started talking about this head canon…
Padme gets Owen to keep Luke on the farm and out of the Imperial Academy by paying off a bunch of the farm’s debts.
She hears about this scoundrel with a ship who has been known to cheat at sabacc dice, and convinces him it would be worth his while to loose to Han… She’s heard of Chewbacca, and he’s trustworthy, and he has this idiot pilot but no ship. And her daughter is going to needs a ship at some point here. Lando ends up with no ship, but in charge of Cloud City.
Chewie gets a “text”, you should go get a drink. So he has a little tantrum until Han suggests they hit the cantina. Handy that they’re around when Obi-Wan is looking for a ship…
Yes thank you!!! This is exactly what i wanted :D
Like I can see Star Wars having someone on the good side pulling strings from the shadows and who would be better than Padme?
The more I think about all the coincidences and questions in how information got from person A to person B, the more Padme as a super successful shadow broker.
I would like to add to this headcanon that Ahsoka Tano is Padme’s right hand in all this. Padme sought her out after it all fell apart and said, “Come help me fix this mess.”
hc addendum: Ahsoka and Lando are Padme’s most trusted enforcers
Um, I just discovered that, in canon, Rey, while scavenging, comes across a postcard for Cloud City.
I think that makes Padme the Shadow Broker canon.
I have also now spent two hours sketching out how Padme’s network works in order to fit it into my current fic universe. #nerdgasm #of course I’ll cite @yadelah and @optimysticals
