Natalie. She/they. 28.
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i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he’s some sort of supergenius when in reality it’s his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he’s some sort of supergenius when in reality it’s his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he’s doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken
His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually
I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept.
Let’s help him out. Likes charge, reblogs cast
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as far as I can tell the “ultra-processed food” concept is basically vitalism. the idea is that food has a natural state which is good for you, and if it stops looking like it’s natural, it loses its vital essence and becomes bad for you. processing is not a coherent nutritional concept. it covers a hundred things with noninterchangeable effects on the food. it isn’t anything. if you want to talk about anti-caking agents you have to talk about anti-caking agents because emulsifiers are not the same substances.
also the rubric of “don’t eat things with ingredients you don’t recognise / can’t pronounce” is just the old idea that ignorance is the state of grace. innocent children of nature unpolluted by knowledge or machinery will eat the innocent fruit of nature and they will be happy and good. we’ve been here before.
God thank you this shit drives me nuts and I don’t understand how it’s the one kind of woo my otherwise very skeptical mother has got sucked into.
Like, sure, there’s maybe something to be said about junk food companies having an incentive to make their food taste good via liberal application of salt, fat and sugar without telling you about it (though for anyone who thinks that’s a “processed food industry” thing I have bad news for you about restaurants) and possibly even for “the way our food is made, transported to us and expected to be used necessitates the addition of preservative and other anti-spoliage ingredients that would not otherwise be necessary and we should be aware of the dependency of our food supply chains on these additives” but none of that is even what this “Ultra-processed food” thing is, it really genuinely seems like the idea is “The act of transforming a food into a different kind of food removes a bit of its magic soul and if you do this more than about twice the result is essentially nutritionally worthless and full of moral badness substance” and it’s like mate what the genuine fuck are you talking about. It frustrates me so much because it’s so obviously bullshit but there are so many otherwise intelligent people who seem to have been sucked in by it because it’s science-flavour bollocks instead of crystal healing flavour.
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You have to be willing to take a chance on the art that makes you uncomfortable. You have to see the importance in art that exists for reasons other than making you feel good.
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what people dont get about divorces is the Whole Thing About Dogs
i have written custody plans for labrador retrievers more complex than i have for children. i went to four years of undergrad, three years of law school, and sat for the bar exam to write up custody exchange provisions for dogs with hyphonated last names
my clients are paying $295 an hour for me to go to court and litigate who makes veterinary decisions for Chuckles the Goldfish and theres literally nothing i can do to stop them
framing these tags and hanging them up in my office to remind me that it can always be worse
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After growing up during the I Can Haz Cheeseburger era, I’m glad that we as a society have progressed to the point of understanding that cats’ internal narration should be extremely dignified and comically formal for a creature so dumb. They really are like
Sir, I fail to see which part of this situation you could possibly find amusing. Can you not see that I am stuck, trapped onto this couch by my own claw, and shall consequently die?
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