ok this is insanely cool

the organization that runs it is called Helping Hands, here's their website and how to join tutoring sessions in their world!

https://helpinghands.gg

Omfg they made a whole language for this

There are actual tears in my eyes rn can you believe people are this stupid and walk among us all the time

Everything is political. If you think something is not political, it's only because you're not personally affected by it.

But the idea that anyone thinks the military could be anything other than political is disturbing.

ok this is insanely cool

''when did we all become so performative'' idk man when the threat of being recorded at any time and posted for milions to see without your knowledge became normalised.

I don’t like how you put these two photos together, as if to imply that the dumplings with the paw print have anything to do with this sweet, innocent angel who has never done anything wrong.

I love how you put those two photos together, as it shows how this sweet, innocent angel was helping you make dumplings

I just remembered one of my favorite videos ever I have to post it here

My child, who spends their entire life being transfered from home to car to school and back, and is not allowed to leave the house or talk to anyone and can only in their wildest dreams imagine a life free from constant surveillance, is very sad. Obviously they're dumb and lazy, like all kids these days.

kind of a tangent but i recently went to a bowling alley with my friend i'm 19 he's 18 and the woman at the door didn't want to let us in because there was a sign saying under-18s needed adult supervision. everything got cleared up and we were able to go bowl, but i'm still so mad about the fact that kids need adult supervision to go to a bowling alley and arcade. like okay maybe young kids should have supervision but what do you mean middle and high schoolers need to hold mommy's hand while they play video games. kids aren't just addicted to their phones because phones are addicting, we're addicted to our phones because there's nothing else to fucking do

I'm sure banning kids from online spaces while simultaneously not ensuring that they have access to offline spaces to socialize in (without having to rely on their parents who already don't have time for them) will help them feel better & less alienated from society.

Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."

And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.

This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?

"It's red on the inside?"

Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.

"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."

And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.

If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.

Yep.

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.

My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.

Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.

Thinking today about how people seem to have the idea that losing weight will somehow help anyone reach their more ideal body even when those goals are contradictory.

Cis women are told by doctors who think their testosterone is too high that losing weight will lower their testosterone. Trans men who aren't on HRT are told that losing weight will raise their testosterone. Which is it; does the fat feminise or masculinise you? It does whichever one you don't want, apparently, because fat can read your mind. (I assume people are told the same things about estrogen, but someone with experience there will need to confirm.)

Anything you want to do that other people don't want for you will "make you fat" (assumed to be a bad thing). Taking testosterone will make you gain weight, taking estrogen will make you gain weight. (But only if you're trans and doing it for Bad Reasons; a cis woman on estrogen or a cis man on testosterone is exempt). You don't want to gain weight because you will be ugly and also your body (which magically knows what your goals are) will turn you into the opposite of what you want to be with all that Evil Fat; if you want to be calm it'll make you antsy, if you want more energy it'll make you sluggish. Fat is magic like that.

ok but to be honest if someone actually transitioned purely cause they felt like it was a trend they wanted to get in on that would be cool as hell? like yeah, use that bodily autonomy, fuck around because you feel like it

transition as a trend. transition as a fetish. transition as an experiment. transition for no reason whatsoever.

bodily autonomy is not about being Noble And Pure Of Heart (As Defined By Experiencing The Correct Kind Of Suffering). it's literally fine.

Another dream comic. Had a dream where I was tied to a chair in a dark room and some hooded figures killed me after I begged for my life—but then I got caught in a time loop and so I kept trying to figure out what I could say to get them to not shoot me but they killed me no matter what I said. Started just shouting random stuff eventually.

I think what ONE gets so extremely right about Reigen as a failman character is, while he is undeniably a failman, he is self-aware and sufficiently capable of using that knowledge to steer himself (AND others) off of any truly bad path that can stem from the anger, or apathy, or self-pity from being a failman on the lower-rung of society.

Like yes. He's a 28-year-old nobody running a slapdash psychic con-man business. He has no romantic prospects and his only friend is the 14-year-old he's underpaying as a part-time employee. He can be stupid and selfish and clumsy with his words. But he fully, and with active intention, refuses to be a bad person.

He follows a sincere moral code. He only takes money he feels he's earned. He prioritizes the safety of children. He values hard work. He doesn't think the world owes him anything. He doesn't think he's more important than others. He doesn't wallow. He gives genuine life-advice to people even when some of it is lip-service.

And those things aren't necessarily obvious right out of the gate at the series' start, where we just see this sweaty grifter conning people and taking credit for his student's work. But you start to see it over and over from Reigen in all the moments that matter.

It comes out in spades during the Claw arc in Season 1. His priority is the children's safety. He's aghast at the kind of adults who would harm children. He's desperate to the point of screaming that the kids not resort to violence and bear that burden. He takes on the whole fight himself (as the adult) despite being powerless. And even when he's in possession of all of Mob's power and could make everyone bow to him with a snap of his fingers, he holds back entirely, and uses the moment to shout the Claw members down for being full-grown adults who never grew up and need to understand how to be a functional part of the world.

And even during his probably biggest fuck-up moment of the series in the Separation Arc, where he's driven Mob away and can't really bring himself to admit, yet, that this is his own fuck up. He spends his birthday alone and vomiting drunk(?) in an alleyway and, while this is happening, has the thought "I'm on a bad path. This is bad. Who am I?" which, by itself, is a thought had by a lot of people on a bad path. But Reigen is capable of action and follows through the next morning reinventing himself, with whatever random efforts that may be. He throws himself at a lot of things because he doesn't actually know what to do, but he's capable of action. He identified his problem and steered himself off that path. And it stands out to me so much. Like it's not just during his shining moments that he adheres to his beliefs. He does it even at his lows. He's consistent.

Arataka Reigen is aware he's a loser. He's aware of his failures. And he's still dedicated to being a good person in the ways that matter.

Hsr devs are so evil. They're all good-looking and I want to pull for ALL of them 💔💔

Whatever. Throws slop at you

Maybe cus they are more vocal in critisism and is seemingly the only one who frequently skips the adventures straight up, is more confrontational. I think Caine sees Zooble as a challenge, someone who's extra hard to please and cater to. He needs everyones approval but ESPECIALLY the approval of the "problem child of his Circus. The others disdain is easier to ignore. Lowkey i like Caine being a bit obsessed w Zooble for that reason, having bitterness and anger, frustration towards them but also love and a need to please