like the entire reason the term “poser” exists is that subcultures are not identities they never have been. theyre like. communities. that you have to be present in. to be a part of that culture. because it is a subculture.
new yorker is a feeling i hate gatekeepers telling me that because i have lived in california my whole life i cant be a new yorker
Disabled people deserve government assistance and benefits. Even if they have incomes. Even if their spouses have incomes. Even if both they and their spouses have incomes.
Because being disabled is fucking expensive, even with affordable healthcare, even under the best circumstances and in the most accessible situations.
few terms have come to piss me off more than “traumadumping” does like having a sincere conversation with someone about personal issues in your life is not “traumadumping” shut the fuck up
obviously your twitter mutual arbitrarily dming you out of the blue to describe a detailed account of the abuse they experienced as a child is one thing but i often see the word “traumadumping” applied to things as mundane as a friend or relative telling you their girlfriend broke up with them or that they got in a bad fight with their dad and like that is not traumadumping that is simply seeking emotional consolation from a friend, which isn’t exactly uncommon nor is it an unreasonable thing to desire. these people are not necessarily asking you to become their therapist or what the fuck ever, usually they are merely looking for reassurance and recognition as simple as “sorry to hear that i hope things start looking up for you soon.” i understand that situations like this can still be hard and make you feel confused and helpless and unsure of exactly what you can do/say, but i just feel like it’s downright cruel to act as though wanting comfort from a friend when you’re going through a rough period is somehow a moral failing and the big boy thing to do in such a situation would just be to suck it up and repress lest you make your emotions someone else’s problem
Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites
Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.
And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.
But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.
Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.
when i started this blog at like 17 i typed only in fully-punctuated, correctly capitalized full sentences
like some kind of redditor
ill do you one better, when i started using this site at 16 post editing still existed and i would fucking correct the grammar and punctuation of posts i reblogged
