i mean fuck, i like trees, i like slugs, i like freaky spiders, i like nature, i like the muck, i like bird-watching and bug-spotting and river nooks, i like watchin leaves in the wind. sleep there? prolly would

Republicans decided every child in America was acceptable collateral damage before they'd ever pass a single common sense gun control law, but I'm supposed to feel bad for Charlie Kirk gtfoh

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

And quite possibly also in order to get exact numbers and observations on the thing, because that can be important. Yeah, sure, water freezes into ice when it gets cold, but how cold does it have to be? When it does freeze, does it do so all at once, or slowly? Does it behave any particular way when it freezes, maybe radiating out from a certain point?

Anyone who lives somewhere it gets cold enough can tell you that water freezes, but they may not necessarily agree on the exact details or have observed said exact details. And having those exact details is both useful for studying it more, and for convincing people who don't live where it gets icy and are skeptical about this thing (hard water? how ridiculous) that it does actually happen.

Absolutely wild that Fujimoto said “In a world where the very concept of nuclear weapons has been erased from existence, America is so hellbent on warmongering that they will literally reinvent nuclear weapons from scratch just to kill more people, and then the American people will cheer for their use even as the bodies burn, causing the manifestation of War itself to fall in love with America” in his Shonen manga about a teen who transforms into a chainsaw-headed man in 2025

fyi was watching the news at my parents' house and the way he's being described by mainstream news outlets is as "someone who reached across the aisle to try to engage progressives in healthy debate" and it's absolutely imperative that we do not let him be remembered in this way. we are not going to revise history and pretend he has ever done anything other than lob logical fallacy after logical fallacy at a bunch of college kids so he can clip it into flashy videos for his youtube channel. he did not argue in good faith, he did not try to find common ground with liberals or lefties, he would sit in an auditorium for hours dodging questions or making ad hominem arguments or bringing up non sequiturs until his time was up. there was no intellectual engagement happening here. I think it was probably a fun debate exercise for the college students to be able to identify logical fallacies in action, but nothing of substance was being argued or discussed or acquiesced upon. his two goals were to make fun of libtards and to give young white men nazi talking points coated in a veneer of social acceptance.

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