Thank god there’s only one, any more and I’m sure there’d be a murder.
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Thank god there’s only one, any more and I’m sure there’d be a murder.
crow vs crab WINNER TAKES ALL
ID:
Redditor asks for help. He wants to call his adoptive mom
“mom” instead of her name
(Reddit Post:)
My bio parents put me (15m) up for adoption when I was born so I was always in foster homes until I was twelve.
I had a teacher Janice (33f) who was my home room teacher.
Janice found out about me being a foster kid and how I wished I had a family. Janice had also been a foster kid growing up and so long story short she then became my foster mom and adopted me.
Janice is the best mom I could have ever asked for She has been so unbelievably kind and loving to me and I absolutely adore her The problem is that I don’t call her mom, I just call her Janice.
I want to start calling her mom but have no idea how to without making it awkward. Please help me internet strangers.
Update:
So… was not expecting this big of a response.
Thank all of you for responding and some of the ideas made me really
tear up.
Anyways this morning I went to Janice and I said “good morning mom” she just looked at me and started crying then came over and hugged me and kissed my forehead.
I hugged her back and she said I could call her whatever made me comfortable and that she loves me more than anything. I just replied with “l love you mom”.
End of ID.
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Worth noting that he protested loudly against the WWE doing a show in Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the company retaliated by making sure he hasn’t been on TV or PPV since. Not fired, of course, so they can keep selling merchandise with his face on it (and keep him from joining the competition), just out of the public eye so he and his protests gets forgotten by the fans.
Picture that: an ubiquitous celeb and household name like John Cena basically got black bagged and vanished for speaking up for human rights. That’s the power of capitalism, kids
I do not know a thing about wrestling but I knew of John Cena because he was that famous, like the Rock or Hulk Hogan or Mr. T, just a massive presence and household name beyond the WWE. It only hit me from reading this post that one day I just suddenly stopped seeing or hearing about him in the media ever again. Is this fucking why?!?
this is a legitimate problem in robotics.
like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.
it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).
anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).
oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about
Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy
Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge
Ah, I remember seeing a video about Mark Tilden back in the day: he was demonstrating his technique for building “BEAM robotics” in a way that allowed them to adapt to changes to their physical configuration. I remember quite distinctly him being very proud of what was basically a robotic stickbug, and then demonstrating how it continued to operate as he mutilated it beyond repair relative to previous sorts of robots, and I felt that he was being extremely cruel to it.
I guess I wasn’t the only one.
God, remember when we all learned what CDDB was and the first programs to auto-add that data became available???
Remember when Phish did Rodeohead and System of a Down did The Legend?
Incompleteness Theorems, hands-down
Related to that, Matiyasevich's theorem makes me want to throw up on myself. What do you mean the fucking halting problem comes up in the theory of Diophantine equations? Why.
Wow this fucking sucks
It's such a little thing, but the 18-point problem stuck in my head like a splinter when I first read about it in middle school.
Choose a point in (0,1). Now choose a second point so that the two points are in different halves of the segment. Now choose a third point so that the three points are all in different thirds of the segment. You might get stuck here, so restart and pick your points more carefully. Then do quarters, fifths, etc.
You can only place 17 points.
No matter how careful you are, you can only place 17 points and the 18th will not work. And this drives me absolutely freaking bonkers, for reasons I cannot explicate.
it still annoys me that there's no generalized analytic form for calculating the circumference of an ellipse, and also that the math for computing the circumference of an ellipse is so complicated that there is an entire branch of cryptography based around it
okay this one just took me out. what do you mean there's no analytic solution for the circumference for a seemingly normal everyday shape????? math is so weird sometimes
but then again I suppose the area or circumference of a circle is also weirder than it seems
Circles are incredibly straightforward (so to speak) and there are many ways of deriving the equation for its circumference from first principles.
There is no simple equation for the circumference of an ellipse. Only approximations. Computing it exactly requires extremely advanced calculus.
THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII
No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.
And what many people don’t realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.
So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girls’ school notebooks <3
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NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!
This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them “you’ll never find a husband if you dress that way!” to which they began to reply “Good!”
All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day you’ll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)
Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and ‘odd’ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives.
so are you telling me that Japan’s punk phase was really the kawaii phase
Kawaii is so goth
Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace
I did not know this but I love this form of feminism!
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace
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hi i do not like how some of you people have been using the term ‘egg’ lately. i also hate how you talk to gnc people. thank you.
so ‘egg’ refers to a trans person who has not yet realized they are trans and are in denial. usually one refers to themself in this context. i dont see this happening much to gnc women because its much normaler for a woman to be butch than for a man to be femme. but like.
if you know a man who is more femme. they may very well be a trans woman. and that is for them to figure out on their own. but yall see any man who isnt masc in the slightest bit and go ‘this must be a closeted trans woman’ no. shut up. being a trans woman is more than being a feminine male person. not only do i think youre not normal abt gnc men but i also think you are not normal about trans women.
its incredibly rude to call someone an egg for being gnc. what if we all minded our own business.
WHAT. WHAT THE HELL. the whole point of the trans movement is “only you can know who you are and no one elses perception dictates that” but some of yall went ‘only others can tell you what your gender is but now we’re trans inclusive <3”
on my sideblog i saw someone reblog my post about how we should be nicer to butch trans women a cis woman said in the tags “dont egg me but i want to explore masculinity like this” and like. yeah i think we stopped being normal about respecting trans people and instead “i know your gender based on your vibes” and idk. its a weird and niche phenomena but i think its weird and bad.
also don't do this to nonbinary people who were amab (or any nonbinary person). ik this post is mostly about gnc cis people but this kind of thinking also makes people presume that nonbinary people must be Binary Trans in Training (or Cis But Weird) with the end goal of "well you must REALLY be binary." this happens to all nonbinary people but people who were amab are especially erased
also please stop equating GNC with trans or nonbinary, they are all different things
ESPECIALLY if you call them GNC based solely on the way they dress because that is essentialist as fuck
Like this post if you still care about my Target stories from when I was doing Target Retales and would be interested in a new project involving that
