I’m a feminist, but I’m not one of those hairless, man-loving, straight women. You know, despite its reputation for being all about equality for men, feminism can actually help women too.
tumblr is like wading through everyone else’s garbage until you find something good and go “ah. this is good” and take it and display it in your own garbage pile
hey not to be absolutely fucking morbid on main or anything but if we do reach a point where the rich try to escape extinction by fleeing earth to live on their secret mars colony or whatever my dying moments will be taking solace in the fact that a society comprised solely of the 1% of the richest people on the planet will tear itself apart in under a year
can’t wait for Fyre Fest 2 on mars
not to be overly optimistic on main but without the 1% we might stand a chance
Reblog if you’re bisexual, support bisexual people or are actually a bunch of tiny velociraptors in a human suit
I do support bisexual people but the main reason I’m reblogging this is that I thought it read “Relax if you’re bisexual” and I was like yes. Bisexuals. Get yourself a nice hot drink, put your feet up. Have a good day.
I guess something that bothers me about Internet Linguistics as a whole, other than being considered a semi-viable way to study memes, is that what I’ve seen of it never addresses the fast, ever-changing linguist landscape of the internet and its effects on informal, written communication. Instead, it focuses on particular features in a vacuum and what ultimately happens is that any sort of actual research on it comes out way after the language of the internet has moved on.
Gretchen McCulloch and her work on Internet Linguistics is a good example of that: her works tend to focus on memetic entities that very typically become dated. One example is her analysis of “doge” and the meme sentences it created, which obviously is completely dated and if we ever see it occur nowadays, it’s ironic in context. Even the title of her book, “Because Internet,” features a dated syntactic structure that is rarely used anymore, if at all.
What I’d love to see is almost a historical timeline of evolution of language change by means of the internet and any sort of patterns that have occurred, included what has significantly affected written communication ans what has not. This would be a more effective way to study the internet as a linguist methodology rather than just “let me talk about why the snek meme is cool.”
I hate _% of people statistics being used like “oh it’s such a small number” cause 1% is a small number but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. That’s more than the population of the UK, France or Italy.
6% of the US is 19 million, as stated above. There are only 3 states that have over 19 million people in them. 19 million is the population of the entire state of New York. That’s more than half the population of California.
Taking populations and turning them into percentages is okay until you try to say “oh that’s not a lot of people” but the reality is… That’s millions. That’s enough to be its own country. That’s fucking scary.
Like don’t get me wrong, that’s nicer than the idea that Americans are split pretty 50/50 on such issues…. but that’s still 3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 6% is a nice, softened way of saying “over 1 in 20 people”.
someone: so what do you think is the solution to homelessness?
me, socialist:
Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment
When you say it to people and they break
“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”
There’s more to it than free real estate.
A massive portion of homeless people are mentally ill, and many of those illnesses aren’t being treated. Homeless people who have been on the streets and had their illnesses untreated for most of their lives aren’t going to adjust super well to suddenly having a place to live.
We need to build safety nets. We need social workers and mental health care professionals to help the homeless.
Every person deserves a roof and health care. Those two things need to go hand in hand.
The Housing First model of dealing with homelessness does exactly this. But actually when homeless people with mental illness or drug dependencies get into housing they start to do a lot better. Yes there are safety nets and things to work on after but it starts with housing. Homeless shelters right now aren’t doing enough because they either limit stays or make it so that drug addicts aren’t allowed to stay there at all. Obviously they’re still helping people but the Housing First model would actually help a lot more people long term and even be cheaper for the government in the long run. Unfortunately I don’t have sources but if someone can add them that’d be great.
Honestly the unmitigated gall of saying that homeless people wouldn’t “adjust well” to the safety, comfort, dryness, and stability of the basic need that is reliable shelter because they’re mentally ill, like, could you possibly find a way to insult and step on two marginalized groups at once more?
