What do you believe in now?
self preservation through love
chupacapra
Chupacabra as well
Claire || any pronounce || this is just my diary No tags no gods || fandom @variousothershit block me if you’re racist / anti-Semitic / homophobic / islamophobic / etc
What do you believe in now?
self preservation through love
chupacapra
Chupacabra as well
I’ve gathered some resources and tips and tricks on self-educating after educational neglect. This is only what I did and what I know helped me. I’m about to graduate college with honors after having no education past the age of 8. I wouldn’t be here without the following. Everything is free, and at/well above the standard for education in the US.
For my “homeschooled” peeps who were extremely educationally neglected, you can try ixl (sounds like “I excel”)
It’s not free, but it is very cheap, and you can pay only for the course you need help in and only for as long as you need it. As someone who was “““homeschooled”““ i.e. not taught at all past division and had to teach myself, we used this for my baby sister who could barely read at age 15 bcuz she had dyslexia and my parents just decided it was too much effort and pretty much completely abandoned her schooling. In a year of this we were able to catch her up to almost her expected grade level so she could go to school with her peers. HIGHLY recommend.
Such a good reminder that there are people out there who enjoy doing seemingly silly little inconsequential jobs. It’s not the job they hate, it’s being treated like undervalued shit.
also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck
"ough watching a show uses so much electricity" on road sides there are giant electrified billboards that do nothing but show you ads
both statements can be true and bad things, they dont cancel each other out. plus i feel like using a carcinogenic material in medical equipment is a little worse than truck nuts
...pretty sure the reason plastic is used in medical equipment is *because* it's the safest cheaply-available material
I don't know very much about chemistry and materials science and the like, so I'm not the best person to set the record straight, but I feel like the plastic conversation has gone off course
Plastic is undeniably a good technological advancement that has greatly improved human lives. It straight up just has characteristics and capabilities that no other material has. Particularly in medicine it's really important to have a material that can be easily sterilized, doesn't break down or corrode when exposed to various fluids and substances, is flexible, doesn't trigger allergies, etc.
The problem is that we're using this miracle material for all sorts of bullshit that could easily be made from something more sustainable
re: that fucking staff post. obviously death to algorithms, but i also wanna interrogate the wider underlying assumptions of their logic there cuz. is 'success' having lots of followers & lots of popular posts??? why is that the end goal of using this website. i don't open tumblr to get attention from strangers, i open tumblr to read funny jokes and interesting commentary and to see cool art. encouraging clout-chasing will only increase user engagement if you successfully get people literally addicted to the associated dopamine hit. what if we didn't have to do that!!! what if a website could be a place you went to on purpose because you had fun there!!!!
Hi OP and assorted seekers of happiness on Tumblr,
One day many months ago someone I followed reblogged a post that had reblogs turned off before I could reblog it. I looked at the OP and it turned out to be a user research survey blog claiming to associate with Staff. I took it and complained about various things, and then a couple weeks later one of the things I complained about got changed. That blog, was https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite and the two most newest surveys linked were:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP (the longer one)
and
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W (the shorter one)
So if you want Staff to stop punching holes in their own roof, take one of those. Or both, both is good. Anyways, just wanted to give you an option. Thanks for listening!