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Piltdown Woman@piltdownwoman.bsky.social |
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I like animals and video games and books and other things.
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Piltdown Woman
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For ladies who want to buy more ethically made clothes, this is a really good resource! It's only two dollars, and it's updated regularly. Brands are organized by style and have their size ranges and (my favorite feature) price ranges listed. And they're not all as expensive as you might think!
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Piltdown Woman
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Not to come off as pro-cop, but if this was near human habitation or close to a lot of people, many consider it good practice to actively scare off coyotes so they don’t get too comfortable around people. Same goes for bears. They get too comfortable with people, that puts them in danger.
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Piltdown Woman
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I’m not a fan of Pops in general, but they’re even worse when they’re used for characters that don’t have very distinct features or outfits.
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Piltdown Woman
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Like, they don’t view children’s media as having much depth, and oftentimes they hadn’t seen those movies since they were kids so they’ve never given themselves the chance to reevaluate them as adults.
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I think the main issue is that most Americans aren’t used to animation (especially kids’ animation) that has a lot of quiet, slow, introspective moments. American animation tends to be loud and fast-paced. And I think people often don’t bother to try very hard to interpret children’s movies.
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Piltdown Woman
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I’ll hear about a specific issue and then I’m embarrassed for not noticing it earlier. Cause like, once you know it’s there, it feels so obvious and overt! It’s why I try to seek out books, articles, and videos directly about these forms of racism.
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Piltdown Woman
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Part of the problem is that we’re taught about racism as a very overt thing, (think cross burning and segregated bathrooms) when most real life racism is more subtle than that. So even those of us who mean well can take a while to start noticing these things, and those who don’t can play dumb.
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Piltdown Woman
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If you try to just judge on class rank and SAT, you’re still gonna have more applicants than you can accept. It’s that competitive.
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Piltdown Woman
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Yeah, and that’s only looking at the more “objective” (and I say that very loosely) measures of class rank and standardized testing. The kids who get in have lots of extracurriculars and other shit going on. Those can’t be compared objectively, it’s hard to seriously argue that you deserved it more.
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Piltdown Woman
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I imagine this is very much the case at the Ivies. Thousands of top tier students competing for a few hundred spots? At that point, selection is going to be based on arbitrary criteria, or just be outright random.
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Piltdown Woman
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I’m not familiar with the world of the Ivy Leagues, but I get the sense that at after certain point, it comes down to luck. You have thousands of top tier applicants competing for, what, a few hundred positions? At that point, they’re probably picking based on arbitrary reasons anyway.
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Piltdown Woman
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Look everyone, they named a snack after me!
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.
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Piltdown Woman
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Yeah, we’re not very far removed from serious injustices committed against certain groups. Survivors are still around, but some dipshits want to pretend they’re long-ago problems.
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Piltdown Woman
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I’m not surprised that this still happens, but it still disappoints me.
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Piltdown Woman
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Studies repeatedly show that background knowledge, what you already know going in, is very important to reading comprehension. A lot of people today dismiss the value of knowledge in favor of various skills, but many skills need knowledge to work with.
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Piltdown Woman
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One of my core beliefs is that all knowledge has value. Even if something doesn't seem immediately useful or important, everything is connected. Knowing one thing can help you understand something else.
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cait
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it pisses me off when i spell a word so wrong that even auto correct is like "ummm idk..." like bitch this is your job. just make something up, i'm embarrassed enough
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Piltdown Woman
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To be clear, I do support the development of green tech. But it needs to go alongside a push to consume less.
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Piltdown Woman
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I used to see technology as our salvation, but over the years, I've grown less optimistic about that as I've realized that people just take more efficient, more ethical technology as an excuse to use and consume more and we end up right back where we started.
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Piltdown Woman
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Giving me flashbacks to middle school where MySpace top 8 friends rankings were a common source of drama.
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Piltdown Woman
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Even my loser, late blooming, possibly repressed ass had some ~impure thoughts~ in high school.
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Piltdown Woman
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What's the end goal? Is it just out of a desire to promote didacticism? Or is it just some bad faith argument they pull out when they want to morally criticize someone or something and they don't have any better points to work with?
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Piltdown Woman
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It really annoys me how many adults expect all teenagers in fiction to be written like the ones in Disney Channel shows. It's very infantilizing, and dishonest.
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Piltdown Woman
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My dad (a teacher) has been complaining about this approach to reading for yeeeears. He'll be pleased to learn that it's falling out of favor.
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Piltdown Woman
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The gas fumes are making them act like this.
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Piltdown Woman
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I will not pay more than $200 a night for a hotel unless it is near some charismatic megafauna.
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Piltdown Woman
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Hey, my niece was able to hold her own bottle months earlier than most kids, she is clearly GIFTED!
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Piltdown Woman
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Those masks look cursed. If they actually do make you prettier, there’s probably some horrible supernatural price you must pay. And yes, new author photo!
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Piltdown Woman
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I know a wolf sanctuary where you can pay seventy-five bucks to pitch your tent near the wolf enclosures and spend the night. Top THAT, fancy hotels!
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Piltdown Woman
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I've never been to a super fancy rich people hotel, but I can't imagine that they're worth the price.
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Gwen C. Katz
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For the rest of us--and, indeed, most people in the cultural majority as well--it's not a lack of traits that makes us identify with a character, but the existence of traits. It's the character who has a hearing aid or wears a binder who makes us go "Wow, that could be me!"
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Piltdown Woman
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I’d be more sympathetic if they were like, a janitor, and this was the only place offering janitors a living wage. But it seems to me like they have options.
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Piltdown Woman
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Yeah, don’t they have a pretty good salary, too? If you have the skills and experience to get a job like that, you can find work with a less terrible employer.
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Piltdown Woman
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True. Perhaps the issue is that a lot of people don’t think that a random social media page has any reason to lie about what a baby eagle looks like, or post a fake picture of a fancy cake or dress. So they don’t think to question it.
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Piltdown Woman
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Lots of birds nest in human neighborhoods and even human dwellings. Baby birds often fall out of their nests. Baby birds are hardly a rare sight.
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Piltdown Woman
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I think more likely it’s a matter of people not paying attention to or retaining anything from the world around them outside of a very narrow range of interests.
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Piltdown Woman
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Maybe people don’t always actively seek that stuff out but like, they never watched a nature documentary cause nothing else good was on? They’ve never seen social media posts from a zoo or conservation group? It’s very unlikely that they don’t see it SOMEWHERE.
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Piltdown Woman
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The only baby bird-deficient place I've ever lived in was a suburb that was so newly built that it took some years for birds to settle and build nests. (though a good variety of species were present flying around)
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Piltdown Woman
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... Birds are very prolific in urban and suburban areas. And even if someone reaches their teen years without ever seeing one out in nature, they'd almost certainly see one on a screen, or in a book, or at a zoo or pet store.
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Piltdown Woman
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Yeah, I don't expect people to know everything about everything. But it is concerning how a lot of people seem so quick to believe such serious fake images.
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Piltdown Woman
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I finally got to visit a few years ago and it totally lives up to the hype. It’s one of the reasons I’m sad that I can’t afford to live in California, lol.
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Piltdown Woman
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I’m rather skeptical that “a lot” of people have never seen a baby bird, unless we’re talking about little kids who haven’t been alive long enough to see much.
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Piltdown Woman
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It’s a great aquarium. I hope the people enjoyed it despite the lack of captive whales. (sometimes you can see wild whales in the distance from their back deck)
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Piltdown Woman
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Of course, even if someone lacks knowledge on a particular subject, there can be other ways to tell if a source is not reliable. But this again requires knowledge. Obviously people can’t learn everything about every subject, but a broad, general base of knowledge will help many.
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Piltdown Woman
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Critical thinking requires knowledge to work with. A person who doesn’t know what a baby bald eagle looks like, or doesn’t know that baby birds often don’t resemble mini adult birds, likely wouldn’t recognize the left image as fake. Critical thinking skills cannot be separated from knowledge.
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Piltdown Woman
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The California town I worked in was WAY too into its history of hanging people. And they only hung a few people which I think makes it even weirder that they obsess over it.
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Piltdown Woman
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I look forward to reading it!
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Piltdown Woman
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Or it can mean "is not being talked about as constantly as new releases are".
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Piltdown Woman
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Wish had a pretty long and troubled production. If the retool scrapped a lot of previously finished stuff, then the amount they had to remake could have been expensive.
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