bois de vache @boisdevache@octodon.social

I'm 🙋 pretty ✨cool 😎 if you run 🏃 the numbers 📊

In America, we count time using potatoes and mississippis. Look, we just really don't like the Metric System

Did you know: until the early 80s, the religious position was that life began at birth, and specifically with the newborn's first (unaided) breath.

It wasn't until the Right realized that the sexual revolution wasn't just a phase and needed a new way to limit the sexual agency and freedom of people who weren't cis men that the current "life begins at conception" rhetoric settled in.

A cool article about how exacting Fred Rogers was about the language used on his show so that it wouldn't confuse or accidentally mislead kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/?single_page=true

I especially love the examples given.

"political correctness" is such a dumb fucking sigil wielded by the powerful to continue harrassing minorities.

*opens door*
*looks at america*
lol, okay.
*closes door.*

i have this policy, right?

it's called "don't think about work outside of work"

i don't care how stressful your job is

you are not allowed to think about it anymore until you're back at work once you've left. i don't even like talking about it if people ask.

i can't recommend it enough, really

@jk one way to look at it is that the social mores and nostrums of these spaces can be incredibly intimidating to people who aren't already accustomed to it.

By and large we don't give people much of an on-ramp into being woke.

i think a big divide in the way that people are expected to behave (which we see a lot on the internet) may basically come down to how you define "respect"

a lot of people think "i respect this person" means "i try to treat this person how i would want to be treated"

whereas a lot of other people think "i respect this person" means "i try to treat this person how they want to be treated"

i personally prefer the latter. but you see lots of people who don't!