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Oct. 26th, 2019 11:45 amHow Well You Define A Problem Determines How Well You Solve It., a short essay with assumption checking techniques.
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” -Albert Einstein
The Joker movie is a dangerously misinformed hot take on mental illness. Which we knew, but if you need to show a breakdown to your mentally healthy friends to explain why, here's your chance to not have to explain it to them yourself.
On injustice, the "might makes right" cultural myth, and rape. One activist speaks out about issues her family is dealing with in the post-Kavanaugh era.
Some pretty good communication tips for relationships. These would work for all close emotional relationships, including friendships.
Why Are Queer People So Mean To Each Other? This is a really great essay on the cultural trauma within queer culture and how that manifests as hyper-reactivity and "cancelling" people who become perceived as a threat. Moral panic is one result of trauma, and we do need to be talking about how much of America is traumatized that this is becoming our cultural norm.
Meet The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement. The Smithsonian is not known for being reactionary, so your denialist relatives may listen to this one.
That study that says your friends aren't really your friends, that is going around on facebook? It's BS. They are defining friendship *solely* as the ability to influence each other. So by their metric, only three people would be able to claim me as a friend, even though there are about ten people I would drop a body for. Yeah, uh-huh, sure. I am stubborn, therefore not really your friend. That is ~totally~ how that works. 🙄
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” -Albert Einstein
The Joker movie is a dangerously misinformed hot take on mental illness. Which we knew, but if you need to show a breakdown to your mentally healthy friends to explain why, here's your chance to not have to explain it to them yourself.
On injustice, the "might makes right" cultural myth, and rape. One activist speaks out about issues her family is dealing with in the post-Kavanaugh era.
Some pretty good communication tips for relationships. These would work for all close emotional relationships, including friendships.
Why Are Queer People So Mean To Each Other? This is a really great essay on the cultural trauma within queer culture and how that manifests as hyper-reactivity and "cancelling" people who become perceived as a threat. Moral panic is one result of trauma, and we do need to be talking about how much of America is traumatized that this is becoming our cultural norm.
Meet The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement. The Smithsonian is not known for being reactionary, so your denialist relatives may listen to this one.
That study that says your friends aren't really your friends, that is going around on facebook? It's BS. They are defining friendship *solely* as the ability to influence each other. So by their metric, only three people would be able to claim me as a friend, even though there are about ten people I would drop a body for. Yeah, uh-huh, sure. I am stubborn, therefore not really your friend. That is ~totally~ how that works. 🙄