how dare you question the amazing method of farming that gives us so much food by simply killing the soil and leaving lands barren without maintaining the resources that make it work in the first place.
last year i got 1800 bushels of corn by killing the soil, as opposed to before when i only got 1200 by not killing the soil. surely i can simply keep killing more soil
wym there's only so much soil. that's an externality and therefore none of my concern
well here's the thing, under normal circumstances without human intervention soil recovery can take a long long time. with human intervention, such as mulching, cover crops (that you then turn into mulch), seeding with beneficial fungi, etc, soil buildup can be massively boosted. we can be a positive force instead of a negative one. we just have to start doing that
We literally already pulled off a 10-year turnaround by getting a company to dump a lot of orange peels in an area.
people always blast right past the "if we continue with current practices" and go straight to "this is inevitable"
this is a checkpoint!! please tell me something you’re grateful for/praising God for rn in the tags thank-you :)
I don’t care how contrived it is. I will always enjoy two characters who don’t like each other somehow getting trapped in the same place, and having to work together to escape, while at the same time growing closer and learning that maybe, the other person isn’t so bad after all.
most insane tumblr experience by far is coming across a post from the mid 2010s that has permanently altered the brain chemestry and life course of you and several of your friends and aquaintances and realizing it only has like 1200 notes
reblog this to fix the mental health of the person u rb’d it from pls I BEG
Yet another thing I've seen in parenting groups that weirds me the fuck out
Liberal, sex positive parents who teach their kids the correct words for parts, don't shame them for curiousity, and respect their ability to understand things- BUT when it comes to weapons, killing, or any type of death, they're immediately helpless pearl clutchers talking about trauma and teaching aggression
AND THEN they also cry bc they don't know how to fear-monger to their young children about school shootings when they've carefully ensured the child has never been exposed to the concept of death and has no idea what a gun is
Either your kid can understand difficult topics or they can't. And either your kid needs to know what violence and death are or they don't.
Make it make sense
Ngl the entire concept of purposely making sure your kid doesn't know what death is creeps me out. What the hell kind of sanitized life do you lead where your 5yo has never encountered a dead thing, they don't understand they're eating animals, and they think their cat/fish/grandma just up and left their life. And what is this accomplishing
Honestly grow a fucking pair and explain shit to your kids you shitty little cowards
I'm reminded of that post that popped up around the time dracula got big on here (I think it was spurred by a little girl being part of her friend's funeral procession in the book or something, and readers getting weirded out by it) that pointed out that for all modern society makes fun of the victorians for sexual prudishness, we've essentially just flipped it around and developed the same thing with a "mortality prudishness."
I was at my dad's funeral at age 5 and I knew before hand that he might not get better. I think it made things easier when mom got the call.
I was also at grandma's funeral and before that visited her in the hospital. And great grandpa's funeral as a kid. Might be a cultural thing (we're Finnish) that it isn't hidden that life ends.
Yea but you also got parents going so far in the other direction, having their 4 year old child slaughter a chicken (for example) and prepare it for dinner. Wrong to shield them from the concept of death, also kinda wrong to force that reality on them.
In many parts of the world, killing your dinner is just another chore, and people don't have the privilege of pretending it doesn't happen. That's 100% a first world thing, and even within first world countries you still have farmers.
Both of these stem from ideas that are uniquely modern/first world. First, that sex should have no consequences. Second, that death is unnatural. The issue is that both of these ideas are completely detached from reality. Sex always has consequences and death is embedded in nature.
I wouldn't go so far as to suggest a 4(!) year old should be made to kill any animal (give them a little time to get used to the concept geez) but if they're not aware that things can die, you could literally run into the problem of them being MORE rough and violent and/or neglect pets because they're not aware these actions could literally kill things... also a child who's not aware of the concept of death could blithely put themselves or other children in moral peril, which is already something children do, but moreso if not given adequate warning
To briefly circle back to the whole "liberal parents teaching kids correct anatomical names for parts", as a therapist who has studied trauma and abuse THIS IS ONE OF THE METHODS THAT IS KNOWN TO PREVENT/HIGHLIGHT CHILD ABUSE. If kids know what the actual names of the body parts, when someone teaches them a different/cutesy name for the body part (e.g. a vagina being a cupcake or whatever), then the parent knows they got it from somewhere else. It can also give a sense of normalcy to those parts of the body, rather than shame (which can be exploited and be a reason why the kid doesn't tell a safe adult).
While op's initial point and the subsequent discussion is very valid, I felt the need to say this, because so often abuse gets missed until it is too late. This specific example is more than a result of sex-positivity and is actually really important for protecting kids
It is so key for parents (and other safe adults) to have age-appropriate conversations about both sex and death. It prepares them to live as adults with a healthy understanding of reality, rather than internalized shame
Yes! I read a story about a small girl who was never taught the word vagina and kept saying "XYZ touched my cookie" and her teachers were like ok sucks to be you ig
And she continued getting abused because she was not given the tools to discuss her own body.
Heard a "someone I know" story from my MIL about a little boy who waa able to make the statement "he touched my penis" to get someone convicted and registered as a sex offender.
Anonymous asked:
tbh, i dont get the self regulation thing autistic people do. i dont get how stimming regulates anyone? because i dont do it myself, i never have since i was a wee child, so i know for a fact i dont do that.
im confused by it, like how does one moving around, or rocking, whatever it may be, regulate? what does it even mean im actually confused o.o
autistic-af answered:
Honest questions: you ever click a pen while thinking?
Ever tap your fingers on the table while bored?
Ever jiggle your leg while nervous?
Those are all self-regulatory stims.
Everybody stims.
Autistics are just less likely to be constrained by social standards and stim in ways that help the individual. That may be rocking, hand flapping, humming, nodding, face scrunching etc.
Movement can help add or remove stimulation.
When you’re clicking your pen to think, the sound and movement and beat that you’re creating is helping to block out outside stimulus.
Leg bouncing helps you remove energy and reduce an unpleasant sensation.
I rock because it helps create a feeling inside of me that I find pleasant. That pleasant feeling blocks out negative sensory input I’m experiencing.
Et cetera.
Add in the fact that many (not all) Autistics struggle with emotional regulation, and stimming becomes extremely important to help regulate sensations we may not have a term for yet. All we know is we don’t like it or maybe want more of it.
a lot of the time, if I don’t stim I feel like I’m going to explode. like autistic-af said, a lot of autistic people have emotional dysregulation issues. for me, this means that my emotions all feel so BIG that they can’t be contained inside my body. so I flap, or clap my hands, or spin in circles, and it helps me to release the excess energy
and then, sometimes it’s that it makes me feel more in control of sensory input. if there’s a lot going on, stimming can “cancel out” the distressing input. clicking my fingers or tapping the side of my head gives me a single source of controlled input to focus on, instead of being overwhelmed by all the uncontrolled input
a lot of the time, it’s harder to pinpoint why I need to do it, I just do. pacing helps me to think, moving my hands helps me to remember things, etc etc. these are the types of things that almost everyone does though — human beings tend to embody our thoughts and emotions, autistic people just do it more and/or differently
Honestly, if you take it wide enough, "stimming" is why humans have hobbies and why animals have fun.
Knitting can be stimming.
Running/jogging can be stimming.
Taking looooong showers can be a method of emotional regulation. <- anything can be used for emotional regulation, and a lot of it is actually not just socially accepted but even "advertised".
For example: how often have you come across someone being suggested to "take a hot long bubble bath after a long tiring day"?
Or how often have you seen/read about people "having a glass of wine after a hard day"?
Those things are "regulating emotions" in the way that they help make one emotion go away and/or/by releasing a different emotion.
That's why your* grandmother used to humm while doing laundry, btw.
*not yours personally, more like 'the grandma in all those cutesy stories about someones childhood'
Cat zoomies are emotional regulation. This is law.
I’m sorry but I strongly refuse to accept “married man finds the love of his life in another woman and leaves his wife and children behind (to get married to the new one)” as romantic - not even a little bit.
same but im not sorry
Same goes for all those stories where the wife leaves her family either for another man (or woman) who’s her actual “one true love”, or because her husband’s somehow holding her back, so she must leave him and their children to “find her true self”. It’s not romantic or empowering, it’s just selfish.
Agreed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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how dare you question the amazing method of farming that gives us so much food by simply killing the soil and leaving lands barren without maintaining the resources that make it work in the first place.
last year i got 1800 bushels of corn by killing the soil, as opposed to before when i only got 1200 by not killing the soil. surely i can simply keep killing more soil
wym there's only so much soil. that's an externality and therefore none of my concern
well here's the thing, under normal circumstances without human intervention soil recovery can take a long long time. with human intervention, such as mulching, cover crops (that you then turn into mulch), seeding with beneficial fungi, etc, soil buildup can be massively boosted. we can be a positive force instead of a negative one. we just have to start doing that
We literally already pulled off a 10-year turnaround by getting a company to dump a lot of orange peels in an area.
people always blast right past the "if we continue with current practices" and go straight to "this is inevitable"
