This is why when I went in for ADHD testing, every person with ADHD that I know said, “Answer like you have no coping mechanisms. Answer like yourself on your worst day after a bad week.”
[ID: A tweet from SNeurotypicals reading “Neurodivergent screening tests will be like ‘do you struggle with wearing socks’ and ND people will be like ‘nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System’ and folks that is what the question is getting at.” A tag quoted in an image below reads “That can’t be right. I’m not struggling I’m succeeding. I am winning at socks.”]
toph was shown easily bending a meteorite that sokka gave her, meaning that toph can bend any dirt regardless if its from earth or not, meaning toph couldve definitely bent the moon and the only reason she didnt do it was out of respect for sokka and his ex gf
Toph doesn’t know where the fuck the moon is
Sokka: My first gf turned into the moon.
Toph: Okay, okay, stop. I keep hearing about this “moon” thing and I don’t know what it is.
Sokka: Oh, right. Um, so it’s basically this big rock in the sky that we can see at night, and it affects the ocean and waterbenders and stuff.
Okay something that bothers me is the fact physics is seen as the more prestigious of the three main sciences, with biology at the bottom and chemistry in the middle. Like. I doubt most people could name a famous biologist, but they could name 5 famous physicists. Why are Albert Einstein and Stephen hawking household names but Norman Borlaug and Jonas Salk aren’t?
Not to dismiss the accomplishments of Einstein or Hawking, or their genius, but their actual tangible contributions to society have been miniscule compared to that of Borlaug or Salk who have each saved LITERALLY hundreds of millions, if not billions, of lives each. Half the food on your plate was probably grown thanks to Borlaug and Salk is the reason half your siblings didn’t die of polio as a kid.
Sure Einsteins theory of relatively is important for modern satellite communications but really though how can it compare?
This is coming from someone who studied physics. I love physics, and years ago when i was at uni I looked down at biology and so did everyone else studying physics. And I know others did too. Retroactively of course I know this was so very wrong.
If society as a whole started treating biology with more respect then maybe more students would go into that field. If we had rockstars of medicine and agricultural science that were household names rather than just physicists? think of how many more lives could be saved, how many more lives could be improved.
I’m not saying physics isn’t important, and more scientists of any kind is always good, but proportionally I think societies priorities are a little skewd.
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