iamtheaardvark:

joelcarroll:

For those that wonder about Cars anatomy, here’s Thomas the Tank Engine’s true form

i am so UNCOMFORTABLE

temporaltower:

moonpaw17:

i mean lets be real fidget spinners wouldve totally been in homestuck

fidgetspinnerkind

you can spin it and it slices into enemies or you can spin it so hard it makes noise and attracts foes so you can get more grist

also you can throw them and knock someone unconscious because holy fuck that metal is surprisingly heavy

sollux would use them

m-arci-a:

Forest, ruins and adventure! What a lovely afternoon.

roscoerackham:

shinykari:

lady-feral:

hollowedskin:

cannon-fannon:

boneyardchamp:

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others).

Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status.

And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

I will always reblog this.

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

1. Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).
   
2. Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.
3. If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

sassymccoy:

condesces:

remus lupin’s patronus is a wolf are you SHITTING me

like can you imagine him doing it for the first time and finally succeeding and it’s a fucking wolf and all his classmates are like “oh that’s cool” and meanwhile he walks over and kicks a desk

“hey, wolf wolf! what’s your patronus??”

“i’ll give you three fucking guesses”

simsgonewrong:

Someone died in my resturaunt and she is definitely not happy about the wait times here… so dramatic

sneakyfeets:

muscle-horse-appreciation:

soupcitylights:

classicaldreaming:

This horse swam so far out to sea that the water was 10m deep when they found him 😂

WAIT IT GETS BETTER

When he got back on land, he still had enough energy to headbutt his trainers father hard enough to knock him unconscious. His trainer, Brad Smith, had this to say about the horse (ironically called Rebel Rover):

“He’s not the type of horse to strike or kick, head-butting is more his go and he lined dad up and knocked him out cold.”

So this horse goes out and swims 11km in the ocean, has to get herded back in, and when he gets back on land is still energetic enough to knock someone out cold.

Now that’s stamina!

“Rebel Rover had only recently returning to racing after a ban in Victoria for misbehaving in the barriers.” (x)

IS THIS THE ANGRIEST HORSE EVER?? ?

@probablyfakeblonde

blackness-by-your-side:

oh no, the gov’t tries to ruin lives of our younger generation AGAIN.

butchgender:

butchgender:

gay culture is oversharing and bottling ur emotions up at the same time

gay culture is also being touch starved and touch repulsed at the same time