I got my data from the dead laptop today, so as promised: TTN Chapter 51

spideyhoe-spoilerman:

The man. The legend. A beautiful constant in a universe where everything was unpredictable, we had him. From dust to dust and into shadows. We will miss you. I find it fitting I came across this terrible horrible news in a class where we were discussing goodness and hero’s and legends. Thank you, Stan, for creating incredible hero’s, for giving me a universe to fall in love with, for bringing so much joy to my life through you hero’s. You are a hero Stan. We stan Stan Lee. Much love and prayers to the family.

commandtower-solring-go:

politijohn:

incel-waifu:

politijohn:

This is such a big mood. Speaking as a full-time graduate student in the metro DC area, I don’t blame her for waiting. The cost of living here is grotesque.

stfu, this bitch just another LARPing liberal

Like most models, Ocasio-Cortez did not buy the outfit shown here – she rented it for a photo shoot. Also, the clothes come from an environmentally-conscious fashion line, the designers of which are sensible to her political platform.

I see why you omitted these details – sexism is more catchy when you neglect the whole story

Also:

Boomers set the expectations siting their struggle then get mad when millennial struggle to meet them. Alexandria walked uphill both ways and wants to work to make sure no one else has to. 

suspiciouschicken:

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:

redmagus77:

kaylapocalypse:

thatadult:

The Stanford prison experiment tapes were so stupid when I watched them in AP psych and so stupid when I watch this film about them. Literally they could’ve all sat and played cards and got $15 a day to tell ghost stories all day and be best friends. But masculinity and whiteness and power created this violent irrationality that positioned young ass men to be met with brutality and trauma and disrespect even when it was obviously taken too far. and it makes no sense. If someone put me in a room with Black girls and said I would get paid $90 a day (that’s the equivalent apparently) to be a prison guard, do you know how fast I’d be sitting with them and learning about them and exchanging Instagrams and like.. sleeping.. like what the fuck was the point of any of that…

My psych teacher introduced us to this study and literally before she showed us was like “don’t ever confuse a study based on one type of person (white men/boys) to be an example of an Everyman situation. There is strong evidence that if this was recreated with diversity, or even just with girls, that the results would have been drastically different. This is an example of bias and sexism in the medical research community.”

“Other, more subtle factors also shaped the experiment. It’s often said that the study participants were ordinary guys—and they were, indeed, determined to be “normal” and healthy by a battery of tests. But they were also a self-selected group who responded to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers for “a psychological study of prison life.” In a 2007 study, the psychologists Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland asked whether that wording itself may have stacked the odds. They recreated the original ad, and then ran a separate ad omitting the phrase “prison life.” They found that the people who responded to the two ads scored differently on a set of psychological tests. Those who thought that they would be participating in a prison study had significantly higher levels of aggressiveness, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and social dominance, and they scored lower on measures of empathy and altruism.”

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment

The thing about this study is that whether or not it’s generalizable to the public is debatable at best.

But it’s certainly generalizable to the population of people who tend to be drawn to prison system and law enforcement jobs because that’s exactly the demographics that tend to show up in those positions.

👏

allsadnshit:

I can’t do this dude where is naruto I need him

marlowfication:

marlowfication:

idk which mofo out there jinxed me, but i had just finished the latest chapter of TTN, when my laptop shut down, and refuses to switch on again.

So. That’s great.

Will have someone dropping by my place tmr to see if my data can be extracted from the laptop despite the crash. I hope it works out, because right now I don’t think I could write for a year if I lose all my stories and story-related research materials now.

Well.

He said more equipment needed, and that he’ll be dropping by on Mon/Tue.

I… am not in an emotionally good place right now.

evilroachindustrial:

Ya know, Beto O’Rourke may have lost his bid for the Senate, but he only lost by 3 points.

The last time Ted Cruz won re-election in 2012? He won by 16 points.

It is sad that he didn’t win and your allowed to be sad about that, but don’t sell yourselves short.

Y’all went out there and did some serious work. You flipped two Texas Congressional districts and you got Beto within 3 points of defeating Ted Cruz.

Don’t lose faith. Keep voting whenever you have the chance cause there is hope to find in the shadow of Beto’s loss tonight.

Also his campaign got Beto into national awareness, so hopefully 2020 he’ll be Kamala Harris’s VP.

marlowfication:

idk which mofo out there jinxed me, but i had just finished the latest chapter of TTN, when my laptop shut down, and refuses to switch on again.

So. That’s great.

Will have someone dropping by my place tmr to see if my data can be extracted from the laptop despite the crash. I hope it works out, because right now I don’t think I could write for a year if I lose all my stories and story-related research materials now.