We Can't Get Rid Of Slavery, The Economy Will Collapse!

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

Punnett squares had no business being that fun

This is the kind of weaponization of the elderly I can get behind. 

We need more people like this

Gimme more Indian LGBTQ+

Gimme my trans guys lounging in their binders and lungis with chai and biscuits

Gimme my NB peeps wearing jhumkas and bangles with their jeans and printed tees

Gimme my software engineer coming home to her wife

Gimme my girl hiding her wife’s name in the mehendi on one hand and her husband’s on the other

Gimme my aroace dude who doesn’t wanna get married rejecting all his rishte

Gimme husbands who create startups together

Gimme larger than life parades for our larger than life personalities

Gimme two dolis or two baraats

Gimme more Indian LGBTQ+

Okay, I'm posting this here because this blog has a much bigger following than my main. This is the first time I've ever begged for reblogs instead of likes.

The morning of August 10th a massive storm called a derecho plowed through the midwest, devastating Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and the entire state of Iowa, which is where I live. Iowa was hit the worst. A derecho is basically the equivalent of a hurricane. Our highest recorded wind speed was 112mph.

1/3 of the state lost power, and almost 3 days later, roughly 400,000 people still don't have power. We have approximately 23 million acres of farmland, and approximately 10 million were destroyed by the storm. That's not good at all. Our crops are one of the state's main sources of economic development, and we lost so much.

The light green area inside the circle is all of our damaged crops. We lost a lot of silos and grain bins as well

Outside of our local news stations, there's barely any national media coverage on this. Ive only seen a couple, and the only ones I have seen weren't even that in that depth.

The above screenshot was from today(Aug. 12th, 2020) at 9pm CST. 2 days had passed before either of them wrote anything about it.

We have some cities that are either partly out of power or entirely out of power. One of the worst hit cities was even still recovering somewhat from a F4 tornado that went through it 2 years ago.

There's people stranded in their homes without food, power, gas and/or cell service. Please spread the word and let people know that we need help!

Wonderful metaphor.

Speaking of ENP reacting quickly to information is that more of an ENP thing or would the other extroverts do this as well? Recently my mother made the observation that I absorb information so fast she doesn’t know how I do it . I react first and sort it out later. She sorts it out then reacts generally speaking. Is that extrovert vs introvert?

All the extroverts react faster than the introverts, according to their dominant function -- either with absorbing information (EP) or judging it (EJ) -- because there is no “self-blockage” / isolation from the flow of the outer world. Think of it as standing in the middle of the river and feeling it wash over you (E), as opposed to standing on the shore and staring at it (I).

- ENFP Mod

“Every habit produces multiple outcomes across time. Unfortunately, these outcomes are often misaligned. With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse: the immediate outcome is unenjoyable, but the ultimate outcome feels good. […] The road less traveled is the road of delayed gratification. If you’re willing to wait for the rewards, you’ll face less competition and often get a bigger payoff. As the saying goes, the last mile is always the least crowded.”

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

It's even more fitting that the Mars 2020 rover is named Perseverance considering everything that's been going on in the world