downtroddendeity:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

I don’t know how to explain to you that this is exactly how they get you.

Something that has mostly solid evidence backing it is just as good a gateway to The Pseudoscience Abyss as something that isn’t evidence-based at all. The danger is in the thinking patterns it can lead you to.

There’s a lot of rhetoric among some vegan communities about how going vegan is The Solution To Almost Everything (the ‘original sin’ idea where problems can be traced back to one thing), how The Industry suppresses evidence and people who work in The Industry can’t be trusted (this is the foundation of a conspiracy theory), how people are only against the solution because they prioritize self-gratification (conservative evangelicalism at work!), and there is…a lot of misinformation.

Veganism is in an especially potent position because of its appeal to people who have already swallowed the “clean eating/purify your body with Natural Food” pill. Natural Food is the biggest gateway into conspiracy shit, period.

And it’s very much entangled in questions of morality and strong emotions from people, which means people are vulnerable to forgetting their brains.

@xexed I regret to inform you that if the farmer that grew the crops that became your food ever watered them, they were treated with a chemical.

Water is a chemical. All food is made of chemicals. Everything with a chemical formula is a chemical. Avoiding “chemicals,” eating things with fewer “chemicals,” choosing foods “not treated with chemicals,” it’s all literally meaningless unless there’s a specific reason a specific chemical is bad for human health.

Also, whether a “chemical” is naturally occurring/comes from plants/whatever has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not it’s safe or healthy to eat. Foxgloves, ‘destroying angel’ mushrooms, oleander and deadly nightshade are all pretty damn natural. As is mercury, arsenic, uranium, and lead.

There’s no such thing as a “natural” lifestyle or diet anyway. Most of the plants we eat are so heavily modified by thousands and thousands of years of domestication that they’re completely unrecognizable from their wild ancestors.

Humans have adapted to radically different diets depending on the region they live in. We’ve evolved lactase persistence in some places so we can drink milk from other species! We’ve domesticated yeast to make bread! We’ll eat insects, fungi, leaves, fruits, seeds, meat, fish, roots, you name it, we’ve tried to put it in our mouths.

“Natural” food is a marketing buzzword at best. There are valid criticisms of today’s foodways, and ways our diets could be made better, but “natural” just straight up does not mean anything.

Gonna drop a link to the Maintenance Phase episode on “the Wellness to QAnon Pipeline” with a prominent researcher of conspiracy theories as a guest. People starting at “I don’t want to be eating pesticides” (valid!) and falling down a pit toward “vaccine microchips” (not valid!) is absolutely a known thing.

quillusquillus:

baapi-makwa:

my friends cat loves attacking xmas trees but hates plastic bags

the narrative tension in this picture is outrageous

So I recently heard you can support masters with musical bootlegs etc, does anyone know where i can get Mean Girls HD OBC recording? Specifically with Taylor as Regina

forswornseparatist:

Hey folks! I’ve seen guides on both Reddit and Twitter for understanding the Stalk Market in New Horizons, but none here, so I’m gonna (attempt) to make a brief guide under the read more:

Edit: corrected an issue with the patterns

Edit 2: Tumblr fucked up my post formatting and deleted everything below the title! Wayback machine had a copy luckily so i used that but it may be a bit weird. @ me if the post starts being fucky

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dankmemeuniversity:

good-anime-food:

dat-soldier:

hustlerose:

dat-soldier:

If i could install mods in real life i’d replace my footsteps with the mario 64 ones

shut up nerd. i would give myself 65 pound anime boobs and 10x running speed 

i mean me too but with mario 64 footsteps

crookedlynerdywriter:

*me checking my favorite tags on AO3* Ahh, yes, the serotonin harvest is bountiful this day