“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
- George Iles
Example: the Gender Binary, or notion that there are only two genders. This is a poorly fitting model that came up before we had biology to show there are many human sexes, and history/psychology/sociology/anthropology to show us that there have always been multiple genders throughout communities worldwide.
The gender binary is like the flat earth - it makes sense based on superficial observation, but as soon as you go out into the real world and do some studies, you see that your theory was false and based on an OPTICAL ILLUSION.
“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
- George Iles
Example: the Gender Binary, or notion that there are only two genders. This is a poorly fitting model that came up before we had biology to show there are many human sexes, and history/psychology/sociology/anthropology to show us that there have always been multiple genders throughout communities worldwide.
The gender binary is like the flat earth - it makes sense based on superficial observation, but as soon as you go out into the real world and do some studies, you see that your theory was false and based on an OPTICAL ILLUSION.
“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
- George Iles
Example: the Gender Binary, or notion that there are only two genders. This is a poorly fitting model that came up before we had biology to show there are many human sexes, and history/psychology/sociology/anthropology to show us that there have always been multiple genders throughout communities worldwide.
The gender binary is like the flat earth - it makes sense based on superficial observation, but as soon as you go out into the real world and do some studies, you see that your theory was false and based on an OPTICAL ILLUSION.
#SaveTheTrees
I feel like an important message is trying to be communicated to me but I have no idea what it is
Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! This is super useful for so many things, especially paper production! In addition, hemp takes in carbon dioxide 4x as fast as trees do, which makes it especially valuable in the act of reducing CO2 emissions/greenhouse gases! 🌲🌲🌲 source
#the scope of the anti-hemp conspiracy in the united states is terrifying once you start doing research tbh#like it was initially smeared/banned bc lumber lobbyists pushed for it to be…#and a major smear tactic was to associate it with black people#who now a hundred years later are the ones primarily being imprisoned for it#and the plant itself has now been inextricably linked to the drug so people won’t even allow for it to be grown for commercial purposes#like paper making (via literallyfuckeveryone)
Important reminder that industrial hemp can’t be used as a recreational drug, so if anyone tries to pull that card you can just stop them then and there. There are no real arguments against using industrial hemp, even if you’re rigidly against the legalization of any recreational drugs.
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I never see pro-hemp on my dash, woo!
Usually the argument on why you can’t have hemp is because then people will hide marijuana in it.
yeah, sure…. if they want shitty, shitty marijuana.
It would be like growing sweet corn and dent corn together. Yeah, they look similar at a distance and they’re closely related, but you don’t want them next to each other as they’ll cross pollinate and you’ll end up with bad versions of both.
Same deal here. a patch of marijuana grown in an open field of hemp IS going to get contaminated and it’ll lower quality of BOTH crops. Your hemp farmer doesn’t want that and if likely going rip out any patches trespassers try to add for same reason.
and the big issue is not even the THC content. Because most quality marijuana is intended to be grown indoors or greenhouses, its a dwarf variety. Short. Fiber hemp is bred for height so as to maximize fiber production. super tall. It’s going to be really obvious, really fast if you’ve got both in the same field even before you get to the point of pollination. what’s this runty bullshit doing in my field?
They also have different growing needs with regards to spacing, harvest time, etc. so the argument that you can hide marijuana in industrial hemp fields are basically bullshit.
anyway… aside from paper, hemp fiber can also be used to make earthquake resistant concrete that’s actually LIGHTER than conventional concrete while being stronger. It’s better at resisting flexing or warping, so ideal for stuff like bridges and highway supports as it’ll better resist large temperature swings and vibration. (”hempcrete” is slightly different, but makes great fire resistant insulation)
You can also use the waste after fiber harvest for animal fodder, including silage. Comparable to corn. and remember, that’s the waste after you’ve harvested for fiber!
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Things were so much simpler before women started stealing all of my favorite things from me. I don’t care what anyone says. Women aren’t and will never be true fans of Doctor Who, Star Trek or any of that. You jumped in because you wanted attention. You became “fans” because suddenly liking sci-fi shows and fantasy became popular. You only want guys to drool over you because you’re girls who “like” geeky stuff. Kindly go jump in a lake and die.
A woman organized the letter-writing campaign to NBC to save Star Trek when it was on the verge of being cancelled after the first season, and thus enabled the show to continue on for three seasons allowing it to go into syndication and gain the following it did in reruns.
A woman organized the first ever Star Trek convention, and convinced NASA to donate a truckload full of stuff for said convention thus starting the tradition of Star Trek conventions featuring space for modern science.
A woman greenlit Star Trek while acting at the head of a major studio, and consistently fought pressure to cancel the show. This same woman was the person who greenlit Mission Impossible and was the first woman to head a major studio.
A woman wrote many of the most famous TOS episodes, and went on to write on to write episodes of The Animated Series, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine.
Learn your history.
You think women stole your favorite things? If it weren’t for women, those things wouldn’t even exist, but you probably don’t even know the names of the women who made that possible.
So much for “infinite diversity in infinite combinations”…
Who is the fake now?
i’m just laughing so hard right now bc it’s hitting me that there are geek guys who think that women would actually pretend to like this stuff to cater to guys. like it never really occurred to me the depths of how absolutely fucking stupid that idea is. ”we appear to have common interests but you still don’t like me so that must mean we don’t actually have common interests and you are not a real fan”. oh my god i just can’t right now. i want to feel offended by the fact that there is an idiot out there trying to tell me what i can and cannot like but i’m just too busy laughing.
Also, a lot of the current fandom terminology we take for granted originated in the Star Trek fandom, specifically Star Trek fanfic. And who were the major driving force behind Star Trek fanfic? Women.
Earliest spec fic texts in the English-speaking Western world were written by Thomas More (Utopia), Lady Margaret Cavendish (the Blazing World), and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). Note that there are two women among those names.
I am so sick of these Fake Geek Guys who don’t even understand the history of the fandom they claim to want to protect.
Yeah, it’s always guys like this who believe the myth of the ‘fake geek girl.’ Guys so inept at human communication that they must cling to the idea that girls are SO DESPERATE for his attention that they devote days of their lives and a ton of money to cosplay/attend cons/staff cons/read comics/play MTG/play video games.
There’s cheaper and easier ways to meet guys a hell of a lot better than this doofus. Assuming, of course, that you’re interested in meeting guys. So many of the geeks I know aren’t… Inclined in that direction.
Trek was saved by women. It was the fan conventions and the fan zines and the FANFIC AND FANART that convinced the studios to greenlight the movies. That convinced them to greenlight the series. Also, the original producer of Doctor Who was a woman as well. We have always been there. They just chose to believe our contributions were unimportant.
A woman also executive produced the first two seasons of Doctor Who, specifically selected by the show’s creator. She fought for the first Dalek script, which BBC management did not want to produce.
If it weren’t for Verity Lambert, Doctor Who would have lasted the thirteen weeks it was expected to, and OP would be TheOncomingAbsolutelyNothing.
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