I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie
Ok but the other one is purring so hard
If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead
Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) – they are still classified as Lesser Cats.
Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.
I successfully identified an actor in “Buffy” as Canadian on the basis of his pronunciation of the word “sorry.”
Where did Angel get trousers after coming back from the hell dimension?
Principal Snyder, under the influence of enchanted band candy: “Whoa, Summers, you drive like a spazz!”
The Band Candy episode is EPIC. Giles & Joyce!!! OH YES!
It is a classic. And, surprisingly, not written by Joss… though he did write the parallel episode of “Angel” where everyone reverts to their teenage selves (“Spin the Bottle”).
I like many of his ideas, though of course not all. What I dealt with in my dissertation was mostly his views on epistemology and the philosophy of science, and there’s a lot of good stuff there. Even some of his most apparently appalling ideas (such as the noble vs. slave morality stuff) can’t be dismissed out of hand when you think about them the way he did: from the perspective of someone who took a very long view of history and the history of philosophy. Philosophers aren’t only worth engaging with if you think they were right about everything; they’re worth engaging with if they pose a serious challenge to the things you had taken for granted.
Few modern philosophers have been misinterpreted as badly and as widely as Nietzsche. Some of that was deliberate distortion on the part of his Nazi sister (whose German-nationalist and antisemitic ideas he repudiated in print while he was still capable of doing so); some of it is a consequence of his intentionally esoteric writing style. That’s not to say that his ideas aren’t radical and potentially dangerous if understood correctly; they are. Just maybe not in the obvious way.
been seeing a lot of variations on this take recently – it’s one of the most common pro-immigrant sentiments and also one of the worst – the line that says we should welcome migrant workers because working class Australian/British/US etc citizens are too spoilt or lazy or consider themselves too good to do those jobs.
Like it comes from a (sort of) well meaning place, they’re often trying to say that migrants aren’t criminals or lazy or whatever… but aside from valuing people according to their productive ‘worth’, valourising menial, difficult work as some kind of moral virtue and attacking working class people for not being exploited enough, the most important thing missing from that take is the reasons why working class citizens don’t do these jobs.
But somehow it always gets framed in terms of working class people’s choices – what the migrant is “willing to do” and what the American won’t. Poor migrants can’t choose more attractive work, and the working class citizens can’t “choose” to work for less than minimum wage. It’s the bosses who make the choice, it’s about what they are “willing to do”. This is how they want it.
Loki is the Philosopher King 