Meet the yeti crab, a creature so unusual that a whole new biological family had to be created to classify it.
It was found along the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, 1,500 kilometres south of Easter Island at a depth of 2,200 metres living on hydrothermal vents. As a result of analysis based on morphology and molecular data, the organism was deemed to form a new biological family (Kiwaidae). But, a lot else remains an enigma and much more is to be discovered. We do know that yeti crabs lack pigmentation in the eye and are hence thought to be blind. Also of interest, their fluffy pincers have been discovered to contain filamentous bacteria which may be involved in a chemosynthetic relationship with the organism. It is suggested that these bacteria may detoxify some of the poisonous minerals emanating from the hydrothermal vents.
whats wrong with you? you got some sort of……..some sorta syndrome? you got a syndrome or something? youre tryna tell me youve got like, a syndrome
[goes to doctor]: whats wrong with me doc. tell me the ‘prognosis’ doctor: well, its looking as if you have some kind of syndrome [thinking] hmm.. thats not good
i diagnose you with symptoms syndrome
sorry to say but it seems you’ve got problems disorder
accepting criticism means listening to what a person is telling you, thinking critically about it, and then making a judgment about what it is you’ve been told.
accepting criticism does not mean 100% always agreeing with the criticism people give you and it does not always mean automatically bowing down to what the person giving the criticism tells you you should think and do.
because the thing is that not all criticism is created equally, not all criticism is valid. criticism is not always based in empiracle evidence or sound reasoning, it is not always given in good faith, and people who give criticism are prone to being fallible and wrong the same way all people are because people are not perfect beings who know everything about everything. there are also plenty of cases where what a person is giving criticism about is a matter of subjective opinion where a thing that one person criticizes is something that another person will applaud, meaning that it’s impossible to agree with all takes on the situation equally.
someone can accept your criticism and still ultimately fundamentally disagree with it because accepting criticism means to listen to it and give it due consideration before coming to their own judgment about what they’ve been told—-key words there being their own judgment, which might not necessarily be the same as yours because they’re not you. they have a mind of their own and the ability to use it to reach conclusions and make decisions that are not the same as the ones you would make, even with what you have to say taken into account.
your criticism is not word of God that must be automatically agreed with and obeyed without question—the people you’re criticizing should question it and they should think about it and, ultimately, whether or not they choose to agree with it is up to their own discretion based on the answers they find to the questions they’re asking.
“listen to me” is not the same thing as “obey me” and “take into consideration what i have to say” is not the same thing as “think exactly what i tell you to think because i told you to” and “accepting” criticism does not mean accepting that criticism as the One Pure Truth the second it goes from your lips to their ears.
I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children can’t stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years.
hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free
if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people
So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?
yes
And does that mean that corrective lenses should also be free, because people with good vision don’t need to pay to see clearly, and that devices to aid in mobility for people with limited mobility (from crutches to (practical) canes to wheelchairs to prosthetics) should also be free, because people who don’t have limited mobility don’t need to pay for them?
yes? why does everyone in the notes keep trying to come up with gotchas lmao everything to do with healthcare should be free
Sometimes people hit a place in their life where things are going really well. They like their job and are able to be productive at it; they have energy after work to pursue the relationships and activities they enjoy; they’re taking good care of themselves and rarely get sick or have flareups of their chronic health problems; stuff is basically working out. Then a small thing about their routine changes and suddenly they’re barely keeping their head above water.
(This happens to me all the time; it’s approximately my dominant experience of working full-time.)
I think one thing that’s going on here is that there are a bunch of small parts of our daily routine which are doing really important work for our wellbeing. Our commute involves a ten-minute walk along the waterfront and the walking and fresh air are great for our wellbeing (or, alternately, our commute involves no walking and this makes it way more frictionless because walking sucks for us). Our water heater is really good and so we can take half-hour hot showers, which are a critical part of our decompression/recovery time. We sit with our back to the wall so we don’t have to worry about looking productive at work as long as the work all gets done. The store down the street is open really late so late runs for groceries are possible. Our roommate is a chef and so the kitchen is always clean and well-stocked.
It’s useful to think of these things as load-bearing. They’re not just nice - they’re part of your mental architecture, they’re part of what you’re using to thrive. And when they change, life can abruptly get much harder or sometimes just collapse on you entirely. And this is usually unexpected, because it’s hard to notice which parts of your environment and routine are load bearing. I often only notice in hindsight. “Oh,” I say to myself after months of fatigue, “having my own private space was load-bearing.” “Oh,” after a scary drop in weight, “being able to keep nutrition shakes next to my bed and drink them in bed was load-bearing.” “Oh,” after a sudden struggle to maintain my work productivity, “a quiet corner with my back to the wall was load-bearing.”
When you know what’s important to you, you can fight for it, or at least be equipped to notice right away if it goes and some of your ability to thrive goes with it. When you don’t, or when you’re thinking of all these things as ‘nice things about my life’ rather than ‘load-bearing bits of my flourishing as a person’, you’re not likely to notice the strain created when they vanish until you’re really, really hurting.
Almost two weeks after reading this, and I’m still kind of blown away at what a ridiculously fruitful definition this is. Like I had no idea that load bearing things were a thing that needed to have a word for them, but now I’m like holy shit I’m so glad that there’s now a word I can use to refer to this really important class of Thing.
This is astounding. Load-bearing. Forget spoons, this concept is wonderful. I’m going to update my Spear Theory with this.
