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why is the entire conversation about trans men's oppression about how trans men are treated when nobody knows we're trans men

nothorses

"trans men aren't really oppressed because they get male privilege when nobody knows they're trans men" damn that's crazy. how do people treat trans men though

andiv3r

Tags from @transmascissues that I didn't want to reblog without.

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Filed under: transandrophobia

A lot of American cooking is really quite French and it has been for centuries and I used to not know that and everyone talked up French cooking so much and then I started actually looking into it and I was like. I. Cook like this. Everyone I know cooks like this. This is just butter. It’s butter, Michael. It’s butter. You were hyping up butter. I can already do this.

what-even-is-thiss

French cooking is quite good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a lot like American home cooking. Cooking with wine, butter, using a small amount of herbs, lots of meat and vegetables. Potatoes. Cream sauces. Bacon. This stuff has been in both American and French cooking since the colonial days. Home cooks read and watch a lot of things written by chefs trained in France over here. A lot of stuff my grandmother makes is quite similar to French dishes I’ve looked into. A lot of American white gravy is like French white sauce but made with cream instead of milk. A lot of soul food and comfort food over here especially southern stuff is quite French. It seems strange to me that some of these things are in five star restaraunts because like. I make stuff like this in my crock pot. Strange how much French food gets hyped up in America even though we’re basically already doing it.

what-even-is-thiss

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There’s a lot of history, politics, exploiting of the poor, and misunderstanding in what these tags are saying. And the tone indicates to me that perhaps you’re not interested in learning it.

demongoose666

I love that "Kroger's" is included as a "brand" in those tags. Kroger is a grocery store in the Midwest where you purchase food items that can be cooked into meals. Nobody says "let's have Kroger for dinner tonight!" Who are these people

what-even-is-thiss

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Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

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rowark

So basically, Dolly the sheep was an accident. They were trying to clone sheep cells, and they ended up unintentally generating an embryo, which turned out to be viable, hence we got Dolly.

The method they used proved unsuccessful in primates, and the risk of cloning primates (and thus humans) outweighs the benefits (because there really aren't any real benefits, scientifically speaking), so they don't do it.

Where it's most likely to be used is in agriculture, cloning livestock embryos.

What they use cloning for is stem cells. Cloning adult cells to create stem cells means they don't need embryonic stem cells, which is probably the most important thing that came from cloning research in the past 25 years.

The reason it was so important was that it proved that you didn't need an embryonic cell to clone live animals. The nucleus of an adult cell contains all the DNA you need to clone, because Dolly was cloned from an adult cell, which was previously unheard of. Now they know that adults cells can be reprogrammed back to an embryonic stage, and was a major breakthrough for stem cell research.

So basically, we don't hear about cloning anymore because they aren't doing anything that is so exciting it will capture the world's interest, like Dolly did. But it was a major scientific breakthrough that is still very important.

andmaybegayer

One of my favourite cloned animals is Kurt, a Przewalski's Horse who was cloned from the preserved samples from a horse that died in the 90's so that he can hopefully introduce some additional genetic diversity into the Przewalski's Horse population. Oh hey there's actually two clones of this one horse now, the second one is Ollie who was born last year. Kurt is now about four years old. Last I checked he was at the San Diego Zoo.

We don't tend to clone animals that are more common because we already have a very efficient machine for making sheep, it's called sheep.

TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that building a flying machine would be possible in 1-10 Million years.

via ift.tt

bywandandsword

To understand how ridiculous this is, the first successful powered airplane flew this same year, 1903

zipstick

You’re understating how ridiculous

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it wasn’t just the same year. it was nine days later

anarchistmemecollective

average new york times cringe fail

Things that work in fiction but not real life

  • torture getting reliable information out of people
  • knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour
  • jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact
  • calling the police to deescalate a situation
  • rafting your way off a desert island
  • correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes
  • effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else
  • ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences
  • heterosexual cowboy
orcboxer

This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.