Dick: aw cmon timmys just a little guy

Bruce: im sure he had his reasons

Alfred: im certain you'll find that master tim is quite reasonable. He wouldn't do anything outrageous

Barbara: tim isnt stupid. Im sure this is all part of his plan

Literally anyone else gesturing at tims entire vigilante career:

officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up

some people understood this post. some people revealed themselves to be feds

Highlights

• The common notion that extreme poverty is the “natural” condition of humanity and only declined with the rise of capitalism rests on income data that do not adequately capture access to essential goods.
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered.
• Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began only around the 20th century. These gains coincide with the rise of anti-colonial and socialist political movements.

Sullivan, D., & Hickel, J. (2023). Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century. World development, 161, 106026.

fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

My brother and I trying to piece together our dad’s life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again

When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were “I told them they shouldn’t have hanged that woman. Well by damn they’re paying now” and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means

My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, “Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she’ll be fine.” Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.

No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.

reposting a favorite reddit moment of mine since god knows if ill ever see it again

[Judgement intensifies]

wild how much fatphobia completely does away with so many things typically regarded as aspects of male privilege

"men's clothing sizes are simple and easy both to navigate and to find" unless they're fat

"men don't have to deal with street harassment" unless they're fat

"men don't deal with groping and nonconsensual touching from strangers" unless they're fat

"doctors take men's health problems seriously and their pain is seen as real" unless they're fat

"systemic infrastructure like medical research, crash testing, etc, is all based on men's bodies, so men get a world that's literally made for them" Unless They're Fat

That’s because one of the functions of fatphobia is de-gendering. Being fat makes you less man and less woman. Because being fat makes you less human. Like for the same reason why fat women’s clothes is always hyperfeminine because you have to be performing gender that much harder to be treated like your gender. Fat men have to as well, and there’s a clear difference between how ppl treat fat men who are hypermasculine presenting (beard, lumberjack outfit, ykwim) than like softer looking fat men.

honestly

I’m high as shit and I’m just carrying around this lantern like a fucking guardsman

tags from @cromerholt

2003: It sounds incredible, but in the future whole webpages full of images and videos will load in the blink of an eye.

2023: It sounds incredible, but text-only news articles used to load in the blink of an eye.