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“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

—

Johann Hari,

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

(via bigfatsun)

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

Do’s and Don'ts of Designing for Accessibility

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Moments that leave an entire fandom in shock: Damian has just become the first person to whom Anya has felt honest and comfortable enough to trust her with the biggest secret that until now she had hidden from everyone for fear of being rejected and losing everything again.

Of course, Damian's reaction has been the most logical one, not believing her FOR NOW. Damian has always shown that he had suspicions about Anya having that gift, but for him it is still crazy that someone can read minds. Still, it's already canon that Damian knows her secret.

I am sure that in the future we will see Anya having a problem where she needs support and Damian realizes that she told him the truth.

A fact is a fact: Damian has become Anya's first ally, even if he didn't realize it yet.

One of the hardest parts of writing gay anything is that they (often) use the same pronouns. Balancing names and pronouns so that I'm not overusing either of them is maybe THE hardest part of writing for me, because if you use 'he' too many times in a row you'll lose track of who's doing what, but too many names is repetitive and awkward to read!

I just started watching "Apothecary diaries" and I absolutely love it.

The fact the story, a seinen, is able to have a female protagonist and not make her "Not like other girls", cool, smart but not a perfect genius, strong but not a fighter and scary....like actually SCARY without making her look down on or trying to put down other women.......AHHHHHH

Jinshi is amazing as a male lead, I haven't seen a "pathetic jealous pretty boy" since Tamaki in Ouran highschool host club.

All the side characters are well written and have their own time to shine.

And the way the story is not afraid of talking about the darker themes of the time, or sugarcoating them is really admirable.

Honestly, it has become one of my favourite shows ever.

Some late night Adrien doodles ❤ Continuation from this post

THE APOTHECARY DIARIES (2024)

// FENGXIAN (maomao's mother) //

She's strong, but she only fights in her own small world... So that's what a human face looks like. Her defiant eyes, like a balsam flower that would burst if touched.

—Lakan, E023 “Balasam and Woodsorrel”

I imagine them to be a happy family in the modern AU where Fengxian and Lakan are married and Lahan and Maomao are their children. Fengxian would be strict but she very much dotes on her kids (just not as obviously as Lakan, but who can compare with Lakan).

I feel like Lakan would be a lawyer which would put his skills to use, whereas Fengxian would be an academic in mathematics, and of course they're both super good at xiangqi and go in different ways. (I'd like to think Fengxian taught Lahan a lot of maths when he was younger and that encouraged his love for the subject).

I just now realized that they didn't animate baby maomao :( which, probably bcs of the time crunch but Rakan reaching to Maomao in this scene is honestly my favourite part of the arc

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @rosekasa !!!!!! to one of my favorite people in the fandom and in general. you are so sweet and in commemoration i drew scenes from this sweet sweet fic of yours

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20968910 

(thats a half truth, this fic actually just lives in my mind rent free,, this is kinda a gift to myself bc ive read it so many times LMAOOO)

like, all your writing is Phenomenal but THIS…………….. MAN THERES JUST SOMETHING ABOUT IT. SUCH GOOD POST REVEAL MARICHAT IM IN LOVE 

anyways you’ve officially been 18 for 49 minutes so congratulations. grown up so fast 🥺🥺 ily alizeh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN 🎂 !!

"My childhood was so awesome. Kids today don't even know!"

Isn't a flex.

It's a lament.

More people should understand that.

Why am I like this

Being a writer your brain is either

A) STUFFED TO BURSTING with ideas you have no clue what to do with or how to make them make sense

or

B) It's a black hole that devours every inkling of creativity in your cells and you are just hoping it'll consume you too

THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN