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Well, I realized I was bisexual at sports practice, so...

I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve read that the X-men are a deliberate metaphor for being LGBT+.

“ezra miller is going to be the first lgbt+ person to play a superhero!!”

i mean yes he’s going to be the first to get a solo movie but

(Also, for the record, if you ever have to choose between killing me or letting literal trillions of people die, you should kill me! Not that people expressing more-or-less this view particularly helped, but.)

http://news.mit.edu/2016/data-amazonian-piraha-language-debate-0309

It sounds like it’s currently debated.

Taken from: Philosophy Memes For Fantastic Philistines (FB)

I’m in Mock Trial and this is 100% accurate.

Holy crap “Lost Stars” just acknowledged the existence of transgender people in the Star Wars universe. And not only that, but that transition technology and procedures exist and are relatively common knowledge.

I know some people could interpret this as an anti-trans women joke, but it honestly doesn’t read that way to me. This author, Claudia Gray, could have had Dak say something very different, either overly derisive of trans people (we all know how those jokes tend to go) or responding with agreement about how cold it is and not mentioning transition at all. Instead Gray has Dak say “There are easier ways to switch genders you know.” Aka if for some reason Thane wasn’t talking about the cold, it opened up that line of conversation (Perhaps Dak’s reason for saying it within the diegesis of the story). Aka letting any trans readers know that people like them exist in the Star Wars universe in canon, even if no named trans characters have appeared yet (I don’t think they have?).

Idk, this line blew me away and made me really happy. Gray has made people like me a canon part of the Star Wars universe with this line, and not in a way that marginalizes us or treats us as freaks (at least the way I read this line) and that makes me ludicrously pleased.

That’s not quite how averages work.

There are three main types of averages: arithmetic mean (what people usually mean if they don’t specify a type), median, and mode.

The arithmetic mean is calculated by adding up all the values, and dividing by the total number of individuals measured. For instance, if ten people can speak 700 million words (this is a lot of words, way more than in any language on Earth) apiece of an alien language and no one else can speak any, this power would allow you to speak one word.

The median is calculated by ordering the values from least to greatest, then choosing the one in the middle of the list (if there are two, you take the mean of those two). If 3.5 billion people know 700 million words of the alien language, 3.5 billion people know one word, and one person knows fifteen, the median speaker knows fifteen words. This doesn’t change if the 3.5 billion people who know no words all learn fourteen words, because the speaker whose word knowledge is in the middle still knows fifteen.

The mode is the most commonly occurring value. If 2 billion people know 75,000 words, 2 billion people know 3,000 words, and 3 billion people know no words, the modal speaker knows no words. 

tl;dr: Being average will not give you superhuman abilities. If your power makes you human average, the absolute best case scenario has you as good as the best human, and that is very unlikely.

Your super power is that you are average, at everything you do.

It has literally taken me 5 hours to find 1 pair of dress pants that even sort of fit.

9 Problems with Women’s Clothing And the worst part is that clothing companies do it because they know we’ll still buy their products.  But do we have much other choice?

HEY GUYS

GUESS WHAT

Ace people are queer!!!! And in the community!!!! And VALID PEOPLE

The moral of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer is that no one likes you unless you’re useful.