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Word History: The word naughty at one time was an all-purpose word similar to bad. During the 16th century one could use naughty to mean “unhealthy, unpleasant, bad (with respect to weather), vicious (of an animal), inferior, or bad in quality” (one could say “very naughtie figes” or “naughty corrupt water”). All of these senses have disappeared, however, and naughty is now used mainly in contexts involving mischief or indecency. This recalls its early days in Middle English (with the form noughti), when the word was restricted to the senses “evil, hostile, ineffectual, and needy.” Middle English noughti, first recorded in the last quarter of the 14th century, was derived from nought, which primarily meant “nothing” but was also used as a noun meaning “evil” and as an adjective meaning such things as “immoral, weak, useless.” Thus naughty, in a sense, has risen from nothing, but its fortunes used to be better than they are at present.

viereckige-augen:

purplesarah:

m-x:

(annyira nem jó, mint az Insurrectionary Manifesto Generator)

The illusion of post-capitalist hegemony invests itself in the discourse of the gendered body.

The illusion of agency recapitulates the invention of the gaze.

The illusion of pop culture opens a space for the systemization of the nation-state.

ledgergermane:

• It is often overlooked, but the Marshall Plan executed after the second world war may have been the largest humanitarian exercise in the history of the planet. The allied armies decided to put Europe back together. Military forces had, and have, the tools and proper organisation to help reconstruct the very things they have destroyed. Imagine if all services were asked to recover the living biosphere of our planet which we know is compromised. The Earth is the only stage for life that we have.
• After years of thinking I have conceived of important missions matched to a corresponding capability for each branch of service. The army would properly reforest and clean the fresh water sources. The navy would control over-fishing and recycle the ocean waste. The marines would tend the shorelines and restore the coral reefs and wetland areas. Then the air forces would sense the environment from above and detect polluters while also having the instant mass transport of rescue villages for all the displaced refugees likely to surface during climate change.
• The many national guard units would reconstruct the countryside with the assistance of the youth to bring nature back to her fullness for a more decentralised and sustainable world.
• The corporations would all shift 30 degrees to the green. Global villages and the internet will become our worldwide exchange system, and former power centres will just be support services. The world is already one culture. Countries are obsolete and have been for 30 years.

• Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search engines, while 38 percent use it to pass the time.
• researchers found that readers were better able to understand, remember and emotionally respond to material found through “searching” compared to content found while “surfing.”
• these data suggest the cognitive and emotional impact of online content is greatest when acquired by searching,
• The researchers found that unpleasant content triggered greater emotional responses when readers sought the information by searching rather than surfing. In future studies, (they) will study the effects of acquiring pleasant content on readers’ emotional responses.
• “Messages that meet readers’ existing informational needs elicit stronger emotional reactions.”
• information was better understood and remembered when individuals conducted specific searches for information

Applies to life in general as well.  Searching beats the hell out of surfing, every time.  And obsessive searching?  That’s just surfing while searching.