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trying on a metaphor
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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I genuinely appreciate Sean openly talking about his struggles with things like this. It helps others remember that they are never alone in these things. I’ve had anxiety for many years. It’s gotten a bit better, but I am definitely someone who constantly over analyzes and over thinks things on a very consistent basis. @therealjacksepticeye
#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
After all, comedy is timing.
"Can you find me?"
Jesus, after coming back from the dead: hey guys it’s me Jesus, just look at the scars on my hands
Thomas, a known freak: show us the feet as well please
Happy Easter everybody
Every single Easter you monsters give me a million notes on this post
hmmm
One of their last Tweets before the account got suspended:
With an update since getting it back:
i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father
“Guys stop bullying my wiretap”
#did we all collectively forget why Big Brother was called that
OPPOSE THE FEDERAL BOOK BAN
At a time when our nation needs more civic understanding, empathy, and critical thinking, we should expand access to information, not narrow
..."EveryLibrary strongly opposes H.R. 7661 and any federal legislation that conditions education funding on restrictions about what books and materials schools may make available to students.
This bill places the federal government in the position of dictating what young people are permitted to read by threatening to withhold funding if certain viewpoints or topics appear in school collections."
Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.
I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"
I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍
Anita Bryant takes a pie to the face October 1977.
Happy Pi Day!
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
August 2015
October 2016
April 2017
July 2017
September 2018
December 2018
June 2019
February 2020
August 2020
You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
TODAY
Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:
May 2021
January 2022
October 2022
April 2023
July 2023
June 2024
February 2025
March 2025
November 2025
August 2026
If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.
I gotta take my chances
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
well…darn
like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮
I thought about doing this with Unus and Annus, but I thought Damien and Celine worked better… especially for the end
What's one "boomer take" you actually agree with (either political or non-political)?
Too many touch screens, things should be simpler and easier to repair
Things shouldn’t have to connect to the internet to function
Circuit board schematics should be attached to most hardware the way it used to be. (Washers, Fridges, Dryers, Water Heaters, etc)
No one under 16 needs a smart phone. Little kids shouldn't be wearing booty shorts or crop tops or makeup.
New software isn’t inherently better than the last version. Bells and whistles don’t matter if the core functionality of the program is negatively affected
No lies here.
Way too many bright lights and loud noises everywhere. Not everything needs to light up and play music.
I don't want to download an app or make an account and if you make me do this shit and use two factor authentication for it, I will riot
There should be a mechanical way to start machines. Especially vehicles. You should always be able to start your car by physically turning the key.
Shouldn't have to use computers for everything.
There should always be physical menus at restaurants.
A good way to know whether or not you have middle class privilege is if your family had a large stock of food staples just lying around.
I mean at any given time you’ve got a huge box of cans of tomato sauce, a huge bag of rice, a bunch of spices in your cupboard, a bunch of noodles and pasta just kicking around, and several cans of soup and frozen dinners for when you’re feeling lazy.
When one of my cousins moved out for the first time my aunt got her stocked up on staples. Flour, canned veggies, spices, sugar, rice, anything that doesn’t go bad in a few days. All that cost over $400 upfront.
After that initial investment in all that stuff though, living gets a lot cheaper. All your staples almost never run out all at once. So in one week you probably just buy some perishables like meat and veggies and maybe buy another giant bag of rice because your current one is sort of getting low.
So when people on the internet tell you that they can teach you how to make gourmet ramen for less than $3 they’re technically right but they’re also assuming that you just have a lot of these staples lying around and can afford to buy in bulk. Maybe the amount of miso paste you used only amounts to 10¢ but the entire bag cost $12.
If I only had 20$ to eat this week I’d already have a bunch of canned stuff and grains in my cupboard and I could probably afford to buy some cheap vegetables and meat. But if someone couldn’t afford to pay $400 to fill their cupboards up the first time they can’t rely on there already being rice when they only have $20 at the end of the month. They need to buy food as they want to use it. So in their situation it makes sense to buy a $1 hamburger from McDonald’s or a box of Mac n cheese and some milk to cook it with. Not vegetables that cost just as much as that box of Mac and cheese and won’t feed nearly as many people.
My dad and his siblings spent a good chunk of their childhoods being poor after their dad’s business went under and something they often tell me is that “the poor can’t afford to be thrifty.”
So anyways if you’re poor you probably already knew this but if you grew up lower to central middle class like I did you might not. And you might’ve wondered why people often get so mad in the comments of those videos that claim to make meals that cost less than a dollar. It’s because that bulk bag of rice from Costco you’re pulling from costs way more than a dollar and those videos don’t take that into account. They assume that everyone watching can afford to be thrifty.
Spices, too.
A lot of cheap stuff can be made to taste absolutely amazing if you already have a variety of spices laying around.
I swear by the dollar store’s $1 garlic powder, black pepper, lemon juice, sugar, and soy sauce (hit all the main flavor groups for a month for $5) but being able to casually use smoked paprika, nutmeg, or oregano adds a lot of morale. Higher quality spices are more expensive up front, but you can also use less of them.
I’ve never had someone buy stuff in bulk for me like that, but I definitely grew up with staples in the cupboard as a kid. Potatoes, noodles, rice, flour, etc. and cans of vegetables, and a decent spice cabinet.
So, I started this blog back in college because it was my first time being confronted with exactly how much money and work went into having to feed yourself, without that assumption of “oh I’ll just microwave a potato and season it” to fall back on. The first time I didn’t have a vehicle, and had to haul my groceries back on a bus, and only had space for a mini-fridge to store perishables.
My first paychecks went into getting that stockpile back - spices, noodles, rice. - it makes choosing where your money goes a lot less stressful when you don’t have to worry “what if I can’t eat this week” by choosing to pay a bill instead of betting groceries. There’s always butter noodles or plain rice.
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I like eating nice food. I REALLY like making my own food.
I also think a lot of chefs and food bloggers (and myself at times) forget that high quality food and cooking is locked behind some impressive paywalls.
The cost of pots and pans.
Of spices, and accessibility of ingredients when you don’t have a vehicle or live in a food desert.
The cost of TIME.
I love that op is spelling all this out; hell, that they’re even *admitting* it is a step we all know that many middle class (and above) people have a huge blind spot about. If you can’t make that initial big-ass food investment, then you’ll never get ahead enough to make thrifty investments later.
on the other end of this hoLY SHIt Im poor 🤦♂️
...I just realized that I've moved house multiple times and I'm pretty sure that while doing so we've also moved food staples at least half the time
It's the Vimes boots theory.
Being able to do a Costco run (or equivalent) and get a bunch of basics makes life so much easier, but it's not an option available to a lot of people. They don't have the money to buy all of that stuff upfront, or the space to store it, or the means to transport it from the store to their home.
And it's not just food. It's all sorts of everyday items. Being able to buy three big things of toilet paper or kleenex because the store is having a big sale, then not having to buy either again for at least two months. Being able to grab school supplies when they're on sale because lined paper doesn't go bad and the kids are going to use them eventually.
Did someone say the Vimes Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness?
“Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of ok for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” -Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms
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