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[toastbutteregg]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[too-schoolforcool]

Im sorry that last line just sent me 😂

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[eleanorreadsandwritesromantasy]

At this point literally anything helps.

[mango-mingi]

For my upcoming mid terms, semi finals and finals. Please.

[kimlockholmes]

Eh fuck it let’s do this not like i’m gonna lose anything anyways

[meme-lord-santa]

[doe-eyed-des-deactivated2023082]

[drexelian]

hey, uh. what the shit

[charlesoberonn]

[rongzhi]

A woman wearing Chinese armor

[rainofthestarlight]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

op renovated the bedroom where her parents had lived for thirty years by 在逃许师傅

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Babe wake up, Kirby v. Azula dropped.

[fravery]

Roland Ruocco (United States) Sunburst

[sleepy-bebby]

[dankxsinatra]

Elephants have learned highway robbery

[insomniac-arrest]

late night cashiers at 24-hour convenience stores are the holders of our greatest secrets and most intimate selves

[insomniac-arrest]

not my mom, not my partner, not God himself has seen me no-make up in line to buy a choco-pop and panty liners while on the brink of a heart felt meltdown

no one has given me the empty stare of complete indifference that fills my anxious nerves with relief

there is nothing like the sweet freedom of complete nihilism experienced at a 7/11 at 2am, God lives in church, the randomness of the unfeeling universe lives at aisle 9 of CVS 

[insomniac-arrest]

did y’all ever see the comic someone made of this?

It was cool

[professional-poser]

vibes holy shit

[geekysteven]

Source

[swordseer]

I think about this all of the time

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

in my room on a saturday evening talking to myself like this

[ghibligif]

[noctumsolis]

Nobody’s going to get me to drink something that moves like that.

[quasi-normalcy]

That’s the most viscous, high-surface-tension “tea” I’ve ever seen.

[quasi-normalcy]

Oh, holy shit, this is from The Secret World of Arrietty, isn’t it? Never mind, this is actually brilliant! The tea behaves like water droplets because the people are tiny and the fluid properties of liquid don’t scale down. This is an impressive level of attention to detail.

[stone-stars]

[ID: A gif from an animated movie of someone pouring tea into tea cups. The tea comes from the kettle in a viscous single drop with high surface tension.]

[punkbread]

just had a flashback to me in 3rd grade absolutely blissed out just staring at this pic

[hombredeflorida]

[oldschoolfrp]

Your earliest ancestors would agree.  Fitting all the landforms into one picture results in multiple different biomes in close proximity.  Humans often traditionally settled in ecotones, the areas where biomes meet and overlap, precisely because there are more diverse resources there and it’s a shorter trip to find even more.  The more biomes nearby, the better.  It is advantageous to our survival to seek out these places.

Don’t worry too much if your fantasy or sci-fi world winds up looking like this, just because you wanted your characters to be able to visit different environments.  They might prefer it that way.

[theweirdwideweb]

[astronicht]

Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!

[elierlick]

I think about this a lot.

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

Source: ‘The math checks out. In 2019, the median annual earning for women was $47,299. For men, it was $57,546. Averaged together, that’s about $52,423.The cost of the average home in the same time was $377,700. That is about 14 percent of the median salary.’

[hamletthedane]

As of Oct 2022, the median annual earnings for women in the United States was $50,492 (extrapolated by multiplying weekly earnings by 52 weeks). For men, it was $60,528. Average together, that’s about $55.640. The average purchase price of a home in the United States during Q3 of 2022 was $542,900.

The average salary in the US is now about 10.2% of the cost of a home.

[hamletthedane]

But that’s not even the whole story, because “income earned” means pre-tax income, and mortgage payments are not tax deductible unless you itemize (which people w/ average salaries do not do bc it’s usually less than the standard deduction).

In 1936, following FDR’s income tax hikes, the median annual salary for a single person was $830, taxed at 4% Income + 1% Social Security. The take-home median pay was therefore ~$790. The average home value was $4,766. So take-home pay was about 16.5% of home cost in 1936.

In Oct 2022, taxes are a bit more complicated. Assuming you take the standard deduction, file single, and only pay federal income tax, the take-home pay from a salary of $55,640 is about $51,584.

(Using H&R Block’s 2022 tax estimator)

So really, the average take-home pay is now 9.5% of the average home price.

Meanwhile, the person earning $2M/yr in 2022 would end up taking home at least $1,289,600. He is taxed at 35.3% of his earnings. The person earning the inflation-adjusted equivalent of in 1936 (~$95,000) would be taxed at 60% of his earnings.

Tl;dr: It’s an even more dire situation than that tweet suggests. Taxes on the middle class have skyrocketed, taxes on the ultra-rich have been slashed in half, and housing is nearly twice the ratio to income earned that it was in the middle of the Great Depression.