the mocha is back at my local McDonald's. this is a small victory, but it is one nonetheless
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the mocha is back at my local McDonald's. this is a small victory, but it is one nonetheless
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what effect is this supposed to have on me
I don't want him to lose. I want him to win. (well, want is a strong word here, we'll get to that.) but I'm also cognizant of the fact that he has to earn votes, and he can't earn votes just by being not Donald Trump anymore. not when tens of thousands of people have been killed recently, largely by American-made hardware.
here's a question. when being given a choice between an openly wannabe despot who should have died of a cocaine-induced heart attack fifteen fucking years ago and the kind old man who has done an end-run around congress more than once to supply a genocide, in what fucking universe do I believe that's "my" voice?
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kind of a fucked time to be an american. or just alive in general i guess
for about two months now israel has been pushing palestinians further south in gaza towards rafah, at some point outright saying "go to rafah to be safe". over a million people did. and then israel bombed them too, over a hundred dead already. with weapons almost certainly including those we sold them. well, "sold". a lot of aid to israel comes in the form of money that they have to use to buy US military weapons and services. israel called the bombing (initially, anyway) a "distraction" from an operation to rescue hostages. how many? two.
speaking of distractions, there was a football game last night. how many millions of dollars go into short films to be played during this one night. a hundred people died. the president posted a fucking meme about the goddamn game, and a hundred people died.
what the fuck are we supposed to do about this? (there's an answer.) this was supposed to be the not-evil administration, and yet here we are. thing about politics is that it really doesn't matter how much good you do, if you post a laser-eyes dark brandon meme about rigging the super bowl while israel is bombing well over a million people using weapons they "bought" with our tax dollars, that is what people will remember.
Okay, so: there's a local restaurant whose online ordering process involves various selecting various sauces to be included with one's order â so many units of teriyaki sauce, so many units of hot sauce, so may units of peanut sauce, and so forth.
The idea is supposed to be that you can select any combination of sauces you want, as long as it adds up to no more than four units. However, what the app actually required is that you select exactly four units of sauces; it wouldn't let you submit the ordering form if the total wasn't exactly four.
Just today I discovered that they seem to have fixed it... not by correcting the errant validation rule, but by adding a "no sauce" option, which counts toward the required total of four.
Thus, it's now possible to place an order with, say, two units of teriyaki sauce rather than four by entering 2x "teriyaki sauce" and 2x "no sauce". Similarly, an order with no sauce at all is 4x "no sauce".
This is quite possibly the least intuitive ordering process I've ever encountered, and I've literally worked in e-commerce.
I once had an online ordering experience where they were selling a 12 pack of cookies, but within that pack you had to select each cookie individually. But the thing is that there was only one type of cookie to choose from. So it was just clicking "chocolate chip cookie" over and over again 12 times in a row.
I have to imagine that it was just an artifact of previously having had more than one cookie option and just never changing how it was set up, but it was still bizarre to see.
One place I shopped at had one item listed, and if you wanted a different item, you'd order the one item and put the item you actually wanted in the special instructions field.
Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.
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You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit âam I the asshole?â posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.
Like, if you see a Reddit post titled âAm I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?â, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: âI (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think itâs too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like sheâs going to cheat on me now that weâre married. Iâve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didnât want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldnât take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldnât have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked sheâd have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that werenât sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?â
Similarly, whenever you see a headline like âWoman Wins Millions From McDonaldâs Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hotâ, if you dig a bit, youâll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonaldâs was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old womanâs lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonaldâs for her medical costs, and McDonaldâs refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonaldâs had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonaldâs two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the womanâs medical costs.
I think itâs largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but donât know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous âhow could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?â case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that thatâs all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isnât. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones.Â
Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of yâall automatically siding with McDonaldâs over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because âhurr durr dumb kid didnât know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lolâ, I will grab that McBoot youâre licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.
Hey btw, this goes for the Panera lemonade thing too. Iâm already seeing articles with headlines like âCaffeinated lemonade turns out to contain caffeineâ, which is a truly incredible level of spin, seeing as the issue is that Panera fucking killed people. Their products were so deceptively labeled that multiple people who were actively attempting to carefully monitor their caffeine intake still mistakenly drank a lemonade which had more caffeine in it than any energy drink on the market. Do not let a handful of carefully crafted PR one-liners about âunderlying conditionsâ and âwhat did they think charged meantâ turn the narrative on this into a wankfest of victim blamey bullshit. The facts of the case are utterly damning, and the money and effort that Panera is pouring into smearing the victims is as appalling as it is predictable.
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