ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴢᴍᴏᴢ

This is not a serious blog. Well, semi-serious. It's mostly just me rambling, ranting and panicking about the happenings of the world and how I feel, how I think and how I react to them personally. Be warned that there is a high chance my posts aren't 100% accurate and probably won't have any citations either (although, I'm feeling quite academic as of late), but I do use common sense (duh!). Ready to watch the world collapse in on itself together?

[cozmoz]

Random Tid-Bit

If you have GERD or problems with heartburn, acid reflux...

Try eating dinner before 6PM, and sleep at around 9-10PM. This helps and allows the food to fully digest within the stomach and travel throughout your digestive tract, making it harder to come back up into the esophagus!

[fromthecrypt]

tumblr polls have amplified the human need to vote on things. this place just became the roman senate

[cozmoz]

LMFAO

All the Andrew Tate fan's laughing and pointing at Greta Thunberg for being arrested.

Here's the difference though:

Greta is trying to save the world with her activism. At the time, Greta was protesting in Germany against a coal mining expansion and it's plans to demolish an active village.

Whereas, Andrew Tate was FOUND and arrested in Romania on charges of Rape and Human Trafficking, which is a pretty serious charge to me. Let's not also forget, Andrew Tate is the one that moving to Romania is "40% the reason" why he moved there. Because it's easier to get off Rape Charges in Romania than it is in the UK, and, he also said,

"I’m not a f****** rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want. I like being free."

So, what's the difference? Greta is actually doing something that could benefit the entire world by teaching it's inhabitants how to prolong human life. While Andrew Tate is being a mysoginistic bastard, really does nothing for our planet, really has no purpose in life than to drag and shit on women because boohoo, wah, wah.

Just want to point out, Andrew Tate fans, that no one is laughing with you when you're laughing and pointing at Greta Thunberg. We're laughing AT you, because you're all stupid as fuck, following a weird ass mysoginistic 30-something year old man, thinking that what he spews is so "based" and "woke", when it's absolutely not. Read the fucking room.

Honestly, I hope more women (and men who hate Andrew Tate, cause I know there's quite a handful) are trained in self defense (or at least know how to give a good punch), because I'd like to see some of these dumb fucks slapped so hard they go crying to their momma's asking to be held and coddled.

[cozmoz]

Oh, man!

I reached 10 reblogs! What does this even mean, though.

[cozmoz]

To HYBE Entertainment

I have an idea, that could probably do really for hybe, and thats picking up old idol groups and soloists and putting them back into popularity again. Like 2ne1, 4minute, etc. etc.

They can even make a sub/branch under the company and name it the ressurection label, or the legendaries label.

Yes? No?

[cozmoz]

I will say this

I watched Selena's documentary, and how everyone seemed to dislike Raquel on an astronomical level. To the best of my ability, I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, but she is EXTREMELY two-faced.

At one point in the video, where Selena and Raquel are off to the side in Kenya speaking privately, Selena expresses her desire to stay to help the citizens and the students further in their education. Raquel disagrees with this and even goes further to say that this is not Selena's "reality", or whatever the hell that means.

In another part of the video, towards the end when Selena and Raquel are on the couch playing cards(?), Selena reads off a card and says, "Do you believe everyone has a calling and if you do, do you think I've found mine?" Raquel answers, yes, I believe people have calling, I think you know what yours is, but you don't always choose to walk in it. I think that you know that feel you and give you purpose in life that make you happy, but I don't think you always choose that." To which, Selena responds with, "That's probably just my self-sabotage."

No. It's not self sabotage.

This is a very simple case of who you're hanging out with and who is holding you back. Selena *KNEW* what her calling was back in Kenya. That's why she always mentions that she left her heart in Kenya. Kenya opened her eyes, and Kenya really helped her connect with people who she related to. Selena doesn't relate to Raquel in any form or fashion. In fact, Raquel is holding Selena back from what Selena actually wants to do in her own life.

Selena, you're not self-sabotaging yourself. It's the people around you that don't share, respect or even see your dreams and goals of what you want to accomplish. You surround yourself with people who don't see eye to eye with you and thus, this makes you feel trapped, like you don't have control of what you want to do because people feed it into your head that what you want, what would love to do is not right for you.

I swear, if she just cuts Raquel out of her life, end the friendship or whatever professional relationship they have, she'd feel a lot happier. Surround yourself with people who love you and who would want to see you succeed and reach for the stars. Don't surround yourself with people who want to keep below the ground.

[cozmoz]

Petition For Selena Gomez

This is my unofficial petition for Selena Gomez to go back to school and earn a Psychology degree in either as a therapist, counselor or a psychologist.

I feel like that's her calling, and why stick to one career when you could have multiples as different phases in your life?

[cozmoz]

Condescending.

You know what's really condescending and disrespectful? Being talked to like a fucking five year old when you are damn well over twenty one. I'll give you a scenario that just happened 3 minutes ago that made my blood boil and my night ruined.

I'm in the bathroom, getting ready for the night, washing my face. I hear a knock of the door and the call of my name. I answer, "Yeah?" It's my mother, and she speaks to me through the door. "Do you have the box of threads and sewing bag?" Me, with a face full of suds, eyes closed and sort of discombobulated. "Uh? I think -- I think so. I'm not sure, let me finish up and get it for you." She says, "Okay." Walks away and then says something to me in the form of a question but I didn't hear her and I didn't bother to say, "What was that?" because I'm getting out anyway.

After rising my face and drying myself off, I head towards my bedroom and gather together all the sewing materials I used for SEWING and went downstairs to hand them off to my mom. I see her and she has that look of irritation and annoyance. As someone who has experienced her outbursts, I'm immune to this and say, "Here ya go, this should be everything."

As I'm about to turn around to head back upstairs, she grabs the sewing scissors (which were new by the way, we never had sewing scissors and always used regular scissors), looks at them then looks at me. "What did you use these scissors for?" I was a bit taken aback and confused and answer, "Um? Fabric? That's what they're used for, right? Fabric? For sewing?" I was so confused and my mom look at me hesitatingly and was replied, "These are fabric scissors and only meant for fabric, not paper or anything else as they can dull the blades."

I stood there almost flabbergasted because:

1. I'm not 5 years old.

2. The tone was condescending.

3. I took a full year of fashion class and probably know more about sewing than my mom.

I chuckled and shook my head. "Yes, I know what Fabric scissors are. They're for fabric, aren't they? I learned that in fashion class." I said as a matter of factly.

I mean, fuck. Should I have fucked around and say no, I used them to cut paper and make cute little arts and crafts and show them to my mommy and daddy what I created, like I'm in kindergarten? I'm 25 years old. I know what Fabric scissors are, and I know what they are for and what they aren't for. I'm not 5.

...And you're welcome, by the way, Mom. For bringing you the sewing shit since you didn't say thank you since you were so fucking worried about me using the fabric scissors wrong. Jesus fucking christ.

[cozmoz]

Hottest Take: Black Swan

Just listened to Black Swan for the first time. Watched both the music videos and the Live shows, and I gotta say...

Their singing is -- not up to par. I'm sorry, like, I'm terribly sorry. Especially live with Leia's and Fatou's vocals. Fatou's rapping is all right (which is also a shame, because like, they gave her the shittiest lines to rap), but their vocals aren't it? Leia just sounds -- bland. She's beautiful, incredibly beautiful, but the physical can only do so much. I will say, though, Youngheun's vocals are pretty pleasing to hear. I wouldn't be surprised seeing her go solo somewhere down the road.

Such a shame though, it's nice to see somewhat of an extensive diversity. Fatou would've been great in another group that has a more stable vocal capacity. Most of the girl's sound like they're singing/talking. Not much vibrato, spice, or anything unique. I don't know if they're seeing a vocal coach, but extensive lessons would make this group truly shine.

The music video style and the songs are very much giving me early 2016 vibes. The songs also sound extremely wonky and unpleasant to the ear. The vocals and sounds don't go together, it's just this smorgasbord of something that I don't even know what to call it.

...in conclusion, it - weirdly enough - gives me secondhand embarrassment and i don't know why.

I was hoping to get into them too, but this is where I leave the party early.

Sorry, Luminas! I have no other subtle way of saying it. I'm so, so sorry.

[cozmoz]

@ Microsoft. Windows Update KB5005539 SLOWED MY SHIT DOWN SO FUCKING BAD. FIX YOUR SHIT.

I had to manually uninstall this fucking update. my laptop is brand-new, up to date in terms of specs and everything. i have adequate internet as well. TELL ME WHY, THIS UPDATE WAS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD, WHICH I DID DOWNLOAD AND MY LAPTOP STARTED SLOWING DOWN LIKE WINDOWS 95 ON A VIRUS. Please, @microsoft fix your shit. If it ain't working, even just a little, don't make it available for people to download. The hell? without this update, my laptop is working a lot better now, and fast, just the way it fucking should be. i'm not downloading this update. sorry, bye.

[cozmoz]

Please shed more light on the Pink Tax

I didn't even know that Pink Tax was a thing until my early 20s. I remember reading it somewhere in college about how most hygiene products, apparel, toys catered to females are priced higher than they are for males.

Which is sort of beyond me. Why are we (females) getting taxed a lot more than males? Is it because of the color of the products? The weight, size of the products being imported? If so, why?

I think it is EXTREMELY unfair and unequal for females to pay for necessary products for everyday life to spend A LOT MORE than males and their necessities. Such as razors and hygiene products. Below are some links on the topic I mentioned, which are super helpful!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-billie-m-a-p-g/pg-billie-terminate-planned-merger-after-u-s-ftc-challenge-idUSKBN29A1RA

https://www.investopedia.com/pink-tax-5095458#citation-18

https://bush.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/V6-3-Tariff-Discrimination-Takeaway.pdf

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[cozmoz]

Honestly. All day, everyday.

[cozmoz]

Stop teaching your children to share.

Realistically, the grown-up world isn't going to freely share their things with other people. Forcing your children to share with other children won't accomplish anything, and instead, teaches your child not to be an individual, confident human being. By teaching, sharing is caring, you are forcing your child to share their things with other children they don't know, and allowing OTHER children that it's OKAY to ask for things and be given to. That's not how the world works.

Instead, teach your children how to say 'no' when they don't want to share. It builds individuality, character and confidence. It also teaches children who want to borrow your child's things that not everything is going to be handed to them freely. Stop doing that shit. Please. Your child shouldn't have to share their toys if they don't want to.

Sharing is NOT caring, because children who want what you really have don't give a fucking shit about you. Truth be told.

[shortysquadpresident]

First and foremost I want to reiterate that I am by no means a stan of Trisha Paytas. I’m aware of the problematic things they say and do and don’t condone or want to dismiss any of that. That being said, they were not the one at fault in this situation and I’m not going to sit by and let Ethan get away with emotional manipulation and gaslighting. These were my point-by-point thoughts as I was watching his vid.

Ethan complaining about the production of Frenemies as though he isn’t running A PRODUCTION COMPANY LMFAO

Trish was maybe saying they want to take on a bit more responsibility. They want someone on the production team representing or at least looking out for exclusively them. Your crew is there for you, Ethan. They’re your fans, you weirdo. Trish was saying “I get out voted by YOUR crew because they’re not here for me or the whole show of Frenemies, they’re here for you and your approval.” Ethan is running a production company, what it seems like Trish was asking for is someone to advocate for them. Hire someone for HR dipshit.

And the manipulative way he sent a text to his crew saying “Trisha wants you fired. Oh also will you go do a shoot” like?? Intentionally putting a negative emotional context on Trish before asking for a work related thing??? And THEN CALLING TRISH UNPROFESSIONAL?! LMFAO You know what is unprofessional? Emotionally manipulating your employees before directing them to do a work related task that you explicitly said later in this video was already planned and upcoming.

Yes it is totally a legitimate complaint that Trish is continuously pointing out your Tourette’s or calling things you do is Tourette’s. You also regularly bring up the candlestick in the ass thing after they’ve repeatedly asked you not to talk about. You both are continuously pushing each other’s boundaries. It isn’t right, but you both do that. Dr Drew said as much when y’all had him on the show.

Ethan you’re complaining an awful lot about producing a show for someone who OWNS A PRODUCTION COMPANY I’m dying lmfao

Not you saying they called YOU “Jewy.” They called themselves that. They shouldn’t have said it at all. For Ethan to say that Trish called him that is a lie. Viewers can see the discrepancy between the texts and what he said but people who are only listening aren’t going to know that. More of Ethan manipulating the viewership.

You literally said ON FRENEMIES in one of the earlier shows that y’all had purchased a building before Frenemies so why would you say you “bought it for Frenemies”?

All this video told me is Ethan has been bending to Trish’s will this whole time because “hopefully it’ll pay out big for us!” And now that you feel you’re going to lose all this money on the merch now you’re going to vocally resent them as opposed to silently resenting them lmfao

Ethan is complaining that Trish puts nothing into the production of the show but then actively denying their input is a control issue. Which is it, Ethan? Do you want Trish to have more input and pull their own weight or do you want to just keep having control over the production? Either Trish is a 50/50 partner on the show creative decision-wise or you are essentially their boss and they just have to show up and perform.

Ethan said when Frenemies started that “I provide the money, all you have to do is show up.” Trish was intended to be the spectacle for this show he has created, produced, and co-starred in.

I genuinely think this show did a lot to humanize both of them to the public. To show people that Ethan and Trisha separately aren’t just the internet dramas that they find themselves in or celebrities worthy of scrutinization, but actual human beings with mental illnesses who make mistakes and grow and learn. I would say Trish has learned and grown a lot just from being on this show but I can’t say I’ve seen the same growth in Ethan. So for Ethan to say “well this all happened in part because of her mental illnesses” just serves to further stigmatize mental illness and shift any of the blame off of himself.

[shortysquadpresident]

I genuinely think Ethan noticed Trish’s episodes happen in cycles, insisted on pizza for the meme, knew they were talking abt a big trigger for Trish and sort of nudged it in this direction. High risk high reward-type thing but when Trish started talking abt adding a producer he panicked because that would be someone he didn’t have some kind of control over or power imbalance with (his whole crew were fans 1st) and in that panic/realization, he took trish’s suggestion of 1 addition to the crew and exaggerated it “as a joke” (“wh-what you want, you want me to fire the whole crew?!” to which Trish immediately denied) but now he took this thing HE said first, hyper focused on it to pull attention away from Trish’s actual point of wanting some representation on the production team. Again, all of H3’s crew were fans first which creates a weird power dynamic and Trish even said they felt like the odd one out.

Dr Drew in an episode of Frenemies already told Ethan & the audience that Ethan is a narcissist. If u have ever experienced narcissistic abuse u may recognize that yes he did gaslight her in the episode right when things started heating up. The whole thing is daamn near textbook down to the way he’s convinced everyone Trisha is the only person at fault in this situation. That’s scapegoating.

[cozmoz]

I never reblog anything, but I do agree with this. I also want to reiterate that I don't condone most of what Trisha says or does, but the fact that A LOT of his "fans" like to gaslight her and have this huge power trip over her makes me think that most of these people don't even realize that their "saint" (aka, ethan klein) is, in fact, a narcissist. Dr. Drew said it himself, and if you don't want to accept his analysis of Ethan, doesn't mean that Ethan isn't a narcissist. He's still a narcissist, whether you like it or not. Let's also not graze over the fact that Ethan LIED on the test because he knew he was a narcissist. Crazy, right?

[cozmoz]

Since most of you won't say how you feel, I will.

Please, don't treat your internet friends as "rebounds" when your friends who you SEE OFFLINE doesn't hang out with you, respond to your texts, etc.

And when your friends who you do SEE OFFLINE wants to hang out with you; don't treat us as your stuffed animals and abandon us/toss us aside.

That shit hurts more than you fucking think. We're your friends too. We may not see eachother offline because we some distances away, but we care about you too. We're human too.

So, stop with this, "internet friend" vocabulary. We're not "internet friends", we are your FRIENDS. Simple.

[cozmoz]

Supporting obesity isn't heathy, you're right.

Not supporting obesity is okay. Always has been. However, don't use THAT as a weapon against those who are overweight. Don't use that "excuse" to make fun of, harass or bully people with.

If you ain't someone's doctor, keep that shit to yourself.