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October Mid-Pin - Klea
Evening folks! Iâve this monthâs Mid-Pin to share with you all! Klea from Tall Tails performing a bit of magic. I hope she turned out well. Thanks Daphne for letting me draw her!
Weâll have another Mid-Pin draw on November 1st! If youâd like to join you can sign up here. Patreon membership is not required.
Thanks guys!
Since the previous post was a cover, hereâs a little something extra for this week, page 1 of Issue 1. One page in and Princess Moraine has her spooky eyes on. That canât be good.
Weâll continue next week with page 2. Until then, enjoy!
Darc is having a Birthday this week! Â To celebrate, weâre giving you presents! Â (Wait, is that right? Â Gonna go with that.)
Everything in the store, including the new stuff, is 33% off. Â Everything. Â Posters, Books, EBooks. Â Even the new Fred Pin. Â Yes, Fred has his own Pin. Â Itâs an awesome pin.
Storeâs here:  https://www.rcsipublishing.com  Tell em I sent ya.
Spread it far and wide and please repost!
Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story
âŠwhereâs the lie?
From a macroeconomics standpoint, Bridges is completely accurate.
The problem with most Tories (and many Republicans in the US) is that they either have big business interests at heart or have bought the lie that government is like a business. Government is not a business! Microeconomic principles, even ones that apply to entire industries, donât apply to governments!
Hereâs the fundamental macroecomic model of an economy:
(image from tutor2u)
Notice that the system is circular. The model shows that the economy inherently needs to be balanced. If some households are making hundreds of times the income of other households, they will put the vast majority of that money into savings and investment.
This is bad for the economy.
Some savings and investment is necessary. But too much means the little green arrows are siphoning off vast portions of the peach demand arrow (âpurchases of goods and servicesâ). This means that companies are fighting over a smaller and smaller pie. Even if you heavily fund those companies, many will collapse due to lack of demand for their products, unless they become monopolies and the sole practical source of their product. Monopolies are technically illegal in the US, but we have them anyway because of this problem (and a lack of enforcement).
The other way you can damage the demand arrow is by shifting the proportions of the purple income arrow. Most people make money from wages, so if you significantly decrease those relative to dividends, interest, profits, and rent, youâll harm the majority of households. In turn, this again decreases the peach arrow because many households only need a set amount of a given product in a year. The fewer households that can afford the products, the lower overall demand, because the remaining households wonât buy up the difference.
Households with average levels of income spend far more money than they save, of necessity, and they do so at a relatively steady rate. This is good for the economy.
Households with incredibly high levels of income - millionaires, etc. - save far more than they spend. They tend to make their money off of dividends, interest, profits, and rents - not wages. Therefore, to improve the economy, including increasing tax revenues for the government, two basic steps are urged by almost all macroeconomists:
1. Increase wages, especially at the lowest end. This expands the tax base and drives up demand for basic goods and services, stabilizing the industries necessary to a decent quality of life: agriculture and food production, clothing, housing, education, transportation, etc.
2. Use progressive taxes, in which those who make the most money, particularly off of dividends, interest, profits, and rents, pay a higher percentage of their income as taxes. This allows that money to be spent directly on goods and services or to be redistributed to poor households, who will in turn spend it on goods and services. In both cases, money that would have gone into savings and investment instead goes into demand. This makes businesses more successful and a large number of households more prosperous. Society as a whole benefits from decreased crime, lower health problems, and improved public goods like education, roads, emergency response, infrastructure, etc.
Macroeconomics is the opposite of an individual business. Individual businesses study how to take the most pie for themselves and keep it. Macroeconomists - and governments - study how to make the pie bigger and distribute it in such a way that society as a whole benefits from the growth.
Conservatives: doing economics wrong for the past several decades by deliberately pretending that knowing how to run a business is anything like knowing how to run a government. Being fiscally cautious and being uneducated do not have to go hand in hand. (Iâm both, for example.) But the rhetoric for slashing budgets has been laden with errors and ideology since at least the 1930s, and Iâm tired of it.
ONE MORE TIME FOR THE MORONS AT THE BACK IN OUR GOVERNMENTS
Or as Paul Wellstone used to say, âWe all do better when we all do better.â
Ta dah.
Thank you.
I wish the part about aunts on facebook wasnât true.
The Four Elemental Power Walks
Water:
Earth:Â
Fire:
 Air:Â
my favorite thing about this is that each of them is walking in a different direction, itâs like these girls are off to conquer the entire goddamn world
Theyâre gonna meet in the middle
In the middle they will find the avatar, master of all elements and the force:
IT GOT BETTER
Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought Iâd post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.
Reblog to save a life?
Fun Fact Time:
Oscar Wilde had a lesbian niece
Yea
YEA
Her name was Dolly Wilde. She was the daughter of Oscar Wildeâs older brother, and was born about 3 months after he died. She worked as an ambulance driver during WW1 and spent most of her free time banging rich ladies. And guys. GUYS.
SHE
LOOKS
JUST LIKE
HER UNCLE
They both have That Face.
Iâm so, so happy I know this now.
I would like everyone to know that she went around telling everyone that she was her uncle reincarnated. OK have a good day.
A M A Z I N G
Oh my God, Oscar Wilde and family had Resting Bitch Face.
:D
Resting Wilde Face
That âIâm a gay, Irish socialist in the Victorian eraâ face.
âFuck everything about this worldâ
Side note: it wasnât just the face. People who knew both Dolly and Oscar Wilde said that they sounded very similar and carried themselves in the same manor.
Both were pretty avid smokers. They both appreciated decadence. They both had very similar lovers.
Also, because history is insane, Dolly Wilde once hit on Zelda Fitzgerald, writer and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Dolly once said of herself, âI am more like Oscar than Oscar.â And honestly yea, I get why.
Oscar Wilde wasnât done gaying up the place and came back as Dolly to gay up the ladies as well.
Congratulations, you made it halfway to Halloween! Halfoween is the day when next Halloween appears on the horizon before us and the last one disappears behind. Bake some cookies tonight and start planning, because from now on, itâs getting closer each day!Â
This is remarkably reassuring.
another reason to love may day
Hey @seananmcguire is this a good day, or a bad day?
We do not deserve Mark Hamill
For a long time I was a little ashamed of my 1990âs teenage crush on Mark Hamill; these days Iâm fully prepared to own it. He is hilarious and a treasure, and always has been.
Embittered Nice Guy logic is basically a downward spiral of blaming each new girl for the perceived cumulative failures of all the girls before them, such that each new girl is treated with steadily more suspicion and hostility than her immediate predecessor. This continues until one girl is held to be representative of all girls, at which point, the Nice Guy Singularity is achieved: he can now say that, because he was nice to one girl once, he has therefore, in effect, been nice to all girls always, even though his actual behaviour can best be described as a process of steadily escalating misogyny.
And when women point out that this is whatâs actually happening, weâre held to be part of the problem. Because, at base, we shouldnât have been allowed to say no in the first place.
Bringing this back because this is basically incel logic in a nutshell.
nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it
âSome fish can walk out of water, so remember that next time.â
âYou might think youâre safe, but horses are omnivoresâ
please watch the round planet on netflix itâs exactly like thatÂ
I think I need to find this series
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Must make note of this to help streamline my writing process.
In a freaking heartbeat without a single bit of remorse.
Students at University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point are protesting the proposal, aimed at reversing declining enrollment.
âThe plan to cut the liberal arts and humanities majors⊠is in line with a failed attempt by Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2015 to secretly change the mission of the respected university system⊠by removing words that commanded the university to âsearch for truthâ and âimprove the human conditionâ and replacing them with âmeet the stateâs workforce needs.â
âAs a history major myself, I cannot condemn this enough. If youâre asking yourself âwhy?â, let me offer you a question. Between a worker who is trained to execute exact tasks and a worker who is trained to ask âwhy are we doing this task?â, whom do you think is more desirable to the average capitalist employer? I think this confirms that if you know history, political science, philosophy, geography, a second language, sociology, art, music, or geoscience, youâre a threat to the capitalist status quo.â -Richard D. Wolff
Weâre in the final five days of our Kickstarter for Issue 1 of A Year and a Day! If youâre interested in having a print copy of Issue 1, nowâs a great time. After this Kickstarter copies will only be available at conventions and during future Kickstarter campaigns, not in our online shop.
We have digital copies, physical print copies, posters, and limited sketch cover versions available. As an extra bonus, all pledges, at every level, will receive an enamel Fred pin as an additional thank you for your support!
About A Year and a Day:
A Year and a Day is an anthropomorphic series set in 1940s Britain in the world of Code Name: Hunter. Co-created by Darc and Matt Sowers, A Year and a Day tells the story of how Princess Moraine learned to control her magic and created a treaty with the Fey⊠as seen through the eyes of Robert Allen.
A Year and a Day is rated PG for some mildly frightening images and characters in peril.
In Issue 1 weâre introduced to Robert Allen, Moraineâs butler and, unknown to her, bodyguard. When he left the army Allen had dreams of escaping the life his father led. His cousin, Michael Pyrenees, had other plans. When strange things begin occurring, Allen learns that being a butler may not be as dull a life as heâd feared. Meanwhile somethingâs abducting people from local towns, each new moon bringing it closer to London.
If youâre interested be sure to stop by the Kickstarter before April 4th and see what we have to offer! Thanks guys!
Legally a house can be haunted and failure to disclose that the property is haunted can constitute fraudulent misrepresentation and is grounds for recession of contract. Meaning poltergeists are legally treated the same as termites or other pests.
This sounds like a cryptid post but this is actual U.S. case law.Â
The issue came up in a case where a family bought a house and later discovered it was on a ghost tour. The buyer had no way of knowing the house was haunted since thatâs no something buyerâs usually ask, but the previous owner knew and should have disclosed it. Since the owner had reported paranormal activity in both local and national publications describing at length how  haunted the house was court decided he couldnât very well say thereâs no such thing as ghosts now.
This resulted in legal president that recognizes the existence of haunted houses. Also the courtâs opinion is probably the most entertaining legal opinion you will ever read.
i would love to see smth where someone moves into a new house, finds out its haunted, and their first and lasting reaction is im gonna sue the shit out of that bastard who sold me this house
You go to a ghost movie expecting the standard horror fare only to discover itâs actually a legal drama
I am duty bound to tag @ramblingandpie (although I know itâs different branch of law)
I have studied this case though! And the decision is kind of amazing. Like. The Judge just threw in as many ghost puns as he possibly could.
And it is also a SUPER important case in NYS law that basically establishes that a seller cannot lie by omission about anything super unusual about a house that would not show up on a routine inspection! Like if people will come by in a bus every day and gawk at your house and try to come up to your windows to peek inside and basically be All Up In Your Grill. It also establishes that a seller cannot intentionally cover up a significant defect.
And, yeah. Ghost puns.
When we bought our house in Connecticut we were required to sign a document stating that the sellers were not required to report hauntings, on site murders, or other supernatural happenings and caveat emptor
Edit:Â I was reminded that the document also stated that we were not allowed to ask whether the property was haunted either.
