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snoomfies

Snoopy item of the day: Snoopy Puffer Coat Lidded Mug from Kohls

rumiensze

small vases

figdays

1920s Cup and Saucer Tea Set // TheLittleWhiteHare

atouchofsass

it's 100% crucial that anywhere you see or hear the word "calories" you mentally replace that with "energy" and you will see how insane everyone in the world is acting for no reason

snoomfies

redstonedust

everyone deserves a lifechanging lesbian experience. not a woman? simply have a lifechanging experience with a lesbian. im thinking a noble quest or hiding a body together or something.

vintagesanrio

Sugar Cream Puff Stickers, 1996

tunisian

any amount of love given will never be love wasted any amount of love given will never be love wasted any amount of love given will never be love wasted

hellisratherpleasant

found this on the Savary Island Encyclopedia

aaaangel444

ladylingua

I keep seeing people being shocked and bewildered about airbnb being so crappy to use now

and it’s giving me the impression not everyone knows that is by design- all of those “disrupter” startups operate exactly the same way. So let me lay it out:

First the company starts with an enormous amount of seed money, and they enter an established industry offering the same product but dirt cheap and with the feel of luxury. They operate at a loss for years. They offer their product at such a reduced rate that they literally cannot profit off of it. They rely on their seed money and investment from other wealthy friends to get by. They do this until the other established companies in the industry are on their knees and begging to be bought out. Once all of the competitors have either collapsed or been bought out, the new disrupter company is safe to jack up its prices and reduce services/perks to get to a level that is profitable. It might end up being much more expansive than the industry was to start with, because now that competitors are gone the disrupter business has more room to squeeze customers dry without fear they’ll go to another company instead. The “we’re shaking this industry up to bring high quality products direct to the consumer” pitch has nothing to do with consumers and is entirely about eliminating competitors, particularly long standing well established ones.

This is how uber works, airbnb, all of those. It’s the same game the laundry mat chain in my neighborhood who offers free drying is playing- driving out competition so they have more freedom to price things higher.

Individual consumers often don’t have the luxury to be so choosy about what companies they buy from, but just be aware going in and don’t get taken by surprise later on.

grison-in-space

By the way, Amazon is absolutely playing by this handbook, and so did Wal-Mart before it. It's very, very, very predictable.

theorangepdf

getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)

doncherrycola

i love that the phrase is “in love” like love is a place. like somewhere you could live.

gretchensinister

One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had.

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do