[plushmayhem]

Etsy is somehow being even worse, do not click etsy ads

Etsy is now forcing shop owners to be part of their ads. We can not opt out.

To anyone who buys from etsy: DO NOT EVER CLICK THEIR ADS

They are rolling out a program where if you get a sale from an ad they put out, they’re taking 12-15% of the profit(probably on top of the like, 5%ish+ they already take). Even worse, if you have clicked an Etsy ad in the last 30 days ANYONE YOU BUY FROM ON ETSY IN THAT PERIOD WILL BE BILLED THAT FEE. 

So please, if you see an ad for something you like off etsy, do not click it. Just go on etsy and search for it.

This is somehow worse than what storenvy used to pull. 

Please go directly through an artist or see if they have their own storefront (I use bigcartel) instead of purchasing off etsy. And if you must, just please, please, never click an etsy ad.

[three--rings]

Hey I opened my etsy shop back up after years to destash some stuff and make a little extra money and so I ran smack into this myself.  DO NOT CLICK ETSY ADS to buy something.  It charges the seller a huge fee that that did not expect or agree to.  In my case it was pretty much large enough to eat all my profit.  The only way to fight against this is to increase all your prices a lot in case anyone buys your stuff after clicking on an ad, therefore driving all prices up. 

And it’s not 12-15% of the profit, it’s 12-15% of the PRICE.  There’s no way Etsy knows the cost of the actual item before profit.  So if you price your wares with 15% profit for yourself, congrats you’ve lost money on the transaction. 

Just a reminder for holiday season and in general.

[squeakitties]

i got the miku ramen. my bf said it is 1) good 2) Nuclear Blue. Like More Blue Than The Color Itself Blue

ill try it later tonight and post a follow-up

[squeakitties]

ok so. standard rice noodles. unusual for something labeled as ramen, and the powder is just a tinge off-white. i can detect blue.

added boiling water up to the fill line and let it set for 4 minutes.

and

IT IS SO SO FUCKING BLUE . IT IS BLUER THAN THE FUCKING COLOR

THEY NOODLEFIED MIKU'S HAIR. BABYGIRL YOU ARE SOUP NOW

[zazagundam]

THAT'S SO BLUUUUUUEEEEEEEE

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

blue glow of cherenkov radiation, from underwater nuclear reactors

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

they weren't kidding when they said "nuclear blue"

[spooniestrong]

A Weird Trick to Get Doctors to Listen to You — Pain News Network

By Crystal Lindell, PNN Columnist There’s a lot of advice out there on how to get a doctor to take you seriously. Most of it is wrong. Lu

This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.

[genderqueerpond]

This article was super long-winded so I screenshat the important part

[spacelazarwolf]

the fact we’re responsible for getting doctors to “lower their defenses” in order to literally just do their jobs is ✨INFURIATING✨

[gir-posting]

transcription 1/3: "In short, it's all about framing. You need to suggest that someone else is making them ask you about whatever it is you want to bring up. Let me share an example:

Do not say: 'I think I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.'

Instead, say: 'My best friend wanted me to ask you about something. I don't even think it's a thing, but she thinks I might have something called EDS. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, I think? I don't know. It's probably rare. But have you heard of it? Do you think I might have it?'

Here's another example:

Do not say: 'I think I have ADHD.'

Instead, say: 'So my wife said I have to ask you about something. I don't know if she's right, but if I don't bring it up with you, she'll be really mad at me. She thinks I have something called attention deficit disorder. And she said you might be able to help.'" /end transcription

transcription 2/3: "To ER doctors: 'My husband made me come here to get this chest pain checked out.'

To primary care physicians: 'My roommate said I had to ask you about getting my thyroid levels checked.'

To pain specialists: 'My brother thinks I have rheumatoid arthritis and he wanted me to ask you about it.'

To psychiatrists: 'My aunt said I should ask you about anxiety medications.'

This will not only help in getting them to take your symptoms seriously, it will also work on convincing them to order specific tests, order specific medications, and consider a specific diagnosis.

This approach shifts the focus onto a third party, which helps doctors lower their defenses. If they think medical suggestions from patients are inane, you're just feigning agreement with them. It effectively puts you on the same side as the doctor — the two of you against your loved one. Which is fine, because your loved one isn't relying on them for medical care, so they can take the heat. And when the doctor feels like they're on your side, they're more likely to want to help." /end transcription

transcription 3/3: "This approach also means that the doctor knows you are likely to tell a third party what transpired during the appointment, which means they'll be held to a higher level of accountability. That alone will have a big impact on how they treat you." /end transcription

[winedark-maverick]

i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

[7wise]

[aridavid]

HOWOHAOWUAHLKSJDFLAWJLGKJWLRKJGA

[smokeandjollyranchers]

Crying in the club this morning because my cats enjoy our gossip sessions as much as I do 🥺

[thesundanceghost]

Nothing I’ve read has changed me more than “you do people a favor by accepting their help” like I repeat this constantly to so many people because it’s true!!! People like to feel useful, they like to feel kind, they like to feel like they have an ability to impact people’s lives so just let them!! Not everything is a thing to be owed back — accept people’s kindness without making a competition out of it

[bogleech]

I figured out too late in life that refusing random help will more often make the person feel unwanted or not trusted : (

[queeranarchism]

This is true on the interpersonal level and on the community level. Your friendsgroup/family/house/affinity-group/street will thrive so much better when people accept each others help. When there is a regular back and forth of people helping each other and people accepting that help, you get a generous community where needing help is not stigmatized. Accepting help is an essential component of that. You literally can’t have a functioning community without it.

[everythingfox]

(via)

[ilikeit-art]

[skaiandestiny]

[twistcmyk]

[veryfunnymemes]

[goosekuraleap-deactivated202102]

I see no difference in energy here

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

“But homeless people commit crimes!” I have a very hard time believing they commit crimes while asleep.

[ghost-cassette]

You know who do commit crimes in their sleep? Billionaires

[despazito]

It sucks so hard that having a family trade or skill isn't really practiced here anymore. On the one hand it's nice to have the freedom to choose any life direction and not feel pressure to conform to family bs or taking over your father's business, and having standardized training and licensing scheme for say... dentistry is really good to have. But in doing that we've also put soo many career paths behind an insane paywall. Not only that but so many unis get rich or corporate donors who have the power to sway all this training and education for personal interests, it's another form of taking control from workers into the hands of the wealthy. And you can see that people want to return that hands-on craftsmanship and control over their labour again. You saw it in the arts and crafts movement as a response to the industrial revolution and factory made goods. And it is a form of alienation and erasing identity. It's why people who make 6 figures will watch a mini doc on some Syrian 10th generation tile maker who earns pennies and somehow comes away envious of them. it's that connection to what you create and the feeling of knowing your role here is useful, acknowledged, and appreciated by your community. You feel none of this in countless jobs today.

But unfortunately so much of that knowledge for creating, even things like folk crafts have been successfully eradicated by capitalism to create the ultimate class of consumers. If you want to learn how to do some new skill for a living you gotta go into debt and usually pause your current career which you can't afford to do, and nobody in your family already has any knowledge or equipment you need to work with. So people gravitate towards skills with a relatively low entry level and startup costs so we live in a world where alienated suburban moms are all crafting the exact same soap or candle they saw on pinterest as a side hustle.

[headspace-hotel]

I never thought about it before but inheriting equipment and tools is a distinct benefit of family trades being a thing

[noneedtofearorhope]

“ The odds of guessing a four-digit passcode are 1 in 10,000, and tools have been used to crack iPhone codes in the past. Apple says the chances of someone having a similar enough fingerprint to unlock a person’s phone is 1 in 50,000, and a similar enough random face tricking Face ID is 1 in 1,000,000 “

that’s a really funny way of framing it, to make it look like passcodes are weak. you know what’s twice as good as the odds given for fingerprints? a 5 digit passcode! what’s equal to the odds given for Face ID? a 6 digit passcode! every time you add a digit, you multply those odds by 10.

and that’s assuming simple numeric passcodes. the odds of guessing a 4 digit, case-sensitive, alphanumeric passcode would be a 1 in 14.7 million. 5 digits is over 1 in 916 million, 6 digit is 1 in 56.8 billion. if you throw in 32 common symbols, we get 1 in 78 million, 1 in 7.3 billion, and 1 in 689 billion. those numbers climb pretty quickly the more digits you add.

i know these aren’t the only issues with passcodes (like 24% of americans using a variation of just 8 common passcodes), but if you’re trying to push people to biometrics i guess you wouldn’t really care for that nuance anyway

[discodeerdiary]

Also my preference for passcodes over biometrics has nothing to do with criminals accessing my phone and everything to do with the laws in the United States where police cannot compel me to enter a code but they can compel me to unlock my phone with a fingerprint

[xipiti]

☝️☝️☝️

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

i dont claim to be an expert on love but i think theres something to like… ok so my girlfriend got undertale on the switch a while back, right? and she’s definitely not a bad videogamer but it takes practice yknow, esp when youre doing a neutral route and actually fight stuff. so when she got to the hardest bosses i took the controller and beat them for her. not because she couldn’t, but because i love her. and that’s what my brother did when i was a kid playing sonic adventure 2 or whatever, not because i was dumb but because he was good at it and he loved me. and when i want my girlfriend to read something (a post, an essay, a novel) but she’s too tired to actually read so it i read it to her and i do silly voices and she laughs and we have more fun that way. when you hand a water bottle to your friend and they open it without you even having to ask. when you spent a million years fixing the flat tire on your bike and then your dad just takes the tools and does it for you. its not a judgement, it’s just a service. you could do it yourself, but why should you have to when you are loved?

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

the most fucking annoying thing in US politics is, whenever there's a strike, people going "well MY working conditions are even worse and you don't see me complaining". maybe you should complain actually! maybe we should collectively drop the mindset that unnecessary suffering proves merit! how fucking brainwashed do you have to be to BRAG about being treated like shit. I hate this country so much god bless❤️

[prokopetz]

Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because they’re designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset – heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you don’t even need the screwdriver, unless you’re performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement.

Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable.