Impalardison221b

my old blog from high school but now I'm older and queer and happier but sadder. please don't interact with religious content.

[trucyisright]

my mother is playing pikmin and yelling at them in the exact tone of voice she uses for me and my siblings so we go into fight or flight every time. we thought initially that this meant she regarded the pikmin as akin to her children, but I now fear she’s always viewed us as pikmin

[goldensunset]

hi your post reads like a poem to me

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

[maimonidiva]

[tsalala]

A mountain lion cub feasting on a mountain goat carcass. Photographed by Stay Wild Media.

[ziawouldntwannabeya]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Misinterpreted the angle of the goat head for a sec and was like "that kitty killed a fucking unicorn".

[undeadentropy]

Kittens game

[pmamtraveller]

"Gannet Diving" necklace created by artist Rie Taniguchi

[shamebats]

Migraine sufferers will be like "it's not like I'm disabled or anything, it's just that if I do any of these normal everyday things other people do all the time, my head explodes. But I'm fine honestly, as long as I avoid doing anything ever and my environment and the weather never changes, then my head explodes a little less"

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[kaijufluffs]

The long awaited sequel.

[cannibalcaprine]

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

[tgirl-subway-the-dark-ages]

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

[cue-jay]

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Honestly I would just prefer if you just call her a woman without specifying if she is trans or not

[squeakitties]

still thinking about the apparent 2006-2007 epidemic of rabid swarms of wii remotes descending on helpless televisions like locusts

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

wii sports was invented by nefarious television manufacturers to break people's televisions

[puppygirllaika]

What a very funny joke that definitely did not happen because Nintendo definitely did not buy up almost a third of the shares of the top five TV manufacturers in the time between the announcement and release of the Wii, shares which definitely didn't skyrocket in value over the next two years due to an increase in flatscreen sales, nearly half of which independent analysts attributed to people replacing damaged TVs with newer, more expensive models from electronics stores that relied on high-pressure sales tactics to upsell people and get them to buy more expensive models on credit which they couldn't actually afford.

[henothing]

gonna reblog this but with a reminder to people to actually read the linked article. the summarized version of it in this post is... imo not really fully accurate to what the article actually says. not trying to accuse the person linking it of being dishonest or deceitful, i see *why* it was framed this way, but it's not quite as clear-cut as she makes it out to be. not sure how to explain it, but you should read the article instead of just relying on this secondhand account

[annabelle--cane]

"rocky would hate stratt because she hurt his bestie" plausible, even likely. "rocky wouldn't hate stratt because he understands the stakes of needing to save the actual world" nuanced, intellectually stimulating. "stratt would hate rocky because her ex wife whom she killed is happier with him" intriguing, avant-garde.

[manyblinkinglights]

#7 billion fucking people on earth weren't enough but you'll die for the alien. sure. no yeah. sure.

[outofcontextgarf]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

[preemptive-self-defence]

[famouspainterwombat]

[sublimegiverpanda]

Beethoven 👏🌹

[parsabad]

Darougheh House/ Mashhad/ Iran

Photo: ehsan rad

[aceynk]

kind of annoyed that i have to inject this stuff every week. can someone invent an organ that just makes estrogen for me. thanks

[unusual-suspects]

x

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[katharkness]

In a sense, it doesn’t matter how ridiculous it sounds to think Pepsi would genuinely honour that. Pepsi said that they would, therefore they have to, or else they’re guilty of false advertising. Companies can’t be allowed to say whatever they want in adverts, and when asked to pony up pull “it was just a joke, bro”. To use a slightly less ridiculous example, Fallout 76. One of the preorder editions can with a canvas backpack. But when they finally shipped, the durable canvas backpacks somehow became flimsy nylon. Complaints to publisher Bethesda got the response that the canvas version advertised was a prototype that was too expensive to make, so they handed out the cheap imitations instead. It took like two years in the courts for Bethesda to give people what they actually pay for. And they won because advertising law says you have to deliver on what you promise, even if it’s a Harrier jet. Introducing any level of “it’s just a joke” makes that effectively meaningless.

[kyraneko]

"I genuinely thought Pepsi was giving out fighter jets" Pepsi genuinely SAID they were giving out fighter jets. They went to some trouble to specify the conditions under which they were giving out fighter jets, in fact.

You can't shake the Devil's hand and then say you were only kidding.

It's just that sometimes the Devil shows up in the form of some guy with a lot of time on his hands and an interest in getting himself a fighter jet.

[biglawbear]

This is like a case out of contracts 101 that any first year law student knows. Pepsi made a valid offer to enter into a contract and someone accepted the offer. In this case, it was a jet for points. There's no few law school cases about this.

[melaschasma]

The actual case is Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., we did look at it in law school right after Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co, and the court sided with Pepsi, finding that no reasonable person could think it was a real offer because of course it wasn't, it's a fucking Harrier jump jet.

The court explicitly found that Pepsi did not make a valid offer of a jet for points. Saying they'd send someone a, what, forty million dollar warplane for the equivalent of less than a million dollars was found to be mere puffery. If I remember correctly, the judgment is pretty funny, with plenty of time spent on deconstructing exactly why the idea of Pepsi giving someone a Harrier jump jet is insane.

The ruling, which you can read here, was upheld on appeal.