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macabrevampire

i think avoiding everything is going to save me for real this time

triangleguy

vamptits

they want you to make fried rice

memser

who is "they"

vamptits

the wok left

solongandthanksforallthefish42

how am I supposed to make fried rice if the wok left

6qubed

skillet issue

cia-o

felt ok but then remembered

persianmom-deactivated20260602

seems like my dedication to my isolation isn’t going to save me. that’s crazyyyyy

ceruleanheaven

brought nothing to the gun fight. whatever man

kyonite

trying to create an ebay account to sell smthn and tell me why I can't use my REAL LEGAL LAST NAME because it includes "dick" which ebay considers offensive

BUT THEN IN THEIR MISREPRESENTATION POLICY THEY SAY YOU CAN'T COLLECT MONEY TO A BANK ACCOUNT THAT'S NOT IN YOUR BUSINESS OR LEGAL NAME. BUT MY LEGAL NAME INCLUDES DICK, WHICH YOU CONSIDER OFFENSIVE.

the sanitization of the internet is so fucking stupid we live in the stupidest time

tlirsgender

Imagining a beautiful world where white people understood the concept of cultural appropriation as in misappropriation, misuse of cultural practices, doing things Wrong out of their original context simply for your own gain whether it's financial/spiritual/aesthetic whatever. Rather than thinking it's about, like. Copyright infringement

tlirsgender

Like the majority of poc will have no issue with actually respectfully engaging with their Things, a lot of the time you'll literally be invited if you're chill! People like sharing! But white people only know stealing, anti miscegenation, and lying

3liza

no-dopamine baddies approaching every single list of tasks like "which of these things will cause the most amount of personal suffering to me if left undone"

3liza

guess who just read yet another list of "tools to combat decision paralysis" that was mostly reward-based and got mad

3liza

hey this is really insightful. do you have any advice about identifying the linchpin task? i mean obviously "think about it really hard" might be all there is to it. basically i think this concept is good and would welcome more commentary from you, if you have more to add

fladurblegon

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

breninarthur

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

crazy-pages

If a system needs to be abused for poor people to get the help they need, I don't think poor people are the problem.

anarchistmemedistro

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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evilwizard

say no more

tropics777

And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.