Stressed to Impress

[theconcealedweapon]

Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.

[gmbeowulf]

Time to bring back my favorite picture: The reason there have been so many food and consumer good recalls in the past few years. (If you got listeria from cold cuts? Direct result of Trump's actions!) Regulations exist to protect consumers from profit-hungry corporations.

[inhumaninterest]

Remember, there is no "lesson learned" from those regulations. They aren't safety procedures where now that people know putting lead in cinnamon is a bad thing that they won't do it even if you take the regulation away. The regulations were created because, when given a chance, these people leapt at the chance to destroy housing, poison food, and blight the planet.

Everytime a regulation like that is removed you should be concerned about who was being "held back" by a law preventing them from selling disease riddled meat.

[thatgirlonstage]

A salient example, since lead got brought up specifically—

A while ago it occurred to me to wonder how long we’ve known lead is poisonous, since it was so ubiquitous in paint and construction and so many other places until just a few decades ago, so I went on a wiki dive to see when the first alarm bells were sounded about the health hazards of lead.

Want to guess?

Ancient Rome.

People have known lead is poisonous since at least Ancient Rome.

It didn’t stop people using it.

Your safety regulations are written in blood, not by accident, not because people didn’t know there were dangers, but because without them, blood is cheap.

[headspace-hotel]

Lead was used as a pesticide in the early 20th century, so I reckon we knew it was poison

[ericvilas]

Okay actually, I regret not adding a comment to my original reblog. I knew I wanted to add something but I wasn't sure what.

Yes, actually, there ARE some regulations jacking the prices of housing up. You know what they are?

Single-family zoning laws.

You know. The regulations supported by NIMBYs that make even the slightest attempt at dense housing impossible? The regulations that make it so you can't put apartment buildings anywhere in whole neighborhoods because the people who already own houses want there to be fewer people there? The regulations that are designed with a low density car- and suburb-centric economy in mind?

You know, the regulations that pretty much every single Republican supports?

Those are the kinds of regulations that do need to be loosened: ones made not out of safety concerns, but out of people feeling annoyed at the existence of others. I have a strong feeling those aren't the kinds of regulations Trump was talking about.

[nitw]

i fucking hate being an adult with a slowly increasing number of responsibilities its like one day you wake up and youre like aw fuck when was the last time i descaled the coffee machine

[nitw]

"theres gonna be a power outage tomorrow welp i better boil some water in advance!" "oh gee looks like its time to vacuum the carpet!" GET REAL?????? YOU SOUND INSANE

[nitw]

someday youre gonna be out of baking soda when it matters most and its gonna destroy you

[arosunflower]

anytime a woman starts talking about the "bonds of sisterhood that inherently exist between all women" you just know they bullied the weird girls in high school

[arosunflower]

of course the TERFs found this and of course theyre pissed cuz they are exactly the kind of woman this post is about

[rustingbridges]

if someone was willing to give you $1000, but you had to engage in an awkward email correspondence with them first, would you do it?

[centrally-unplanned]

I literally do this every day its called a job

[nodecisionspls]

It is part of my job, but sometimes the answer is still no.

[flame-shadow]

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)

[fucking-relax]

oh, Sisyphus! i got you

[mortalityplays]

vegans making honey a bee labour issue is the funniest thing imaginable because like, you picked the one animal that has already unionised

[ospreyonthemoon]

You literally could not exploit bees if you TRIED

"Oh well if you stop the queen leaving the bees are trapped" wrong, bees can and will swarm without a queen. They will also make new queens if they don't think theirs is good enough

"Bees don't consent to their honey being taken" wrong, bees are actually more than intelligent enough to know we take the honey. They LET us take the honey if they think what we provide in return (shelter, food, protection) is a fair deal.

"Taking honey starves the bees" WRONG AGAIN! Domestic bees overproduce honey. A beekeeper NEVER takes honey the bees would need because then you piss off the bees, and if you piss off the bees you don't have any bees. They stockpile honey for the winter, but because domestic colonies do way better than wild ones they stockpile too much. That's why beekeepers can take out whole frames and then have them filled in no time. Domestic bees actively overproduce because they know humans are going to skim some off the top.

And if they didn't want humans to take it, beekeeping WOULD NOT work.

To keep bees you have to let them fly free. If they can fly free they can leave. Meaning if they don't like what you're doing, they WILL leave.

The whole idea they're basically slaves to the queen is also not true, they can just make a new queen literally whenever, and if they don't like her, they kill her.

There is no way for a beekeeper to exploit their bees. The bees are EMPLOYEES.

Employbees, if you will.

[ask-the-almighty-google]

“Bees have already Unionized” is by far the funniest yet most realistic take I’ve seen on this issue so far. I love it ❤️

[himynameisemail]

[men-iss-vess-ull-deactivated202]

so called "free thinkers" when there's a bug on the ceiling

[kaelio]

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[tim-ee-sis]

PLEASE vote. It's not just about the Presidential race; down-ballot and local elections arguably matter even more.

[kaelio]

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[kalimaxxing]

if a hamburger and a cheeseburger have a baby it most likely will have cheese on it because the cheese trait come from a dominant gene

[what-even-is-thiss]

Hey have you ever had those burgers with one veggie patty and one beef patty the vegetarians can’t experience it but it’s an interesting and tasty blend of textures anyways do you think that means that the veggie and beef patties are both dominant genes by your logic

[nodecisionspls]

Well a gene being "dominant" often can just mean that you have a gene that encodes for a certain protein while a "recessive" version of the gene would be you not having the gene for the protein. Ie. Purple pigmented flowers, the purple pigment is dominant because you either have it or you don't have it and your flowers are white (a recessive trait). So really the offshoot of a hamburger and a grilled cheese would most likely have cheese because the presence of cheese would be dominant. And presence of a party would be dominant as well, so It would most likely have a patty. My question is if it's codominant (ie. Red flowers having two genes for pigment, pink flowers having one gene for pigment, white flowers have no gene for pigment). So would the resulting sandwich be a smash burger, so the patty is half as thick as a cheeseburger?

[raptorific]

Suzanne Collins really has the protocol down. On average twice a decade she writes a press release that's like "in one year there will be a new book and in two years there will be a movie based on said book. Here is the one philosopher I'll be referencing, and here is what upset me this time on the news enough to write another book. Enjoy!" and then she collects her millions, drops another banger, and doesn't go on twitter ever

[what-even-is-thiss]

My grandmother still hates Elvis after all these years because when she was in high school he was the guy the teen girls were obsessed over and she just didn’t care about him.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It seems frustrating watching that musician you didn’t like in high school because it was over saturated pop music that nobody would shut up about turn into an immortal icon of rock and roll.

I mean I and everyone else in the family also casually likes Elvis. Most people do. She cannot escape him.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m trying to imagine that in like 60 years Justin Bieber is still relevant and being a Justin Bieber impersonator is a valid career path and every Christmas my grandchildren and son in law listen to Justin Bieber Christmas albums as a tradition and people are still constantly doing covers of Justin Bieber songs.

Yeah that’s. That’s a world I can unfortunately imagine.

[depsidase]

[biglawbear]

Where's that post that's like "I can't buy expensive things like plane tickets on my phone, I have to use my laptop, big purchases are for the big screen"

Because apparently this is a literal actual thing that retailers hate cuz you think more before spending a lot of money, they want you to spend a lot without thinking about it so much

Source

Keep buying Big Things on the Big Screen, it's healthy for you financially to think before spending a lot of money!

[booksinmythorax]

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

[knottahooker]

Please, PLEASE use Libby. OverDrive. Hoopla. CloudLibrary. Kanopy. Flipster. Freegal. Transparent Language. Mango. Jstor. Your library would not offer it if they could not afford it, and we afford things by reporting the number of people who use that service, so if you don't use the service we can't afford it. It's a cycle. Keep it going, keep using it, and we'll keep providing because we'll be able to justify the cost to the bean counters in government.

[fairycosmos]

i will die without routine. also this routine is killing me

[nodecisionspls]

OCD!

[19thcenturyfuck]

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.

[insomniac-arrest]

This reminds me of that global warming comic, like