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one fairly common experience of gifted children is wishing for pain. wishing you had some great big horrible thing in your past so that you can justify the pain you’re in, and so that you’ll deserve help. it’s exhausting and it fucks you up and to anyone out there who feels like they haven’t suffered enough to get help: you’re allowed to want help. you’re in enough pain. you deserve to feel better

lilliluminous

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Dudes rock

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LPT: Don't throw your junk mail away. Use it to to help the USPS instead!

Next time you get a credit card offer in the mail, or a junk piece of mail that includes a prepaid envelope or postcard, don't throw it away! Send the envelope back with a blank sheet of paper inside, or don't fill the postcard out, but still send it back. The company that sent it to you had to pay the USPS for postage on each one they get back. This is a way to support the USPS by doing very little, and sticking it to the annoying companies that want all of your money.

daniel-oneiroi

In the 90s we would send companies “hate mail” by stuffing prepaid envelopes with things like ‘blanks’ (flat heavy metal pieces), a roofing shingle) and layers of other competitors’ mail or junk news. This is because the company would have to pay more upon recieving the junk mail. It eats into them. It actually somewhat reduced our junk mail returnables, I think. Send that mail y’all.

barrebard

Except please don't do this to nonprofits!!

If you do this when you get a donation request or something from a nonprofit, you'll be forcing small organizations with very little overhead to deal with the incoming mail and paying for the postage.

Credit card companies? YES. Personal loan offers? ABSOLUTELY. The chain store you've never shopped at who bought your info from a competitor? BY ALL MEANS.

But don't do this to your local "Friends of the Library" fundraiser or homeless outreach program or anything like that. You'll be draining their limited resources that would be better used elsewhere.

dragonsrequiem

Feel free to do it to groups like Salvation Army, PETA, or Susan Komen cuz fuck them.

thehonorablereverendfish

Hey y'all. I was talking to a retired postmaster about this.

She was 100 percent for this, bit please PLEASE do not use metal pieces or roof tiles. It can jam the sorting machines and cost the office millions to replace it.

Cardstock? Other papers? Fine. They are flexible. They go through the machine without issue.

So go ahead, send the junk mail, but limit it to paper.

tastefullyoffensive

(photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus)

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I think this is the best scientist photograph I have ever seen.

shellysbees-blog

But people didn’t believe him on reddit. So Watterson made the photo sequence into a gif.

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Here’s the gif for anyone curious.

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I had to go through the notes to find the gif. Not because I didn’t believe him but because I wanted to see it.

scotianostra

Baws

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Me before watching the video: What does “Baws” mean???

Me 30 seconds into the video: BAWS

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coffeeacademia

i find it so beautiful how we all read the same poetry and miss different people

jaubaius

bigtiddygandalf

HE LEETLE FEETSYS

bigtiddygandalf

very glad to see this post reduced everyone else mental capacity for communication as well

gahdamnpunk

The rich are getting more rich tho

annieisyourfavourite

his name was Josh Wilkerson and it’s important to point out that he died while taking Reli-On, the common “Walmart Insulin” you see people constantly pushing as a cheaper alternative.

so if you ever see people suggesting this, or god forbid you feel like doing it yourself, i want you to look up this story and remember Josh Wilkerson, and realize that the solution HAS to be bigger and more systemic than that

selflovewarrior

you’re allowed to settle for a calm life, despite people on social media making it seem like you should do all these adventurous things. you don’t have to travel far and wide in order to be happy. you don’t have to have an amazing career in order to be proud of who you are and your life. live your life the way you want to, calm lives are good. a calm life is what i’m aiming for.

kipplekipple

The same goes for your job, too. You don’t have to have enormous goals, you don’t have to be dedicated to a career. And for relationships! You don’t have to get married to be valid, or even be in a relationship, or have sex. Your job is to live your life, and to make that life as satisfying to you as you can.

one-time-i-dreamt

On Friday, 16 October 2020, members of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) TRIPS Council held a three hour debate on the proposal (IP/C/W/6

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Wealthy nations on Friday reiterated their opposition to a proposal to waive intellectual property rules for COVID-19 drugs, three trade sou

You know this world is messed up when something like this does not surprise me, but it still horrifies me beyond words. Please spread this so we can raise awareness and look for ways to help!

adampvrrish

not to talk about doctor who but remember being a lonely depressed teenager and hearing him say '900 years of time and space and i've never met anyone who wasn't important'

fireladybuckley

The context: Crabs and crab-like body plans have evolved independently (convergently) at least 5 times in earth’s history. This is called carcinisation.