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[phantom-dare]

almost got tempted by the "some like it hot" reference in target's pride collection goddamnit

[actualized-animal]

unfortunately with a popular ship sometimes you can see the vision and understand perfectly why it’s popular and why people are passionate about it, but then the people who like it will make it annoying anyway

[actualized-animal]

and the thing with unpopular ships is that no matter how bizarre they are they’re much less likely to be annoying. the freak who sits in the corner mashing together two side characters who never interact is fundamentally harmless, even charming at times. you might find them laughable but at least they are not choking the life out of all conversation about the story, and that’s commendable

[megacarapa]

they should've made a witch hat kitchen chapter about qifrey trying not to die while making this borscht

[phantom-dare]

things that can drive you crazy is wondering whether or not the financial investor you just met didn't really like you.

[pocket-deer-belly]

the older i get the more it's terrifying to me how much child surveillance is normalized. scared for your child's mental health? here's more tools that will make them feel even more watched at all times. child is experimenting with their gender identity while away from you? we made it this other adult's job to surveil them for you. kid is "enjoying" their "free time" instead of doing homework? we've put parental controls on the things that they like so that you can monitor their private time. like can we fucking stop

[larkandkatydid]

Certainly, we have all seen booktok confess to the most deranged behavior, so i will believe almost any ludicrous story about them.

However, I have also found that it is a genuine phenomenon where people who don’t read very much are convinced that nobody actually enjoys reading and one way this manifests online is people insisting that people who read more than they do, even when they themselves are not readers, are lying, cheating, disassociating, etc. So, to see someone make a claim about about booktok while also asserting that reading 30 books in an entire year is some kind of unheard of achievement, then maybe that is another non-reader with a bizarre and paranoid hang up about readers.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

How about instead of trying to separate people into “readers and non-readers” (what I’m reading as yet another flavour of good vs bad), we meet people where they are and discuss what they’re reading and enjoying so we can offer suggestions.

[athingofvikings]

That would be lovely, yes, please.

[larkandkatydid]

I mean sure, we should always try to avoid making one’s actions into one’s identity. But I think part of the problem is treating “reader” as meaning “good person” and not “person who reads a lot and enjoys reading.” It’s not insulting to say that someone who genuinely finds it shocking and unbelievable that a person could read in an entire year the number of books I read last month does not have the same relationship to reading as a hobby that I do. Insisting that we not see this as a difference because actually nobody really enjoys reading and that people who claim to do so are morally shaming others is exactly what I’m complaining about.

[santhipoma]

I know non-readers feel shame in this discourse, but most of us live in the real world where the average coworker or relative looks at you like you’re crazy for being excited about going to the library.

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[implicatures]

I scrolled past this and like two posts later saw this absolutely perfect example of the way people use “capitalism” completely divorced from its meaning.

People have been dangerously adulterating their products to make a bigger profit for THOUSANDS of YEARS. Rome famously had problems with people selling counterfeit bread and doctored wine.

Capitalism might make these problems worse by concentrating power in the hands of fewer and larger corporations, but ultimately the problem vastly predates actual capitalism. Unscrupulous sellers have been endangering and ripping off their customers since there was such a thing as a marketplace, and governments have been regulating the market for almost as long.

[tuulikki]

Time to deploy my favourite history meme:

[spockwithacat]

I don’t really have any opinion on the Odyssey movie positive of negative but can people stop pretending to have read the Odyssey when they clearly haven’t. Just saw someone complaining that it looks like the movie is going to focus on the suitor and his sons storyline while that was barely part of the book they just want to focus on Odysseus and like hello? The first few chapters don’t even have him in it. Just tell me all you know is Epic the musical.

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[stephenroot]

idk at the end if the day maybe I really am just a curmudgeon but you simply will never convince me that mayor, senator, governor, or president are entry level jobs that can be done well with zero government or policy experience and the tremendous arrogance it takes to think they can should be disqualifying in and of itself.

[stephenroot]

I don’t disagree with you, particularly about the pay (public service is a highly skilled job and the pay should reflect that!) but I also think people underestimate how many opportunities for experience exist. I was reading this morning that in my state (Mass), 59% of state house and senate races this year are uncontested. I can’t tell you how many times I go to vote and every race lower than president, governor, or senate is uncontested or worse, will tell me to pick three from a list of two. Library, school, town, and city boards and committees are begging people to show up and participate, and most of the time it’s the same tiny group of people over and over again and then everyone wonders why nothing ever changes.

[achillesinhighheels]

when people use their laptops on the train i'm like is anything really THAT serious

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know Andy Weir for his multiple best-selling novels that have been turned into wildly successful blockbuster movies. I know Andy Weir from his badly-drawn webcomic where he shipped himself with Satan. We are not the same

[xenomutt]

What an incredible blast from the past. That Satan-as-waifu probably has had an influence with a wider reach than I can appreciate.

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[elektracomplecks]

real love makes your lungs black

(akusai is so good when you dont have a bitch in your ear telling you they cant be together if saix is canon compliant abusive. let him terrorize axel dont act like the bit in the manga where saix cleaves axel in half isnt hot)

[parakeet]

has anyone else noticed they still havent invented a pocket dimension where time stands still where one can go to sort their shit out? so you just have to either try in this go go go ass world to find the time, or die unresolved? just something i've noticed.

[tockthewatchdog]

i really think this tweet is onto something

[orphanedsource]

the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

[revcleo]

This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.

This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.

[penrosesun]

I have a friend who was strongly against inclusive bathrooms because he felt that “bathroom stalls are already really exposed due to how they’re constructed, so no wonder women don’t want men in the same bathrooms as them” and when I pointed out that we could just… build better bathrooms… with less exposed stalls, he got really quiet and then said “honestly that sounds so much better, but there must be some problem with building them like that, because otherwise wouldn’t we already be doing it?” BESTIE we are. WE ARE. Old-style bathrooms are cheaply made, poorly designed, and all around bad. Haven’t you noticed that men’s restrooms rooms get weirdly sticky? Haven’t you noticed that women’s restrooms end up with giant lines? This is because these rooms are architecturally awful. And we can do better now, because we know more! And we are!!! People are actively designing better bathrooms that address known problems, and guess what: those bathrooms are “inclusive” in the same way that curb-cuts are inclusive. It doesn’t matter if the ramp was built for a wheelchair or a stroller; it doesn’t matter if the bathrooms were designed specifically for gender inclusivity or just because fall-apart-if-you-sneeze-on-them metal stall dividers with giant ass peek gaps suck. We can in fact improve our built environment to better meet our needs. Stop cutting off your nose to spite your face; stop settling for less just because someone else might also enjoy it.