bike route road rage

Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?

[regina-bithyniae]

[crownedstoat]

In 1907 became the fastest man on earth riding his V-8 motorcycle to a land speed record of 136 miles per hour. Faster than any automobile. Faster than any aircraft. On a motorcycle who was barely more than a bicycle with a big V-8 stuck in the middle. Fearless doesn’t start to describe the ride he made into the record books.

[thiagodasilva]

3 red cards in the opening match, we’re so fucking back

[theunbearablelightnessofbeeing]

Desmonds + Reductress Headlines (12)

[mercutao]

[regina-bithyniae]

waiting for my painkillers and cold cure and coffee and cough syrup to kick in this morning and transform me into a semi functional human being

[riverofmolecules]

true allyship

[aletheyass]

tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

[apas-95]

wgat did u say

[argumate]

so much crime discourse is implicitly predicated on there being an ontological distinction between Criminals and Ordinary People that the justice system should be able to immediately intuit by mystical introspection, like why would you let Criminals out on bail? why would you put Ordinary People on trial? if police already knew who was guilty in advance then their actions really would look even more perverse than they already are!

[regina-bithyniae]

It's pretty easy for the justice system to tell who's already been convicted of 3+ crimes, or had a dozen prior arrests, actually. The super-repeat crimes georgs do make themselves quite known.

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

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

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

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.

[antique-scarecrow]

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.

[antiterfbutch]

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[powermonger]

“they have not been an impressive 200 years”

you don’t need to reference GDP statistics to see that something extraordinary happened in the last 200 years [graph source]

[regina-bithyniae]

Maybe the socialists just like when child mortality is high and life expectancy and literacy rates are low and everyone is impoverished and short?

[regina-bithyniae]

Wowee I am short of breath right now, just a little too much air and it's a coughing fit for poor little bithy

[regina-bithyniae]

99% of coughers stop coughing one cough before they finally cough It All Out for real this time

[regina-bithyniae]

Wowee I am short of breath right now, just a little too much air and it's a coughing fit for poor little bithy

[homunculus-argument]

Everyone you've ever had sex with gets put into the same room, and they're only freed once they figure out what they all have in common. How long will it take for them to figure it out?

Never. They are all tragically stupid.

Odds are low, they are very varied, but they might figure it out in under 24 hr

A few hours, tops. I have a type.

Unclear. There's very few of them.

Unclear. There's too many of them.

There are too many things they all have in common with each other.

Empty chairs at empty tables (never been fucked)

I've only slept with one person so this scenario can't apply to me

I'm too bald and vanilla to answer this. Results please.

Voting ended onMay 25

[cryptotheism]

What do you mean I have to feed my warriors every day? #FAILGENERAL

[regina-bithyniae]

TIRED OF feeding your soldiers every day? Local peasants HATE this ONE EASY TRICK

[markovchaingang]

all we want is stricter moderation with fewer false positives at no extra cost. is that really too much to ask?

[regina-bithyniae]

Gold staking three jokers in one run! Usually I get burned hard trying to do this. And one is the last Legendary I need.

At this point I'm at 89% Joker stickers, with only the truly useless still needing to be Gold'd. I'm playing very casually but Completionist++ is within reach.

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[regina-bithyniae]

In many of these cases the answer is that the average, loser/idiot coded character needs to be male or else people would think the character is meant as a criticism of all women. We feel much more comfortable laughing at men!