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charlesoberonn

I love using adjectives and adverbs in a technically correct "road work ahead - I sure hope it does" way.

"This lawyer is very litigous."

"This priest is religiously devoted to his job."

"This salmon tastes fishy."

"This drill is really boring."

64mpg

anon who seems to be under the impression that you have had extensive PR training because you have a post with more than 10k notes would like to ask you a bad faith question about the current state of the world

tpwrtrmnky

Fucking incredible that this is the first example they used lmao

bunnygirlpaws

the last one is pretty funny too

natalieironside

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

natalieironside

I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍

evilwizard

you can differentiate me from weevilwizard via subtle variations in our proboscis

weeeeevilwizard

We also have different color hats. Mine is a much more tasteful jet black, while yours is pitch-black.

evilwizard

ive gotta stop accidentally summoning gimmick blogs into existence

elvis-official

I know how you feel hummina hummina hummina. I can't say anything here without a new Elvis. Why are there so many Elvii. Why

evilwizard

you’re the only one who understands me elvis

magicratfingers

kaijuno

Cats have to put up with being picked up and getting kissies and being cradled like the little baby and it’s so funny to me because like. They chose that. They domesticated themselves

kaijuno

"I suppose I shall tolerate the kisses from mama and papa... it will result in my kin 2000 years from now getting treats and scratchy posts for free..."

kaijuno

And it will make me cry forever and ever that the first recorded cat name was "Sweetie"

thememedaddy

morally-earl-gray

mfs be like "are you single or taken" and like technically im single but that implies that im availible, which i most definitely am not so yes im taken. im taken by me. you cant have me.

redstonedust

yknow when you can tell that someones opinion on the homeless is dictacted by the fact they seem to imagine every homeless person just like. spawned in the back alleys of a city as a fully grown scruffy hobo with no life goals other than scrounging enough pocket change for a hit of Drugs™ . like you suggest that perhaps a homeless person was not always homeless and probably had a life and a childhood like the rest of us and they blank like they genuinely didnt consider it. like they forgot thats a human being too.

ot3

i wish people were more capable of articulating critiques about exploitative conveniences like doordash without implying that the exploitation and the convenience are both equally objectionable.

immigrant

i kinda think it is because u cant rlly have one without the other

ot3

well see now i don't think that's true. its entirely possible to adequately compensate people to do stuff like "pick up and deliver food or other objects to someone's house," or any other kind of situation where you're paying someone else to do a task for you. it's the desire for third party entities to extract as much money as possible out of these interactions that causes the exploitation. like, having a neightborhood mailmain isn't exploitative just because there's a world where people could pick up their own mail at the post office because the mailman gets stuff like health insurance and paid leave and overtime.

neon-rose

I think there's a decent degree to which it depends on how much convenience you need (and at what price); mail delivery works wonderfully but it doesn't run individual trips from the post office to each house for each letter; food delivery is much more efficient when batched, but that means it takes longer and is less predictable, which would be less convenient.

ot3

i picked mail delivery as an example because it is a case of what in isolation would be almost unthinkable levels of convenience - people manually transporting packages hundreds of miles right to your doorstep over shockingly short periods of time for less than the cost of a cup of coffee - that is nevertheless extremely normal and benign due to the degree to which it has been effectively systematized and adequately compensated. but food delivery is already very much something that happens in scenarios that are significantly less exploitative than gig work while still being individual trips for specific people.

delivery drivers who are employees for restaurants are still bringing bespoke meals to your house on demand, and this is usually both cheaper And better compensated than gig work. some people have housekeepers or some kind of part time aide who will shop for them - elderly people more frequently so. obviously this is not a type of service that's super financially accessible for the average person, but when you consider how many grocery stores have started offering pickup orders at no additional cost, you can see how it could be feasible for a situation analogous to the post office to crop up in this space. grocery store employees who are already making an hourly wage based on the profits of the groceries get paid to prepare the orders for pick up, and a second person who is more like a mailman than an instacarter could do nothing more than pick up and deliver all orders for specific areas. much more efficient - and so much less costly - than each of those households needing to pay someone to spend an hour of their time in a grocery store on their behalf. we used to have a whole person whose job it was to bring fresh milk to your house every morning when that was a service the average person had a demand for.

i just feel like saying "how much convenience you need" kind of gives away the game on how much unexamined ableism plays into a lot of these discussions. without getting into the weeds of where one draws the line between convenience and accommodation, i really don't think that there are universally applicable 'quantities' or severity of convenience. there are just conveniences that are taken for granted and conveniences that aren't.

can having someone go to the grocery store for you really be thought of as "more convenience" than having an entire government agency with thousands of employees in place to hand deliver pieces of paper to the homes of every person in the country? personally i think not, but the difference is that mail delivery is something that almost everybody needs and wants, and the people who need or want grocery delivery are seen as only being in that position because there's something Wrong with us. we're too sick or too old. or we're just lazy. we just don't want to interact with people because the internet has made everyone misanthropic shut ins.

do you see what i mean?

galindatopland

women are half the population

galindatopland

pick your warrior

galindatopland

cross-entropy-commandant

Everyone acts like 13 year olds are fragile little babies that will explode if they hear a cuss word or the faintest suggestion of sex as if 13 year olds aren't getting into their first relationships or fantasising about another kid in their class or making casual rape jokes or swearing when teachers aren't around to tell them to stop. I can still remember what it was like to be 13 years old, and I can remember what every other 13 year old I knew then was like when adults weren't around. The idea that young teens are innocent and need to be protected from "adult" topics is entirely just an idea imposed upon them rather than an accurate assessment of the real psychological conditions of being a kid in the early stages of puberty wanting to assert yourself as an independent person more.

gauntletqueen

a speedrunner, while moving through an unrendered void at a thousand miles an hour because they punched a goat in a weird way: okay coming up is one of the hardest bosses in the entire game luckily we’ve tricked the game into thinking we’re holding a billion guns at once so he should be easy aaand done now we’re gonna throw this spoon at the wall to skip the cutscene and kill our own dad to end the game early and that’s time thanks guys

fluffy-sphinx

fat furry raichu boobs pressing against you in the shower ok?

getrealprim

Ok just no thunderbolts this time

touhou-noncon

yuriwinged

the prince has begun practicing curtseying in the mirror. which could mean nothing.

heydocverdant

we have good news and bad news, my liege. the good news is that we now know what that curtsying was about: you will be pleased to know that, after several heartfelt conversations between your child, the court jesters and a myriad of singing woodland creatures, you are now the parent of a proud and joyful new princess. the bad news is that, due to a series of events related to the dragon-sized hole in her bedchamber wall,