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washingtonpost

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see.

washingtonpost

Reminder: this is how you steal an election.

commandtower-solring-go-deactiv

Gerymandering is rearranging the electoral regions in order to manipulate the vote in favour of one party

thesassyducks

Cuteness Overload 😍🥰🤩 (via)

guerrillatech

"Folks, this what "reopening the economy" is all about. It's not about getting things going again. It's about forcing people to make the impossible choice of returning to work, or staying home for their protection and that of their family, at the cost of all income and safety net provisions (because they're CHOOSING not to work).

In the middle of a pandemic.

This is soulless. Ironically being driven by a faction that fetishizes religiousity."

blighted-elf

Ohhhhhh my god

0meadow-deactivated20200602

me designing a search feature: actually it’s good that you can’t find what you’re looking for

mysharona1987

whitepeopletwitter

ainaraoftime-deactivated2025020

one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips being “ham-flavored, probably”

ainaraoftime-deactivated2025020

y’see because spain and portugal are so close, labels in stuff like food, shampoo, etc often come in portuguese as well as spanish

this brand of chips, Lay’s, displays the flavor in spanish and portuguese, resulting in ham-flavored chips looking like this:

with “jamón” being spanish and “presunto” being portuguese

however, “presunto” is also a spanish adjective, meaning “presumed” (or suspected)

so you have this in-joke going where spanish chips taste like ham, presumably

whitepeopletwitter

heyheyrich-deactivated20220813

This is actually a fascinating concept called the marginal propensity of consumption. It BASICALLY means that each additional dollar to a poor person (Like someone on minimum wage) is comparatively more valuable than each additional dollar to a wealthy person (like a millionaire or billionaire) because the poor person is more likely to go spend it on a good or service whereas the wealthy person will stick it in an offshore account.

With the poor person, it will continue changing hands within the economy and get spent more often, leading to higher economic output. The wealthy person takes that dollar out of the economy by sticking it in a bank account to grow their wealth, and the dollar effectively becomes useless and stops changing hands.

whitepeopletwitter

heyheyrich-deactivated20220813

This is actually a fascinating concept called the marginal propensity of consumption. It BASICALLY means that each additional dollar to a poor person (Like someone on minimum wage) is comparatively more valuable than each additional dollar to a wealthy person (like a millionaire or billionaire) because the poor person is more likely to go spend it on a good or service whereas the wealthy person will stick it in an offshore account.

With the poor person, it will continue changing hands within the economy and get spent more often, leading to higher economic output. The wealthy person takes that dollar out of the economy by sticking it in a bank account to grow their wealth, and the dollar effectively becomes useless and stops changing hands.

socialistsephardi

A handful of Jewish quotes that we should all keep in mind

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” - Talmud

“Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof” (Justice, Justice you shall pursue) - Torah

“If you were there and the Romans or Babylonians were about to destroy Jerusalem, and you had the power to something about it, would you sit and mourn and cry? Or would you turn world upside down to change history? So, what is stopping you? Overturn the world today!” - R"Menachem Mendel Scheerson

“there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest” - Elie Wiesel

“the status of those who observe oppression and remain silent is equal to the status of those who commit the oppression themselves”- Ibn Ezra

raven-reconciling

He said y’all can shove it with your unhealthy fitness routines to make male heroes look unrealistically buff. Honestly? King 👑

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

There are honestly some abysmal takes in these notes. Y’all realize that men are often pressured into literally starving a dehydrating themselves to look demigod level buff right? There is no reason for anybody, male or female, to unhealthily push their bodies just to be better eye candy while playing make believe for strangers. He didn’t say he was binging on hot Cheetos and tater tots. He’s still maintaining a healthy diet, he’s just not working himself to death.

astralcities

the idea of getting banned from twitter for saying mean things is so unbelievably foreign to me . every time this site updates people tag staff and say shit like “gargle my dick and balls” whereas on twitter if you insinuate that maybe you’re not the greatest fan of Papa John’s and would like to stop seeing their ads twitter kicks your account into the void for a week