Basic Bitch Shit

Sometimes funny, sometimes cool, mostly me... Shady, 20, DFW

[vikingfunerals]

the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.

[theconcealedweapon]

[1percentcharge]

momentarily had the thought “shout out to my platonic harem” and then remembered that’s called friends

[aromanticduck]

I came up with this three-way table to help me (and now you, if you want) to rate things out of 5 stars. I was thinking of books and films when I made it, but you can probably use it for other stuff.

The idea is that you rate the thing on how much stuff you loved and how much stuff you hated, and those things weight against each other. There's only one way to get 5 stars or 1 star, so those should end up as the rarest ratings, wtih 3 stars being the most common.

'Spicy' means that the thing inspires emotion, whether positive or negative, while 'bland' means it doesn't affect you much either way.

An example of a 3-star (spicy) - for me personally - would be the Twilight series, because there's plenty of garbage in there but also some things that are like crack to me. I can't think of an example of a 3 star (bland) because by nature they don't stick in the mind.

(This also assumes giving 0 stars isn't allowed. That'd throw it out of whack...)

[thegrimcaptain95]

I absolutely love this bc it’s so like the risk assessment matrix for hazards

[aromanticduck]

Assessing your risk of enjoying a piece of media

[anglaised]

like straight men know they r harming and neglecting and preying on women bc they dont treat other men that way 😭 they dont “just try to be friends” with random guys at the grocery store… they dont follow other men to their cars at night in hopes of getting their phone numbers….they dont offer to buy random guys drinks hopes of intoxicating them enough to fuck…they don’t invite their guy friends out to eat with the only intention of getting sex after bc of seeing the interaction as transactional, i promise they know they r being shitty 2 women…and they like 2 do it specifically bc they r doing it to women

[kitkatkarmaa532]

have you considered it’s because they’re attracted to women not men

[anglaised]

i didnt know attraction to women required harassing them, stalking them, purposeful deceit, attempts to intoxicate them to make them easier to sleep with or general abuse…….maybe just maybe……..the attraction is not what is being criticized but the active participation in harming and targeting women with violence and manipulation that they dont do to other men because they see other man as human beings who are undeserving of such behavior and see women as sex objects to be conquered or used for personal gain

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[dirt-mann]

"without modifying" how dare you insult the hard work of our landlords

[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

[tpwrtrmnky]

"screen time screen time screen time screeeeEEEEEEEE" before the smartphone, kids were so bored they'd play with explosives, vandalize local infrastructure and harass old people for entertainment.

fund libraries. fund makerspaces. fund youth sports. enable kids to actually go places without having to ask someone to drive them everywhere. excessive reliance on digital spaces is a symptom of having nothing else to do.

[sophie-frm-mars]

Reposting Sarah bc she's the goat 🐐

sarah zedig 🐐 (@hmsnofun.bsky.social)

radioactive hot take but someone hurting you does not give you the right to hurt them back indefinitely

[programmerhumour]

Once upon a time…

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

[thebeanestbad]

[personification-of-anxiety]

I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are

[triassictriserratops]

[leviathan-supersystem]

I feel like a lot of people say "The Left" when really they just mean "women" or even just "a woman"

[leviathan-supersystem]

did "The Left" call you a misogynistic creep, or did a random woman on the bus tell you to leave her alone

[ambiguous-brother]

i need this guy penetrated

[saltoncity]

scientists are trying to discover something harder than getting out of bed to go to work in the morning. and dont make a fucking penis joke ok they already checked everyone’s dick and it doesn’t even come close

[etirabys]

I deserve more credit for not picking stupid fights on the internet than a nice person who doesn't pick fights does, because I have an unpleasant personality and it's harder for me

[mxjackparker]

some of you need to re-learn the word "selfish" and stop calling everyone a fucking narcissist

[tlirsgender]

Really the kicker about discussing colonialism intrinsic to certain fictional tropes/archetypes/genres/what-have-you is that white bitches et al get SO mad about it. "Ohh so I'm not allowed to play farming sims? Wearing a silly hat makes me a fascist now?" I was just exercising critical thought but yknow what? Just for you? Yeah it does

[tlirsgender]

& it really speaks for... a certain way of thinking about how racism works, the way they'll jump to this dichotomy of Allowed vs Not Allowed. Cause that's not really how it works. If we actually wanted to simply #cancel everything with any sort of Historical Context or Unsavory Implications it'd never fucking end, due to the world that we live in. Good thing we're just telling you to think even a little bit about the ideas you engage with & this suggestion makes people Really Mad

[tlirsgender]

It's that whole thing of, like, being more afraid of being labelled A Racist than really caring about minimizing harm. "Oohh this thing I like can't be racist because I'm Not Racist" no ❤

[theconcealedweapon]