you guys don’t even understand what GoodTimesWithScar means to me. Funniest character to ever exist. He’s the server’s sexy pool boy and marriage counselor and he’s bad at all of his jobs and you can never tell if it’s through intentional sabotage or genuine incompetence and then you see him build the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen and log out. He’s not a himbo because he’s a genius and master manipulator but he decided a long time ago that he cares more about having abs and giant tits than proving to anyone that he’s smart. He can cry on command and make you think he’s the most helpless creature on the planet and then turn around and fire an arrow from 200 blocks away and get a headshot and kill you. And then he turns around trips over his own feet and drowns in four inches of water. I’m literally obsessed with him
As someone who has held several management positions with hiring responsibility, this is true. The boss at my last job informed me before I conducted my very first I interview,
“You can’t outright ask someone if they have a car or have kids. That’s technically illegal. But you need to know because sometimes they can be deal breakers. You can just say ‘Do you have reliable transportation?’ and ‘Do you have any current circumstances that could impede you from being successful at work?’
To which the last one most people fumble and would say, “Well I have kids, so sometimes they could get sick. But that’s not often.” But then your potential employer could mark it down on your interview notes nonetheless.
I thought that maybe it was just my own employer. But now I noticed that I am asked both of these almost every time I interview for a job.
Language is very sneaky. Be careful how you answer. Corporations can be snakes.
In my businesses class my professor told us that the bus counts as reliable transportation. You do not legally have to say “I take the bus” just say “yes I do have reliable transportation” and leave it at that. Do not over share. DO NOT OVER SHARE. The second question just say no. If your kids are sick call out as if you are sick. I don’t have kids but I myself can get sick and that doesn’t hinder my ability to succeed so kids getting sick shouldn’t hinder you. When I call out I give as little info as possible. No one needs to know why you call out. They can’t ask about your “illness” because it violates HIPAA if they do. So as long as you don’t offer more info than you need to you should be okay.
Yeah ive always lied when they ask the transport one, i say 'lied' cause i know what they Mean, but its fucking bullshit. Like dude i just researched your company, the location, the nearest bus stops, the bus times, bus frequency, figured out the earliest possible times i could get to work, and the latest i could possibly go home, i always leave an extra half hour early to make sure any bus delays dont fuck me over, and i always have emergency cash to top up my bus card just in case.
If i could not reasonably confirm that i can get there in 90 mins or less, i wouldn't be filling out your stupid questions.
They do NOT have to worry about how im getting there. Just that im there. On time. Ready to go.
I hate solving a gazillion riddles just to get to the extra-hard-riddles stage and then no further, them using shady ass questions like these sucks all the more
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
never feel like i can reblog any posts about how i love seeing men beat up and crying and being miserable bc i feel like a lot of them originate from a place of not liking men. you want to see men having a miserable time because you hate men. i want to see men having a miserable time because im a sadomasochist faggot who loves them. we are not the same.
Genius: an amazing lyrics site which comes with annotations to analyse the song while you listen.
AZLyrics: an oldie but a goodie, archives all of an artist's songs with their lyrics. The homepage sucks, and it littered with adds, but it does the job.
Lyrics.Com: does the same thing as AZ, with fewer adds.
DarkLyrics: For if you're a metal fan like myself.
I know many people dont have the storage to spare, but i swear to god if you do? Mp3 player. Laptop? Phone? A fucking 3ds? Your fridge?? Who knows. Download your songs. Theres websites that let you mass download straight from a spotify playlist (covers and tag data included!) and sites that can turn your liked playlist into a normal one, too
(i dont have any links atm sorry)
(also remember to use UBlock and be careful what you download, folks)
Its game changing. And if you're tight on space but got a lil to spare? Dont download high quality, go medium, it still sounds perfectly fine to most people, trust me. Hell, low standards? Got shit headphones anyways? Download in low quality. As a tip: i dont personally got a method for fixing this, but, songs with directional sound are Double the file size they'd otherwise be, since its essentially two slightly different audio tracks playing at once, so to halve directional songs sizes make sure to find/alter it into a single track
Not only is the delay between songs gone, but so is every advertisement ever, every skip limit, sure lyrics weren't included in the downloads i did for my songs, but you can copy paste that shit in there yourself with a song tag editor! And many mp3 players will show those lyrics for you!
Im done bending backwards for corporations just cause "thats how it is" or "its just the best we have"
It isnt. It doesn't have to be.
Spotify lost me because the day to day inconvenience of using their app became greater than the hour i spent finding and queuing up downloads for 760 somn songs.
TLDR: the little while it takes to set your songs up on an mp3 player is probably gonna be more worth it than using an app that is chocking the life from itself
and my hc/traffic designs WILL be drawn on whiteboard fox TRY AND STOP ME (its mostly because i still dont have batteries for my stylus and its more comfortable to draw on whiteboard with my finger)
there’s been so many amazing moments during the Hermitcraft charity livestream day but this is one of my favourites. Skizz’s horse just died and Grian gets him to try a jaffa cake for the first time. seeing these two interacting IRL is so emotional and wholesome 😭
Because the majority of human existence has not been to the knowledge and supply level we are at now. You can’t just give someone electrolytes in the 19th century, you have no idea what the fuck they are. Someone is sick, and can only keep weak liquids down, but you know enough at this point to realise that man cannot live on water alone. So you work out really weird ways to infuse foodstuffs into liquids they can handle to try and keep food into them.
A lot of these also come from a way to stretch nutrient sources in times of poverty and scarcity.
Thank you for this addition. People are curiously comfortable assuming everyone in the past was stupid and illogical, and it’s always struck me as showing a sad lack of empathy for fellow human beings. It’s like people in the past aren’t seen as, you know, people
Your local 19th century PhD researcher popping in here to add to this. Toast water is 100% a drink for treating illness. It turns up listed in several household medicine guides in the 19th century, and is listed as for treating people with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, who can’t keep anything down. It’s essentially oral rehydration therapy.
It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).
And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK.
It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients.
Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.
People in the past were just people. And in this particular case, they were trying to keep their loved ones from dying of cholera.
And here is a link to possibly my fave ever book, with some modern recipes to do the same job , including the water you cooked rice in with the water you cooked rice in plus half a teaspoon of salt - so really toast water was pretty smart - https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Dehydration#Rehydration_drinks
He is nine years old and alone in the world when he finds her.
He has to fight through zombie hoards to get to her, to where she’s lying in the dust in the shattered remains of a building. A stuffed animal, fabric faded with time and the elements, but still recognizable as resembling a cat. Scar picks her up and takes her back to his bunker, and believes she might be the only soft thing left in the world.
and the universe said you have played the game well
She is not real, made of cloth and button eyes, but Scar loves her like she is. He calls her Jellie — named because of the jelly stain he’d accidentally bestowed upon her — and they go on grand adventures. They survive. He carries her in his backpack wherever he goes, and talks to her like she can hear. He hugs her at night, and when he’s scared, and when he’s lonely.
and the universe said everything you need is within you
She’s not real, but he wants her to be. More than anything, he wishes she was real. He wishes on every shooting star he sees, he begs with the desperate hope of a child to have a friend. He has never loved anything before, but he loves her. She’s the reason he knows he’s capable of it, even if she’s not really alive.
and the universe said you are stronger than you know
And then, suddenly, she is.
Later, he will know that his vex magic had done it. He will learn that there had been enough stubborn aching in his chest that his magic had taken it upon itself to act on it. He will know that he loved her into existence.
and the universe said you are the daylight
But that’s later, and when he wakes up at age eleven to the sound of purring and the sensation of whiskers on his face, all he thinks is that it’s a miracle. All he thinks is that he is finally not alone.
From then on, she’s there.
She’s there years later, when the hoards get the best of him, and she’s there in the world after that.
and the universe said you are the night
She’s there when he meets Cub, when Scar realizes what he is.
and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you
She’s there when he joins Hermitcraft, chasing butterflies while Scar gathers resources.
She’s there when he is elected mayor, laying in the sun in his office, leaving inky pawprints on his paperwork.
and the universe said the light you seek is within you
She’s there as Scar builds forests, and mountains, and trees. She’s there as he builds Swaggons, and giant drills, and amusement parks. She’s there as Scar builds his friendships, as Scar builds a family he’d never thought he could have with the hermits.
and the universe said you are not alone
She is there when the moon falls from the sky, and she’s there with them in the void when they escape it.
She is there as Scar builds Scarland, and makes her the mascot. She is there when Scar builds the happiest place on Hermitcraft and themes it after her, because she makes him happy.
and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing
But she was made with magic, and even magic has a limit. When it’s time to move on to the next world, Jellie stays behind. She is sleeping on a bench in Scarland, basking in the sun, whiskers twitching as she dreams, and that is where she will stay.
and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code
When Scar leaves, he floats in the space between worlds and cries, and hears voices. There are always voices, between worlds. The same ones they hear in the end, after the dragon is defeated. He’s never heard them quite as clearly as he does now.
[ She was very happy. ] one of the voices says, comforting, and Scar startles, looking around. [ You made her happy. ]
The phantom feeling of fur brushes against his hand.
“Did she know?” Scar asks, voice cracking. “Did she know I loved her?”
[ She was born knowing it. ] another voice says. [ She was born because you loved her. ]
and the universe said i love you, because you are love.
When Scar reaches the next world, she’s not there, and now when he sees shooting stars, all he wishes for is that wherever she is, it is warm, and she is dreaming.
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