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[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[omnipotina]

Settle a bet.

Who wins in a fight?

Kronk

Gaston

Voting ended onSep 7, 2023

[beemojis]

soooo true bestie

[wintermoth]

NO ONE GETS THEIR ASS BEAT IN A POLL LIKE GASTON

[depsidase]

[supercyclistmamanut]

We all know things are fucked here, right?

I mean - more so than previously stated, we are fucked in short- to mid-term sense, and possibly longer than that. This idiotic war that throttled off a fifth - 20% - of the worlds energy supply was the start. And added to that, we're EXPORTING oil from OUR STRATEGIC OIL RESERVE. WE'RE SELLING OUR BACKUP OIL. Everything MADE with petroleum is going to be harder to get starting in the next few months - plastics, medications like tylenol and advil, etc. Electricity prices were already going up with the freaking AI data centers popping up nationwide, but now with LNG being in shorter supply, we're going to pay more per kilowatt hour, with no guarantee that we won't see brown- and black-outs. Fertilizer is also a petroleum by product, and it was also stopped at Hormuz - both production and shipping are more difficult, and fertilizer application is time sensitive - the application window has already passed for many crops. And unfortunately, modern conventional agriculture REQUIRES fertilizer, because conventional farming methods have stripped the topsoil of nutrients. Maybe this will be one of the things that pushes more farmers to regenerative practices, but what's more likely to happen is farmers will go bankrupt, and their land will be bought by developers. The end result will be less food will be grown. Gas prices are already at near historic highs. We need to switch back to remote work where at all possible, improve and expand public transit, and set up "low speed lanes" on every surface road with more than one lane each way. The "low speed lanes" would be separated by cones or soft hit posts, and would allow bikes, scooters, e-bikes, and golf carts to travel safely, alongside but separated from full speed vehicles. We need to grow food. Starting now, and everywhere. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are forgiving, easy, calorie-dense crops that can grow in buckets on balconies. Beans are a good companion plant for potatoes, and tomatoes grow well with sweet potatoes, so you can grow two foods in one bucket. If you have your own land, please plant fruit trees, nut trees, and berry plants - they'll take some time before they give back, but once they do, they'll produce food without major interference from you. You CAN get nutty with spraying, pruning, and fiddling with the trees, but you don't have to. I'm saying all this to urge you to action, but also to help you understand what's coming. If you can see the pattern, if you can see that we're going to run up against crazy high prices, product shortages, and potential food shortages, it won't come as such a shock when it hits. And it will hit.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

[quorpiest]

no mi circo no mis feratus

[rejectingrepublicans]

[lazyvoidprince]

this is so simple the rich can't see it

[iwillrefuse-deactivated20260207]

always reblog

[billydean63]

It has nothing to do with care or caring. We elect politicians to work for us. Once in office they do the bidding of whoever buys them. At least prostitutes have standards!

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[zethsnex]

This better work cause I really need smth good tmr

[supercyclistmamanut]

The US is fucked up

we're starting WWIII, Everything is fucked, but I'm learning to knit socks. My husband has been dealing with some maybe-cancer-maybe-not bullshit for about 9 months, and knitting is portable stress relief that makes something useful. And for some reason, I have locked on socks as being the most amazing knitting skill ever, far beyond a cable knit sweater or fancy lace, and I am making my first pair of sock-weight-yarn socks. (For the non-yarn-people, there are different thicknesses of yarn, and sock yarn is rather fine and thin. Great on the feet, but it takes a lot more stitches, rows, and work to make anything from it.) I'm not going to protests, I have to be available to my family in case of emergency. And the protests have been energetic, but lacking a clear purpose beyond "this sucks". But I have a lot of my permaculture garden planted, and I'm knitting. Things will get bad. And then worse. But I will be able to make socks. I had to give up my chickens for fear of infecting my immunocompromised husband, but I have fruit trees and yarn. It helps a little. got a skill? Practice it, please. It may be needed.

[cripple-punk-dad]

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

[fandomshatefatpeople]

Sharing for accessibility

[catgirlwheels]

Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

[wishuponastarion]

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

[prokopetz]

The funniest thing about how maids are depicted in a certain kind of fiction is that, like, at least half the time the people who ostensibly own the place don't even really seem to want them to be there? It's often genuinely unclear who their actual employer is, or whether they're getting paid at all – it's like looking at a universe where if you build a fancy enough house, maids just show up, like rats.

[alpharaposa]

Imagine such a universe. And they immediately begin setting everything in order the way they please.

Because they show up any place suitably fancy, they show up in the wizard's tower and start organizing the books and cleaning out the cupboards of reagents. Even dungeons that have too much class run the risk of attracting a small pack of maids who'll clean the place up and make it- shudder- livable. Totally ruins the use of a dungeon.

Nobody hires them. Nobody lets them in. But once a pack of maids are established, you can't be rid of them. The ones inside let in others. Money or goods disappear like a hidden tax. Carefully hoarded supplies get turned into fancy meals and clothes, whether they were supposed to be used that way or not. Every barracks is as plain as possible to try to avoid summoning such a curse.

The wizard who lives in a leaky hut on stilts might be miserable in wet weather, but at least he knows that the dragon dung for his experiments won't get thrown out with the garbage.

[darael]

This is a simple matter of harmonious methods of coexistence having been neglected. The vast majority of maid packs (or "staffs") are not in fact wild, but feral, and are comparatively easy to re-domesticate if you know what you're doing. Why else do you think they're called "domestic servants"?

But maids require enrichment. You don't have to worry about space — a staff will generally only move into an area that's already large enough for its needs — but they still want to feel useful. They need ingredients for meals and materials for clothing, but if these are provided and it is clearly communicated which stores contain the supplies they need, they will be absolutely meticulous about sticking to them. Managing such matters is easier if you can promote one of your maids to Cook or Butler: these senior positions in a staff server vital regulatory functions in keeping the rest of the staff from either becoming bored (which can cause them to get inventive in undesired ways) or overtired (which can cause internal conflict). A settled staff will either promote its own senior members, or ask you to make the selection. If you can achieve both, so much the better: a well-matched Cook and Butler pair can be among the most potent organising forces on forty-five planes of existence. Note that, in smaller staffs, a Housekeeper may arise instead of a Cook, but is perfectly capable of performing most of the same jobs. Lack of Senior Staff is the number one cause of maid friction. If items are being misfiled or moved from day to day, this is a result of not allowing your staff to spawn seniors.

Learning to live with a staff certainly comes with a period of adjustment may make your dungeon livable, yes, but they were bred to serve the aristocracy and as such have an innate understanding that some living areas are meant to be fancier than others — so show them that some areas are for residents, some for staff, some for guests, and some for prisoners and they will maintain each accordingly. Maids are also capable of being effective dungeon guards, being naturals at observation and stealth. They won't be overpowering prisoners or intruders, but they are perfectly able to trap them and you may even find your staff developing rare "battle-maid" variants.

Your reagent cupboards will be cleared out, yes, but if you put a sheet out nearby with a heading such as "reagent inventory" then you will find that rather than thrown out they will instead be organised, and you'll get a list detailing exactly how much of which reagents you have in stock, too. You're worried about your dragon dung being tossed? Have a quick word with a maid and ask for a container to keep it in. Don't expect to be presented with such a thing — rather, within a day or two you'll walk into your workshop and find that a dragon dung bin has quietly been installed, labelled, and filled.

Valuables going missing is a concern. Labour must be rewarded and maids know this as well as any human. The trick here is to either leave a labelled pay packet out regularly or, if you've managed to obtain a Butler or Housekeeper, speak to them directly and explain how to draw from your designated treasury. (Look, you're of a social stratum to be maintaining a mansion, castle, or arcane tower. You have a treasury, even if you don't realise it yet. You may have to ask your Butler to oversee its organisation in the first place, though.)

In short: once a pack of feral maids moves into your property, yes, they are difficult to get rid of — but treat them well and you'll never want to.

[itsdetachable]

Let’s be honest - Everest should be cut off from climbers, and the only people that should be allowed up there are ppl who volunteer to clean up all the garbage and human excrement adrenaline junkies have left up there over the decades, and anyone who volunteers to attempt to bring down any bodies of those who died.

The ascent is too dangerous, too many ill-equipped and unprepared climbers try to make the climb, and too much garbage is piling up and poisoning the run off that communities around Everest rely on to live.

[radiojamming]

Reminder that:

Rainbow Valley, for all its macabre connotations, is also a literal trash heap.

Base Camp and ABC are worse. The entire route is lined with garbage.

The Sherpa population receive little credit for incredible amount of work they do, often doing most of the work of the climber or team so that the team takes all the credit. It’s true that there’s a monetary benefit for their communities, but their job is also one of the most dangerous in the world.

There are documented crimes on Everest. Theft and assault are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Theft of oxygen tanks and other vital equipment can seriously endanger climbers. Entire books have been written about this.

People have been left to die on the climb. In some places, depending on the altitude, it becomes unavoidable or near impossible to move someone down the mountain. However, there have been avoidable deaths, again well-documented. Some climbers even say they have something called “summit fever” where only the climb has meaning, and not their fellow climbers. 

It’s overcrowded. The victory’s lost most of its meaning. Just let it be.

[meatcrimes]

this is another reason why land back / indigenous sovereignty is so important. give the mountain back to the people who’ve been taking care of it for centuries and let them have full control over it legally. let them decide if it should or shouldn’t be a tourist attraction or if people should be allowed to climb it. just defer to Sherpa people when it comes to anything to do with Sagarmāthā

[gay-jesus-probably]

I mean, you’re absolutely right that the situation on Sagarmāthā (aka Mount Everest) is a real problem, but ‘ban everyone from it forever’ is a take that misses a lot of nuance, and will just make a lot more problems. The mountaineering industry is an absolutely vital part of Nepal’s economy, and  Sagarmāthā is a fair chunk of that. There’s a reason so many people choose to do something as dangerous as guidework, and that’s because it’s really good money. If that shuts down entirely, lives will be destroyed. People will die. You’ll just trade one problem for another.

So what should be done?

Well, for a start, I think it helps to actually fucking listen to the people risking their lives working on that mountain. They don’t want it closed, because again, their lives will be ruined if that happens, but they DO want better regulations about who goes on the mountain, and what happens there.

See, you need a permit to climb Sagarmāthā , one issued by either the Nepalese or Chinese government, depending on where you start your ascent. And yes, multiple governments being involved makes it even more complicated, but let’s just focus on the Nepal side of things for now; the Chinese route is a real bitch to climb compared to the Nepal route so it doesn’t have such a tourist problem, and also the first step to any real solution there is for China to stop fucking occupying Tibet. So let’s focus on Nepal.

The permits are a very good thing; you need to pay to be issued one, which brings in money to the country, and it’s just common sense to regulate how many people are going up there. What’s not good is that the Nepalese government isn’t doing a very good job of regulating the permit sales; guides have been complaining for decades now about the government selling way too many permits, overcrowding the mountain, and allowing wildly unqualified people to go. One of the main things the Sherpa guide community wants is for the Nepalese government to sell less permits for Sagarmāthā, and make the skill/fitness requirements stricter. One popular proposal is to change the rules so that you need to have climbed at least one 8000m peak to be eligible to get a permit for Sagarmāthā. Since eight of the fourteen are in Nepal, this would keep money flowing, since people would need to do multiple trips, and it would also scare most of the dumbasses away - they want to be carried up the most famous mountain in the world so they can brag about summiting Everest. Having to climb a harder mountain first would make that look a lot less appealing, especially since K2 is a hellish death trap, and none of the other 8000′s have the same name recognition. You can’t really brag to your buddies at the office about having summited Dhaulagiri or Manaslu the same way you can brag about Everest. So that proposed rule change would scare off the tourists, and ensure every single person on Sagarmāthā is an experienced mountaineer that’s already experienced the death zone, as opposed to the current issue of multiple people that have literally never climbed before buying permits to go up Sagarmāthā.

They also want better regulations for the guide companies that can be hired for Sagarmāthā - there’s a huge problem of tourists paying for the cheaper guide companies, not realizing that the whole reason they’re cheap is because they take extremely dangerous shortcuts in their equipment maintenance. Those companies are a massive problem, and the legitimate guides hate them. So, so much. They put their clients in danger, they put their employees in danger, and they put everyone on the mountain with them in danger.

Finally, the guides need better pensions and life insurance, because the Nepalese government has a real problem of not paying the families nearly enough when a guide dies on the job. That was the entire reason for the 2014 strike - an avalanche struck the base camp during the pre-season, killing sixteen of the Sherpas that were laying down ropes for the season. The Nepalese government offered to compensate the families of the victims with just enough money to cover the funerals, which infuriated the entire Nepalese mountaineering community. They demanded that the mandatory life insurance policy have its payout doubled in the future, more money to be given to the families of the avalanche victims, and government payment of medical bills for the wounded. None of the demands were met, and so they went on strike for the year. The government did agree to give more money to the families… provided they presented the appropriate documents in Kathmandu, which isn’t really feasible for most people living in the Khumbu region, making them angrier. The life insurance payout was also raised, but only by half the amount the Sherpa’s had demanded.

To summarize: shutting down Sagarmāthā will fuck over the entire economy of Nepal, leading to people dying and lives being ruined. Listen to the fucking people you’re trying to advocate for. They want the Nepalese government to sell less permits to climb Sagarmāthā, have stricter rules about who can buy the permits, tighter regulations for guide companies, and more government assistance for guides and their families after an injury or death occurs. And yes, Sagarmāthā is a sacred place to the Sherpa people, and their religious leaders want everyone off the mountain… but let’s be real here, that’s never going to happen.

So, if this is an issue you care about, and you actually want to do something instead of making vague, impossible demands to feel good about yourself online, what can you do?

For a start, begin calling the mountain Sagarmāthā instead of Everest. Everest was only used as a name because Nepal and Tibet were closed to outsiders when the British were surveying the Himalaya’s in 1800′s, so they were unable to learn the mountains real name. And the surveyors were surprisingly serious about labelling mountains with the correct local names, which is why Everest and K2 are the only standouts among the 8000 meter peaks - K2 is so remote it never actually had a name, and the placeholder label of K2 stuck, while Sagarmāthā was believed to be the same situation and given a name instead. The only reason it’s still called Everest is because that’s the name that became famous. Getting the proper name into common use might make things right. It’s about respecting the culture of the Sherpa’s… and it will also respect the wishes of Sir George Everest, who absolutely fucking hated the proposal to name the mountain after him, and fought tooth and nail to leave a placeholder and keep searching for a proper local name. The poor bastards been rolling in his grave for over 150 years now, let’s get his name off the damn mountain already.

For improving the actual conditions, push for the Nepalese government to make the changes the guides want. International pressure is necessary for that; if nobody cares about the Sherpa’s, the government can do as they please, and the guides just have to put up with it. Pay attention, raise awareness, advocate for their wellbeing, and, again, listen to what they actually need/want.

Finally, rookies climbers going up Sagarmāthā should be judged, and judged hard. They’re not impressive. They’re fucking idiots being carried up a mountain by the real professionals so they can claim bragging rights. If someone brags about climbing the tallest mountain in the world, ask about their climbing experience and training, and if they’ve ever climbed/considered climbing any of the less famous 8000+ meter peaks. If they’re not an experienced climber that respects the mountain, mock them relentlessly. They’re not impressive, they’re an idiot that burned their own money to be carried up a really big rock and steal the credit for their guides hard work.

That being said, also show respect towards the people that have died on Sagarmāthā, AND the people that have witnessed death on that mountain. I’m not going to blame anyone for bad decision making at 8000 meters of elevation. The death zone was named that because the conditions cannot support human life; you are slowly dying as soon as you enter, and the trick is just to get back down before you succumb to it. The human brain does not enjoy being slowly suffocated to death, and you sort of lose your shit as a result. That’s just biology, happens to everyone. There’s a reason why disasters high up on the 8000+ peaks are so confusing - there’s always multiple different stories about how events played out, because short term memory loss and delirium are a very common side effect of being at an altitude unable to support human life. That’s also a large part of ‘summit fever’ on those peaks; people genuinely cannot make rational decisions up there. It’s a well documented problem. A fair amount of lethal falls up there are technically suicides, as people get confused and wander off cliffs, or begin removing protective gear, or other things nobody in their right mind would do. That’s why so many people die attempting to summit after the cut-off point of it being too late to try - they can’t process that if they continue, conditions will become extremely dangerous on their descent. They can only understand that their goal is the summit, the conditions are good right now, so that means they’re fine and should keep going.

Basically this is a complicated problem, and ‘Sagarmāthā needs to be closed forever and everyone there is a heartless monster’ is just… missing so, so much nuance, and is worse than useless if you’re trying to actually help the Sherpa people.

[supercyclistmamanut]

Making a little money when you need it.

I'm a stay-at-home mom (5 kids total, 3 are still minors), my youngest is autistic and non-verbal, and my husband is dealing with kidney trouble and has been missing a lot of time at work. All that is to say our budgets are a little tighter right now, and I don't have the freedom to take a part time job that pays me in dollars. But what I have been able to do lately is cruise various neighborhoods when they put out their trash. I drive around for about an hour after dinner, before it gets too dark, and see what people are throwing away. If it looks pretty good, I throw it in the minivan and take it home. The next day, after the kids are at school, I clean up and test what I found, take pictures, and list them on Facebook Marketplace, cross posting them in a few buy/sell groups I'm in locally. I've found air fryers, convection ovens, antique glass bottles, a very nice rice cooker (I kept that), a vintage ambulance transport chair, coolers, old camera parts, tower fans, storage bins, laundry baskets, a sleeping bag in its' original plastic zippered sales bag, high chairs... the list goes on. All of it in good, working/safe condition. It blows my mind that people throw these things away - and I PASS UP more than I gather, because I don't have the space to store furniture and large appliances. I price it at a decently low price, since I got it for free, and that usually means it sells within a few days of listing. Are there risks? Sure. If anyone in the home was immunocompromised, I'd give this up. (I may have to do that when hubby has his surgery.) I bring all my finds into our back yard first, so I can give them a good look over in daylight before I bring them inside. If the items pass the test, they get cleaned and sold. If I picked up a dud, it goes in our trash the next time we put it out. It's not for everyone, but if it's something you can do, and you spot a perfectly good fan in the trash, why not see if you can sell it? You'll keep things out of the landfill, make sure someone gets something they need at a bargain, and you get some cash!

[shiftythrifting]

Submission from Ross

[supercyclistmamanut]

This is all true. And yet? And yet, I have been gleaning decent items on trash day and selling them on Marketplace, and doing OK, mainly because I flat out EXPECT being ghosted, utter maniacs looking for a sympathy discount with the weirdest possible stories, and really weird bargaining. I put minimal energy into the interactions, make full use of auto replies, set up porch pickups, and make a little money.

[abbiistabbii]

I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.

Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.

It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.

Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.

Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.

Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.

On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.

On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.

What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.

Linux is fucking wild.

[aqueerkettleofish]

And the fun part is that, next month, Microsoft is going to declare that rather a lot of perfectly functional hardware is now fair game, because they're not releasing any more updates for Windows 10, and Windows 11 won't run on the boxen in question.

But Linux will.

In my opinion, this is one of the dumbest mistakes made by a tech corporation since Xerox decided nobody would want to use a thing called a mouse, or Verizon and Sprint told Apple to shove their iPhones up someone else's network.

A lot of people are going to decide it's not worth spending hundreds of dollars on a new computer when there's absolutely nothing wrong with the one they've got. A lot of people are going to spend those hundreds and give their old computers to other people, for whom it's going to be an upgrade.

For those computers, Linux is going to go from "an option" to "the only option."

Microsoft has been steadily losing server market share to Linux for, like, ever, and they made some fantastic whiffs failing to get into the mobile market. (Windows 8 and 8.1, for example, were intended to be integrated with Windows Phones that, as it turned out, sucked.) But their dominance over the desktop hasn't really been in question since the days of MS-DOS.

[libraford]

Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

[weshallbekind]

Also, please understand that SO often the real issue these people have is that they just want to say something inappropriate. They don't like being told they can't say "fag", so they'd say it for a reaction, just like a teenager would.

Shut down the conversation without reacting.

"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".

And that's the point. To shut them up. To make them quit saying shit like that. The first one makes him seem kinda weird for caring about what that guy does with his dick. The second one gives him something to fight against and make a big deal about.

[mckitterick]

Code-switching - Wikipedia

code-switching matters for communicating across cultures of all varieties

[ziggy-scardust]

“What the fuck do you think ‘freedom’ means, Earl?” or some variation thereof has actually worked pretty well for me on occasion. Thanks for the reminder that a lot of folks are looking to provoke a reaction. They don’t need to get the one they want.

[unidentifiedskeletalremains-dea]

This used to haunt me so I'm so glad I know this now

[terriwriting]

“To our horror”: Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill gets axed

A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short strin

[youhideastar]

Also, if you don't have time to read the post, this was just a dumb error, not anything deliberate, and the researchers fixed it and apologized right away when it was pointed out. So this news can restore a little of your faith in humanity on TWO levels. 😂

[smileyisawesomeable]

Divorce study felled by a coding error gets a second chance

A journal has published a corrected version of a widely reported study linking severe illness and divorce rates after it was retracted in Ju

This is an article describing the revised study if you were curious!

[clockworkcanary]

Refreshing!

But Gingrich still sucks ass.

[supercyclistmamanut]

I don't know, I've seen it happen personally. But if that's what the study says, good on them for correcting it.

[geekysteven]

The political party that legalized running over protesters is appalled at this climate of political violence.

[zilnas]

The political party that incited a violent insurrection at the nation's capital and then pardoned all the perpetrators is appalled at this climate of political violence.

[axmxz]

the party that advocates for people being shot by gun-wielding psychos every day shocked and appalled that the most vocal advocate of people being shot by gun-wielding psychos got shot by a gun-wielding psycho