#everyone does this

[ilostmysh03]

I try not to get mad about world tours but god. why are asia and africa a seperate world now

[cooler-ian]

the obey me fandom is the worst at tagging ever, scroll through any character tag and see how long it'll take to find a post about literally everyone except Him.

[angerydome]

Wait — THIS is the definition people have been using??? No wonder everyone is talking past each other!!

I’m not going to critique the above post, and I’m not going to sit here and defend economic systems, but I am going to have words with everyone about how to quit fucking talking past each because you’re using words in totally unrelated ways.

Anyways … capitalism, per the dictionary:

I’ve been assuming that when people say they despise capitalism … they’re talking about the sort of thing described above. Or, depending on the context, they’re taking “America is capitalist” at face value and saying they don’t like how things are turning out.

Sort of, Okay, the dictionary definition is totally fine, but practice bears out that maybe people don’t work like that and we need to switch to something more realistic. Like maybe you think that Disney can’t be trusted not to buy up every little company in the absence of regulation, or that 3M can’t be trusted not to turn every lake in Minnesota into a toxic soup that makes frogs grow extra legs if we don’t enforce environmental laws.

I’m right there with you — almost everything needs guardrails, nuance is important, and so is being realistic about how people work.

But it’s REALLY FUCKING HARD to have those conversations when words mean different things to people.

It’s sort of like someone telling you they hate spaghetti, and then finding out the spaghetti they’ve been having involves an inconvenient type of pasta, something that you guess is a kind of sauce, and a meat you wouldn’t willingly pair with either that’s also dangerously undercooked. Like, oh, yeah, I see why you’d hate that, but also it’s not really the same thing —

And I sort of wonder if that’s the point, on a subconscious level. It’s a kind of in-group way of communicating, if your words have different implied meanings than the norm. And that not only makes it easier to identify out-group people, it also makes it a lot easier to write people off as bad and wrong when they don’t adhere to your definitions.

Or, I don’t know, net a random neurodivergent person who would generally agree with you if you just said what you meant instead of stuffing words full of context and meaning I couldn’t possibly guess at and then getting mad at me about it.

[onemillionfurries]

having a talkshow host in your head for years is normal, right? having conversations with yourself to work through your emotions and the framing of that being a late night talkshow is something everyone does and is not abnormal at all, right???

[officially-bbc-news]

When it's dark outside and you're stressed so instead of being mature and sensible, you sacrifice a teabag to the fish gods

[1introvertedsage]

The way people here park is by hitting the curb. Forward or backwards.. once they hit the curb and their head jerks or their bumper gets knocked loose… then they know they’re parked 😂

[sunflower-spots]

I simply cannot fall asleep without my NSFW (Nightly Sexual Fantasy World)