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[untitled4022]

Daily reminder: some points = better than no points.

I came to class today completely unprepared and bombed the 10 point quiz. I got one question right purely on luck.

But you know what? 20% is better than the 0% I would have gotten if I had skipped class.

And it will be okay.

[abcsofadhd]

This took me 6 years of failing to learn.

I would skip tests and miss assignments I hadn’t fully studied or completed. I dunno why. Perfectionism? Maybe cause in my head, an automatic 0 was better than low grades, which would be proof I was struggling? Who can say.

Then at the end, I would fail getting 37-38%. Had I just submitted the half completed assignments or taken the half studied test, I might have passed instead of failing.

Some points is always better than no points. 

[emmeetslawschool]

This is also broadly applicable to life where there are no "real" points. But some cleaning is better than no cleaning. Some progress on a project is better than no progress on a project. A short time getting active is better than no time being active. etc. etc.

[mrbenwyatt]

[epiphanies]

whoop there it is

[dan-sebenarnya]

she has an oscar. she is the shit.

[mysharona1987]

[twostepsfromtemerant]

I too would change everything about myself if it would impress Julie Andrews

[prolifeproliberty]

Honestly this is so much more realistic.

I mean, whose disappointment do you fear more: some guy’s or your grandma’s?

[mysharona1987]

[spookyfiles-deactivated20150423]

I always see posts about people talking about how tampon and pads ads have girls on beaches and things like that.

And yet in Australia we have really ridiculous advertisements for sanitary products that have girls running around doing shit and this guy

[saphhoria]

The really sad thing is, guys at school started copying him, and it got the point where if you needed a pad or tampon, you’re guy friends were as likely to help you out as your girlfriends… 

[tsuyukami]

Not that sad if u think about it. What you just described sounds pretty great and nearly compassionate honestly

[nerdgul]

Espessually considering if an american boy so much as sees a clean unopened tampon he freaks the fuck out like its a diseased yucksponge and will actively avoid you for the rest of his life

[totalparksandrec]

[slimegargoyle]

the knowing eye contact women make when men are talking is the purest human connection possible

[sggxv]

What the fuck does that even mean?

[slimegargoyle]

30 thousand women seem to get it

[d1av]

source: [x]

[revealmyselfinvincible]

[nonghim]

“Disney are loving this right now.” (x)

[birjani]

It’s the remix to ignition, put R.Kelly in prison 

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

good morning I just woke up obsessed with the idea of a movie filmed in the style of a true crime documentary except it’s in the Twilight universe and a bunch of completely ordinary humans are trying to figure out why Bella effectively disappeared after high school without knowing anything about vampires

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

let’s review the Facts of the Case as far as anyone who’s not in on the secret knows them

super normal teenage girl moves to small town

becomes obsessed with a guy who by all appearances is in a cult

the incident where they dramatically broke up and Bella tried to go back to Phoenix but Edward followed her and they got back together but also Bella’s leg got mysteriously broken

another dramatic breakup and this time the entire family skips town leaving Bella catatonically depressed

sudden trip to Italy??? and then the entire family comes back???

Whatever Happened In Eclipse I Don’t Remember 

Bella marries boyfriend of approx. a year and a half, goes away on an exotic vacation and immediately contracts a life threatening disease

is rarely seen in public again until her mysterious death, which if I’m remembering correctly is a thing?? because Bella was pretty sure her mom wouldn’t be able to handle the vampire thing and that they were going to have to fake a death which is!! fucked UP

also apparently the Cullens haven’t ever bothered with, like, changing their names, so if anyone goes poking around they’re easily going to discover a family of seven rich weirdos moving around various overcast cities together for at least a century 

tell me you wouldn’t watch this shit 

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

highlights:

generic Missing White Woman opening that rapidly spirals into interviews Bella’s hilarious tacky high school classmates talking shit about the Cullens (Mike Newton’s Time To Shine)

Charlie (who Knows) uncomfortably lying to the camera about how of course he’s Very Sad about all of this and misses his daughter a whole lot. the crew immediately begins speculating about Charlie’s involvement.

a few scenes shot in Italy. the voice over concludes that there are no clues to be found there while a Volturi member hovers very obviously in the background for the audience’s enjoyment 

testimonies about Carlisle’s character that end with the interviewee getting distracted thinking how hot he was, including Charlie 

a segment trying to figure out what the Fuck Jacob’s involvement is followed by a montage of werewolves slamming their front doors in the crew’s faces

a brief mention of the murder spree that happened in Seattle during Bella’s senior year but quickly shrugging it off as DEFINITELY unrelated to any of this 

trying to dig into where the Cullens lived before Forks and quickly realizing that None Of These Children Existed Before the Age of Seventeen

briefly toying with a kidnapping scenario before stumbling onto a record of the Cullens in some other town that’s JUST old enough to be inconsistent with the ages they were supposed to be in Forks

“wait I think all the kids were actually in their twenties, maybe?”

“wait what the fUCK?”

[spacetwinks]

[puts far more meat than is reasonable into tortilla] [tortilla doesn’t fold fully or correctly] bullshit. what’s wrong with you. fuck you

[yayfeminism]

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

[sardonicblisters]

these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.

[imamisfittoy]

^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal

[dragonoftheheart]

Another source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/18/shame-shame-n-h-lawmaker-resigns-after-outcry-over-his-woman-hating-reddit-forum/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ac33a7fabb0f

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[mildlyautisticsuperdetective]

I saw this before I left work last night and had a quiet hope, and today I checked my phone at about quarter to two, while I was still on my lunch break, and I’ve just got a job interview with the BBC next week

I’m not a big believer in anything much but I’m so happy holy shit. So like unrelated note but something real good happened to me at 1.42 today lol

[gwomped-deactivated20200724]

Can’t take any chances these days

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

Here goes

[cheesethesecond]

Here’s something I wanna say real quick, while I’m feeling salty: Amazon has totally contributed to the devaluation of literature. Those prices you see, the $13 they’re asking you to pay for a hardcover book? Those are deep, DEEP discounts that they’re able to implement because they don’t collect sales tax if they can get away with it, they don’t contribute money to the communities where they have a physical presence, they have shitty labor practices, Jeff Bezos has more money than god, etc. 

(Read this report from the Institute for Self-Reliance if you really want to get into how they’re hurting the economy.)

They’re so omnipotent at this point that they’ve normalized the discounted prices for books as the standard. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had someone come up to me and tell me what the price on Amazon is, expecting me to match it. The number of times I’ve been told, “Oh, it’s cheaper on Amazon, I’ll just get it there.” Even at author events, where book sales DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE to whether or not that bookstore will be able to get more authors in.

So when you go into a bookstore, and you’re asked to pay $27 for a hardcover, remember: THAT IS THE COVER PRICE. Set by the publishers. The bookstore is not upcharging you. They are asking you to pay the value of the book. Amazon’s low prices come with a cost. Please, just keep that in mind. 

(I made a post with options for buying books online that aren’t Amazon. Check it out!)

[allofthefeelings]

This is a great post, and I just want to point out: publishers aren’t upcharging you either.

The cost of the book is the advance for the author, it’s the salaries for all the people who work on it (including editors, yes, but also designers and marketers and publicists and lawyers and accountants and everyone else who makes sure publishing works). It’s the cost of printing the books and the materials to print those books on and the warehouses to store those books in. It’s keeping the literal lights on.

No one in the book business, from the author to the publisher to the bookseller, is making themselves rich off your money. This is the cost to survive. Amazon is running at a deficit because they can make up the cost with other things they do, and because once they run everyone else out of business, they’ll be the only game in town and can charge whatever they damn well please.

[sanspatronymic]

And please, please do not ask a bookstore (especially an indie bookstore) if they “price match.” It’s so insulting.

Amazon routinely sells books at or *below* wholesale cost. Meaning that when you ask a bookstore to ‘price match’ Amazon, you’re literally asking them to give you the book for free, or even take a financial loss on it. 

‘So how can Amazon do it?’ you ask? The answer is Amazon does not care about losing money. It sells goods at a loss continuously. (Don’t believe me? Just search “Amazon quarterly losses” and you can find article after article about this) Why? Because its goal isn’t to sell the most things, it’s goal is to be the only place where you CAN buy things. They gouge prices on goods to a point where brick and mortar retailers absolutely cannot compete and they do it with the singular goal of eliminating competition.

Things have value. They represent many people’s time and labor. For books, specifically, they represent tremendous cultural worth that extends far beyond the value of the paper they’re printed on. We have to appreciate the value of goods and be willing to pay a fair price that will support and nurture industries. 

It’s ok to be upset that you can’t afford $26 for a new hardcover, but make sure that that anger is directed, not at the people whose labor makes books possible, but at the people on top (like Jeff Bezos) who have devalued your own labor such that you can’t afford it.

[smokeypsd-games]

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.

[demon-princess-serina-verified]

You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards

[racistspiderman]

the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming 

[therealfeedback-deactivated2018]

Netflix: Alright guys, we have a fantastic model going! Piracy is down, subscriptions are up, everyone’s making money with these contracts for your show’s streaming rights, and viewers are getting a ton of great content they enjoy. Everybody wins!

Morons: But what if we had our own streaming service just for our content?

Netflix: …I mean in-theory that would work at first, but if everyone’s content was suddenly 100% exclusive and you have to get a dozen subscriptions to a dozen proprietary streaming services just to watch three shows, that defeats a lot of the val–

Morons: And we could charge more than Netflix and Hulu too! We could make even more money!

Netflix: Well at a certain point you’re going to start charging more than people are willing to pay and you’ll start losing more money than you’ll gain. We’ve been doing this since 1997 so we have a pretty good idea of–

Morons: *create streaming sites for every single fucking studio that all charge more money than their content is worth, saturating the market with too many options, almost all of which have too little content to justify their price*

Consumers: Yeah fuck this

Morons: I knew streaming was a dead-end. It never could’ve worked

Netflix: But we were making money! It was working before you fuckers killed the goose laying golden eggs!

Morons: Yeah, but when we wanted more money, it stopped working, and we’re too good at business to make bad decisions, so clearly it was streaming itself that wasn’t working. It’s not our fault the goose couldn’t keep laying eggs after we ate it!

Netflix: What the fuck is wrong with you people

[love-the-weirdo-in-the-closet]

Everything is wrong with people

[themadcapmathematician]

The free market?? Sabotaging itself??? More likely than you’d think

[stevenkodalys]

i will love you                                                                                                                                 until my dying day