The Coop

Just my random stuff. she/any <3

[the-big-mood]

Stuff like this makes me question if I’m actually passionate about anything

Although he lost the use of both legs, Xie Junwu from Jiangxi Province never lost his sense of freedom. Watch him take on a skateboard from

[the-big-mood]

During a high speed car chase pursuit, the FOX 11 Los Angeles helicopter had an unexpected moment when they spotted a rooster and a chicken casually walking down the sidewalk right in the middle of the pursuit.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[coffeecalliope]

A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?

For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.

So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.

TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.

[coldswarkids]

wow you got to the red stop light faster and more dangerously than anyone else. should we throw a party?? should we call nascar

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

[creamypancakebatter]

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

[breelandwalker]

[catasters]

[teaboot]

I just had a physical exam today and I haven’t done the little knee hammer reflex test since I was like four years old so I was just like “yeah it’ll just make me flinch or whatever nbd” but when the doctor actually DID it my whole ass leg fucking launched into the air like I was David fucking Beckham. She didn’t even give me a second to recover either, I was gripping onto the exam table for dear life like “oh my god I’m so sorry” and WHAM she nails the other one. My entire body jolts as my foot flies three feet in the air and she twirls out of the trajectory of a five toe death kick to the groin like a capoeira master and just says “you have very brisk reflexes”. Like miss ma’am with the PHD didn’t just Ratitouille my whole shit. Like respectfully your honour you just played my skeleton like a piano, what the hell

[oobbbear]

I drew this stupid burger I saw that brings me comfort and joy

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[gerardwaysbob]

Euripides, from “Orestes” (trans. Anne Carson) x Are Dan and Phil in a Relationship?

[thoughtkick]

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

— Elbert Hubbard

[gleerant]

if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

[gleerant]

this one took off quickly - are you guys ok

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

WIZARD PSA: Chronomancy might be weird and confusing, but one of the few solid rules of the discipline is keep your promises. Time is a library, and you don't want to meet the librarian.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you have met the librarian

[archdemoning]

[moodycow210]

One day that barrel you’re scraping the bottom of will be scraped through and any further energy will slip out the bottom and you’ll never be able to refill that energy as easily again

[pururin]

this video looks so funny, cause im sure there's a proper reason but its like that 1 meme where its 'thing' and 'thing japan'

[pururin]

so it turns out the method involves planting multiple plants and fungi and flowers and trees together rather than spreading them out, this forces them to compete for light and resources more aggressively and grow in a much quicker time than just the standard method of planting 1 tree per cubic meter, the reason its Japanese is because of a botanist called Akira Miyawaki who invented the method after studying how the forest works near him, but this method can be used world wide, the picture above is how the trees and plants look on each side after 3 years when they were planted the same time

[nondelphic]

writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

[chongoblog]

I remember back when I was in middle school, around 2007-2008, back when I had my first ever cell phone, there was a service called “Cha Cha”. The way it worked is you could text it any question and it would give you an answer.

I was fascinated by this service as a pre-teen and tested out its limits. I asked for really stupid shit, like I specifically asked at one point “what is the 150th word said in Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series Episode 19”. And I got an answer!!! It led to me asking more and more convoluted questions until the person on the other end basically said “No, I’m not telling you the 7,219th word spoken in the fourth season of Family Guy”

And I remember that moment, because it made me realize that anything that promises a magical answer probably requires a lot of work from someone else. It made me appreciate the first poor worker who had to watch a webseries they likely had never heard of and meticulously count every word until they got to 150. I was so preoccupied about finding answers for the sake of finding answers that I forgot that it takes work to find those answers. And it inspired me to put that work in myself. It helped me realize that some questions aren’t worth finding answers to, and the questions with answers worth finding could lead to hunts far more rewarding than texting a phone number.

Besides, for all I knew, the Cha Cha guy could have lied to me and just said a random word. I might have believed them (this didn’t happen because I double-checked)

Anyway

The episode is called “Staff Infection”

[tyazz]

Humans lowkey don't have enough climbing enrichment at home

[caffeinewitchcraft]

buying hella veggies and suddenly feeling the Health flood through my Veins as the Prophets foretold