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[mabe1pines]

how is trump alive?? like hes rlly gone thru his whole life like That …. and no one has ever just fuckin decked him?? gave him the ole one two? knocked his lights out??? incredible

[valla-chan]

sorry to improve your day without much notice but 

[glyxiebear]

NEVERMIND REBLOGGING AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE ALL NEED

[nonbinarydave-archived]

This is cathartic

[bogleech]

People just becoming politically aware are never going to appreciate just how fucking hated this guy was before he was in politics. He was hated for over half a century. Everyone aware of him mocked and derided him as a cheating, greedy corporate asshole and mindless bully and this is by far not the only time anyone clocked his ass but it is probably one of the only times it got caught on video. Hatred of him was bipartisan all my life and it just goes to show how easily right wingers can be suckered by anyone who kisses their collective asshole on their pet agendas.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Never forget that the reason Trump seems like an over-the-top stupidly villainous antagonist from a 90s movie is because half of them were based on Trump and making fun of him.

The reason The Simpsons and a handful of other comedies ‘predicted’ the Trump presidency was because he kept saying he wanted to run and nobody could think of anything funnier than a President Trump.

[thecargeek]

Not to ruin everyone’s fun (lol jk I love doing that), but the gif is from a Funny or Die sketch during the election.

[bippycorgan]

u ever think about how these huge restrictions on tumblr and facebook n shit are primarily centered around ads, and like, in essence, we have become a product that these social media sites sell to their advertisers? its like, that facebook policy update is like “you better not even INSINUATE you have tits, you sick fuck”. shit even saidd you weren’t allowed to specify sexual attraction.

we’re too rowdy for like, lays potato chips or whatever. gays are TOO rowdy to be nestle customers, so are any sort of women that feel at peace or liberated enough w/their bodies to talk about them, the little debbie cakes foul in my gross tranny presence, right? 

facebook, tumblr, all shit like that, they’re Quality-Assuring their product, which is us, pal. They’re weeding out anyone that isn’t a homogenized boring shit that is cleared to ship to the corporate customer.

i feel like a cracked fuckin’ egg

with like a baby duck in it that hates the concept of money

[thecargeek]

“we have become a product that these social media sites sell to their advertisers”

You always were. It’s very important to me that you understand this. If you are not paying for a product (and even sometimes when you are), you are the product. Always. Every site. Every service. Their customers are the advertisers, not you.

[musicoftheellipses]

[thecargeek]

Currently appreciating that I saw this on Twitter five minutes ago, and wondering when I’ll see it on FB and Insta.

[wilwheaton]

He fails at the simplest gestures of courtesy, from walking in front of the queen of England to his refusal to fly the flag at half-staff after John McCain’s death. At a listening session with survivors of a school shooting, he needed a note card saying “I hear you” to remind himself to pretend to listen to them. Curiously, Trump’s social autism is the source of his appeal. A Pew survey found that what Trump’s supporters like most about him is his personality, not his policies. They like his personality more than his policies for the same reason that men like the sex scenes in pornography more than the plots: Vulgarity is the point.

The vulgarity and violence of Donald Trump (via wilwheaton)

This takes a swing at making a point, then hits itself in the face with the bat by using the phrase “social autism”. There’s an ocean of difference between misunderstanding social cues and wilfully ignoring them. 

[stability]

[thecargeek]

I feel like anybody surprised by this has never met a doctor.

[bogleech]

introducing yourself on webforums fifteen years ago like:

You: uhhhhh hi I’m new i guess, just wanna chat about my favorite show too or whatever

iNvAd3rJ1M posted: *pounces* HELLOoOOOO NEW PERSON!!! *throws confetti*

911_NVR-FRGT posted: Hi there! You’ll find a Relaxed Atmosphere Here in Our Community! *points* Beer is In The Fridge, Curfew Is At 9! Haha I’m old

SSJgoku1994 posted: I am a pineapple! Monkeys!!!!!

Drag0n~Swords posted: Forsooth, a stranger doth enter the realm!

dumbledoreftw posted: Welcome! Hope you stick around! We don’t bite….. much!!

Greg posted: HITLER WAS A MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS AND ILL GIVE YOUR WHOLE FAMILY AIDS IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT

Lady*Unicorns*76 posted: “lol” (Laughing Out Loud!) don’t worry about greg sweetie! He’s just our little pet troll and you get used to him!! ;-) <3<3<3

[randomslasher]

This is so accurate I’m literally regressing right now. The only thing missing is “A/S/L?????”

[top-gifs]

Who can solve the problem between them?!!

source

[bunnyfood]

When fish fight

[yeahiwasintheshit]

the hatfishs and mccods

[wilwheaton]

[thecargeek]

The undeniable desire of mankind to find out what dinosaurs taste like is a very underexamined theme in the Jurassic Park films.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[thecargeek]

My favourite part of this interview (and there were some great bits) is where he complains that he worked through his birthday, because I’m sure he gives every other Tesla employee their birthday off.

[abandonedandurbex]

Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field [5184x3456]

[toloveviceforitself]

Oh god I know exactly where this is

[toloveviceforitself]

#what the absolute fuck (via @quinn-the-human)

So basically there was this weird tourist attraction in Williamsburg that was essentially a fenced in park filled with sculptures of all….43, at the time, presidents. You’d pay the admission and then I guess walk around contemplating the faces of previous chief executives.

I think the owner figured that if people were willing to go look at Mt Rushmore, he could give it a run for its money in quantity if not size. And he must have been at least sortof right because the park was there the entire time I worked in Williamsburg. Saw it every day when @radicalcatgirlanarchy and I were driving home, and every time we saw it we asked who the fuck was paying money to see that.

Well, the answer is “not enough people” because eventually the park closed, leaving someone with 43 (possibly 44?) unprofitable giant stone president heads to get rid of. So they made the wise decision to just dump them in a field and create weirdly patriotic nightmare fuel.

[thecargeek]

This needs to be in Fallout 76.

[actualdragoninreallife]

people who don’t own cats: cats are so aloof… they just keep to themselves and don’t care that you even exist

cats: hey! hey! hey! hey! pay attention to me! hey! why aren’t you looking at me! hey! hey! if you don’t pet me right now i’ll freakin die! hey! heeeyyy!!!!

[drarryismymuse]

So true…usually also accompanied by…

cat: *crash* you didn’t look at me good enough.

[dominoinla]

i love my tiny destructive house goblin 

[shitty-car-mods-daily]

Avoid Sudden Stops 2.0 via Shitty_Car_Mods

[daisenseiben]

The fuzzy dice. The knife. The fire extinguisher on the floor. The spider.

This is Quality Aesthetic.

[sindri42]

What’s in the ammo box? And what do those dials indicate?

[seasonallydefective]

All I know is that car can’t be from Mass. The Masshole horn reflex is too strong.

[sindri42]

Oh my god I didn’t notice the first time but the floor is fucking wooden planks. And the side mirror is mounted on a skeleton hand. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a vehicle with this much raw aesthetic.

Also, never fear, there is a seat belt.

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

This is PEAK Mad Max Wasteland right here

[thecargeek]

This is every baby boomer’s idea of a better safety feature than [insert newfangled technology that reduces vehicle accidents].

[carrionkid]

like. objectively. living in that time period would SUCK but victorian stuff is so, so, sexy. i want to be sent off to boarding school because i’m too rowdy in an attempt to make me stop embarrassing my family only to enter into a tempestuous love affair with my roommate before drowning in the grounds lake.

[thecargeek]

Everyone thinks they’d be part of the ruling class in Victorian England, but let’s be real, there’s a 90% chance you would actually be the servant expected to retrieve yet another bloated white girl body from the lake.

[pervocracy]

Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver five stars unless they, like, drive the car into the ocean or something, right?  You can’t say “the ride was fine, nothing special, so I gave them three stars,” because the company will punish them for being anything less than perfect.

Well, you should know that the same rule goes for any kind of customer service survey.  Unless the service you received was unacceptable, give them 5/5 or 10/10 or whatever.  It’s annoying, because it ruins the sensitivity of the survey, but it’s how it’s gotta be.  9/10 gets treated like a problem and 6/10 gets treated like a disaster.   Understand this and do the workers a favor by grading easy.

[pervocracy]

Responses to this post:

1. Non-service-workers saying “But that’s illogical, and a rational and efficient organization should correct for that!  Let me consider some algorithmic solutions…”

2. Service workers saying “Yeah, management gives us hell if we only get a 9/10.”

People in Group 1, I admire your idealism, but the average consumer-facing business is a lot less carefully designed than you’re imagining.

[note-a-bear]

For example: at my last job in a factory, if inventory was 90% or higher accurate, a given section of material was deemed low priority for the daily checks.

Now in retail, if a section is at or less than 98%, it becomes an immediate area to target for corrective work/management.

[thecargeek]

I have an MBA and I can confirm this is literally taught in business schools. Anything less than perfection means that there is something that needs improvement, and because managers are largely idiots, they assume that it’s their employees that need to improve. The people that design these feedback systems are so far removed from the customer interface that they have no idea how it works.

[bedbugbiting]

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

[bomberqueen17]

I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)

So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”. 

I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask. 

[derryderrydown]

This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.

[petralemaitre]

Pain Scale transcription:

10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.

9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.

8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.

7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.

6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.

5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.

4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.

3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.

2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.

1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.

0 - I have no pain.

[gallusrostromegalus]

This scale was SUPER helpful in getting my diagnosis/proper attention from the ER doctors this week.  Even if you can’t remember the numbers, it’s helpful for doctors if you tell them “My pain is/isn’t impairing my ability to move or think”

[optimysticals]

This is super helpful. 

[thecargeek]

I suppose that’s useful, but I’ve always been preferable to this one. 

[cherryseltzer]

i just got a super predatory debt collection letter. it was for a $113 debt from citizens bank, who i had an account with when i was 16 (20 years ago). the letter appeared to be an offer to cancel the debt if i paid them $22.75. HOWEVER, the actual wording is, “The amount of the debt is $113.77 and we will accept $22.75.” so, no MENTION of canceling the debt, but the implication is there because many collectors of current debt offer to settle for a percentage. at the bottom of the letter, it says: “Because of the age of your debt, we cannot sue you for it and we cannot report to any credit reporting agency. In many circumstances, you can renew the debt and start the time period for the filing of a lawsuit against you if you take specific actions such as making payments on the debt or making a written promise to pay.” basically… i don’t owe this money anymore, the debt is so old they can’t legally sue me for it OR put it on my credit report, BUT if i take their generous offer of paying them $22.75… they can sue me for the full amount because making a payment makes the debt current. no thanks, jefferson capital systems llc.

[memberofgop]

But you owe they money why not pay them back? Just because they can’t sue you does not mean you have no obligation to pay them back.

[cherryseltzer]

I legally literally have no obligation to pay it back. I don’t legally owe the institution with whom I had the account with anything. I certainly don’t owe this third party debt collection company who purchased a debt for pennies on the dollar from the original institution any money, and never did.

if this is some clumsy personal responsibility/“morality” bullshit you should definitely consider the morality of predatory banks and debt collection agencies ! and also learn 2 read.

[memberofgop]

But you still owe the debt, even if it traded hands, there is just so punishment if you don’t, so that debt is still yours.

And fine I’ll consider the morality of debt collectors; if no illegal actions were taken, they are totally in the clear. Debt should be paid back in full wherever possible, and these people work to uphold that.

[thes3nator]

Great to know that we found the guy on Tumblr who defends predatory debt practices so long as they’re legally sanctioned.

Remember folks, if you wanna fuck people over, make sure you have enough political influence to lobby for legal justification!

-S3NATOR

[toloveviceforitself]

My favorite part of this is the massive cognitive dissonance required to argue “you should pay what you owe even if you’re not legally required to (because morality trumps legality)” and “predatory debt collection is legal and therefore fine (because legality trumps morality)” in the same figurative breath.

Really highlights the fact that the real argument hiding under both of them is “rich peoples’ boots taste delicious”

[thecargeek]

Also I 100% guarantee this guy would cheat on his taxes if he could get away with it.

[howmanycatsistoomany]

Found the Duluth Trading Post catalogue. @foleypdx and @bossbeth You might need to see it for… reasons…

[bossbeth]

Who knew the Duluth Trading Post was Victoria’s Secret for lesbians? Not me. THANKS, DARLIN

[bossbeth]

Can “read the room, Tess” become the new “Harold, they’re lesbians” because now it is in our household

[moniquill]

…we gonna talk about how the purple plaid shirt has a ‘bi swing back’

[thecargeek]

Don’t hate on Tess, she just wants to make sure these ladies go home to their wives safely at the end of the work day.