approximately infinite universe

she's not a girl who misses much . .

[inactive-339944]

the concept of vinyl records will never cease to amaze me like they put SOUND in there!!!!!!! what the hell and fuck

[alex51324]

The craziest thing about records is that the sound actually comes directly from the interaction of two physical objects--the record and the needle.  Like, if you play a record on a turntable that isn’t hooked up to speakers, you can put your ear right next to it and (very faintly) hear it.  (That’s how those old-fashioned record players with the big trumpet thing worked.  You can even manage a vague approximation with a sewing needle and a paper cone--the sound quality is crap, but if you get the speed right, you can at least make out what song it’s supposed to be.)  

All of the other media for sound-recording encode that sound in a way that requires an electronic device to decode it back into something your ears can process. Records actually sound like that.  

[thecurvature]

Records constantly amaze me, and I think about this a lot. Like how do you create the exact right vibration that sounds like Otis Redding? It doesn't make any damn sense, and yet, it works.

[diskothiqueer-deactivated202305]

i think we all have that one piece of media we like that’s basically “i love this thing, but i dont think everyone should watch this thing and would not categorically recommend it to other people i know, this thing has a lot of problems and i am the first person you should ask if you want to know a long list of criticisms, but i REALLY ENJOY THIS THING” its like holding up a can of trash to everyone else and saying “you are a reasonable person and you would not enjoy touching this garbage and i value that about you” and then pouring it out on the ground and rolling around in it yourself

[lindstromm]

Okay, USA followers, you know how we all hate bank fees? I mean, you overdraw your account by $1.23 and you get charged $25.00? That's evil.

As of Jan 26, 2022, the Biden Administration CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) is bringing the hammer down on junk fees. This is more than just bank fees - this is going after the junk fees on things like prepaid cards, loans, bank transfers, credit card late fees, even closing costs on a mortgage.

The CFPB needs public comments, like the opinions of real people who are affected by these fees, to build a case about telling financial organizations that THEY CAN'T CHARGE THEM ANYMORE.

The CFPB says it’s particularly interested in hearing from older and lower-income consumers, students, service members and people of color.

There's some good detail about the comments in this investopedia article. The easiest way to comment is to send an email to [email protected]. Include Docket No. CFPB-2022-0003 in the subject line of the message.

Note that these are public comments. They will be published online through the CFPB website. Don't include account numbers, social security numbers, or full names. Tell a story - tell about the time you overdrew your account by $1.23 and the bank took $35. Tell about how you signed up for a credit card and the company charged you a bunch of fees you didn't even know about. Tell about how you transferred money from your savings account to a checking account and the bank charged you $2.50.

These junk fees are a slap in the face of ordinary people who can't refuse to pay, and the CFBP is taking aim at the banks that charge them. To read what CFPB director Rohit Chopra had to say about this call to action, click here.

You have until March 31, 2022 to submit comments.

[prismatic-bell]

YES!!!!

FUCKING YES!!!!!!

Y'all know the hole I just asked your help digging me out of like, literally last week?

THAT HOLE WOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT PREDATORY FEES LIKE THIS

THIS WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR SO MANY PEOPLE

[baasthasthezoomies]

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 31, 2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CFPB-2022-0003, by any of the following methods:

• Electronic: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

• Email: [email protected]. Include Docket No. CFPB-2022-0003 in the subject line of the message.

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Comment Intake —Fee Assessment, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20552. Please note that due to circumstances associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the CFPB discourages the submission of comments by hand delivery, mail, or courier.

Instructions: The CFPB encourages the early submission of comments. All submissions should include document title and docket number. Because paper mail in the Washington, DC area and at the CFPB is subject to delay, commenters are encouraged to submit comments electronically. In general, all comments received will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov.

[biglawbear]

Hey guys. I'm a federal employee. I write regulations. I personally go through every single one of thousands of comments.

Unlike Congress, where sometimes your call or email about a policy goes into the void, every single comment about a regulation is individually read and tallied.

When a regulation is written it will say something like "The CFPB adopted X because it received 5,284 comments telling us to do that."

Write your comments.

It can be short. It can be long. It can go into detail about your experiences or your background. It can simply be an email saying "overdraft fees suck and should be illegal."

And it will affect policy.

Note, however, that comments are generally public record, so even though you're encouraged to give your name, don't give personally identifiable information.

Federal register comments are one of the least known yet most powerful ways to influence public policy.

Send in your comments!!

[notchainedtotrauma]

There’s a larger donation post going around but this one is time-sensitive. I need to feed myself within the two coming days. My P*p*l is [email protected], any help is appreciated.

[fluoresensitivearchived]

I just think it's immensely ridiculous that black people have to come on here and literally beg and scream and cry it's like even get $100 for medicine not even $1,000 for rent, and some white person can literally just be a complete and total freak on the internet like be unbearably embarrassing to watch and flop around and do whatever and people will give them money to buy a whole house deed and everything because they're a goblin, it enrages me it literally brings me great pain it makes my blood boil I'm going to burn this country down I hate it

[thecurvature]

For the past few weeks, I've been making an effort to give to and promote mutual aid for Black community members (not on here, I rarely check tumblr these days), and it is definitely harder than I realized to get white people to give even a little bit of money to Black folks.

[probably-voldemort]

My sister and I were watching Lost but not paying a ton of attention and then suddenly the TV is like "Okay so we're going to have to remove two inches from the width of the island" and we both like snap our heads up like woah we were literally just dealing with a time travel problem why do we need to make the island a little smaller now? But it turns out the dog had laid down on the remote and turned it to Property Brothers so like bad news for whoever's kitchen they're designing but good news i guess for the Lost people for not having to shrink the island

[overpoweredoriginalposter]

[crazyexdaily]

[elinordash]

New Year, New Gifs Challenge Day 14 ● Favourite TV Show ● Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019)

West Covina, California I don’t know what happens next All roads point to this magical text It’s time to kick it into high gear!

[reidactually-deactivated2022012]

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[politijohn]

[politijohn]

Yes, this is really a thing…

[solitarelee]

Yep, because baby formula is one of the most shoplifted things in America. Which should ALSO radicalize you.

[girtheemoninja]

Or… We stop shoplifting? 🤔 Are we demonizing acts to stop crimes now?

[demonius-darkblade]

ill tear your head off your shoulders you dumb fuck

[jana-the-clown]

I’m all for radicalization like the government and society are fucked. But they put baby formula in locked cases because it is used to make meth. The store does this to keep an eye out if someone is buying way too much. Like waaaaay too much.

[40ouncesandamule]

No. They lock it up because hungry babies need it and there is a thriving market for stealing baby formula because people will pay good money to guarantee their babies don’t starve.

You can’t make meth out of baby formula. You can stretch some drugs by cutting it with baby formula but “Drug dealers sometimes use the powdered formula to dilute heroin and methamphetamine or to stretch the product when supplies run low. However, experts say that more often than not, formula is stolen because of its high market demand among consumers rather than drug dealers.”

This is what imperialism and capitalism and the “war on drugs” does to people’s brains. You can see that people are so desperate to feed their babies that the people who rule your lives keep baby formula under lock and key but rather than that radicalizing you and making you want to fight for a world where no baby ever goes hungry, you justify this draconian bullshit because you’ve fallen for the propaganda that baby formula is used in some nebulous relation to “drugs” and drugs are bad so whatever inhuman monstrosity that occurs must be justifiable.

[bumblebeerror]

Baby formula is stolen because babies fucking need it and it’s goddamn 25$ a tin

[thecurvature]

It's not really my business whether a woman changes her name after she gets married, but when they talk about their name changes like it was natural and inevitable and just a part of life that cannot be avoided, I feel like spiders are crawling all over my brain.

[weird-ecologies]

Every day I wake up and discover new words I've been mispronouncing my entire miserable life

[holeymolars]

the reduction of “mental illness” to just moderate anxiety and depression really fucking pisses me off. any discussion at a workplace, school, university, doctors office, on the radio, on TV, in the news on “mental illness” is always just a discussion on anxiety and depression. all the awareness on social media for “mental illness” is always just for anxiety and depression.

I’d like to think this is because they are the most common forms of mental illness (though it has to be said anxiety and depression in themselves are umbrella terms, there are lots of different anxiety and depressive disorders), but I’ve got to say I’m noticing a theme in symptoms of mental illness that people can tolerate. even the more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression are simply not discussed, our own fault or are just excuses of some kind.

schizophrenics, bipolars, borderlines, people w/ DID etc. for some reason are in a seperate category than depressives and anxiety sufferers. there’s mental health issues and then there’s us crazy people. they dehumanise us and turn us into serial killers, bad parents, abusive husbands, cheaters and manipulators in their books and TV shows. if they can’t make our symptoms look romantic and easily fixed, they don’t want anything to do with us. we’re only useful for a good plot point, and in real life no one wants to talk about us. we’re here too, and there’s nothing to be gained by leaving us out of the discussion

[crazyexdaily]

[marisatomay]

i suspend so much disbelief when watching television programs because i like to have fun but people on tv shows not having a case on their phones is just unrealistic aaron hotchner is an fbi agent and suburban soccer coaching suit during the week polo shirt on the weekends new balance sneakers dad he would have his phone in a black otterbox that clips to his belt to insist his phone would be caseless is bad characterization

[wildersage]

the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans

[thecurvature]

This might make me sound a certain kind of way, but I just finished watching the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy, and damn, does Toho love watching Mothra get beat up and murdered. Of course all kaiju get their asses handed to them at some point, but the severity and length of the violence depicted against Mothra - being stomped constantly, having her wings bitten to pieces, drowning for like 5 minutes straight, being repeatedly set on fire, and dying more than once - is just really excessive. And these are kids movies!

The amount of time Mothra spends on the ground and in pain is just astonishing, and I cannot think of any other Toho movie up to this point that shows that level of kaiju suffering. (I've not yet seen any films made after this trilogy.) Even Rodan and Godzilla vs. Destroyah, with their truly tragic endings, do not seem to revel in the violence and misery like the Rebirth of Mothra films do.

Anyway, I have a hard time believing this doesn't have anything to do with Mothra's canonical status as the only female kaiju.