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everchased

can someone please get these hoes under control i'm BUSY

chemsexholmes

say what you will about the British they went off with fish and chips.

chemsexholmes

Never mind fuck the British up the arse!! shoutout to 19th century Jewish immigrants....

grumpquoteoftheday

unculture

this is excellent proof of how cops train each other to think. merely wearing protection against possible cop violence IS an escalation in their view. like how dare you prepare for me to become unhinged, now my repeated violations of the geneva convention are your fault >:(

humandisastersquad

the idea of catching covid should be horrifying to people. we're only 2+ years into this pandemic and are already seeing long term effects like cognitive decline, increased risk of heart attack and stroke, immunity depletion and dozens more health consequences of having even a "mild" case of it. we already know from SARS-1 that many who had it continue to suffer long term sequelae nearly 2 decades after their infection. we know of many other horrible long term consequences of other viruses that can appear decades after the initial infection [e.g. shingles from varicella zoster virus (chicken pox), cervical and oropharyngeal cancers from HPV, multiple sclerosis from epstein barr virus (glandular fever) + many more] and yet people are being completely blasé about getting their 3rd, 4th, 5th+ infection. we are going to look back at our current minimisation of the dangers of covid with absolute horror in the future when a decent amount of the population will be suffering from the long term effects of this absolutely piss poor management of a global pandemic

humandisastersquad

hey. you know polio? yeah, that disease that we now mainly associate with permanent paralysis and people needing iron lungs just so they can breathe??

do you know the actual percentage of cases that result in this horrible outcome?? it's 0.5%. 1 in 200. of those, 5-10% die from asphyxiation, that's 1-2 in 4000. chump change compared to covid's (average) 1-2% mortality rate. and long covid's 5-20% incidence rate.

and yet, for a disease that for a vast majority of people results in symptoms akin to a mild flu, or are even asymptomatic, the world came together and coordinated a mass global vaccination and education effort that has nearly eradicated the virus. because nobody deserves to be exposed to that risk when there are effective ways to prevent it.

but now have let loose and are completely downplaying the dangers of a far more virulent and infectious disease that has killed over 6.5 million people (and that's just the ones that have been officially reported) and ruined the health of millions more. this pandemic has been a complete and utter public health failure and we are only at the beginning of the consequences of mass covid infection

mesopelagically

long covid numbers may be upwards of 30%, including among asymptomatic infections, but yeah

avocadoraisin

twenty five cents each

keeping them separated and away from pointy objects is recommended

wherehavalltheflowersgone

So let me get this straight, in Monopoly if you give one player more money to start out it’s “unfair” but if you do it in real life it’s “capitalism”?

carriagelamp

You know what, I’m going to tell you guys a story.

In my Sociology class a few semesters ago, our prof had us break off into groups and, much to our naive joy, began distributing Monopoly boards! We had no idea what was going on but yay! Games! Of course, once our group, and a number of others, got the board we began to work at setting up and distributing the money…

until suddenly our prof told us to put the money down and pick up the dice.

“Roll the dice and sort yourselves from highest to lowest,” our teacher commanded. "Now, the highest number is the upper class. The next one is upper middle class. The next two or three are middle class. The last person is in poverty.“

Well, as the person who rolled a two this was startling and not wholly welcome news.

From that point the game changed entirely. We had to hand out the money so that the “upper class” had this fucking mountain, and then less for upper middle, even less for middle, and I didn’t get any triple digit bills. We would all collect different amounts from passing go as well.

The biggest change though? Going to jail. Upper class didn’t. Period. Upper middle class could go but they only had to stay for one turn or they could immediately pay their way out. Middle class had some pretty easy guidelines for when they could pay to get out. As lower class, it was really easy for me to wind up in jail and REALLY hard to get out. But since I was working with so little money when everyone else had so much I was in jail all the time because there was no “game over”. If I couldn’t pay I had to go to jail for a certain period of time. I had to take out loans with interest I could never pay back just to get out only to wind up back in it again, rolling dice turn after turn hoping to be able to get out.

It was simultaneously the most enlightening and most awful game I had ever played. I was bored and frustrated and a little terrified about it all. And it wasn’t only me. I would never win, I sort of accepted this, but it was amazing how the middle classes reacted as well. They were stressed. Because they were always that close to either being able to one-up the upper class or from crashing into poverty with me. They had to fight constantly just to stay in the middle.

(I should also mention that the upper class player in one group felt so bad for the lower income players that they ended up overhauling their entire game and creating a “socialist” society instead. I’m not sure how our teacher felt about that one.)

kierongillen

Worth stressing this is entirely in the spirit of the original designer’s aims for Monopoly.

Monopoly’s original form of The Landlord Game which was explicitly designed to teach people about the unfairness of rent systems. To quote from the wikipedia entry, just as it’s the easiest source to hand…

Magie designed the game to be a “practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences”.[2] She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed byHenry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate.

When the usual suspects start making “don’t bring politics into games” noises, I roll my eyes pretty hard. They have no idea of the history of the form.

the-anarcho-raver

WOW.. THIS IS CRUCIAL! Thank you for that!!! 👏👏

aphony-cree

I read a study where they had people play Monopoly and gave one person twice as much money as the others but didn’t announce this. In all the test groups the person with more money won quickly and bragged throughout the game about how well they were doing and that they were better at the game than the others were. None of them noticed that they had more money or considered that starting capitol may have been a factor in their winning

Rich people like to believe we all have equal opportunities and they’re just better at playing the game

shivgirly

🦇✨ NATASIA DEMETRIOU as NADJA OF ANTIPAXOS in WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS ✨🦇

thereignclub-trc

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but your progress is not ruined after 1 bad day, 2 bad days, maybe even a month or more of bad days. Everything you experienced and learned during that time is valuable and essential for your growth. Forgive yourself, and try again.