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Who's Hotter?
Arataka Reigen (Mob Psycho 100)
Senshi (Dungeon Meshi)
"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.
[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]
okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?
I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”
Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.
Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.
I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both. She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.
There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing. Honestly? A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs? Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.
If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!
Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.
I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.
My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.
If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)
There's also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they'd do absolutely nothing, as if they'd be satisfied being completely bored all the time. They'd still buy food. They'd still buy video games. They'd still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn't want to work because they still want to LIVE. They'd buy movies. They'd go DO stuff. I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can't afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.
"Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened."
Speaking for myself, I would be even MORE motivated to do things if my basic needs were guaranteed met. IJS
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And like, even if your basic needs were met, you might still want to earn extra money for travel, hobbies, entertainment, maybe a nicer house.
There would still be people who would do jobs to supplement their basic income.
And if all the jobs paid decently, were safe, and weren't exploitative, people would do things you might not expect.
My father once tried to tell me "If college was free, no one would go"
My immediate response was "excuse me do you have ANY idea how much shit I'd be learning right now if it was free? Dude I'd be in like 3 classes right now learning stuff even just for the hell of it if I could!"
And for once I think he actually got my point
Humans are a naturally curious species. We generally wanna know things. And we all have interests we'd love to learn more about if we could. I'd go learn how to do spreadsheets and databases and coding! But because learning does cost money (yes I know I can find videos online but that's not as good as a teacher), I can't
Right now, so many resources are free which is so nice. People teach and learn on the internet all the time. Right now, I’m studying at least the basics in ASL in case I need to communicate to someone that needs it. I’m not even in America. The problem is, there’s no available free resource that would otherwise teach my country’s sign language as well as Bill Vicars does with ASL.
If it was free, people will still want to learn. More people would have been willing to be educated. It’s crazy to me that the keystone to any sort of societal progress is blockaded behind a paywall.
It’s almost as if exploitative capitalism isn’t as sustainable and practical as the oldies love to prat about. All this need to create simulated stress and forced obsolescence really highlights why progress is so arduously slow.
I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.
When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"
When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...
"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.
"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"
Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."
People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?
I think about this a lot especially with isekai reincarnation AUs. There are many things we take for granted, processes that are so essential but we weren’t able to do anymore. So if an ordinary person gets shipped into a world where none of that comfort is present, it’s a great question of how one would survive.
Imagine, a land whose people speak a language familiar but incredibly distant to you. Culture and beliefs that you’ve never seen and, perhaps, only minutely heard of. Think of how the next few generations of privileged people would survive in a world they never bothered to learn more about. No idea of tangible currency, no skills in cleaning without products we cling to, no idea how to navigate through the world through its stars— those they’ve never seen before, or make a fire for warmth.
It would be interesting to just ponder about that.
edit: I just realized this too. Expanding in “language” part, I think going back even a century in my country would emphasize how confusing it can be. Spanish long gone from our tongue, and my native language with lost words and bastardized with western words. Speaking to anyone would be horrifying, much less, the other people. Think: if non-Gaelic speaking people were to be transported into old Ireland.
Another concept dawned to me: Medicine
Unless you explicitly learn about it, medicine can be horribly niche and complicated. It’s a joint venture of multiple converging subjects that lead into even the slightest betterment of our health. Back then, people had at least some knowledge when it comes the “cures”. Knowledge about medicinal herbs are passed from generation to generation— for common sicknesses and diseases. Now, if we were to look at an undergrowth, laymen would hardly understand what plant is medicinal and helpful. In the same vein, we wouldn’t know anything about the hidden dangers of the forest. The brush of death with flora we’ve hardly recognized, and parasites that lurk in unassuming places. Visible signs of dangerous beasts or ways to track it. Survivability decreases with the loss of such common knowledge that we no longer use due to our urban dwellings.
If we were to even count the most basic of needs: Food, water, clothing, shelter… whew. At most, shelter is the easiest if you found yourself transported during sunny seasons. But what happens if you get stranded during winter? Rainy seasons? Honestly, getting transported in another world fucking sucks if you don’t have plot armor or a vast knowledge that would help you live.
I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.
When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"
When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...
"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.
"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"
Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."
People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?
I think about this a lot especially with isekai reincarnation AUs. There are many things we take for granted, processes that are so essential but we weren’t able to do anymore. So if an ordinary person gets shipped into a world where none of that comfort is present, it’s a great question of how one would survive.
Imagine, a land whose people speak a language familiar but incredibly distant to you. Culture and beliefs that you’ve never seen and, perhaps, only minutely heard of. Think of how the next few generations of privileged people would survive in a world they never bothered to learn more about. No idea of tangible currency, no skills in cleaning without products we cling to, no idea how to navigate through the world through its stars— those they’ve never seen before, or make a fire for warmth.
It would be interesting to just ponder about that.
edit: I just realized this too. Expanding in “language” part, I think going back even a century in my country would emphasize how confusing it can be. Spanish long gone from our tongue, and my native language with lost words and bastardized with western words. Speaking to anyone would be horrifying, much less, the other people. Think: if non-Gaelic speaking people were to be transported into old Ireland.
“long hair on guys doesn’t make them less masculine. think keanu reeves, jason momoa, danny trejo, or the guy at your local dive bar who rides a motorcycle”
*the crowd nods*
“so long hair doesn’t necessarily determine masculinity”
*the crowd, more hesitant, still nodding*
“butches can have long hair—“
*GUNSHOT*
that wasn't a gunshot, that was my heart stopping and restarting 🥰
*THE CROWD GOES WILD*
There’s like 12 different kinds of tension in this image.
quick question
why is the one in the middle wearing 5 shirts
that’s why she’s being bullied
ok but they also have different versions that show each girl in the group getting bullied by the others
This is a modern work of art
I’ve seen them once labeled as “homoerotic bullying pictures” and honestly don’t know what else to call them
would just like to add this one specifically
bro you have to suck my tit. it's not weird bro it's for cardiovascular health
archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another
Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies
Behold, the digital artchery glove!
….but Wait…
…….!!!
FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!
Ok but wgat if we held hands…..
and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳
not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫
my condolences mr. clive
Tav art Tav art.
feat. Shadowheart.
ive gotta mission for you. you're gonna watch a series with a primarily male cast.and you're going to find a woman character that nobody else gives a fuck about and you are going to be insane about her, okay? you're going to watch her collective 1 hour of screentime total and you're going to pretend she was the focus of every episode ever, okay? it's called respecting women. your mission starts now
Still the best gaming fact.
If you are taking the car to Chicago, can you even call yourself a feminist. There are Women on that train who want to have gay sex with you but can't because you are taking a fucking car to Chicago
Right now there is a very buff Butch woman all alone in the Cafe car and she could be having steamy gay sex with you and be moving into your apartment if you were just willing to take the train to Chicago
I'm busy trying to get more lesbians to ride the train instead of taking their Subarus to Chicago
This was probably my best post of the year, enjoy it once again
They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.
Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.
I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.
bg3 fanartists, here's a link with a huge album of models, concept art etc. straight from the devs
Ok so this link is incredible for references but can we talk about this one
