Happy Gardevoir Day!

(Please disregard these warm wishes if you are not a Gardevoir.)

I still don’t know why Gardevoir Day isn’t 28/2.

So after seeing it for the last few years, and now my job is starting to support it, I finally understand the meaning behind Red Nose Day. I’ve already donated to the charity and even got myself a Red Nose to show. 

Buy a red nose to help children in need! They only cost $1

Sounds like a good idea to me.

r.i.p. professor oak

fucking murdered

Rest in fucking pieces

(No no, ghosts can take people’s spirits out of their bodies, and they can put them back as well! Didn’t any of you see Tower of Terror?)

8U y u inject logic and kill jokey

Because it's my perogaty... pejorative... purgatory... cos I wanted to!

r.i.p. professor oak

fucking murdered

Rest in fucking pieces

(No no, ghosts can take people's spirits out of their bodies, and they can put them back as well! Didn't any of you see Tower of Terror?)

reblog with the sexiest icon you have of you character.

WHAT THE FUCK THSI IS PERFECT IM SC RE AMIN G

I've only just seen this weird new update today, and already there's all this art making great use of it. Very pretty.

what do you mean it’s not christmas yet

i don’t use this 3DS anymore and i have digital copies of these games now so i’m giving the physical copies away along with the console. i’m not interested in selling them because lbr have you ever tried selling gaming stuff

it’s easier to part with as a gift so they might as well go to someone less fortunate than i

good luck!!

i can dream!

i was planning on buying one for my bro for the hols but maybe this’ll come through instead!!

Two new Mega Evolutions revealed in Coro Coro.

Mega Beedrill & Mega Pidgeot

Check out the scans at Serebii.net

Holy wow that Beedrill.

One would now have reason to name a Beedrill “Buzzbomber” more than ever.

Those are actually really good choices for Megas: both underpowered and underapreciated.

Not to mention; POISON TYPE MEGA!!!!

Looks like Sableye, Slowbro and Audino get one too.

Sableye, Slowbro, and Audino have already been chatted about and confirmed.

If you say so, but this is the first I’d heard of that, and they were in the picture. I just wanted to make sure they weren’t being overlooked.

They have been confirmed, look at them at these sources! (All from Pokémon.com!

http://www.pokemonrubysapphire.com/en-us/pokemon/new-mega-evolutions/mega-slowbro

http://www.pokemonrubysapphire.com/en-us/pokemon/new-mega-evolutions/mega-audino

http://www.pokemonrubysapphire.com/en-us/pokemon/new-mega-evolutions/mega-sableye

Cool, thanks, it's always good to have sources, and I don't doubt what you say, but like I said; I didn't know. This was. The first. I'd heard. About it.

And I was explaining my motivation for saying what I said in the first place, just so you know.

Now let's just chalk this one up to experience, or agree to disagree or whatever, before the thread gets unnecessarily long and clogs up the dash.

Two new Mega Evolutions revealed in Coro Coro.

Mega Beedrill & Mega Pidgeot

Check out the scans at Serebii.net

Holy wow that Beedrill.

One would now have reason to name a Beedrill “Buzzbomber” more than ever.

Those are actually really good choices for Megas: both underpowered and underapreciated.

Not to mention; POISON TYPE MEGA!!!!

Looks like Sableye, Slowbro and Audino get one too.

Sableye, Slowbro, and Audino have already been chatted about and confirmed.

If you say so, but this is the first I'd heard of that, and they were in the picture. I just wanted to make sure they weren't being overlooked.

Two new Mega Evolutions revealed in Coro Coro.

Mega Beedrill & Mega Pidgeot

Check out the scans at Serebii.net

Holy wow that Beedrill.

One would now have reason to name a Beedrill “Buzzbomber” more than ever.

Those are actually really good choices for Megas: both underpowered and underapreciated.

Not to mention; POISON TYPE MEGA!!!!

Looks like Sableye, Slowbro and Audino get one too.

why is amazon charging $14k for this game

It has free shipping tho

It's not just that one item. Check out the seller's other stuff; much of them are massive rip-offs.

It must be a computer error of some kind; no-one in their right mind would charge $32,000 for earphones.

And why do they have exactly 8 of everything in stock?

(WARNING: This post contains copious amounts of Nezu Tensho. Women with heart conditions are advised not to look directly at Nezu Tensho. This also applies to women without heart conditions. He’s very pretty. See? See how pretty he is? He’s very pretty. I’d like to run my fingers through his hair, and I’m just a tumblelog. Anyway, without further ado, enjoy interacting with him.)

Gentlemen, behold! It's my dangerously sexy son. Watch out for him~

Trying to upgrade my OS so I can use Skype again.

It’ll probably be the death of my rubbish laptop, but… oh well. Goodbye everyone, it was nice knowing you.

Everyone ignore this, I'm waiting until I've got everything backed up first. But Skype still doesn't work.

(Heya dudes and dudettes.

The ISS passed over my county for a few minutes. It was just a point of light, but I could see it clearly, going almost due East.

Thought you might be interested.)

www.your-average-trainer.tumblr.com has 18 followers, can we make it 20 by the end of today?

signal booooooooost

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole. 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.

The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.

But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

"BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?" screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. "You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!" "But where will people get the incentive to work?!" Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. "You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”

"But who will serve me?" grumbled Marty McMoneybags. "Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)

And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!

Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.

And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.

Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.

And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.

The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?

TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

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They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours. 

But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.

Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

Please take one moment to think about an issue here, where indeed is all that money coming from? Swiss GDP per capita is about 78,000 and compared to the 33,600 they will be giving away, they have the issue of where does it come from, taxes would literally mean they are taking from someone else, including the family they are taking from, to give them back the same money or less. Also think about how few people there are in Switzerland compared to say France, the UK, or the US. For my homecountry, the US, we have 317 million people living here, and with that same price, do you want to know how much that comes out to? In total; over 10 trillion dollars.

I understand the wealth gap being so large is an issue, raising the minimum wage is a better plan, in my opinion than this is. To be frank this just is improbable for most countries, and more than likely inflation would increase.

I am not saying I have an answer other than increase the minimum wage and maybe put a price ceiling on CEO jobs at 8-9 figure salary but this is just unreasonable.

I'm with the last guy, this might work for the smaller countries but the larger ones won't be able to implement this as effectively, if at all. It's a cool idea, just not a universal one. Here's hoping more unorthodox solutions like this keep coming out of the woodwork.