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I am so fucking tired of seeing other people live my dreams
Context: this is the director of the National Butterfly Center that far-right Republicans and Qanon people have been accusing of aiding human trafficking because they refuse to let the government build a border wall on nature preserve grounds. The National Guard came onto her property and someone left their truck running and unlocked and their gun unsecured.
I keep seeing people being shocked and bewildered about airbnb being so crappy to use now
and it’s giving me the impression not everyone knows that is by design- all of those “disrupter” startups operate exactly the same way. So let me lay it out:
First the company starts with an enormous amount of seed money, and they enter an established industry offering the same product but dirt cheap and with the feel of luxury. They operate at a loss for years. They offer their product at such a reduced rate that they literally cannot profit off of it. They rely on their seed money and investment from other wealthy friends to get by. They do this until the other established companies in the industry are on their knees and begging to be bought out. Once all of the competitors have either collapsed or been bought out, the new disrupter company is safe to jack up its prices and reduce services/perks to get to a level that is profitable. It might end up being much more expansive than the industry was to start with, because now that competitors are gone the disrupter business has more room to squeeze customers dry without fear they’ll go to another company instead. The “we’re shaking this industry up to bring high quality products direct to the consumer” pitch has nothing to do with consumers and is entirely about eliminating competitors, particularly long standing well established ones.
This is how uber works, airbnb, all of those. It’s the same game the laundry mat chain in my neighborhood who offers free drying is playing- driving out competition so they have more freedom to price things higher.
Individual consumers often don’t have the luxury to be so choosy about what companies they buy from, but just be aware going in and don’t get taken by surprise later on.
By the way, Amazon is absolutely playing by this handbook, and so did Wal-Mart before it. It's very, very, very predictable.
“Nah, your majesty, the optics are fine. Definitely deliver this speech while fucking sweating gold.”
men were just built different in the 70s & 80s idk if it's the chest hair or actors not being forced into inhumane training regimes for movies but everything was so much more lush like those are free range organic male tits not the factory shit with chemicals in it
let us not understate the importance of an ordinary amount of belly fat
I am once again reminded of this lady my prof knew who broke up with a guy in the 80's because he "had a deformity" and she couldn't cope with it, only to find out like a decade later that this Horrific Disfigurement was a six pack
legitimately what the fuck
'oh you have psychosis? alright i'm going to put microchips in your medicine and monitor you to make sure you're complying. this should reduce paranoia'
This sounded fake so I looked it up.
It's not fake.
I’ve been in absolute tears cry laughing at this for the past 15 minutes.
Hey tumblr user spockoandjimjim how is that campaign you dm going
Well I’m glad you asked
Legit if govt couldn't use it as an excuse to invade countries they knew weren't involved due to the general uneducated state of the American populace we would have shrugged and moved on from 9/11 by the end of the decade.
Like I can't stress enough that Covid killed 3000+ people a day for weeks while the govt basically sat there on it's hands cuz you can't invade a country for capital gain over a pandemic. This country does not now and never has cared about the lives of it's civilians.
“fish fear me” I went to the lake and none of them knew you.
I present an alternative idea
The doorway is real, the rest is airbrushed graffiti.
my pain scale invention. it goes from 0-16. you fill it out like this:
i made this because i find pain to be a multifaceted thing that influences me in different ways. i can accomplish lots of small tasks while in pain but that doesnt mean i can move around or even think clearly. its name is the goldstein expanded pain index or gepi. you can use it if you want. or not.
[Image description 1: four circles, inside one another, split by two lines to make four sets of four slices each. Each quarter of the circles is labeled: one is "intensity of pain", one is "difficulty thinking/communicating", one is "difficulty accomplishing tasks", and the last is "difficulty moving around".
Image description 2: the same as above, but some of the sections have been colored in. Intensity of pain and difficulty accomplishing tasks each have one section colored red, difficulty thinking/communicating has two, and difficulty moving around has three. End ID.]
I’m playing a relatively new game and it’s still a little buggy so whenever there’s a glitch or something the devs want you to email them about it. So my game crashed and deleted my save file and when I sent the devs an email about it I got this back:
As a designer who used to be a tester, I can absolutely confirm that this is one of the three basic responses to bugs:
“Hah, that’s AWESOME!” — translation: Usually an animation or physics bug whose results are so hilarious you wonder if it’s worth just leaving it in so everyone can see it. I hope you got that on video or something.
“Oh, this shit again.” — translation: I thought I fixed this fucker like five times already. Either somebody keeps breaking it, or I’m going to have to spend all week trying to find some deeper underlying cause of it all.
“Well, that’s terrifying.” — translation: that shouldn’t even be possible, but if it is, dear sweet zombie jesus, what other things might be going wrong behind the scenes? These are the nightmare bugs that could require fundamental reworks.
I know this is about game bugs, but this somehow happened and it seemed relevant
@theshitpostcalligrapher can i see some of the pigeon pictures please?
ya no prob. gonna derail the post i hope thas ok. i believe i named this one newsprint
this one’s Ginny (short for Guinevere)
I missed that the pigeon pic request was because there's one of theshitpostcalligrapher's posts in the glitched screenshot. I thought we were abruptly veering into the subject of pigeons for absolutely no reason and I was fully willing to accept that on this website.
i want you guys to GUESS what this anon says. because seeing this notification itself could not have prepared me for the full thing
all wonderful guesses!
but alas, no, it was:
legend of zelda? i hardly kno her! aaaaahahahahahahahaha....ahhhh....so, about that link feminization fic u found on my desktop
yeah shes in it
yeah. from legend of zelda
Okay but, may we get the HTTP address to the site where the feminization fic is hosted?
oh yeah sure here
Thanks breastie
Delete your blog
“So I’m just putting a little message in here that says ‘War Crime Counter: 1”, and we’ll just see what that number’s looking like by the time the campaign’s over, sound good?“
