a cool thing about tumblr is that when an absolute dog shit dud of a post shows up in my feed i know it's not because of some nebulous algorithm, it's someone's fault and i can find them immediately
You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit âam I the asshole?â posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.
Like, if you see a Reddit post titled âAm I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?â, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: âI (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think itâs too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like sheâs going to cheat on me now that weâre married. Iâve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didnât want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldnât take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldnât have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked sheâd have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that werenât sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?â
Similarly, whenever you see a headline like âWoman Wins Millions From McDonaldâs Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hotâ, if you dig a bit, youâll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonaldâs was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old womanâs lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonaldâs for her medical costs, and McDonaldâs refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonaldâs had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonaldâs two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the womanâs medical costs.
I think itâs largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but donât know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous âhow could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?â case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that thatâs all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isnât. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones.Â
Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of yâall automatically siding with McDonaldâs over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because âhurr durr dumb kid didnât know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lolâ, I will grab that McBoot youâre licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.
lawyer fun fact! sometimes you need to sue someone before your insurance will pay for your medical bills (because your insurance would rather the other person pay for your medical bills so they donât have to)! sometimes you need to sue because what youâd get from insurance isnât enough to pay for all of your medical bills! sometimes you want to change a specific thing, like a dangerous practice or defective part, and thatâs not going to happen if you just ask nicely!
most truly ridiculous lawsuits get screened before theyâre even filed (because someone goes to an attorney and that attorney is like âyeah you donât have a case hereâ) or very shortly after theyâre filed (because judges can toss out cases that have zero merit). 99% of the time, if it sounds ridiculous but somehow it went all the way to someone suing and winning in a jury trial, it probably wasnât actually as absurd as it sounds.
no sorry i dontreally consume any media outside of letting this purple fungus grow in my lunggs
even if the artist were a human, thereâs so much more to consider about a piece of art than just how it looks at a glance
i mean thatâs a long perfectly straight line, was it done free hand? was it done in a single masterful stroke leaving the same thickness of paint the whole way through? are the edges of the line sharp enough to warrant the use of a magnifying glass if you were going to search for errors/rough spots?
and if the artist didnât paint free hand, or if it were done in multiple strokes with different thicknesses of paint, or with purposefully rough and uneven edges, why?
what about the colour? the position of the line on the canvas? the width of the line? the choice of leaving the rest of such a large canvas blank? thereâs so much to consider
and on top of all this sometimes the artist will be a snail
Also I can make a less insanely boring persona for myself if iâm not stuck with my real name and identity
Has no one heard of stage names anymore this day and age? Or pen names? Not using your real name even in indisputably professional settings is nothing new or scandalous
take it from someone whoâs suffered irl consequences of blending real world with internet persona: itâs best that you treat it as two separate worlds, to that end please use a stage name of sorts. always cover your ass, kids. donât trust a random stranger who disappears the minute you turn off your laptop.
not everyoneâs out to get you but not everyoneâs a saint either. stay safe.
Saya Tsuruta â¤ď¸ canât get enough of this PokĂŠmon TCG Illustratorâs art
one important thing that Must be understood about interpersonal relationships is that you have to stop interacting with people who love you like theyâre one slip-up away from leaving you. you have to trust that the ppl you love mean what they say. you have to believe that when they say âthis hurt my feelings,â that theyâre also saying, âcan you please love me this other way next time?â and you have to wrap your head around the fact that even if you donât understand Why someone loves you, you can accept that that they do. true, honest, & open love does not function like hp in a video game !!!!!!
/r/aww is such an annoying subreddit because they'll gush over how cute a fox living in someone's house is but god forbid you post a picture of your pit bull
literally insane
Shoutout to all gender non-conforming people, drag kings, drag queens, trans folks, non-binary peeps, and everyone else who defy societyâs strict and stifling gender presentation requirements and standards










