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I just saw someone say the words "jokingly gaslight" this might be a good time to reintroduce the internet to the terms "lying" or perhaps "pranking" or even just "joking" on it's own

Okay, say it with me guys…

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they'll believe that it's true, then that's lying.

If you are giving someone wrong information under the assumption that they'll ultimately realise that it's false, and that they will find this funny, then that's joking.

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they'll believe that it's true and that their response will be funny, then that's a prank.

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they will notice the differences between your presentation of reality and their perception of it, and come to doubt their ability to judge what is and is not real, then that's gaslighting.

now dont leave this in the tags

If you are giving someone wrong information and you assume they will know it is wrong, in hopes that they will play along, then that’s a bit.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called on his state’s Board of Administration to explore legal action against Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch (AB InBev), under the guise that a stock devaluation resulting from conservative boycotts against the brand is affecting Florida’s pension fund. 

Earlier this year, conservatives had a full meltdown over a 45-second Instagram video touting a partnership between Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Kid Rock purchased cases to shoot in his backyard, country singer Travis Tritt said he’d removed Anheuser-Busch products from his tour’s hospitality rider, conservative influencers accused the beer company of lacing their product with estrogen. The hysteria resulted in widespread boycotts, and Anheuser-Busch’s stock value dropped 20 percent. It is worth knowing that while the company’s stock price is still lagging, the devaluation from the backlash does not even represent a year-to-date low. 

But it seems like DeSantis didn’t stop to consider that his state’s pension fund was invested in Anheuser-Busch when he publicly promoted the boycott. In April, the governor told right-wing influencer Benny Johnson that he would not be drinking Bud Light again, and called the backlash to the brand “righteous” 

On Thursday, DeSantis told Fox News that Anheuser-Busch had violated its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders when it partnered with Mulvaney. The governor said that the state had over $50 million invested in Anheuser-Busch and that the devaluation had hurt teachers and other pensioners. DeSantis hinted that his inquiry into Anheuser-Busch could lead to a “derivative lawsuit” against the company. 

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DeSantis’ track record of combatting what he calls “woke” corporations — he rarely, if ever, defines what exactly that means — is not stellar. The governor has been embodied in a messy and bizarre legal battle with Disney after the company’s CEO expressed his opposition to anti-LGBTQ legislation in the state. The fallout of the dueling lawsuits between Florida and the Magic Kingdom has given DeSantis’ 2024 opponents an inroad to criticize the presidential hopeful as anti-business. 

If his track record with Disney is anything to go off of, facing off with Anheuser-Busch will likely end up another frivolous shitshow that produces more headaches than gains for the governor. But as his poll numbers tank and his campaign struggles to find its footing, maybe what he most wants right now is a little attention. 

Ron DeSantis is an example of what happens when someone who is obectively speaking a worthless nauseating piece of shit isn’t told their worthless often enough

Somehow despite any intellect, ability, worth or value or even the most superficial traits like good looks or charisma (Which he definitely doesn’t have, as anyone who has looked at his slack jawed face or heard his brainless word vomit attempts at human speech can confirm) this god forsaken repulsive example of one of God’s most awful mistakes seems to think that he has the right to tell actual people who deserve to exist what they can or cannot do

So I urge everyone: If you know someone who “Thinks” like Ronald McSantis....impress upon them every day that they are a worthless piece of shit and the world would have been a better place if their mother had the abortion

Prevent them from ever deluding themselves into thinking they should say anything in public other than perhaps an apology for inflicting their existence on the rest of the human race

This guy's an idiot. This is like shooting someone in the chest and then suing them for bleeding all over your nice carpet

So the story behind Jimmy becoming a giant turtle man are even dumber than I thought 

This is every day of Jimmy’s life, for ever O.O

Interesting implication that Jimmy's underpants are alive

I like the implication that everything on "Lower Decks" actually looks totally realistic, it's just that everyone is fucked up on Orion liquor all the time.

G O A L S

Just finished the episode and this was my EXACT takeaway

Super smash bros multiverse character vs KANG the conqueror

kang rolls up on final destination and is immediately SLAUGHTERED by olimar and pichu

Going to the gym and doing reps with the little five pound weights and dropping a 20 pound bar on my toe so I may one day become someone who can bridal carry

I get that

just like me fr

(via @necromancy-enthusiast)

So I take it we can expect Clark to be the cause, whether directly or indirectly, for Slade to lose an eye and Lex to lose his hair in this series, and somehow it will be the latter who holds the permanent grudge

Gd, please no.

Only time will tell

Why do I feel like this show is going to increase the Slade woobification factor by so many degrees… hate this man.

Considering they made him a pretty white haired anime boy, I think you are right to anticipate woobification. I think they’ll be doing it for almost all the villains, from what we’ve seen of these four episodes. I mean did you see Livewire?

They didn’t need to bring him into it, though… he’s not even a Superman villain…

Yeah I think most of Slade’s actual nemeses haven’t been born yet at this point in the timeline

Let alone most of his future girlfriends.

If I really wanted to cause some chaos and play with your feelings, I’d write a DC AU where I composited Lois Lane and Bruce Wayne 

...hang on I can work with this

So I take it we can expect Clark to be the cause, whether directly or indirectly, for Slade to lose an eye and Lex to lose his hair in this series, and somehow it will be the latter who holds the permanent grudge

it all happens in the same day, in the same incident

#involving Clark getting attacked in the bathroom and losing control of his kryptonian razor#deeply tragic event. doomed three people in Clark's life

He got startled the first time he ever tried the laser vision mirror shave trick

that's infinitely funnier than the vision I had of Clark trying to catch his electric razor while it bounces around the room, progressively shaving more and more of lex's head before embedding itself in slade's eye

So I take it we can expect Clark to be the cause, whether directly or indirectly, for Slade to lose an eye and Lex to lose his hair in this series, and somehow it will be the latter who holds the permanent grudge

it all happens in the same day, in the same incident

I'm sorry but it's the funniest fucking thing to me when people on here are like "let adults have our own spaces" and then you look in their top used tags and it's all like. Disney cartoons for babies

I don't even disagree with the idea that there are places online where children shouldn't be (fucking DUH??) but I don't think the owl house fandom is one of them

30 year old tumblr users will walk into a daycare and be like "I can't stand these entitled minors"

'the human body is perfect god doesnt make mistakes' what about wisdom teeth then. huh. gonna let those bastards grow in and fuck up your jaw for god. didnt think so

also the exploding appendix

there's an entire book about all the ways the human body is fucked up, but the highlights I remember are: -The blood vessels for our rods and cones in our eyes don't run behind them but rather in front of them. It's like putting the power cables *over* a camera's lens -the nasal sinus cavities fucked up during evolution. when our skulls shortened, we went from having a straight shot from one end to the other to having basically a basin which can collect mucus, which then has the actual exit for the chamber at the top of it. this normally isn't a problem bc cillia can work viscous mucus up it, but when we get sick and produce super watery mucus, it no longer works, which is why our noses get stuffed up. the book is called Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. I recommend it.

Most mammals can’t get scurvy. They make their own Vitamin C. But in primates, the gene to make it is broken. Normally, when an important gene breaks, the organism dies and has no surviving descendants, but when it broke a few million years ago, our ancestors were living in a lush climate with lots of fruit and survived the failure just fine.

Then humans invented fire and clothing, and moved to colder climates where fresh food was only available part of the year, and scurvy was born.

And our reproduction, oh heavens. There are SO MANY WAYS that human reproduction is fucked up that simply DO NOT APPLY to other animals, even the our nearest relatives, the great apes. When a gorilla is giving birth, she finds a nice hiding place in the trees, squats down for like half an hour, and pushes out a baby. Humans, not so much. In fact, the outcomes of unassisted childbirth in humans are so poor that most anthropologists agree that we must have invented midwifery in some form before we became fully human.

There's something so alluring about making a character that one of the primary characteristics is that he has tuberculosis