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definitely not a bot

@ihatechoosinguserids

i passed the turing test i swear

me at Olive Garden at 11:02 am staring down the elderly people impatiently waiting outside knowing we should’ve opened 2 minutes ago but my boss is in the back cheating on his wife with the girl who makes the salads and he has the key to unlock the doors

certified iconic post

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im so in love with this post one time i got really really high and decided since i dont have a printer that i was going to paint it and hang it up on my wall

there's only 7 words on the painting and you managed to misspell the two largest ones

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

sheds a single tear

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

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Lil Early, but fuck it! I’m not missing it this year.

"Thank you for the pasta sir. Hey look at my phone, check this uahh,, check this shit out."

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Obama, complete sloshed off red wine and pasta: now let me clear uhhhhhhh this laser is dope as hell

IDK where people got this idea that overseas shipping is particularly bad for the environment, but it takes less carbon to ship a small container of peaches across the Pacific Ocean than it does for you to drive your car to the grocery store to pick it up. Do you have any idea how many containers of peaches you can fit on a single cargo ship?

Of all the critical commentaries one could make about this image, “cargo ships will be the death of us” is the least accurate

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How food is made is almost universally more important than where it’s made. Growing a shit ton of pears very efficiently in Argentina and then packaging that shit ton of pears very efficiently in Thailand is absolutely lower-carbon than growing and packaging them inefficiently, in small batches, in every town/city/region that wants packaged pears.

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I mean, the word efficiency is obscuring a lot here, Thailand is not a centre for a high tech ultra productive packaging industry. It does have a large population and extremely weak labor laws which means it is a pool of cheap labor.

Shipping things, especially perishable and delicate fruit, needs preservation technology and is slightly more complicated than just put it in the container. Doing this thrice, which significantly delays the whole supply chain and introduces more complex modes of failure in this case only makes sense in a world where there is extreme global inequality, so the "costs" are marginal compared to the benefits of exploiting third world workers.

Sure, it is probably not that bad for the environment to ship around the world, but this is not being done this way due to some kind of natural allocation of efficiency.

animated fantasy films just don’t make fucked up evil castles like they used to

[ID: king haggard’s castle from the last unicorn (1982), the horned king’s castle from the black cauldron (1985), and maleficent’s castle from sleeping beauty (1959) /end ID]

aesthetic of the day is fucked up evil castles

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(waving my hand dismissively at someone trying to show me a meme on their phone) no, no ive seen this trick before, you trapped the soul of a funny animal inside of a polished rectangle, i don't need to see it anymore

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calling the cops on someone else in america for drug use is the most comically evil action i can think of that you can still admit to in public and (unfortunately) not be shunned/exiled/physically attacked for. you're very explicitly saying that your sheltered discomfort with seeing someone do drugs is worth ruining that person's entire life over (even though you could get the same effect by just continuing to walk past the drug user until you never see them again). 18th century dauphin mindset. "papá! papá! i espied that peasant over yonder partaking of a snuffbox! throw him in the dungeon, lest my delicate morals be corrupted any further!" kill yourself perhaps