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the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline

Reblog if you were a pleasure to have in class

fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d

I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty

I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.

Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.

When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.

Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.

See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.

So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:

the 0 notes wont stop me from posting every single thought that crosses my mind btw. dont u guys worry about that 

#He's literally Ken now

Margot Robbie in custom Schiaparelli at the world premiere of the Barbie movie.

Her look was inspired by the solo in the spotlight Barbie doll.

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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.

Besides the obvious, the hidden benefit of this is that it provides an endpoint to runaway growth.

The biggest problem with capitalism, the reason it's so destructive to the planet and to the workers and even, ultimately, to the capitalists, is that, after a certain point, the money's just a way of keeping score. The number at the bottom of the column has no bearing on what you can buy or do; as a result, there's no such thing as enough. The number can always be bigger.

Under this proposal, once you hit $1 billion, you've won capitalism. You beat the game, achieved the maximum score; you're finished. There's nothing more you can accumulate. You now have to find a purpose in life other that the relentless pursuit of profit. (And if we're really lucky, it might be something that actually benefits other people, but even if not, it's unlikely to be as damaging as whatever it is you were doing to get that $1 billion.)

Instead of companies expanding endlessly, like tumors, there's a point where, when all the major stakeholders are maxing out on profit, it makes sense to just hold steady. Keep doing/making/selling whatever it is you do/sell/make, but stop trying to do/sell/make more of it every year.

The problem with a tumor--what makes it cancer--is that it keeps growing and growing, until eventually it's taking up so much space and consuming so many resources that the surrounding tissues can't function. The tumor doesn't have to do anything better than the other tissues in order to crowd them out; it just does it faster. Stop the uncontrolled growth, and it's something you can live with.

Stopping the uncontrolled growth of capital means more opportunities for multiple businesses--big and small--operating in the same sector, since it doesn't make sense for any one company to gobble up too much of the market share. That, in turn, means more choices for customers--and workers, since they can take their skills to another employer doing similar things. It means less waste, as there's no longer an economic upside to spewing cheap goods out of a fire-hose before you even know whether anyone wants to buy them. That could mean slower, more thoughtful use of resources in the first place, but at minimum, it's going to mean not manufacturing products only to immediately throw them away.

chronic illness mood of the week

Did I stutter

Would you like to find out what you would be the god of? Take my new uqiz to find out

Hey OP this immediately made me have a crisis

tip of my hat to OP; this is an extremely accurate result

tip of my hat to

OP; this is an extremely

accurate result

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

You belong to this world. You are not an outsider in it, you are not unimportant. You are a part of humanity, you have the same rights, the same dignity, the same value as everyone else. You belong here. Don't let anyone convince you of otherwise, don't let your anxiety tell you anything different. You are wanted here. You're not alone.

Asteroid City | Wes Anderson

besties, how do i fit 8h of sleep into the next 3 hours? oh also im unable to fall asleep

Get someone to hit you over the head with a comically large malet?

Like looney toons comically large, which makes a wacky boi-oi-oi-oing noise upon impact to send you into happy slumber land.

Then in 3 hrs they revive you with an adrenaline shot to the heart! Easy peasy!

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L TO THE (D)OG

unrecommend me a book. pop into my ask box and tell me which books i shouldn't read and why i shouldn't read them

#MedicareForAll will never get the positive media coverage it deserves.

Any method of acquiring something without making a rich person richer is stealing.

mutuals in another life I would have loved to smoke cigarettes with you under a flickering street lamp after the local cafe closes for the day