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The boycotts are working, however don’t rush to get your bigmacs yet. They could be doing this to save face. Keep boycotting. Don’t stop until you hit them where they know it won’t benefit to manipulate.

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Absolutely wild how COVID precautions might've led to the die-out of an entire flu branch in humans. Anyhoo, if you wanna read the actual paper that led to this conclusion, it can be found [here]

drew inanna again!

let her ball‼️

every prehistoric human reconstruction has me thinking “I want to smoke weed with this bitch”

she looks like she would have been an awesome neighbor, like she would have loved menthols and called me baby

“a Cheeto could have killed a Victorian child” but the opposite. Neanderthals would have loved to go to Hardee’s and get a burger with me.

neanderthals would have walked hand in hand with me into hell (buccees opening day)

When I saw this article two years ago and found out Neanderthals were seasoning their food 70,000 years ago, I teared up thinking about how they never got to try things like beef jerky and Doritos.

Can you imagine suing Boeing and coming home to find Boeing's faulty plane parts washed up in your backyard?

I hate hate hate hate how dog friendly everything is in the city now. Barring medical necessity, there is no reason to bring your dog to a restaurant, there is no reason to bring your dog to the grocery store, there is no reason to bring your dog to the nail salon. Dogs do not need to go everywhere you go why am I being forced to be around dogs all the time

do you guys like ever run out of things to get mad about?

There are are a fuckton of people with dog allergies (both mild and severe] who would love to exist out in public without having to worry about the constant presence of dogs in a place that does not require or need for them to be there.

There are plenty of outdoor places and actual pet friendly establishments you could take your dog to, but OP is specifically referring to basically every establishment that is not or doesn't specify that they are a "pet friendly" establishment that doesn't bother kicking people's dogs out when the dog owners break those rules and come in anyways.

On top of that, most dog owners (AND I SAID MOST. NOT ALL LMAO) are idiots that anthropomorphize their dogs, or don't train or tend to their dogs needs and so we get really anxious and aggressive dogs and people/dog unfriendly dogs that end up freaking their shit in public.

It's a health and safety hazard for everyone else involved. As well as a general common courtesy thing. It's like bringing your crying baby to a movie theater or screaming toddler to a fine dining restaurant.

This obviously excludes service dogs because they are properly trained and have an important job to do.

This isn't some kind of fandom discourse that has otherwise no basis in our current reality that people are just "getting mad about". This is shit that can and does affect the well-being of real people. You just sound like an inconsiderate dickhead. :/

Also I'm an insurance underwriter and dog bites are one of the most common types of claims in personal lines, I'm not running out of things to get mad about this is literally my field of expertise

I hate when an artist gets exposed for being a bad person and people start the narrative “why would you even want to listen to their shitty music” when are we going to be freed from the idea that only good people create good art and bad people create bad art. It just makes it harder for these types of people to be exposed because now you got people thinking “how is this possible, his music is so good!”

more controversial (for tumblr at least) addition to this - the argument that “people should have known based on the subject matter of the songs” is also extremely unhelpful. Songs can be fictional and cathartic depictions of bad emotions or thoughts and I don’t think they should be used as evidence that someone is bad. If that subject matter makes you uncomfortable especially given hindsight that’s one thing, but I don’t think that should be confused with “evidence” or a sign “people should have known”. I think this line of thinking just ensures artists are going to make much more boring music

Listening to the Fallout 4 soundtrack and.... LYNDA FUCKING CARTER?!?!?

That is NOT my middle name.

Yoshitaka Amano

prequel game

Sea turtle launches attacks on a scuba diver cleaning his tank only to be foiled time and time again.

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.