Been playing a lot of Pikmin 4

"The fastest land mammal is a toddler running away with something it’s not supposed to have."

"OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you're on the piss on the poor website" actually i think it's very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it's sort of weird that you're finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions

Story is wild

Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.

But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.

The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.

In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair

the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!

Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes

Don’t forget the part where the goat wasn’t where they had a warrant to search, so they drove 500 miles, leaving the area they have legal jurisdiction in, then searched a farm they didn’t have a warrant for ans seized the goat. The fair then had the goat slaughtered, even though a court had ordered them to keep it alive until ownership was resolved and despite the fact that both potential owners of the goat had decided to keep it alive.

They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.

I sure hope all of the complaints sent to Shasta District Fair CEO Melanie Silva, whose decisions these were and continues to defend her actions, are polite and don’t waste too much ink. I’m certain nobody would take advantage of the fact that the Sasha District Fair and Event Center’s contact page lists their phone and fax numbers, not to mention the email form below that.

Would be a shame if that information was to circulate far an wide, and ruin that despicable woman's easter holidays

I found the lawsuit filing. It is a work of art, brief and to the point. If you read nothing else, check out page 2, the section headed Nature of the Action. Magnificent.

One of the things that bugs me in the notes is a bunch of people being like 'it's a livestock animal, it's her fault for getting attached' and.

My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl's emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.

The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn't even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.

The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl's mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child's mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.

Regardless of your opinion on the meat industry, livestock slaughter, or 4H, 'cops drive 500 miles, perform an illegal search, seizure and destruction of an American citizen's property, on the word of a biased 3rd party with zero legal rights to the property in question' should make you angry. Because it is a violation of civil rights, and also had no motive besides needless cruelty to an already grieving child.

i don't think it's possible to convey to young people what it was like being a kid and watching adventure time as it aired and noticing all the background hints to the mushroom war and forming the usual 3edgy5me childhood ruined fan theories about it and having them turn out to not only be true but also go on to form the entire thematic and emotional foundation of the series

Mimi Paper Mario (but like… not paper)

uh, source?

Source:

I don't understand the natdex for the Kanto region, you're telling me that there are only 151 Pokemon, but haven't bothered to check the neighbouring country/region you could get to by the means of walking?

Killing and hatred and violence

DESTRUCTION AND DEATH

Seasons do not change on their own. They do so because this dog dismantles them piece by piece.

“landlords are bad because they don’t work” no. landlords are bad because they use the justice system and the police to render innocent people homeless. landlords are bad because they put barriers between living human beings and having shelter. landlords are bad because they hoard wealth and resources while their community suffers

enough with the ableist horseshit. nobody needs to work 40h a week to deserve to live

she transitioned and got evil diversity win

I bet people who don't play magic assume red here is like "elemental fire magic" and white is just "holy" like in JRPG logic but in magic the gathering, yes white *encompasses* goodliness and red *encompasses* fire but that's just because white is the magic of order and law while red is the magic of chaos and disobedience. She became an anti establishment anarchist.

I laughed so hard I choked on saliva

my hungry ass could never work at a cemetery😋

It honestly just looks like staff aren’t even paying attention to any feedback they deem “negative” anymore under the guise of “the haters” or something

Both of these are staff members. Like. I can’t even begin to dissect how concerning this is and how fucking stupid this comparison is

Every update will be annoying to someone, and sometimes it is for stupid reasons…

However, completely fucking the UI is not a solution to any problem. The UI is not equivalent to a bug that causes the cpu to overheat when you press spacebar.

This is how you run into problems of overdesigning. This is a problem born out of capitalism, where you can’t just be content with things just working, but you have to constantly be pushing out new products, even when the new thing isn’t desired by anyone.

Now, I would love it if one of the “uwu plz buy tumblr shoelaces to support the site” people could explain to me how Tumblr, a site that acts like they can’t even afford to keep the lights on, is able to just effortlessly pay for development of a completely fuckimg terrible UI that no one wanted, continues to support a live streaming service that 99% of its user base doesn’t want, and continues to pay staff who talk down to the users for complaining about an unnecessary UI change.

Tumblr can afford to pay for the development of an unnecessary ui change, they can afford to pay for the development and maintenance of a live streaming service almost no one uses, and they can afford to pay a transphobic mod who goes around flagginf sfw transition timelines as “mature content,” but they’re struggling so much to keep the site running. They can’t afford to pay moderators to deal with the hate speech queer people regularly are targeted by. They can’t afford to not track user data for profit. It’s like asking a rich relative for a little money so you can eat and they say they can’t afford it ‘cause they just bought a new luxury suv.

Hahaha, okay Tumblr, that's a nice joke, now bring back the PFPs

Apparently, I can no longer see the poster's pfp, including mine?

What the hell is the point of this??

back randomly??

Seems to be the progression of this bug where the ‘reblogged from’ url or the ‘reblogged’ message itself were vanishing

It's because if you reblog the post from the OP, they don't include the URL... like I don't even know how this is supposed to improve the site in any way.

staff works hard but i work harder!

v3.6.0a

v.4.1.0b

not perfect on version b yet but it's something!

Curses are actually way easier than money conjuring. This comic is so fake