everythingfox:

Perfect balance

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bemusedlybespectacled:

penrosesun:

You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit “am I the asshole?” posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.

Like, if you see a Reddit post titled “Am I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?”, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: “I (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think it’s too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like she’s going to cheat on me now that we’re married. I’ve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didn’t want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldn’t take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldn’t have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked she’d have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that weren’t sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?”

Similarly, whenever you see a headline like “Woman Wins Millions From McDonald’s Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hot”, if you dig a bit, you’ll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonald’s was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old woman’s lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonald’s for her medical costs, and McDonald’s refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonald’s had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonald’s two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the woman’s medical costs.

I think it’s largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but don’t know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous “how could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?” case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that that’s all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isn’t. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones. 

Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of y’all automatically siding with McDonald’s over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because “hurr durr dumb kid didn’t know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lol”, I will grab that McBoot you’re licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.

lawyer fun fact! sometimes you need to sue someone before your insurance will pay for your medical bills (because your insurance would rather the other person pay for your medical bills so they don’t have to)! sometimes you need to sue because what you’d get from insurance isn’t enough to pay for all of your medical bills! sometimes you want to change a specific thing, like a dangerous practice or defective part, and that’s not going to happen if you just ask nicely!

most truly ridiculous lawsuits get screened before they’re even filed (because someone goes to an attorney and that attorney is like “yeah you don’t have a case here”) or very shortly after they’re filed (because judges can toss out cases that have zero merit). 99% of the time, if it sounds ridiculous but somehow it went all the way to someone suing and winning in a jury trial, it probably wasn’t actually as absurd as it sounds.

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cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

Your reaction to chatGPT instantly lets me know how easy it would be to trick you into thinking that you are haunted

“omg it’s literally alive!” Two beers, 45 minutes, deck of tarot cards, and I’m charging you 350$ for an exorcism.

“I read an article that it’s showing simple self-awareness” two days, mild preparation, hot and cold reading, I can get 60$ for joints laced with sacred sage

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barclaysbianca:

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That’s her, btw


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She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

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thewalrus-said:

grymmdark:

wantonlywindswept:

wantonlywindswept:

wantonlywindswept:

wantonlywindswept:

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?

you fucking dare?

you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???

hey quick question gdocs

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what the fuck

querched up white boy

i don’t have screenshots, but one time i typed the word “table” into google docs in the process of writing my story, and google docs carefully underlined the first four letters (“tabl”), and asked me if perhaps i’d meant to write “table”

yes, google docs, that would be why i’d written “table”

out of curiosity i accepted the change. the word now read “tablee”

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trickyyoyospinner:

trickyyoyospinner:

girls go to college to get a degree in a program that they were once excited for but have since had all the enjoyment sucked out of it and is no longer a baseline requirement in an increasingly competitive and demanding workforce

and boys go to jupiter to get on the compupiter

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dornerist:

multitrackdrifting:

I FUCKING TOLD YALL THIS SHIT WAS COMING AND YOU DIDNT BELIEVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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this has always been the pushback to AI art. tbh i dont care whether AI art is “real art.” whether it’s real art or not, it’s going to have the effects on the people in industries replace. Its the modern day equivalent of self checkouts, but it cuts deeper (personally).

in a larger sense, replacing human artistry is such a tragedy. there are more artists out of all of us (including ALL human artistry, theatre, animation, writing, drawing, painting, fabric crafts, jewelry) than modern day neocapitalism has to do with. to accept this change in automation of jobs is not just an ideological triffle, it has major implications of how we perceive art, how it affects our art, creation, and the world around us. especially in this upcoming wave ,signalled by the above, of AI art overtaking the many people who animating and painting/illustration is their art and passion.

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girlactionfigure:

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homunculus-argument:

mundrakan:

homunculus-argument:

My 30 seconds of research (which, in my defense, I did still do) didn’t find verification of this iether way, but apparently there’s a claim that the word “assassin”, coming from arabic, originally came from the word meaning “hashish-chewer”, a lowlife and a shady fellow. And while wikitionary calls this origin story “folkloric”, I’m sharing it anyway purely because I find it funny. Like imagine.

“What price would you be willing to take for this rotten work, for the hideous act of taking a human life?”
“lmao weed.”

Not quite. It came from a muslim sect who allegedly controlled a lot of politics in the middle ages middle east through assassination or the threat of it.

It’s not completely wrong though, as they indoctrinated their respective future members by getting them high with hashish and showing them “the paradise” they were going to gain with their deeds, aka a wonderful lush garden, kept for that reason alone.

SO basically they radicalized impressible young men by promising a better life and made them do terrible deeds for them. Their leader (still allegedly) was called the old man of the mountain and no one can actually tell what he was up to then.

This of course bears now resemblance with our life now, and no man has been put through similar practices since.. ages… like… last Saturday or so….

And this is why I always share every dumbass thought I have: Had I not made this original post in the first place, I would not have learned about the alledged existence of the ancient radical assassin weed cult, which unfortunately doesn’t seem anywhere near as fun as was initially assumed.

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reputation:

taylor swift please do not make me listen to songs about that man.

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albertinesimonet:
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annabelle–cane:

annabelle–cane:

I don’t think child internet safety by way of parental monitoring is inherently a bad idea, there are probably ways it can be done fine, but I get wary every time I see people advocate for it because, growing up, the parents supervising their kids’ internet access weren’t the good parents who respected their children, they were the sadistic control freaks who loved forcing their “daughters” onto diets and exercise regimens they didn’t want. they were the parents who’d go through their kids’ texts and threaten to call the police if they saw anything they deemed amiss, thereby getting their kids excised from friend groups. they were the parents who’d go ballistic if they saw a pronoun in a bio or a pride flag avatar. sure, promote child internet safety, but it’s naive at best and actively dangerous at worst to ignore what parental surveillance of social media so often actually looks like in practice.

to be a little bit harsher: I think a lot of advocates for parental internet moderation are perfectly aware of what it’s actually like in practice, and they simply don’t care because it would mean they wouldn’t have to encounter children in public spaces; they prefer traumatized and abused children over annoying ones.

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caffeinefreedietbepis:

i 100% would have been diagnosed with hysteria back in the day

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mikkeneko:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

Nebraska hasn’t passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: ‘I will burn this session to the ground’

Damn. I thought she was just gonna up and make a fuss and her swearing to protect trans kids was a bunch of empty words (again).

But no. She’s one-woman filibustering the entire Nebraska legislature into a complete standstill until they agree to protect the rights of trans kids.

She was 100% serious when she said she’d make it as painful for everyone as it is for trans kids. Gahddamn.

This is why small elections matter. She’s not a country wide senator or president or shit. She’s just a local official representing District 6 in Nebraska.

This is why the “smaller” elections between the presidential elections matter.

-fae

#she’s also probably getting a lot of hate and being determined doesn’t mean this isn’t wearing on her#so if anyone in nebraska wants to throw a nice letter or phone call her way it would probably be worth the effort - Contact info here.

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popcornpie:

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THIS MAN DIDN’T EVEN LAST TWO YEARS AS TWITTER CEO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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