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Welcome to Zero Effort Scamming.

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Not the mashup we asked for but the mashup we needed.

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I'm pretty revolutionary because I got ATM, ibuprofen, and audiocassette.

I'm stealing this from Twitter

Here's the link

I am a high-definition gateway drug body double!

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

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Reminds me of the apartment my girlfriend used to live in... because at 3am there was a fire alarm (a water pipe on the roof burst, sending a cascade of water over one apartment's balcony for an hour) and there's the guy on his balcony checking out the waterfall.

My man in Russia living his life..😶‍🌫️

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Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

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“Not everyone deserves to know the real you. Let them criticize who they think you are.”

— Unknown

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Don't smoke around your pets, just give them their gummies.

"dont smoke around your pets" okay well i dont even smoke im asthmatic. my dog smokes bc she needs to fucking chill sometimes and Yeah i light them for her Obviously bc she cant use a lighter. i dont get anyrhing out of this arrangment and i resent the implication. in fact shes giving ME secondhand smoke. so my question is why are you so hateful and jugemental and acting like an asshole to me making presumptions and shit about my life.

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There is an irony I see all the time online: People who feel as though their political opposition are unthinking sheep, when actually they are the ones doing as they are told. But it gets to be kind of ridiculous when the thing they are responding to has nothing to do with repeating the same old lines. The above series is in response to a video where a recently-deceased musician was on a talkshow (flanked by Johnny Cash!) years ago saying that the people of this nation would do better if its government spent less on the military and more on social programs and education. (I'd said "the two can be funded concurrently, it doesn't have to be either/or".) So this guy saying something about the 'liberal media does this' has really no connection to the discussion onhand, he is the unthinking one.

And one that likes shanking sheep in his spare time.

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Oh look, I got two responses from Elon Musk scambots.

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Was amused by how this guy has decked out his ketogenic van with all the promo stuff... and has a "fuck it" sticker in the upper right.

Just now noticed his tabs expired 6 months ago.

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How we know AI customer service chatbots are not 'there' yet.

My own experience: Bought an electric scooter, and three weeks later the accellerator will turn the wheel if you're not on the scooter but do nothing if the scooter has a load. Sent them a message with video to say "battery's full, the wheel doesn't move if you're on it but does when you are not." Reply from their auto response was "If your battery isn't charging we'll replace it".

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One note though: While what they tell you in beer ads is bogus, some part of what they tell you in deodorant ads is absolutely true. Life is not as awesome as shown if you use Axe or Old Spice but life sucks a lot less for all parties concerned if you don't reek of bodyfunk.

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t-...to-...toasty s'more mushrooms.....

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I'm always amused by how memes work. As in, someone said something remarkable on Reddit or Tumblr or Twitter so someone else took a screencap of it and shared that to Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr. Sure, there's permanence now, but the original post gets no love while the mimeograph of it gets all the acclaim.

[I say this as someone who has Flickr photos with a hundred views but the uncredited Facebook shares have tens of thousands of likes.]

And 9 times out of 10, the poster's name/nym is in the screencap. Which is hilarious when it's a Tumblr post reproduced elsewhere; you could then just look the account up and follow and read the archives.

the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

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jfc, tell Trump to STFU already! He can't find a coherent thought!

99% of ramblers quit right before they conceive of a coherent thought. KEEP TALKING

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(old man steps out on his porch to address the kid in the yard)

It used to be in the 1980s that you had to build your own computer, and this required understanding it at both the hardware and software level. To know how to write an AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS file. To move jumpers on cards. To know your COM1: from your LPT1: and your IDE from your RLL. Along came Windows (3.0 moreso than previous versions) to where things became plug-and-play, how the software would conform and contort to the hardware on its own.

Therefore Microsoft put computers into the people's hands, which would sound like a good thing, but also meant that people who had no clue how to use computers using computers. The same geeks that were taking the hoods off machines and whipping out a screwdriver previously still were doing this, but it was no longer just for themselves, it was for everyone around them who couldn't seem to press Start, go to Settings then Control Panel, and click the right checkbox as well as the expected action of populating memory slots and improving the graphics card to play some low-poly Minecraft.

Blame Microsoft before you blame Google, and get off my lawn.

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.