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The FDA is corrupt as hell but this is a stupid and condescending post, like we dont need inspections at the factories where food is made? Sorry for eating cheese-its out of the box sometimes I guess? The FDA didn't exist to protect you from bad food handling in your own home. Most people don't live on a self sufficient farm, we live in a society instead.

I love watching my friends get anxious over food if the FDA is going to be defunded. Problem that only exists for people that eat pre-packaged garbage and don't buy local.

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i need you guys to look at this fuckign post

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one thing about tumblr at least here they’re just called “posts”. Saying “I saw this tweet/reel/tiktok/short” makes me feel like I’m ordering at a restaurant where they make you say Texas Tom’s Nut-Slappin Griddle-Chizzle instead of grilled cheese

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The thing is I think the cross doesn’t take away suffering exactly. It gives it meaning. It makes it a story. So now when we have our sufferings that would otherwise be banal and pitiful and small and ugly, they get taken up into the story that goes “just like the time a God came down and died and saved the world”. And maybe that makes them a little beautiful.

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Found myself thinking I can't imagine how Mark Scout would feel if he found out that his wife is still alive only she's been kidnapped years ago and being held in a basement and she hasn't seen the sun the entire time and has been transformed into a different version of herself and doesn't know who she is.

Then I was like frick no actually I do know what that feels like

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So, I see the show also has a little bit to say about rich women, in the show's language, "subjugating another person" because they don't want to "experience pregnancy".

Doesthisremindyouofanything.doc

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honeymoon phase but it isn’t a phase and we’re just deeply in love and devoted to each other for all of eternity <3

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apparently almost no one’s seen the video it’s free real estate comes from so here it is

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How can I even reproach certain Christians for acting like the line between hand holding and sex is paper thin when the TV also acts the same way

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Your enjoyment of single-player games on easier difficulties infuriates the beast.

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If severance was real everyone would assume it was prostitution. And they would be right

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"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

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"She is always married too soon who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late who gets a good one"

never in my LIFE have i ever wished i could cross-stitch till i saw this quote

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By the way my prediction for the show is that Helly is some kind of corporate spy

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Let me rephrase. It's not like slavery has never been done in real life. The thing about slavery is that it's profit motivated. If your slave isn't profitable you might as well not have one. Therefore, it's within the interest of the slaver to beat their slaves if they aren't profitable, or risk making themselves more trouble than they're worth. And yes, it does have to be a beating, you can't just look at them sternly. And you can't imprison them because imprisonment is time away from work and time is money. In other words the Break Room "isn't fun", but it needs to be more than not fun if Lumon intends to retain profit, because their current model is very time consuming and allows for the possibility of one of the slaves malingering, as it were, and becoming unprofitable on purpose.

My prediction for the show is that they either show us a higher level of brutality from Lumon, or, they show us that Lumon isn't actually profiting from the "work" being done in this department in the way that we assume they are.

Am I supposed to buy that repeating an apology speech 300 times will make the person genuinely feel sorry or is there something else going on there like some kind of punishment that I'm not seeing or a brainwashing technology?

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I know it's psychological torture. Or i realize that. I guess I'm just commenting on a weak link in the worldbuilding- it's a weak link because it makes the character actions seem implausible.

We, as the audience, don't know what will happen if one of the employees physically assaults one of the non-severed management. And even if we did, more importantly, the characters don't. We don't even see a lot of armed guards standing around or any guns onscreen or anything like that, so they can't draw any obvious conclusions about that sort of thing. Obviously we can assume it would be met with a negative response, perhaps very horrible even, but violence as a solution is clearly somewhat less drastic than other solutions that have been tried *cough* and one would think most people would stoop to manslaughter before suicide if they've been kidnapped.

However genteel the environment appears, everything in this world is ultimately bounded by force. I know that Lumon's policy is to let the Outies do most of the containment work but they must still have violent structures in place otherwise nothing makes sense.

So my question is; what is forcing Helly to even recite the confession in the first place? I guess she wants to get out of the room but I also kind of want to see what happens if she doesn't cooperate (which I tend to assume a proud person wouldn't, at least at first?) because we haven't been given any demonstration of what happens under those circumstances. If they did so demonstrate it would help ground the setting, especially since Lumon is working under some very unique constraints about the types of force they're able to use.

Am I supposed to buy that repeating an apology speech 300 times will make the person genuinely feel sorry or is there something else going on there like some kind of punishment that I'm not seeing or a brainwashing technology?