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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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I feel like there's a parallel phenomenon to Western fantasy novels not knowing how long a thousand years is whereby JRPGs don't know how big a continent is.

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average day for lancelot compilation

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Ok dash reloaded but I saw a tweet screenshot comparing Netanyahu in Congress with Nazi Germany and I think those comparisons are generally apt but they said it as "this is Worse than Nazi Germany because the world legitimizes it" and I need you guys to know the world DID legitimize Nazi Germany. Their violence and racism was largely known, their positions were shared by leaders in many countries in the imperial core, and they operated pretty much with impunity for years before the war, which started not because other countries cared about Jews or Roma or anyone else's lives, but because Germany started threatening the power of other European nations. It's important to me that we all know this

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another inconsistency ppl like to bring up is the multiple times in the first doctor's era when someone takes the doctor's pulse and says it sounds normal but lest we forget this only happens when the Doctor is somehow incapacitated so its possible that one of his hearts keeps stopping. man's pretty old.

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I just referred to the First Doctor as “fresh off the Asshole Planet.”

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Wow. Talk about attention to detail.

Video here: https://twitter.com/javi_draws/status/965260617790738432?s=21

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Not just of Superman, but also creators Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster with Lois Lane-inspiration Joanne Siegel. :)

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okay tumblr’s exclusion from the twitter social media ban list is hilarious but genuinely we do not belong on there. if a real human person asks “where can i find you on social media” and your choice is a swift death or revealing your tumblr, most of us would simply expire. half of y’all change urls every week like you’re in witness protection. just imagine for one second attaching your wholeass government name to your latest two am clownposting and tell me that didn’t send a cold chill down your spine. the only place i ever want to see the words “connect with me on tumblr!” is on the ao3 profile of an author i’m actively stalking. anyone in the world can follow me except anyone i personally know. antisocial media.

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Pay attention to the particulars of Mastercard's responses, because this a textbook example of how to create plausible deniability.

"Mastercard has not barred any legal transaction" is, technically, a true statement – because Mastercard is not the one processing the transactions in the first place. Mastercard does not deal directly with any merchant, and in fact typically refuses to communicate with merchants at all; there's always a payment processing service sitting in between Mastercard and the merchant, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or any of dozens of other service providers.

Consequently, there are two layers of service agreements in place: the agreement between Mastercard and the payment processing service, and the agreement between the payment processing service and the merchant. That second layer of service agreements, between the payment processing service and the merchant, is where all of these content restrictions are being imposed. Mastercard can thus truthfully claim that they aren't barring legal transactions.

Now, if you've been paying attention, you've probably already spotted the issue: if the content restrictions are being imposed upon the merchants by individual payment processing services and not by Mastercard, why do all of those payment processing services seem to have exactly the same content restrictions?

That's where the critical sleight of hand comes in: while Mastercard's own terms of service do not require payment processing services to bar transactions of particular types, their ToS does require payment processors to bar transactions which could be damaging to the Mastercard brand. What constitutes damage to the Mastercard brand is not defined; it means whatever Mastercard wants it to mean. The payment processing services are thus in a position where they can be held in breach of Mastercard's terms of service for basically any reason, which gives them a strong incentive not to test any boundaries.

And that's why Mastercard can truthfully say they have never barred any legal transaction: they're never the ones doing the blocking. The layer of payment processing services that sits between Mastercard and the merchants are enforcing those content restrictions, based on a series of unwritten handshake agreements between the payment processors and Mastercard regarding what does and does not constitute acceptable content – and because the particulars of those handshake agreements aren't in writing, Mastercard can assert that their terms of service do not compel payment processing services to bar any legal transaction and technically be telling the truth.

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Jack Kirby – Julius Caesar Costume Designs (1969)

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well this fucking sucks

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Greg Rucka is so real for seeing Renee Montoya as a minor character on BTAS, immediately deciding this woman is gay, and then going on to use his time at DC to not only canonise her as a lesbian but to give her one of the most iconic and nuanced character arcs of the 2000s.

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Inshallah he will be stirred into a fine fry

A delicious meal