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*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.

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whichever ad exec at Geico came up with the phrasing "up to 15% or more" needs some kind of award for concocting one of the most meaningless strings of words in the English language. all it guarantees is that the number is either lower or higher than 15%, inclusive. up to 15%... or more. a bladeless knife with no handle.

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I am going to kill [remembers suicide jokes are bad] a healthcare executive [remembers the fbi exists] haha just kidding [remembers that tumblr hates posers] but maybe I’m not [remembers The Alamo] The Alamo

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Ah, another one?

A labubu is a powerful charm if the one it is bound to is full of love and not materialism

idk. maybe im too much of a hermit to understand such things. but ultimately it’s a mass produced piece of fabric and cloth put in a “mystery box” to trigger the part of your brain that loves gambling; a carefully-cultivated, intentionally-created market of trendy consumerism and inflated values propped up by a sea of collectors and venture capitalists, all designed to ensure that it’s just quirky enough to be endearing whilst serving as an inherently “prized item” for young adults and teenagers divorced from any inherent value or function. you are not playing with your labubu. you don’t love it just because it looks cute—or, if you think you do, you have been deceived by marketing. it is a commodity of wanting. it is a brand of having. it is devoid of purpose or soul, other than what you give to it—and your choice to give it your soul doesn’t exist in a vacuum

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I love how this guy, who everyone very obviously knows is the imperial brother, basically proposes to the weird servant girl two times in the span of couple of months and no-one bats an eye.

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if that isn't the Gaoshun summary of all time

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I love how this guy, who everyone very obviously knows is the imperial brother, basically proposes to the weird servant girl two times in the span of couple of months and no-one bats an eye.

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damn woman....you are very normal<3

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If I may ask, were you caught in a timeloop recently?

guy who is stuck in a timeloop but is too socially anxious to bring it up to anybody or change their routine just in case it turns out they're mistaken. like yeah you're pretty sure that it's been november 3rd for two weeks now but idk maybe that's the depression talking. it's fine.

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-- Catfucius

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All very true aspects of the economics.

Interestingly the books seem to use CombatUnits in abandon. That implies either military training or workers rights add additional costs.

And considering Gugu can't just download his way out of PTSD, I doubt military training can be fully downloaded onto a human brain (at least without knowing whose brain you're editing).

Some people in this fandom have pointed out that if SecUnits are cheaper than human security they should be way more common, but if theyre more expensive than human security it doesn't make a ton of sense to have them. But i think the reason they're used where they are - on surveys and isolated installations - is because of how the economy of Hypercapitalism In Space works. If The Company had wanted to send a human security officer with PresAux they would have had to ship in extra food, a bigger habitat, etc to account for another person. Yes they could have charged PresAux for that, but they still have to pay for it. By comparison, sending a SecUnit (who i would assume is expensive to purchase but much MUCH cheaper than a human to maintain) lowers their overall costs for the survey while allowing them to charge the same amount for the "service" of security. But on a station where the infrastructure exists to provide food and housing already, its cheaper to pay a human security guard and then just charge them for the housing you already own than buy that many SecUnits. Its all about the cost benefit analysis of whether its cheaper to rely on existing infrastructure or invest in new infrastructure. SecUnits only make economic sense where you're building stuff from the ground up.

This is also, I think, why ComfortUnits make economic sense when human sex workers certainly exist. Unlike a human sex worker, a ComfortUnit does not need housing or food, does not wander around doing stuff when not being visited by clients, and can potentially work forever (as opposed to corporate sex workers who are much more prone to being murdered or having mental breakdowns or getting old and not being perceived as so attractive etc etc) On a station, sure, you can run your brothel with the limitless supply of young people trying to make a better life for themselves, but if you run tiny little mines in bumfuck nowhere its cheaper to just buy some comfortunits and let them run than it is to go through the work of feeding, accommodating, etc all these extra humans.

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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Thanks to the horsegirl game I found out that there's a horse named "Dad Jokes" and I couldn't be happier about that news.

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Overruled, they gonna fuck.

I'm so glad Jinshi keeps getting interrupted with Maomao.

Sir you are Unjust in the eyes of the Lord.

You are invested with SO MUCH POWER in this dynamic, sorry, this ship does not sail, noway nohow. Even if she Did admit to reciprocating! Which she never will!

She cannot say no!

The predetermined flavour of this ship is terminal pining. They orbit each other all their lives and it's painful (and dangerously obvious) how deeply they regard each other (eventually, once Maomao's delayed emotional processing catches up) and they keep getting into very tense one-on-one situations but they never ever ever manage to connect.

And then they die.

OR

OR

They topple the state.