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i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

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Treat break from beauty sleep

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The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

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They should invent a sleeping for people with chronic fatigue that actually works.

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i'mmm Soo Obesed With Youe bugs 💚

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i'mmm Soo Obesed With Youe bugs 💚

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“Not without my plushie”

(via)

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I can’t stand how auto close captions on YouTube censor swear words.

I’m an adult.

An adult with shitty ears.

Needing text supplementation for the audio didn’t turn me into a child.

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José Carlos (1884-1950), ''Para Todos'', #516, 1928

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Each pea makes us closer to getting bigger

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i love being up early but i love being up late. and i love getting lots of sleep. what now.

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Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), father with chick, family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, northern QLD, Australia

Photograph by Robert Tidey

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"what groceries u been into recently" is actually a great question, there's a bunch of good conversations inside it

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After heavy rains in the Arizona desert, a surprising phenomenon repeated itself at Wupatki National Monument: hundreds of Triops, prehistoric three-eyed crustaceans, emerged from eggs that had been dormant underground for years.

They were seen in 2021 and reappeared in 2023 after another monsoon. These “living dinosaurs” live only a few weeks, but their lineage dates back more than 350 million years. Scientists consider them a fascinating example of extreme adaptation.

Nature holds amazing secrets… and sometimes, after the rain, it decides to reveal them in a puddle in the middle of the desert.

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