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i genuinely think that if gerri just doesn’t acknowledge the firing and like keeps showing up to work nobody would do anything about it

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I could be the person writing one time verification codes. 873726. 290971. 041452. 667656. It comes naturally to me.

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Losing my mind over this

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I keep seeing people being shocked and bewildered about airbnb being so crappy to use now

and it’s giving me the impression not everyone knows that is by design- all of those “disrupter” startups operate exactly the same way. So let me lay it out:

First the company starts with an enormous amount of seed money, and they enter an established industry offering the same product but dirt cheap and with the feel of luxury. They operate at a loss for years. They offer their product at such a reduced rate that they literally cannot profit off of it. They rely on their seed money and investment from other wealthy friends to get by. They do this until the other established companies in the industry are on their knees and begging to be bought out. Once all of the competitors have either collapsed or been bought out, the new disrupter company is safe to jack up its prices and reduce services/perks to get to a level that is profitable. It might end up being much more expansive than the industry was to start with, because now that competitors are gone the disrupter business has more room to squeeze customers dry without fear they’ll go to another company instead. The “we’re shaking this industry up to bring high quality products direct to the consumer” pitch has nothing to do with consumers and is entirely about eliminating competitors, particularly long standing well established ones.

This is how uber works, airbnb, all of those. It’s the same game the laundry mat chain in my neighborhood who offers free drying is playing- driving out competition so they have more freedom to price things higher.

Individual consumers often don’t have the luxury to be so choosy about what companies they buy from, but just be aware going in and don’t get taken by surprise later on.

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John Oliver is so crazy cus you see him and he's british and he's wearing a suit in front of a fake new york city skyline and you're like yeah another white Democrat making jokes at late night but then he starts buying and cancelling millions of medical debt and saying defund the police years before it was widely-held conversation and drawing rats fucking each other and before you know it this owl in human skin has made you a radical leftist

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since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

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Ed and Stede + Lifting each other up

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im just out here trying to eat fruit and stay moisturized and drink water and recover from childhood trauma and protect my vibes, man

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when im in a bookshop or library and im trying to read the titles of the books on the shelves

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Remember when you were 12 and attracted to other 12 year olds? What the fuck was that?

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was talking to my friend and I said “wow you have really long fingers” and then I realised that sounded like I was coming onto him so I added “like ET” to desexualise the moment

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this nathan foad tweet has me on the floor he is SO real for this

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Can someone PLEASE explain to me what is the point of Killing Eve? 4 years, 4 seasons and FOR WHAT? They didn’t defeat the Twelve, there was no confirmation who actually ordered Kenny’s death and the biggest “redemption arc” Villanelle got was to save Eve and then die for no reason. What’s the point of her death? What is the point of anything at this point… what is the POINT of this emotional trauma?!