#(there's no 'we're gonna make so much money')

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[creaturebloom]

listen. listen everyone. come close.

i have finally, finally, finally convinced my mom and brother to put my shit ass father into a nursing home. for good. in six months.

if everyone i know could please like help me manifest this or whatever that would be dope bc if it falls through for any reason less than him dying i will explode into one billion pieces

thank you im love you okok byeeeee

[ieatwormsandtheytasteverygood]

Guess which bitch now has room on its phone for instagram for the first time in like 3 years. This is only good bc now we can post art there again.

Not that instagram is nice to artists or anything. Just that our art tumblr is so very tiny and unused. Gonna probably have to clear it out somewhat when I finally get around to posting art.

[pa-pa-plasma]

I hate how half of people think "natural climate change = humans cause all climate change" & the other half thinks "natural climate change = no climate change is caused by humans at all"

"the Earth's climate naturally changes over time" & "human activity has caused rapid, unstable climate change" can & should co-exist

[ashenberry]

[paces around the room voice] no because its like. super interesting isnt it. how in the pursuit to carry out her [Joy mgs] will the people closest to her end going directly against it.

Zero tries to follow the letter of what she said. we'll start philosphers 2. we'll unite everyone (by force) (whether they like it or not) (because i know whats best) and by the end the system he created devolves into a machine that just exists to promote the war economy. Snake's biggest thing is how the powers that be will just. use people with no concern for them and then discard them the moment it becomes more convenient then keeping them around. because thats what happened to the boss. yknow of course les enfants terribles would be the breaking point i think it would be for most people but also it was literally creating people just to be used with a built in self destruct when they would no longer become useful. and like. And like snake isnt carrying out the will of the boss, he acknowledges this, he Knows hes going down a different path

Miller: Snake? You still here? C'mon, let's go back. Snake: I'm not going back. Miller: Huh? Snake: I'm done. Miller: Snake, you don't mean... Snake: I'm done looking for the truth. Miller: What are you saying, Snake? Snake: I was wrong. Miller: C'mon, Boss. Everybody's waiting for you. Snake: ...She betrayed me, Kaz. Miller: She what? Snake: In the end, she put down her gun. And when she did... she rejected her entire life up to that point... including me. Miller: What do you mean? Snake: In giving up her life, she abandoned everything she was as a soldier... Miller: And you consider that betrayal? Snake: I won't make the same choice as her. My future's going to be different. Miller: Then... Snake: Yeah, that's right. From now on, call me Big Boss.

BUT LIKE. HES STILL DOING IT FOR HER. HE WANTS TO PREVENT ANOTHER THE BOSS SITUATION

Miller: Then who are we going to fight? Snake: The establishment... anybody who tries to restore the old balance, wants to snuff us out of existance. Miller: Which establishment? Snake: It won't be a particular country or ideology that hunts us. Miller: Who, then? Snake: We're gonna be fighting the biggest beast of all - the times. Ten years ago, the times rejected The Boss... and killed her.

and then he like loses the plot really bad but everyone in these games do. doing it via war bc he sees himself as a gun bc of course he does thats what anybody ever wants him for. joy trained him up to be a balling soldier zero used him as a figure head and then made 3 more of him. to be used as guns. kaz went behind his back and used him so they could build of msf. as guns. moving on im getting sidetracked.

AND THEN STRANGELOVE strangelove who couldnt understand why in a million years why things would go down like this, that wasnt the joy she knew. so she recreated her in an ai pod, and obviously the only way she could get the resources and funding to do that was through nuclear weapon development, and she ends up putting joy in the same situation she was back in operation snake eater, where she gives up here life to prevent nuclear winter. ack good shit

[analogboii]

my gm just told me they're opening a new store up near her place. it's also next to the kc speedway (racetrack) and in the legends shopping center (iykyk) they offered her the store and she's thinking about it. but she wants me to take over our store if she does because she doesn't want our hard work to go to waste.

i have turned down every gm offer i've gotten over the seven years i've worked here on and off. and i always told them im never going to be interested. bc i know how fucked over gm life can get. i prefer to just be the agm where i can do a lot but am not the fall guy lmfaooo. basically all of my gms (except the one i have now) were basically figureheads and i ran the store.

and i plan on moving next year anyway. i'd only be gm for like six months before i leave. that being said. six months which most is over summer - our busiest time of year. where i get my biggest bonuses which would move from 30% to 60% if i become gm (all my other stores were never busy enough to make a bonus that even mattered, here, they're pretty fuckin' hefty sometimes) hmmmmmm. she's the one that reminded me of this part. she knows my weakness is my greedy little brain (she's the same)

god i love money so ig we doing this lmfaoooooo

[autumnalhalcyon]

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[goodpointsandbadpoints]

everything is really wrecked by people not knowing themselves, and not respecting each other, and not being able to communicate (reciprocally).

need to inject the definition of intimacy into peoples' brains. how do we do this.

[izzy-b-hands]

Putting on last year's trans rigs stream from Drawfee before i have to get ready to go out with my mum and her bf today (bc i have the worst feeling in my gut he's gonna make that An Thing for me if given the chance today, aka whenever i eventually need the restroom while we're at Mystic)

[medicinemane]

And maybe you'll be like "but if you don't trust businesses, how can you trust welfare?"

I fucking don't. My mom trying to get on food stamps fucked me up because a lady I never met without my permission got my SSN from my mom and started editing my files. My heart still races to this very second whenever I think about it, it kinda messed me up bad and I'll never ever ever see any kind of recourse

And I'm terrified that I'm gonna lose my medicaid just cause I inherited some money from my grandpa

And I've never even applied for disability cause it kinda doesn't matter finding out if I'd qualify or not cause of my depression, when the rules are so restrictive I don't know if I've even be allowed to keep my house

I do not fucking trust these things on a personal level. I feel like out of a lot of people I have the most to fear from them cause I'm on the edge of having things work, and that gets you punished

...but I need medicaid in order to have insurance (and when you strip out the finance side of medicaid, I love medicaid... they're honestly incredible insurance... I just... I just... dental is like 90% of why medicaid is so important to me, ever since I found out this state pays for it I've actually been able to do cleanings which is important to me cause I can't always get myself to brush)

And I think things like disability and food stamps are pretty damn important on a personal level, and honestly are also good for the economy cause they get people spending... it's practically a free cash infusion into the economy, cause these are people who need to buy stuff

There's just so much important stuff welfare does that it's worth dealing with government

No, what I want is more accountability so if someone gets my SSN from a 3rd party like my mom they're held to HIPPA styles standards where that's not ok to access my files without my permission (She changed my fucking address and tried to get medicaid to investigate me for fraud! Never even met me)

Like have some accountability there and in every situation

Secondly I want less punitive focused rules. I'd frankly prefer bezos get on disability than smack down some poor sod cause they got $2000 in the bank or cause their friend lets them live with them for free

If there's gonna be a cut off on these programs, it needs to be a solid step above the poverty line, cause... by definition I assume poverty line denotes kinda the minimum expected income people can reasonably live off of, and if you take away benefits people are gonna lose a chunk of money to covering that stuff themself, so you need a buffer before you kick people off

I don't fucking trust the government for a second, I've actively been fucked by them and on a personal level I avoid everything but medicaid and only that cause everything but the money is pleasant to deal with and I kinda need it (honestly if I was rich I'm not even kidding that I'd rather give medicaid like $400 a month than some insurance company, I sincerely like them as insurance)

But I'd trust them a lot more if they were less punitive, less out to hunt me down and gut me cause someone handed me a fiver or cause I started to get on my feet, and if government employees had concrete rules they had to follow that were actually transparent and enforced

Like 90% of my problems with welfare go away if they're held accountable and there's less "catch the welfare cheats" mentality going around

I don't trust the government in the slightest, but sadly there some jobs it kinda has to do, so I'd just rather force it to be an open book where the public can keep an eye on it and if they step out of line there's consequences (sort of like I don't trust most mega corps but happen to sometimes need stuff from them... did you know literally every cell service provider has been illegally selling shit like your location data to random people like bounty hunters, and the FCC just slapped them with a fine that's 0.02% of their yearly incomes and debated even doing that? I even can offer a source on that)

...I don't trust much of any authority cause they constantly fail me and kinda screw me. Don't trust doctors either, but I still gotta go to them, you know? ...they're just... they're real bad at listening... so many systems need systemic change

(You know who I really don't trust is the cops. I could point to so many examples. My uncle doesn't trust cops either, and he's an ex Fire and SWAT paramedic, he worked with them and we still got into a long conversation where he basically tore into them far better than I can)

(I don't trust authority that's not accountable)

[baishouqijia]

i am desperately trying to be more active but i'm experiencing mental burnout. just want to say thank you for the interactions even when i'm only checking in here now and again - i'll respond when i'm feeling better! <3

[acerikus]

Yeah no hard disagree with this post. I'd understand the logic maybe a few months ago, but tumblr is making some EXTREMELY questionable decisions rn that really don't deserve rewarding.

Are they financially struggling? Yes. Is that bad for us? Also yes, but their solution is even worse! We've seen how they're planning to strip down posts, hide notes and move tumblr away from being a blogging platform and more into a twitter-instagram-tiktok mashup. American users are gonna stay stuck with tumblr live (which they confirmed is here to stay), they're stripping away huge amounts of features, and they're telling epileptic people to BUY AD-FREE IF ADS ARE STROBING TOO MUCH.

Honestly, if you'd told me they were in the red and planning to open donations/do crab day last year, I might've even donated. But tumblr needs to learn that pulling this shit is NOT gonna start making them money. If they want to get out of the red they've gotta start caring about their users.

Don't give them a damn penny till they back down from some of this shit. I'd rather watch the site burn to the ground without funding than watch it become a sanitised social media clone filled with advertisers and nothing that makes tumblr tumblr.

[starscreamingg]

Looking back on Detroit become human in the wake of the ai craze is like. The most morbidly funny thing to me One of these days I have to write something on how the story of that game just gets HORRIFYING when you view it through a (more) modern lens. Man

[layzeal]

i didn't even know tumblr had shareholders ngl

[musemelodies]

do i have high expectations for tiny toons looniversity? no.

have i finally accepted the change to buster and babs’ relationship? NO. GROSS. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?

am i still gonna watch it because at the very least, it looks less cynical than the animaniacs reboot and i’m a sucker? ...yes. 

[werewolf4vampire]

hmm. is she really..?

hmm... well what's the original design look like?

...huh. interesting.