#all for the sake of profit

[cxsmicvega]

hello sharks today i am suggesting a slang for queer people who throw other queer people under the bus in order to be passable to cishet eyes. My suggestion :: A RuPaul

[moiraimyths]

Before we call anon rude because let’s see it from their perspective, imagine getting an entire feast to eat. That can be pretty hard to start with so much that’s going on, but if they start with one thing they know they’ll like (aka one character they like) that can be the start for them leaping to other characters to finish the story and the bigger story. I struggle the same way to start book series if I don’t have at least one character that drives me to read it, it’s all about what can be the hook to push them through. Sounds like the anon is neurodivergent (just a guess) so they might genuinely not see it as rude and see it as a solution to even play the game to start with.

Btw absolutely adore the game, the complex and rich characters making them all so unique is amazing. The art is so pleasing to the eyes I love it!! I’m waiting for it all to get out at once so I don’t get too impatient. Shae however interests me the most, which routes will have the most lore for them? Will there be routes that give more lore in general based on decisions you make or do they all share the same amount? (I mean general lore not just Shae lore)

Apologies; we are not trying to accuse any asker of being rude! We are simply explaining our perspective as the developers / are trying to broadly encourage folks to dip their toes into other areas of the story outside of the main route(s) they're interested in, especially considering some routes will be made available sooner than others, and these other routes will likely contain additional scenes/lore of everyone's fave(s) regardless! We want to give each main cast member an equal amount of love (and lore) regardless of their overall popularity, so our goal is not to tut-tut anyone for having strong preferences for one character over the others, but rather to explain that you may be surprised by how much *more* you learn about your preferred characters in the other routes. That's all!

For Shae... Well, they were a foot soldier for one of the worst periods of the War. Lore wise, any other story that touches on the War will likely have content relevant to them and their experiences. ^^

[vampiricgf]

the workers who were killed at the impacts plastics plant in tennessee were not allowed to leave until the water was already waist high and by that point it was too late. their bosses got to leave and evacuate comfortably. people always act like im exaggerating when I say your boss would let you die for the sake of their profit line yet it's very pointedly not an exaggeration. the worker is one of the most disrespected people in america. in how many jobs is it an unspoken, unofficial requirement to silently bear abuses of all kinds from people who view you as subhuman simply because you work a service job? how often have you yourself or someone you work with cried on the clock? how often have you been expected to sacrifice your time for a job meanwhile your boss can take personal time whenever they please or push work off onto others to ensure that they get to go home on time each day? how often have you or someone you know been forced to work in unsafe conditions that your boss in all likelihood knew were unsafe?

my mother worked at an industrial plant that manufactured parts for construction equipment. her boss knew the table saw they used had a broken safety shield, he never bothered to replace it. my mom had her left index finger completely severed by that same saw, because of the broken safety shield that otherwise would have prevented her from being injured if it were working properly. they were not able to reattach her finger because they couldn't find it among all the huge piles of sawdust.

my father worked for the us army at a depot. they were instructed to dump barrels of waste in fields, not being told that waste was toxic. not being given ppe equipment for handling toxic waste materials nor were they instructed to dispose of it properly. my dads spine started disintegrating as he got older. decades later it was uncovered that the groundwater for the entire town was full of that same waste that had been leeching into it after being improperly dumped back then. the us army faced no consequences for poisoning an entire towns groundwater supply nor for the health consequences in the people they had doing the dumping.

when he worked at a manufacturing plant, the same one my mother had worked at, a man was crushed to death between two cranes because they had not been manufactured properly, one was missing breaks. somehow it became a runaway vehicle and pinned that man who slowly died over a period of an hour while they struggled to get him out from between the cranes.

your boss and the company you work for do not view you as valuable beyond your ability to make them money. when workers strike for things like better regulations, higher pay, guaranteed time off or covered sick time, it's beyond important to support them. workers are not the villains or just being greedy when they strike. every workplace regulation we have is written in blood. unions are not the enemy, unions protect us.

[hauntingblue]

Jayce telling vi she won't make it on her own.... okay mr. projector...

[thegreatyin]

who is the scoundrel? I see you posting about them(it? Idk) all the time but I haven’t figured out who they are

my fallen london OC! i made them by accident a few months ago and as you can tell ive very quickly developed scoundrel brainrot. it's a terminal illness for which there is no cure and the symptoms are instead of brain there is scoundrel.

in terms of actual character rundowns, their full moniker is The Bandaged Scoundrel, though i tend to call them "the scoundrel" for short. their real name is D█████, but they'd sooner die permanently than respond to or even acknowledge its existence.

they are! a bastard! a rat! a son of a b___! a motherf______! they are vain beyond your wildest imagination and they think they're the most infallible perfect being in all of existence and they have the exact attitude of a saturday morning power-hungry cartoon supervillain on cocaine.

and also, perhaps most importantly, they're Really Fucking Stupid. because of course they are.

they are resplendently awful. they are inevitably going to cause their own demise in an act of pure karmic retribution. they are a speck of dust in history that desperately keeps trying to insist they're actually a tornado. i love them dearly.

in loose conclusion while also acknowledging ive explained literally nothing; my goofy silly victorian london browser game player character that deserves to get timetraveled against their will to the 21st century specifically so they can get hit by a truck

[the-punforgiven]

Ugh

[asthe-crow-flies]

naturalness/unnaturalness in Lolina: Origins by R L Hughes

i could write a whole essay about this, but its almost finals, so this is what you're getting

[pandaemoanium]

thank you old gamefaqs walkthroughs i love you old gamefaqs walkthroughs

[autisticlee]

how to make business plans: spend 2 weeks looking for a website to make a visual plan guide that you can collaborate with business partners, but you end up nowhere because all of them require paid subscriptions to do more than a few basic things. except you don't want to pay for these because you don't have a business yet and therefore no money!!!! but you need more than basic features (basically you can only put 50-100 items on your board with free account and i will definitely need more)

[adrekiy0]

okay laughs and shitposts aside, exotic bullies are a damned disgrace to canidae as a whole. like those and whatever fucked up shit they're doing to reptiles and pigeons are why we shouldn't play god with animals.

[lesbiansanemi]

Can Twitter finally just fucking implode I am so sick of hearing about that stupid ass website

[yergink]

here's the thing. i fully understand that sometimes art is purposefully built to be taxing or amateur or difficult to engage with, and i can appreciate the intent behind those decisions, but at the same time sometimes it's just. it's just that you made a thing bad on purpose and now i don't want to keep looking at it. 

[mosseaterr]

what if u checked out my track thatd be prettycool huh

[bbeelzemon]

latimer's dad booked an airbnb for our trip and my god this place sucks. its so obviously a very very rushed and bad "modern renovation" of a 60s suburban house; the walls have all kinds of holes in them from removed previous features that were never filled back in, mismatched and drippy paint on the walls and doors, broken blinds in a bedroom, the sink in one of the bathrooms barely works, the stove has 2 broken burner dials (one of them can just come off!!!), just absolutely little to no thought at all whatsoever how someone actually living in this house would be. there's the bare minimum of furniture and decor - it feels more like a house showing than anything actually meant to be lived in.

i looked at the zillow listing of this house and it was sold for 165k in 2020, and is now 'zestimated' for 285k. on top of the shitty usual reasons that sucks (gentrification, pricing people out of a neighborhood they used to be able to afford) it's really sad just how little care and effort was put into this whole thing

this wasn't renovated by someone who wanted to fix up this house, preserve it, enjoy living in it - this was really just renovated by someone who wanted to do the absolute bare minimum to add new features and appliances to the property listing, so they could charge more per night on the already shitty airbnb model.

[timbrrwolfe]

Say what you will about the later Matrix movies but the scenes in The Matrix Revolutions where all of humanity is working together to beat back the machines together and it's just scene after scene of people doing badass stunts and sacrificing themselves so everybody else can survive?

Goddamn.

Maybe I should start watching Matrix Revolutions every time my faith in humanity falls to critically low levels. At least I can see what it looks like for humanity to work together.

[ketchuppee]

During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.