#and it’s just a bunch a high up who give the money in the stock market who have NO ideas of art works

[world0fmadness]

WAY TOO PRETTY

conrad “ cronos ” lant x chubby! reader

♡ general dating headcanons for cronos with a chubby partner!

୨୧ such a sweet anon and my first request for cronos! as a little bit of a plump girl myself, i love knowing there is more of us in the metal scene hehe! this might not be the greatest because again, i haven’t had much sleep lately but i hope you like it anon <3

♡ requested by anon | view my metal masterlists here and here

reading music recommendations: raise the dead by venom - woman of dark desires by bathory

♡ well, first of all, cronos is incredibly defensive and protective of you!

୨୧ he knows you can probably very much handle yourself just fine and words don’t affect you all that much but he just cannot sit by and allow someone to body shame you or mock you right in front of him

♡ it just will not be happening around him, he is incredibly quick to tell the person off and wrap an arm around you, making sure someone gets the person the fuck out of wherever you are

୨୧ if you are affected by words sometimes, he’s so so so soft on you about it and tries really hard to build your confidence back up! he hates to see you so upset due to some bastard having a loud mouth

♡ he literally will not leave you alone until he sees you smile again, obviously he won’t push boundaries or actually annoy you, he’d be very gentle about it

“ y’alright, lovey? don’t let it get to you, ‘kay? they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about, as if you’d touch them with a ten foot pole… there’s that smile, c’mere ” ( cronos loves loves loves giving you little side hugs, just pulling your body into his side and leaning down to give a soft peck on your head )

୨୧ if you ever have a particular clothing brand you like buying from because they make actually cute and good quality clothes in your size unlike a lot of other places at the time, he’d always throw money your way to buy new stuff from them!

♡ especially if it includes some cute lingerie, he thinks your body looks really gorgeous in lace and silk

୨୧ you will need to give him a little fashion show every time you buy a bunch of new stuff though, he’ll be the biggest hype man and make you blush so easily, there’s just something about him and the way he says things…

♡ showing off the lingerie will have to be at the end of the mock fashion show though because this man can barely hold himself back when you’re just showing off some slightly revealing clothes let alone lingerie? he pounces on you as soon as he sets eyes on it, carrying you off to the bedroom at lighting speed

୨୧ y’know those thigh high socks or stockings that come with lingerie sets?

♡ he goes insane over those when you wear them! he’ll never get over how good your thick thighs look hugged by a mix of lace and nylon! he loves pulling them off with his teeth before eating your cunt

୨୧ speaking of which, cronos really really really loves eating you out, oh my gosh he absolutely loves it…

♡ feeling your warm, thick thighs wrap around his head as he delves his tongue into your welcoming cunt, just slightly digging his nails into the flesh as he holds them against his head whilst your hands grip his frizzy hair

୨୧ cronos absolutely adores when you’re feeling more confident and wear clothes that show a lot of skin and hug your body!

♡ i mean, he will try his best not to go too overboard and borderline filthy with his compliments but it is such a hard task for him because he’s just so obsessed with you and your body

୨୧ god forbid he sees another person eyeing your body though, that’s when he gives you his jacket to put on! not to cover yourself up, oh no, just to show them who you belong to

♡ though to be honest, you always look gorgeous to cronos!

୨୧ you could wear a potato sack and look like a super model to him, he really thinks you should be a model! do not be surprised if he asks you to model for a venom photoshoot or something, he wants everyone to see how hot his lovey is, he needs to show you off

♡ this man is so so so strong, he has literally no problem picking you up!

୨୧ he just loves picking you up, he can see how flustered it makes you and always chuckles when he catches sight of the warm blush quickly making its way across your face…

♡ cronos like carrying you bridal style the most! he loves getting to look down at you and admire your beautiful face as you giggle, constantly telling you to pull your hand away from your face when you attempt to cover your blush or smile

“ ‘ey, move your hand, love! i don’t just look down for no reason, do i? i wanna see your gorgeous face, lovey… ” ( i mean maybe sometimes he looks down to get a glance at your boobs but most of the time he just wants to see your smiling face )

୨୧ it’s the same with holding you on his lap! if there’s nowhere else to sit or even if there is open seats, he’ll always pull you down to his lap, even if you’re a little scared of being to heavy for him

♡ if you ever tell him this, maybe widening your eyes and looking back at him, mumbling about how you can just get a different seat, you don’t want to be too heavy for him… he literally just laughs and pulls you further into him, wrapping an arm around your stomach to hold you there before bringing another hand to your head and making you look into his eyes as he assures you he can hold you perfectly fine

“ get a grip, lovey… you’re not heavy at all, you must know that by now! you’re nothing to me, light as a feather, get comfy ” ( no but really, you are very light to him! please never worry about being a little too heavy or anything for him, he always shuts it down so fast )

୨୧ cronos goes absolutely feral for the smell of the coco butter you use on your stretch marks, wether they be on your boobs, thighs, arms, stomach, it does not matter to him! he’ll always be planting kisses on them and resting his head near them to inhale the smell of your coco butter, especially when it’s freshly applied after a shower or bath

♡ i mean, he already loved kissing all over your body anyways but when he gets the bonus of smelling such a good scent? hell yeah

୨୧ he’d like helping you apply it too! please, focus on your hair or makeup as he massages the cocoa butter into your body whilst standing behind you, he knows what he’s doing when he starts groping a little at the flesh…

♡ and if you’re ever insecure about your stretch marks? he hates that so much and loves up on them a whole lot

୨୧ he thinks stretch marks look cool as fuck, almost like some kind of battle scars! he cannot believe you’ve been made to feel insecure about them at times and try to wear things that cover them! whenever spooning you in bed, he’s always gently tracing the ones on your stomach, he wishes you saw how beautiful they are and after dating him for a while? he likely will have you feeling confident about them

♡ he loves squishing you! not in a mean way or anything, he just likes using your boobs and thighs as kind of stress toys at times hehe

୨୧ squeezing your thighs a little when someone is irritating him? it helps him calm down, they’re just squishy and calming, you most likely don’t mind at all but if you don’t like it he will stop!

♡ cronos is always falling asleep on the more plump parts of your body too, wether it be your boobs, stomach or thighs! the second he rests his head on the soft and pillowy flesh, he’s counting sheep and getting the best sleep of his life on his chubby girls body, definitely drooling a little as he dreams about you <3

[ask-the-furies]

savvy, my crypto is in shambles, my wife keeps telling me to stop investing in "obvious scams" (no risk no reward obvs 🙄) , and my kids do NOT appreciate the stock certificates im getting for their birthdays.

im committed to the ultraliberal mindset grindset, but my confidence has been shaken. how do YOU stay commited to the hustle, boss? 🙏

SAVVY— I feel you there, brother. I am also unappreciated in my time by a bunch of cashless plebs. As a fellow holder of the grindset, you have to be willing to make sacrifices.

SAVVY— You’re going to get called a lot of things when you’re an ultraliberal. A sucker. An idiot. Someone who is extremely gullible and susceptible to multilevel marketing schemes. You know what else is true? If making money were easy, everyone would do it. They want what you have, pal. They wish that they could be as committed as you are, and they’re trying to shake your faith. A wife? Who needs her! All you need is cold, hard cash.

SAVVY— What’s the ROI on those kids? Are they contributing to your net worth? Do you see them becoming future business partners? If not, drop them ASAP. 👏

SAVVY— Never give up just because things are getting tough. Do you think making your first million reàl is going to be easy? No. 👎

SAVVY— I stay committed because I don’t doubt. I never doubt. There’s one thing you can always trust that will never, ever fail you, and thats money. Stick to the grind, buddy. 🙌 Keep your head held high, and never abandon the sweet draw of money, because that cash flow’s going to hit any day now. 💪

RHETORIC— Why do you keep making so many gestures with your hands. Even more than usual. Stop it.

[primevein]

Prime of His Youth: Book I: Forging His Own Path: Ch01: Motorette

Jack climbed off of Arcee and stepped out to the edge of the cliff. Arcee transformed and walked up beside him. She sat down, legs dangling. She then layed on her side as Jack slipped into her embrace.

"Weren't you eager to get out of town?" Arcee asked. "It doesn't seem impressive by most Human standards."

"Hm?" Jack asked. "I've never been. Jasper has everything I've ever wanted."

"Reaching for the stars?" Arcee sarcastically asked.

"Well, if I knew there was an epic war that's been going on for longer than the dinosaurs existed, I might have thought about it differently."

"Really?" Arcee asked, and Jack sighed. "I figured as much. You probably wouldn't think you could do anything..."

"I really don't know how people can know if they can do something before they try." Jack stated.

"And that's probably why you succeed." Arcee stated. "It's strange."

"hm?" Jack asked.

"Since you've been with us, you've never asked for anything."

"I have..." Jack tried to state.

"For yourself." Arcee said with love. "Back in the day I couldn't see it, but now I see what Optimus saw in you when we went to the centre of the Earth. So, if you weren't so eager to leave Jasper?.."

"I love driving with you." Jack stated.

"You love doing everything with me." Arcee stated.

"Well, yeah." Jack replied, "And that includes driving. But I see the freedom Autobots have, have far you can drive."

"So, why didn't you until now?" Arcee asked.

"I didn't have anywhere to go." Jack simply replied.

"And now you do?" Arcee asked.

"Wherever you are." Jack replied.

"Don't you Humans have to go to school?" Arcee asked.

"I'm getting a lot of credit in an extracurricular automotive assignment."

Arcee paused for a moment, "That's us, isn't it?"

"And I've been rebuilding bikes." Jack simply stated.

"You'll be a Ratchet in no time." Arcee said, as she gently pet his head.

"I am kind of grumpy..." Jack stated.

"Responsible." Arcee simply stated, "For things you were never asked to be. Maybe I should start helping you?"

"You're too delicate to be a grease monkey." Jack simply stated.

"Very funny." Arcee replied.

"Too elegant?" Jack asked.

"I can work with that." Arcee simply stated. "Does this mean I have to start wearing high heels, and whatever you call those leg coverings?"

"What, pants?" Jack asked.

"No-no. Those sexy ones. Your mother showed them off that once."

"That's not exactly the way to get guys..." Jack tried to say.

"Just tell me what they're called." Arcee interupted.

"Stockings." Jack simply stated, "And I doubt we could find some in your size."

"Well, yeah, but people know about us now." Arcee stated. "They give us a bunch of money, and the only thing we spend it on is Energon and oil. I need to find a Human who could help me with it."

Jack let out a heavy breath.

"Do you think your mother would help me?"

"Really, Arcee?" Jack asked.

"Well, I don't really know that many Humans."

"You haven't exactly tried." Jack stated.

"Yeah... peace is kind of new to me. I've never been on Cybertron that has a functioning economy. The only thing I cared about was fighting evil. And now we're here. I have absolutely no idea what I should do..."

"But?" Jack asked.

"I've never been more content in my life." Arcee replied, "Though, might need to get myself something to keep myself busy."

"Oil wrestling?" Jack asked.

"I like the sound of that." Arcee simply stated.

"It was supposed to be a joke." Jack stated.

"What's wrong with oil wrestling?" Arcee asked, "I've seen you watching wrestling."

"It's typically only done by women." Jack stated.

"I am a two-wheeler, so that works for me." Arcee simply added. Jack paused. "There has to be more to it."

Jack breathed in deeply. "You don't wear clothes, so it's kind of hard to explain."

"Like that time June came out and forgot to close her robe?" Arcee asked. "You looked as white as a ghost." She then paused for a moment, "I thought ghosts were invisible."

"Extremely pale skin also looks ghostlike." Jack simply replied. "And it depends on who you see."

"Meaning, not your mother?" Arcee asked. "Oooh, is this a reproductive thing? I have been wanting to learn more reproductive things."

"And who are you going to get to wrestle you?" Jack asked.

"I doubt you would want me to oil wrestle Bulkhead." Arcee stated, "Would it have to be two-wheelers?

"For proper oil wrestling, yes." Jack stated. "Can't we just call them female?"

"Ratchet was the one that hated that, because we're not a sexually reproductive species and all that. But, we don't really have a word for it, and Humans don't really have a word for it, so what are we going to use?"

"Fembots?" Jack asked, and Arcee paused.

"What about Decepticons?" Arcee asked.

"That's not what the... Gynoids?" Jack asked.

"That sounds like something you just made up." Arcee stated.

"Raf used it." Jack replied, "Androids means fake men. Robot men. So, gynoids?"

"Fake women, I take it?" Arcee sarcastically asked.

"We don't really..."

"Can't we use the words we use doing the reproductive things?" Arcee asked, and all of the air was pulled out of Jack's lungs. "Well, some of them have to appropriate? I mean, words have meanings?"

"Most of them are... derogatory... Not things I'd want to say in from of mom." Jack replied.

Arcee held her right hand out in front of him with the index finger extended while the rest were in a ball, "Whore?"

"No." Jack stated.

"Slut?" Arcee asked, as she extended the middle finger.

"No." Jack uttered.

"Bitch?" Arcee asked, extending a third finger.

"Nope." Jack replied.

"Kitten?" Arcee asked, extending the ring finger, "I mean, cats are cute."

"I'm still not saying that in front of my mother."

"Vixen?" Arcee asked, extending the thumb.

"No, but..." Jack stated.

"But?" Arcee asked.

"Humans do have certain ways to turn words either masculine or feminine. We add stuff like -a and -ette to the end of words. Cyberette?"

"I honestly don't know." Arcee distantly stated.

"And you don't care, do you?" Jack asked.

"I'm your little sex kitten, so I honestly don't care what you call me." Arcee replied. "But, there's no way in hell anyone else can learn about that."

"Mom... probably... already..." Jack tried ot say. "I mean, you can be pretty loud, and the garage isn't that well soundproofed..."

Arcee paused for a moment, "So, you're mom has already heard you call me a bitch?.."

"Doesn't mean I'm going to do it in front of her." Jack simply replied.

"Still weird to think you Humans need to wear clothes to protect yourself." Arcee stated.

"You're the one that wants lingerie." Jack replied.

"Ornamentation we understand." Arcee stated, "Just something I've never really had to think about it."

"You just picked what was the most useful for you at a time?" Jack asked.

"You can't exactly blame me?"

"So, what?" Jack asked, "We get you a hot pink paintjob?"

"I will remind you that you are the one that has to ride me." Arcee chided, "Sometimes in public."

"Will lingerie even survive a transformation?" Jack asked.

"I've never actually been that fashionable..." Arcee nervously voiced.

"You are too powerful to have to worry about that." Jack stated.

"I thought we could put the war behind us... I have..." she said and paused, "decades," she forced herself to say, stopping herself from saying millennia, "to learn to be fashionable."

"Is that why you suddenly got into it?" Jack asked.

"Well, there's that." Arcee replied, "And the fact I love when you love to look at me."

"You're always beautiful. You're always powerful. You could do what you want in the world."

"And what I want to do is oil wrestling." Arcee said with force and glee. "You don't exactly seem opposed?"

"I will... admit... I'd love to see it..." Jack stated.

"Or I could help you with your motorcycles?"

"Which you don't know anything about building."

"I could do all of the 'heavy' lifting." Arcee simply replied. "I might not be bulkhead, but I can certainly lift more than that bitch Sierra."

"Are you ever going to let that go?" Jack asked.

"That skank thinks she's good enough for MY Jack?" Arcee asked.

Jack sighed, "Maybe I shouldn't have taught you some of those words?"

"I'll try to keep them to the bedroom."

[theabstruseone]

To start with, I'll talk about how banks are supposed to work. The numbers part is incredibly simplified because it's easier to talk about round numbers and thousands of dollars than 1.038% interest on $15.8 million dollars.

I run a bank. You put $1000 in my bank. I now have $1000 in my vault. Repeat this by 199 other people and I have $200,000 in my vault.

I then take $100,000 of that money in my vault and loan it out, giving $10,000 each to 10 people. I charge them interest on the loan and that's how the bank makes money to pay its employees and other bills.

You suddenly need your $1000 back because you have a burning need to buy a bunch of Magic: The Gathering cards. No problem, I still have $99,000 in my vault.

Turns out, something weird is happening with the value of Magic cards and 49 other people come up and all want their $1000 back too. Now I, as the bank, have to worry a little bit because I only have $50,000 in my vault but there are 150 people who gave me a total of $150,000.

A rumor slips out that I'm running out of money, so 100 more people all come in at once wanting their $1000. Now there's a MAJOR problem because I don't have $100,000 to give them, I only have $50,000.

This is what caused the big financial crash in 1929 that kick-started the Great Depression. Only it was the stock market instead of Magic cards. If you remember that scene in It's a Wonderful Life where George is like "I don't have your money! It's in his house and her business and his car!", it's the exact same thing - people all wanted to withdraw their money at once from the bank (called a "run") and the bank didn't have the liquid assets to cover it all.

In order to prevent this from happening again in the United States, we created the FDIC or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It's one of the few federal government agencies meant to protect individual people and not the ultra-rich or corporations because it insures bank deposits up to $250,000. Meaning if you have $250,000 in the bank and the bank collapses because of a situation like this, the FDIC makes sure you still have your $250,000. But if you have $250,001, that last dollar is NOT insured. You only get $250,000 back.

The reason I say it's focused on individuals is $250,000 is a life savings to a single middle-class family but is a rounding error for a billionaire or a corporation. If you're a middle-class income family or lower, $250,000 makes sure you're not going to face any immediate financial consequences if a bank collapses. You're not going to find yourself unable to pay your rent or mortgage or bills or buy groceries unless that was already a problem for you anyway.

It WILL be a problem for massive corporations and billionaires for whom $250,000 is a rounding error on their financial statements.

Anyway, take most of what I just said and throw it out the window because the Glass-Steagall Act (the law that established the FDIC) also set rules on what banks can and can't do. For example, a bank CAN do what I described above like selling loans but they CANNOT take that money and say invest in the stock market. Well that part of Glass-Steagall went away. So banks that hold money for everyday people could now take their money and gamble it on the stock market and high-risk investments.

If you remember the financial crisis of 2008, it happened PRECISELY because banks invested customer money in junk bonds and, when those bonds collapsed, it took away all the customers' money with it and they had to get bailed out.

A slightly different thing happened to SVB though and that involves interest rates. Interest rates are set by the Federal Reserve aka The Fed. This includes stuff like loan amounts, government securities, and bonds. When interest rates are low, that means you can get cheaper loans but also that your long-term investments won't pay off so well. Especially if those investments are "Fixed Rate" meaning they don't change from the rate they're at when you get them.

So SVB took a bunch of their money and invested in long-term bonds and securities at fixed rates. This means they'd slowly get the money back plus interest over time, but it would take a decade or three to get it all back. But they accounted for that when doing their budgets so they'd be fine so long as The Fed didn't raise interest rates.

So The Fed raised interest rates...

This meant that the bank just pissed away a whole lot of money over many, many years.

Again, this isn't a problem so long as you have $250,000 or less in the bank because that's insured by the FDIC.

Except a lot of the accounts at SVB had a lot more than that. Because of some shady shit SVB was doing. Technically legal, but shady. Which frankly sums up the majority of our financial system but I digress...

So start, SVB worked with a bunch of venture capital firms that invest money in tech start-ups. Say you have a new app and want to sell it but need money to hire staff and tidy up the code and all the other stuff you need to sell an app to a large customer base. So you go to a venture capital firm. They say they'll give you the $10 million you need to start, but you HAVE TO put that money in SVB.

They did that with a LOT of tech start-ups. And it remained a condition of the investments that the money stayed in SVB so even companies that got big later on still had their main accounts with millions of dollars they used to do payroll and pay their leases and whatnot at SVB.

The next shady thing that (and in big legal disclaimer letters ALLEGEDLY) happened is coincidentally right before the collapse happened, several executives at the company all sold their shares of SVB. Those shares are now worthless because the bank collapsed so it's almost like they knew it was about to happen and cashed out before anyone knew what was coming. This is called "insider trading" and IS illegal - because you don't just "sell stock" like selling back to the bank at Monopoly, you sell it to OTHER PEOPLE. Meaning that the people who bought the stock of SVB these people (ALLEGEDLY) sold knowing that the bank was about to collapse is now worthless and they've lost all their money.

The next shady thing that happened was - and while this may or may not be legal I'm still sticking the big ALLEGEDLY disclaimer here - a lot of the big account holders at SVB found out what was about to happen and told each other so they all INTENTIONALLY made a run on the bank. Because deposits are only insured up to $250,000 and these people all had significantly more than that, they wanted to make sure they got their money out first before news broke and everyone found out. And when news broke, there WAS a full-on run on the bank and that's what caused the collapse.

So basically what happened was the people behind Silicon Valley Bank did a very stupid thing, then after realizing they did a very stupid thing decided to do a bunch of shady (though possibly not illegal but maybe allegedly illegal) stuff to make sure they made it out okay and then let the place catch fire and let the insurance company sort out the rest of it because they got theirs so who cares?

And it's possible (though not likely a direct factor) that the crypto collapse had something to do with this as a lot of the crypto companies that have been falling apart recently had their real-world grown-up money in SVB (as opposed to their digital Internet FunBux of cryptocurrencies and NFTs). When the crypto companies collapsed, all their real-world money went with them so SVB didn't have as much deposited as they did. Again, probably not a direct cause but it definitely didn't help matters to have a whole bunch of money they thought they had vanish in a puff of weed joke NFTs.

Someone who's good at the economy but not in a "we gotta kill homeless people to make the line go up" way, what's the deal with the silicon valley bank going bankrupt

[jc-lambert]

Methinks...

I am going to have to meet the Lamberts in California do a bunch of dope infront of them in many cases drugs they've probably never heard of, go get a car & come at the cost of the credit of those in Emporia...

While padding them with equity and real-estate (as in they get the deeds of everything everyone ever owned in Lyon County and can sit there being white trash pooping babies out of every last poonanny. It's racewar up in this bitch so we need them mass populating while the midgets become paliperidone)

and park that car somewhere in California while the state continues to further fall to the Japanese Communist and Imperialist parties in joint efforts with the Soviet Union. I maintain that if California falls to the Communist World and becomes a Soviet State paying their taxes to Japan: that the territory is more so to be called Yuko's than anyone else, however Russian and Chinese banks would be the people who hold the area in escrow while the coastline is on hiatus and in a state of political flux. 

The Ukraine has become more so a United States Protectorate while the West Coastline becomes more a Soviet Territory.

Sort of a good trade in a roundabout way, especially if at the cost of Canadian Sovereignty.

If and when this occurs...

I would rather be in Soviet Space innocently reading tarot, talking to myself, and keeping frequent contact with 5th Dimensional Creatures of a terrestrial and non-terra nature, which is to include both earth creatures and persons and non-persons alike but frequently relayed and intercepted conversation through the 8th Planet. This will make the cost of realestate in California plummet while also improving the quality of my life. By my life, I mean "insane jackass who's lived off disability and laughed at the losses of crude oil and base resource which are now forced from Alaska into the hands of cousins in Texas".

While Yuko sits there being the Royal House of Tzu...

I would seriously sit there all day in the Asian Districts giving her all the business she wants.

Alka...

Do you want to go shopping? I'm unsure if I will have money or if you would: but the two of us being stock put options against each other one of us would have fabulous sums while the other bankrupted. Truth be told, both of us should be bankrupted but one of us would/should have fabulous resource.

If need be: lets extort everyone in Kansas, especially the small town yokels...

and spend their money eating obnoxious burgers....

I'm sure we can find someone from Kansas who was terrorized out of the state....

and find a way to have a big fat disgusting burger cooked, the kind that makes one puke due to the grease, full of roids off the cannibal enemy demographic....

and pay the lady or gent who cooked it an ungodly sum. Enough to open a few chains.

Let's extort everyone who picked up a small business grant or moved to the city of Wichita with my name in their mouths. Especially if they are midgets or Emporians or anyone I would naturally refrain from speaking to.

We need grenade launchers, short wave radios, and fur coats.

You know, to be terrorist mafiosa yakuza bitches in constant and frequent contact with Asian Forces.

as well as human...

and call it our state of being to just sit there HUMAN in front of their goddamn monkey asses.

Where is Paige Davenport aka Paige Du Berry?

Was that her father who met with me in Vancouver?

He was obviously of her ilk and of her people.

Yeah...

Alka

lets get high.

Wanna smoke liquid cocaine in front of a jewish officer of the law and spend felony sums of money and call them just "spoils of war"?

You know, the kind of boyscouts that could only come from like Washington or Canada or somewhere?

and it be on YouTube, designed to piss everyone in Kansas square the fuck off even more....

You have to try the Mountain Dew Whiskey.

It probably wont be available much longer.

I am kidnapped.

Im located in Wichita.

There are midgets from Portland everywhere. All of them are conspiring against the Luinstra Estate as well as me.

I could use a ride elsewhere.

I want a Miss Monica's buntcake too.

I want a pita plate.

everywhere is closed.

The only thing I can find is goddamn fucking Ramen being served at obnoxiously high prices.

Someone slap Damion and Hans for their business sugggestions, and cut off Amy Mills-Widner's clit. All their women need to be assigned a new pimp, slapped the fuck arround, and cut off they foodstamps and reminded that they dont get do jack shit but sit there with their tongues pierced 3 or 4 times. 

I swear to god this is fucking goddamn hell.

Jeff...

you alive???

Could you do me a favor and slap everyone in Emporia for me?

Um, Lesli's friends.

They all need bitch slapped about four or five times as a warning. They're all party animals about to be at a loss of their humanity, which means they can be sold into slavery. Can we have them picking cotton and sleeping in the ditches off to the side of the plantations?

jc-lambert.tumblr.com

I want tea for them. I want paliperidone out of them and their kids.

The coffee is getting to be too extreme.

Paige...

homeschool your children if you can, or send them to Spanish school.

Not that Im telling you what to do, its more so that everyone is stranger danger in ways that cause ouchies and might involve children. 

Like seriously...

fuck these clowns and fuck this city.

Never did nor would I approve of holding any form of stock or realestate in Wichita outside of whatever I sat down with my realestate agent and purchased by myself, alone, without the help of an identity thief.

Everything Hazel and Sam did businesswise: I've always had to report to authorities as it heavily included the redesign Gambino Counterfeit or the manipulation of slave technologies and the forced development of various electronic devices.

[the-firebird69]

Other things that are very rude although he says he didn't sleep at all really wasn't that great there's a few incidents starting at circle k okay they just kept waking him up no matter what and it's awful.

--couple things going on and they are pretty big we have a giant number of people who are willing to give it up for what to do with and we're going to use that

---be a huge projects they are starting because manufacturing is starting and we go start without it and they want their stuff to go ahead and we mean it that's what it is so we need people to sign on over part of these families that have these projects and it's to get things going to sign on to the projects now and they have activities that don't get it going

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Frank Castle hardcastle

They want you to say it the idea any idea is I'm going to go into the perimeter and we're going to introduce something that will mostly be what they're doing and in separate the cities as well and I have an idea on making a kit car and a design and somehow we'll have like 40 shops doing the same body and it requires a different approach than what my son and daughter-in-law did successfully and that you are selling out the parts and the shell and sending it out as a kit and at first it would be small and like local in La would have a few shops making it and then the shops would start reopening and you kind of be in charge of all these shops and it's a pain in the ass but that's why it's decent and we will be sending my our mix I mean and we would send our part list and we would help to the first year and keep the warehouse of stocks and we'd have some say what's going on of course and they do it all the time and that they build these shells and parts for it and wide body kits constantly and they can build a whole kit at the wide body kit factories and in panels is easier and easier to handle and they don't like doing the whole body so if you haven't even parts they don't really know what it's for I don't even figure it out but the point is that it would be made at like 10 factories on the west coast between San Diego and LA and it'll go up the coast a little and then to the South and you'd have like 30 factories making the shell parts at the start and maybe small and I'm saying to start with like a little shops that make 200 a week but we hopefully start with panels because almost anyone can do it and that's what I want to do those big reason for it and said those factories will combine and they might even combine outside the cities a little but you would have the original building in one area and a whole bunch of factories that's like the whole dream or you keep the factory there and it offers as a business sales area and you still make a few there and really then it would go high end but we would start very low very low on decent quality but low prices and aftermarket parts that are performance and usually that's good enough okay I mean if he goes to 400 and you're at 250 that's usually what they they were saying or 380 you can't read along and so it's like this idea to use all these mom and pop shops and try and actually keep them going and maybe have them do prototypes after we have a lot of that and it would be like a machine and they would have interest in the big factories and eventually we go to metal and metal is not really that's tough to make it requires money and they have a lot of money and this process would be fast so see Bradley GT had more than I think so the one manufacturer and they're pumping out as many as they could and the design suffered and the quality and he did not figure out how to fix the wheel and tire issue and it became a nightmare and it didn't work because of that one item and they're a couple other quality issues that he planned on refining just like BG and PG keeps the small and we have to have how much bigger mentality to spread ourselves out but really we would work and I have ideas of switch car I don't like the idea of replicating one I think that's kind of passe actually I like the idea of McAlister it's really radical and I believe that a car actually gets made somehow by John remillard and the others who oppose him are the other manufacturers making the same car and he might modify it a little bit but it's really a consortium and people would know that

It also has meaning that they'd be heading towards working together...

Zues Hera

We're going to go ahead with this idea it's wonderful they're both doing it and he didn't even say no but she's been working on this idea with him it's one of his biggest and best and we do see it in several movies. Fast and furious spy racers, fast and the furious the actual it's not actual cuz what is the one with the live figures and about three out of these seven or eight movies or is that 12. On the civil action movies of spy movies James Bond has several of they are not the lead cause they're in the background and people love this car is inexpensive at first it means tons and he says we should have like levels of quality in the same car so you can have a McAllister super wing which is close to what it's called McAlister's super wing sports car with a label that says it or McAlister's super wing supercar and the then there would be a mega car which would be made off of like a mustang it pretty much the same size and shape they're made out of different material their engines are different and each category would have a different rating and a different number so people will be looking at it to see which McAllister you have is this the real thing the souped-up version the top of the line.

It's such an interesting concept that people seem to be talking about it because you have these people that have tons of money with them saying they can beat you you'll have the same car and you'll beat them and then there would be a production model which would be them all and I'll tell you what they're going to say I want to meet engine and they start messing with the tires ordering tons of hearts and in parts it would sell the kids and it will make a bunch of different vehicles. And he's saying that they'll be very surprised with the top end is and it will be probably the Cena so we're going to try and get McAlister matchbox to make the Cena and they're laughing and you want us to make it so you can make a car that's probably what Dave is and it's true he's done it before not that way but. So the laughing saying oh we feel for it so then you would have the final product would be the production model and custom productions which would be the same car just with modifications and a lot of people would want the titanium and they want to have two dads eventually we'd be banging out my cars which were made from regular cars with a special metal hull.

So that's going on and we're going to try and get it going and we're going to try and get people to do it and it's not a huge deal but we're going to have to try and figure out how to do this when he says he says that there would be different people making it some of them would be running the company and some would be making it independently even as like a knock off it's frowned upon and it probably wouldn't last and wouldn't really pursue it that much but we would want them to be part of the company and they say they would try and do that and it makes sense and it's good good business and we would have to decide and engineering drawings and and so forth and I was supposed to be the best ours would be the best and we know how to do that and get it together it would be just a fascinating dream

Thor

Certainly talking a lot but it's good because we needed to this is a very important day we are working a lot of stuff and we see what's happening and it's not that much fun here so we know how to fix it

Freya

We want to go ahead with this idea we do this is a great idea and it would start small and it starts exploding all over the world and it all be these companies that's part of this big company and they be making different levels and they'd all be having the same supercar which is made by our son and daughter believe it or not the origins of the name you can research it yourself because it's more fun. A lot of people gamble on who's correct they gamble on it with the story is the original one and we will hand it out after a while and it's going to go around and it goes to Las Vegas it's already there they say but part of it and they're starting to say this is ridiculous no they got the right part but they only have part of how it happened and the girl little corner came after I'll tell you what they're starting to see that they sort of get it and people are trying to imitate it and he wants to put a bunch of vehicles out like his brothers hunter character vehicle and Hera says that she had one too people want to see it and the car that is the Chrysler Pacifica off-road and that might even be just a modification at first then they might we might make one that is a lot more radical it would be a McAllister racing kit and it's the way to start the business and we probably should do that and we'll get introduced to the shops and people have kids made all the time and a lot of women think that it's really too much and it's like three or four glasses of wine they love it okay it's making them feel good and you got to be careful it's not going to be stealth anymore and the laughing saying we don't care and our son and daughter say what if it's Scooby-Doo's van they know what van that is but that's ridiculous so they're moving out right now to try and get it going but we're saying we're going to handle the design I'm going to have to make it work and we know who to talk to and they'll be certified McAllister designs and we have a team and looking forward to it they want to be busy and they do understand how cool it will be some of the vehicles will be radical real radical lk a Batman version motorcycle. Now these racing items are serious and they'll find that hours make your vehicles Go real fast and racing kits too and people race in the street all the time and they have some in their tracks somewhere on Old tracks and you have to have a vehicle that's in shape and they noticed that we know what we're doing it'll be real big it'll be jackets it would be great we're going to go ahead and put this forward

Frank Castle hard Castle

Duke Nukem Blockbuster

Olympus

Me Hera and me Zeus and with Captain the idea and it started my mind because of the Bradley GT and we're going to have one of those but McAllister has to get off their ass and that's the matchbox version

We're off her ass and we're going to start to try and do that and he'd like to see that car idea Cena and we like the mod or the plants on really it's called wide body and raise kids racing kits and it's going to be nice we do know what you're saying there's certain kids that are great and we're going to try and make those and really with panels the whole thing will start in a logical sequence that we make panels to replace your panels so eventually you make a kit car that's just panels and boy what a pain in the ass is making a whole body it's fine if you have the logistics for the most don't and some companies we could have used their stuff they're too busy now they're strapped

Trump

He's going to have to hide behind me after Hydra in the grandson or at the high behind a girl and so on

Dave

Olympus

[maerynaire]

Who the fuck is this. Do they just give any dude who went through a frat in an ivy a government job? This guy looks like what would happen if you layered 2000 images of a dude named Paul on top of each other. This guy looks like every manager at an Albertsons rolled into one. This guy looks like at least five dudes I went to high school with, all of whom are into finance. Who the actual hell is he? Why is he there? Why does he care who's having productive sex? Who keeps voting for these loud perverts who turn their weird complexes about sex into everyone else's problem? The man is a stock image with bad opinions. They can't keep just stealth launching these tire-store-owner-adjacent subpar ass politicians with weird ideas and not telling me. I keep up with politics. This man fucking spawned from the Dick's Sporting Good abyss with a weekend family, a desperate fear of appearing gay to older men, and a dream in his heart. A dream to get the men of America to shoot fat hot steamy loads into their wives. Just search creampie on Google Images like an actual adult you junior varsity dropout little cretin. If I had a dollar for every random ass politician who just fucking manifested with a stupid fucking idea and a face that looked juuust Ryan Renolds-adjacent enough to be able to appeal to gen X pinterest moms I'd have enough money to campaign for a cushy senate position myself. Did the copy printer that makes shitty dudes get jammed and just print out a bunch of the same guy and the government decided to just go with it because nobody wanted to go out and get another ream of paper? Jesus fucking christ you can't keep doing this to me. Who the actual fuck is this man? Where did he come from? Did you grab a guy walking across the parking lot of a Cabela's on his way to look at getting his fourth boat on his 2/5th life crisis? This is a guy who's afraid of smiling at in public on his own because he's worried he'll look kind of gay. This is the kind of guy who thinks watching his own kids is 'babysitting'. This is the kind of guy who turns whatever poor woman he suckers in to marrying him into a 'Live Laugh Love' type who takes out her frustrations with his boring, carbon-copy ass on Starbucks baristas. Why? Who voted for him? What was his platform? 'Hey look at me I only use slurs in private'? 'Here's a picture of me on a 4-wheeler I don't know how to drive, vote for me'? 'I'm the only person here with a name that isn't hard to pronounce for someone who's grasp on the international ends in fucking Toronto'? He has the name and general aura of a guy who sells furniture the same way a shady used car salesmen would and thinks that pressuring someone into buying shit just to make him go away makes him a good salesman. This is a guy who doesn't have any friends he talks to on weekdays. He's the type of guy who's randomly confrontational with people that he knows he holds power over but then sheds actual factual tears the second someone who looks kinda like his dad doesn't acknowledge his "achievements". This is the kind of guy who reposts tough guy skull memes on Facebook and tries to project an image of a hard-working red-blooded American who struggled every step of his life and takes no shit from no one when his general fucking existence has been that of a rich heiress's purse chihuahua. Complete with the over-inflated sense of self-superiority and lack of awareness of how nonthreatening he actually is. Only unlike a chihuahua, he doesn't possess any measure of the confidence that breed of dog has. Holy fucking shit do we need a whole initiative to curb this obviously invasive species?! They can't just keep getting away with this!

I know this is bold of me to say but I don’t think people who can’t or don’t want to have children should be disenfranchised and anyone saying they should be is a danger to society.

[capriciouscaprine]

good morning!!!!! It has been a while, so this will be a pretty long post with relatively few numbers but tons of reflecting on the past few days for me!

forget a metabolism day, I had my first true bonkers food consumption episode over multiple days as I worked on finishing what is to date my longest and most important presentation, which would determine if I qualified to receive my masters degree

on saturday, I was facing a ton of work that still needed to be done before tuesday (aka yesterday); I decided to stock up on energy drinks and get myself a sweet treat to get through at least that day and who knew how much longer

at the store, the packs of cookies I was planning on getting looked unsatisfyingly small and bland for the c's they contained; after circling the baked goods section several times, with breaks to go all the way back and check out frozen and pantry desserts (and seeing a cake that was three cakes in one and ~1k c per small slice!!), I folded and bought a box of giant chocolate peanut butter cookies, the kind where the serving size is 1/2 a cookie; the box totaled 1,800 c

and I finished it that night

and then I kept going

the wildest part was that I quickly realized that I didn't like the giant chocolate chunks in the cookies and I would have much preferred just a peanut butter cookie with no chocolate chunks (and thus lower c's)

I finished off my pan of meatloaf that night as well, and the next day I started off with good intentions but then just kept on snacking, and after work I went and got a bunch of fried foods from a fast food chain

I didn't even enjoy them!!! fried food 'wilts' so fast out of the fryer, and I've genuinely made the point to myself before that spending money at this place isn't worth it!!! still, ate all of that as well, and kept snacking

by monday I was not feeling well, and I don't even remember what I ate except I know it wasn't low c; yesterday, I had one good plate of egg fried rice, and then made myself a bigger plate and hated it... and yet I still finished it

through all of this, I was constantly consuming energy drinks, to the point that I have one left from a 12 pack, and even added extra energy drink mix powder to a can to almost double the caffeine content per sip

ultimately, I had mostly finished my presentation by the time I went to sleep monday night, only made a few edits on tuesday morning, was absurdly nervous through the entire presentation to the point I barely remember it, finished my excessive food intake, and went to bed at my super early bedtime to get up today at the same ridiculously early time of 2 am that I've been using to give myself time to work on all of my coursework this school year

for my monday check-in day, I was at 124.2, which is up at least 2$ from, but thankfully still below the goal I had achieved previously

reflecting on these past several days, my main take away is that I didn't enjoy most of it; my enjoyment stopped after 1.5 cookies, a few bits of each fried option, and the first plate of fried rice; some things I did want to keep eating on, like rice crispy treats, aren't nearly as high c (80/each for the off-brand) and I still got tired of eating them after a two or three; I had minimum 10k c's over four days, only a bit higher than 'healthy' recommendations, and by the end I was craving the simplicity and relief of my 'unhealthy' eating plan

the biggest upside is that I have finally cleared a LOT of left over less goal-oriented foods from my house; by the end I was actually actively saving my low c meals and not wanting to 'waste' them on this unhinged eating behavior, and I discovered that I actually don't have a lot of high c food left in the house!!

I feel like I even have a strategy now for if I'm ever in this situation again: get lots of snacks that are higher in c's but aren't entire packs of fancy cookies, which ranges from family sized popcorn to a whole container of hummus with pre-sliced vegetables, to keep myself focused; if I'm craving something, go to a quality bakery or restaurant and just get one serving from them instead of a bunch of lower quality things that end up being the same price; and keep on having only lower c items in the house, bc even if I do go nuts on them, the impact will be way lower

also, having pre-prepped meals will also be a relief, as not having a plan I can follow and something easy to grab and reheat seems to be an additional stressor on top of whatever else I have going on, so investing the time into doing that prep work is absolutely worth it

finally, I got confirmation that a problem I was attributing to my reduced eating plan really is just a me problem: I was working through all of this, getting plenty to eat before I went to work and everything, and I STILL had the problem of the world going rather dark around the edges if I stood up too fast or was bent over half-upside-down for too long; I don't have new heart problems from not enough food, I have existing heart problems that are unaffected by how much I eat

this is a relief! yeah, obviously it's still a problem, but now I don't feel guilty for having it by causing it with my eating; I just genuinely have a problem with my blood pressure!

now!!! my presentation marked the last big project I needed to dedicate my time and energy to; from now on, I can devote that time and energy to working towards my personal goals, and I can stop waking up at 2 am!!!

waking up super early is still rewarding for me, and it's going to continue to be a necessity in my career, but it is wild how much a 6 pm bedtime can mess you up; nearly anything I did would keep me up past my bedtime, which frequently ruined my sleep; from now on, I'm moving up to bed time at 8 pm and waking up at 4 am, which will still give me plenty of time before work and my internship

today I'm going to pick up my new cellphone and get it set up (and order the case and any accessories for it!), and that's going to hopefully help me with all of my goal setting and tracking moving forwards; I've got to do some job seeking to hopefully get on contract with a school before the end of the public school academic year, but otherwise, my next big goal is planning a budgeted shopping trip that will get me everything I need to make two weeks worth of pre-planned meals that will help me meat my goals without constantly having to come with what to eat every day

I'm so excited to be pack on track; it is genuinely a relief to return to posting on here and eating things that I actually enjoy and that help me meet my goals; I have made it past a huge hurdle, so now I can act on all the things I've been planning for myself!!!

[nerdherd4]

Number's and capacity in IBO

It's always interested me That you'll have times in the Gundam franchise when we will get stats about mobile suits and ships like how many were produced and deplored or how big a mobile suit compliment a ship can handle for people who like having exact numbers however, at least I find that some of this information is kind of lacking in IBO of course part of that is down to my inability to read or translate Japanese so the information I seek could be out there I just can't read it. Like for other Gundam shows, there are art books for the IBO anime that give sketch art and layouts of buildings and vehicles which some of I think have been translated onto the wiki pages the rest I can have fun extrapolating about based on what I know.

Mobile suits

I think it’s been established that mobile suits in IBO while usable are expensive to maintain partly for development and maintenance costs then compound that with the fact that Gjallarhorn is the only one allowed to produce Ahab reactors to power them. I went back and noticed that other than organizations with a lot of capital like Gjallarhorn, Teiwaz, or the Zan clan you can't have them in big numbers, and even for those big groups resources can be limited, a few examples I could think of are the noble families of Gjallarhorn just keeping their family Gundam in the vault 'cause they don't have the money to maintain and use it, it ‘s also been said that the EB-05s Schwalbe Graze had a high operational and development cost and Teiwaz was only able to produce 44 STH-05 Hyakuren even with the cost saving of just salvaging reactors from the debris field, granted both the Schwalbe Graze and Hyakuren are well-performing machines. In the case of both organizations it seems like they were able to also mass produce more dumbed-down versions of their more sophisticated suits like the  STH-16 Shiden or the EB-06 Graze or the really dumb-down AEB-06L Hloekk Graze for everyone else seems like the only other option was to salvage leftover suits from the calamity war mostly Rodi and Hexa frames while maybe easier to find seem to still require upkeep.

Ships

In terms of ships it doesn't seem like we get a lot of exacts they give the number of mobile suit catapults but other than that all I could find in terms of mobile suit capacity was the skipjack-class being able to carry 10 suits but that's when the sketch and designs come in they give more detail, looks at the hangers for Halfbeak-class ships I can't really say for sure looking at the sketches and going back and looking at the show I'd say maybe six that get hung on those clamps you see there.

there is also the half beak-class owned by Jasley Donomikols which opposed to the gjallarhorn models having the hanger at the bottom of the ship it appears that the front of the ship has been along geared to accommodate all the mobile suits but really we only get a look at the launch Bay so I don't really know, however Jasley did say that they outnumbered Tekkadan so I'm going to guess high teens low twenties.

when it comes to armored assault ships like the TIR-0009 Hammerhead or the NOA-0093 Isaribi The number of suits seems subjective in the sketch below you can see three mobile suits lined up maybe you can fit a fourth in there.

The thing is I also remembered something and went back to watch the sixth episode of the urdr hunt game and when Wistario and his crew pick up the Ahab waves of the Rakou Pirate ship they detect one armored assault ship and six mobile suits so my guess is 4 to 6.

Trying to guess the number of mobile suits on the NOA-0132 Hotarubi was a little trickier 'cause even with being a Teiwaz subsidiary I was under the impression that Tekkadan wasn't that rich to afford a whole bunch of suits at once don't think they had a full stock before they broke with Teiwaz so I'm just guessing on the number of hangers and mobile suit bays which based on the concept art there are eight hangers on each side with at least six mobile suit bays in each that make for a total of forty-eight possible mobile suits.

I know at the end of the day this is just nitpicking but like I said for people who like exact numbers like me to get a better scale of the world for more detailed storytelling information like this is appreciated.

[cazort]

Hey I want to share a thing about debt because a lot of people with less financial know-how don't necessarily realize how debt works.

When it comes to optimizing your own financial situation, debt is not necessarily a bad thing, and living debt-free is not necessarily the best financial choice.

The problem is high-interest rate debt, and/or debt that is more that you can handle.

Everyone in modern society who is supporting themselves has living expenses, housing being a big one. You usually either rent your home, or own it. If you own, you probably took out debt to buy. The interest rate on mortgage debt tends to be lower than other debt because the bank can take back your house if you stop paying on the debt. This possibility makes it less risky to the bank, so they lend at a lower rate.

Because the rate on mortgages is so low, you can often make more income by investing your money, than you can save by paying off mortgage debt.

For example if you got a mortgage several years back, your rate might be as low as 4% or less. Currently you can earn nearly 5% on savings accounts or money market mutual funds, and even more on CD's. These are all essentially risk-free investments.

If you invest in riskier investments like the stock market, you can earn more. Like the S&P 500 index funds tend to return around 10% on average, although it's unpredictable and they may lose money some years.

So even if you have a higher interest rate, like 6-7% (more typical for mortgages these days) you still get a higher return putting your money in the stock market relative to paying off your mortgage.

The same is true if you have subsidized student loans with a low rate. Like if your rate is 3-4%? You can make more money in a savings account these days. Even with a higher rate, you can make more money in the stock market.

These observations are relevant to issues like student loan cancellation.

People act like student loan debt cancellation is a progressive policy that primarily helps the poor, but this is not necessarily true. Often the poorest people didn't go to college to begin with. If they have debt, it is likely consumer debt like credit cards, retail store debt like buying items on layaway, or payday loans or tax refund advances. These debts are very high interest rate and can cost people a lot even in the short term.

Many people with student loan debt actually benefit from the debt because they pay it off as slow as possible and instead save and invest their money. They may put it in a Roth IRA, a 401(k) where an employer matches fund, or just a brokerage account where they can buy stocks for their own immediate income. And of course, people with college degrees often earn more money than those without.

Student loan forgiveness thus ends up giving a bunch of free money to people who may have been leveraging their debt to become richer.

Proposals for debt forgiveness that I've seen put forth often do not have adequate measures to ensure that they aren't giving out a lot of money to people who are basically rich.

They also do nothing to help the poorest among us, who have other types of debt.

And furthermore they do nothing to prevent new ppl from taking on more student loan debt again.

I think a better way to help people is finance reform laws that crack down on predatory lending like payday loans, tax refund loans, credit card debt, and any high-interest debt. States like North Carolina that have passed aggressive anti-predatory lending laws have seen good results from them. Interestingly, even though banks initially opposed those reforms, it ended up not hurting banks, because it was mainly small scale predatory lenders and not banks who were exploiting the poor. So this sort of reform is a win-win, good for the poor, good for big business too. Basically the only losers are the individual predatory loan sharks and a few aggressive, shady banks.

So yeah. Those are my thoughts for the evening in case anyone cares about this stuff.

[12percentspider]

I don't think my personal ire with insulin scammers as someone diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is made clear enough.

I have almost zero support system irl with this. I live with relatives who have all been diagnosed with type 2. At first I was told it had to be a mistake that I was diagnosed at all, because that person refused to believe I had any sort of illness, that I was faking it to get out of work somehow. Then it became "well you had a terrible diet this whole time, it's your own fault". Then it was "it's not type 1, you just go to stupid doctors, they just want your money". It was "you should go get a second opinion". I had to explain that my tests showed up high numbers of the antibodies that cause type 1 for the diagnosis to be taken seriously.

The day I went to urgent care after dealing with a couple years of people congratulating me for losing weight when I was doing nothing and only one person spoke up that it might be bad... I was screamed at. I was verbally abused while I was waiting to go to urgent care for debilitating pain because I had managed to clean the cat's litterbox "wrong". That was by the same person who claimed that the doctors were lying about me being diabetic because that person was diagnosed as diabetic and god forbid they aren't the only person on the planet who has to deal with that.

I got guilt-tripped that I was ruining everyone else's good time because I didn't want to eat foods that were guaranteed to send my blood sugar up to the 400s. I was made to feel that I was a burden on everyone else because I couldn't just eat a bunch of deep-fried, heavily battered and sugary foods. Mind you, the person who was accusing me of this is also diabetic and ended up giving me covid at some point by refusing to take care of themselves to the point of almost going into a coma and then coughing on me while I was trying to treat them for worsening low blood sugar and then the next day going "oh i tested positive".

And there are people out there refusing any sort of actual resources that would get them insulin if they truly needed it. I've had to be on the phone with pharmacy techs going "aw jeez, ok, I'll see if I can do an override for the insurance- oh ok they don't- no no, we have some over the counter in stock- ah, even with discounts it's one pen for twice what you pay for three- is that still ok?" and it HAS to be ok, I have no other choice. But you get some fucker copy/pasting the same thing for at least a year on multiple accounts because that's the scam they've settled on. (Or it's some other fucker who is faking cancer and possibly multiple other scams.)

Wouldn't you be mad too? I want it to be safe for those who do need help to get help. But when you have a permanent condition that is already not taken seriously and now there are others out there making it even less likely that you'd be taken seriously, it can't be that unreasonable to want to give those who are telling the truth a chance to get what they need. And if you're on tumblr you know a lot of users are already not in a great situation financially but plenty of people still want to help others they feel must be in a worse situation. Which I'm not saying isn't kind, it's just that there are some people out there who are lying about being in a worse situation.

[lunarsilkscreen]

But They tried!

"But Melin!" You're saying. "Ninja Tried to start up a new platform!"

What is Ninja's content? It's no different from any other gaming streamer out there. I hate to say this about him, since I don't know or care about him; His fame and success are directly tied with skill at shooter-games.

There's nothing else he has going for him. IMO.

And that's where a twitch clone platform failed. He was successful, in that he got paid a lot for signing on to the new platform. That has nothing to do with what a streaming platform can be.

What do business gurus say? "You got think how nobody else is thinking, you have to do what nobody else is doing, and you have to make content nobody else is making." But you gotta take the pay day if they're just gonna give you free money.

So what did Kick do that Twitch did not? They tried to do what every gaming team had done in the competitive gaming space. They tried to stack their deck with the highest rated players they could, and that failed ,because the content wasn't anything new or different.

You could, after all, watch the competitions in every other space.

Like trying to compete with SportsCenter with Lebron James and Tom Brady. You're not doing anything differently, you're just throwing money at it and trying to compete in established space.

Meanwhile, commentary was already being done by streamers people actually wanted commentary from. (Still don't know who Ninja is.)

Ironically, that's why a lot of tech start-ups fail. It's the exact reason tech start-ups fail, and why tech-bros are looked at as unbankable, and untrustworthy. And why the tech Sector looks "uninvestable".

Because they literally have no imagination, nor ability to think outside of the box. They're only trying to make what is already made, but better. Except, they can't make it better, because they're poaching whom is already the top paid individuals.

Which is exactly the same.

After-all, people only care about competitive sports players while they're competing. People can only handle so many vtubers reciting the same exact script. And there can only be so many half-naked trans philosophers.

I've already floated my ideas on the evolution of the space, as well as ideas to draw attention to new platforms, but those can't propagate until there's de-inflation.

Because the people that are supposed to be worth money, on the hook for paying back the loans... They are all Bankman-Fried's. "Good breeding stock" which is cattle-rancher for family. Had an established career, decided to get into Crypto at exactly the wrong time, and obviously didn't know s* about Crypto *except* that he could hire a bunch of public figures to try to build a brand by throwing cash at it.

And they still don't know s* about the tech Sector, do they?

Nor do they know how entertainment and tech fit together. To the Bane of every former High School AV kid.

Another group threw a bunch of money at Benedict Cumberbatch in an effort to entice people to play *that game that Cumberbatch plays*. Odds are it'll be a novelty, which'll wear-off real soon. No notes on the sticking power of the game itself. Probably enough to penetrate the *suave* new iPhone owner market who doesn't play video games that much.

What did they say about the post-laggards? You'll never convince them to adopt unless they've no other choice?

Good for a quick pay day--how did Mulaney phrase it? "Tell me a better way to make 15,000$ only spending 30,000$" (Sorry. Not Sorry. It's the best way to describe the same kinda energy going on here.)

They haven't tried. They've only tried recreating saturated spaces, that cannot grow as fast as you can throw money at something.

Watch the Twitter knock-offs. They're actually growing at a sustainable rate, aren't they? Not fast, but not falling apart. Actually thinking differently, andal about usability.

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Last Part→

Since Douma really decided that he wanted to pursue you he’s began encouraging movement in the mansion

Leading to his intrusion on your floor…

On your bed, your couch, your work room he just began making himself at home

“You know (Y/n) this wouldn’t be so weird if we just shared a bed.”

That was his defence for everything: 

Wearing your suits to work? 

“We’re married, it's perfectly normal to share!” 

Hopping into the shower with you?

“It saves money and as a married couple, this is the best way!”

You had plenty of money both in the bank, being constantly replenished by your respective business

Nonetheless you take him up on the offer of making yourself comfortable and invite your beloved secretary: Shinobu

Now you knew how much of a storm it would be for them to meet

 with Shinobu blaming Douma for her sister’s death

After firing her sister and harassing her during the process only for her to become terminally ill

And Douma remembering her as ‘the stiffy freak that tried to stab him at the wedding”

You knew this could end badly but at this point you didn’t care

While the case was still pending on your friend’s supposed ‘murder plot’ you suspected that your arranged husband had done more than he let on

Thus throwing caution to the wind as it concerned his safety

“The medicinal company is up +43% in the stock market, that controversial manager has been fired, and the transactions overseas went smoothly. All the while you’re looking absolutely splendid (Y/n).” Shinobu doted on you

You trust her wholeheartedly 

Resigning from her position as the head of the medical branch to be your secretary was a perfect example of her dedication to you

High on the hierarchy of best friends, her advice not to marry ‘the rainbow cockroach’ should have stuck for you

And she would never let you forget it

“Ugh he’s bought a ticket to the children’s fundraiser beforehand. How am I going to walk in separately from my husband? Who. I. Didn’t. Invite.’” 

“Well you didn’t have to say ‘I do’ to that roach in the first place. Anyway it isn’t too late for arsenic.”

This was the way things usually went and of course it would never cease even when you had her stay for a longer night:

“Haah.” You let out a huff as you loosened your tie and plopped down on the living room’s couch. You had been working over twelve hours straight and finally the rush of disasters had ended, enough for you to relax. 

“You should rest now (Y/n)-sama.” 

Her soft, suggestive voice fluttered on your ear as she leaned over the couch to massage your worn shoulders. You moaned at the relief from your shoulders and her smile widened. Kocho was more than pleased with your tired state, the fact you were resting now was her main goal in the first place. While she was used to having over 24 hour shifts at the hospital with everyone depending on her it was completely different working for you. You had a tendency to procrastinate, enjoying endless days with little to do before overloading yourself with a bunch of work the day before. That and you would become irritatingly dependent, while she didn’t like working for leeches, she wouldn’t mind you relying on her a bit more. Of course the work of the secretary kept her busy but you took on so much of it. She was pretty sure if you knew how little it entailed you could do her job. But she’s certain you enjoyed her company the most, and she was willing to give you all of that and more. But other than your intense workload there was another…problem.

“Ne-ne, is my cute s/o done for the day?”

Dressed in one of his cloth robes he must have also just gotten back from ‘work’ where he was no doubt doted on and allowed to rest for hours. 

Entirely ignoring the frowning secretary he slid his arms between your back and the couch to hug you. Surprised you open your previously closed eyes to look at him in warning. He wasn’t behind poking you inappropriately to invoke a reaction; rarely did he allow innocent skinship to be turned into something else. 

“Oi!Oi!-” ”Ah, (Y/n)-sama there’s some dirt on you.”

Those rainbow eyes squinted and looked at the smiling secretary. He sat up maintaining eye contact and a sadistic smile as he moved to straddle your lap to continue hugging you at the closer distance. As if to put the final nail in the coffin he slapped her hands away to wrap his forearms around your shoulders squeezing your head into his shoulder. 

“Ohhh (Y/n)! You have a pesky butterfly on your shoulder. You should know…” He moved closer to your ear; you could hear the smug expression forming. “They have terrible effects on the world.” 

_______________

It was like this every time. Just passive aggressively crapping on each other with metaphors and insinuations. It didn’t escalate until their insulting came to a head when you were forced to wash your body-pillow. 

“Katie Nanna please! Can’t we watch it during the day when I’m busy?”

“Sorry dear, but you’ve got to wash this old thing sometime.” Your maid lovingly chuckled as she made her way out of your room with your (f/a/c) body pillow. When the elevator dinged you slumped in your bed. It was time for a nap and you pouted as you had nothing big enough to wrap around. 

“(Y/n)-sama I tried on the pajamas you were thinking of getting, what do you think?”

If there was a lightbulb it would have turned on. 

“Hey Kocho would you be willing to substitute for my body pi-”

“Yes!” 

In a flash she was at your bedside about to crawl in when you both turned to see Douma twitching in the doorway. It was his hand that swiftly reached behind to reveal a fancy paper fan. You opened your mouth to question ‘why the heck he had that?’ but were stopped by the sudden clink of metal against metal. Looking at the wall and looking at Shinobu you could tell what just happened and you were horrified. 

In the wall was the knife-ended fan embedded into the wall and Shinobu standing with a katana and needle in hand. Your arranged husband already had another fan reeling back to be thrown again. 

“OKAY! OKAY! I just won’t nap today just don’t kill eachother!” 

Any ounce of tiredness absolutely dissipated at the thought of these two elites fighting it out in your room. 

“Oh darling, I’d be willing to disable the bomb I have on her if my beloved (s/o) cuddled with me in my bed!” 

“Okay! Fine Just don’t do that, gosh you psycho!”