#because. Hypothetically. I wouldn’t.

[dykeogenes]

Btw another thing you can do against planned obsolescence, aside from shopping smart and promoting legislation against it, is chase companies when their shit breaks. Planned obsolescence is only profitable because 90% of the time, people would rather just spend the extra hundred bucks and replace whatever it is instead of taking the time to email the company and ask for a replacement. I had a really nice set of earbuds that stopped working and it took me twenty minutes (plus walking to the post office) to get a replacement pair mailed to me. I didn’t have to talk to anyone on the phone— it was all through a form on their website. They didn’t even ask for proof of damage or confirm that I hadn’t done anything to them that violated the warranty. (No comment.)

When only a tiny fraction of people bother doing this, it’s cheaper for the company to eat the cost of sending out no-questions-asked replacements than it is to a) hire staff to deal with unhappy customers, or b) stop making shoddy products. If everyone whose headphones stopped working contacted the company to ask for replacements, it would become profitable for them to start making higher-quality products that last longer.

Planned obsolescence only makes companies money if you keep giving them your money. This is why taking thirty seconds to find somewhere that offers a warranty is worth it. Lots of companies who practice planned obsolescence still offer warranties, because again, most people never follow through with them! Obviously there’s cases where this doesn’t work, but it’s always worth a shot. Replying to customers costs companies money, and they know it. If you (politely, please— customer service reps are not your enemy) send enough squeaky-wheel emails, it will quickly become cheaper for them to just give you what you want.

[velvetjune]

Jesse would probably have the same reaction to Saga’s profiling as Tor or Odin, being able to directly communicate, which would lead to the best situation of both of them just staring into space while they’re silently and psychically communicating at random times

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do love canon amy & rory but god, does some part of me wish they really had gone with the idea of the doctor picking up a child as a companion (and then later, that child’s best friend with a huge crush on her.) with the rest of the season really not changing at all, except now it’s amelia pond with an angel in her head killing her and lost alone in the woods. it’s little rory who dies and is forgotten and becomes a toy soldier. if this is going to be a fairy tale, then let it be one. children have never been safe in fairy tales.

[eyeofnewtblog]

Things that happen at work:

TW DISCUSSION OF PERMANENT SELF HARM

The Only Night Restocking Guy, randomly: Hey, what’s the best way to commit suicide?

Me, thinking this is another random hypothetical question that he is just throwing out, because he usually asks stuff like “what would you do if someone genuinely insulted your mom, like meant it, the most hateful thing anyone could possibly say about her?” Or “what would you do if *some random boxer I’ve never heard of* punched you?”: …uh, I mean, I guess it would depend on pain tolerance, because gun to the head is definitely the most effective method, but but oxy would just put you to sleep before it shut down your organs. But it also gives a longer time for people to find you and rush you to the hospital.

The Only Night Restocking Guy: *goes on an entire rant that makes it Very Viscerally Fucking Clear that this absolutely is not a hypothetical question and he did in fact just get out of a 72 hour hold that he is Beyond Pissed Off About, and I am unclear about if he wants to off himself because he’s pissed off at the situation or really does want to end himself* So, how do I buy a gun anyway? You white as hell, I bet your daddy has lots a guns.

Me: I mean, yes, but he really only has hunting guns? Rifles are usually too long to um…operate in the way you’re intending to? Like, you can, but it’s really hard? And anyway, if you actually wanted a hand gun to make it easier, you can literally just go to any pawn shop? You just need to wait six months for the federal background check to come up clear, because it’s illegal to sell a gun to someone who has a history of mental health problems. (I have absolutely zero idea if this timeline is true…at this point I’m torn between giving factual information and trying to make buying a gun seem as hard as possible while not reacting negatively towards him in anyway)

My Brother In Christ Who Is Having A Relatively Calm Mental Breakdown: *goes off on a whole different rant about the White Man making his like as absolutely hard as possible because guns are regulated? Did not 100% follow but nodded along systematically*

Me: Okay, I think I followed most of that (narrator’s voice: No the fuck she did not) but I really think you need a hug. Is it okay if I hug you? *puts my arms up and waits*

Dude Who Needs Soft Things But Doesn’t Know What The Fuck To When Presented: Fine, but I’m not hugging you back.

So…yeah. Gave him a hug, and now I have to figure out how to report this to the general manager in the absolutely most gentle way possible. Not sure exactly how to word it yet but I’ve got a general outline, will let you know.

[porekawa]

[tariah23]

My princess would never be a deadbeat-

[tomato-fendo-writes]

my smart brain: work on the next OLM chapter before you forget how you want it to go

my evil idiot adhd brain that thwarts me at every turn: what if you wrote ANOTHER au fic that converts the entirety of world tour mode in sf6 into a more traditional story mode thing where luke is the main character and it centers on a maturity arc for him and his bond with bosch for a much stronger narrative and gut punch at the end

[poisoned-pearls]

thinking about my fankids and realizing that Neo would know Riddle is hilarious to me considering that when you meet riddle story wise it is after Nami overblots. Which Neo helped defeat.

Like his relationship with riddle isn’t that strong, because riddles just like, one of his dad’s friends who visits sometimes. Like sure he knows riddle, but he really know riddle. Hell hes only ever met the twins once and that’s when he was 7.

so the next time he saw a family friend is immediately after his crush overblot and almost killed like, half of the student population. And said family friend knows his crush very well.

And after all of that he just has to be like “hi Mr.riddle,” while said Mr. Riddle is very much ignoring him for his baby (Nami Ashengrotto who is not his child)

[fated-normal-767]

Heehee thinking about Oulixes clinging onto his humanity even as he comes back so terribly wrong . Certainly this is hell . Certainly it cannot get worse than this crawling bone deep knowledge that he is no longer human .

EXACTLY! even when he’s revived, he’s definitely human. a dead human, yes, but human. I think he’d also hate the type of power he’d have. He wants power so he can tell people what to do. He wants to be there, in control, his power isn’t his, so if anything it’s rendering him entirely helpless.

[polyamoryprincess]

In the face of thousands of people in the middle of a genocide, people really have the gall to be like “I’m a liberal, but what if protesting literal genocide that we have loads of a first hand evidence of leads to a single hypothetical single mother missing work and losing their job :(“ and I’m going to go actually insane. I’m going to freak the fuck out.

REEVALUATE YOUR MORALS AND LOOK UP THE HISTORY OF PROTESTING. You fucks are so so embarrassing.

[sleepdepravity]

I got an idea of doing a YouTube channel that is just “reviews” where I say a short sentence about a movie and then give a rating, like:

Glass Onion - “five old people play among us in it” 10/10

Pinocchio - “SpongeBob voices Mussolini” 9.5/10

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - “there is buttplug-activated fighting skills” 10/10

[livvyofthelake]

i’m a feminist but can my sister fucking kill herself or something girl it’s impossible to be around you sometimes!!!!

[possibly-pasta]

‼️💥‼️HE KNOWS IM FLIRTING FOLKS HE KNOWS IM FLIRTING IM SCREAMING WHAT DO I DO ‼️💥‼️

[luxurybrownbarbie]

"#if they had it and didn’t give it to you; your parents were stingy and cruel.#‘my parents made me work for my car and phone etc. and it taught me the value of hard work’ headasses#your parents were stingy.#and it says more about their parenting than anything else" -

Preach to these people,sis. I never see anyone else romanticize and almost salivate over the idea of struggling (and enforcing that mindset in their kids) quite like (older) black people. Someone free them from the shackles of thinking achievements are only valid if you overworked or borderline destroyed yourself to earn it. Nothing wrong with being hardworking or ambitious by nature, but depriving a child deliberately in the name of proving a point? Special place in hell for you, love. Not saying to spoil the child to the point of self-entitlement, but......find a balance,I beg.

The thing is, people don’t even think about how much more they could have done if they had that extra support. They cannot begin to imagine how much further along they’d be if they got to free up 40% of their brain to focus on the work they really wanted to do, not just the work they needed to do to survive. By living in grind mode you’ve effectively destroyed the space you have for other ideas and plans. And then you want to subject your child to the same? It’s infuriating. Why would you ever introduce artificial scarcity to your child? What does that teach?

And my biggest gripe with the “spoiled kid” narrative is that it’s not the kid’s fault! You just need to actually parent your child! You can give a child everything under the sun and still teach them that things have meaning. It’s not hard to teach a child, in an age appropriate manner, about money and hard work. But that begins with treating the child as a sentient being with thoughts and feelings of their own, which people are allergic to.

People don’t like acknowledging that a spoiled child and an emotionally stunted child are both neglected children. By abdicating parental responsibilities, people give their kid several complexes they’ll only be able to disentangle if and when they reach emotional maturity.

[match-your-steps]

don't try to make this darker than it is

[quintsmachete]

what in the goddamn