#capitalism yo

[zerogouki00]

Boy, this threw me back to the time we visited NY City and went to see the 9/11 memorial, pay our respects etc, and realised THERE'S A F***ING GIFT SHOP!!!!

Now I appreciate this might not be news to some of you, but pretty much every European I've ever told was shocked.

And like, we're not talking just a couple of postcards and some pens either: full-on T-shirts, baseball hats, gift sets... And dominating the back wall was a massive screen playing family members' accounts of the day they got the call, rescue workers recounting the horrors they saw, and all the while there's a sign just below yelling "50% OFF ON MUGS"!

Seriously, it was wild.

9/11 Knife from Tennessee

[ghost-in-a-cup]

hey guys, maybe before you pirate LEARN SOME ETIQUETTE

why are these important? well, if you openly share the sites, they wil get shut down. corporations are willing to copyright strike anything. you are only going to make accessing these resources harder.

remember: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

if you want to share resources, don't post them on public forums like tumblr, twitter,instagram or any popular site. remember how zlibrary shut down? yall want that to happen to more sites? do you?

also like if they get shut down, people who can't access these otherwise because they don't have the means for it or its banned in their country are losing access.

Don't post links online. Only share in private conversations.

try and avoid linking the sites directly. a workaround is sharing the downloaded files via other file hosting sites similar to google drive and drop box

DON'T SHARE ON PUBLIC FORUMS. EVER. PLEASE

Use a VPN. i personally like proton vpn, it is a freemium model but the free version works fine.

These are just the basics, there are others but please keep these in mind.

[indigosabyss]

thinking about how Tsukasa set out to "purify the new generation from the tainted old world practices" and then put a soldier and a policeman into leadership positions.

[princessnijireiki]

interestingly appalling point of "body positivity… or else!" is being in a fashion subreddit over the course of the Wicked press tour + the current awards season that has a zero tolerance policy on ANY body/weight/eating disorder commentary, even when it's people who are horrified that Ariana Grande VISIBLY looks very near death's door, so every fucking crooked eyebrow pastel pink post has its comments locked in under an hour

and I get that it's to avoid cyberbullying gossip culture type shit and the "bad old days" Joan Rivers, Wendy Williams vibes, but it is that bizarre catch 22 of are you still going to feel self righteous while the pro ana pro mia pro ozempy pro coke fiend pages idolize this, and are you going to feel self righteous when she dies? the relentless social mockery of Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston did not save them, but neither did the people who sat by and watched them both wither away in silence until they ODed, so... what now?

like it's a combination bizarrely parasocial thing and wanting a space devoid of toxicity but continuing to cover the evidence of toxins without ever engaging with the meat of why these issues are bad, but with social media vs news or magazine coverage it's like, "oh, okay, so in one week you did this performance on repeat 152 times of being like we can make fun of this bitch's bad peroxide and brow lift, but pointing out the fact that we can all see her skeleton isn't allowed, Spongebob looking like a crackhead and Cynthia being a good 10-20lbs lighter than in previous projects is just something we're supposed to pretend not to notice."

[mikeluciraphgabe]

10yo me: Wow I can’t wait to vote for president when I’m older!

Me now: what if we just blow up DC

[journeying-wizard]

wait fuck do i say oh my god or oh my gods now??? like yeah as a catholic you aren't supposed to say "oh my God" because that's using capital g God's name in vain but in my head i got around that because god ≠ God because god doesn't have that capital g and thus -> not referring to capital g God and using his name in vain. but since i'm polytheist now does that mean it'd be "oh my gods" instead?

and wait is god supposed to be capitalized in regards to other deities? like, when you're calling a deity a god of something. is gods supposed to be capitalized? because in my head god is what God is; God is his name, and what God is is god because. oh my god bflre it was God is god because there's only one, and since he's the only of his kind, what his "species" is called is just his name. like God is a being and god is the genre of being he is, and that genre of being is called god because there's just the one capital g God. but. i don't believe it's only capital g God now like i believe these other guys exist too. so i can't say that. all of the above is probably heavily inaccurate because i was raised catholic and when u're raised catholic there's just some things u never rlly actually look into because things just Are The Way They Are and for smaller stuff like that u kinda just use what u know.

i also realize what i said looks like it contradicts my initial thing abt god ≠ God so i have to explain even more. and what it boils down to is that god ≠ god. SO BASICALLY. the being God is, god, equals deity. god = deity. with oh my god though, you can't replace god with deity. like, oh my deity. nobody says that. god ≠ deity. it's like,,, two separate things. if god¹ ≠ deity, and god² = deity, then god¹ ≠ god². it's not quite a case of a word having two definitions, because the "god" in "oh my god¹" carries the same definition as god². they're just used in different ways which causes them to have different meanings. that sounds a bit contradictory but i think the point got across.

and wait now my brain has connected the dots on if god should be capitalized w other deities. it's a third god word. god¹ ≠ god² ≠ god³. because when a deity is being called a god of something it's a TITLE and god¹ and god² aren't used as titles. god² = deity = god³, but god² ≠ title while god³ = deity = title (because a god can be called "deity of..." instead). so god³ = God but also God ≠ God. if name ≠ title, and God¹ = name; God² = title, then God¹ ≠ God². i could say like — oh my god, that's a god, it's God, God of Everything — and all four instances of the word mean something different. if it's still hard to differentiate: oh my god¹, that's a god², it's God¹, God² of Everything. (ignore the god of everything part i'm still trying to work out what my religion is and how my belief in capital g God fits in with my belief in other gods, because i've been p sure that means im not christian/catholic anymore. but yea i just kinda wanted to make that example to get the point across).

SO TO RECAP:

God¹ = name

God² = title

if name ≠ title, then God¹ ≠ God²

god¹ = god used in "oh my god" = word

god² = deity = being

if word ≠ being, then god¹ ≠ deity; god¹ ≠ god²

if name ≠ word, then God¹ ≠ god¹; if title ≠ word, then God² ≠ god¹

God¹ is a god², or a being, but all god²s are not God¹; Apollo is a god², and Khonsu is also a god², but both of them aren't God¹, like how Khonsu and Apollo aren't each other, because all of them are different beings (aka god²s) and have different names.

-> like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. in this metaphor god²s are rectangles and God¹ is a square, which is also a rectangle. it might get the slightest bit convoluted to ppl not familiar with christianity once the Holy Trinity is thrown into the mix but meh that isn't what this post is about; it's abt the word god and capital g God whose name is the same as his and other deities' genre of being, gods, and his name is also the same as a title other gods are given, God. i am so sorry to anyone who might be getting a headache.

but yeah context/placement and/or capitalization make a difference in the meaning.

i feel obligated to say i am not a linguist or theologist at all i'm just some lesbian who was raised roman catholic, had a crisis, and is now polytheist. i have no clue if any of this has any basis in study or something it's just me and my funky ass brain over here

......how did i manage to make my small crisis of if i'm supposed to say "oh my gods" instead of "oh my god" into a whole ass linguistics post. how do i even TAG this. I STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE OH MY GOD OR OH MY GODS... i was just gonna end the post after the first paragraph but right before i hit post the other thought occurred to me and things spiraled from there. i am a FOOL.

[luckylunatix]

A decade+ ago: "If it has even the slightest similarity to Pokémon I don't want it!"

Now: "Yeah I know this game straight up plagiarized designs and stole assets from Pokémon, but Pokémon ain't what it used to be and this game has guns in it, so who cares? Fuck the actual creativity that went into those Pokémon designs, the artists that made them are clearly just as bad as the company higher-ups!"

[midnightsnaq]

Accidentally found myself working on two mp100 fics at the same time

[drinkinboilingcoffee]

Reblogs appreciated

[oh-meow-swirls]

i hope whoever was on 3's localization team got a raise tbh. like yea there's some weirdness but there were like three localizers and yet they still managed to get the game fully translated. this is literally THE biggest 3ds game we're talking about here and a very small team of localizers managed to localize all of it. and they honestly probably didn't even get that much money for it since yo-kai watch was a dying franchise and 3 only had like 3,000 copies made in america. the localizers are amazing.

i just wish they capitalized crank-a-kai correctly-

[frommybedroom]

sometimes i scroll so far back on my blog that i get a jump scare when i start seeing capital letters in my posts

[unfuck-your-tech]

Unfuck your Tech

The Internet is increasingly profit-based in its design, intended to extract the maximum amount of value from your use of it. Proprietary tech, ads, monetization, algorithmic content dissemination, digital rights media (DRM) etc. are all things that benefit corporations, but that make the Internet more hostile to real individuals and communities.

This blog shares community-oriented tools, free alternatives to paid content, and ways for healthier more human media consumption with a focus on free open-source software (FOSS), that anyone can use to remove limiters, paywalls, ads, mindless endless content feeds, and take back digital autonomy, self-respect and fulfillment.

Unfuck your technology, and make your digital landscape a kinder place.

Header image made in aeCAD, a FOSS circuit board design tool.

[frogndtoad]

people were mean to you... but I always thought u were cool...

[ovaruling]

veganism is much too extreme but our planet burning and being deforested and overgrazed to nothing is, what, nice and moderate? leisurely and we got plany off time? what kind of casual, slow Sunday morning solution do we have to this very calm issue? yall are too funny

[shal]

Bitches will be having a good week and enjoying the beauty of life and creativity and then have the joy sucked out of them when they remember the assigned college course on "How to Sell Yourself" they have to complete because we live in a capitalist hellscape where you have no value unless you can be bought as a product.

Anyway I'm bitches