#for being rubes

[lacewise]

Oh we’re doing that thing again where we pretend business degrees are useless so that way if (when) corporations commit serious crimes or influencers commit serious ethical violations we can all be like “lol they didn’t know anything business school only teaches two+2!”

Meanwhile the textbook lays out the exact scenario as what NOT to do in week 2. In a textbook that, weirdly, no businessperson ever cites. Despite it being almost universally taught in classrooms and lecture halls. Sure.

It’s almost like people are pretending there aren’t regulations to learn in hopes that they’ll go away…

And the general public making those jokes are falling for it…

But of course the jokesters you like would never lie to you so it must be something else! Surely they’ve learned nothing about the tax code to exploit loopholes! They definitely haven’t learned any dodgy marketing practices! They’d have to go to a class for that! And business schools only teach… 2+2.

Remember this: people on the internet will lie to you for money. Never believe anything without fact checking and ascertaining they don’t have a vested interest in lying.

If you believe this, you have fallen directly for a dodgy marketing tactic.

We can do this right now: think of every influencer you know in a research-heavy niche who is known for or suspected of cutting serious research corners. Now think of influencers you know that make jokes about how business degrees are useless. I suspect a pattern might be emerging.

Fashion merchandising, accounting, and marketing are all business majors. We literally have not finished the reckoning of how marketing uses psychology and sociology to manipulate people. Please, let’s pretend to be just a little bit serious. You are nodding along with “accounting majors? They don’t know how to do math!” (And keep in mind… we all have to take basic accounting classes. A lot of jokes made about business majors and business school are only specifically applicable to one type of MBA student.) Use your brains. Don’t let weirdos you don’t know making a living on the internet lie to you.

I just watched a YouTube video where everyone was laughing at the students and neither the host or the comments put together that teaching comprehensive business ethics is an avenue for teaching the more cynical students a roadmap on how to disregard ethics and get away with it. Why? Because the host implied either the students weren’t paying attention or the professor was lying about the coursework, and the audience believed him.

If you see someone doing this: click off the video. Immediately. They are not a trustworthy source of information.

[hitmewithsomebooks]

@jegulus-microfic Jan 20 - lethal

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Regulus Black was dangerous. And not because he happened to know all the dark curses, or had plenty of friends who would hide a body, or could and would carve your eyes out with a knife. No, Regulus Black was dangerous because of his face. With his eyes, his lips, and oh, Merlin, that smirk was lethal. Honestly, it was going to kill James one day. The evidence was there.

Just last week, James had met Regulus's eyes at breakfast, and had choked on his bratwurst when Regulus shot him a sly smirk. He'd had to down two glasses of pumpkin juice while Sirius patted him on the back.

Then, the other day at the Ravenclaw vs. Gryffindor match, Regulus was in the stands, holding a Gryffindor banner. Everyone figured he was rooting for his brother, as they'd been getting closer lately. However, when James snuck a glance at him, the boy let that smirk slide across his face. James fell clear off his broom. Luckily, he'd only a few feet off the ground at that moment.

And then there was today. Today, when James had to read his essay about brewing the Draught of Living Death in Potions. It was not usual for students to read their essays to the class, but it had been James's punishment for setting Sirius's hair on fire, despite his adamancy that it had been an accident.

James, famously bold and social, could perform any sort of thing, talk about loads of topics off the top of his head. But he hated reading out loud. So when he, already struggling, glanced up nervously and met steely grey eyes, and that mouth twisted into that wicked, slanted smile, James's tongue nearly literally tied. Thankfully, calling powdered asphodel root 'atmospheric rube," earned him some sympathy, and he was allowed to sit back down.

Regulus's smirk widened as the boy went back to his seat, and James tripped and fell into his chair.

[toffoliravioli]

stay classy bl*es fans

[creativitycache]

I’ve been writing Ch 21 for a month, just dying to have someone point out the error that is actually Plot in Ch 20. It’s been consuming me.

I am wiggling like a Golden Retriever who is begging for someone to notice the Trick I just did. I want people to be in on the [Spoiler]! I am making the face of someone who just told a horrible convoluted pun but the worst part of that metaphor is at this point I haven’t even posted the punchline.

These are all things that are normal to want and possible to achieve.

[miraclemaya]

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[guppygiggles]

You're welcome for the lee!Avery brainrot, dear friend :) It's always good to spread the ler mood and fluffy thoughts :p

... I want you to know that the lee!Avery brainrot you inflicted me with has persisted since you sent this ask. 😵‍💫

[snugglesquiggle]

juzi nation do u love me enough to forgive what i'm gonna do in Corrupt Combustion? it's definitely treason...

[fefairys]

funniest part of posting all these homestuck book annotation quotes is people being so surprised that hussie like… understands their own story. lmao

[radioaf-a]

@opportunistic-chicanery asked Al : "Room for one, checking in." Hands the grinning man who's obviously a bellhop his luggage.

Static can be heard as the radio demon that's in the site of the little green pest before him. Hmm clearly, he has no idea who he weas talking to how fun this well be. He lets the bugs bags hit the floor before while his grip on his cane tightens before he addresses the other with tight grin and narrow red eyes. “Opps.” He all he says to address the bags. “I see Nifty missed one of the roaches.” Oh was was going to have fun squashing this little bug. "That is what you are is it not? a cockroach?"

[valeriefauxnom]

For all the similarities people have noted between Dragalia Lost and Tales of the Abyss, with some of the plot beats and stuff (ahem replicas and fighting fate and sacrifice-), they shared an additional funny, ever-so-tiny point of comparison:

The use of the very very very rare word 'dreck'. Yes, the major meme and famous line(s) by Asch (and to a very small degree Van) that had many a person going:

As Asch went:

...and so on and so forth.

But yes, Dragalia itself randomly busted out a more complex vocabulary at times, and in that vocabulary, we have this:

And while Emile is not the equivalent to Asch in Dragalia, the fact the word got used at all is rather funny.

So yeah. Dreck. I've never seen it outside of these two games. And it just so happens that the two that do use it recount a story of a replica main protagonist with some major family issues on a journey to eventually fight the concept of predetermination and die(...?) doing so!

Of course, there's plenty of differences (Luke was created as a replacement to die and failed to be a 'good enough' replacement for those around him in the meantime, Euden was created as a replacement meant to live and succeeded in integrating into his family because no one knew he wasn't the original brother, for a small microcosm of the differences), but hey.

Pattern (and vocab) recognizing brain go whir!

[toytulini]

"why are people mad about AI being pushed on them when they SHOULD be mad about all the privacy erosion??"

1) plenty of us bitches are mad and annoyed about both, actually.

2) the privacy erosion has become the normalized state of existence for the average person for the last 10 fucking years at least, its snuck in, they disguise it as Convenient Features to Help You Shop Better, and thats IF they bother telling you theyre doing it, instead of just opting all your shit in without asking, its so fucking normalized that yeah, a lot of people do not bother to question it, they just sigh in resignation and go, yeah, i guess, do i even have other options? and they do, but theyre an investment of learning and time you dont have capacity for at the moment, or maybe you do but you feel like you dont bc it feels like a bigger hurdle than it is, and computer stuff is already kind of intimidating, cos man, what if you hit the wrong thing and brick your expensive ass machine? easier to just let it data harvest, you guess, it cant be THAT bad, can it? plenty of people live like this, put up with this, seek this out, its easier not to resist the privacy erosion. fucking whatever, i guess. yeah, i guess twitter i mean X, or walmart, or facebook, can just have all of my contact info and my phone number and my birthday and phone contacts and bank information and fuck it, give them my ssn while im at it. less effort later. this is just how tech has been for the last 10 yrs. no one can effectively get rage clicks on this topic anymore bc we all fucking know. it sucks and we know. what do you want me to fucking do about it? i have other shit to deal with more urgently. etc

3)

you cant turn anything on or log onto anything or go anywhere without hearing about whatever new shit theyre throwing AI at for no real reason, no one will fucking Shut Up about AI, and its Annoying, man

[psihawaii]

im not at the level of gatekeeping and superiority wherein i get mad when someones wrong abt smthn i like, instead the idea of litrly anyone at all knowing Anything (Actual Facts) abt smthn i like gives me such a headache i actually need to throw up

[knightofleo]

[mobbothetrue]

How does one accidentally marry an sdv npc

The first time I picked up sdv I skipped a lot of dialogue. I was playing on my switch and primarily interested in the farming/mining/fishing stuff so whenever npc’s were talking to me I was skimming at best (I have since changed I prommy).

Eventually I decide I want to make friends in town bc they mail stuff to me sometimes. Sebastian likes sashimi. I can make sashimi and I have a boatload of fish, just, ambiently, on me.

(Did a lot of fishing, did not do a lot of selling).

So I get a whole stack of sashimi and, just, hand him a plate whenever I see him. Eventually I notice Pierre has a new item in stock. A bouquet! Wonder what that does. Maybe it has some kind of positive gift effect? I’ll give it to my buddy, Sebastian.

Continue handing him sashimi.

One day, I go to the beach when it’s raining, and notice a new npc. Buy the conch. Huh. Wonder what this does. I’ll try it on the first npc I see.

Sebastian goes to the beach on rainy days.

[rubyintheskywithdiamonds]

hi yes I know I am a young christian woman that recently got married, however would people stop asking me if I am pregnant/plan to get pregnant soon/if I want kids now or later and why

sincerely,

really damn tired of the same conversation

[cursed-and-haunted]

I love playing Hitman its like solve this puzzle and a man dies :)