#i spend too much money on things

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house

[realian]

"to all those who BULLIED Shane and Ryan and Steven into compromising, are you happy now?!????!?!!? 😡😡😡😡" yes thanks for asking.

[heylittleriotact]

I feel significantly better after a night of sleep and buying almost $1,000 worth of new clothes (don’t worry, most of it was on sale and I had $300 in gift cards so I really only spent like… $130 out of pocket.)

Fuck you, capitalism and the way buying things releases endorphins in my brain.

I’m going to look fly af though lol. Just serving absurd amounts of cunt.

[kryptickrow]

"In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. This experiment viewed this way is described as a paradox." - Wikipedia

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[lizzibennet]

hello one and all! as some of you may know, i’ve been studying to get into med school for many years now, and i finally got in!!! school is free in brazil (thank god!) but the specific school i got into is very far awayyy and i will need plane/bus tickets, a place to stay while i look for a permanent residence and wait for the school’s financial assistance (🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻), which will be very costly for me. as such, i’ve set up a page where you can help me with a couple of bucks, if you can spare it! since i’m from brazil, with an exchange rate of almost six reais to one dollar, even a small amount is of great great help towards my dream of finally becoming a doctor 🧡🖤

[kanerallels]

*starts to make a post about my latest crisis like three times*

[bitchy-peachy]

From PBS NewsHour

Democrats ain't having it.

Watch the whole thing.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

gay lil guy loves a gay lil camera

[julykings]

kind of in my hermit era lately and trying not to feel bad about it im just such a homebody these days

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[steelthroat]

First time staying at the hotel of a theme park (against my will, but that's a long story) and... it's so weird??????

Like I feel like I am not supposed to be here, how do I put it... it screams luxury but I a... childlike/childish way????

And I feel restless, like something is wrong. Uncanny.

[cable-salamdr]

Guys guess who got invested into the incredibly niche Ninjago merchandising of Trading Cards and is now sorting them anew because I didn’t like the way the numbers sort them

[giantkillerjack]

the average person doesn't expect you to be a perfect ethical consumer, that's not possible for the vast majority of us. but what youre saying is it's better to do nothing at all and choose the worst possible options (sweat shops, overseas shipping waste, idea/product theft, all wrapped up in SHEIN) than to put even the tiniest effort in where you can.

[they are referring to this post]

What I said was "some people are doing literally everything they can to survive and have no extra bandwidth to spend extra time and money on their purchases, and it is cruel and therefore un-punk to gatekeep punkness and add additional shame to these people's lives based on that fact."

I think it's still a good thing to try to ethically consume; I literally never said it wasn't. I had never even heard of SHEIN before. Rather, I am much more concerned about what I saw as arbitrary gatekeeping based on ability and income.

And frankly how dare you claim that I am supporting sweatshops and abuse by saying that this additional work you are demanding (in this case, presumably, vetting every clothing company you buy from) is not always possible for people. It is not a light accusation to accuse me of supporting abuse.

"How dare you say we piss on the poor", Etc. 🙄 this isn't Twitter. You are determined to enforce moral purity, but you are failing to see the nuance.

Because when I say "no extra bandwidth," I mean no extra bandwidth. This is not the "car shows it's on E but actually secretly it has a lot of gas left" situation that abled people constantly assume disabled people mean when they say they are at their limit.

This is "the car has stopped moving, and to move it I'd have to break my body pushing it." This is "at a certain point, people will hit a wall in terms of money and time and energy, and any energy spent after that comes directly out of their life force."

So the argument "okay but just spend a little more time money and energy actually" is not a valid one.

And the argument "if you are not able to do this specific task, then it means you're not doing anything else to make the world a better place" doesn't exactly impress me either. You said yourself that it is impossible to be a perfectly ethical consumer for most people.

How do you know what else people are doing to resist oppression? How many hours per week until your standards are met?What if someone works 3 jobs? Does that mean it's harder to be a good person if you're poor?? Why do you get to decide what specific avenue of bettering the world is the most morally repugnant or acceptable? What kind of proof of goodness and effort would make you satisfied enough to lay off on the shame?? Who are you helping??

Clothing is a fundamental human need, and some of us have to buy cheap fucking clothes quickly. Billionaires are buying their seventh yacht this month. The people who own fast fashion companies are abusing their workers and putting local affordable clothing stores out of business - and this applies for basically every company with price points that low because governments are failing to regulate corporations to enforce basic human rights.

I have $300 to spend on a new wardrobe as my old clothes have fallen apart or become too small. Do you have a way for me to get a new winter coat, 3 flannels, 10 shirts, 3 dress shirts, new sandals, 10 pairs of pants, 5 bras, 12 pairs of socks, and 10 pairs of underwear within that budget and also definitely 100% ethically sourced, with free returns in case it doesn't fit? Or will I simply have to use the cheap stores?

I have about an hour to spend on this per week. Many mainstream stores doesn't make clothes in my size, and I am now in *year 5* of needing an electric wheelchair and being unable to get one; plus I live up a flight of stairs, so I can't even bring my walker out with me - so thrift shopping is not gonna cover this. Should I continue to wear small and tattered clothing until I have the time, money, and energy to meet your standards?

Did you know there are more empty homes in this country than homeless people? If I decide to splurge on only 100% ethically-produced products, and I can't make rent, and I become homeless, are YOU going to be there for me?? Or are you too busy litigating the endless tiny shames of poverty in your own community?

So I ask you again, are you SURE this is where you want to direct your punk energy?

Because there are a whole lot of rich people relying on people like us punching down and to the side instead of looking up to see where the money is going.

Because energy and time, as it turns out, are limited resources. And I would never expect you to secretly have more than you claim to have.

[moldypoff]

I went on a JaidenAnimations rabbit hole and

I WANT THAT MAGICAL BLUE PILL SO BAD.

You turn into a GOD???? YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE BREAKS FROM DOING WORK THAT EVERYONE ELSE CAN DO EASILY??? I CAN FOCUS??? I CAN R E M E M B E R ?

Y’all

My mental illness isn’t a hindrance

It’s a GATE, it’s a means of holding this beast BACK.

I will have you, aderall, mark my words…

[resident-gay-bitch]

little rich boy sirius who gets disowned and can barely survive without his expensive brands and the basic human need to eat at least once a day meeting the entirely too generous james potter who just falls for the vanity and sincerity of the reformed rich boy and decides that once sirius stops caring about brands and status and rich boy things and just cares about what matters in life he decides to spoil his boyfriend to pieces because he’s secretly sitting on a fucking fortune

[h0ney8ee]

so my car is broken again ^_^ it felt exactly like last time when my wheel almost fell off except i was going 65 miles an hour on the highway this time and nearly died. now i wont have a car for at least two weeks so getting to work will be fun