Standing in my shower relying on warm water to loosen the iron grip of my newly built flank muscles as they encounter cold air for the first time and contract, thinking “after this summer of constantly making my torso sore and too wiped to leave home, just as little as two more years and I can put in a backyard spa!
Had a dream I was gaming so hard during a run of Deltarune that I somehow unlocked all the unreleased chapters even the ones that haven’t been made yet and I pulverized through every single enemy just by running into them really fast, making them violently explode into scattered pixels with my sheer force. I was having fun until suddenly the screen went white and a very visibly upset Mario appeared (because I was playing on the switch) and he was sitting on a folding chair with his hands clasped together and he asked me “what the fuck is a-wrong with you”. immediately woke up
The US is deeply segregated not only along racial lines, but along class lines as well: from housing to schools to healthcare, many of our major institutions are designed to allow rich people to keep poor people as far away from them as possible.
Where do rich and poor people interact with one another? If I’m reading this study right, it’s restaurants. Which restaurants? They find that some of the most cross-class locations in the country are cheap full-service restaurants: “Olive Garden, Applebee’s, Chili’s and IHOP.”
The more I think about this finding the more it makes sense. Places like Olive Garden are some of the only locations in US society which are simultaneously “nice” enough to draw in high-income diners and cheap enough to attract low-income diners. Rich people go to, say, Outback Steakhouse because they see it as a cheap and easy meal that’s better than fast food, poor people go because it’s one of the closest things to a nice steakhouse you can eat at without dropping $100+ per person.
Other cross-class locations: churches, libraries, credit unions, alcohol stores, the DMV. Locations which worsen class segregation: golf courses and country clubs, bars, museums.
moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.
[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]
feel like ppl are getting meaner and it’s weird to see
how do you mean
bro forget this post for a second - i opened this app today at 9am and the first post i saw was you reblogging some horny shit about “sliding in and stretching her real good”. 9am on a wednesday. what was that all about?
Alright, walked down the slopes of loose dirt at the edges of Strawberry Field, ready to put some more there. I favor areas where I can park with the bed sloped down and just shove the first one or two bedloads of the day out as fast as possible and then get a last one to place more particularly; I think there’ll be an adequate demand for shoving down at the shallow edge of the ridge to balance that out.
It’s not my blood sugar running low but as my creatine nears the expiration of its 24 hour cycle and my available energy declines similarly I also find myself becoming irritable.
I think it’s because at that point I still have enough energy to focus on my chosen task but not alongside devoting energy to side matters, so anything demanding any attention becomes a hostile attack on my mission to be defended against
You know, “Jews control the FGC” was not a take I was expecting to see today, but here we are.
Didn’t see that before but it’s possible. But we can’t draw enough conclusions from just this post alone. I am admittedly making a lot of assumptions just based on this guy’s use of the word “banker”.
Pinball kinda was a money laundering scheme for the mob when it started, though.
For one it was often gambling, pre-flipper (like pachinko!) tables were often formatted as bingo analogues (with more advanced ones changing victory conditions as play progressed), you won free games, tracked on its own reel, but the “house” would buy them back.
Even that aside though, pinball route operation relies on good relationships with local establishments you can put tables in and generates uncheckable cash inflows (Are you taking in $150 but only reporting $15? Okay! Are you only taking in $15 but putting $150 from another scheme on the books legitimately? Okay!) which played to mob strength.
The historical capital of pinball, Chicago, was the capital of American organized crime, and major manufacturers like Bally (like the casinos and weirdly, the gyms) and Williams (which abandoned pinball for the higher-margin work of making equipment for video poker) have readily crossed over into the legal “gaming” world.
Bally Total Fitness, established 1983… you know, that would almost make sense if it was established as a framework for national steroid distribution networks.
