storybookprincess:

working in a library, i encounter a lot of people who are in the process of filling out important forms, sending important faxes, and copying important documents. and the more important these things are, the more stressful, meaning i end up assisting a lot of really stressed people with a lot of really stressful paperwork, and have thus developed the ultimate line to immediately validate and empathize with their situation

“they don’t make it easy, do they?”

i nearly always use this line at some point in the conversation & it works without fail, because there is ALWAYS a they and they are ALWAYS not making it easy. you don’t have to specify who “they” are. you don’t even need to have an approximate idea of their role in this process.

job application? disability paperwork? insurance documents? financial aid paperwork? in any situation, the person visibly relaxes & enthusiastically agrees, because someone understands their plight: they are out there & they are NOT making it easy

kushblazer666:

Hirohito was Emperor until 1989?

micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

marlynnofmany:

anexperimentallife:

Delighted by the mental images this evokes.

fnord888:

etirabys:

dumb question about how hard content moderation is at scale: who the fuck is uploading the child porn and beheading videos traumatizing the underpaid moderation teams in all of these exposés? If I were in possession of those things I would simply keep it to myself out of self preservation. Why and how are a small fraction of people doing it in such volume that it creates a huge problem for moderation teams? And don’t say “some people are insane”, that’s a curiosity-stopper

Sometimes shock value, as people have said, but sometimes I do think there’s a genuine desire to share the content with like-minded people (or, more selfishly, trade content with like-minded people).

While it’s not not dangerous, I don’t think it’s necessarily as dangerous as you’re assuming. The tools required for ban evasion probably provide protection against low effort law enforcement responses, and more sophisticated responses are limited by resources. Plus, the content may not even be illegal: actual CSA content is illegal almost everywhere, but simulated material and gore/shock stuff is often legal.

There are now so many internet leads on child sexual abuse that police have to triage them to pursue by estimated age; I’m told the cutoff tends to range from 2 up to 8.

capnsoapy:

yeah that’s fair

The weight-loss action lately is in the stomach shrinking from projecting ahead of me; looked at from atop the neck it’s becoming a shorter hillock with more flat space at the top, makes me realize there might not be a clear delineation between the last stages of having a “stomach” and an even layer of subcutaneous padding across the torso.

kontextmaschine:

The box of iron pills and creatine capsules I take with me when I’m not sure I’m going to be home in time for the next dose

Got this after a pretty rough walk of shame once

notthateither:

kontextmaschine:

From the LEGO expert-level Detective’s Office, this wanted poster features a description fitting every minifig.

::rolls eyes::

Okay, every minifig from the “Town” setting, then.

So the iron-hunger I originally figured out because the first few days I just threw more creatine at it but it continued to drag me down and I was in the supermarket going by the butcher counter and I was like “haven’t had any red meat in a while! [gears grinding] Wait a second, do I have anemia?”

So I grabbed some iron from the vitamin aisle and sure enough, that cleared it.

apas-95:

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they developed out of objective evidence? No. They come from works of fiction written by US liberals, and from them alone. They come from three kinds of fiction: childrens TV shows, US highschool’s required reading list, and video game storylines.

— Mao Zedong, Where Do Correct Ideas Come from? (May 1963)

drilpencils:

(cartoon by robert weber, caption by dril)

baalberith-is-here:

modogoblin:

tonyzaret:

I used to be a big city intellectual- but after seeing me and my ilk portrayed as the Soy Wojak one too many times I finally decided to become an incredibly based guy

hong–zhi–zhu:

redpandarascal:

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

effemimaniac:

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

OK that’s basically The Prison. you’re pretty much in The Prison

ALT

flakmaniak:

2600hztone:

wetorturedsomefolks:

2600hztone:

Saw a dude wearing a shirt that said “BEAST MODE ON/OFF” with the “ON” indicated and for a split second I thought it was pointing to “OFF” and i was like thats fucking insane

this would be such an awesome shirt honestly. like count yourselves lucky motherfuckers, im not even in beast mode right now. dont push me or i’ll go home and change into my other shirt

You fuck with a dude and he just wordlessly removes that shirt and pulls out the ON shirt

No, he merely flicks his fingers over it and the screen-print changes from “OFF” to “ON”.

heraldic-thunderbolt:

A lot of people went on the computer and never came back