tbh the culture of adult non-conservatives absolutely refusing to interact with “minors” (unless you are running like. a porn blog) and framing it as a “safety” is so stupid and extremely harmful. human beings need contact with other human beings in different age group. teens shouldnt be isolated to only their parents and other teens.
i understand that a lot of LGBT people are paranoid about being seen as predators but when we buy into that and let our culture be “only predators talk to teens” then the only adult friends teens will make will be with predators. either sexual predators or christian/terf and alt -right type groomers who will indoctrinate teens who might be desperate for validation and attention (which is literally normal and not me being mean. teens are treated like they stupid and evil. idk why people pretend they dont remember this.) into parroting their hateful ideology.
The kidnapping panic of the 90s and “stranger danger” really did a number on a lot of us
the real honest answer to “why didnt they just [insert solution that would end the story in five minutes]” is because that would end the story in five minutes and if we lived in a world where every story ended in five minutes what would be the point
if there’s a condition called impulsive anthropomorphizing then I have it
I’ve leaned back into a grocery freezer because I wanted to know how my hot pockets felt when I went to pick them out amongst all of the other flavors.
what an absolutely bananas thing to add to this post, 10/10 I am obsessed
ya’ll are introducing some absolutely fascinating takes in the tags, let’s talk about this
If anything like that is actually a thing, I’m starting to be pretty sure that people having dreams about memes, and then people online turning those dream memes into actual memes, is somehow going to mess with the fabric of reality. Like memes are pretty much the only things that one can witness in dreams and then more or less perfectly replicate in waking life, and have the thing become actualised in its own essence.
If you had a dream where there was a mule that was also somehow the king of Denmark, you can tell people about the dream. You can make art about it, you can depict what you witnessed as perfectly as you remembered it, but there is nothing you could do to actually make it real, to truly grab it and bring it back with you to reality. But memes can manifest from just that spark, and a meme that was real in a dream may become a meme in reality.
I wouldn’t go as far as saying that I would actually believe that turning dream memes into real memes would pose an actual danger by poking holes in the fabric of reality. But if I would, I nonetheless wouldn’t be discouraging anyone from doing so. I would want to see that happen because that would be so fucking cool.
I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at
“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion
it’s been reiterated so many times that what’s “fiscally prudent” for a government is completely different to what’s fiscally prudent for a household, but in some ways it’s actually not that different: while households cannot print their own money, they can borrow against future earnings, which is a very similar thing; someone who takes on student debt and then a mortgage is essentially deficit spending on the basis that this investment will grow GDP faster than the debt, otherwise they wouldn’t do it, similarly when a government spends money it just printed it’s ideally a way of driving productive investment that will make everyone richer in the long term.
no one can actually live beyond their means, by definition! but this is a roundabout way of saying that people will stop lending you money if you show no inclination to devote it to productive uses and hence can’t pay it back.
governments can print money instead of borrowing, but if they don’t devote it to productive uses then their money will quickly become worthless.
so fiscal prudence ultimately always boils down to whether you think government spending or private spending is going to be more productive in the long run, and it’s common to assume that governments are terrible at “picking winners” or whatever except of course so are private investors, moreover they often want high returns with no risk and thus chase one speculative bubble after another rather than funding projects that might build up the national industrial base over decades or anything as mundane as that.
Heroes like Mirna El Halbawi are still working tirelessly to connect Gazans to the outside world. With an impending total telecom blackout looming, this has never been more crucial.
Make sure to read their instagram post clarifying some common questions before you send them over!
I truly cannot impress upon you how imperative this is right now. Gazans are pleading for us to hear their voices while they are being massacred and the IDF has responded by limiting any access to fuel sources in an attempt to fully cut them off from the world.
If you want to do something meaningfully helpful in the middle of this crisis, this is how.
Heartrending documentary on the life of martyr Hani Jawharieh, a devoted Palestinian militant filmmaker & photographer who documented Palestinian struggle, as well as his own dying moments, from the frontline, leaving behind a shrapnel-ridden camera.
“violence has left an indelible mark upon the history of Palestinian cinema.”
[ID: three photos of breams (a silvery fish with an arched back and a spiky dorsal fin) being held by human hands to present them. onto each photo, the caption “Life Could Be A Bream” in glittery pink-purple gradient text has been added. end ID]
I cannot stand the kind of motherfuckers who do extreme solo hikes, no GPS, just a 20-40 year old straight white man with overconfidence in rugged terrain with minimal gear. Why should we pay millions of dollars in search and rescue resources so you can fuck around and find out?
They should make you sign a waiver of personal responsibility if you want to go hiking in a national or state park alone with no gear.
Orders from my shop help me pay rent. Orders from my shop help me buy groceries. Orders from my shop help me pay for gas. Orders from my shop help me pay for a gift for my fiance that I might not otherwise be able to afford. Orders from my shop help me pay for my future wedding. Orders from my shop help me pay for therapy. Orders from my shop helped me leave a toxic household.
Shop small, especially if you can afford it. I know sometimes corporations have cheaper options.. but that extra $5 is far more useful to a small business owner. If you can afford it, shop small any time you can.
me n the girls walkin into target headed straight to the clearance bread rack
jerrod how long did it take you to photoshop all that bread
Did it the lazy easy way:
It may be less than stellar, but I have a strict personal rule: “don’t put longer than 30 minutes’ effort into a fetish joke”. The second you hit 30:01, the exposure becomes lethal and the fetish becomes unironic.
FETISH?????????
god i wish i were you
Whitch part is the fetish? Bread or Pokémon?
I’m so sorry to have to be the one to tell you this but it’s the bread
“The mortality rate of caterpillars is staggering. Some experts believe it hovers around 99% for many species. They are nature’s hotdogs and seemingly everyone wants a bite. Birds and other insects are especially voracious predators.”
There’s this local family owned restaurant near me that makes the best fucking chicken tenders I’ve had in my life and I desperately need to know the recipe in case I move away but its a secret family recipe and I’m this 👌🏽 close to asking if they have a single adult son so I can marry in to the family just for these fucking chicken tenders. Anyway there’s a possible fake marriage fanfic plot for you
I’ve put up a GoFundMe to help move my girlfriend @pochiyaki in with me in Maine where the state won’t actively try to kill her for being poor. She’s losing medical coverage next year and this is our only real option.
I appreciate any and all help that anyone may give.
I have to bump our goal up by $2500 because my car just failed inspection due to worn brake calipers and tie rods that need replacing. This is my only vehicle and it stops being street legal as of Dec. 1st, so this is now time-sensitive. The whole reason I’m running this GFM in the first place is because I’m running out of money, so this is a MAJOR gut punch. If you can’t personally contribute then I would greatly appreciate at least spreading the word. I’m genuinely at my limit here and if this doesn’t work out, I have no idea what to do.
This was supposed to be funny haha and it makes me giggle cuz- what if Kriegsmen had a girl worth fighting for? Glorious death? Nah, love for a woman.
(I will tag my Warhammer stuff that is supposed to just be for fun and a joke as Warhammer 40K parody.)
My husband send me this this morning saying “look who got featured on ifunny.” 😂
Only for me to remember I never put my name on my comics. Welp. Also I don’t care for ifunny much but the 97% of the comments were really nice to read. The other 3% just bitchin cuz they can’t get their dingle wet.
“A tongue-in-cheek program called sdate outputs the current date, formatted using the Eternal September calendar (September X, 1993, where X is an unbounded counter for days since that epoch).[11]”
Voice actors for video games may be following TV and movie actors to the picket line.
Driving the news: SAG-AFTRA, the union that has a contract with leading gaming companies for actors who do voice or performance acting for video games, called for a strike Friday, citing lack of progress in renegotiating a contract that expired last November.
The union said Friday that its board has unanimously agreed to ask its members to vote for a strike by Sept. 25.
Details: The union is calling for a retroactive 11% wage increase, on-set medics for hazardous performance capture, and protections against the use of generative AI to replace working actors.
Be smart: While actors who contribute to video games seldom appear as themselves, on camera in a game, they regularly lend their voices to game characters. Many also have their facial and body movements captured to animate the roles they portray.
Actors have been sounding alarms about the potential for generative AI to clone their voices and speak lines for them, without them getting paid.
very painful to me personally that “film bro” is becoming synonymous with someone who watches movies that are not marvel or disney products or blockbusters. that “film bro” is becoming synonymous with someone who watches foreign film. tik tok is tik tok but this sentiment and refusal to interact with art outside of the popular, outside of your comfort zone, outside of what’s english… it’s just crazy…
film bros when you tell them that your idea of “what a film is” is limited to “interchangeable blockbuster number 132” and you don’t ever think about what you see
which is actually pretty damning on an even higher level than anti-intellectualism and overall stupidity pride when you think about how much fucking propaganda is in those and in film format in general
Blocking the haters who have opened up their assholes to express the wet fart of an opinion that Jews are an unrealistic addition to a children’s comic fantasy series whose major initial premise was a dude being turned into a llama ✌️
I would like to state that the Incan Empire lasted until the mid 1500s, and the Spanish Inquisition / expulsion of Jewish people from Spain and Portugal occurred in the 1400s, after which a contingent of migrants could have reasonably fled to the Americas on Portuguese trading vessels that were already operational in the region and moved to inland South America / Qusqu where the story took place.
Kronk CAN VERY WELL be not only Jewish but also a survivor of the Inquisition itself.
This is completely historically feasible and haters can eat my toes.
The Emperor’s New Groove movie had an electric floor waxer in it
The Very Hungry Rust Monster is a mini-comic I made a few years back. I’ve seen it floating around Tumblr without attribution recently, so I’ve uploaded a higher-resolution version, properly credited.
so this European clothing retailer decided to advertise their jean cuts on youtube and it’s unintentionally the funniest shit I’ve seen today. why? well.
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now important context here: in German, die (pronounced ‘dee’) is just a feminine article, it literally means “the”.
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but if an ad gets placed in the middle of an English video and doesn’t use a single explicitly German word for most of the ad, even a native speaker is gonna think “they want me to die how?” it keeps getting funnier.
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I mean, holy shit
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i will use these as reaction images until i die
“I wiol use these as reaction images until I die (feminine)”
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