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cousin. the word you're looking for is cousin.

there needs to be a gender neutral word for niece/nephew that a) doesnt make explicit reference to them being your siblings kid b) doesnt sound fucking stupid

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i havent been on my computer in a week what do i used this for again

#calvinists

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this is fucking huge

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it’s a shame both of these gifs are so old now

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

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are you are sure the protagonist is a human man and not a piece of industrial equipment

The Doomsday Men by Kenneth Bulmer, 1965

In the future, detectives can connect to the brains of murder victims to find out who dun it. So let's find out if this is a thriller or a mystery!

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I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

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stories about fantasy racism are so boring and basic, like, please try harder than just regurgitating a bunch of real world bigotry and replacing black people/jews/gays/whatever with androids or aliens or orcs or what the fuck ever, i am begging you. have something to say other than "racists exist, are bad" and "oppressed people are literally nonhuman"

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i think it's neat how influential rogue is, and how many games are still drawing on that legacy

pokemon mystery dungeon explorers games ARE the funniest flex in the franchise like. WHY did they have to make the story not only good but better than anything other pokemon game before or since. By all accounts the pmd games should be a silly little spinoff and instead they're like 'well. Doomed timeline apocalypse self-sacrifice true love narrative to traumatize the youth 🫡'. I think every spinoff made by a rando side studio for a major franchise should do this. they should all get a little silly with it

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Frankenstein and her monster

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i mostly only write stories about fangly monsters and murderers

do you not believe that kind people struggle? do you think there are no interesting stories to be told about people who are not assholes? are death and destruction the only stakes a story can have?

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do you not believe that kind people struggle? do you think there are no interesting stories to be told about people who are not assholes? are death and destruction the only stakes a story can have?

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the state of american sex education is a national outrage

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Those who protest against Israel's genocide are punished for antisemitism.

But for some strange reason, authorities have never cracked down on antisemitism any other time. Any other time, antisemitism is considered free speech.

It's almost as if they know damn well that protesting against Israel is not antisemitism.

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Reblog for a larger sample size, if convenient.

#these are all monsters in infinite wealth #sujimon

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Vegas in 1965! Seems so quaint now