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I knew having Redditors cross-train on Tumblr would produce weird fucking magic.

#:'D

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watch frieren!!!

#Frieren

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It's hard to comprehend large numbers when it involves money. So instead, let's compare it to time.

Imagine that you received $1 every second.

It would take you about 4 hours to receive what a full time minimum wage worker receives in a year.

In 1-2 days, you'd receive an upper middle class yearly salary.

In just under 12 days, you'd be a millionaire.

But it would still take you almost 32 years to be a billionaire.

And to become the richest person in existence, it would take 5-10 millenniums (the exact number fluctuates).

A little wealth inequality is understandable. Some people work twice as hard and it would make sense that they'd have twice as much. Some people may just happen to have skills that society considers more valuable. Some people may be lucky enough to receive a little help from their families. Some people took a risk that happened to pay off.

But if the ratio between a minimum wage worker's full time annual salary and the richest person's net worth is literally the ratio between 4 hours and several millenniums, that can't be caused by hard work, useful skills, or a little luck. That can only be caused by the system being intentionally rigged.

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TIL that the Audubon Society has released official statements on the difference between a "bird", a "birb", and a "borb", featuring such gems as:

#bird #birb #borb

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You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive.

#tumblr writers #amazing

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reblog to give a plushie to the person you reblogged this from

#have one or two or ten!

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Random headcanon: the reason that Peach and Bowser don’t seem to get a lot of respect in some Super Mario games is because the Mushroom Kingdom is kind of a rural backwater and isn’t terribly important or influential politically, so people tend to regard Bowser as a C-list villain for being so hung up on such an insignificant conquest. Nobody really expects Bowser to be a serious threat – that would be like expecting a guy whose main claim to fame is repeatedly failing to conquer Wyoming to be a serious threat – so they get taken by surprise every single time.

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#interesting

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Annalaura_art

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i shared this fanart i found for my bestie and now i made this shitpost

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“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

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Images that you would probably not see again @thoughtstherapy

#important #for reference

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Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hardboiled egg. Did Ankh-Morpork get those things, in the end?

They got truth, there was a whole book about it. Vimes didn't want it when he got it, or at least he didn't want the political cartoon section of the newspaper, but Ankh-Morpork got the free press whether anyone liked it or not.

They got justice, thanks first to Carrot and then to Vimes, forcing the City Watch to reform into an organization that helped the citizenry and would arrest the patrician or a whole invading army if it had to. Vimes had to wage a constant war with himself not to turn into just another gang leader, but he waged it.

They did not get freedom. Pratchett was very clear on that. Things got comparatively better, and immigrants flocked to the city despite it being a hellhole, because the dictator didn't care about persecuting any minority groups or whether or not people made fun of him, but it was still a dictatorship. When Pratchett was alive, fans speculated that he was subtly training Moist von Lipwig to become the new government leader- the Lipwig books always had an emphasis on Vetinari getting older- and Lipwig would have had nothing to fear from an election by popular vote, but that's all fanwank and speculation.

They got reasonably priced love right away. That may have even been one of Vetinari's first acts as patrician, since Mrs. Palm is leader of the Seamstress's Guild at least as far back as the early Watch books.

John Keel's grave got a hardboiled egg every year.

Four out of five ain't bad.

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

#yes!! #that's how it should be handled!