#bubble solution

[tarochimochi]

We rolling back in with part two of BFDI fan parents!

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[creepyolddude1973]

[ray-world-235]

I wonder what would happen if I drank this incredibly colorful bottle of bubble solution

[decamarks]

I think one of the greatest tragedies of digital mediums is that fact that, no matter what, you cannot make a comic with 3D models. Despite how convenient the idea seems. You can animate with them, illustrate with them, make video games with them—but you cannot, under any circumstance, make a comic with them. Because it will just end up looking exactly like this:

[bucketsfullofyou]

The Elemental Trials ✨

Ft. They did the earth trial but it was empty so now they gotta do a group dance with cute outfits

[tchaikovskaya]

I gotta say. I think people are being like…. wildly unempathetic re: the chappell roan discomfort with newfound fame thing

[cvntroach5000]

filling out the 1.5 survey was more stressful than any exam ive ever written

pls listen to the players infold pls listen to the players omfg

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i think its weird that i have to make this disclaimer but the internet is crazy so wtvr,, anyway,,

if i say i dont like something, that doesnt mean "that thing is bad and nobody should post it.."

i swear literally every time i even mention that i dislike something, people will go "wow does that mean u fucking hate me cuz i post that thing? ur a fucking stupid bitch and all ur opinions r wrong" LIKE ?? er.. no. just because i say i dont like certain characterizations of certain characters (the saiki k fandom is CRAZY about this cuz i can state an opinion on literally any character and a group of people will still go 'well only we're allowed to post our opinions about them because we're always right!1!1!'), or certain ship tropes (mentioned my hatred of toxic yaoi maybe once or twice on here months ago and people STILL get mad at me as if i said toxic yaoi lovers r evil or something), or certain ships, or WHATEVER, does not mean that i HATE the people who are posting them or that i think they shouldnt post them at all, NO, im just posting about my personal tastes on my personal blog and it would be extremely weird and hypocritical if i decided that i was the ONLY person that was allowed to do that,,

i think the only reason people assume that is because there are a lot of other people on here who ARE like that, and a lot of people toe the line between posting that they dont like something and posting that they think everyone who likes that thing is stupid, annoying, and wrong,, so i guess all i can say is, sorry for whatever made you make these assumptions but they arent true about me so plz leave me alone ʘ‿ʘ ur doing the same thing to me that ur accusing me of but i didnt do it in the first place so ur just actively being a dick for no reason

[somegrumpynerd]

Had to draw something from the newsletter immediately, some classic sibling bathroom fights

[ijustscrollhere]

I don't post often (because I'm busy af) but I found the time to sit down and paint.

Partner has been playing Avowed and so much of it makes me think of my circle of spores druid, Nelly, so I made this piece!

[galerymod]

Social market economy

Definition: What is a ‘social market economy’?

A social market economy is an economic system that is designed to combine competition with social objectives. The idea of a social market economy is strongly associated with Germany, where this economic system was implemented after the Second World War. The theoretical background is in particular ordoliberalism. From an economic ethics perspective, the ‘social’ in the social market economy does not constitute a supplementary or corrective measure to competition, but is intended to strengthen the latter's ability to function. This is achieved by designing social policy not against, but for the market, i.e. as insurance.

Economic order

1. Characterisation: Economic policy model conceived by Müller-Armack and Ludwig Erhard, which has been implemented in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1948. It takes up the demand of ordoliberalism (Freiburg School) for the state to guarantee a functioning competitive order, but supplements the catalogue of economic policy state tasks by emphasising socio-political goals. This model attempts to combine the goals and proposed solutions of liberalism, Christian social teaching and liberal socialism (opposite: communism). It is not a strictly self-contained concept, which means that the design mandate for the economic policy makers is more comprehensive and flexible than in ordoliberalism. The social market economy is more of an organisational concept that is open to social and ecological extensions or specifications.

2. Tasks/instruments: In addition to ensuring a liberal competitive order, a social orientation of economic policy is required. This concept is not primarily characterised as social by state redistribution of wealth or income opportunities, but rather it seeks a socio-politically motivated distribution of income growth, which is only made possible by a meaningful regulatory policy, as well as a socially oriented influence on market processes while ensuring that the instruments are market-compliant. Socially undesirable market outcomes are to be corrected by limiting or indirectly influencing private-sector initiative, while the social consequences of far-reaching structural upheavals are mitigated by means of state intervention. The ordoliberal thesis of the fundamental stability of the private sector is not fully shared and the necessity of a moderate state economic policy is derived from this. In the areas relevant to social policy where market failure is to be feared (e.g. social insurance systems), the state must intervene in a supportive manner, while upholding the principle of subsidiarity, or organise the provision of the relevant goods and services itself. Further tasks of the state are to pursue active labour market, wealth, housing and education policies, to ensure that corporate governance is socially responsible, and to provide the material and immaterial infrastructure necessary for socio-cultural and economic development.

3. Development: a) The first phase of the social market economy, from 1948 to 1966/7, is characterised by the dominance of ordoliberals. The Act against Restraints of Competition, the Federal Bank Act and the Collective Agreement Act, among others, fall within this period;

b) From 1966/7 (Stability and Growth Law) until the early 1980s, liberal socialism dominated, as expressed, for example, in the anti-cyclical fiscal policy and in the co-determination laws;

c) In the early 1980s, neoliberal ideas of a stable market economy (supply economics) were revived. Monetary policy was geared towards potential, and the aim was to achieve a cyclically neutral budget.

d) Since German reunification, the social market economy has been further developed with a greater focus on sustainability and affordability.

Science more or less

Business ethics

From an economic ethics perspective, the social market economy represents the best means yet known for realising social solidarity (Moralische Qualität der Marktwirtschaft). Two points represent a difference to widespread views:

(1) The ‘social’ in social market economy is not to be understood as a supplementary or corrective measure, but as a prerequisite of markets or the characterisation of the institutional arrangement as a whole; thus, social policy is not against, but for the market, i.e. to be conceived as insurance.

(2) Accordingly, the social market economy acquires its moral quality primarily from the coordination of markets, which fundamentally benefits all members of society, but not because of supposedly ‘social’ redistribution measures.

Or here the simple explanation for those for whom the above is too scientific.

social market economy

The state acts

Germany's economic system is the social market economy. It was developed from the free market economy. To prevent major social injustices from arising, the state intervenes in the free market economy where necessary. In doing so, the freedom of the market economy is restricted where it is anti-social, where it only serves the strong and harms the less strong.

Examples of how the social market economy works

There are, for example, laws governing protection against unfair dismissal, which forbid an employee from being dismissed from their job from one day to the next. This is important, because immediate dismissal would usually cause the employee major problems. Other laws are designed to prevent large companies from forming cartels. These cartels could fix the prices of their products in such a way that smaller companies could no longer keep up and go bankrupt. The state also ensures that employees are protected from major health and safety risks when performing dangerous work. And private property is protected. However, those who own property also have a responsibility for how they handle it.

Founders of the social market economy

The social market economy was developed after the Second World War by economics professors Alfred Müller-Armack and Ludwig Erhard. Their ideas are still valid today. Ludwig Erhard became the first Federal Minister for Economic Affairs after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and later also Federal Chancellor.

Years of propaganda against a social state system like the social market economy have managed to persuade people that it would be socialism or even communism if the state intervened in the right way to prevent injustice.

Wikipedia more or less

When the subprime bubble burst, the capitalists did not mind being rescued by the state. Which is probably no different than socialism, or so the free market's motto went: let the market regulate itself.

Privatise profits and socialise losses was suddenly the order of the day.

mod

A responsible state creates a framework of conditions in which a catastrophe like the subprime crises cannot be generated.

The alleged self-regulation of the free market has proven to be a highly motivated lie throughout history, which is constantly being propagated by the owners.

Because if you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

Sorry, no. Capitalist systems must be regulated by the state in a reasonable way, otherwise chaos will reign again in the end, and the general public will have to pay for it.

mod

[queen-mabs-revenge]

You know neil-gaiman is a Zionist, right??

so went and looked this up since i was apparently supposed to go on this alone, and gonna be real with you - unless a celebrity is using their platform to give continued material and/or propaganda support to the israeli state, the genocide it's committing, and/or to its allies, i'm simply not interested in wasting my energy litigating their replies to 2 direct questions with, yes, ignorant but milquetoast sentences about a 'non-violent 2 state solution' over the course of their decades-long career and otherwise shutting the fuck up about it.

again, unless a celebrity is using their position to materially support israel or its allies or to try and whip up support for israel and its allies, then they're not using material gains from consumption of their work to those ends, and it's a personal and not public concern. as long as they're working through their ignorant opinions on a personal and not public level, that's not where i'm gonna spend my energy.

my energy is being spent (taking care of my dying cat and) on helping organize local workers in industrial action against war transportation. i care about those workers personal opinions and how those opinions manifest materially as we organize.

sure, it's disappointing — not in a 'oh no i had this individual celebrity on an ideological pedestal!' way, but in that if a majority of artists as workers had political clarity and were confident about it, we might see them organizing their unions to take collective action for palestinian liberation with the same energy they were organizing during the sag-aftra and wga strikes.

but like other than that, i'm very much not pinning my political bona fides on whether or not i interact with an artist that seems to need to untangle the imperialist propaganda they've been steeped in on a personal level (like we all have), but is not making that untangling process a public issue (either through public statements or through their work), and is not giving or encouraging material support for genocide.

[gobbluthbutagirl]

at my nephew’s birthday party today my mom had set up a drinks station with a stack of paper cups and some 2-liters on her counter maybe one foot away from the similarly sized container of bubble solution that she also stores there for some reason and well…my grandma who has kind of an unfortunate habit of not always paying the fullest attention to what she’s doing went to pour her husband some “water” and well…you won’t believe what happened next

[fantasmadelaciudad]

sometimes i'm like i don't have adhd and then the Executive Dysfunction literally starts driving me crazy

[liatorii]

God, the combination of my professor changing the date of the last exam to a day I had an important thing to be present for and me being at the heights of one of my worst periods is an insane fucking cocktail of turmoil.

[cactustreesmotel]

goodies from work 📚