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only thing that comes to mind today.

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how this guy lost the war on drugs is a mystery to me

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Vixen's origin story

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actually made this before the election tho seems slightly more relevant after watching CA vote no on things like rent control and, like, Prohibiting Slavery

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art tip via art dog

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Fascist building codes can go fuck themselves.

The "venue is no smoking" was specifically part of an "IF" clause. Some of us get invited to the cool clubs. I'd say I'm sorry you're not invited, but you don't really seem to want to come.

Look, I go to concerts at people's houses, in people's backyards, all sorts of underground venues. You wanna narc on someone smoking at a 6,000 person stadium where everyone paid $500 to see Taylor Pop Song? Go for it.

But fuck the hell off if you think you get to tell me what the rules are in my own damn house, just because I paid a band and invited 50 of my closest friends to show up.

You don't generally wander into these places by accident. If you don't want to be in this smoky building, you have the very simple option of just not coming! The doors are not locked, you can just leave.

(No, this really isn't hypothetical. It is really not hard to live this sort of life if you want to. I'm not even trying - I'm just friends with the sort of people who get invited to these things)

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But also: just really genuinely fuck the idea of "the government said it's illegal" as any sort of argument. I'm OLD. The government has told me it's illegal to fuck my partner. The government has told me my gender is illegal. The government used to tell us women were inferior and didn't count as people. The government just killed a few million people (again).

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The prequel to Milo goes to therapy

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People are so stupid about snakes. If there's a little black racer chilling outside just leave it alone, you don't have to kill it, it's probably dealing with all your pests for you, jesus christ

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"Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion" story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they've been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because "they were probably just a late bloomer" or "no, you just finally found the right person!" and it's just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn't right and they can't stand it.

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I used to do this with a co-worker on our coffee breaks. The barista eventually caught on and one day we got there and she just slammed down two unlabelled cups and grinned at us - wouldn't even tell us what was in them until we tried it. We of course said "heck yeah" to this experiment, and they were both amazing.

Thereafter, when we arrived, the barista usually had a couple of fun experiments she'd thought up earlier in the day, just waiting for us :)

Every single week I cycle through a different coffee shop in my town and ask the barista to make me their favorite drink in a medium. I have an entire spiel:

“All milk is fine, caffeinated and not caffinated i’m game, hot and iced both work, it can be coffee or tea or anything.”

It has yet to fail me. Every time I have tried a new drink I never would have thought to try and every one I’ve had has been amazing. The true delight I’ve seen in baristas faces pondering on what to make me and the joy they have when I like the drink always makes my day and I hope it makes theirs too. It’s the little things of kindness that can make someone’s day and I feel that it helps the world be kinder. Highly recommend doing this yourselves.

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Today I met happiness

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I really like the added context: some venues are meant for stoners. If you don't like it, you're welcome to leave - it's a space for stoners, and others don't get to dictate the rules here.

Some venues are NOT meant for stoners. If you don't like it, you're welcome to leave - it's not a space for stoners, so they don't get to dictate the rules here.

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Okay, so, friends. Occasionally I see an American post on here about “guillotine the rich,” and it turns out that “rich” means “anyone making over $50k.”

We need to clear this shit up REAL fast, because otherwise it’s gonna wind up like the French Revolution, where more middle class and poor people were killed for being “class traitors” than actual nobles. (Did you know that France has more nobles today than during the French Revolution? While there were a few showy executions, many nobles did just fine or experienced minor setbacks.)

If someone makes $60,000 a year, they are making about twice as much as a full time worker making minimum wage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington State.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of United HealthCare who was just assassinated in New York City, earned $10 million a year, which means he earned 333 times minimum wage in those states. Basically, he cleared an annual minimum wage salary in just over a day. And that “rich” person making $60k/year that you want to guillotine? He made their salary in a bit over two days of a year.

So he was rich, right?

Well. Tesla is trying to give Elon Musk a pay package of $101 billion. That is 10,100 times what Brian Thompson earned and 3,366,667 times more than a minimum wage worker. (Tesla hasn’t been successful yet because of a complicated lawsuit from a shareholder, but they’ll get there.) If you are a minimum wage worker, Elon Musk makes more every SECOND than you do in a year. And that “rich” person who you want to guillotine? He makes their salary in about 1.6 seconds. Even when he’s sleeping.

Now, remember. The Muskrat also is the head of SpaceX, the Boring Company, X.ai, and X.com, so this is just ONE pay package for him.

What I’m saying is — you have much more in common when it comes to economic grievances with someone earning $60,000 (or even $200,000) than the ultra wealthy that have real power. They are not the people you should expend your energy on.

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