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Ouch. 

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Look, if you don’t deliver food, you may not know this.

But if you mark an order as “leave at door” and then come pick it up in person, YOU ARE BEING THE OPPOSITE OF HELPFUL.

I’m required to take a photo proving I left the food at your door. If you pick it up, I can’t take a photo. Which means if you turn around and claim you never got it, I COULD LOSE MY JOB BECAUSE I CAN’T PROVE I DELIVERED IT. Drivers can and do get deactivated this way.

If you want to ACTUALLY be helpful:

1) tip a minimum of $1/mile from the restaurant to your house. We don’t actually get paid the whole delivery fee. I once got paid 47 cents for a delivery because the guy tip-baited me (means he took the tip off after delivery). There’s also a motto in the community: “no tip, no trip.” Want your food hot and fresh? TIP.

2) have your porch light on (at night) and your house number clearly visible. If for whatever reason, you can’t make your house number clearly visible, have a landmark noted in your yard. I always put my car in my driveway and put in the notes what my color and model is.

3) if you live in an apartment, GIVE DIRECTIONS. “Building 36 apt 3604” doesn’t tell me SHIT, especially when the buildings aren’t in numeric order. “When you pull in at the gate, turn right. Follow the drive to the end and turn left. Take your second left and follow it to the end. Building 36 will be on your right.” Now THAT tells me something! Waiting until I’m helplessly circling your complex and calling you, and then going “well if you’re at the entrance you can—” I am at the entrance 0% of the time if I’m calling you. Full stop. LEAVE DIRECTIONS. Please. The faster I get in and out, the faster you get your food and the faster I can get my next delivery. If I’m not moving, I’m not earning.

4) RATE US!! It helps us get gas discounts and stuff. (We are not paid for vehicle depreciation, mileage, or gas.) Don’t downvote us for stuff outside our control. Ordering a slush from a Sonic 15 miles away and being mad it’s melted by the time I get to you? Look, I’ve got a cooler and a thermal blanket. Not Elsa’s ice powers.

5) Check the correct delivery option. “Meet at door” means you open the door and say hi and we hand over your food. “Leave at door” means we put down your food, take a picture, and you come pick it up when we’re gone. “Wait in car” means YOU are coming to ME. (I’ve delivered to many construction sites and other unusual places like an Amazon warehouse. That last option is FANTASTIC for stuff like that.)

6) I love your dogs, but even if they’re super-friendly, please leave the doggos inside when you know I’m due. I’m walking on unfamiliar terrain balancing your food and my phone and car keys, and your dog smells D E L I C I O U S F O O D. I got knocked down once by an extremely friendly, very large mutt who just wanted to say hi but herded me right into a ditch. I wasn’t hurt, but it was a miracle I saved the food.

7) last but not least: KEEP YOUR PHONE ON!!! There’s nothing more frustrating than waiting out an eight-minute timer, standing at your door, knocking every minute, calling every minute, and getting sent to voicemail, only for the customer to mosey up to the door right at the “cancel order” mark and give you a grin and say “sorry, I didn’t see my phone.” You know you ordered food, you have to let us contact you!

If you want to be genuinely helpful: DO THESE. Not picking up an order you marked for drop off. Please. Pretty please.

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Let’s talk about something called the “sunk cost fallacy”.

Say that you’ve bought a concert ticket for $50 for a band that you don’t know that well. Half an hour into the show, you realize that you don’t actually enjoy the music and you aren’t having a good time - instead of leaving the concert to go do something else, however, you sit through the remaining hours of the concert because you don’t want to “waste” the cost of the ticket. 

Congratulations, you’ve just fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

The “sunk cost fallacy” is something that all humans are prone to when we make decisions. Simply put, it’s the human tendency to consider past costs when we make choices, even when those costs are no longer relevant. When you’re deciding whether or not to stay at that concert you aren’t enjoying, you will likely consider the cost of the ticket when you’re making your decision - for instance, you’d probably be a lot more willing to leave a $5 concert that you aren’t enjoying than a $50 concert that you aren’t enjoying. But taking the cost of the ticket into account at all is a mistake. 

When you’re making a rational decision, the only thing that matters is the future. Time, effort and money that you’re spent up until that point no longer matter - it doesn’t make sense to consider them, because no matter what you decide, you can’t actually get them back. They are “sunk” costs. If you decide to stay at that concert, you are out $50 and you’ll have a mediocre evening. If you decide to go leave and do something more fun, you are out $50 and you’ll have a better evening. No matter what you choose, you have lost $50 - but choosing to leave the concert means that you haven’t also spent an evening doing something you don’t like.

The sunk cost fallacy is sometimes also described as “throwing good money after bad” - people will waste additional time, resources and effort simply to justify the fact that they’ve already wasted time, resources and effort, even if it leaves them worse off overall. 

Common examples of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life include:

refusing to get rid of clothes that don’t fit or that you never wear because they were expensive

going to an event that you no longer want to go to because you already bought the ticket 

spending more and more money on repairing a car or computer (or something else that depreciates in value over time) instead of buying a new one because you don’t want to waste the money you put into earlier repairs

continuing to watch a movie or TV show you aren’t enjoying anymore because you’ve already watched part of it 

finishing a plate of food that you’re not enjoying or are too full to enjoy, because you don’t want to waste it

refusing to get rid of unused, unwanted or broken items in your home because the items were expensive

Perhaps the most damaging example of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life, however, is relationships. 

People often use the length of a relationship to justify staying in it. You’ve probably heard this logic - you may even have used it yourself: “I can’t break up with him or the two years we spent together will be for nothing.”

“If I leave her, it will mean I wasted the five years I spent with her.”

The reality, though, is that staying in a mediocre relationship doesn’t “give you back” the time you’ve already invested in that relationship. It just makes the relationship longer. If you stay in a bad relationship for five more years to avoid “wasting” the first two, you haven’t actually made those first two years worthwhile - you’ve simply spent seven years of your life in a bad relationship. There’s nothing we can do to recover time and effort (and in most cases, money) that we’ve already spent. But we can forgive ourselves, and we can stop letting our past mistakes continue to define our futures. 

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After three (3) years since the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) dir. Anthony and Joe Russo, I still don’t understand why the Captain America exhibit was held in the Air and Space Museum. Steve Rogers is not even a pilot. The only time he ever manned a plane, and he nosedived it straight into the Arctic. 

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Cute little witchy ladies!

Vintage Style Halloween Girl Prints by lllittleghosttt

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La Femme Chauve-souris c.1890

by Albert Pénot

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Look. All i want is to see Anakin accidentally flirt with a handmaiden instead of his wife. That’s it.

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I did not need this callout.

Stop giving me more than a day to do anything.  It only makes it more likely that I will forget and does NOT increase the quality of what I am able to produce.  

if you give me a task with no deadline i will literally never do it but if you give me a deadline i will get it done exactly 1 hour before the deadline even if the deadline is in six years

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Literally, jeans and T shirts are basically simply the more modern version of the good ol’ trusty t tunic and trousers people have been wearing since forever.

Leggings aren’t really so far from hose, which are also ancient.

When it comes down to it, the clothing we wear day to day has not changed all that much in the last several thousand years. Style comes and goes, but T tunic is forever.

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As much as I love this pun, if you haven’t been to Taco Bell at 2:15am right after the goth night bar closes in a town where only the one place is still open at all, you do not understand how redundant the phrase “goth Taco Bell” truly is.

I go to goth taco bell and I order the bauhaus blast

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Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta)

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“intelligence is knowing that the monster is...” “THIS IS FRANKENSTEIN AND WE LOVE HIM”

The Hollywood creation of "Castle Frankenstein" as the place where Victor creates the Creature is really a shame, as it prevents the wider public from knowing the hilarity of the fact that Victor made his fucked up homunculus in his student housing at the college in Ingolstadt. Imagine you're trying to get your bachelor's degree and the chem major down the hall has created a crime against god in his fucking dorm room AND THEN HE LEAVES IT THERE. The creature has to make his own damn way off campus somehow!!!

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Don’t kiss my neck unless you want to sin

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Commission by th-oth

This artist on Instagram // Twitter

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The boulder feels conflicted about fighting a blind, young girl

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"Please take a moment to fill out a quick survey about your healthcare coverage"

So the thing is, it's not that I hate YOU in particular, it's that the whole system of insurance in this country is so deeply fucked up there's literally no perk you could offer or exquisite customer service experience you could give me that would give me an overall positive view of your company. Your very existence is a blight on mine and all my loved ones'. So thanks for the insurance, but also no, you don’t want the survey responses I’d give you.

“How likely are you to recommend our tax service to a friend or colleague?” On a scale of 1 to 10? 1. It’s nothing about you. But do you think I’m the kind of person who will recommend a tax service to someone unprompted? Hell, or even prompted. I barely even recommend you to myself and I’ve been using you to file for years! It’s just momentum! You’re the company I remember my dad using to do the taxes on the computer in the nineties, so it’s just the first thing that comes to mind when I think “tax preparation”! Be realistic here.

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Here's the thing I don't think a lot of people understand: I don't complain about standardized testing because it marred *my* childhood. I **ADORED** taking standardized tests, and I was AMAZING at them. SAT day was one of the most enjoyable Saturdays of my high school career, *and* I got a near-perfect score. The week out of every year in elementary that we did nothing but fill out bubbles? That was my JAM, I would blast my way through those things and then, because I also always finished early, I would sit at my desk and read the World Book Encyclopedia until the test proctor called Time. No, I complain about standardized testing because it's BULLSHIT.

I complain because as much as I **LIKED** taking them, they did nothing to further my education, nor anybody else’s.  I complain so that hopefully someday we stop wasting our time on them.