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So, I found out a fun fact this last weekend!

Every state has a Department of Weights and Measures. One of their jobs is to make sure that companies are actually selling you the quantities they claim they're selling. For example, this is the department which tests gas pumps and makes sure they're really pumping out a gallon of gas when they charge you for a gallon of gas.

So....

If you happen to, just as an example, notice that your 1lb (16 ounce) box of San Giorgio spaghetti actually only has 10oz of noodles, and you weigh your other boxes of spaghetti to discover they run from 10 to 14 ounces but never the full pound they're supposed to have, and that's why you never seem to have enough pasta for leftovers the next day, then you can report that to the Department of Weights and Measures.

They will want to know where you bought the item, and then will investigate whether the store or the manufacturer is routinely shorting customers. If they do, they will issue a fine to the offending party, you will be eligible for a refund, and under some circumstances lawsuits may follow.

Now, I don't know the outcome of the complaint I just initiated, but they did not want to know specific receipts or times of purchase. Which is good for me as I didn't keep any of those things, at the time I just said "Wow, fuck San Giorgio" and switched brands. But this is still enough to get an inspector out.

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i had such dreams of rendering this properly into a comic and colouring it and adding backgrounds,, and then i got to here and decided i just simply didnt want to do all that

so anyway, this ones for you @wifiwuxians

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apparently its yugi’s birthday today. happy pride month king

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My biggest Homestuck hot take is that it’s good. It’s a good comic.

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what are your thoughts on the russian federation? a lot of MLs i see really like sucking putin off for some reason and i'd like to know what an ML i know to be smart (yourself) thinks of it.

Russia, as it currently exists, is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie ever since the primitive accumulation that came after the smashing of socialism in eastern europe and the USSR. Just like every other DOTB, it suppresses workers and upholds the capitalist mode of production. It may have imperialist motivations or hopes, but it is no where near the level needed to become imperialist like the united states and the rest of the west are. It refuses to become a vassal state of the west as yeltsin had russia before putin came to power. Because of these two points, they have been labeled an enemy by the west. As a result, they will sometimes provide material support to global south countries and act as a counter to usamerican imperialism. This has the effect of lessening the detriments of imperialism on countries targeted by it. Thus, only in so far as it helps alleviate material aspects of imperialism for those countries under imperialist aggression, the RF should be critically supported. It should otherwise be regarded as any other periphery DOTB.

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can't believe I nearly forgot to share this

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So who do you think they should name Tumblr’s CEO once Matt Mullenweg has been ground to dust on a court for trying to run a protection racket with one of his company competitors?

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this is where heroes ended actually <3 everything after episode 8 was optional

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Qué satisfaction!!

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Do you have any idea where one might post smut fanfics other than on AO3? I hate AO3 so much and I refuse to put my fics on it. But Wattpad got my ass a few months ago and I don't know where else to post my several chapter-long fics. I briefly tried doing it here on Tumblr but having to edit 20+ different posts for each new chapter with links and also my 20+ posts showing in the tags individually is. I don't want to do that

FF.net doesn't allow smut iirc and I would really love for my stuff to not get deleted again, but the only suggestions I've gotten since I left Wattpad has been "Use AO3 idk 🤷"

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You know it's impossible to answer this kind of thing unless we know why you dislike AO3.

Are you being a baby about other people's content being allowed? Are you looking to monetize? Do you find the interface ugly? Do you hate the existence of a likes feature?

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Concept: Vampire character that represents strengthening ties to humanity and the natural world instead of dividing them

Vampire gets HEAVILY invested in eco conservation because they *can't* just shrug it off as the next generation's problems

A vampire that goes around eating oil tycoons and clear-cut logging CEOs and climate-denying politicians because their childhood village is a dirt pit now and the animals they saw growing up have become endangered

Immortal guys who anonymously donate huge sums of cash to wildlife preserves that oversee forests they used to hunt in

Fellow who, instead of succumbing to the boredom and waste of infinite time, has become feverishly obsessed with making sure this one specific species of snail will still be around in another hundred years

5000 year old woodsman who can still mimic the calls of extinct birds, who still remembers the mating calls of mammoths and wooly rhinos and wild horses

Ancient vampire who can still vaguely recall a cave somewhere with her whole family's hand prints in it, and not sure of it's precise location, keeps the whole area void of human activity so it doesn't become a tourist attraction

Vampire archeologist who digs up their old friend's remains and has the figure out how to prove, with evidence, how they know exactly who they were and what they looked like

Immortal anthropologist who reconstructs a face from a skull only to realize that they'd met them before a long, long time ago

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“Well what is Israel supposed to do when they get hit with rockets?”

‘Well what was Jeffrey Dahmer supposed to do when the guy he drugged woke up and started freaking out?”

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