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"we have to normalize--" why though. like you can just do the thing and it be weird and thats fine. did you know youre allowed to do strange things and be interested in things that arent "normal." you can just do that now, actually

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Walking past the enormous gothic Catholic Church at 9 pm - multicoloured strobe lights in the windows and audible “UNSE-UNSE” dance music coming from inside. What the hell is going on in there.

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sorry for bein quiet have a jonah!

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tryin' something out

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sorry for bein quiet have a jonah!

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trying to have more fun with landscapes

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redo because i messed up

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Another fundraiser I trust!

Hey guys, this is a fundraiser for the extended family of Karim Al Madhoun from a fundraiser I posted before. Please do not hesitate to help!

"I am Sohad Mahmoud, I am fundraising for my family, my parents, my sister, my brother and my 2-brothers family members in the Gaza Strip, who were displaced from northern Gaza to Khanyounis city, and they are in urgent need of help.

They have lost all sources of stable income. Please consider helping us during this massacre in Gaza.

From the first days of the ongoing war on Gaza strip (on 13/10/2023), my apartment in Gaza city, was partially destroyed due to the indiscriminate Zionist bombing of Gaza, which did not distinguish between humans and stones. Here below is the photos for my apartment. [...]

More than once, My family miraculously escaped death, and they were forced to leave their lovely city Gaza and home five times to escape death, and save their lives."

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Older than history itself

What if the oldest vampire was a Neanderthal girl 🤔

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new favorite thing I noticed on my re-read of Harrow the Ninth: every time Gideon is screaming against the walls of Harrow's skull that it's called a 'pommel'. It's a fucking pommel, Harrow. You know all this doctor skeleton MD shit, but not that it's called a POMMEL???

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you can just name your characters anything. you can name them Printer. you can name them Shnorpty. you can name them There Are Pillars. and peoppe will just have to accept it.

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i feel people shouldn't match one another's freaks. they should have a complementary freakset to enhance the dynamic and create a more well-rounded performance overall

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“nostalgia is a villain that we are told is a hero, all it ever does is hurt.”

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How much would you pay for a standard wallet? If it's from a slick startup company?

I saw an ad on YouTube for some wallets. Perfectly normal; twenty years ago it would have just been an ordinary wallet. But the ad was selling it HARD! "Look at all these slots for your cards! The leather construction! Here's where your cash goes!"

After watching the ad I decided to play the game of "How much are they selling it for?"

Last time I bought a wallet was in the previous millennium; the same wallet I've used for my entire adult life and then some. And it was in the $15 – $20 range. Okay, so, figure in inflation.

Next, this wallet looks decent. I guarantee you it's made as cheaply as they could make it, but it's obviously not a dollar-twenty-five store wallet either. But I'd classify it as "standard" quality.

The big wildcard, of course, is the "NEW! SLICK! DISRUPTIVE!" markup factor. One thing I've noticed about any startup company product that bothers to advertise itself these days, is that their prices are just ludicrously high. More than double the price of a comparable product at the store.

Add it all up, plus a holistic adjustment factor, and I came up with a price that I considered to be sufficiently ridiculous, definitely in "ripoff" territory, but still plausible given what I know: $89.

I clicked on the ad. And you know what? I was exactly right. That's exactly what they're selling it for: $89.

I am telling you this because clicking on the ad told the Internet that I want to be shown this same wallet ad over and over and over again for days to come, all across the Internet, so I keep seeing it, even here. And now that I've written this I don't have to think about it anymore.