#Phone call choices

[bubuslutty]

I hate it when I'm giggling abt my fave dilf celebrity until reality hits me in the face. like that's just a guy. he's literally just a random guy. that's SOMEONE'S DAD!!!!!!! 😫

[halffizzbin]

Chatting with my human friend Marissa from the SBA Lending and Line of Credit Program.

[melyzard]

Hey just for the record, that post about temu is largely overblown, and the second screenshot (from usatoday) is talking about a different app altogether that is mentioned in the article. Temu is definitely dodgy in that it's a quality-unassured knockoff brand website, but as far as I can tell it's basically on par with Wish. I personally will never use it, and if I did it would be through the website not the app (and if that wasn't an option the app would have SO many permissions turned off) but I don't think it's a threat on the large scale.

I always appreciate some level headed reason in a convo, anon, but here's the thing: this shit is insidious and dangerous and getting worse all the time. Who cares if the violation of privacy, blatant theft, and disregard for personal rights and property isn't as bad as it could have been? Twenty years ago, half of what apps like Temu actually pull now would have had protest groups screaming in rage. Now, the response is...well, it's not that bad. No need to get worked up. At least it's vaguely convenient.

This is not a knock on you, anon, but this response is exactly the kind of response that app makers and ad agencies and corporations in general have spent years conditioning us to make. It's fine. It's all overblown. Look, that app over there is worse, and we're not them (yet).

This post is about considering the risks of certain apps on your phone, especially apps whose entire business design is based on knowing how, when, and what to sell you, always at all times,what they might be willing to do to get that information, and how willing you are to let them.

[the-meme-monarch]

oh ok fun fact for me. tumblr will literally not let me edit my header? the text disappears when I try to on my ipad and it says it’ll destroy my coding if I try on my phone. i think bc i have a link in there

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

The calls contain important references from Victor’s Glacier Date. So, please make sure you read the date first! ♡

⌚ This post contains detailed spoilers for content yet to be released on the global server! ⌚

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[1st Call]

Victor: I was in a video conference just now and couldn’t pick up your call.

Victor: Anyway, I’d really like to know what on earth is it that happened to a certain someone?

Victor: Why did I receive a bunch of crying and rolling around memes the second I turned on my phone? 

MC: That… it’s actually not that big a deal.

MC: It’s just that I really don’t want to come to work anymore, sob sob sob sob––!

Victor: …

Victor: I seem to have heard the exact words more than once.

Victor: Why is it that every time a vacation ends, a certain someone always adheres to making this complaint without exception?

MC: Because every time I come back to work on the first day, it feels like being in hell!

MC: And especially since we were away for so long this time, it’s really like I’ve returned to the hell inside the hell!

MC: We received feedback on the previous works, and now we have to do follow-ups on them. At the same time, we also have to prepare for new projects.

MC: We still haven’t landed on a schedule regarding when I’ve to go to LFG to submit the quarterly report, so I still have to check with Goldman…

MC: By the way, the report I missed before the vacation, I’ll email it to you later at…

Victor: I remember it’s supposed to be the lunch break at [MC’s Company Name] right now.

MC: Eh?

Victor: I mean, how come a certain someone who says she doesn’t want to work is calling me and still talking about work?

MC: …!!

MC: In fact, there are, of course, also other things outside of work that I want to talk to you about~

MC: For instance… uhh… for instance, I think the sky doesn’t look good today, and there’s a good chance that it might rain!

Victor: It will indeed rain, but it’s gonna stop around 7 pm.

Victor: Have you forgotten? You put the umbrella in my bag in the morning.

MC: Sob sob, it turns out that I already reminded you… I’m dizzy from all the work rush.

MC: …by the way, Pudding hasn’t been eating very actively lately. So, I opened a can for it in the morning, and its appetite seemed to have improved a little~

Victor: That’s just its habitual trick, and it does the same thing every time it gets a craving for canned food.

Victor: And you are the only one it still manages to fool every time.

MC: …that’s because it calls out so pitifully every time! Oh, there’s also…

Victor: All right, no need to rack your brain to divert the subject.

Victor: Just now, I simply wanted to remind you to not get bogged down in work all day long. Occasionally, you should also hop around a little bit and let your mind rest for a while.

Victor: Let’s end the chat here for now. My next meeting is about to start.

Victor: Do you still have to work overtime tonight?

MC: Mm, I need to work over…

Victor: Remember to text me when you’re almost finished. Don’t worry, I’ll bring late-night snacks as comfort.

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[2nd Call]

Starts at – 2:07

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Victor: Are you working overtime tonight?

MC: No. It just happens that I can get off work on schedule. Just need five more minutes, and I’ll be able to sneak out of here~

Victor: That’s good. Come with me when you’re done, and we’ll go together to pick up the car.

Victor: The 4S store contacted me in the afternoon and said that the maintenance has been done and it’s good to be received today.

MC: Okay!

MC: It drove us through the desert and onto the glaciers. It was indeed time for it to take proper rest.

MC: By the way, has the scratch on the front of the car been repaired too?

Victor: It’s fixed. That was especially taken care of to make it exactly the same as before.

Victor: Or perhaps we could leave it as it was. You know, as a commemoration of a certain dummy’s driving skills.

MC: Victor! There’s no need for this kind of commemoration!

MC: Besides, I got it scruffed just that one time… all my parallel parking was perfect after that!

Victor: It was indeed perfect. It’s just that the duration became directly proportional to the result.

Victor: I had finished reading several emails, and a certain someone was still staring into the rearview mirror, meticulously adjusting the steering wheel.

MC: I was just being cautious, that’s all! Haven’t you heard of the saying, “it is better to be late in this world than to be early in the next”~

Victor: I’ve indeed heard of it. But if I remember correctly, this is a slogan to exhort drivers against running red lights.

Victor: A certain someone trying to use that as a justification for dilly-dallying while parking doesn’t seem very convincing.

MC: CEO Victor, you don’t need to poke holes into such small, insignificant details.

MC: How come you happen to notice all my occasional mistakes... my driving skills clearly aren’t that bad.

MC: You probably don’t know. You were so comfortable that you were actually snoring when we were on the highway~

Victor: ...okay, let’s assume that you’re telling the truth.

MC: What assume... what I said is exactly what happened! I’ll most definitely be the driver next time and wipe clean the “bad” impression you have of me.

MC: But calculating the time, it’ll be quite a while before we go on our next trip...

Victor: It doesn’t need to be quite a while. You can experience that one more time today.

MC: What?

Victor: It doesn’t only have to be the self-drive tours. You can also practice your skill on the route to when we go to work and return home.

Victor: I didn’t drive up here today, all so to give a certain someone the opportunity to “prove herself.”

Victor: All right, five minutes have passed. Come to LFG now. I’ll be waiting for you downstairs.

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[viksalos]

listening to my dad go through the whole “reevaluating his entire life’s worth of memories” stage of a late autism realization is very bittersweet

[chirpsythismorning]

Thinking about how we didn't get one scene of Mike in his basement in s4, though we got almost everyone else in the party down there (Lucas, Max, Dustin, Steve, Robin, Nancy).

At the start of s4, we got Mike in his room and in the kitchen getting pop-tarts out of the pantry (near the phone on the main floor), but nothing of him in his 'sanctuary'.

Considering Mike and Will and that damn basement metaphor, it makes me wonder if that was entirely intentional.

Because although there is a phone in the kitchen, I highly doubt that's where Mike made all his calls to Will since the Byers moved, most of which went unanswered. That's very likely the kind of thing he would do in the basement...

Makes you think they're saving Mike in his basement again for the last season, bc what we'll see is something that'll definitely shock the average viewer... something the Duffers had to wait until the end to reveal.

[trixibebe]

I know it's probably just used as a derogatory term and shouldn't think much further about it but I find it fascinating how Zhao calls Kume kid.

Makes you sound old, man.

[fredheads]

Fred rly called archie ferris (derogatory) as though there is a world where he was not regularly absent 9 times a semester

[corvids-corner]

Fuck my dad, and fuck my dependence on my stupid phone 😤

[theinternetisfulloftrash]

Well, somehow we've already arrived at THIRSTDAY!? What are you guys drooling over today? Me? Oh... you know... just this...

[nordic-language-love]

So many people saying online check in isn't reliable but literally I have never had issues checking in online before which is why I'm stressing to high heaven lmao

[lyriumsings]

not gonna get to play baldurs gate for a week after christmas and im so hnnnnn about it

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Guys I'm probably gonna be on hold for so long tomorrow (at least one phone call but probably gonna be three?? Possibly 4???) All places that do the hold thing) and I haven't felt great in ages so wish me luck :( Also probably gonna get bored and start to lose my mind to that advertising hold lady that repeats forever on one of them so...

I can try answering some asks if anyone has any of those about anything at all? I know I've been awful at answering some stuff lately but I'm gonna be stuck on the phone all day tomorrow anyway, so it's the perfect opportunity for it really.

(If I haven't answered something before, repeats are fine btw)

[myrmica]

in the course of wandering around this blog listening to tmg songs i hadn't heard before (or at least not in recent memory) quetzalcoatl eats plums has really stood out to me. seeing daylight has always been one of if not my favorite mountain goats song & quetzalcoatl eats plums gets at similar things: a narrator is isolated somehow, listening to the sounds from outside the room or standing in the yard staring at this tree not able to take another step. both are stuck on minutia, however much emotion or strife is pent up inside of them all they can focus on are these immediate details, staring at the tree or watching the pot boil. there's tension in both of their lives but they're paralyzed in this moment and it can only be communicated by talking around it. there's a phone call in both, one impossible call that seeing daylight's narrator seems to think would never come, and another impossible call where quetzalcoatl eats plums' narrator can't get the words out... you could almost imagine the narrator of quetzalcoatl eats plums on the other end of the phone in seeing daylight. detail is sparse in both songs by design but the call in seeing daylight seems to me like it's unclear whether it's actually taking place, or whether the narrator just wishes it would. it was described as a song "about death" before a live performance at one point which can mean anything you want it to mean i guess, but i want it to mean that the voice on the other end of the phone is the (metaphorically or literally) dead one. the call cannot be taking place. if it is taking place, that's a miracle.

[aethling]

sweet my earbuds just randomly made a facetime call with my uncle at 1 in the morning. he picked up??? MY GOD