Melon Farming Trade Baron

accidentally got stuck in a compulsive thought loop instead of living any sort of life

duuude is that a losing dog? *gets out my wallet*

If she dies, remember how many times I begged you to help her, how many nights I wrote through tears asking for mercy while she suffered beside me.

My tears have run dry, and my time is up. My sister is leaving me, and I am powerless to save her. Your silence is the only thing that is killing her.

I am sick and exhausted in Gaza, and I choose to be strong for the sake of the terrified while I wither before our eyes. We are drowning in fear.

Please donate if you can. Your donation will enable me to buy medicine for my sister , and it will save her, save me, and save my whole family. Our lives are at stake from hunger, disease, and anemia, and it will end the constant pain. || Chuffed

Please help Zeina and her sister

My friend Nader recently became an uncle to his newborn baby niece, Masa. Due to the traumatic stress and malnutrition experienced under genocidal conditions, many mothers cannot produce breast-milk. Masa, like tens of thousands of other babies in Gaza, relies on formula to survive. Today, Nader told me that this little girl is in the hospital now due to a severe chest infection. She is only 8 days old. Please help her.

I woke up today to the tears of my brother's wife, the mother of little Masa, who is suffering from a severe chest infection and is currently in the hospital under medical care. We implore you, friends, to help us get out of this situation and donate to buy milk and other necessary baby supplies for this child so we can leave Gaza. Please don't hesitate to donate.

Nader's fundraising is vetted (gazavetters #4) and supports his large family of nine people, including small children of which little Masa is the youngest. Israel's systematic targeting of children means that the price of formula, diapers, medicine, and other basic supplies are extremely expensive. Please help him raise the funds needed to help innocent Masa survive genocidal conditions.

While a newborn baby girl is fighting for her life, I'm pleading for donations. With over 300 posts and no donations or help, it's truly disheartening. Please, save us and save this baby. Please donate.

Please continue sharing this post and don't stop helping us. I thank everyone who has donated before. Thank you all, but our lives depend on these donations. Please donate now so we can survive, get treatment, and provide healthcare for this child. Please donate.

Level 10 burgers event imminent. There is no time to evacuate, shelter in place immediately.

this is like 9/11 for americans...

Walk Like No One Is Driving

You can also read This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. It's on bookshop.org and, of course, on the Evil Empire website. It's all in the title, which is an ironic quoting of people who say what bubble-istas always say - what AI people are saying right now.

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying

Don't overthink helping families in Gaza; participation makes a difference in their lives, and donating makes a big difference.

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

I hate that the “shauty getting sexually gross with it” comment is a niche thing that only my friends and I know about and not common knowledge because I constantly want to to reference it but no one would know what I’m referencing

I love a woman with a loud ass laugh. I love a cackle. I love a guffaw. Love when a bitch laughs so hard it scares the dog. Be unapologetic in your joy.

I will say the standard advice of “money doesn’t make you happy! Look at the poor people who only earn *checks notes* 3x more than you! They’re basically fine. And the people who earn 10x more than you are just as happy as the people who earn 11x more than you. So money won’t make you happy.” Does make me want to start biting people