Curls in China

given recent events, an important reminder

[ Video ID: A YTP of a training video for grocery store employees. A man in a grey suit and blue tie speaks to the camera, but his words have been edited in post: "If you suspect a customer of shoplifting, do not take action. Do not tell your manager for any reason. Your manager will take it too far. The key point to remember is, don't become a snitch. Any type of "snitchuation" affects your community negatively. We understand that many people are in financially detrimental types of situations. Do them a favor and don't get involved. Just let them steal from your store's enormous amount of extra profits because after all, everyone should be able to eat and that's common sense. Well, take care and stay fresh!" End ID. ]

whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible

happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate

A CENTURY AGO

"paul atredies can't be a white saviour bc he isn't even white" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA horrible ass take 0/10. Paul might not be ethnically white, nor are the fremen particularly non-white, but it is clear within the story that paul and his regal features and stratified social structures is viewed as morer civiliesed and fundementally diffrent from the filthy (muslim) desert savages. that is the plot. the plot of the books. and this is not me saying it's a 1:1 white saviour narrative! paul is evil! and clearly its on some level meant to be a very clmsy subversian of the trope. but the idea that paul (with his white name and cool wet planet) doesn't inhabit an equavlant socail position to whiteness such that if that were the narrative, pauls space asian-ness doesnot negate the fact that it could be a white saviour narrative

Imagine dooming the entire universe to a thousand different fates so horrible the only way forward is to choose the less horrifying one, which still makes monsters out of your own children and grandchildren just because your husband wants a son and you love him so you throw away your cult’s 10.000 years of meticulous planning for humanity thinking, “Hey, what’s the worst that can happen really, am I right?” *wink*