the angles cut me when I try to think

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

My doodle for piko...

"Needy, unable to cope" (<- you try coping with chronic pain)

"Comfort seeking" (<- you mean.. having a preference for not being in pain.. how criminal)

"Using or trying to obtain drugs on a long-term, chronic base" (<- do you understand what 'chronic pain' means.)

"Asking for pain med then returning to sleep."

"States he’s level 10 pain, but does not appear to be in pain (or ‘5= on appearance)." (<- it is well-known that chronic pain patients tend not to display pain in the same way as acute pain patients)

"Dramatic response to pain" (<- notice how this directly contradicts the comment above. you cannot win)

"Gets IV med, then leaves unit to smoke or walk around" (<- wow requiring medication and then going off to do something you needed pain meds to be able to do is so suspicious)

and i imagined that he’s using him like this (don’t ask me why)

DOLL DROP THURSDAY!

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

he won the curry contest, and along with it the royal warrant, expanding his company by adding a food branch.,

got into a circus troupe that was kidnapping children. children he ultimately ordered burned because they wouldn’t recover from the trauma that befell them,

was almost framed for the murder of a german banker,

was attacked by zombies on a luxury liner, and one of the few people who connected him to his father turned out to be his likely opponent,

attended a boarding school where he became a fag to a high-ranking student, learned to play cricket and led to the second victory in history of the house he belonged to,

almost died first from mustard gas poisoning, then from being shot at by a tank, having a ptsd attack along the way,

established a music hall competing with the performances of four former prefects, outsold them, his friend's butler was killed, his fiancée left him, his dead brother returned as a living doll taking away his title, estate, the servant who had been with him since childhood and (again) he was framed for murders.

and now there’s some crazy guy who keeps trying to out his butler. ciel deserves a vacation, more has happened in his life in one year than in the previous 12 combined.

bonus point: the events of the revenge arc have lasted ONLY 3 DAYS so far​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.