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you ever think about how mr beast is real life monokuma

if he ever finds out about danganronpa he will make hopes peak academy real

Tbf there's good reasons to not do mini-shopping each day, but like. If you live close to a shopping mart you *do* just push the trolley filled with your bags? And then bring it back? It's not a lot of effort in exchange for only having to deal with that amount of noise once a week????

You can also just buy your own folding cart. They're pretty cheap!

So...how much of the bad discourse surrounding Steven Universe is just because people were really hoping that the Gems would beat up Andy DeMayo in "Gem Harvest"?

I was astonished to learn that there was controversy around this episode, because I felt like it was just kind of a normal children's cartoon about getting along with difficult relatives; and then I looked it up and learned that it had the extremely inauspicious timing of airing right after Trump's 2016 victory, and, yeah, okay, I can understand why a children's fantasy about reconciling with your obnoxious conservative relatives and getting them to accept your alternate family structure would play rather poorly at the time.

I think that Rebecca Sugar probably assumed, like most of the world that wasn't my specific flavour of extremely online in 2016, that Clinton would crush Trump and that this episode would maybe help to smooth over divisions; but of course what ended up happening is that an episode about how you should be empathetic towards your bigoted relatives ended up airing just as your bigoted relatives were going around victoriously hate-criming people in the street.

Watching it now, though, it ends up feeling wistful more than anything. Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did? It feels like a pleasant dream.

its also not ban evasion. the emails, when we do get them, say that we can't make new accounts with the same tos-breaking content (whether or not we actually posted content in the first place). not that we're banned from tumblr, just that the account was terminated.

no! cozy games will kill the patient. she needs violent dogshit to live

The entirety of Western Digital’s 2026 hard drive output is already sold to data centers and won’t have consumer stock until at least 2027

I also try not the engage in "this has always been the plan" type thinking. But the second that SaaS proved to be profitable, the moment Adobe proved that you can hold software hostage for a monthly fee by changing the contract and license and people will stick with it because the switching costs are too high, this was the logical conclusion. I don't believe in a shadowy cabal sitting in smoky rooms planning out every detail of the economy half a century in advance, but I do believe in the rent-seeking pressures of the private ownership economy and in the willingness of those in power to just keep pushing a little more each year to see what they can get away with.

trying to cite a YouTube video but the title keeps changing in order to secure .5% of extra ad revenue

trying to search for a YouTube video but the title was changed in order to ensure less than a percent of extra clicks

trying to show someone a YouTube video but the thumbnail was revised for algorithm appeal so we scroll past it not realizing

trying to enjoy a YouTube video but YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHY I CAN'T 😱

Trying to rewatch a YouTube Video on an interesting topic but I can't tell which one it was since it was just titled "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING"

yknow, the kind of girl that makes you wish you were a perfect serpent *looks around expecting everyone to understand what I mean* yknow, a serpent? *looks around* perfect serpent?