kadigan

Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

Wattpad banned smut that is “created primarily for sexual arousal” (I’m not kidding) and portrayal of any sex acts that would be illegal irl (like say, being sold to one direction lol).

Some Wattpadders are arguing their website just made the terms of service clearer, but since Wattpad is known as the smut site (kiddie edition) a lot of younger Wattpadders are moving to ao3 to escape the smut purge.

Unfortunately, a lot of Wattpad refugees are confused by the lack of algorithm, wild unfiltered searches, and intense ship and let ship culture on ao3 and are being very loud about how evil and horrible and gross ao3 is for hosting *insert thing here*.

Part of the reason the loudness isn’t really noticeable on tumblr is because tumblr is kind of a Millenial/older Gen Z site? And most of those people are on ao3 already. Most of the loud complaining is on TikTok or twitter (which I don’t have and can’t really corroborate). All the wattpad refugees I’ve seen on Tumblr have been really nice so far!

They see a time skip of any length and go

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

Okay, cryptkeepers, let's do a super well-planned demographic survey.

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like