Raf

big shout out to tumblr for being the first major site in like two years to implement an ill-advised "feature" nobody wants, likes or respects that doesn't involve AI

It kind of makes me sick to think about just how many people are going to have their eyes glued to the superbowl this weekend because they’re betting on it. The likely MILLIONS of dollars that desperate people are going to lose to these fucking gambling apps on Sunday makes me want to start exploding things

Sports betting apps (and now, everything betting apps like kalshi) are like the ultra wealthy figured out a way to make a literal Instant Wealth Transfer button. Just push this button and give us the money you made at your shitty low paying job and maybeeeeee you’ll get rich :) we promise there’s a possibility! Just push the button isn’t it so shiny and fun looking? Don’t you love being a Sports Fan? Don’t you want to bet the little money you have on world politics

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813