Stirring up Trouble

A few bad apples spoil the barrel. If you put a rotting apple in with three dozen good ones, every adjacent apple will be rotting within days. “A few bad apples” does NOT mean “we have a good barrel but, oh well, sometimes bad things happen.” “A few bad apples” means “Our entire organism is rotting from the inside out, triggered by the actions of a few and perpetuated by the natural processing of the whole.” When you say “we had a few bad apples” your next words had BETTER be “we excised them, quickly and permanently, and checked the remaining ones to make sure they’re still good.”

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The actual meaning of ‘don’t let one apple spoil the bunch’ is:  “REMOVE THE FEW BAD APPLES BEFORE THEY SPOIL THE BUNCH.” 

The idiom was never meant to defend the bad apples. You absolutely can judge a barrel by its few bad apples. There is no room for bad apples. 

easy to apply by yourself 

removable: easy to peel off w/out damage

can be reusable 

they can be expensive, so shop around. a cheaper option is wall decals, which come in a range of sizes. you can even order a custom print online. or just use wallpaper on an accent wall or smaller spaces.

the patterns fun

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

you know who else likes wordplay and tempting foods? 

quiet cuddles with friends and qprs

arrows stolen from cupid’s quiver and stripped of magic to be some something more deadly

“The key to understanding the real cost of UBI is understanding the difference between the gross (or upfront) and net (or real) cost. Here’s a simple example: imagine a room with 15 people who want to set up a UBI for the room of $2 per person. The upfront cost of the policy would be $30. The ten richest people in the room are asked to contribute $3 each towards funding it. After they each put in $3, raising the total $30 needed, every person in the room gets their $2 universal basic income. But because the ten richest people in the room contributed $3, and then got $2 back as the UBI, their real, net contribution is in fact $1 each. So the real cost of the UBI is $10.”

“Cost estimates that consider the difference between upfront and real cost are a fraction of inflated gross cost estimates. For instance, economist and philosopher Karl Widerquist has shown that to fund a UBI of $12,000 per adult and $6,000 per child every year (while keeping all other spending the same) the US would have to raise an additional $539 billion a year—less than 3% of its GDP. This is a small fraction of the figures that get thrown around of over $3 trillion (the gross cost of this policy.) Karl’s simplified scheme has people slowly start contributing back their UBI in taxes to the common pot as they earn, with net beneficiaries being anyone individually earning less than $24,000 a year.”

Marie Kondo, gently over my shoulder: why is a pair of pants you find unwearable still in your dresser drawer

me: oh shit that’s right!! The dresser is for clothes that under some circumstance I might conceivably wear!!

Marie Kondo, beaming proudly: Yes, that’s correct!! These pants must have been your favorites. How wonderful that they were so comfortable and practical that you wore them out. But now since they no longer function as pants, you should move them from the drawer where you keep your functioning pants!

me: Yes thanks I got it they’re in the fabric basket now

(types of notes on this post:

1. I also have holes in my clothing!

1a. …and I should also get rid of my worn-out clothing!

1b. …but I can’t afford to buy new clothing :(

1c. …and it still sparks joy so fuck off!

2. Domestic cryptid Marie Kondo!!

2a. Like a horror movie, but friendly!

2b. Like the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home from Welcome to Night Vale!

3. Marie Kondo alarms/angers me because she only wants you to keep things that spark joy, and I want to keep my things that spark joy :/