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scented candles are comforting and nice, sweet coffee drinks and black coffee drinks are both valid, romcoms are called “feel good” for a reason and you can watch them to feel happy it’s not a crime, decorate your room with fairy lights, drink hot cocoa with marshmallows, listen to that cd that everyone talks about and that you hear playing in the Starbucks all the time, popular things become popular because a lot of people like them and it’s ok to also like those popular things it doesn’t make you boring. I could go on but you know what I mean.

your interests and simple pleasures are meant to entertain you, not meant to make you look entertaining to others.

They also had another king after the super king, three of them actually, Louis the XVIII was in there before Charles X and Louis Philippe I was there till he abdicated.

And then would you look at this

A whole other super king, who actually put another super king into power in Mexico, but he couldn't keep power after the US civil war was over and we started enforcing the Monroe Doctrine again.

The French revolution is idolized by people that have never actually studied the French revolution and what the condition of France was politically for the next century and a half.

Western morons be like

Christianity- evil white people probably republicans

Judaism - rich privileged white people all support Israel secretly rule world

Shintoism: anime thing. I’m not sure if it actually registers as a religion, but then, I’m not sure if it actually registers as a religion in Japan either.

Zoroastrianism: wha? Seriously though, does anybody who is not currently taking a Comparative Religions class know that Zoroastrianism exists?

Even if they hadn't realized most of the hatred was coming from other racial minorities in America rather than The White Man...

The Video Game Journalists wouldn't have been able to maintain the facade in the face of their blatant hostility towards EVERY video game coming out of Japan, Korea, and China.

"Nothing against the revolution, nothing outside of the revolution, nothing above the revolution."

Then Graeber shared another story from the group - once there was a member of the group who got on everyone’s nerves by asking the hunters for all of their best cuts of meat every time they returned with their haul. So one day the hunters invited him along on a seal hunting trip and then abandoned him on a raft in the Arctic ocean to die of exposure.

Social ostracism has existed before capitalism and it will outlive capitalism. Sometimes capitalism has even gone against social ostracism, like the famous example of the Sears and Roebuck magazine - the massive company could offer uniform products with uniform prices, which was a godsend for rural Black people because they could finally buy things for once in their lives without ludicrous markups from the local shopkeepers in their community!

(https://x.com/i/status/2054148006572855633)

Wish the Japanese was translated but dear God even when Islam isn't being outright evil it's such a silly little bit of nonsense.

"God told Adam that he wouldn't have created the Earth without Muhammad"

Wow. Amazing. But it's kinda crazy how literally none of the other holy books that tell the story of Adam and Eve mentioned that until Muhammad decided to write his fanfiction Koran. You'd think that would be something kind of important to fill people in on. Especially when he was telling prophets about Jesus' coming for over a thousand years before he showed up.

They can't understand humor because to them a "joke" is just a word to use when they start experiencing consequences for the things they do and say.

"We should kill all men!"

"Um. What? That's...kind of psychotic?"

"God it was just a joke! All you fragile men are getting so mad over an obvious joke."

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.