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Ive reblogged so many posts about Glass Onion that tumblr thinks I’m really into onions. It’s recommended me an oil painting of onions and gifs from a documentary about garlic. Thickest algorithm in the world please never make it smarter

“hallelujah” by leonard cohen being played as an easter and christmas song, “zombie” by the cranberries” being played as a halloween song, and “born in the U.S.A.” by bruce springsteen being played as a Fourth of July/generic us patriotism song have got to be a special trifecta of the most no-listening-comprehension musical moments that happen on seasonal playlists every single year 

i replied "PENIS BLAST" on some random annoying blazed post and op immediately hit me back with this cockwrenching blow

I love you kanopy I love you tubi I love you libby I love you zlibrary I love you library genesis I love you project gutenberg I love you scihub I love you 123movies I love you people who upload shit to google drive for absolutely no monetary gain!!!!!

Well, Fire fighter dude certainly didn’t hold back on his thoughts.

the reason so many modern ‘feminist’/’gay’ retellings of classic stories or mythology are shit is because no-one wants to actually engage with a work on its own terms anymore. nobody wants to actually analyse and dig into the themes of a work they just want to plaster over it with what they consider self serving and ‘trendy.’ so instead of actually ANALYSING what a myth could say about women, or gay people, or society at the time in general, it just gets rewritten again and again to say what the author wants it to say. braindead fucking culture

i hate all the reviews of Jeanette McCurdy's book that are like "don't be turned off by the title of I'm glad my mom died, she's actually justified in feeling that way" like does every abuse survivor in your life have to live up to your personal standards of suffering before they're allowed to harbor any resentment towards their abusers? when someone expresses resentment towards their parent is your first impulse really to tone police them because the possibility of someone genuinely hating their parent is scarier to you than the possibility of child abuse? when someone says they're happy their parent is no longer alive WHY is your first thought not that their parent must have been heinously abusive, but that this person must be a crazy hysterical attention-seeking bitch?? fucking neutered ass society where every strongly-held sentiment must be approved as acceptable by the detached masses or else you're out of your mind. united states of no one be angry at anyone ever it makes me uncomfortable

tshirt that says "IF U ASK ME ABOUT MY CAREER I WILL KILL MYSELF IN FRONT OF U"

Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

oh shit I guess I need to like update my résumé and my LinkedIn and shit

open LinkedIn > Experience > Add Position > Reverse Cowgirl

i mean, yes, some of it is planned obsolescence, but also, obviously, the only pieces of old technology that people still use everyday are the durable ones, because they’d need to be durable to still be used everyday

all the shit-ass sewing machines made over a couple decades ago would obviously be forgotten, because they were shit, and broke down, and eventually faded from memory over those over-a-couple decades, while all the non-shit-ass ones would survive to be marveled at for their comparative durability compared to all the shit-ass sewing machines we have now

and i mean, yeah, today’s iot stuff, and the you-no-longer-own-stuff-it’s-a-subscription-model bullshit, and so on, this isn’t to say that all that isn’t particularly egregious in its lack of durability. this is certainly a problem, and i don’t mean to minimize it.

but let’s not kid ourselves. your 2003 honda accord that continues to work until now represents a relatively thin slice of all the cars that were made in 2003. and if you imagine yourself back then, in 2003, are you confident that you would have been able to pick it to be the one that would last so long?

like, i know the budd company drove itself out of business for having made too-durable train cars. i know capitalism isn’t really structured to reward durability, and in fact in many ways disincentivizes it. but when it comes down to specific pieces of tech in the past being more durable than specific pieces of tech now… idk how much of that is really representative of a decline

Planned obsolescence, engineering to the limits, and survivorship bias are all so intermixed.

On one side we have nepoleanic war era stone bridges that are still in use by cars today with little maintenance; simply because he wanted a bridge his all armies could cross, and they didn’t have the engineering knowledge to know what the engineering limits were.

They just built the strongest bridge they could.This holds for technology all the way up until the 80s. Computerized engineering, computerized statistical analysis of quality control, and statistical lifespan predictions have allowed, for the first time, accurate quantization of product lifespan prior to construction.

Now, we build bridges to their engineering limits. We know precisely that when we build a bridge it will need servicing after 5 years, after an average an average of 1000 cars per day for that location, known from aggregated traffic data. We know with certainty that without servicing, this bridge will break down after 5-10x it’s allotment of vehicles per servicing.

Before that, things were built, and some failed. High quality things were built to be high quality, with no quantitative measure of what “high quality” meant for the lifespan improvement of the produced device/construction.

Oh there were certainly qualitative measured, higher quality stone and metal was more expensive and guaranteed to last longer, but how much longer was anyone’s guess. Now, large companies can know this with precision.

This results in survivorship bias that old things were better. And maybe they were. The manufacturer of a new bridge in the modern day should know with certainty that it will survive X years of the historic use and weather. A high quality bridge will last longer, but they know exactly how much longer.

This is also related to profit motive. Budd put itself out of business because it didn’t know the lifespan of it’s vehicles, and didn’t charge accordingly. A tangential issue is that it’s incredibly hard to front money for something both you and the manufacturer know will outlive you.

I could talk about this all day and keep digging out new economic and social implications resulting from this change in computerized engineering, statistical analysis and quality control, but I’ll cut it here. Mostly because I don’t want to start drawing diagrams to track the topics.

growing up bisexual, i know what it’s like to be rejected twice in a row. that’s why this pride i’ve partnered with marvel’s morbius