if i reblogged something from you and tagged it cmpl that’s short for commonplace and means i want to copy it or a segment of it down in my notebook later
I think the discussion that made time loops my brand was entirely confined to Twitter, so since this website has gone all in on time loops of late, here, have the story:
Several years ago, I suggested to my wife that we have an agreement that if either one of us ever came to the other and said that we were in a time loop, we just accept that it’s real and get on with things, thereby eliminating the frustration of the looping partner having to convince the other one every day.
She REFUSED. Because “time loops aren’t real.”
Well, we had this debate on and off for several years, and finally, she got tired of me bringing it up and agreed. So now we have a deal: We’ll believe each other, but if I ever do it as a joke, the deal’s off.
It turns out that the reason that my wife has been refusing to make this agreement is less that time loops aren’t real, and more that she’s concerned I would come to her one day, claim to be in a time loop, and then the next day declare the time loop had finally broken. And since that is, of course, exactly what it would look like to her if I really was in a time loop, she’d have no way of proving it.
I explained to her that she’s completely right, that would be incredibly funny, but I’d never do it because there’s a part of me that is legitimately nervous that I will actually end up in a time loop one day, and I need her to believe me.
Seeing a lot of ship tags on this, a post about a real conversation I really had with my real wife, so in that spirit, I thought I’d tell you my own (100% correct, objective) thoughts on how various ships I actually care about would handle this situation.
Have this exact conversation: Bea/Ben from LoLiLo, Shawn and Gus from Psych (friend ship is the best ship)
Have a version of this conversation, but immediately agree to the code word strategy: Elena/Sid from ODaaT, Troy and Abed (Troy is the one who suggests just believing each other, Abed explains that they need code words), Parker/Hardison (/Eliot, who never agrees to the strategy and is inevitably the one who ends up in the time loop)
Simply agree to believe each other, no need for code words: Jane/Michael from Jane the Virgin, Dick and Donna from Teen Titans (friend ship is still the best ship)
Never have this conversation, but when one of them inevitably ends up in a time loop, they believe each other immediately anyway: Kirk/Spock (Spock: “It is illogical to believe that we are in a time loop. However, it is also illogical to believe that Kirk would ever act irrationally or be so deeply mistaken. Therefore, we must be in a time loop.”), Dick/Kory from Teen Titans
Do not believe each other on the first iteration of the loop, but get there eventually: Amy/Jonah (from Superstore), Tom/B'Elanna
Never, ever believe each other, no matter how many times the loop goes around: Garak/Bashir
nobody on tumblr has dated or had sex or kissed anyone or done drugs or drank alcohol we strip ourselves from these earthly pleasures and enter the monastic order of the tumblr blogger
I can’t believe the Voltron crisis lasted only two years. Seven seasons in two years. Deranged. Awful time to be online. PEAK shipping discourse. And the evil is defeated.
I understand the confusion in the notes yes the nightmare was incredibly short lived and yet it felt eternal
they should solve gendered awards by adding a third award for best lgbt performance but there’s no definition of what makes an lgbt performance so theoretically this category includes straight actors playing gay, gay actors playing straight, all non-binary people, and anything that just has a little bit of Vibe. obviously this barely solves the problem and creates a lot of new problems while also being offensive and the twitter discourse would be hell but it would be entertaining to me and therefore worth it.
I never see people discuss irritability as an autism symptom. It’s absolutely THE biggest symptom I struggle with, why does nobody ever talk about it?
So I go to the dentist and the appointment I had was not the appointment that I thought I was going to have (normal maintenance vs deep clean) so i warned the dentist “hey heads up I burn through dental anesthetics super quick and also I’d like to use as little as possible because putting the dental anesthetics in my body is the most painful part of the process unless I’m having a root canal or something” and she’s like “Hmm. Okay. Is it just the injection site?” and I was like “no, it will feel like burning on the opposite side of my face and in my nose and eyes and stuff.” And she was like “Hmm. Do you turn really red when this happens?” And I was like “I don’t know, I can’t really see myself when it happens.” And she was like “are you willing to experiment with this a little?” And I was like “sure, no worries” and she injected me with one anesthetic and it hurt like a motherfucker and she and the assistant both went “OOOH” and she was like “Yeah you got really red right away let’s try the other,” and it was the same thing and then she was like “okay I think this is the one that will work” and it hurt a little bit but it was fucking NOTHING compared to the comprehensive full stabbing burning facial pain from the others and long story short the dentist was like “You’re reacting to the epinephrine in these other anesthetics,” which I guess is fairly common for people who have autoimmune disorders.
So I guess this is to say: If you get spreading, burning, stabbing pain when you are being injected with local anesthetics it’s not supposed to do that and you should say something.
like if people genuinely believe there are no benefits to living to the imperial core then please explain to me why these borders are the most militarized borders on earth! if there is no difference between living in the global south and the imperial core then why do thousands of people attempt to cross the mediterranean to europe and why is there an entire industry predicating on producing technology to kill those people?
The market price of an iPad in 2010–2011 was $499, with the factory price being $275. Of the factory price, barely $33 went to production wages in the South, while fully $150 of Apple’s gross profit margin went to high design, marketing, and administrative salaries, as well as research and development and operating costs sustained mainly in the global North […]
If the iPad were to be assembled in the United States, the wage cost of production would not be $45 but $442. And if we go one step deeper into the production structure of the iPad, into the sub-components and raw materials inputs, we learn that most of these material inputs are also produced in the South with an approximate wage-cost of $35 per iPad. If this production also took place in the United States, its wage cost would be approximately $210.
The workers in Apple’s iPad production chain are not paid less because their productivity is lower than that of workers in the North. In fact, they are probably more productive. Apple’s suppliers are world leaders employing state-of-the-art technology. Their managerial personnel drive employees using Taylorist methods and longer work weeks not legally tolerated in the North. Suppliers organize schedules to intensify worker productivity, with daily shifts of twelve hours and tight speedup supervision being routine. Working weeks surpass sixty hours because workers are required to work overtime exceeding legal regulations. Thus it is not surprising that in 2011 when Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, was asked at a White House dinner by President Obama “What would it take for Apple to bring its manufacturing home?” Jobs replied: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”
—Torkil Lauesen & Zak Cope, Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices
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