Brain bug:*has mouth that is somehow a hideous mockery of both a mangled penis and mangled vagina*

Progressives: "WOW, THAT'S LITERALLY ME, LMAO!!! 😍😘🥵"

Weird how people who love to say things look bad didn't notice that.

HI WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BABY GOOSE

SCRATCH THAT IT WAS A PINECONE

APOLOGIES FOR THE FALSE ADVERTISING

NO ONE IS MORE DISAPPOINTED THAN ME

NO

I DON'T THINK YOU ARE

OH MY GOD

OKAY, Y'KNOW-

I DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS

THERE IS NO PINECONE IS THERE

WE TRUSTED YOU. GOOSEGATE 2024

I AM GOING TO SET THE PINECONE ON FIRE

oh no the -

it's time to take the power back from Big Pinecone and give it to the people

YOU DID NOT MAKE FUCKING FANART FOR THIS GODDAMN POST

OH MY GOD

This problem is nothing new, but this specific example with these numbers puts it into a fucking brutal perspective.

To put these numbers a different way: A Taco Bell burrito that used to cost ~7 minutes and 20 seconds of minimum wage work now costs ~30 minutes and 30 seconds of minimum wage work.

You used to be able to work at Taco Bell anywhere in the country and make enough money in one hour to buy at least 8 burritos (maybe 9 if you're a manager or something) and feed, like, 3-4 people a decently-filling meal. But now, the same amount of work at the same job will get you one meal for one person. And this change has happened over a mere 15 years.

Remember this whenever you see rich people demonize younger generations for our financial situations, when they call us irresponsible for not investing a ton of money in savings accounts.

we were playing around with the rumored cost of GTA 6 in a discord server eariler, and while 150USD translates to 228.55AUD, if you convert this to cost in minimum wage, its less than 10 hours (or one shift) at minimum wage in Australia and more than 20 hours (or two shifts) in the US, despite being less individual dollars in the US. And its not like the Australian minimum wage hasn't been stagnating either, which puts into perspective just how shockingly low the US minimum wage is for an otherwise extremely wealthy country.

Tired: finding a sealed tomb from Egypt or some other non white culture and declaring it cursed

Wired: doing the same for the catholics

Catholicism is not just one culture but for the whole world. One sarcophagus finding is nothing! Wait until you guys learn about the catacombs. And no, we don’t consider this stuff to be cursed. An older Catholic Church will usually have someone buried underneath somewhere, especially under the altar, as is the tradition, which is not a secret. There are no curses there for us. Why should we fear death? O death, where is your sting? 😌

Also, ancient Egyptian tombs were thought to be cursed because they wrote curses on their tombs

Egyptians: Write curses damning anyone who entered

Christianity:

Everyone in the notes squawking about ~*COLONIALISM*~ and ~*WHITE SUPREMACY*~ needs to check their own racism. Obviously the Egyptian stuff was supposed to be cursed because the Egyptians wrote down, explicitly, that they wanted it to be. Christianity, on the other had, has repeatedly written down that there are no curses associated with death.

Y'all ain't open-minded. You're just racists who hate white people.

This is privilege. My partner had an "essential job" all through the pandemic. He was not allowed to work from home either. If he'd pulled this he would've been fired.

Well, yeah. But if people who have enough privilege to take a stand against workplace exploitation do take a stand, that helps slow down the ongoing creep of how much they're allowed to dick you around at work.

Make no mistake, by "not allowed to work from home," this employer meant "you will not be paid for work you do at home," while clearly expecting the employee to do work (such as answering work emails and taking work calls) while at home. (If the employer didn't expect that, then they wouldn't have noticed when the worker stopped doing it.)

If you're expected to respond when the boss summons you outside of work hours, you are on-call. If you're on-call, you should be paid.

Expecting white-collar workers to be on-call for no extra pay is wage theft, no different from if a retail or food service employee is told to, "Clock out before you clean up/close out your station, so you don't go over your hours."

(And yes, this example happens a lot. If it happens to you, in the US, you should report it to the Department of Labor. It's confidential; your employer will never find out it was you who turned them in.)

"Yo yo, everybody! Put your hands in the air! Who's ready to get FUCKED UP TONIGHT!?"

"Wooo!"

*gentle woodwind music*

"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

the caption did not adequately prepare me

Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

Got that memory module up working right again then I hope, computer repair from almost a light day away

this is sending me

the funniest part of any Robin meeting the JL is that every Robin is so distinctly different from the previous one in terms of personality and vibes that the league literally gets backlash. and like, I don't blame them. not to mention that they are non-meta children that dress as a traffic light and fight crime alongside batman in gotham on a nightly basis. i'd also be a bit concerned. Batman, literally The Night of Gotham personified in the League's eyes, coming into a JL meeting: This is Robin, my crime-fighting partner. 11-year-old Dick Grayson, dressed in the brightest primary colours possible, vaguely hidden murder behind those eyes, never stops moving even for a moment: Hi! Superman: That's a child. That's-- Bats that is a child. You let a child--? Batman, deadpan: You try to stop him. Would you rather he try and murder a grown man with a wire?

Batman: This is Robin. 12-year-old Jason Todd, with the biggest grin on his face, about 3 books in his hand, stars in his eyes and a distinct street-kid drawl: Hey!!! Green Lantern: That's ... that's a different child. What?? Jason: I stole his tires :) Batman: Tried to. Jason, stage whispering to the League: basically did. Green Lantern: that is a different kid, right?? I'm not seeing shit??

Batman: This is Robin. 14-year-old Tim Drake, bo staff clutched in his hand, a wary and tired expression on his face, more on the quiet side, the literal walking definition of don't judge a book by it's cover: hello Flash: Where do you even find these-- Tim: I found myself.

Batman: This is Robin. 17-year-old Stephanie Brown, literally blonde, with a shit-eating grin, eyes full of nothing but mischief and the most explosive personality you've ever seen: hiya!! Superman: I give up. Stephanie: I know, I have that amazing effect on people.

Batman: This is Robin. 13-year-old Damian Wayne, a literal wet cat that will hiss at you, has a sword, the most judgemental stare you'll get from a teenager, ready to jump anyone there: Green Lantern: WHY DOES HE HAVE A SWORD?! Batman: ... he came with the sword.

why is this more expressive than the entire lion king cgi movie

h-how did you have the exact gif…….who are you

Chicxulub Impact, 65 Million BC

Yo, we need to talk about my friggin’ bike.