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likely here for reality TV discourse

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I genuinely DO NOT get the endgame. If the plan ends with a ruined planet, collapsed economies, and no working class left to spend money. What are billionaires actually hoarding wealth for? To sit in a bunker with numbers on a screen that don't mean anything anymore? Like what is the actual point? 😭

[ً @artfuIchaos]

laying in bed with the nervous system of someone going to war.

[ꕤ @rakkofan]

i wake up, i cry over spilt milk, put all of my eggs in one basket, bite off more than i can chew, jump the gun, fly off the handle and then die on that hill

[𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖇𝖆𝖟𝖎𝖙𝖊 @raisinchoirgirl]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[✒️ @Literariium]

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[jess @abolish_jess]

i’m not the worst off financially but i do think if an upper class person swapped places with me for a month they’d k*ll themselves

[27. @dimvji]

all roads eventually lead back to the interests you had as a child

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

How that first 75° day feels after it’s been 90° and humid for two weeks

[Kairos.MP5 @KAIROSMMA2]

This is so fucking cold I can’t even lie

[Ari🪷 @arikoyarii]

rubbing my body on him like a cat so he knows im interested in him

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America I was taken to a warehouse called Costco.

At the door, a woman checked my friend's membership card.

At last, I thought. A checkpoint. A travel pass. Finally, this country has proper gate protocol.

Inside, the ceiling was so high that weather felt possible.

They sell mayonnaise in containers I would describe as architectural. Forty-eight eggs at once. Trousers next to televisions next to a kayak.

Old women stood at small stations, handing out free food on toothpicks.

I asked my friend when the festival ends.

He said, "It's Tuesday."

The festival does not end. The festival is the store.

Then he bought me a hot dog and a soda.

It cost one dollar and fifty cents.

I assumed I misheard. I checked the receipt.

One dollar. Fifty cents. The price has not changed since 1985.

I was alive in 1985. Everything I have purchased since then has betrayed me at least once.

Gasoline. Rent. Rice. All of them broke their word.

The hot dog did not.

I asked how this is possible, and I received a story I did not believe until I confirmed it.

The founder, before he stepped down, told the next chief what would happen if he ever raised the price of the hot dog.

He said, and this is recorded history: "If you raise the price, I will kill you."

Scholars believe he was joking.

The price has not moved in forty years.

I leave the conclusion to you.

At the exit, a man checked our receipt and drew one line across it with a highlighter.

A seal. A magistrate's signature, approving safe passage.

I bowed to him slightly.

He said, "Have a good one," which I now understand can refer to a day, a life, or a hot dog, depending on need.

In my country, we honor merchants who keep the same price for generations. There is a shop in Kyoto four hundred years old. We treat it as a national treasure.

Costco is forty years old and sells tires.

Give it time.

Empires fell. Currencies died.

The hot dog holds.

A nation is its promises.

I paid one dollar and fifty cents.

The promise held.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.

[🍅 @CosmicTomat0]

I genuinely hope someone gets fired for that fuck ass food challenge 🤢

[PAYWALLMEN.COM @ICONOCLASTIAE]

Hating men is the only way to get a good man. If you like men you’ll tolerate anything, if you hate them, only the best will be good enough.

[☔ @Whotfismick]

When you realize you grew up in best era to be kid and worst era to be adult

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Cats are great because they're basically like 12% teddy bear, 34% raccoon, 9% actual demon, and 45% David from Schitt's Creek

[sydney @squid_bees]

i like when a baby animal is just a shrunken version of the adult animal