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Cake day: February 12th, 2024

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  • A well-known mentalism “trick” from David Blaine was when he’d ask someone to “Name a two digit number from 1 to 50; make each digit an odd digit, but use different digits”, and his guess would be 37. There are only eight values that work {13, 15, 17, 19, 31, 35, 37, 39}, and 37 was the most common number people would choose. Of course, he’d only put the clips of people choosing 37. (He’d mix it up by asking for a number between 50 and 100, even digits, different digits, and the go-to number was 68 iirc.)



  • A city is its people. Spending a pitiful amount of money on distributing tarps and tents to the citizens of a rainy city who have no shelter provides them livability.

    Saying that to do so harms the city’s “livability and the ability for small businesses to thrive” is neolibspeak for “Homeless people are a nuisance to everyone else; even though funding such small measures would only be a stopgap measure (in what should be a much broader and much more comprehensive effort to provide proper shelter, support, education, mental health services, and jobs training), they are not worth spending $10 a pop to keep them and their clothes dry. We’d rather they just fuck off so that we don’t have to look at them because doing so causes our subconscious to elicit feelings empathy, the emotion that is the archenemy of capitalism.”


  • You mean like having movers coming in a few weeks but not getting off my ass for the past five days to start putting my life into boxes to move halfway across the country? Cuz it feels like you might be referring to my having movers coming in a few weeks but me not getting off my ass for the past five days to start putting my life into boxes to move halfway across the country.




  • They struggle to make ends meet during periods of economic downturn because 1) they are “wealthy”, but not “filthy fuckin’ rich”, and 2) they live almost beyond their means and…when they have to “cut” back…it involves downsizing the Beamer 7 Series to a Volvo S90 and spending two weeks in Hawaii on vacation instead of a month in Europe.

    For most of the working class who are well off enough to be able to afford a roof and know where our next meal is coming from, they are one bad month away from couch surfing.

    To the “wealthy” in this scenario, I say to you tighten up those bootstraps…quit eating avocado toast and all that.

    To the “filthy fuckin’ rich”, I say this: Guillotines exist for a reason.