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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

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watermelon-flavored strawberry, but perhaps just because of the avatar

Sometimes I’ll… hmn, how to describe, use certain twists of language or hints in order to come off one way or the other.

Someone once asked, on a post, “wait, is that a period joke?”  Yes, yes it was.  It was also several other jokes simultaneously.  But that has a certain weight to it in peoples’ gender reading intuitions.

Anyhow,

Avatars have a powerful effect on how we read people online, and lead to us making various subconscious assumptions.  Don’t worry though, I didn’t choose my avatar as a ‘gotcha’ to trip people up with.  

In an environment where gender presentation is much more of a choice than it is elsewhere, it also becomes part of communication and describing one’s intent to others, just as @wirehead-wannabe‘s rat avatar gives off a certain vibe about him, and @argumate‘s rotated pyramid is as frustratingly neutral as his posts.

So the avatar, too, is part of the message of this blog, an indicator of tone and so on, in addition to visual branding to make it recognizable and differentiate it from other blogs.

I will say that the grey is a deliberate choice as no real races are grey.  Yet.

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Anonymous asked:

🍓 🍉 🍓 🍉 🍓 🍉 🍒🍒 🍓 🍓

Honey, darling,

You’re missing like the remaining 11/12ths necessary to describe a full neurotype matrix.  I feel cheated, here.  But I guess I can’t expect people to be living in the gender world of 2052.

I’ll just take the average.

5/10 Strawberry (F)
3/10 Watermelon (A)
2/10 Cherry (M)

An interesting reading.  I have been known to describe people, gender-wise, by ratios like this.

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anarchyinblack: “ In honor of the brave men and women of Loss Prevention, who work tirelessly and thanklessly as gainfully employed workers of the private sector, and protect the many goods we enjoy from being stolen by looters and parasites, I’m...
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In honor of the brave men and women of Loss Prevention, who work tirelessly and thanklessly as gainfully employed workers of the private sector, and protect the many goods we enjoy from being stolen by looters and parasites, I’m promoting this, the Thin Yellow Line flag.

These men are on the front lines every single day, preventing communists and advocates of alternative lifestyles from stealing makeup and other luxury goods ostensibly in the name of worker liberation, preventing their fellow workers from bearing the costs in the form of shortened hours and layoffs, and keeping prices low for the rest of us in society who actually produce utility for others.

When you see these private security enforcers at your local Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, or Macy’s, salute them, because they are the line between civilization and barbarism, and they do it without extorting the taxpayer or murdering innocent people in the street.

mitigatedchaos

This works both with a sincere and an ironic reading.

Source: anarchyinblack the invisible fist the red hammer the iron hand
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wirehead-wannabe

Seriously WHY THE FUCK IS NO ONE PANICKING. This is the point that we can never go back from. No more revolutions, no more coordinating against the powers that be, no more walking down the street to buy food without anyone knowing who you are or what you’ve been doing for the past month.

mitigatedchaos

I was going to say nothing could be done, but actually something could. Unauthorized release of information on someone’s whereabouts and other data could be made a crime of strict civil liability, incurring what would normally be a small fee. Now ordinarily that wouldn’t do much, but after the first few lawsuits, suddenly all those smart features on the phones would be used to auto-blur faces unless the user specifically unblurs them, etc. Also it would kill Equifax and other companies too stupid to adequately secure data.

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poipoipoi-2016: “ mitigatedchaos: “ speakertoyesterday: “ mitigatedchaos: “ mitigatedchaos: “ mutant-aesthetic: “if this was written unironically then I unironically believe whoever wrote it should be shot ” I think we can add Entertainment Weekly to...
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if this was written unironically then I unironically believe whoever wrote it should be shot

mitigatedchaos

I think we can add Entertainment Weekly to the list of People Who Don’t Get It.

mitigatedchaos

Basically, to return to why this image is a bad take, college degrees are likely in a bubble right now, and not everyone in our society should go to college.  (Apparently median IQ of college students is down, as well.)  Additionally, if one does not get a marketable degree, it’s much, much less than worthless, as for most people this will result in substantial debt.

Also there’s a truck driver shortage right now, probably will continue to be one for about ten years.

speakertoyesterday

What major technological development might make going into trucking not a good idea right now?

mitigatedchaos

Self-driving trucks, but they’re likely 10-20 years out.  They’re having an issue with edge cases and the like, apparently.

poipoipoi-2016

I mean, highway driving is there right now, which means that the local teamsters union can drive it to the highway, let it ride, and then have it get picked up by the next Teamsters Union.


/If you’ve never heard of the Teamsters Union, let’s just say that a running subplot on local news growing up was that they might finally have found Jimmy Hoffa’s body.

mitigatedchaos

Highway driving could be there if our civilization were more organized.

Well, not “organized”, but you get what I mean.  Automatic guidance on highways was possible with embedded wire systems in the 1960s, but it never really took off.

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