Desmond

It is being called "a learning experience"

I made a $25k mistake at work and I'm in substantially less trouble than when I made a $50 mistake at Best Buy

evaluating the situation

Did you know that strawberries are not berries, and are actually mammals?

anyway that being said ill have to cough up money for tax prep software anyway bc my shits a nightmare (2 different w2 jobs in 2025, 3 different sources of freelance income, home office and other deductions etc etc )

Ads a few years ago: we know you're busy. our product saves time. you're smart and handsome and you deserve quality products.

ads now: ur just a little baby and adulting is soooo hard its ok we know you're stupid and helpless just give us money and go have a treat we'll make it better i prommy

Ads are so weirdly infantilizing now

this should count

this happened to me as a kid once and it started burning my skin

my Honda Accord could drive for a week without gas and never complained. This is what I get for driving a Buick (woke)

it's OK now and thankfully it's just because I was a dumbass and didn't realize how out of gas I was

my car fucking died in the McDonald's drive-through

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I can do wash / sways but theres a 3W on the last tile

oh come on

First I'm hearing of this

What dose?

Vyvanse should start working immediately, it doesn't need to build up in your system. But the first day on amphetamines is universally Weird. But after a few days you should get an idea of how it affects you

Menin (linen, for men)

do you guys use goodreads

and especially to see this take while being wokescolded on tumblr!!

this is not to say exploitation doesn't exist in china! but something is not more ethical because it's made in the US lol. go look up how garment workers in los angeles are living and how much they make

this fact that in 2025 people still have this idea of china in their head as a place filled with dingy sweatshops that we're exploiting just because it's cheaper than doing it in the US (which we could totally do btw) would be laughable if it weren't genuinely racist

china is light years ahead of us in terms of knowledge and infrastructure related to manufacturing, and sometimes it's literally not possible because we *don't have the technology or the relevant knowledge in the US*

forget about small artists for a moment

companies don't manufacture things in china because it's cheap anymore, they do so because *that's where you do manufacturing*. that's where the experts are! as tim apple put it

Someone on tumblr made a post about how being a small artist doesn't absolve you from exploiting Chinese workers and they don't have sympathy for people losing money

do you know how many enamel pin factories there are in the US? Look it up!

this was around the time the tariffs on china were being announced and a lot of small artist shops were worried about not being able to continue operating, since a lot of them rely on manufacturers in china for their stock (enamel pins, bags, etc.)