people (mostly on twitter) are pissing me off so much with the “its reddit, who cares”
like, its not a social media, its a collection of forums, if you hate certain subs for their politics or opinions, dont visit those (you control the buttons you press or whatever)
meanwhile were about to lose so much information about niche hobbies and interests,
and these are the same people who were complaining last week that you cant find anything on google without adding “reddit” at the end,
are you fucking stupid, do you want to have to look through unrelated blogs and ai generated/pay walled quora answers everytime you need technical assistance or wanna talk about a hobby? is that what you want?
im this close to losing it
There’s a reason why I use both Tumblr and Reddit.
Tumblr is great for in-jokes, community, etc. It’s good for seeing what your buddies are into and reading derange 2am mutualposts and finding out what kind of brainrot is trendy right now.
Reddit is good for factual information. Reddit has a functional search, for one. Reddit is where I post a picture of my cactus and go “I think it’s dead. How do I confirm?”
There’s also regional subreddits that are invaluable if you’re not American, because trying to find regional information (especially about local politics) on a platform like Tumblr if you’re not American just never works. For all I know, it doesn’t work even if you’re American! And for non-political regional info like “how much should I expect to pay to rent X in Y area” or “is the landlord particularly bad in this place or is this just normal in this town” and “I’m celiac, where should I eat where they actually care about keeping things gluten-free” and “where the hell are they posting about roadworks, there’s nothing telling me when they’re ending”. And yes, because I’m a gamer, I also go to Reddit for theorycrafting and optimising gameplay etc.
Tumblr is great but it does not work for any of those queries. It struggles with niche topics and specific details. It’s hard to update posts with resources (whereas it’s very easy to update a Reddit post - Tumblr can’t reflect changes once a post is reblogged).
every time my bf says “for the time being” i respond with “for the time bean” and then we say “all hail the time bean” and carry on the conversation like nothing happened
man call me crazy or whatever but i’m not very thrilled with the fact that the takeaway that all of y'all are getting from the titanic submarine crisis happening right now is
“People able to spend exorbitantly for some tourist trip thing deserve to die a horrific and torturous death via suffocation after spending 96 hours in mounting dread and awareness of that oncoming reality, all inside a 20 foot long windowless iron casket lost at sea”
and how it isn’t
“There is no way in fucking hell that it should be legal to take people into such high-risk environments with zero regulations and shoddy work which almost certainly factored if not is the cause of this crisis to begin with, and the problem isn’t that people will spend lots of money on dumb shit, it’s that there are companies allowed to prey on that with no oversight”
not enough people understand that disability benefits are basically what it would look like if you turned “if you’re too sick for school you’re too sick for video games” into an official public policy
It feels taboo as a childfree person to admit this but I actually do have concerns about who is going to take care of me when I’m old. The elder care system in our nation relies A LOT on the unpaid care labor of adult children. I just don’t think that’s a good reason to have kids.
“But you’ll have more money!” does not completely put this to rest for me. Neither does “Buy care insurance!” Even if I can afford direct personal care, who is going to advocate for me to get it? Who is going to navigate bureaucracy for me when I’m 80?
“If you do have kids, there’s no GUARANTEE that they’ll take care of you when your old!” That’s true, but doesn’t solve my problem.
I think childfree people get very defensive about this question because its used as a kind of “gotcha!” against us, but I actually do not feel we can afford to be in denial about this reality. Based on current trends of more people in their 30s stating they intend to be permanently childfree, we are going to see a huge wave of childfree adults hitting the eldercare system at once in a few decades. Childfree people in their 30s should be advocating around eldercare NOW.
We desperately need to cultivate a society in which everyone, even the most bitter, unlikeable, miserably lonely person in the world, has a social safety net that they can rely on from the day they’re born to the day they die, and that includes their elder care.
We are not going to achieve this meaningfully under capitalism. :’)
if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?
They ship of theseus’d my girl
Can’t have shit in Detroit
this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.
call that the meme of theseus thesis
tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat
my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke
replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man
*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go
We owe the reddit refugees an apology for making them see posts like this
absolutely not, they need to be naturalized to the environment quickly
