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This is where I feel sorry for poor people in the stupider states. Poor people in California actually have it better rn. We aren't getting back to business / normal any time soon.

that was the issue that got the 4 GOP senators so riled up - that the poorest people might end up actually being slightly poor, for 4 months

because they care so much about poor people? wait what?

life begins at conception and ends at 150% of the median income

tattoos are absurd

none of them improve on the actual human body, 95% of them are risible, the other 5% are like if you wore your favorite t-shirt every day forever

it's almost hot that you are willing to accept pain for yr beliefs, but much less so when it's mistranslated kanji or a 'druidic' wreath

idk they’re kinda hot

I also do not understand the appeal of tattoos on any level, but I accept that it comes down to me finding them very aesthetically unappealing and most people not sharing that taste. curious to see if the widespread popularity fades for some future generation or if it’s just what humans do now.

kinda with flopson and kind of ambivalent, they definitely are part of a mainstream drift of fashion now and that's bound to travel up and down

i mean like all fashion in its broadest sense their signification is way broader than what the wearers might intend

I prefer to think of my body as a perpetual blank slate, but I don't mind them on others.

i sorta like them tho even if they weren't forbidden by the torah i might still be wary of getting one bc of the permanence issue

will always want KANT and HUME knuckles

HALE and PACE ftw.

The permanence is... kinda the point? As well as the possibility of regret.

So when anti-ink ppl say "but it's permanent" and "you might regret it", pro-ink ppl are all like, "yeah, and yeah." Part of the appeal is making a commitment that is known to be not easily reversible, and that one may come to regret.

In that respect it is not unlike marriage and having children. (Not to trivialize, it's just that some of the same arguments can be made for and against lots of things.)

(Disclosure: I have one buttcheek that says "Washington Bullets 4eva!" and one buttcheek that says "L.A. Rams 4eva!" I won't tell you where I have the Baltimore Colts logo, though, that's private.)

My regret right now that the tattoo I was going to get of a medieval plague amulet got canceled because of a global pandemic

My beef with them is that they create a false sense of commitment. It's a cheap knockoff at best.

Truly committed people have themselves branded with hot irons.

It's the other way around, but jest away. Then again, I've no room to talk, being married.

I'm broadly pro, in that they tell a story of a particular point in your life and that kind of relative permanence is pretty unique as a marker. Not a fan of sleeves, just because footballers.

I don't have one/any as yet - mostly because I can't fully decide what to get and that feels like a big deal. Almost fully repudiating what I wrote above, but whatevs.

tattoos are absurd

none of them improve on the actual human body, 95% of them are risible, the other 5% are like if you wore your favorite t-shirt every day forever

it's almost hot that you are willing to accept pain for yr beliefs, but much less so when it's mistranslated kanji or a 'druidic' wreath

― mookieproof

I don't have strong opinions on tattoos, but rofl @ this.

my experience of tattoos is that people from the same school year as me (born 78/79) mostly don't have tattoos but by the 80/81 cohort everyone seems to have at least one, so I don't hate them but feel a bit weird about them and wouldn't get one as it would seem like an affectation on me.

My regret right now that the tattoo I was going to get of a medieval plague amulet got canceled because of a global pandemic

― joygoat

some of my friends were sad that the release of "the last of us 2" was cancelled, hotly anticipated post-apocalyptic videogame delayed on account of apocalypse

in portland tattoo culture is pretty big, i used to think it was kind of funny that all my brothers had beards and tattoos and were way more suited to the portland lifestyle than i was but then i came out as trans so :shrug:

dogpiling on celebrities and rich people every time they donate money to charity is shitty, who cares if it's only 0.01% of their net worth it's still helpful and it's more than most of 'em do

*massive exception for the Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk forms of "charity" that equate to bad PR stunts

tattoos are fine I just think it's weird that so many people get horrible quality dasharezone art permanently on their body

xp it’s totally irrational and dumb but I kind of get a little peeved when the rich people announce their donations themselves, especially on like instagram or something. makes it seem more about them and what swell generous ppl they are rather than the cause. I know, I’m terrible

yeah it brings attention to the cause

imo dasharez0ne art is a much better choice than 90% of tattoos

my conservative belief is that announcing your charity publicly is gauche but at the same time I get the impulse to vilify people who are worth billions who donate the equivalent of a buck fifty to a cause

if someone's worth $100,000,000 that doesn't necessarily mean they've got that much in the bank exactly

wow never heard that one before

untrue my $100 mil is in a giant safe, banded bills

don't even think about it Clooney

lol I got a sponsored tweet by some financial advice blog that said something like "tips that millionaires follow that few others do" and it had a picture of a wooden box with a bunch of rolled up $20s in it

so now I assume millionaires all have one crappy wooden cigar box full of rolled twenties in their home somewhere

Tip #1: pay sex workers in cash.

btw the reason why this irks me is because rich people are some of the most sensitive people on the planet and you know there are people like oh, I don't know, Tom Brady who say to themselves things like oh I wish I could donate but the media would be so unfair to me :(

i usually give anonymously for that same reason, to avoid the media coverage

they are so fucking UNFAIR sometimes!

i treat my employees terribly by paying them the minimal amount + minimal benefits allowed by law so when I do donate it's a more pleasurable surprise for everyone.

Tip #1: pay sex workers in cash.

― Yerac, Monday, April 6, 2020 1:08 PM (one week ago)

depends on the sex worker tbh. Having verifiable income (even venmo is better than cash in this regard) can help said sex worker do normal person things like, get a credit card, obtain a mortgage or car loan ... obviously you would not want to put "for hand job" in the note field of the transaction.

the whole tax system is lined up against cash in hand for manual labour

whose tax system?

ok, that half of the joke needs a bit of work

Re tattoos i feel like i never understood the appeal until recently - they don’t have anything to do with the art itself - it’s just that permanent pain / scratch marks on your body are a sex / death drive stand in. or like flopson said they’re kind of sexy. I’ll probably get some bad tattoos in the next few years. I want a raven.

i'd get one but i'm afraid it'll blow a hole straight through my limb

permanent pain / scratch marks on your body are a sex / death drive stand in.

yeah, though i remember a friend's roommate a while back did a stick and poke tattoo of pissing Calvin right above his dick

educated white people should be forbidden from using terms like "cop" and "grip" to mean purchasing recorded music, especially that produced by other educated white people

Son, you cop that new Nonesuch mixtape? That shit slaps, deadass.

gonna grip all the latest erstwhile ish ... just no

same with yassssss imo