Gerymandering is rearranging the electoral regions in order to manipulate the vote in favour of one party
This is virtually always racialized as Hell too, aiming to disenfranchise and minimize the political weight of communities of color, particularly those in urban areas.
Today’s sexuality: Gal Gadot flicking up the hem of her skirt and casually taking two pistols out of the tops of her thigh high stockings, looking bored but somehow also cheeky.
for real, though, why do recipes consistently tell you to use less herbs and spices in than you should. fuck your “two cloves of garlic,” fuck your “half teaspoon of cinnamon,” and you can absolutely go to hell with your “dash of black pepper”
I’m pretty sure that the only time I’ve ever actually managed to overseason food was when working with balsamic vinegar, which is the most overpowering motherfucker of a sauce known to man
i appreciate the energy and anger in this post, which is righteous and just
no one wants to admit they shop at hot topic but we all do
I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!
people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs
it’s what he would have wanted
Okay so the universal law of Shakespeare, as I’ve heard it, is that you can take things out, you can rearrange them, you just cannot add anything in that conflicts with the original texts. So while you cannot have a production of romeo and juliet where the houses get along and they get married, it’s perfectly acceptable to replace all the actors with dogs in hamlet because the characters are never outright stated to not be dogs.
“The characters are never outright stated not to be dogs”
“It was never a part of their journey” but better.
Things I have seen:
Hamlet set in a psychiatric institution where it was heavily implied the whole thing was his imagination
Romeo and Juliet where the Montagues were aliens
Steampunk Hungarian Romeo and Juliet musical with a fleet of rapping white boys
Russian King Lear which was the bleakest thing I have ever seen
Richard III set in the 1930s including fascist iconography
The Tempest in Space
Meiji Era Twelfth Night set in a Kabuki theatre in a fascinating meta examination of the role of women and men who play women (being performed entirely by a company of women)
Romeo & Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Hamlet each with a single very drunk performer.
I love seeing what different productions bring to the table, because it’s so much fun! It’s also fun to watch Shakespeare purists pitch a fit about it being wrong. Bitch, stfu. I know for a fact that when Shakespeare’s globe burned down, one of the drunken audience members put out his burning trousers with his pint. This was not high-brow sober art. This was for the people and they loved it.
fun fact, i played the prince in a high school production of The Tempest and looking back it so easily could have been set in space
Dumb bitch in the notes arguing planned obsolescence is necessary to keep costs down,
I thought planned obsolescence was to prevent your phone from just suddenly turning off and never working again? Like it’s meant to be an “oh, my thing isn’t working, I should invest in a new one soon.” Kind of thing?? Like shits gonna break either way, I just thought this let us know like a month earlier than it would otherwise.
I mean… that’s kind of what they want you to think?
Sure, throttling your phone’s cpu so that the battery doesn’t wear down faster is certainly… a thing that’ll extend battery life… but, uh………… Hey, why don’t we just allow customers to replace their old batteries, you know, just like batteries were originally designed to do?
This extends far beyond phones/computers/etc as well. I recall, there’s light bulbs that exist from around the time of their invention that can still burn to this day. But companies only manufacture light bulbs that degrade and burn out over a few years, so that they can keep selling more light bulbs and turn a profit.
There’s a lot of examples of this, really. But, no, the main purpose of this is simply to make people continually have to replace their old “““broken”““ products for new ones, when the only reason they break to begin with is because they purposefully build in deficiencies that cause the product to degrade over time. It’s capitalism, baby
There’s a reason why appliances from the 50′s and 60′s (and some earlier) still tend to be kicking to this day but the machine you bought 5 years ago is on its last legs. It’s not that their tech and materials were superior, it’s that they’re from a time when companies tried to make the best products they could. Then some people realized that if they make products that last for decades, eventually they won’t sell many of said products.
So they started building them with faults to force people to buy new ones or new parts regularly. All while pushing out propaganda to normalize it, creating a situation where people don’t wonder why their thousand dollar machine can potentially die in less than a year. (which also helps sell warranties since companies can’t predict just when their planted flaw will fail)(Speaking of which, ever notice how often things fail just after the warranty runs out? That’s not coincidence).
This pairs nicely with globalization and corporations sending manufacturing to impoverished countries/countries that are chill with sweatshops being the norm.
There is zero reason why practically everything we own has a limited lifespan outside capitalistic greed. Even clothes are no exception to this, and there’s a reason why in the past you could buy/make something and have it last for years of hard use but that $50 shirt you buy rips after a few months.
