Out of curiosity rb and put in the tags how many fics come up when you type your last name into ao3. Apparently even though my last name is uncommon there's like 500

Fake rare last name havers when real ones come at them LOL

as I understand it the plastic pollution is mostly from fishing fleets? I think whale populations are recovering now that we're not killing them by the thousands any more, but yeah I assume less human activity would make the oceans more comfortable for them.

if by "mostly" from fishing fleets, you mean "about 20%" then yeah:

ocean plastic is actually mostly stuff that people dropped on the ground on land and it just ended up in the ocean eventually because of, like, gravity. as far as I can tell cargo ship activity doesn't contribute much at all to the problem except inasmuch as some of the garbage people generate was probably on a cargo ship at some point I guess. but they don't usually dump stuff directly from the ships into the ocean, no

All of this is assuming that Trump is correct about the tariffs that they will magically return manufacturing to the US. But that's not going to happen. Companies are not going to pay US union wages and benefits. They are going to raise prices and keep their factories whereever.

Will this reduce some consumption? Sure and that's fine. I'm not opposed to actually taxing Temu and Shein like they SHOULD be taxed and stopping people buying crap just cause it's cheap.

But for necessities, stuff will just be more expensive. No one is shelling out to build entire new towns and factories and training a new workforce AND paying for their health insurance, etc.

In order to bring manufacturing back to the USA it requires two things:

1. Tariffs executed in a planned, well-reasoned way

2. Support for developing manufacturing plants in the USA (which requires not having a tariff on the things like machine tools that will allow us to build the factories that will allow us to re-shore).

These tariffs don’t satisfy either requirement. To quote expert Matt Stoller, who is someone that REALLY wants to bring manufacturing back to the USA, “while Trump made it harder to import, he also made it harder to build factories in the U.S. to replace imports.” This blog post by a board game company explaining why these tariffs will kill the board game industry lays it out in a way that makes it immediately possible to understand.

As Stoller explains: “It takes years to set up a factory and reorient a supply chain, and lots of investment. CEOs won’t commit to that unless they think the tariffs are going to remain in place. These particular tariffs, done with IEEPA and with a suggestive nod that Trump might want to negotiate, don’t lend themselves to re-shoring. Instead, it’s likely that CEOs will just raise prices and seek to out-wait this administration...”

So, yeah, expect layoffs and high prices.

for an ideal world

as I understand it the plastic pollution is mostly from fishing fleets? I think whale populations are recovering now that we're not killing them by the thousands any more, but yeah I assume less human activity would make the oceans more comfortable for them.

if by "mostly" from fishing fleets, you mean "about 20%" then yeah:

ocean plastic is actually mostly stuff that people dropped on the ground on land and it just ended up in the ocean eventually because of, like, gravity. as far as I can tell cargo ship activity doesn't contribute much at all to the problem except inasmuch as some of the garbage people generate was probably on a cargo ship at some point I guess. but they don't usually dump stuff directly from the ships into the ocean, no

All of this is assuming that Trump is correct about the tariffs that they will magically return manufacturing to the US. But that's not going to happen. Companies are not going to pay US union wages and benefits. They are going to raise prices and keep their factories whereever.

Will this reduce some consumption? Sure and that's fine. I'm not opposed to actually taxing Temu and Shein like they SHOULD be taxed and stopping people buying crap just cause it's cheap.

But for necessities, stuff will just be more expensive. No one is shelling out to build entire new towns and factories and training a new workforce AND paying for their health insurance, etc.

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#yes he's committed many crimes #but he literally has big sad wet eyes.

Memory of a memory

CW: blood, injury

(ID: sequential art image 1: a younger Silco sits at the bar of The Last Drop reading a book and taking a sip of a drink, Vander is tending bar image 2: close up of Silco’s lips, a drop of alcohol running down his chin image 3: Vander’s hand pushes stray hair behind Silco’s ear image 4: Vander tilts Silco’s head into a kiss, catching the liquid image 5: close up of Silco’s damaged eye image 6: Silco’s body in the water as Vander walks away, flames reflected on the dark water end ID)

yonkers is such a deeply unserious name for a place. i bet nobody even dies there

no they do i know cause i once saw the headline "7 dead in Yonkers incident" and said "what the fuck is a Yonkers incident"

Fuckin wild

so. my wife came downstairs just as i took a bite out of the remaining half red onion on the counter. literally within seconds of just getting away with it. i looked at her, and she looked at me, and we both sat there a moment, all frozen, beforeshe said babs, what the fuck. i tried to say i can explain but it came out as or corn explorn because such was the onion in my mouth that there was no room for words. its honestly a miracle that she understood me at all. at least, i'm assuming that she understood me because she did let me get my bearings for a few moments. a smarter man would've used that time to think up a good lie, but instead i just chewed as fast as i could because i knew i was gonna have to tell a whopper and i really wanted to be able to use big words again.

big words are instrumental to telling a whopper.

anyway, i totally ran out of time. i barely got my first swallow of onion in before she said well?, and i did at least have an empty mouth to match my empty head. but also i had no lies. so i looked her dead in the face, opened my mouth and waited, every bit as curious as her, to hear what excuse my mouth was gonna come up with.

im pregnant, said my mouth.

great job, mouth, said my brain.

mmmmm onion, said my mouth.

better you than me, said my wife. then she went upstairs. it has been two hours she still refuses to kiss me. im devastated. im shook. im crying a little, i think.

(but that might just be the onion.)

Okay but now I have to know

What was the truth??

Because it simply cannot be as obvious as “what, I like onions”

It can’t

Because that would not need a lie

I know people who eat onions like apples simply for pleasure

I don’t understand them, but they say “what, I like onions”, and we both shrug, and they carry on

Also. Was. Was the plan to eat the whole thing? Just no more half red onion? Because the alternative form of “getting away with it” was you were planning to put it back with a bite taken out of it before she came in and that is if anything more unhinged

okay so i do this thing that i call tummy tacos where i put all the ingredients to a taco in front of me, but like, separate. and then i take big bites of all of them. but just one at a time. like one big mouthful of taco chicken and then swallow and then a separate big mouthful of chopped cabbage and then swallow and then a corn tortilla and you get the idea.

(my wife considers it Barbaric. she does not approve of tummy tacos.)

but yesterday i had this idea for stomach pico de gallo there i was gonna eat an onion and then a tomato and then a jalapeno and then some cilantro. thud achieving salsa internally. but i underestimated the call of the onion. i really could give a damn about everything else after the onion. i felt the love of jesus in that onion.

and thus i fell into folly.

"I'm about to make your day."

Some of my favourite recent protest signs

I didn't get a picture but my favorite protest sign from Saturday was:

"Billionaires Are The Only Minority Ruining This Country."

Source

Source

...*sigh*

*taps mic*

If you want to look, then look openly, it's not like I will charge you for it.

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