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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
nudityandnerdery
themacklemorebrothers

when i was depressed those “reasons not to kill yourself” lists never helped.. maybe they do for some people but for me they actually made me feel worse. it was like….here’s a reminder that there are all these things other people find joy in that you can’t. with a sprinkle of guilt because “your family/friends will miss you.”

what i needed to hear, and so what i’ll tell any of you reading this who are in the same situation, was: a lot of people recover from mental illness and go on to live full lives. it’s quite likely that with treatment, a time will come when you won’t want to die anymore and you’ll find joy in everyday life. yes, you. stay alive for that possibility.

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octoswan
fandomsandfeminism

Fun fact: anytime you hear a story that boils down to “and then some ABSOLUTE FOOL sued this totally innocent megacorporation for assloads of money AND WON! Can you believe it? Ridiculous. Some people, right?” 99 times out of 100, the corporation super fucked up, the plaintiff 100% deserved that money,.and you’ve just been fed corporate propaganda.

hazeldomain

“Hot Coffee Lady” had to get skin grafts and was at least the 11th customer to be hospitalized. The coffee served to her was in violation of a court order requiring McDonald’s to sell their coffee at a safe temperature.

The “warning: contents hot” label is a passive-aggressive move by McDonalds because they implemented it at the same time that they finally complied with legal requirements to serve safe beverages.

Every time you see “warning contents hot” and roll your eyes because of course it’s hot, you’re assuming that you and McDonald’s agree on the definition of “hot.”

What’s more, you assume you’ve always agreed, which is the baseline for assuming that the lady who sued had unrealistic expectations.

fierceawakening

Yeah. I don’t remember the corporate policy for McDonalds coffee temperature at the time, but i do remember that it was *near boiling.*

Your Starbucks? Not near boiling. Not likely to make you need massive reconstructive surgery on your hoo hah if you spill it in your lap.

purple-dawn

I make my coffee with boiling water too, so who exactly am I supposed to sue when I spill it on myself at home?

fandomsandfeminism

The coffee served to her was 190F. A temperature which can produce third degree burns in less than 3 seconds.

Documents obtained from McDonald’s showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald’s coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000.

They knew that this practice was dangerous. They had hurt HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE already. Then, this woman had to go to the hospital for SKIN GRAFTS on her fucking GENITALS and all she wanted was for McDonalds to pay her god damn hospital bills.

purple-dawn

why do you americans expect everyone to know how much 190F is?

And this doesn’t answer my question at all.

fandomsandfeminism

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If you do something dangerous and you get hurt, then you have responsibility for that.

If a super mega-corporation has hurt hundreds of people through repeated negligence and seriously injures you, then THEY have responsibility for that.

sodomymcscurvylegs

“Why is it MURDER if someone stabs me but not murder if I stab myself?”

cockyhorror

u ever been so riled up u forgot how to google

callmemab

working at starbucks i once spilled black coffee on my hand trying to put a lid on it. i screamed ‘fuck’ turned and put my hand under cold water right away. like mid customer. that shit was still so hot that my vision went black all of a sudden, from the shock of it all (i guess that’s what happened anyway, i got sent in the back with oj and chocolate and kindly asked not to yell fuck in the store again, i never went to doctor or anything), even if it didn’t leave a mark after an hour or so. i can’t imagine how hot that coffee was for that poor woman.

fandomsandfeminism

I got a Second degree burn once as a teenager working in a movie theater. We were having a rush, and the popcorn was about to burn, and in my haste to save the popcorn, I slammed my forearm against the side of the popper kettle- filled with boiling oil. None got on me, and it was just for a moment, but it was, ya know, very hot.

I must have had some adrenaline going because didn’t realize how badly I had hurt myself until a minute or so later when all of a sudden I went very woozy. I just thought I had banged my arm right up until my body started going into shock. Once the people around me realized what had happened , I was spirited off the the managers office. Water, gaze, ice, everything. (I think they were scared I would sue) I couldnt drive home, I couldnt think straight. My mom had to come get me.

It took weeks and weeks to heal. Easily the worst injury I’ve ever had so far in my life. I still have a scar on my arm from that.

Her burns were worse. So so much worse, and I can’t imagine it.

bogleech

When other countries laugh at how often Americans sue businesses, what they don’t understand is that the laws and regulations protecting us from careless, evil and dangerous business practices are MUCH WEAKER than theirs, and even in cases where they’re basically the same, our corporations are just plain greedier and more heartless. Americans end up having to sue corporations more often because American corporations leave people with permanent injuries, sickness or death more often.

A british restaurant is gonna be like “oh my gosh, we’re so sorry our milk went a little sour, we’re so ashamed.” An American restaurant is gonna be like “oh you’re shitting blood? What do you expect when you eat here, dumbass. Feel free to beg us for 1/1000th our CEO’s holiday bonus if you can even afford a lawyer lol”

the-a-j-universe

Anyone remember that joke in Arrested Development about the at-home fryers that had to be sold in Mexico because they got so hot that they couldn’t legally be sold in America? The secret layer to that joke is that, in the real world, they probably could have sold them in America…

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belarath
fromacomrade

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thinkherenow

fuck this guy

redroadtoadventure

These continents were already tamed by the indigenous inhabitants. And had been for tens of thousands of years.

krungle

Over 80% of the Native Americans were dead by diseases brought over by Columbus’ crew long before the Pilgrims arrived in North America. The Native Americans suffered an apocalyptic catastrophe that made the European Plague look like a bad cold season. This was not done on purpose but it was inevitable that it would have happened eventually.

So what we had here was a Post-Apocalyptic world being resettled by a technologically more advanced civilization. Anthropologically speaking, there was no other outcome possible but what occurred, not on the grander scale of it, anyway. That a bunch of political and religious refugees turned a culturally devastated land into the greatest bastion for freedom, self-rule, and scientific advancement this planet has ever seen is nothing to be sorry for.

fandomsandfeminism

Smallpox blankets

The effort to eradicate bison specifically to starve the Sioux

The trail of tears

Residential schools

Bounties for scalped Native Americans in Pennsylvania

The multiple broken treaties to respect Native Land


Please dont fucking act like Native genocide was some kind of unfortunate accident. It was a series of deliberate, violent acts that took advantage of the aftermath of the plagues Europeans brought with them.

heartemojie

“Refugees”

ophaniell

i love how white people like to act like they weren’t dying from dysentery and dumb as shit before they met us indigenous peoples. u fuckers couldn’t bathe your ass properly and u want to tell me u helped us “advance technologically?” we already had advanced structures and a method of doing things before u came here and infected us and assimilated our people. kindly shut the fuck up.

sapphicdogmeat

My dad was born in 1956 and remembers mysterious boxes showing up on their doorstep with food and blankets/clothes. They once gave the family dog the food and it died.

He also said people would try to hit his brothers and him with a car while they were walking to school.

His dad was allowed to die over appendicitis in a hospital. He suffered for days while the staff did NOTHING.

His uncles disappeared and the police did NOTHING. Their car was later found in a canyon, full of bullet holes. The bullets were military issue.

His eldest brother also died under mysterious circumstances.

My great grandmother, the last of our tribe to be born traditionally, outside, owned 5000 acres in northern California. Active imminent domain left her with 1 ACRE. Which they later took to build a post office.

That same grandma, who I’m named after, was kidnapped as a child and held as a slave in a white mans house. She had a wire put through her ear that tethered her so she could only go from her bedroom to the kitchen. Her dad found her and rescued her, ripping the thing out of her ear. My dad said her earlobe was forever split in two pieces.

In church when I was a kid people alienated my family and my dad got jokey death threats all the time. My mom, who was white, was told she was too good for my dad. I was told I was dark but I would hopefully lighten up if I stayed out of the sun. At school we read a story about a “drunken injun” and I cried in class while my classmates mockingly did a raindance and chanted. My first boyfriend said he wished he wasn’t a white guy because Indians get free college.

This shit was recent and current. Go look up suicide, sexual assault, and drug addiction statistics within Native American communities.

White people came to this country and slaughtered us. Your white ancestors did this. Maybe even your grandparents.

America wasn’t won, it was stolen. Native Americans aren’t better off because we have electricity. I’d rather have my people back.

Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck his voters. And fuck white people who try to downplay what happened here.

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