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The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.

i had a dream i worked in an underwater restaurant and people kept ordering ice in their drinks and then getting mad at me when it would float away. and i’d tell them beforehand that the ice would float away & they’d be like lol no that’s not how it works just give me the ice. I’m fighting customer service battles never seen before

Bronze age ship discovered

look inside

made of wood

Going outside of merica for a bit, one can easily notice that the rise of various fascisms after ww2 conveniently started about 100 years ago too... People really can't into history books, like, no need to mention america here since that's what we're talking about anyway, but just look at Deutschland, people there somehow started forgetting what exactly happened in the previous century when people wanted "strong leaders" who'd "just go and fix the country ruling with a strong fist" and here we are, alternative für Deutschland ist doing frighteningly gut. Welcome to Raven talking the topic on a walk once again

As the Delphi Oracle said

Where in tarnation was that school😳🗿 Feels like reading some sort of a grotesque plot about a school where to get to a class have to calculate complex math equations, I don't even know how to describe it.

Or wait. Something rings a bell. Baldi's basics.

emnesoi's disorganized ramblings

a disorganized ramble about my old middle school’s scheduling system

Middle school was kind of a haze for me, being a traumatic web of abuse that I’m sure is more ubiquitous than it should be, but I’ve recentl

i wrote a thing based on that thread (~15 minute read)

The world islands in Dubai are a perfect example of that kind of pointless construction project bc they do, now, have a commercial resort operating. One commercial project. Open after fourteen years. Another remains in construction. Other than that there's a house...for display, to entice people to buy an island, and a house they gave away to someone

Here's a helpful Wikipedia map of everything on the islands

(tourism puff pieces about this place are fun bc they'll list EIGHT things you can do at the World Islands! And then in the text admit all eight are on one single island out of 200+ bc that's the only one with anything on it)

When they were announced people had a lot of knee-jerk criticism about the horrible environmental impact, and how they would inevitably sink/erode, and all of that shallow, immediate criticism was absolutely true.

The bigger miscalculation is that they were trying to cater to people with private island money. But people with private island money can afford to travel the actual world, and not have to build a fake one on a tiny island. People with private island money tend to like having islands that are actually private, and not islands that are packed in tightly in a dense thicket of identical private islands, not in the open seas but just in a city's bay.

Compare those Chinese theme parks that replicate world monuments. Window of the World etc. People mock those, but they're hugely popular, in part bc of the innate human love of kitschy bullshit, but also bc your average Chinese citizen is not ever going to be able to travel to every landmark in the world. Your average local in any country will never have the resources or time for that. By comparison the type of person being courted by those islands has summer houses at every landmark in the world

The websites for the World can't even make a clear sales pitch bc afaik they were all bought ages ago & the owners are sitting on them. They can't even go "hey, billionaire, come buy an island!" bc it's owned by some tourism company since 2007. One of the first stories about it I saw interviewed some Irish company that bought the Ireland island to turn into a Ireland-themed resort, held up as an example of what's possible, and a year later they gave up, and just held onto the Irish island forever while it eroded away as part of a multi-billion dollar chain of untouched eroding artificial ghost islands

These are the images they use to promote it. This is what they feel is the "good side" that will entice people