advertisement is so constant and everywhere i have to wonder if it even works anymore. im aware my bus stop probably has ads on it but i couldnt tell you what for. i hear ‘this video is sponsored by’ and i start skipping ahead until its over. u can probably argue theyre still getting in your brain by becoming part of the white noise but like idk man. im feelin really “when everything is ads, nothing is.” right now.
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#i see an ad that is unskipable and i refuse to buy that item or visit the place out of spite
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told my coworker “they’re accusing the chivelord of chive fraud” and it turns out she doesn’t know what any of that means and i look crazy
HE CONFESSED TO THE CHIVE FRAUD
context for the people not following along with chivegate: chopping a cup of chives is a pretty standard test of a chef’s knife skills, so about a month ago a redditor on r/KitchenConfidential started cutting a cup of chives every day until reddit says they’re perfect. he quickly became a wildly popular character, his chives posts regularly hit the front page of reddit. ah what happy larks we’ve had. chive montage break.
but earlier today someone posted that for the past two days he had posted the same cup of chives, just a different photo and flipped. investigation, accusation, excuses, and despair followed in the comments. a few hours later the chivelord himself posted an apology, stating that he had been having car trouble and was unable to get and chop chives and had been too embarrassed skip a day. he offered to submit to the most-upvoted reasonable punishment, which as of right now is, in second place, buying a tripod and posting videos of him chopping his chives, and in first place, simply sitting with the weight of his betrayal
Updated version of Boy Who Cried Wolf but there are actual wolves every single time and no one ever believes the boy - they get closer and closer every time he tries to warn them, until it’s too late and the whole town screams at the boy for not warning them “enough”, and blame him for the wolves at their door.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who said, “Hey, guys? This is a big wide mixed meadow and woodland with a river in it.”
“Yeah, isn’t it great?” said his companions. “It’ll be awesome for the sheep once we get the village built.”
“Don’t you think this looks like a spot where wolves would wait in the trees to ambush animals that come down to eat the grass and drink the water?”
“Dude,” said his companion, taking the boy aside by his elbow. “Cut the wolf talk, alright? You’re gonna freak everybody out and they’re not gonna want to settle in this obviously fruitful place. This will be good for us, so don’t mess it up. Tell you what,” the companion added, tone turning placating. “If we see wolf sign around, then we’ll worry about it. Okay?”
Reblogs on the other post were disabled, so I’m making a new one that can continue to be passed around.
For those that don’t know, a quick overview of the previous post:
A little after 5pm Tuesday, a UPS cargo plane fully loaded with fuel for a LONG flight from Louisville to Honolulu exploded on the ground during takeoff at the UPS Worldport at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. It appears (for the moment) that one of the engines caught fire and fell off (which is it designed to do in this event, so that it does not take the entire plane with it!), and this may have caused debris to take down a second engine. However, much more investigation will be needed to determine what exactly happened to cause the engine problem in the first place, and if anything could have been done differently. The NTSB said they have found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and have the pilot recordings to analyze as a start.
The explosion killed all 3 crew members aboard. As of around 8am today, there are 12 people confirmed dead, 15 injured, and 9 people that have not been accounted for. As terrible as that is, the crew did manage to move the plane far enough away from the building/airport to spare a LOT of people from the explosion, like a LOT of people. We don’t know how much time they had to deal with it, or if they knew exactly how bad it was- the recordings from the black box should tell us more, once they have been looked over. But we do know that it could have been so, so much worse (had the plane hit the building or been closer to it), and I am beyond relieved it was not. The footage in news reports is pretty horrifying to see (especially if you know anything about airplanes for that extra gut-drop of how much worse it could have been), so please be careful if you’re going to poke around to learn more.
Please feel free to add info/news updates to the post as the story develops; I’m going to turn off notifications for it, but with reblogs off on the OG post (and good for the person, because it was personal for them), I wanted the news to be able to continue to be spread about it in case folks need to check in on loved ones in the area.
