Jackie. 17. Tennessee. Vanderbilt University '16. Just an ordinary girl in an ordinary world.
I like pop economics but not pop philosophy.
You can read about my politics here.
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it takes more than fucking someone you don’t know to keep yourself warm
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This guy seriously thought he could make $75,000 off a fanmade sequel to Dragon Ball Z without attracting the attention of the companies who own the rights to it
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My little brother got into outer space and stuff so my step-mom bought him a place mat with all the planets on it. When I first saw it, I was upset, because it was newer and so Pluto wasn’t labeled. I was about to say something when I noticed something…
Pluto is there.
The artist remembered Pluto.
Guys…
The artist drew Pluto crying.
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ahahah this card game about anime tentacle rape got canceled by kickstarter admins and now the dorks who pledged money to it are freaking out. heres a great quote:
After what you did to Tentacle Bento, I will never use your service again.
Nothing about the game was sexually explicate, there were just two misinformed articles written about it to put pressure on you. Any actual research into the product would reveal there is no offensive material beyond a parody of a small segment of Japanese culture.
If you let people pick and choose what they think is acceptable, then your service will just end up being bland and boring. People will be too afraid to push the boundaries of art, and instead you’ll just get “safe” products people have already seen before.
Please learn to think for yourself, and ignore extremists who will complain about everything they don’t like. Today you set freedom of speech in gaming back a couple steps, I hope you understand that.
people will be afraid to push the boundaries of art. the next da vinci is going to give up on being creative because he can’t put his idea for a steampunk RPG about child rape on kickstarter
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Read This, Not That is 6 Months Old!
Hope everyone here in the states had a pleasant holiday weekend. As of yesterday, we’ve been operating outside the newscycle to curate the finest long reads on the internet for half a year now.
The feedback we’re getting is great, and the follower count continues to grow, so we must be doing something right. And thanks to everyone, for reading and sharing and showing that there is an audience for long form content on the internet—yes, even on Tumblr!
To celebrate the occassion, we’ve updated our So What The Fuck is Read This, Not That? page and gathered our Top 10 Favorite RTNT Posts of all time. Read ‘em, and as always, let us know what you think:
1. Trial By Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
A sloppy investigation and a broken justice system lead to the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for the alleged murder of his three children.
David Grann, New Yorker, September 20092. Speak, Money
How power has shifted away from the electorate in the United States.
Roger D. Hodge, excerpt from The Mendacity of Hope, October 20103. Within the Context of No Context
Brilliant exposition on the state of American culture and twentieth-century life.
George Trow, New Yorker, November 19804. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The development of our system of money was neither inevitable nor necessarily beneficial.
Aaron Bady, New Inquiry, February 20125. The Science of Why We Don’t Believe in Science
When confronted with evidence that contradicts their views, people have a worrying tendency to ignore the evidence.
Chris Mooney, Mother Jones, June 20116. Raise the Crime Rate
Reform isn’t enough—the prison system is a moral catastrophe and must be dismantled.
Christopher Glazek, n+1, January 20127. The Elusive Big Idea
We have access to and consume more information than ever before, but it’s not doing us any good.
Neil Gabler, New York Times, August 20118. Dumb Like a Fox
Fox News’ agenda isn’t political, but commercial—the network has simply mastered the cable news format better than its competitors.
Terry McDermott, Columbia Journalism Review, April 20109. The Way it Was
Stories of what it was like for women before Roe v. Wade.
Eleanor Cooney, Mother Jones, October 200410. Generation Why?
We limit our idea of what a person is when we reduce our complexities to the confines of Facebook.
Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books, November 2010How about you? Has RTNT changed your reading habits? What are some of your favorite pieces you’ve read so far? Share them with us via the submit feature, and we’ll make a readers’ choice list this Friday!
And changes you would like to see to RTNT’s programming or any new features you’d like on the website? We have some ideas in the pipeline, but we want to hear from you!
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