hey, Leverage peeps, I’ve got a thought. I’ve seen a lot of posts and memes joking about Nate’s inability to understand that his clients do not want money, they want revenge. I also find this funny. but I was thinking about it and I realized something: there’s a personal reason behind it. there is a very, very goodreason why Nate doesn’t get that.
Nate’s drive to lead Leverage, outside of the crew, originated from his son’s death due to his insurance company’s refusal to cover the bill for the required treatment. we all know this. if his company had paid for Sam’s treatment, everything would’ve been fine.
…or, if Nate had been a little wealthier, had a little more change to spend… maybe he could’ve paid for it. maybe Blackpool never would’ve had a say in any of it. maybe Nate would’ve had everything under control from the start.
we’ve discussed at length in the fandom how money equals safety for some of the others in the crew (Parker and Hardison grew up with little to none and know its importance to survival, Eliot needs it to stay ahead of his old enemies, etc.), but I don’t know that I’ve seen any discussion on how it’s relevant to Nate. for him, however, money equals security in healthcare and in housing (he lost the house, remember?). Nate’s older than the others. he remained in the same place for much longer, and he had a stable life for a while. the others haven’t been in that position before. many of their clients, however, are at that place in life.
yes, for the others, money keeps them ahead of the game and it keeps them secure. but none of them ever lost a kid because they couldn’t pay for healthcare. none of them risk losing the life of someone who is completely dependent on them when they don’t have enough.
(Hardison, perhaps, has the closest understanding, considering he hacked a bank to pay for his Nana’s healthcare. but he never lost her.)
Nate thinks ahead, you know? he has a long-term view of things. I imagine that for him, when clients refuse the money, they’re not just refusing a month’s worth of groceries, or a place to stay the night, or the ability to keep running. for him, they’re refusing control over their hard-earned, stable, long-term living situation. they’re refusing the potential to save a family member’s life.
I dunno, guys. I think that’s a pretty good reason to not understand why people don’t want the money.
TOS: A queer friend group that has been together since they were in school would die for each other, but they are compelled to complain about it the whole time
TNG: A bunch of people with family issues decide to be as loving a found family as possible while the universe continues to refuse to let any of them be nerds in peace
DS9: A group of messy people with the energy of housemates who have miraculously not burned down the house yet are at least able to unite to try to deal with their much shittier neighbors
VOY: A woman who was Assigned Mom Friend At Birth finds out what it’s like to be a middle school teacher on a hiking field trip, except the stakes are way higher
ENT: A group of coworkers has no idea what they’re doing, but they’ll be damned if they’re not gonna fuck around and find out anyway, which ultimately results in a desire to unionize
DIS: A bunch of highly talented and deeply depressed people decide to suffer together because the one thing they have in common is how much no one prepared them for this level of bullshit, like college students in a constant state of finals week
LD: A deeply dysfunctional friend group is in possession of exactly no braincells, and it’s frankly astounding that they haven’t killed each other or themselves yet, but still they persist, like unholy bastions of mediocrity
As someone who’s living with a middle school social studies teacher, all the posts along the lines of “why did we never learn about this historical event in school” just make me go “because your teacher was supposed to cover all of US history in one year, and they didn’t get to the Revolutionary War until Halloween because they were urged to slow down the progression of the lessons because a more senior teacher was running behind, and they didn’t get to the Civil War until Valentine’s Day because the school kept scheduling every special event during social studies because there’s no end-of-grade testing for that subject, and they didn’t get to WWI until May because they were sick for a few days and the substitute couldn’t do much more than babysit, and now they’re having to do the entire Cold War in two days, so that’s why you didn’t hear about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut. They would have loved to tell you about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut!”
i am not “mentally a child.” i am mentally an adult, because i am in my early 20s. i do not care how childish i seem; that never gives anyone the right to say that i am mentally a child. i am an adult who doesn’t want nor deserves to be compared to a child.
i do not care how many times i watch sesame street, i do not care that my reading level is low, i do not care that i need lots of things simplified to me, i do not care about all the things i do that make me seem childish. i still am an adult and deserve to be treated like one. i will never be “mentally a child.”
this theory hurts people with intellectual disability and i am tired of seeing it.
I’ve got a theory that when Vulcans say “I do not experience that emotion” or “I do not feel ___” it’s actually a traditional mantra/prayer rather than a statement of fact.
Picture an angry vulcan five year-old with balled up fists being taught to say “I do not experience anger” over and over until they calm down.
Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.
Do NOT EVER use uTorrent. Be VERY CAREFUL on tpb.
someone said utorrent doesnt mine anymore but honestly dont use it anyway given its history, and it being proprietary closed-source adware. theres literally no reason to use utorrent, its only used because its already well known.
in comparison, programs such as qbittorrent and transmission are entirely free and open source and ad free. the great thing about being open source is you yourself (or other people who know more about security) can check the safety of the code, vulnerabilities get patched quickly, and if some bullshit does happen you can always compile it without the bullshit yourself. just make sure youre getting it from official sources, no doubt theres probably 1 or 2 fake sites with modified versions thanks to it being open source
there is literally 0 reason to use utorrent in 20fucking23, theres better options
i personally recommend qbittorrent especially if youre moving off of utorrent as its ui is explicitly designed to feel familiar to utorrent users. provided transmission as another option if you want something different, theres plenty more free opensource options out there though im sure
and use 1337x and rarbg for torrents instead of TPB, both of them are moderated and their torrents are safe to download!
LPT: Don’t throw your junk mail away. Use it to to help the USPS instead!
Next time you get a credit card offer in the mail, or a junk piece of mail that includes a prepaid envelope or postcard, don’t throw it away! Send the envelope back with a blank sheet of paper inside, or don’t fill the postcard out, but still send it back. The company that sent it to you had to pay the USPS for postage on each one they get back. This is a way to support the USPS by doing very little, and sticking it to the annoying companies that want all of your money.
In the 90s we would send companies “hate mail” by stuffing prepaid envelopes with things like ‘blanks’ (flat heavy metal pieces), a roofing shingle) and layers of other competitors’ mail or junk news. This is because the company would have to pay more upon recieving the junk mail. It eats into them. It actually somewhat reduced our junk mail returnables, I think.
Send that mail y’all.
Except please don’t do this to nonprofits!!
If you do this when you get a donation request or something from a nonprofit, you’ll be forcing small organizations with very little overhead to deal with the incoming mail and paying for the postage.
Credit card companies? YES. Personal loan offers? ABSOLUTELY. The chain store you’ve never shopped at who bought your info from a competitor? BY ALL MEANS.
But don’t do this to your local “Friends of the Library” fundraiser or homeless outreach program or anything like that. You’ll be draining their limited resources that would be better used elsewhere.
Feel free to do it to groups like Salvation Army, PETA, or Susan Komen cuz fuck them.
Hey y'all. I was talking to a retired postmaster about this.
She was 100 percent for this, bit please PLEASE do not use metal pieces or roof tiles. It can jam the sorting machines and cost the office millions to replace it.
Cardstock? Other papers? Fine. They are flexible. They go through the machine without issue.
So go ahead, send the junk mail, but limit it to paper.
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
Reminder that micropenis jokes are inherently intersexist, and as an intersex woman with a pseudo-phallus/micropenis it really fucking hurts to hear people use my body as the short hand for “crude”, “uncouth”, “violent”, “lacking”, “of poor character”, and nearly any unpleasant trait imaginable.
It hurts me, it has never not hurt. Stop.
Cis men with micropenises are intersex too, and trans men with micropenises hear your vitriol. You have always been punching down.
