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[privacy-is-a-human-right]

There is a new age verification bill that has passed the house in America.

They insist that websites "don't have to" verify your age, but then they say, "if you don't when you have certain content on your site that kids may see, you will get a huge fine" which is going to cause most apps and sites to panic and do it anyway.

If you don't think it will affect you, that's where you're wrong.

They aren't just talking about sexual content. They are talking about gay themes in media (even if they are only holding hands and not even doing anything sexual). Discussions of drugs (not promotion of doing it, but discussions of people doing them and how to get help) discussions of self harm (how to get help) discussions about changes happening to your body (puberty, as well as health-related issues), cursing (as if kids haven't heard worse things at the back of the school bus.)

So, here are ways this hurts people in general, but let's focus on the fact that it hurts minors, the people these bills claim to protect:

If a kid has a friend who has started abusing drugs, they cannot reach out to anyone to ask questions to start the process of getting their friend help. Their friend could die because of this, or the one who wanted to help them could end up pressured into joining them.

2. A kid tries to look up how to get help for suicidal thoughts and how to get help stopping self harm and cannot get help and dies because these discussions are age gated.

3. A kid is being abused in anyway, including but not limited to sexually. They try to figure out what counts as that kind of abuse to try and get help, but because it has to do with minors being abused in that way, the search is considered illegal, as well as age gated so that they cannot receive any help.

4. A young girl has found a lump on her breast, and is having some scary symptoms, but she doesn't feel safe to talk to her parents because they're abusive. she turns to the internet to try and get help to learn what steps she needs to do next, but because the images that show what those symptoms look like are medical images that show images of breasts, she cannot learn more about her condition. Over time, the symptoms get worse. In America, we don't have free health care, and we are getting more and more impoverished. She doesn't get the help she needs, and eventually loses her breasts, or worse... it travels to the rest of her body, and she dies a slow and painful death.

This is not about helping minors. This isolates them and keeps them from being able to have online friends. Get basic information that could help them when they're in a scary situation.

What this is is a tool to gather information about people so that they are afraid to speak due to retaliation. This isolation is also good for both political parties--who both agreed that this bill is a good thing, by the way. Your political party is not "the good one" they are both your enemy--because they need us further isolated. If we cannot speak and cannot find ways to reach each other because the websites and apps eventually reach the point that to access them at all you have to prove your age, it will cause a greater divide in the people. Divided, we cannot rise up against fascism together. People have a difficult time meeting in public now to try and make friends, form alliances, or even share interests. There are no third spaces anymore. This has been in the works for a long time. This bill is the perfect tool to silence everyone.

We frogs are in a boiling pot of water right now. I know some of you are so sex averse that you want all of it banned, but because you wouldn't properly filter out that content and instead insisted everyone else curate the whole internet for your experience, you have vied for everything being illegal.

Your animes are going to be banned from viewing, and if you think fleeing this country will fix the issue, you're wrong. This will chase after you everywhere you go.

We have to fight this. this bill is called the KIDS Act. Please look into it.

Look up what is happening in the UK. I'm not overreacting. They have the most arrests over social media posts in the world now. If you don't think that could be you one day, you're a fool.

Please raise Caine about this. We need to stand together, or we will fall. The next thing that would be required to fix this is revolution, and you don't want to know what it's like to be in a post-revolution country. You have no idea what we will lose. You do not go from dystopia to utopia immediately. There is a very long transitionary period of the country being lawless with people rioting in the streets, people killing, stealing, and raping just because they can. You will be hungrier and thirstier and dirtier than you have ever been because the services you have come to know and love will disappear. The stores will be ransacked. Please, for the love of god, I know you hate what we currently have, but don't take this for granter. Don't be a fool. God, please.

If you feel uncomfortable with reblogging things from me due to disagreements you have with beliefs I hold, please just steal the post and copy-paste it as if it's you're own post. This information needs to be seen. It doesn't have to come from me. I don't care. Just please get this in front of as many eyes as possible.

This is not the time to be like "I won't share or even look at posts made by someone I disagree with" this is a life and death situation. We have it GOOD here. Do you understand? I know we have our struggles, but they are nothing in comparison to the other countries. Does the fact that you won't have electricity anymore if we end up having a revolution do anything for you? What about the fact that your dopamine-fulled activities will go away? what about the fact that you won't see new updates on the video games you love to play for years, or maybe even the rest of your life while the country rebuilds? We don't have to have a revolution. We just need to work on our foundation, and rebuild some rooms of the building instead of breaking the whole thing down just because one room is moldy.

I know this won't mean we have instant revolution. I am saying that it will be all we can do to fix this if things go a certain way. I'm not overreacting. This is a worst case scenario that becomes closer to being real if we don't stop this fucking KIDS act. I swear to god please understand.

[intodecember]

[gsirvitor]

[themasterofallusion]

never ask a viltrumite

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the idea that a sex scene in fiction is fundamentally useless/simply for audience titillation UNLESS they’re fucking infodumping exposition while they bone or something is so funny and myopic to me. like, you really genuinely believe for real that there is NOTHING to be gained about your understanding of a story or characters simply from how they approach and engage in sex? really for real?

[tlaquetzqui]

That “unless” is a transparent rationalization.

Explicit sex scenes exist only to be porn for people who are too big of pussies to go look at porn, nothing else.

[choppedrunawaytheorist]

To be fair,sex scenes in fiction are 100% less likely to be directly related with human trafficking.

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[zoobus]

unfavorite anime fan activity is when they act like they were thrown in world war one trenches because they chose to watch shounenslop and ecchi instead of literally anything else and then one (1) magical Japanese creator redeemed their race by virtue of being the only artist who isn't a pedophile fascist, as we know the Japanese inherently are.

Finally we have non-perverse depictions of women in anime. it took two thousand and twenty six years, but for the first time in history, Japan has permitted girls to take the center stage. Congratulations, Japan!

[zoobus]

There's a certain framing these types use that I find fascinating. Starved. You were starved for a depiction of girlhood (in anime). Like you subconsciously realize this content already exists across many mediums, but you're starving for content specifically from a specific country and you are mad at them for not having your to-go box ready. I'm starving because I want pizza but oyu keep putting peppers on it! I don't like peppers, I'm hungry! There's nothing to eat!!

[radiofreemagica]

this image remains evergreen

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

I heard the dub of that anime sucks dog balls from @merrikiwi

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

I don't want to understand this type of anime fan just because everything they say sounds like ridiculous prattle from a person who just turned 20, went to college for the first time, and had their eyes opened to an entire world that exists beyond them, but is stuck in that, instead of realizing that, yeah, everybody else knows that shit too. You're not special. And no one cares.

[choppedrunawaytheorist]

I wonder if Shojo doesn't exist for this people

[susanoos-wife]

The people who make the biggest deal out of being kind to others and talking about how empathy, tolerance, and being the bigger person are so important are almost always the meanest, nastiest, pettiest people you'll ever meet with a personality that could pickle eggs via osmosis.

[choppedrunawaytheorist]

Yeah, they are closer to politicians making promises that they never deliver than being any of those things.

[blurrymango]

Sorry but like.

[re-jet-irony]

The 'new male armor' above is 100% a male armor option in many mmorpg's and other games. And a lot of the male player characters you see running around like that are played by women.

It's almost like most people play a character they find attractive and dress them accordingly.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I also see male characters in webtoons aimed at lades who regularly have fanservice shirtless scenes, and often villains are shown as chest-exposed sexy in the same way an evil sorceress stereotypically is.

Like LOL's ruined king wossname

Also, superhero movies have had fanservice shirtlessness for men loads of times. Women drool over Thor and Cap in-universe, to the point of getting "hands-on" without permission.

[choppedrunawaytheorist]

Speaking of Cap, it's always good to remember Peggy touching his chest in First Avenger was not on the script. That was the actress choice for good or for ill.

[beginnerblueglass]

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone.

The Reason for God, Timothy Keller.

[tlaquetzqui]

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve. And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth.”—C. S. Lewis

“Any one might say, ‘Neither swagger nor grovel’; and it would have been a limit. But to say, ‘Here you can swagger and there you can grovel’—that was an emancipation.”—G. K. Chesterton

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I have never read or watched Death Note and i know the whole ‘book that kills people’ premise but from all the shit i see on here it seems to be two teenaged boys acting out this scene over and over

[stunningpicture]

He designed this special shoes, shared between him and his paralyzed daughter just to make her feel the sensation of walking.

[partly-cloudie-deactivated20141]

WEEP DAFEELS PENETRATE ME

[fight-0ff-yourdem0ns]

Oh my goodness

[psychmajorpizzamaker]

This is probably so good for her body, too! Imagine her muscles getting moved in ways they don’t normally and she is upright and hopefully not having any pressure spots! This is lovely in so many ways!

[tinawarriorprincess]

This is a wonderful invention, but the man in the picture is one of the testers. He is not the inventor. The inventor was an Israeli woman named Debby Elnatan who developed this with an Irish company for her son.

[jewelkat16]

Original image

[enriquemzn262]

You okay? I just heard about the earthquake.

I have spend the last hour looking at videos of the tragedy in central Venezuela, a 7.4 earthquake rocked the country at around 6 pm local time, demolishing dozens of apartment buildings and an unknown number of smaller homes, it also damaged the main airport of Venezuela, Maiquetia, the Caracas underground metro, a naval academy, a petrochemical plant, a bus terminal and many malls.

The death toll is so far not known but feared to be in the hundreds, possibly thousands, and as more videos pop up, the worse it seems.

I currently live in Barranquilla so we didn’t even feel it, my in-laws live in Maracaibo where they did feel it, but the damage was minimal and so far no one has been reported as injured, so thankfully I was not directly or indirectly affected.

I used to travel to Caracas a lot in the early 2010s, I know some of the affected areas, its hearth wrecking to see the level of destruction, the country was barely starting to recover after Maduro was ousted by the US, and now this earthquake has set the country back years.

Please pray for Venezuela!

[enriquemzn262]

La Guaira, rocked by a landslide the night of December 31 1999, seems to be the area hit the worst by the twin earthquake (first a 7.2 and then less than a minute later a 7.4, these are not aftershocks), mostly in the areas rebuilt by the Chavez government in the early to mid 2000s, at least according to reports.

I honestly do believe now its in the thousands of deaths, so many videos and images of collapsed buildings keep popping up on social media, with the screams of people trapped inside captured by helpless civilians who can do nothing but shout words of encouragement and pray, as Venezuela, rocked by social and economic collapse thanks to years of the Maduro socialist regime, is simply unprepared to deal with this tragedy.

Please, pray for this country.

[enriquemzn262]

Its horrible…

[whiteantcrawls]

My heart is breaking. This devastation is almost unimaginable. Enrique, I'm so very glad your in-laws are safe on the other side of the lake. That is such a blessing. I have also been watching the videos coming out and praying for all of the people. This is going to be a long long road to any level of recovery. Please, if you are so inclined, pray for the people of my homeland. They need it now, more than ever.

[tlaquetzqui]

Something that you mentioned about Feudalism and how it doesn't make sense with the main theme of ASOIF of uncheked power, because of then having the opposite problem, but wasn't Feudalism before the Black Plague still pretty difficult for the commoners, like it wasn't until the massive deaths that the people could negotiate something more favorable for then. Maybe that is what Martin is trying to portrait?.

Other way around. It was in large part because of the mass deaths that the governments were able to absolutize. Even serfs, let alone full freemen, had recourses in the heyday of feudalism. But when a third of the population died, people rallied around the leadership. The feudal rights made things inefficient, and you don’t want inefficiency in a massive epidemic.

Martin is a piss-ignorant soap opera writer. Literally: before A Game of Thrones he was mostly known for writing the cult classic paranormal romance daytime drama series Beauty and the Beast, which is also where Ron Perlman got his big break. (They cast Perlman for Hellboy because they knew he could emote with prostheses on his face.)

[choppedrunawaytheorist]

Hmm, what source would you recomend to get a good overvied of Middle Ages and Feudalism.

[folklorespring]

Can't help but laugh at the amount of people who claim to be anti-imperialist but in reality are only anti-west and will luckily lick the boot of non-western empires

[folklorespring]

[tlaquetzqui]

If you’re anti-imperialist and don’t view Turks in a way that would get Vlad the Impaler to nod approvingly…no you aren’t.

[mademoiseli]

If you're not old enough or mature enough to get married & have kids, then you're not old enough or mature enough to have intimate relations with someone

[mademoiseli]

If you're a man and you choose to be intimate with a woman, accept the possibility that she could conceive your child

If you're a woman and you choose to be intimate with a man, accept the possibility that you could conceive his child

[mademoiseli]

Consent to physical intimacy is consent to parenthood

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.