why are there 5,000 people on this site holding back from doing something with literally zero repercussions for anyone in a world that will never remember the chances you didn’t take? don’t waste your time on this earth live your life slap some rice
Hi my job is literally to reset the shelves and honestly??
Slap that rice. Slap it good. patting down the bags makes it easier to stack more, which means when I have to do it it’ll be flatter and more settled and more likely that I can just slide it along without it slidin’ around.
You are doing me a FAVOR by slapping that rice.
as a child i used to love the smell of my mother getting ready the mix of a tiny bathroom being heated by a flat iron & hairspray, her oils & elixirs, lotions & potions, her perfume - usually incredibly strong took a backseat to the aerosol aerosol body sprays that were so prevalent at the time a bathroom sink filled with make up a beautiful woman standing in the mirror like myself 
I’ve argued so hard that cereal isn’t soup, the base ingredients are so different in every way and I won’t fucking hear otherwise
(General you, not directly at you) if you legitimately argue that cereal is soup I’m not gonna fully listen to your other food takes, they at basic levels aren’t the same thing
I’m not touching that the ocean is a soup/cereal, if I had to say it was either one soup would fit more but the ocean is just different
I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.
Even if this is your first time hearing about it, you can still show your disapproval of the new policy by joining the blockout/boycott.
How?
Stop using YouTube. The best way to show our disapproval is by completely ignoring YouTube until they roll back this decision. There are lots of alternatives, and we are working on a masterlist. If you absolutely have to use YouTube in some capacity, I highly recommend using a front-end client like FreeTube. It gives you more privacy and doesn't have ads, but the best option is still to boycott YT entirely.
Use Google products as little as possible. I have switched over to Firefox, and there are lots of alternatives for lots of Google products. If anyone's interested in a specific list, I'll share what I find.
Sign this petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
If you're interested, there's a Discord server for this, too, started by @gentleman-velvet. Look at their blog for more info about that.
But why are we doing this? Why should you care?
I'll let YouTube themselves explain it for me.
[Alt: A screenshot of the YouTube policies page that reads: "For all U.S. accounts, YouTube employs a dual approach by using self-declared age as well as the application of an age estimation model that uses machine learning to determine whether a user is over or under 18. Regardless of the birthday in the account, this technology enables us to deliver age-appropriate product experiences and protections, treating teens as teens and adults as adults.
How it works: We use AI to interpret a variety of existing signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account.
When we identify a teen user, we’ll automatically apply our safeguards, including:
-Disabling personalized advertising and restricting age-sensitive ad categories
-Turning on digital wellbeing tools
-Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content.
Users have the option to verify that they are 18 or over by using a credit card or a government ID. We only allow users who have been inferred or verified as over 18 to view age-restricted content that may be inappropriate for younger users.]
Read that all the way through. According to YouTube, if their AI thinks you watch childish content, regardless of the birthdate you associated with your account, your account could be restricted until you provide either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card to verify your age. This is what they themselves are saying.
Personally, I don't want a private company to have images of my ID or my credit card. I feel that that is an invasion of my privacy. I fear what might happen in the case of a data breach. And Google has fairly frequent data breaches. Just search (with any other search engine) "google data breach recent" and see for yourself.
And consider adults who don't have either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card. What then? It would appear from the policies described on YouTube's website that they are just out of luck in that instance.
This could very well affect animation on YouTube. It could affect gameplay videos. It could affect anything and everything that their AI might deem "childish."
Even if this is your first time hearing about it, you can still show your disapproval of the new policy by joining the blockout/boycott.
How?
Stop using YouTube. The best way to show our disapproval is by completely ignoring YouTube until they roll back this decision. There are lots of alternatives, and we are working on a masterlist. If you absolutely have to use YouTube in some capacity, I highly recommend using a front-end client like FreeTube. It gives you more privacy and doesn't have ads, but the best option is still to boycott YT entirely.
Use Google products as little as possible. I have switched over to Firefox, and there are lots of alternatives for lots of Google products. If anyone's interested in a specific list, I'll share what I find.
Sign this petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
If you're interested, there's a Discord server for this, too, started by @gentleman-velvet. Look at their blog for more info about that.
But why are we doing this? Why should you care?
I'll let YouTube themselves explain it for me.
[Alt: A screenshot of the YouTube policies page that reads: "For all U.S. accounts, YouTube employs a dual approach by using self-declared age as well as the application of an age estimation model that uses machine learning to determine whether a user is over or under 18. Regardless of the birthday in the account, this technology enables us to deliver age-appropriate product experiences and protections, treating teens as teens and adults as adults.
How it works: We use AI to interpret a variety of existing signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account.
When we identify a teen user, we’ll automatically apply our safeguards, including:
-Disabling personalized advertising and restricting age-sensitive ad categories
-Turning on digital wellbeing tools
-Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content.
Users have the option to verify that they are 18 or over by using a credit card or a government ID. We only allow users who have been inferred or verified as over 18 to view age-restricted content that may be inappropriate for younger users.]
Read that all the way through. According to YouTube, if their AI thinks you watch childish content, regardless of the birthdate you associated with your account, your account could be restricted until you provide either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card to verify your age. This is what they themselves are saying.
Personally, I don't want a private company to have images of my ID or my credit card. I feel that that is an invasion of my privacy. I fear what might happen in the case of a data breach. And Google has fairly frequent data breaches. Just search (with any other search engine) "google data breach recent" and see for yourself.
And consider adults who don't have either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card. What then? It would appear from the policies described on YouTube's website that they are just out of luck in that instance.
This could very well affect animation on YouTube. It could affect gameplay videos. It could affect anything and everything that their AI might deem "childish."
Guys queer infighting isn’t going to stop the bigots or make them like the more “normal” identities. Kicking out the “weirder” ones will not save you. The bigots are only going for xenogenders/fictionkins/aro-spec/ace-spec/etc because they are the easiest to go for since they are less well known and represented. At the end of the day we’re all dirty gross disgusting faggots to them and they don’t want us to be around *at all.*
