You can call me Tessa. After stalking blogs I love on the internet, I got frustrated about not being able to interact, so here I am, being super opinionated. Female, 24, Proud Texan, Conservative, Pentecostal Christian, and cuter than you ;3 (Probably. Maybe. I don't really know)
Fear is knowing a new Alexa product is being developed.
Terror is knowing that it’s for landlords to control their units remotely, while being to see and hear everything in the rented space.
Horror is understanding that if a family is a few days late for rent/electricity/gas, this product will most likely cut off the services they may need to survive like WiFi access, stove/oven/microwave/fridge appliances having power, lights, medical devices that require electricity to function, etc.
deep horror is knowing that these devices will probably be set to unlock doors remotely allowing cops and abusers into the homes of marginalized people, these devices will probably have sensors to check how many people live in the home vs on the lease, probably will have some way or reporting that the residents are “breaking the lease” ie: loud music, having overnight guests, parties, or just people doing normal human shit and having it seen as a “violation”
Just to add to the last comment- smart home devices are absolutely being used by domestic abusers to control their victim's environment, spy, invade privacy, etc. This is already known thing that happens with this technology.
the modern feminist movement is a failure because instead of saying “the work that women are already doing is valuable and should been appreciated by society” they said “society already values the work done by men therefore to be valuable women need to do the same kind of work”
Girl... I have been dealing with this since high school. When people ask, I usually just shrug and laugh it off like “haha I don’t know what I want to do with my life haha” but I do know. But it’s not an acceptable answer... I don’t have anyone in my real life to talk with about this kind of stuff. And I’m tired of people looking at me like I’m insane if I mention it. It’s just not worth the inevitable ramblings and half assed explanations. I just hope I can eventually fill that role. Live the life instead of explaining the life. One day, God willing.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
Okay but…if someone wants to take me on a date to a Barnes and noble and get me dinner and a drink and then let me peruse the stacks like I’m not saying no. A sandwich, a beer, and 2-5 books on various topics I hope I’ll someday read about? Good night.
This is El Ateneo Grand Splendid, an old theatre turned bookstore in Buenos Aires:
The stage itself was turned into a cafe:
You can’t even begin to comprehend the massive amounts of money this place makes, despite the fact that they turned the theatre boxes into reading nooks like this:
I’ve literally spent days holed up in there reading books for free while also consuming massive amounts of coffee and pastries.
The delays we face are not a denial of His promises; rather, they are an integral part of His strategy to arrange all the details and get us positioned for His excellent plan.
Same goes for you Men. If your ex leaks photos of your dick or any videos you sent her, you can sue too. Yea, giving the photos with consent is Aight, but spreading them around and “exposing” Ain’t it chief
I used to know someone whose video she took for an ex-boyfriend, that was deployed to Iraq at the time, ended up on Dropbox once he dumped her ass. Most of the shitty little libertarian FB “communities” that we were around at the time sent her threats to the effect of how it would be sad if her parents found it, and if she lost her job with the dad selling helicopter parts. We saw guys giving their opinions on it in detail. Trolls dropped by a PUBLIC page, the same one she and I helped admin, to leave comments like “10/10 would bang.” We filed DMCA takedown requests, and it would pop up again somewhere else.
Anyone who violates someone’s trust like this can rot in hell. If you either distribute revenge porn or act like some kind of subhuman degenerate, I have zero respect for you and I’ll laugh like a maniac when you finally get yours.
“Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace.”
'People who work with Ilhan Omar and the other candidates work for them...'
A scheme run by a so-called ‘ballot harvesters’ in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district was uncovered in a shocking exposé by Project Veritas. In one segment, alleged ballot harvester Liban Mohamed - the brother of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman, can be seen sifting through piles of ballots in his car in videos posted to his own snapchat channel under the name “KingLiban1.”
“Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman,” said Mohamed. “As you can see my car is full. All these are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see?”
BREAKING: @IlhanOmar connected cash-for-ballots harvesting scheme EXPOSED
“Money is the king in everything”; harvester boasts harvesting HUNDREDS of 2020 absentee ballots ILLEGALLY! “Numbers do not lie…these here are all absentee ballots…my car is full…”#BallotHarvesting pic.twitter.com/cB2Bz31mSY
Attorney Jeff Wojciechowski of Hennepin County told Project Veritas that the ballot harvesting described in the video appears “illegal, and we will be investigating.”
According to Veritas, “Mohamed said he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the city’s Aug. 11 special election for a vacant Ward 6 city council race—which was held the same day as the primary for Omar’s MN-05 congressional seat. Ward 6 is the heart of the city’s Somali community and the Omar’s political base.”
Our investigation found that among three locations inside Ward 6, a ballot harvesting triangle, where the scheme operates: the Riverside Plaza apartments, the senior citizen community at Horn Towers and the Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services office at 980 E. Hennepin Ave., which also functions as a voting location and ballot drop-off site.
Mohamed continued: “Money is everything. Money is the king in this world. If you got no money, you should not be here period. You know what I am saying.” -Project Veritas
Mohamed also opined on what it takes to run a campaign, saying “Money is everything and a campaign is managed by money. You cannot campaign with $200 or $100 you got from your grandmother or grandfather. You cannot campaign with that. You gotta have an investment to campaign. You gotta have fundraisers.”
The scheme was uncovered by Omar Jamal, chairman of the Somali Watchdog Group. Jamal works with the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department and is a political insider who is active within the city’s Somali community.
“I have been involved in the community for the last 20 years,” he said.
Jamal said he was motivated to reach out to Project Veritas, because he wants to eliminate the corruption that weakens his community, such as the ballot harvesting practiced by Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, in which Ilhan Omar has emerged as a rising power broker.
“It’s an open secret,” he said. “she [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that.”
The political insider said he hopes there is still time to clean up elections in the country.
“If American people don’t pay attention to what’s happening, the country will collapse,” he said. -Project Veritas
“The regulations, if you ignore that and you let corruption and fraud become a daily business and then tough luck, the country will not exist as they [Americans] know it,” said Jamal, adding “I’m afraid it’s already too big to stop, you know, maybe it’s too late. Maybe it’s already too big to stop.”
“There’s a lot of people invested in this, you know, and they don’t care how they did it: ‘We win,’ and that’s it.”
Jamal interviewed a Somali-American ballot harvester as part of his participation in the Veritas investigation. The harvester told him how he was paid to vote in the August 11 special election and primary - and that Somali-American vote-buying operatives from the Omar machine came to his apartment building to make sure ballots were ‘correctly’ filled out - often doing it themselves.
“They come to us. They came to our homes. They said: ‘This year, you will vote for Ilhan,’” he said. “They said: ‘We will make the absentee ballots. We will fill out the forms for you and when you get them back, we will again fill it out and send it.”
Somali-Americans were told they don’t need to go to voting sites, because Omar operatives told him “You stay home and you will not go to the place.”
After the ballots are signed and documented the harvester said he got paid.
“When we sign the voting document and they fill it out is when they give us the money,” he said. “The minute we signed the thing [ballot] for the election. That’s when we get paid.”
Targeting the elderly:
Omar Jamal: So they [ballot harvesters] will request it [the ballot] for the elderly?
Ballot harvester: Yes. They [ballot harvesters] request [the ballot] for them [the elderly].
Omar Jamal: And it [the ballot] is taken away from them [elderly]?
Ballot Harvester: Yes. It [the ballot] is taken away from them [elderly].
I know of the basic suicide hotlines, but do you guys know of any Christian suicide prevention helplines? Ones that can provide biblical counseling free of church for those lost and hurting and considering taking their own life?
Also, please pray for those who are hurting in this way.
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