the differences between alcohol, tobacco, and anything else in america is kind of absurd and it’s hard to wrap your head around without going kinda insane
not even remotely the same conversation actually. jaywalking is totally a made up bullshit crime but i think minorities should be able to defend themselves from their oppressors
Is that really the definition of radical feminism? Where did you get that? I’m just confused because a guy told me its actually intersectional, it seeks to dismantle the patriarchy and something along those lines (I’m not defending nor agreeing with it, it just feels weird seeing completely different definitions of radfem)
One time on the train back in like 2016 a guy sat down next to me with this sheepish-looking smile and asked "do you believe in destiny?" And I thought it was gonna be a bad pickup line so I said "It depends" and he went "okay.... so can I tell you something?" and proceeded to spend the next 40 minutes telling me how David Bowie and Steve Irwin and a bunch of other celebrities had faked their deaths and in 2017 American President Donald Trump would announce that the entire country would be phasing out the existence of credit cards, at which point these supposedly dead public figures would reveal themselves to the public and establish a new world order, and he knew this because aliens living on a space station orbiting the moon had sent him a dream vision in the form of Jesus Christ telling him that the economy was about to grind to a halt and he needed to start converting his savings into bitcoin
hello cisgender "trans ally" comedian. in front of you is a crowd of people and a microphone. your job is to make a joke about supporting trans people WITHOUT implying or outright saying that trans men who transition gain privilege over cis women, live easier lives as trans men than they did as cis women, or are otherwise unaffected or less affected by transphobia. all you have to do is not make your joke about supporting trans people antitransmasculine and not speak on issues that you have literally no relationship to as a cis person. if you cannot do that, the stage will go up in flames, and- bro i didn't even start the timer yet. you didnt even let me finish you just couldn't wait to make some dumb joke at the expense of trans men. are you kidding?
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
Headline: The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work
Publisher: Wired
Archive link: https://archive.ph/O7TKI
Date published: 13 August 2026
Selected text from article:
With the revelation that ICE will spend up to $20 million by March on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to subdue an individual, according to a notice published earlier this week by the Department of Homeland Security, it's worth looking at how this apparel, designated as a nonlethal tool for law enforcement, actually works.
When activated via a one-second press on a wrist switch, conductive pads embedded on the palm and undersides of the fingers of the gloves can transmit high-frequency electrical pulses directly to the wearer’s point of contact on a subject. A rechargeable battery and microprocessor module tucked inside a zippered pouch on the cuff powers the entire system.
The electrical pulse overstimulates nerve endings in the subject's peripheral nervous system, resulting in pain that inhibits coordinated muscle movement, but without causing systemic muscle lockup. The pain induced is localized to just the area touched by the glove's conductive pads. The manufacturer claims the gloves result in a subject's compliance in less than three seconds and leave no burns, marks, or scars.
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Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
Michael Crowley, a senior researcher at Omega Research Foundation—an organization that tracks human rights abuses committed across the world by people using police, security, and military equipment—is concerned that the GLOVE is seemingly designed not to restrain or incapacitate, but to hurt.
“CD3 technology inflicts pain," Crowley says. "The company talks about it as a de-escalation solution, but the whole idea of it is to get control or influence somebody through pain. Omega considers it to be an inherently abusive technology that should not be manufactured, sold, or used by law enforcement officials, including ICE.”
they didnt listen, by the way. because of course they didnt. theyre hiding domo ai from the member list and forcing them into private and public servers. use
/ban user:1153984868804468756
to get rid of it.
if you're interested in the Colorful support post i made regarding this, its under the cut. i'm livid.
WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH Y'ALL AND THINKING I'M TRANSFEM HOLY FUCK. IT'S LITERALLY JUST MY PENIS AND MY ASSIGNMENT ISN'T IT?? LITERALLY WHAT ELSE ABOUT ME COULD POSSIBLY BE TRANSFEMININE.
similarly to how you can say "penis" or "vagina" instead of "male/female genitals" you can also say "testosterone/estrogen dominant endocrine system" instead of "male/female endocrine system" wow. amazing, we don't have to misgender trans ppl who aren't going to or haven't yet medically transitioned when we refer to hormones its just that easy
A detail I find really interesting about Chell, GLaDOS, and Wheatley's first confrontation in Portal 2 is when Wheatley starts gloating about taking over the facility. "I did this! Tiny little Wheatley did this!"
And GLaDOS interjects like, "You didn't do this. She did all the work!"
I find that interjection fascinating because. Like.
GLaDOS doesn't actually know anything about what happened behind the scenes. She lost track of Chell and Wheatley after Wheatley opened up a wall panel and they bolted off together into the facility's inner workings. She doesn't see them again until Chell falls for her fake door trap, at which point GLaDOS is unpleasantly surprised to discover that Chell's disabled the turrets and neurotoxin in the meantime.
She has no evidentiary foundation to base that accusation on.
This is also before GLaDOS recognizes Wheatley as the Dumbass Core, so it's not based on an assessment of him.
The only explanation it leaves is that it's based on her assessment of Chell. Despite GLaDOS's enmity towards Chell, the one thing she rarely goes after Chell for is her intelligence.
When she does, it's an admission of her high standards for Chell; Like when the fake door trap works and GLaDOS concedes, "I didn't actually think that would work. I already built a much better, smarter trap up ahead for when this one fails." That's a backhanded insult. It's calling her dumb, but in a disappointed way rather than an affirming way.
Chell tests very well. Between the two games, GLaDOS has developed a strong understanding of Chell's aptitude for critical thinking and problem-solving in stressful situations.
And so she takes it on faith, just from what she knows of Chell, that Wheatley is stealing Chell's credit.
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