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@frickitalltoheck
why is your cat green?
Sheâs built different đ
Look i tried to laugh it off, but I havenât stopped thinking about this message because⊠my cat literally isnât green
like where is the green
Oh Christ
This is the color your cat is
colors i eyedropped directly from op's cat
I drew a tree using only colours eyedropped from OP's cat.
Back when I worked at walgreens I didn't know witch hazel was a real thing people would come in asking for it and I'd be like yeah it's on aisle 3 next to the wolfsbane and eye of newt you fucking idiot bastard
By talos this can't be happening again
Amputees continue to be the funniest people on the planet why are the rest of us even trying
demolishing peoples houses to make room for an amusement park is literally movie villain shit
I cannot believe the world is letting Israel get away with this garbage
This post is 2 weeks old and I just wanna say that this is still ongoing.
Palestinian families are quickly becoming homeless. Many are living on the streets or from their cars right now with what little belongings they were able to salvage from their houses as Israel continues to demolish Palestinian homes
17/07/21,
still going
Source
Second source
As of August 5th 2021 occupation forces are raiding Silwan and forcing their way into people's homes and arresting palestinians
source
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The guy in charge of approving ads:
this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long
like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isnât particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when weâre talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal
doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when weâre talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY
i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think iâm not entirely wrong
this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.
even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixonâs bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste.Â
The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so youâre standing in good stead.
Iâd also like to add itâs also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.
https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/
âOn earth tell me whatâs a black life worth A bottle of juice, no excuse the truth hurtsâ
Tupac
âDu was fined $500 and sentenced to five years of probation and 400 hours of community service but no prison time for her crime.âÂ
Bruh I could kill someone
this is why we need to contextualize the LA riots. korea town didnt get busted up for no reason. theres nuances in this, but the portrayal of korea towns destruction as being unwarranted and at the hands of a bunch of unruly negros who didnt know the right race to attack is a fucking mess.
We had to read this in law school and it was enraging and really created a divide in our class.
u dont have to call it lovecraftian u can call it cosmic horror đđ the man did not invent the genre
had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called "what do you serve?" and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was "are you the spider? or are you the web?" and it had an option for each but I didn't click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed "I think I'm the fly" and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said "you serve truth" and the description just read "what you know will kill you but you will die laughing" so like. good morning everyone I guess :/
OP I think the devil visited you in your sleep
go girl give us nothing
If youâre buying Apple shit in the 2020s you totally deserve the ripoff that you get
The fucking option that includes an Ethernet port just puts it on the external power supply, like itâs a fucking MacBook.
People keep saying that this is how computer adaptability works and comparing it to the decrease in the lack of CD-ROM drives and Floppy Disk readers.
But this is completely different! And do you want to know why? Because, previous changes were consumer led. They came AFTER the technology had run its course, had viable alternatives, and didnât force a majority of customers to adapt for profit. Also, Apple is lying. This isnât innovation, itâs a purposeful manipulation of the market that makes physical ownership of content more difficult.
The Floppy Disk wasnât just abandoned. It was replaced by CD-ROM in the 90s as a more portable & less expensive alternative. And even then, CDs had existed for more than a decade before computer manufacturers made the permanent switch in 2003. And despite the switch, the production of the floppy disks themselves continued until 2011. By the time floppy disks truly faded from production, most ppl didnât even own one. And when CD-ROM became âobsolete,â they werenât ripped from the market and even today itâs fairly easy to find readers that are cheap and/or included with desktops or laptops.
But hereâs the thing? CDâs arenât obsolete. Neither are DVDs, USB, and Ethernet and SDs. Not really. What is there to replace them? You could say cloud, streaming, etc. But those arenât actually replacements, they are just different forms of consuming materials. And a majority of consumers will be inconvenienced without those things. Like how would you even connect a wired mechanical keyboard? Thatâs not adaptation, itâs inconveniencing consumers until they get used to it.
But itâs more than inconvenience. What all of these exclusions do is get rid of physical data. It slowly ostracizes consumers from the very concept of physical data and that is incredibly dangerous. All softwares, ad-ons, recordings, and medias being relegated to downloadable accessibility makes these things harder to pirate or share. It also encourages monopolies as it makes smaller, independent production and sharing much more difficult. It also makes the distribution of softwares tied to research & employment more easily controlled by corporations rather than people. And most of all, it takes away consumer control of the things that they use.
Like even PlayStation did this with the PS5? Do you really think not having a physical drive is an innovation? With physical games you can reuse, share, and save. I can play Spider-Man, give to my cousin, and then let any friend borrow it. And unless I bought the physical game online, neither google or Amazon can add that to their algorithmic perception of me. But without thatâŠyou have content strictly defined on individual basis and algorithms.
Itâs just that all of the growing exclusions arenât adapting. They are willful manipulations for the sake of changing how large scale consumers ingage with technology and the internet.
The headphone jack was not obsolete. It was purposefully left out to sway the market towards $100 Bluetooth. Physical gaming disk drives arenât growing obsolete. They are being purposefully phased out so that the consumer begins to rely on individual downloads and algorithm rather than sharing and saving. And USB/Ethernet/SD/HDMI are not obsolete either. They are just being ignored so as to get consumers to change their perception of tech and accessibility. As if having a computer thatâs only compatible with apple tech thatâs less than 5 years old is reasonable. As if any use of physical content is a paid luxury rather than the standard
The headphone jack one definitely pissed me off. Until my promotion, I was a webcast producer. My phone allowed me to test encoders and videoconferencing equipment as an alternative to setting up a room full of equipmentâin minutes instead of hours. Thatâs gone.
A dongle doesnât really replace it. Itâs an extra cost for something thatâs going to be lost. Something extra to carry around that was already integrated in the device before. And itâs impossible to do that kind of testing wirelessly. My phone became a lot less useful as a tool when they forced that downgrade.
And embedded batteries? All the arguments for it are just propaganda. Battery problems are still one of the most likely issues to affect your phone. It was as easy to address as changing a light bulb, and nearly as cheap.
They wanted to change it to make repair more expensive. Itâs now a specialized part that costs more, and you need to pay for a technician (either up front, or long term through a service contract) to do it. A fix that would take you seconds now takes hours without access to your device. Thatâs not betterâthey only made the change because thereâs more money to be made by inconveniencing you.
Subscription model software is meant to ensure you never own it. Theyâve rebranded it, but youâre just leasing products now. Even the phone you own; you buy it, and they treat you like youâre leasing it.
Google updated their phones to remove your ability to control ringer volume with the volume keys. (Some manufacturers didnât allow it. Thanks, Samsung) This is literally a bait and switch: you buy a product with one set of features, and get a product with a lesser feature set. You canât even roll back to fix it because that can break the device.
Our legislators and consumer protection agencies are just plain incompetent. Theyâre allowing tech companies to get away with practices that were already illegal; theyâre too lazy to understand the tech, so companies get away with it. Largely because their refusal to levy fines and prosecute means you have to sueâand thatâs more expensive than replacing the product with another subpar product.
And look at wireless service. Consumers were so stupid when they welcomed the end of contracts. âPhones are cheaper now!â Except the price to consumers blew up. New flagship phone every 2 years was $1, plus $20 for activation. Now itâs $12 less per monthâyou canât even lease a flagship phone at that price, let alone own it.
And donât forget tiered data. The most successful scam AT&T and Verizon ever pulled. Unlimited data doesnât cost them anything more than the lower tiers; data costs less than a penny per GB. The actual costs to the carriers between the lowest tier and unlimited data is negligible. Tiered data should be illegal.
And data caps. WTF even is the deal with that? There are no real capacity issues. Itâs just an excuse to charge more for less service.
Shout out to âsmartâ appliances which only exist to create expensive to repair proprietary parts.
Apple has been a leader in the realm of shady business practices, but it really is the status quo in the tech industry.
My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasnât.
And sheâs supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generationâs history has disappeared into a bland âAIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobiaâ narrative, and now weâre having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.
I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people havenât is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.
âExcuse us,â she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, âfor not laying the groundwork for children we never thought weâd have in a future none of us thought weâd be alive for.â
âthe reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people havenât is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.â
thank you for giving me a good reason to finish my dissertation and try to make it in the academy
Wait, idk LGBTQ+ history, but they died of AIDS cause, what, hospitals refused to treat them or�
Oh heck yeah.
When an epidemic happens, public health agencies spend millions of dollars trying to understand what happens: Why are people sick or dying? What caused it? Who else is at risk? Government health departments like the Centres for Disease control and private companies both invest hundreds of millions of dollars into preserving public health. This happened in 1977, when military veterans who all attended the same gathering began to get sick with a strange type of pneumonia, with 182 cases and 29 dead, and the CDC traced the illness to a bacterium distributed by the air conditioning system of a hotel they all stayed at, and in 1982, when seven people died of tainted Tylenol, and pharmaceutical companies changed the entire way their products were made and packaged to prevent more deaths.
Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic took six years to be recognized by the CDC (1975-1981) because at first the only people dying were intravenous drug users, which is to say, heroin addicts; when it was recognized, President Reaganâs government pressured the CDC to spend as little time and money on AIDS as possible, because they literally didnât think gay lives were important. So yes, hospitals refused to treat them and medical staff treated them as disgusting people who deserved to die, but also, there was very little funding for scientists to understand what this disease was, what caused it, where it came from, how it spread, or how to stop it. The LGBTQ+ community had to organize and fight to get hospitals to treat them, to fund scientific research, to be legally allowed to buy the drugs that kept them alive, and to have access to treatment. An effective treatment for AIDS wasnât found until 1995.
And itâs ongoing; a lot of the difficulty of fighting AIDS in Africa is that itâs seen as âthe gay diseaseâ (and thanks to European colonialism, even African societies that used to be okay with us were taught to think LGBTQ+ people are bad). Even now that we have medications that can treat or prevent AIDS, theyâre incredibly expensive and hard to get; in 2015, New York businessman Martin Shkreli acquired the exclusive right to make a drug that treats an AIDS-related disease, and raised its price from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill.Â
Hereâs one history on what it was like to have and fight AIDS, one history on how politicians responded to the epidemic, and if you can get a copy of the documentary How to Survive a Plague, itâs a good introduction, because itâs about how AIDS patients had to fight for their lives. A lot of these histories are imperfect and incomplete, because privilege played a big part in whose lives and deaths were seen as importantâPoor people, people of colour, trans people, and drug addicts were less likely to be able to afford or access medical care, and more likely to die without being remembered; histories often tend to focus on straight people who got AIDS through no fault of their own, and then white cis gay men who seem more ârespectableâ and ârelatableâ. Â
I mean, people who will talk about how homophobia led to neglect of AIDS still find ways not to mention that AIDS isnât just sexually transmitted; itâs hugely a disease of drug addicts, because sharing needles is a huge way the disease spreads. But because society always thinks, oh, drug addicts are bad and disgusting people and of course criminals, that often gets neatly dropped from the histories, and itâs still hard to get people to agree to things that keep drug addicts alive, like needle exchanges and supervised injection sites. But if you want my rant about how the war on drugs is bullshit used to control poor people and people of colour, and drugs shouldnât be criminalized, youâll have to ask for that separately.
They died of AIDS because
Hospitals refused to treat them, and when they did get admitted, treated them like dirt so their will-to-live was eroded - refused to let long-term partners visit them, staff acted like they were disgusting nuisances, etc.
Very little funding was put into finding causes or cures - AIDS was considered âgodâs punishmentâ for immoral behavior by a whole lot of people.
Once causes were understood (effective treatments were a long ways off), information about those causes werenât widely shared - because it was a âsex diseaseâ (it wasnât) and because a huge number of the victims were gay or needle-drug users, and the people in charge of disease prevention (or in charge of funding) didnât care if all of those people just died.
Not until it started hitting straight people and superstar celebrities (e.g. Rock Hudson) did it get treated as A Real Problem - and by that time, it had reached terrifying epidemic conditions.
Picture from 1993:
We lost basically a whole generation of the queer community.
As a current AIDS survivor, this is really important information. I was diagnosed not only HIV positive in 2014, but I had already progressed to an AIDS diagnosis. Knowing how far weâve come with treatment and what the trials and tribulations of those who came before cannot and must not ever be forgotten. Awareness is the number one goal. I often speak to the microbiology students at my university to explain what itâs like to live with, how the medications work, side effects, how itâs affected my daily life, and just raise general awareness.
Before my diagnosis, I, like many others, was clueless to how far treatment has come. I was still under the belief my diagnosis was a death sentence. Moving forward, even if only one person hears my story, thatâs one more person thatâs educated and can raise awareness.
I believe itâs time for us as a society to start better education of this disease. The vast majority of the people Iâve spoken to are receptive to the knowledge of my status, and Iâve received lots of support from loved ones, friends, and total strangers. Itâs time to beat the stigma.
This is slightly off-point, but as for the cost, I wanted to mention that some pharmacies have specialties that let them get special coupons/programs and stuff to save money.
A bottle of Truvada (a month supply commonly used for treating this) is at least $3,000 out of pocket and insurance doesnât usually take a lot off of that. But the pharmacy I work at is an HIV specialty and we always get te price down to less than $10.
If youâre on HIV meds and theyâre ludicrously expensive, ask your local pharmacy manager if there are any local HIV specialty pharmacies that they know of. They might be able to help.
I think itâs important to emphasize that, while the diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, it is also true that people dying of AIDS because of homophobia is not history only.
My brotherâs first boyfriend was kicked out/disowned by his parents for being queer, got AIDS, couldnât afford treatment, and died. He died in 2019, at around 20 years old.
In 2019.
Barely more than a kid.
Of a treatable disease.
Because of homophobia.
Because his parents cared more about not being associated with a queer person than they cared about their sonâs literal life.
AIDS is not just history. Neither is homophobia.
Back to history: When AIDS patients held die-ins, they went to hospitals, lay down in front of them, and literally waited to die.
If youâre young & either queer or queer-adjacent, think about the number of people out of the closet you know your own age & think about how many you know your parents age. Theyâre not stamping us out of the mould any quicker these days than in the â60s, except in lockstep with population growth. I think, growing up, my picture of relative numbers of queer people & straights was unavoidably impacted by the number of empty seats at our table. That might be the case for you too. The number of elders you never got to meet.
Remember this when people talk about how small the LGBTQIA+ population is. That itâs âsuch a small percentage of the population to be catered tooâ. Remember this and tell them, âthatâs because homophobia killed themâ.
This picture of the San Francisco Gay Menâs Chorus is often included with the âThe men facing the camera/in white are the surviving membersâ but it leaves out something extremely important:
By 1996, all of the men facing the camera in the picture were dead.
Every.
Single.
One.
Eric Luse, the photographer, said this in a more recent article :
By 1996 the obituary list was almost 50 names longer than the entire choral roster. All of the positions plus four dozen more, gone. The obituary list continued to grow, too. The cost and availability of any treatments in the mid-late 90s continued to cause more death.
If you were queer in the 80s and 90s, you knew someone who had it and knew people who died from it. Period. I cannot stress the impact this had on the queer community and those of us who were alive at the time, and I know the scope of it is almost unimaginable to younger people today.
By 1996, there were NO surviving original members of the SFGMC. You need to know that when you see this picture.
Dozens of the men turned away from the camera here in this shot were also dead alongside the men in white. It is vital to recognize that.
There is no hope in this picture, it isnât a display of a lucky few who avoided death. There is no âWell at least some of them survivedâ because no, they didnât, and this time was so fucking bleak and painful itâs astonishing that anything got done. Theyâd march one week and die the next. Their friends would bury them in the morning and march in the afternoon. This went on for years.
Bigotry and hate and ignorance killed generations of queer people. It speaks to the sheer resilience of the community that from that all but state-sanctioned genocide, we have gained so much ground in the last few decades. Much is owed to the people who refused to stay quiet and who fought even on their deathbeds, so please consider learning about LGBTQ+ history as a way of continuing the fight and showing respect. Many of us coming of age at that time didnât have that opportunity, and made it a point to learn and get involved as teenagers and young adults because we saw what we were losing.
Sing for two.
Is your dad Ron Swanson? (via blooper2112)
this is the money axe of good fortune, reblog to receive money and axes
my friends find it really funny that iâm always evading traps in skyrim but by complete accident. like i wonât see the spike holes in the floor surrounding a pillar with treasure on it but iâll move out of the way just in time for the spikes to miss me. and i backed into a floor hole trap by accident but then a basket in the way caused my character to bounce out of the trap to safety. doubly funny to me is that i wouldâve been born under the sign of the Thief if i were a TES character. âThose born under the sign of the Thief are not typically thieves, though they take risks more often and only rarely come to harm. They will run out of luck eventually, however, and rarely live as long as those born under other signs. â
this mental image wouldnât leave me alone
I love seeing posts where someone says something that clearly sets up a joke and then has very obviously messaged their friend to question it in a reblog so they deliver the punchline with maximum impact. Haven't seen that in a while
