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funny enough, the reason they ask you to donate is because they've already committed to a huge donation and are trying to get you to "pay it off" essentially. So, when you agree to donate 50 cents via the card reader, you're not contributing to the campaign...you're helping that company break even on the big donation they made. If you don't donate, they end up having to actually pay that money and come out the other side short.

So, in essence: donate directly to a campaign with your own money--dont let these corporations use you to "get back" the money they lost by making a donation.

glowingghosty

this is not fucking true and it was debunked years ago when this sentiment was going around last. you ARE contributing to the campaign. it is illegal for them to collect your donation to go towards theirs, or to trick you into thinking you donated when they're collecting it. you can take your receipt and claim it on your taxes!

many charities rely on grocery store campaigns because it's much easier to get 100 people to donate 10 cents than to walk up to one person and get them to give 10 dollars. and very often the grocery is giving their own amount, or double-matching the amount their customers give, etc. that is their own donation and your donation is yours.

yes it's a tax write-off to give to charities. and the gov wants as much money as it can get so they're pretty stringent about it (especially if the charity also gets federal funding). the same money cannot be claimed twice, so no, those 10 cents or 20 dollars (ive never had anything prompt me for more than 5 so that's crazy) go directly to the charity and you can claim your donation and they cannot claim yours. im sure it happens on smaller scales but you're not gonna be scammed by publix

A social media meme mischaracterized business tax practices.

CLAIM: When a customer elects to donate to charity at a store’s checkout counter, the store can write off that donation on its own end-of-ye

A viral meme makes the claim that companies use checkout charities to offset their own taxes. Stores cannot legally deduct customer donation

grocery stores are evil but not in this way specifically

footsteps-on-the-dance-floor

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

duncanhynes

"Basically, they want these carriers to overstep their bounds and monitor all of our private messages so they can provide “counters” to any sort of criticism of the coronavirus vaccine.

This is a brand new kind of censorship that goes beyond monitoring what we share and post on social media. It violates the Constitution and our right to privacy. It’s a form of government spying no matter how you look at it.

We the people are protected by the Fourth Amendment which says, “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

And as all things with the government go, you can guarantee this is not going to start and stop with the COVID-19 vaccines. The powers that be in the Democratic Party will absolutely use this to monitor private conversations that will be related to the topics of the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential election..."

therealklt

Hmm, you're citing Fox News, of all sources... I bet that actually won't turn out to be wron-

Natasha Korecki, one of the Politico reporters who wrote the July 12 article, dispelled exaggerations and misinterpretations several times on Twitter.

She said private groups are working to flag misinformation campaigns to SMS companies – not monitor private texts.

“As the story points out, it's allied, private groups that are working with SMS carriers – not the White House. Even then, there is no ability for groups to read individual texts aside from the ones they receive themselves,” she tweeted July 12.

USA TODAY could not find any evidence that Biden ever said he wanted to monitor citizens' private text messages.

Oh, nevermind, you're just all stupid.

no-longer-another-bondi-blonde

skyline-sunset-in-my-veins

Just a heads up - astrophysicists Robert McNees and Katie Mac, among others are pointing out that as “cool” as this is - it’s not what it seems.

wilwheaton

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neil-gaiman

In the last 20 years on the internet, there’s not one of these mistakes I haven’t made. Be wiser than me.

Ok but damn you gotto give it to him, dude actually did it.

bscully

Bullshit. He didn’t. He’s pulling a PR stunt right now.

From a quick googling, national testicle association doesn’t exist anywhere. Most hits track back to news articles to this subject matter, but there is NO actual association with that exact name (Did all these fucks who created their clickbait articles around the web even bother to check…?)

“Sincerely, Dick N bawls”? Lol seriously tumblr are you this gullible

everyone can take a picture of them wearing a oxygen tube, especially if it doesn’t seem to connect to anywhere (= normally a oxygen device or similar should be next to his bed). They can be detached to the main tube, leaving only the piece that wraps around your your ears/head, that’s exactly how that photo looks like. I should have taken a pic like that last time I was in the hospital just to bullshit people on social media lmao

Also this:

Where’s that Testicle Association you’re speaking of?

aphony-cree

That NTA logo on the letterhead is from the Nutritional Therapy Association (x)

threadzless

If you expected a nazi to act with integrity you haven’t been paying attention

littlebabypubert

This website is sooo fucking unbelievably stupid imagine needing an entire dissertation to understand that this neo-nazi did not actually donate his left testicle to the “National Testicle Association” and produce a document signed by a real man named Dick N Bawls

slaughterhousefive

Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses.

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility.

The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.

The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy … is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about £560 per day — for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 7 million pounds … and no one even knows his name.

jaderkinss

Fucking brilliance

blood-bank-of-faerun

I thought they were going to say he died, buT I WAS WRONG.

the-great-kaspy

@we-are-rogue

we-are-rogue

This is so beautiful that I don’t want to fact-check it and risk spoiling it.

*sheds a tear*

So… much… beauty…

stele3

(It isn’t real according to Snopes, sorry. The fact-checker in me couldn’t let it go.)

ms-disinformation

Misinformation Primer

Data & Society put out a report on Source Hacking, a set of techniques for spreading information. The whole report is fantastic and available as a free PDF but here are some pertinent quotes:

Source hacking is a versatile set of techniques for feeding false information to journalists, investigators, and the general public during breaking news events or across highly polarized wedge issues. Specifically, source hacking exploits situations and technologies to obscure the authorship of false claims. Across eight case studies, we identify the underlying techniques of source hacking to provide journalists, news organizations, platform companies, and others with a new vocabulary for describing these tactics, so that terms such as “trolling” and “trending” do not stand in for concerted efforts to pollute the information environment. (p. 6)

Media manipulators create campaign materials with knowledge of techno-logical and cultural vulnerabilities, taking advantage of platform design to amplify persuasive content. Careful attention to data craft is the foundation of a successful manipulation campaign, as manipulators create images, videos, and documents, carefully working around systems like spam detection, circumventing platform companies’ terms of service and trust and safety teams. Individual actors use sockpuppet accounts, botnets, and social media influencers to create trending opportunities and saturate hashtags with original content. (p. 7)

Evidence collages often contain a mix of verified and unverified information and can be created with simple image-editing software. By compiling a mix of verified and unverified information in a single, shareable image, conspiracy theorists can decide which sources to highlight or obscure, bypassing critical search results a user would experience if they were to seek this information on their own. (p. 26)

[Note – evidence collages in this exact format are not common on tumblr but this resembles the strategy of screenshotting a tweet thread and reblogging that post with updated misinformation; because of tumblr’s reblog functionality a screenshotted-thread can serve the same purpose as an evidence collage, largely spreading misinformation through decontextualizing the initial tweets or accepting outrageous claims as a given – the Statue of Liberty Post acts as a version of an Evidence collage]

Do not repost collaged materials without vetting and confirming the source. To spot this kind of campaign, journalists and platform companies should seek out signs of cross-platform coordination, especially for image files that circulate without clear authorship. Because manipulators will use different methods to hide the origins of these images, use reverse image software to look for other possible sites. (p. 36)

[Note - Screenshots from twitter are very common in spreading misinformation on tumblr but it’s also important to search the text from suspected misinformation blogs; frequently it’s take whole cloth from news articles, reddit posts, and other unlisted sources to divorce the information from its context. For instance this post by i-hate-chick-fil-a/whyyoustabbedme is copied nearly word-for-word from a comment on r/blackpeopletwitter but neglects to include the link for people to watch the trial for themselves]

Yet the efforts manipulators will go to in order to hide their coordination can vary from no protections to laundered banking information. Especially in instances where hoaxes involve numerous platforms, assessing the source materials circulated for coherency with other movement organizations is paramount. However, this is not fool-proof, as skilled manipulators will share a mix of content from other easy-to-verify sources. (p. 45, pp.42-45 discuss the IRA specifically)

Best practices for the proper identification of bad actors and artificial amplification tactics on social media are needed to prevent small groups from polarizing public conversation through wedge issues. Authorship and attribution of disinformation are often impossible to ascertain, and public figures actively participating in manipulation campaigns use all media attention, positive or negative, as an opportunity for audience building. For those individuals who participate in manipulation campaigns, we cannot measure intent— we can only measure harm. And so, gauging the true intentions of manipulators is not the most critical issue facing those fighting against manipulation campaigns—gauging their impact is. (p.47)

When coupled with keyword squatting and sockpuppet accounts, amplifying wedge issues to exploit cultural vulnerabilities disproportionately harms historically marginalized groups. Across each of these campaigns, we described how white supremacists, “trolls,” and partisan pundits used the materials crafted by manipulators to sow dissent and, sometimes, target groups that are unable to refute accusations against them. Most significantly when keyword squatting, manipulators steal the voice and tools of representation afforded to minoritized groups through social media. This particular tactic will be the most difficult to detect and debunk. (p. 48)

The report is 50 (short) pages and I’d recommend that you give it a read. Thanks again to the user who shared the link with me (who didn’t want to be named). If any of you reading are interested in more information on this subject Data & Society’s reports are a solid place to start.

teaboot

Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen

teaboot

“These artifacts were excavated by archaeologists from a burial site in the 1970’s. The remains were returned for reinterment” Okay cool, cool cool. So you just, like. Dug up the grave of a respected family member, stripped them naked, mailed their body back to their family and kept everything they were lovingly put to rest in. Like a graverobbing bastard

toothmuncher3000

Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.

Museum collectors did the equivalent of kidnapping a family member when they were away fishing.

jenroses

totallynotagentphilcoulson

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires all institutions that receive federal funding to repatriate remains and artifacts so if you can identify the source of something on display absolutely get a hold of that institute’s repatriation office

wikdsushi-deactivated20201108

Call me cynical, but I will eat a steak when that act is upheld. (I’ve been vegetarian for more than 20 years.)

googleyourcrap

It is.

#native American graves repatriation act #museums #artifacts

peachy-political

The Momo Challenge is fake!

Please stop spreading it.

The media and internet users have amplified this hoax to the point where schools have warned parents about it and parents are taking away childrens internact access or phones altogether.

Even the Safer Internet Centre and NSPCC says its a hoax.

Youtube has so no actual videos involving the Momo challenge have been found, no self harm or suicides have been linked to this.

The mass hysteria over this is harming children more than the challenge.

#momo challenge

dr-gloom

THINGS TO BE WARY OF: THE MOMO CHALLENGE

I just heard of this from my brother, whose children are terrified of it. It’s so grotesque.

So essentially, this “Momo Challenge” made its way onto YouTube Kids videos (much like the self harm one you might’ve seen going around). In the same manner, it comes up about halfway through a video, when parents are more than likely not paying attention, and tells the kid they can’t tell anyone about the challenges or their friends/family/themselves will be killed or seriously hurt. Then it gets into the challenges.

They start out simple. Break a toy, make a mess of your room, etc. But then they gwt more and more disturbing. Things like self harm and suicide make their way into the challenges, once the kids have become invested.

And I need to stress this: they aren’t allowed to mention this to anyone under threat of harm or death to the people they love.

My niece burst into tears when my brother asked. My nephew, who’s 13, was scared out of his mind and begged my brother to drop it, because he can’t talk about it.

My brother is cutting his kids off from YouTube, and if you have children, I strongly suggest you do the same. YouTube Kids is no longer safe. Period.

Even if you don’t have kids, please, by god, reblog and share. People are ending their lives. They’re scared senseless. YouTube needs to own up and do something, and until then we need to protect the children.

mulberry-moons

So if you’re easily disturbed by creepy images, don’t look it up. I just did and the screenshots immediately triggered an anxiety response and I am terrified. And I’m an adult.

egberts

woooooow

googleyourcrap

Except no.

This whole thing has gotten blown out of proportion.

A lot of the "reports" are unfounded and people are just psyching themselves out. It's essentially a creepypasta.

Here is an article from Forbes

#momo challenge

tallahasseemp3

This is just The Magnus Institute.

marzipanandminutiae

Nope.

They have a gas-based firefighting system instead of sprinklers for obvious reasons. It does lower the percentage of oxygen in the building, but not enough to kill anyone.

I found this by googling “Yale library fire oxygen.” It was literally the first result.

Fact-checking is your friend.

crazyintheeast

It’s true. It’s not the fire suppression system that kills you. The Librarians come and personally murder you for starting a fire in a library. But you didn’t start a fire you say? No matter. You are collateral damage. Everybody gets killed to show that arsonists have no chance of escaping justice

#library

mockwa

chameleon changes color

googleyourcrap

That's not how chameleons work.

HOWEVER that's some good CGI :)

#chameleon

trueka

HELLO??????????

trueka

ok i read more articles, it’s called chronic wasting disease & we already knew abt it but it’s spreading in north america & is in 24 states rn. uhhh no one knos if it could spread to humans (we dont rly kno anything abt it at all actually 💀) but a lot of the articles r saying the concern for that possibility is high rn so. take lots of precautions. we’re probably fine unless we eat it. basically it always existed it’s just making headlines cause it’s spreading a LOT now which is increasing the worry for it spreading to us

trueka

PLEASE REBLOG THIS VERSION. IT’S FINE. WE’RE FINE.

#zombie #deer #zombie deer

itsrainingshadybitches

blizzardofjj

I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?

ms-demeanor

Here’s a pretty comprehensive write-up:

https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/you-can-get-cheap-insulin-at-walmart-without-an-rx-in-some-states-576008/

pretty-locd

I’m sure this option is better than nothing but please do your research!

bananacrackers

Hey I know I keep reblogging criticism of this post but like just one more to be super clear and keep all of it in one place–

1: This is a very outdated photo. This is from 2013, and you can no longer get otc insulin in any state, from any pharmacy. You need to talk to your doctor about the possibility of changing if you want to do this, so if you do at least hear them out on the risks.

2: The insulin in modern dosing pens is different from this kind of insulin. As the photo says, it requires dosage calculations and is not simple like the insulin in pens. It is easy to get wrong and a mistake can be deadly!

3: Since you can’t get this over the counter, the pharmacy will not be able to give it to you without a prescription authorizing the change from your doctor. I’m sure everyone here is a reasonably decent person, but just to be clear: Do NOT yell, harass, or otherwise make life difficult for the pharmacists and technicians based on an unverified photo on the internet thanks

4: not being able to afford your medications is a serious thing! please talk to your pharmacist or the technician about finding a way to make it more affordable via coupons or discount programs. trust me, they want to help! If you switch from a big name pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens or Walmart to a smaller grocery store or local pharmacy, they may be able to devote more time to helping you. (please note though that local pharmacies often cannot take goodrx or rxsaver, call ahead to check)

source: I am a pharmacy technician

ghostprincen

Also to add onto this!

5: If you fall under the poverty line look for a patient assistance program/ free clinic. Most states have these, they ask you to apply by verifying that you do, indeed, fall under the poverty line by providing stuff like your last year’s tax return and payslips from your work. Through these programs a health care provider can contact Novo Nordisc/ Lily Evans (companies that produce insulin) and they can give you highly discounted or even free insulin. THESE PROGRAMS DO EXIST AND HELP A TON!

6: Amazon has cheap pen needles and strips for testing blood sugar

pen needles

test strips (dont apply to all glucose testers so make sure it will work with yours)

7. If you MUST use this insulin (which i strongly recommend against- the two months I was on this insulin was hell but it kept me alive so i cant complain too much) the insulin acts very very differently. When taking the fast acting insulin, you have to take it 30-60 minutes before eating. When taking the long acting, split in half what you normally take with a regular long acting insulin like Lantus. Take each dose 12 hours apart. If you take your regular dose all at once you WILL crash in blood sugar and spike later.

8. Reach out to other Diabetics, especially on Facebook. There are a few groups dedicated to swapping/sending supplies. People with extra will often give what they can. These groups often get shut down because Facebook is full of narcs but seriously it can be a good resource.

#diabetes #insulin

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

I’m not gonna bother battling a post with hundreds of thousands of notes

but

Deviantart does not sell your art to third parties

That post you’ve seen is a huge mess

It’s been fact checked to death

It circles around every so often I’ve probably seen it ten times at this point

You’re fine

Your art is fine

Professionals have used that site for years and years and still use it without any issue. I’ve used it. The only reason I stopped using it was because I got tired of harassment but that’s not Deviantart’s fault.

Deviantart lets you limit sharing. It lets you sell prints. It has a huge amount of flexibility. It allows you to watermark your art. Deviantart is a perfectly fine alternative for artists and fanartists.

kedreeva

Honestly, Elicia wouldn’t give 1 (one) corn chip to a site that is up to something sneaky, so if she says it’s good that’s all I need to know.

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

My main issue with that post going around about the Hot Topic art theft is that it isn’t actually theft. The DA post is a fake, and the art itself was officially licensed.

That doesn’t mean you don’t still have risks—as with any site, you should protect your art. But the third party boogeyman is Tumblr hysteria. Deviantart DOES sell your art, yes, but it’s only to people you choose to sell it to in the form of prints if you choose to license your art that way.

#deviantart