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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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I can’t stand all this talk about Alexa being a wiretap, that is a gross misrepresentation of the purpose of devices like Alexa and their function in our lives. if it’s not intercepting phone calls through some connection to your phone line, it’s not a wiretap and it’s not wiretapping.
the correct terms for a covert listening device are bug and bugging.
You are absolutely correct.
Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students
Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
Stop using "miku made (x)" to defend something being shit. Miku didn't make minecraft. Notch did. Notch is a nazi and a generally evil person and his antisemitism is present in minecraft whether you like it or not. I love minecraft but the villagers make me uncomfortable. I'm not comfortable as a jew w/ characters who are big nosed and money-loving, made by a nazi, being treated as these cute icons by the "uwu minecraft cottagecore frog snail bees miku" crowd.
I like minecraft! But like. Stop using this stupid meme to excuse and ignore its faults.
Adding on as an ethnic jew here! I think the origins of the Miku meme were wholesome, but most people just use that meme as a way to like, avoid thinking critically about anything. Whenever I try to talk about Minecraft’s faults, and the way it was affected by Notch, I am interrupted every time I say his name with “you mean MIKU” and it’s just...I don’t know, disheartening?
People are starting to do the same thing with Harry Potter now, and it’s really deconstructing Jewish people’s discussions about things in the source material that CANNOT be separated from the creator, like the villagers in Minecraft as per your example. The way goyim exclude actual Jewish people from conversations that have EVERYTHING to do with Jewish people needs to change.
On a side note, if you draw villagers as like a ‘cutesy’ thing, please be careful with the features you give them. Generally be cautious about antisemetic stereotypes of Jewish people, and apply that caution when drawing villagers, or hell, ANY character. And if I see anyone making an ‘evil banker villager with a big ol’ nose and evil goat horns UwU’ OC, I will go fucking ballistic.
TL;DR: LISTEN TO US JEWISH PEOPLE! And be careful of stereotypes in your media/characters.
The self-appointed mayor of Goodneighbor
Face detail:
Inktober 2019 #7 - Walani (Don’t Starve)
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to do this challenge as neatly as planned, but work has killed me these past days and everything is just a little too much right now. I’m still angry and disappointed I had to bring inktober to a halt, especially because I felt I was doing good so far…but it was bound to happen sooner or later anyway.
blackstar: one of your daughters took a frog from our territory. she told us she wasnt going to eat it but was just going to let it live here
sandstorm: …..that doesnt sound like MY girls but okay. thank you for telling me. we’ll be on the look out for a frog i guess??
blackstar: …
sandstorm: they’ll get a stern talking to. we’ll make it hop back in your territory when we find it
blackstar: ….alright.
sandstorm, as soon as he leaves: alright you two give me the frog.
leafpaw: we named him jumppaw.
sandstorm: he needs to go back home
squirrelpaw: firestar promised he’d give him a warrior name and everything mom you cant get rid of thunderclans newest and bravest apprentice….
firestar: i mean…..i DID promise the girls that i’d give him a warrior name…..
sandstorm: you have GOT to be kidding me….and okay, graystripe what are you doing with the frog
graystripe, holding back laughter: im taking my new apprentice out hunting
sandstorm: this clan is going into shambles.
whitepaw, eavesdropping: jumppaw truly is one of the best hunters we have here…..he catches a lot of flies
sandstorm: NO!!
Nimbus met our dog for the first time. This is her being intimidating
“Uh oh, better make myself look big!”
What is antifa fighting for? Ive seen videos where you all mostly appear to just be bullies. But i dont believe the videos as im sure they are editing based on someone else's agenda. I just thought I would go to the source so i can make an informed decision.
Antifa’s fight is best summed up by the motto “respect existence or expect resistance.” We are fighting for the right of people to live their lives peaceably and without threat of discrimination, dehumanization, vilification, scapegoating, deportation, abuse, violence, enslavement, or genocide because of their ethnicity, race, religion, language, gender or sexual orientation, migrant status, or disability.
You’re correct that the videos you’re seeing are carefully edited to make antifa look like the aggressors. There’s a clear pattern going on that runs like this:
a) fascists/far right bigots announce a public event to incite violence against their perceived enemies, recruit more followers, and gain publicity.
b) in their back channels, they make plans to bring weapons and discuss ways to hurt counterprotestors.
c) the day comes and the people in the community they’ve chosen for their event stand with anti-fascists in opposition to them.
d) some of the more tech-savvy fascists deliberately try to provoke counterprotestors by threatening them, harassing them, endangering them, or assaulting them.
e) the counterprotestors use every means imaginable to stop this without resorting to physical force. When none of it is effective & they resort to physical force, the fascists record it, then post edited videos showing only the reaction to their harassment & assaults, then immediately start begging online for money via crowdfunders etc.
Examples:
a) Andy Ngo’s famous video of his “assault”. Here’s a video with footage he cut.
b) From that same event, the “innocent elderly gentleman” who was “assaulted with a crowbar” by antifa is well known local nazi John Blum, who came to the event with a collapsable police baton which he was threatening antifa with for several minutes.
When he did get hit, it was while he was attempting to bludgeon two counter-protestors with it.c) Likewise the “antifa attacked people with hammer” thing from this weekend! Andy Ngo posted a video showing antifa throwing a hammer at people on bus, but cut out the part where one of the nazis charged off the bus swinging the hammer at people’s heads & antifa disarming him.
d) Likewise the “antifa attacked an innocent father and his 5-year-old daughter.” That was Johnny “shitty 300 cosplayer” Turano and his 24-year-old adult daughter Bianca, who travel the west coast harassing leftist protestors like they did this past Saturday, showing up at an entirely peaceful counterprotest and harassing people for the better part of an hour. Johnny repeatedly tried to smash people in the face with a metal shield before the crowd made them run away by dousing them with water and pushing them. Here’s a particularly creepy video of the two of them getting tattoos, which we’re pretty sure a five-year-old wouldn’t be allowed to do. Here’s another video of them calling an actual five-year-old girl a terrorist. You have to ask yourself why people would be going to these lengths to make anti-fascists look bad. Maybe it’s because they see antifa as a threat to their political goals + they also see an opportunity to make bank off of gullible conservatives by revving up the ol’ right wing outrage machine.
Look, at the end of the day, if you’re not smart enough to recognize that facism is bad and should be fought against, maybe you should take a long, hard look in a mirror.
So I read an article today where the BBC interviewed the Untitled Goose Game developers and they referred to the goose with singular they/them pronouns in:
The goose isn’t morally righteous. The goose sits outside of human morality. They aren’t causing trouble because it’s the right thing to do… they’re doing it because they’re a goose.
- Nico Disseldorp, House House developer.
ah i hope you don’t mind but i changed some of the colors to be easier to read
Someone went to town with sticky lizards in this Kmart.
They threw some of them so hard they exploded
“assuming autistic people don’t know what things like sex and romance are is infantilizing and ableist” and “let asexual, aromantic, and aroace autistic people exist in peace” are two opinions that can coexist and some of you really need to Know
The idea that they can’t coexist also perpetuates the idea that because asexual and aromantic people don’t feel sexual or romantic attraction that they dont understand sex and romance which is also infantilizing and ace/arophobic
actually rb this version instead
people always talk about how the masses used to watch gladiator fights or public executions for fun, but we rarely discuss how people also went to human medical surgery’s for sport and entertainment, just showed up in a big tent and watched official operations, sometimes a flutist played music in the corner for it
like, “I’m not not dying of some random disease or having to work a 50 hour work day today, better go watch some dude get his leg sawed off in a science tent.”
what I’m saying is that it’s good we invented tv
me, about to have my appendix removed in Victorian England:
random citizens there:
the bard:
Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase.
“I won’t be available.”
Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.
If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:
Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.
Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.
Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.
The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.
If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else.
But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.
“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”
“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)
“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”
“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”
If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.
IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ!!
Just like with many other parts of life, learn to say ‘no’ to people. You are important. Don’t kill yourself for another person, esp. if they are your boss.
educational resources (eg museums) about prehistory as well as about modern creatures and ecology suffer greatly from forced hyper-masculinization of a few select creatures. this forces the “masculine” apex predators or otherwise “most dominant-est” animals into a narrow range of discussion (how STRONG were they, how much could they KILL) and ignores any available evidence that might conceivably seem “feminine” (eg, t. rex very possibly had feathers). similarly prehistoric creatures will sometimes disappear from frequent coverage when they are learned to be herbivorous (eg gastornis.) meanwhile all other non-apex animals, past and present, are hardly focused on at all, diminishing the communication of knowledge about their great ecological importance. in this essay I will
i can’t stop thinking about that video of the actor who voices gumball chasing down and murdering james charles in minecraft
like honestly, it doesn’t matter what the fuck you achieve in your life. you will never be the 15-year old who killed james charles in minecraft.
The “B” in LGBT stands for Bisexual, as in ALL BISEXUALS, not just sga ones.
Bisexual people that are only attracted to their “opposite gender” and nb people deserve to be in the community for a myriad of reasons:
1. They are showing that they respect nb people’s gender by not reducing them to their dgab or genitals (which is what everyone against this keeps doing).
2. Them being attracted to nb people does not mean they are only attracted to nb people with genitals of their “opposite sex”. As we all know, you can’t tell what genitals a person has 100% of the time and if that person is truly attracted to nb people, then genitals don’t matter.
3. There are nb bi people that don’t have a “same” or “similar” gender. Is their bisexuality any less valid because of this? I think not. (And yes, nb people are LGBT regardless because of being nb, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the validity of the different ways of being bisexual).
4. They suffer from biphobia regardless of “sga” because biphobia stems from being attracted to multiple genders first and foremost. If someone says biphobia actually stems from “sga” and is just a subset of homophobia, I’m gonna flip my shit because if that was the case, gay people couldn’t be biphobic. I’m sure pretty much every bi person has had a gay person be biphobic towards them before and it’s almost always some version of “you’re gonna leave me for/cheat on me with [insert “opposite sex” here]“ or they think that the bi person is tainted for having ever been with their “opposite sex”, which is strictly because of them being attracted to multiple genders and has nothing to do with “sga”.
5. The current most accepted definition of bisexuality is attraction to two or more genders. “Sga” is not currently part of the definition.
If you have a problem with this, then you’re essentially saying you don’t want nb people to be with people that want to respect and validate their gender. You want them to be with people that’ll continue calling themselves straight because they reduce them to their dgab and genitals and that is not a safe relationship for a nb person to be in.
The whole argument against this is essentially based on reducing nb people to their genitals and that can lead to misgendering, especially for non aligned nb people, and is generally disrespectful and essentialist. And don’t forget that terfs are the ones that reduce people to their genitals and you don’t wanna be like a terf, do you??
