why not?

College student. Procrastinator. Clashing occurs.

[jellyrollreve]

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[phreakish]

to everyone startled by the news of jonghyun

please remember jonghyun for what he is and not for what he did.

please remember him for the laughter and the smiles he brought forth.

please remember him for his musicality and his persistent hard work.

and please, please remember that he wouldn’t have wanted the same fate on you.

[prokopetz]

The whole net neutrality discussion seems to be focusing on download speeds and access to particular services, but does anybody remember back in 2006 when AOL got caught blocking people from sending or receiving emails that expressed criticism of AOL? There was no sign that it was happening, and the emails would appear to be delivered - AOL’s mail servers would even report a normal “accepted for delivery” status code - but they’d just never show up in the recipient’s inbox. Or how about the incident a year earlier where Telus imposed fake service outages for websites expressing support for the Telecommunications Workers Union? Again, no indication that any blocking was taking place: just a error page falsely claiming the affected sites were down.

Under the proposed deregulations, this sort of thing would be explicitly permitted, and we know it’s possible because it’s been done. Now consider how much more communication happens via the Internet in 2017 than in 2005/2006. It’s not even email or websites; big chunks of the telephone network now pass through ISP-mediated VOIP channels, and those conversations would likewise be targetable by faked outages.

Like, this isn’t some dystopian sci-fi scenario; we’re talking about horseshit that major ISPs were getting up to on the sly over a decade ago, and are now about to be told can be engaged in without regulatory penalty.

[gacorley]

This happened? That’s serious.

By the way, that kind of scenario is how censorship in China works. They don’t throw up a page saying the content is illegal, they just route it in such a way that the packets go around in circles and time out. ISPs could easily start pulling all kinds of tricks to demote things they don’t like – they have the option of not routing it correctly, slowing the bandwidth to a crawl, or just stopping the request and sending back a 404. We need to keep Net Neutrality.

[prokopetz]

Oh, yeah, it happened. The cited incidents aren’t even the half of it - they’re just a couple of the better known ones.

For example, there was the time that Comcast blocked Boston-area subscribers from accessing their GMail inboxes, and when folks called their support line to complain, they falsely claimed that it was a technical issue on Google’s end and tried to sell them a Comcast email account.

Or the time that Madison River Communications ended up getting fined for their VOIP-metering scheme when it turned out that they were interfering with 911 calls made by users in their service area.

Or the time Verizon started selectively blocking text messages sent by pro-choice advocacy groups, even to recipients who’d explicitly opted into them.

Again, none of this is hypothetical - this isn’t stuff we imagine major telecoms will do in the absence of strong net neutrality protections, but stuff they already have done, and in many cases only stopped due to regulatory pressure at the federal level.

[weavemama]

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, CHANCES ARE YOU GO ON THE INTERNET EVERYDAY. THE FCC IS NOW PLANNING ON REPEALING NET NEUTRALITY. THIS MEANS THAT POPULAR WEBSITES WILL RUN SLOWLY UNTIL YOU PAY AN EXTRA FEE. WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF USING WEBSITES AND RESEARCHING FOR FREE. 

TEXT ‘RESIST’ AT 50409 AND TELL YOUR SENATORS THAT NET NEUTRALITY NEEDS TO STAY.

[msavignon]

This is for naturalized U.S. citizens: get proof of citizenship NOW. (Liberals, advice for you, too).

I’ve already tweeted about this but here’s a longer post for all naturalized citizens especially those who have been visibly marked a “other” and aren’t part of the “again” when Trump says that he’s making America great “again.” 

(All of you sad white liberals can suck it up, buttercups, because some of us have some real work to do to prove that we belong here before President-elect Trump is sworn in. The stuff that applies to you is at the end.) 

Trump took the support of white suburban women, those are also the types of women who want to adopt foreign children like they’re some kind of charitable, exotic vase. This does not mean they will necessarily ensure citizenship for their adopted children. For foreign adoptees who were 18 by 2000, you are not covered under the current Child Citizenship Act (2000). If you do not have proof of naturalization and even though you were raised here your entire life, you can be deported: 

“Korean American Adoptee Faces Unjust Deportation” (Angry Asian Man, 10/27/2016) 

“A South Korean Man Adopted By Americans Prepares for Deportation” (NYT 11/1/2016)

This brings me to the point of my post: naturalized citizens, get proof of citizenship while Obama is still president. Naturalized citizens can use two documents to prove their citizenship: a U.S. passport and a Certificate of Naturalization (N-550, N-750). 

U.S. Passport info: 

Routine processing for a new passport typically takes 4-5 weeks and there is an expedited processing option (2-3).

Here is a link to info about passport application and/or renewal processes and needed documentation: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports.html 

Here is a PDF of fees to apply for a new passport or renew your old one: U.S. Passport Fees

Now, onto the Certificate of Naturalization: 

The Certificate of U.S. Naturalization (form N-550 or N-570) is a document issued by United States government as proof of a person having obtained U.S. citizenship through naturalization (a legal process of obtaining a new nationality). The Certificate of U.S. Naturalization has been issued since October 1, 1991 by the USCIS, and on or before September 30, 1991 by Federal Courts and particular State Courts. The United States Certificate of Naturalization is proof of an individual’s U.S. citizenship through naturalization. Only naturalized United States citizens can apply for a Certificate of U.S. Naturalization. If you are not a United States citizen, you must first apply for US citizenship. 

Source: Certificate of Naturalization

If you are already a naturalized U.S. citizen and don’t have a copy of your Certificate of Naturalization, you can apply for a new one here: Application for Replacement Certificate of Naturalization.  What you should know: 

These were apparently issued in 1991 so the yellowed certificate of my citizenship from the 1980s on yellowing, delicate paper might not cut it. I am applying for a new certificate of naturalization but not before I scan both sides of it and find a notary to sign something that says they saw it. 

The fee for another copy of Certificate of Naturalization: $345

Trans* naturalized citizens, you can request a new Certificate of Naturalization due to a legal change in gender. Will this change under a Trump presidency? Who knows? Who wants to risk it? 

I saw a lot of white people who were SO SHOCKED and SO SURPRISED their fellow white people voted for Trump. I saw tweets about “hurting” for their friends who were women, immigrant, minority, trans, queer - and god help us if you fall into more than one of those categories. That’s not even to mention the undocumented and those on work or school visas - immigration has a lot of fucking narratives and its time you start realizing that. 

So, do you want to help? Here are two ways to start helping your immigrant friends. 

First, you can help your naturalized friends by getting their paperwork and money in order: planning, finding a translator, helping with gathering paperwork and looking over their paperwork before its submitted; lending emotional support, accompanying them to immigration services and/or other appointments. Take some of that #ImWithHer sentiments that led you to donate to Hillary’s campaign and buy “nasty women” t-shirts and give your friends cold hard cash so they have proof of citizenship either in the form of a U.S. passport or Certificate of Naturalization. 

Second, you can start writing your senator and pressuring them to support of bill S.2275 - Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2015 introduced by Sen. Am Klobuchar (D-MN) designed to prevent the kind of tragedy facing Adam Crapsner in the stories linked above: 

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant automatic citizenship to all qualifying children adopted by a U.S. citizen parent, regardless of the date on which the adoption was finalized.

An individual born outside of the United States who was adopted by a U.S. citizen parent shall automatically become a U.S. citizen when the following conditions have been fulfilled:

the individual was adopted by a U.S. citizen before the individual reached age 18,

the individual was physically present in the United States in the citizen parent’s legal custody pursuant to a lawful admission before the individual reached age 18,

the individual never acquired U.S. citizenship before the enactment of this Act, and

the individual was lawfully residing in the United States on the date of enactment of this Act.

An individual who meets such criteria, except for lawfully residing in the United States on the date of enactment of this Act, shall automatically become a U.S. citizen on the date on which the individual is physically present in the United States pursuant to a lawful admission.

Source: S-2275 - Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2015

[notbecauseofvictories]

can you please talk about those protections to curtail executive power I'm really, really scared and could use the reassurance thank you

THINGS A PRESIDENT CANNOT DO:

Reverse any Supreme Court decision 

This includes Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage a constitutional right; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which reaffirmed a woman’s right to choose first articulated in Roe v. Wade, another Supreme Court case. Grutter v. Bollinger, which instituted affirmative action, the entire body of Civil Rights case law, plus anything related to due process, including the right of minors to due process, your right to an attorney, Miranda rights, inadmissible evidence, etc.

(Even if Trump appoints the worst possible SC nominee, they still can’t reverse any of these decisions without a really significant case coming before the Court with new facts, and then they have to write an opinion stating how this case is different than that other case…it’s unlikely to happen.)

Write law or repeal any existing law

While traditionally, presidents have exerted influence on the legislative agenda (see, Obama’s role in advancing and promoting the Affordable Care Act) they cannot actually write or pass legislation. Bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and simple resolutions must be introduced in the House by a Representative.

Presidents cannot strike down law. Only Congress can repeal laws, and only the Supreme Court can strike them down as unconstitutional.

Presidential influence is just that—influence.

(And if—for example—you are hated by 95% of the party you joined last week, and burned all your goddamn bridges by insulting them at various points in your campaign…..they’re unlikely to partner with you in crafting legislation.)

Make any law or declaration that infringes in any way on the rights of the states

So in the US, most of the rights are reserved to the states. You name it, it’s a state-run power. Criminal procedure and law? States. Medicare and Medicaid? States. The definition of marriage? States. Insurance, health departments, housing, unemployment benefits, public education, all these are state programs. And the president cannot infringe on those powers given to the states.

(This is why down-ticket voting is so important, because Mike Pence as governor of Indiana had 800x the power he’s going to have as VP.)

Declare war.

This one is the most complicated, because with the advent of our “conflicts” in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. there has been a significant shift in the articulation of the war doctrine, and it is one of the least restricted of the president’s “restricted” powers. But, despite all that, a president still has no power to declare war.

Unilaterally appoint heads of administrative departments

Unilaterally make treaties with foreign nations

Essentially, while presidents have a lot of power, it’s mostly unofficial—they can’t make sweeping laws, they can’t overturn existing rights, the most they can do is refuse to enforce them (which is absolutely a threat! and a problem! but we aren’t electing de facto royalty.

[thejusticethatissocial]

[selenastaylors]

If you voted for Trump tonight, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latina/o, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

[thanksitsbeenfunyall-deactivate]

If you voted Third Party tonight, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latinx, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

[no-longer-kanaya-deactivated202]

If you deliberately chose not to vote, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latinx, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

what do we do tho? like, honestly? what happens if he’s elected? what do we honest to god do?

[slowspinningredemption]

Coming from the UK after our own catastrophe: you make his life hell. You make his government’s life hell. Anything and everything shitty that they want to do, you protest, you campaign, you petition, you lobby. You tie the whole thing up in so much red tape that Mr I’ve-Never-Had-Anyone-Say-No-To-Me starts loathing his job.

You create private safe zones, you look out for one another, you let your now validated racist, homophobic, transphobic neighbours know that their bigotry will not be tolerated through any means you feel it’s safe to do so. You join forces. Despite everything, you thrive out of spite, out of survival, out of a need to protect your own.

All of these communities have faced untold amounts of hell before and we’re all still here. It’s in our history to survive – in our genetic makeup. There will be losses and there will be casualties but in four years you’ll still be here and you’ll vote him out and the time to grieve will be then. For now, fight. In any way you can, even if all you can do is get through each day at a time. Fight him every step of the way.

[veeranger]

i’d like to say personally to the two million plus people who voted third party fuck you

[itsbap]

B.A.P - SKYDIVE M/V

[byeoltan]

Let me tell you what’s going on in South Korea right now and why K-netz are critcizing idols partying and uploading selcas on Halloween/active on SNS, they have legitimate reasons because

i just saw i-nets bashing k-netz left and right when they don’t know the gravity of the situation, so first of all, please read this article, and about this mass protest in Seoul against South Korean President Park Geun-hye just yesterday, calling the president to step down over allegations that allowed a close personal friend to meddle in state affairs. also, this wonderful explanation 

the girl’s mother, choi soon-sil, who is currently in germany (she said she couldnt return to seoul yet for official interrogation due to nervous breakdown and heart issues, like lady, please), is said to have influenced president park in private on everything from her wardrobe to her strategy on tackling the north korean regime. and THAT IS SCARY because her dad, choi tae min, was well known in south korea as the head of a cult-like religious group until his death in 1994. he even went as far as to allegedly had helped the-before-president park contact her late mother in the afterlife and has been known to enjoy considerable influence over ms park as a young politician, prompting diplomats to refer to him in private as “korea’s rasputin.”

now rasputin is a russian peasant, mystical faith healer, and trusted friend of the family of nicholas II, the last tsar of russia.

Rasputin (as put out by MiMo, i couldnt have said it better bby i hope youre okay with me putting your comment out here <3) is a hobo who claimed to be a spirit doctor. He gained influence when he was hired to “heal” Tsar Nicholas II’s wife, eventually coming to rule the country. His fine work as a de facto ruler was the last straw in an already declining Tsarist Russia, triggering the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that gave rise to the Soviet Union. That’s why people are calling out those who are partying right now. 99 years ago, a controversy like this caused a country to self-destruct.

now can you imagine why koreans are freaking out???

i also wanna add here that during a comeback, artists are usually allowed to perform more than one song in their first week of comeback and proceed with just one song for the following weeks of promotion, but just yesterday (on the same day of teh mass protest), we have bangtan performing ‘am i wrong’ on mbc’s music core in the third week promotion, like seriously, how?? what a perfect? timing?? imean, you can read all about what theyre saying here but 

LOOK AT THE CHOREO??

UM???

edit: apparently some of you guys didnt get the choreo bit, thats okay ^^ lemme just reiterate what ive already written here, the first gif of suga, v, and jimin, is referencing to ppl just scrolling through the news/comments and not give a damn about whats happening in the country (or around the world), the bystanders are thought to be teh crazier ones hvg able to just live like that in this crazy world. the second gif is the members ‘enacting’ like dogs and pigs, an indirect jab towards their government official who not long ago, during an interview, had made disparaging remarks towards the south koreans, saying that 99% of his country’s people are “like dogs and pigs.” 

[heypon-deactivated20220309]

Here’s some more info on how the entertainment industry is tangled in this as well.

[jellyrollreve]

“it says premium beer but it’s apple juice.”

[itsbap]

[itsbap]

B.A.P - ‘That’s My Jam’ MV

[jellyrollreve]

[itsbap]

[!] TS has revealed that B.A.P's 5th single album ‘PUT’EM UP’ will include 3 tracks with a trendy and popular EDM genre title track that holds a story of enjoying a hot summer night's fantastic party!

B.A.P’s leader Bang Yongguk and Untouchable’s Sleepy participated and have finished making a trendy beat & well made album. trans by @bydaehyuns ; take out with full credit.