Conviction is a Luxury

afforded only to those on the sidelines. Things are always more complicated than at first they may seem. Look deeper and you may catch a glimpse of the truth.

[luxuryofconviction]

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[luxuryofconviction]

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[luxuryofconviction]

This blog is now officially defunct. Please click thru for the new one.

[luxuryofconviction]

This blog is now officially defunct. Please click thru for the new one.

[luxuryofconviction]

This blog is now officially defunct. Please click thru for the new one.

[luxuryofconviction]

This blog is now officially defunct. Please click thru for the new one.

[luxuryofconviction]

This blog is now officially defunct. Please click thru for the new one.

[legalizevore]

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suddenly regretting my decision.

[luxuryofconviction]

I need this on my blog.

[incorrigible-ixoreus]

trying out the name rowan for a while

plz humour me friends

[roachpatrol]

So this most recent kerfluffle I’ve been in has really solidified a concept I’ve been mulling over for a while, about respect.

The thing is, women are entitled to respect. We are absolutely entitled to it. But the issue at the heart of a lot of sexism and harassment is that men are contemptuous of women. And, being contemptuous of women, they’re more than happy to blame women for not earning their respect—the respect that women should simply be accorded by right of being people. This gets men off the hook for their abdication of manners and decency, and once again puts women on trial for deserving their own abuse. 

We, all of us, all genders of us, we absolutely need to rephrase this conversation.  Women are entitled to respect. They deserve it inherently. We cannot keep grilling women about why they haven’t earned it, haven’t demanded it loud enough, haven’t argued for it eloquently enough, haven’t agitated for it long enough, haven’t bargained for it nicely enough. Women don’t need to be strong, or brave, or loud, or kind, or tough, or powerful. They just need to be women, because women are respectable. There is nothing more or less that they can do to deserve respect other than to be born. 

When men do not respect women they are delinquent. They are witholding it. They are causing this problem. It is their fault. Do not forget this. Do not let anyone make you.

[spytap]

One U.S. Supreme Court justice referred to Netflix as ‘Netflick.’ Another seemed not to know that HBO is a cable channel. A third appeared to think most software coding could be tossed off in a mere weekend.

[luxuryofconviction]

Business Insider, on the Supreme Court’s understanding of technology (via evangotlib)

THIS ISNT OKAY

(via bigmouthsparesagain)

Let me guess. Roberts, Thomas, and Scalia.

(via allthewhiskeyinheaven)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was ranked number one, because she appeared to be familiar with such products as Roku Inc’s streaming video device and services that store files on the Internet, such as Apple Inc’s iCloud - although she was also the justice responsible for the “Netflick” comment.

Ranked last, Justice Antonin Scalia was faulted for the HBO remark. Justice Breyer was somewhere in the middle. He was seen as being out of touch for making several references to “phonograph records.”

FROM PATENTS TO PHONES

Other tech cases have prompted similar ribbing.

Some techies chided Justice Anthony Kennedy for suggesting in a software patents case in March that code to implement an idea could be done by “any computer group of people sitting around a coffee shop” over a weekend.

In another closely watched case, over whether police should be able to search smartphones without warrants, Chief Justice John Roberts alarmed privacy advocates when he sharply questioned a lawyer about her assumption that many people carry more than one cellphone.

"What is your authority for the statement that many people have multiple cellphones on their person?" he asked Judith Mizner, a public defender arguing on behalf of a criminal defendant.

"That was definitely an odd moment," said Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington Law School.

:/

(via echrai)

#THIS MAKES ME ANGRY #people should not be allowed to make or judge policy without even understanding it?? #but the one about casually coding in a coffee shop over the weekend really pisses me off

(via knitmeapony)

[roachpatrol]

Ok so you know those sanctimonious kids that go around hounding people about what they do on their own blog, spreading lies to try and ruin the reputation of people they don’t like, and writing anyone who transgresses their own personal standard of behavior ‘trash’? We need to stop calling them social justice warriors. They don’t actually fight any enemies. They don’t even fight out in the open, they don’t do anything as honest and straight forward as warring. They just sneakily police their own ingroup via rumormongering and anon sneak attacks and outsourcing harassment to their more gullible friends to try and destroy anyone who isn’t behaving just the way these guys want them to behave. 

They’re pretty clearly social justice inquisitors. 

[softurl]

i forgot that i ponified calories to “dragon balls” when i ponified dragon to “big baby” so now calories are ponified to “big baby balls” and i don’t know what to do

[softurl]

i’m never gonna remember what this post was about

[azzandra]

It was about actions having consequences.

[urie]

technology isnt making people talk less, its allowing people to choose who they want to talk to. i dont want to talk to your “intellectual” anti-technology ass, i want to talk to like, twelve different people who are vastly more interesting and never have to look up from my phone to acknowledge you

[randomactns]

We Are All Made of Stars

[buckybuns]

just two kids from brooklyn

[buckybuns]

I know nothing about WW2 US army insignias so I copied whatever Steve has to Bucky’s uniform, with the exception of that silver insignia Steve has above his army branch tape. I hope I didn’t wreck Leyendecker’s style.

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[buckybuns]

just two kids from brooklyn

[buckybuns]

I know nothing about WW2 US army insignias so I copied whatever Steve has to Bucky’s uniform, with the exception of that silver insignia Steve has above his army branch tape. I hope I didn’t wreck Leyendecker’s style.

Thanks for supporting me through this: spacedocks, repulsor, liiiiiiing and schwarzbrot.