as someone who remembers the patriot act and all the conversation surrounding it, it's a bit... of an experience being able to remember how many people pointed out that Terrorist was a politically convenient term which could be used to dehumanise and legally strip the rights from someone and that eventually all this would be used internally. and the response was 'nuh uh only browns with funny headgear are terrorists'. and then two decades of 'fighting age males' being blown to pieces at weddings because they might have, maybe, looked at a terrorist once. A week ago a head of state is black bagged in the middle of the night by the US for being a 'narcoterrorist'. And now an unarmed, random woman - white, citizen - is gunned down by jackboot thugs and before her body is cold she is, of course, a domestic terrorist.
If you are reading this, you need to know that the moment the US state needs to kidnap you, the moment a drone pilot decides you're in the wrong place, the moment you are bleeding to death on the sidewalk, you will be a Terrorist. Because anything can be done to a Terrorist.
I mean the french very much aren't getting away with it. Everyone else is taking their language and running off with it cackling with glee. We're all getting away with fucking up french words on purpose
#English loves french so much it steals the same fucking word a few centuries apart so it gets two words that have the same meaning#But different spellings -#Like guarantee/warranty#(aside: There was a w/g shift so you can see if the word showed up with the normans or got nicked later#Which is why for e.g. the english call it wales and the french call it pays de galls)#Catch/chase#Gender/genre
It really is fucking nuts to see world leaders send condolences over this and sports teams hold moments of silence like Kirk was some great leader and not a fucking nazi podcaster
HE WAS A NAZI!! PODCASTER!! WHO SPENT HIS TIME YELLING “DEBATE ME!!!” AT COLLEGE (SOMETHING HE NEVER ATTENDED BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT A BLACK WOMAN BENEFITING FROM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WOULD TAKE HIS PLACE) STUDENTS AND SAYING JEWS AND BLACK PEOPLE WILL REPLACE WHITE CHRISTIANS AND HIS DAUGHTER AGE 10 SHOULD HAVE A CARRY A PREGNANCY TO TERM IF RAPED
Why the goddamn shit have Canadian PM Mark Carney and British PM Keir Starmer released statements bemoaning the death of American Nazi podcaster Charlie Kirk
I love that there wasn't any big issue with the development that delay it, it just took a Long ass time to make because that's how they roll.
Yeah that's what game development is supposed to look like and what we were used to when I was a kid....movies too. Big games and movies were expected to take more than two years
I really can’t stand anti-lawyer sentiment idgaf if your annoying uncle is a really smarmy personal injury lawyer or whatever the fuck it’s time to grow up and recognize that having an entire profession dedicated to understanding and upholding the law is actually extremely valuable to civilized society
Bro you’re falling for anti-lawyer propaganda saying shit like this. There are hundreds of thousands of talented lawyers who dedicate themselves to public service either through working directly for local/state/federal government or for nonprofit legal aid/pro bono organizations.
Sure sometimes legal assistance can be expensive but a lot of times lawyers are more than happy to work out payment plans for people who can’t pay lump sums. When I worked for an immigration practice, they had set fees for all of their services which set a cap on the amount of money their clients were expected to pay and then they let them pay at a rate of $100 per month until it was paid off, which is crazy cheap if you have any idea of how much work goes into a basic immigration case.
Furthermore big firms do NOT only hire top attorneys. Some of the dumbest motherfuckers I’ve ever met are charging $500/hr because the got their partner daddy got them a job. Big firms thrive on nepotism and clout chasing, not quality legal work. Obviously there’s an advantage to having deep pockets, especially when it comes to litigation, but do not buy into the myth that lawyers are simply inaccessible to the average Joe.
If you need legal help look for legal aid and pro bono in your area. Call private attorneys and ask if they do payment plans. I promise you it’s worth it.
Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit
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And how will I prove my age?
There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:
Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age.
Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.
Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.
Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.
Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.
Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18.
Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.
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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.
I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.
I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
Anything we Yankees can do to voice our displeasure at this? This absolutely is violating and it's creepy. It absolutely will be used as a test run for implementing something similar here if it doesn't get loud pushback, and even before it does, we all share the same Internet, so it will, in some way, affect us even across the pond.
As far as I know, the best thing non-UK people can do is simply share the petition around, because it’s not possible for anyone outside of the UK to sign it (otherwise the petition can be deemed invalid). But definitely keep your eyes on American laws, because it’s likely they’ll attempt to implement them there too. The UK itself is basically copying what Australia has been trying to do with their under-16s ban.
If you're in the UK, please sign the petition and start calling and emailng explaining that you don't support fascist laws in your country. Because this is fascism. It's tracking and keeping lists of what people do on the internet so that vaguely written laws can be interpreted to punish people for not being the right sort of people.
If you're not in the UK, please reblog and share anywhere you can.
Preserving ticket stubs from your favorite shows used to be such a great piece of memorabilia now you have what. A confirmation email? A blank wristband at best?
no actually i don't think antivaxxers' kids should die from a disease. i don't think gun advocates' kids should die in school shooting. children dying is bad actually, even if they're children of people you don't like.
Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.
"it's refreshing to do things for your partner that they genuinely want and need instead of things that you think they'll want and need" is such an important message and it's TRAGIC that it's right at the end, almost cut off. too many people see videos like this and think the message is "surprise your partner with a grand gesture", but more often than not, the most meaningful gesture is the one that shows you were listening.
They were domesticated in Fertile Crescent and Egypt so probably an evolutionary advantage for snakes and scorpions that are hidden in sand and are more noticed by their movement than being seen directly
So y'all may or may not remember that around this time last year I had a huge dental procedure and an equally huge bill for it.
Yeah, turns out the dentist's office fucked up my total when they handed it to me and six months later, they tell me I still owe about $3,000.
On top of that, a month later I had one of my four remaining molars crack and about a third of the damn thing sheared clean off of where it was apparently already mostly filling.
So I'm looking at $3,100 in debt (because they were kind enough to pause the interest on their fuck up for all of three months), as much as $1,700 for the fillings I need, and as much as another $2,000 to fix the busted molar.
Needless to say, I've put the GoFundMe back up. Same drill as before, every dollar helps and every reblog counts.
Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.
One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".
The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."
I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.
