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Okay!
Time for me to move on and cultivate new land--as in I made a new account. Go follow it--there’s gonna be more art than memes, and more original content, so if you’re looking for transformers or overwatch, I’ve left the past behind dawg.
except for ninja turtles i cant ever let that go
but there’s not gonna be any fanart on my blog unless i need to bait people into following me
it’s @dogdaydoodles-sr ! https://dogdaydoodles-sr.tumblr.com/
So here we are
For those keeping score at home, the FCC voted to roll back the 2015 regulations protecting Net Neutrality by a vote of 3-2.
So here’s what happens now:
They have to finalize the actual text, as in they have to cross the T’s and dot the I’s.
Then they have to submit it to the Office of Management and Budget, who will also see if everything checks out, that it’s not making more paperwork than necessary.
They also have to send a copy to Congress per the Congressional Review Act.
If the OMB approves the order, it’ll be added to the Federal Register and after that it’ll take 60 days before it actually goes into effect.
Not to mention that the FCC will probably be taken to court over this during the interim, and Congress can tell them to fuck off, though given this Congress’ spectacular inability to get anything done, I doubt that will happen.
Also, if the protections are rolled back, the Federal Trade Commission will be able to step in and stop anti-competitive behavior which would, in theory, prevent serious fuckery from the ISP’s.
So, basically, it’s not the end of the world.
But you can see it from here.
If the internet was fine before 2015, then why would that be any different now?
An excellent question.
One of the common rebuttals to people concerned about the end of Net Neutrality is basically the above sentiment. All the FCC is doing is getting rid of regulations that were put in place in 2015. Not 2004, not 1996, 2015. The internet was fine then, so what’s the issue now?
The answer is because the internet is completely different from what it was 20, even 10 years ago.
When the internet first started out, there wasn’t much to offer. Geocities powered almost every webpage, music was just MIDI files, if you were lucky you had a hi-res jpg or a gif.
But now? We have so much more available to us. Voice-over-IP, streaming, peer to peer sharing, networked multiplayer, social media. All of these things were still very much drawing-board type stuff at best in the late 90′s and early 2000′s.
And this is precisely why Comcast, Verizon and other companies want to end Net Neutrality. The internet is cutting into their profit margins.
Consider this: how many hours of TV do you spend watching these days? Do you watch your favorite shows when they air, or later on Netflix? When was the last time you got your news from FOX, MSNBC or CNN by actually sitting down and watching the channel? Would you say you’re more interested in the work of TV personalities or YouTube stars?
These are all questions that would’ve seemed ludicrous 10 years ago. But now the internet has taken us to a point where I bet a lot of you are giving serious thought about them.
The shady things that we’re concerned the telecom and media corporations may try to do? They didn’t do them before because they didn’t have a reason to do them before. Because they merely thought that the internet would enhance the media landscape that they conveniently controlled.
Instead, the internet has replaced it.
Old media has become aware of its own irrelevance. And, like a cornered beast, it will not go down without a bloody fight.
At any rate, that’s the reason that even though the actual regulations are just two years old, this is still important.
Things may have been fine in 2014, but we live in a very different world than we did in 2014.
The Internet was not fine before 2015
I’m glad you posted this, because I was looking for something along these lines.
This is really what we’re concerned about. These guys have tried some pretty shady stuff in the past. Net Neutrality was put in place to stop this from happening.
Am I saying that this is going to happen? No. But can you really trust the telecom corp that the FCC chairman just happened to be the legal counsel for?
character concept: two people who have been reincarnated for thousands of years and have always found eachother but instead of being in love they just fucking hate eachother
i had a poll on DA so i will be doing basic how to stuff of the results
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the vibrato
The range, vibrato, control, the vocal agility? Wow.
The preschool is buying heirloom sunflower seed in bulk. We’re going to make a ‘Sunflower House’.
How to grow a sunflower house
@bacheloretteofscience THIS WORKS so well!
If you want to get super fancy, do a second ring on the outside of 4’ tall sunflowers then a third outer ring of the 1’ tall teddy bear sunflowers. If there are any gaps you can interplant with cosmos, amaranth and nasturtiums or (if there are huge gaps) gourds.
My mom used to do this for me in the backyard as a kid- it really works and I always loved it! Spent so many summer days having tea parties with teddy bears in my sunflower house.
Okay so… I could witch the hell outta this
do you want faeries? this is how you get faeries
Me when I make an extremely personal post then delete it 10 minutes later
actually ive decided that infinity war just needs to be 2.5 hours of peter parker trying his best to address various adult superheroes as politely as possible and struggling a lot. attempts range from “your majesty mr panther sir” (accepted with only a small twitch of the lips & shuri giggling a lot) to “starlord”, which earns him 2 hours of riotous mockery from a talking raccoon
My favourite Irish insult is “Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire de chnámh do dhroma ag piocadh úll i ngairdín Ifrinn!”
Translation?
I hope the devil uses your backbone as a ladder to pick apple’s in the garden of hell
Holy shit Ireland are you ok
There’s also one that directly translates to :
May your friends have a fine day - burying you
That’s metal as fuck
Cursing in Irish is like actually putting a curse on someone
Get out of here, you witch!
ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this. you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.
humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.
i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy.
i’ve seen a number of comments and tags where people feel that they must swallow or repress their anger in order to engage in kindness. that is not at all what i am recommending here. radical kindness is an expression of anger. it is not passive. it is not repressive. it does not require you, in any way, to forgive those that have fucked you up. it does not require you to be quiet.
it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more.
have a cookie.
i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.
i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.
1. The universe is indifferent. We ought not be.
2. A good quote: There are two kinds of people. Those who think, “I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did.” And those who think, “I suffered; why shouldn’t they?”
3. Two good quotes by Kurt Vonnegut: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
And: “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
#hopepunk
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
-Rebecca Solnit; Hope in the Dark
