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One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this âI will not speak to you without a lawyerâ can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state âI am now invoking my right to a lawyerâ and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with âI am invoking my right to have a lawyer presentâ. You canât just tell them you wonât talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say âwell they just said they wouldnât speak without a lawyer present. Thatâs not invoking their rights to a lawyer. Itâs just stating a fact.â even just stating your right to a lawyer doesnât count!
PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.
Here are some more âambiguousâ phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:
âMaybe I should speak to my lawyer first.â
âI might like a lawyer.â
âI think I should have a lawyer present for this.â
âCould I speak to my lawyer first?â
âHow long until my lawyer gets here?â
And perhaps most egregiously â âGet me a lawyer, dawg â âcause this is not whatâs up.â
Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:
1) âAm I free to leave?â
Itâs worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were ânot in custodyâ to get around their Miranda rights.
2)Â âI am invoking my right to remain silent.â
Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.
3)Â âI am invoking my right to an attorney.â
As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Donât get cute. Donât get sassy. And on the flip side, donât get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly â say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.
Because even after youâve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. Theyâre not supposed to interrogate you, but theyâre allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, thatâs really your fault for talking after you said you wouldnât, isnât it? Canât possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated â if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldnât have talked to them in the first place.
The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once youâve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy.Â
Putting it all together:
Ask: âAm I free to leave?â
If they say no, say:Â âI am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.â
And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.
Finally, a very important disclaimer:
I may be a lawyer, but Iâm not your lawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what Iâve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didnât get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight â we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were âtoo ambiguousâ or certain types of questioning werenât actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is still fundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it. Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, thereâs a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no oneâs even thought of yet â and thatâs precisely the problem.
Watch this video: âDonât Talk To The Policeâ
I am begging my followers to please watch this video from start to finish. I know itâs long, but it is incredibly valuable information that everyone needs to know, especially if youâre involved in any form of activism.
Every single cop lies. Every single cop lies and manipulates and twists the situation around to get a confession. Even when they know that the person is innocent, even when they know that what they have isnât enough to convict someone, even when they know that that confession has been made under duress or manipulation. All they care about is getting anything to put someone behind bars.
It doesnât matter how eloquent or innocent or experienced you are. Do not talk to cops.
The video is a doozy. Aside from all the good advice, the racist dog whistling from the officer really jumps out. In fact, his whole segment was pretty effective to drive home the point that officers are literally trained to manipulate you and fuck you over. He does say he doesnât âtryâ to put innocent people in prison, but he never says he tries to keep them out either. He also explicitly states that he destroys material that could be helpful to you.
In short, DO NOT TALK TO COPS.
hey yâall please please please read this and watch the video and do research if you can, this is really scary /srs
Anyway having adhd is like
Having a messy room for months on end and then suddenly getting a burst of energy to clean. Your rooms messy again in a week
Not eating because its too much work to make food for yourself
Walking past laundry or dishes or chores and telling yourself you'll do it later you'll definitely do it later absolutely but you don't
Having time blindness. You're telling me I've been on tumblr for 6 hours. No i swear I just opened it an hour ago
Being late to everything. Or overcorrecting and being too early.
What the fuck is initiative. You can't do something until someone orders you to or they're breathing down your neck and you hate both things with visceral passion
You need to shower. You need to shower. You need to shower. GET UP AND SHOWER. you can't shower. Its been 14 hours.
You're stuck all the time. Paralysed. Brain fog feels like its slowly killing you.
Your teachers are telling you to do the thing. Your parents are telling you to do the thing. Your friends are telling you to do the thing. YOU are telling yourself to do the thing. You can't. You just can't.
Songs stuck in your head all the time. Your head is a jukebox playing what's new pussycat 27 times with one it's not unusual thrown in the middle.
The only things you can be consistently relied upon to do is fail and disappoint.
Represent! #4 - âBelieve Youâ (2021)
written by Nadira Jamerson art by Brittney Williams & Andrew Dalhouse
[ID: a comic featuring a black woman and her family. In the first panel, she is lying in a hospital bed and holding her baby while someone who is presumably her husband stands at her bedside with another child. The caption reads, âHi, Iâm Mai.â
The next panel shows Mai crouching in the shadow of a tree while her children play in the background. She looks sad and in pain. The panel is captioned 2008, and the image is captioned, âSince the birth of my youngest daughter, Dira, an alarming pain has been spreading thoughout my body. My doctor says Iâm just tired from being a mom, but Iâm not so sure.â
âThis is my story.â
The next panel shows Mai asleep over her work, and her children calling her from off-page. The caption reads âWhen I told my doctor that I often fell asleep in the middle of tasks, he told me it was probably just because Iâm stressed.â
In the next panel, Mai works out on a treadmill. âWhen I complained that I had been steadily gaining weight, my doctor told me to just exercise more.â
In a blue-toned panel, Mai leans upright in bed, panting. The text reads, âWhen I complained that I often wake up with a numbness spreading across my body, my doctor told me that maybe I should see a psychiatrist.â
The next panel shows Mai tripping and falling while attempting to grab cereal for her kids. âThe pain has kept me from being able to do even simple things for my family.â Itâs captioned.
In the next panel, Mai stares at herself in the mirror. Her face is swollen, and her skin is covered in red marks. âThis morning I woke up with red lesions all over my body and a puffiness to my face.â The text says. âThis canât just be stress. This canât just be fatigue. I know there is something seriously wrong with me.â
The next panels take place in a family medical center, and shows Mai talking with her doctor, an older white man with blonde hair. âDr Kay, my symptoms are getting worse. The numbness is more frequent, and now I am waking up with lesions everywhere.â Mai tells him. âI also noticed that my facial features are getting bigger somehow. I am so exhausted that sometimes I fall asleep in the middle of conversations with my friends and family. I donât think this is just stress.â
The next label zooms in on Mai and her doctor. âMai, as Iâve told you before, stress can present itself in many ways. We already checked your blood work and everything was fine. There is nothing more i can do for you, but I suggest you try that psychiatrist.â The doctor says.
A shot of Maiâs shocked face against a black background. âHave you ever heard of the term hypochondriac?â
ID to be continued, Iâll come back to it next reblog when I have the spoons/time unless someone else wants to help, because people with screen readers deserve to read this.]
[ID continuation: The shot changes to Mai in distress, hands covering her face as she sits. âI felt so alone.â The caption reads.
The next panel shows Mai outside a building, presumably the family medical center, while sitting on a bench as her phone rings.
The next frame zooms in on her face as she answers the phone, âHello? Oh, hi, Mom.â Maiâs mother speaks on the other end. âHi, sweetheart. How did the doctors go?â
The shot shifts to show most of Mai as she speaks to her mother, two people passing by. âNot too well, he told me the same thing he always saysâ that itâs all in my head. I donât know, but maybe he is right and I am just making it up. Maybe I just donât have what it takes to be a Mom and my body is responding poorly to the stress.â
Maiâs mother responds once her daughter is finished speaking. âNo. This is not just stress Mai. Your body is trying to tell you that something is seriously wrong.â
The next panel shows Mai with her eyes closed on the left side, while another black woman, Maiâs mother, is on the right side within a building. âThen why canât the doctors find anything?â She asks. Her mother responds. âDid he really check? What more did he do except take your vitals and draw a little blood? You are a black woman, and sometimes that means that doctors and others will overlook your pain, but you cannot overlook your pain.â Mai asks, âWhat should I do?â Maiâs mother responds saying, âAdvocate for yourself! Find a new doctor and if they wonât help you either, find another doctor. You just canât give up. Your life and health are too important.â
ID to be continued. Iâll probably finish this later if @december-rains doesnât. I sadly have to go do something now. But this really does need to be shared to as many people as possible.]
[ID continuation: Mai sits at her desk, working intensely among papers and post-its. âI knew that my mom was right. I had to find answers for myself no matter what.â The panel is captioned. There is a long panel that shows a close up of a web search with various illnesses. The cursor is hovering over anxiety. The next section takes place in Pasadena Public Library. The first panel shows Mai working at a table with her two kids next to her, and has no caption. The next panel zooms in on Mai and one of her children, who is complaining âMommy Iâm bored! Can we go now?â The panel is captioned, âIt was hard to research and take care of my daughters at the same time, but I knew if I was going to enjoy a long life with them, I had to do this now.â The next panel shows Mai with her dark hair in a ponytail, sitting in a chair at her desk. She is wearing a black long sleeve shirt and jeans, and is holding a phone to her ear. âThe library was helpful and gave me ideas for possible treatment,â the caption reads. âI spent all evening making doctors appointments with anyone I thought might be able to help me.â The next panels show Mai at various appointments- first lying down in an acupuncture clinic, then at the office of a white nutritionist holding flyers for the paleo diet and cardio, and recommending the paleo diet. The last of the three shows Maiâs back being inspected by a dermatologist. The first panel is captioned âI tried acupuncture to relieve the pain.â The second says âI consulted a nutritionist.â It continues in the last panel, which says âI saw a dermatologist for the lesions.â âI even saw a psychiatrist to make sure I wasnât going crazy,â is the caption of the next panel, which shows Mai sitting down across from a Black man with a black mustache and short hair. âI have been fatigued and battling various ailments for months now,â Mai says. The next panel zooms in on Mai, who is looking down. âMy doctor gave me your contact information because he said my illness might be psychological rather than physical,â she continues. âI am a mom of two young girls, so my doctor thinks this could all be stress induced, but I donât think soâŚâ The next panel turns the camera to the therapist. âI can see from here that you are physically in pain, and you donât sound irrational to me.â He says. âI doubt that this is a psychological issue, Mai.â The next panel is a sideways close up of Maiâs shocked face. âYou⌠Believe me?â She asks. The next shot is of Maiâs hand, which is holding a business card reading âDr. Maria Gonzales, Chronic Disease Specialist, Integrative Medicine,â with a phone number. The psychiatrist speaks from off screen. âYes, and I have a friend whoâs a doctor who I think you should speak to. She specializes in chronic illness. Try giving her a call. She might be able to help you.â The next panel shows Mai sitting in a blue chair, filling out a form. âI hoped this meeting would be more helpful than the rest.â A close up of the form. The boxes âFacial deformationâ, âextreme fatigue,â and âweight gain,â are all checked. The next shot shows Mai talking to an older black woman in a lab coat. Dr. Gonzales: âHow long have these symptoms been going on?â Mai: âFor almost a year now. Iâve seen dozens of different doctors for help.â Dr Gonzales: âHave you ever heard of acromegaly before?â Mai: âNo, whatâs that?â There is a close up of the doctorâs face. She has a kind expression. âItâs a very serious autoimmune disease that can cause the symptoms youâve described, like extreme fatigue and enlargement of joints and features,â she says. âIâm not saying this is what you have definitively, but we should definitely run some tests.â Mai smiles. âIâm willing to try anything. Thank you, doctor.â The doctor gives Mai a pair of brochures on Acromegaly. âWeâll figure this out together, Mai,â she says.
ID to be continued because tumblr wonât let me finish it]
[ID Continuation:Â The last panel in the comic, labeled One Year Later, shows Mai smiling and sitting on a couch. Her lesions and facial enlargement have faded, and she looks content. Her children are playing with blocks in front of her, and they also look happy.
 Itâs captioned: âI was diagnosed with acromegaly, a chronic disease.
âAlthough I may never be completely better, it is amazing to finally know what was causing me so much pain.
âI will always listen to my body and believe myself when I know that something is not right.â
END ID.]
@ all trans people about to attend online school:
This will visually remove your deadname from any webpage. Obviously switch it off if your parents wanna check up on your work, but yee here's the link fam!!!! BOOST THIS!!! SEND THIS TO ANY TRANS PERSON YOU KNOW WHO WILL NEED THIS
An easy to use Google Chrome plugin to automatically remove and replace deadnames
This is really awesome!
i....hate my school. they blocked this. like, wtf?
If your school has blocked this I recommend using âInteractiveFicsâ. Its originally used for changing Y/N to your own name but it has a separate option where you can change any word/name to what you want.
It has a less likely chance of being blocked so I thought Iâd mention it.
WordReplacer II works as well, though itâs not specifically designed for deadnames
𼺠support a black lgbt owned bookstore trying to open in the south? Bc I want to go there when they open? Thank u?
Look at them
From the Kickstarter: âToday, Durham is without a Black-owned bookselling storefront and the handful of bookstores in the area do not, at present, offer an expansive cross-genre collection of Black literature. This is the gap that Rofhiwa hopes to fill: (1) creating a space for collective imagining, where children and adults may find and share stories that reflect who they are (2) fostering the convivial atmosphere that is seminal to creating the bookcafĂŠ as a communal space (3) offering a deep collection of works by Black writers that invites readers to explore what it means to be Black here, over there and everywhere where Black people make life.â
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2025896590/rofhiwa-book-cafe-a-book-and-coffee-spot-for-east-durham
Do it for the black lgbts in the south !!! Thank u !!!
7 days to go. If they do not reach this goal, they will receive not a single cent of whats been donated to them. For reference on how time sensitive a situation this is.
I spoke briefly with the owners & asked if Rofhiwa would be okay if the goal isnât hit. The answer was an optimistic no
[id: screenshot of 2 Instagram messages from Rofhiwa. Together, they read âFirstly thank you for your support and belief in us! Thank you for worrying with us :) It is a bit of a tight deadline but we are hoping that our big donors will give in the next week. And hopefully smaller donations will keep coming in. Keep your fingers crossed for us :Dâ. end id]
As of right now, 12am Jan 5, they need $16,091. I gave what I could & im really hoping to get some momentum going with this post again. Please reblog, Iâm so grateful to those of you whoâve continued to boost this & donated if you could to help contribute to this community. Thank u!
Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?
Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!
The United States Government:
(Watch how many people donât get this.)
#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain?Â
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesnât matter what itâs for.
Youâre saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if youâre a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out youâre twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
âWhat if I spend the money that day?â
Doesnât matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Remember when âGuardians of the Galaxyâ came out? one of Rocket Racoonâs creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.
before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantloâs family.
Bill Mantloâs brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.
Thatâs so utterly depressing.
disgusting
I have friends on welfare who wonât pick up a penny in the street because theyâd risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.
oh look another fucked up thing in this world. letâs just add it to the list. number 63858b
My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.
Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesnât want to get anywhere near 2,000.
And hereâs the funnest part of the story!
One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didnât want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.
The state IMMEDIATELY (Iâm talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.
He also had to cancel his renterâs assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money theyâd cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and itâs the stupidest shit in human history.
Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?
Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the ânation of opportunityâ looks like.
Thereâs something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!
thank you so much for this information. iâm applying for an abled account right now
THERES A WHAT
OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS
Iâve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!
Read till the end for the important info
Reblog to literally save a disabled personâs life
According to wiki, 39 states + DC have ABLE accounts, so check with your state
HEREâS THE THING THOUGH
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello youâd get connected to them, so I just launch right into my âHarvard University and NPR blah blah blahâ thing and then thereâs this long pause and I think the personâs hung up even though I didnât hear a click
And then I hear âyou shouldnât be able to call this number.â
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we arenât selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
âNo, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it.â
I explain that itâs randomly generated and Iâm very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
âMaâam, this is a matter of national security.â
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
This is my new favourite story.
When I was in college I got a job working for a company that manages major air-travel data. It was a temp gig working their out of date system while they moved over to a new one, since my knowing MS Dos apparently made me qualified.
There was no MS Dos involved. Instead, there was a proprietary type-based OS and an actually-uses-transistors refrigerator-sized computer with switches I had to trip at certain times during the night as I watched the data flow from six pm to six AM on Fridays and weekends. If things got stuck, I reset the server.Â
The company handled everything from low-end data (hotel and car reservations) to flight plans and tower information. I was weighed every time I came in to make sure it was me. Areas of the building had retina scanners on doors.Â
During training. they took us through all the procedures. Including the procedures for the red phone. There was, literally, a red phone on the shelf above my desk. âThis is a holdover from the cold war.â They said. âIt isnât going to come up, but hereâs the deal. In case of nuclear war or other nation-wide disaster, the phone will ring. Pick up the phone, state your name and station, and await instructions. Do whatever you are told.â
So my third night there, itâs around 2am and thereâs a ringing sound.Â
I look up, slowly. The Red phone is ringing.
So I reach out, I pick up the phone. I give my name and station number. And I hear every station head in the building do the exact same. One after another, voices giving names and numbers. Then silence for the space of two breaths. Silence broken byâŚ
âUh⌠Is Shantavia there?â
It turns out that every toll free, 1-900 or priority number has a corresponding local number that it routs to at its actual destination. Some poor teenage girl was trying to dial a friend of hers, mixed up the numbers, and got the atomic attack alert line for a major air-travel corporationâs command center in the mid-west United States.
Thereâs another pause, and the guys over in the main data room are cracking up. The overnight site head is saying âI think you have the wrong number, maâam.â and Iâm standing there having faced the specter of nuclear annihilation before I was old enough to legally drink.
The red phone never rang again while I was there, so the people doing my training were only slightly wrong in their estimation of how often the doomsday phone would ring.Â
Every time I try to find this story, I end up having to search google with a variety of terms that Iâm sure have gotten me flagged by some watchlist, so Iâm reblogging it again where I swear Iâve reblogged it before.
But none of these stories even come close to the best one of them all; a wrong number is how the NORAD Santa Tracker got started.
Seriously, this is legit.
In December 1955, Sears decided to run a Santa hotline. Hereâs the ad they posted.
Only problem is, they misprinted the number. And the number they printed? It went straight through to fucking NORAD. This was in the middle of the Cold War, when early warning radar was the only thing keeping nuclear annihilation at bay. NORAD was the front line.
And it wasnât just any number at NORAD. Oh no no no.
Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red one. âOnly a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number,â she says.
âThis was the â50s, this was the Cold War, and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack on the United States,â Rick says.
The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. âAnd then there was a small voice that just asked, âIs this Santa Claus?â â
His children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke â but then, Terri says, the little voice started crying.
âAnd Dad realized that it wasnât a joke,â her sister says. âSo he talked to him, ho-ho-hoâd and asked if he had been a good boy and, âMay I talk to your mother?â And the mother got on and said, âYou havenât seen the paper yet? Thereâs a phone number to call Santa. Itâs in the Sears ad.â Dad looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus.â
âIt got to be a big joke at the command center. You know, âThe old manâs really flipped his lid this time. Weâre answering Santa calls,â â Terri says.
And then, it got better.
âThe airmen had this big glass board with the United States on it and Canada, and when airplanes would come in they would track them,â Pam says.
âAnd Christmas Eve of 1955, when Dad walked in, there was a drawing of a sleigh with eight reindeer coming over the North Pole,â Rick says.
âDad said, âWhat is that?â They say, âColonel, weâre sorry. We were just making a joke. Do you want us to take that down?â Dad looked at it for a while, and next thing you know, Dad had called the radio station and had said, âThis is the commander at the Combat Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. Why, it looks like a sleigh.â Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour and say, âWhereâs Santa now?â â Terri says.
For real.
âAnd later in life he got letters from all over the world, people saying, âThank you, Colonel,â for having, you know, this sense of humor. And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a briefcase that had a lock on it like it was top-secret information,â she says. âYou know, he was an important guy, but this is the thing heâs known for.â
âYeah,â Rick [his son] says, âitâs probably the thing he was proudest of, too.â
So yeah. I think that might be the best wrong number of all time.
Source:Â http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport
No okay THAT is adorable and Iâm queueing this for next December.
my personal curse is the knowledge that I function best with rigid structure and strict routine but am almost totally incapable of independently establishing or maintaining that structure and routine
Donât forget this special feature: at the same time hating when people tell you what to do
I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?
a pallet of ramen noodles
I hate ramen noodles tho
hmmmmm bees?
Are you suggesting that I eat bees for a week
This is roughly what I make sure I have in my kitchen all the time along with rough estimates of local prices (MN). I buy a lot of things when theyâre on sale and stockpile them.Â
instant oatmeal packets with fruit in them - $3 probably and this can be breakfast all week and maybe even a lunch or dinner too since you usually get 10 packets
bag of rice - $2-3 depending on size. 1 cup dry rice makes enough for about two meals depending on what you add in. if you get cheap rice, rinse it before cooking
canned beans - usually under $1 per can - mix the can with your rice and you have a meal. chili-spiced beans will make bean tacos. Rinse non-spiced beans before adding to anything.
Tortilla - usually around $3 but you get like 8-10 of them. Tacos, wraps, and quesadillas are all fair game here
lettuce - $2 max around here, either a head of something or bagged precut depending on preference, use as a salad or on tacos
protein other than beans of some sort - probably $5-7 for meat, $2-3 for eggs. sometimes I can get bags of frozen chicken breasts in this price range and each is usually 2 meals if I add in a bunch of veggies. fry/scramble eggs and add to any of the options.Â
your favorite stir fry sauce - $3ish
vegetables - $5ish. literally anything that you can 1. fry in a pan and 2. youâll eat. fresh carrots are usually pretty cheap. get frozen if itâs cheaper and youâre strapped for cash/prep time on this part.Â
alternative to stir fry: Â pasta (~$2), fresh tomatoes (~$2), cheese (~$3).Â
cheese and fruit if you have extra - look if your store has loyalty cards for free that you can load coupons on for cheese thereâs always one it seems like.
ahh thank you!!!
Reblogging because thereâs never knowing whoâll need it.
Adding also: the single most nutritious food on earth is potatoes in their peel. Potatoes + some milk and butter = everything you need. They donât last all that long, but theyâre fairly cheap and the quickest cheat to âHow do I not fuck my body up.â
(Cooked potatoesâll last a while in the fridge. Potatoes nearing the end of their useful lives? Cook them to half-done first, figure out what to do with them later.)
Easiest baked potatoes: slice thinly but not paper-like, spread like cards, brush with oil (a silicone baking brush is totes worth the little it costs), spread salt and pepper (a little less than you think youâd like), cover with foil, stick in oven or toaster-oven at 150C for 40min. (If you have the patience, at that point click up to 180C, remove the cover and add 10-20min.) Reheats well, lasts in the fridge longer than itâll take you to nom.
Dead-Animal-Free Whole Protein: some legumes + some grain. AKA rice and lentils, or rice and beans. (Maybe some fried onion for flavor; onionâs cheap and stays good a descent while. Fried onion makes everything taste better and keeps forever in the freezer, so frying up a bunch and keeping portions is not a half-bad idea.) (If going for the beans option - lentils are cheaper around here but fuck if I know what itâs like in your area - dump some tomato sauce and oil in; canola or soy are best health-wise, and far cheaper than olive; avoid corn.) Oh, what does instant couscous go for in your area? It keeps for fucking ever, itâs usually cheap, and it takes well to any and all added taste.
If you get to choose, black lentils taste the best and need the least soak-time (0-20min), green lentils are best for cooked stuff and red lentils are best in soups. (Red lentils + potatoes + root vegetables of choice + spices; cut into small pieces, cook, run through the blender if you wanna [stick blenderâs awesome], freeze in portions.)
When possible, get instant soup mix. Get the good instant soup mix. (The kind thatâs not made primarily of sugar, yeast or both. The rest is optional.) Dump 1/2tsp (or more, but start on the low end) into couscous, or chicken, or sprinkle over potatoes being stuck in the oven. Whatever. Itâll make most cooked-food-type things taste better. And again, lasts forever on the shelf.
If you can have eggs (goodness knows theyâre sometimes expensive), dump some tomato sauce in a pan (tomato sauce lasts forever on the shelf), add some oil, onion/beans to cook in it, hot peppers if you wanna, then when itâs nearly ready crack an egg or two in. Hard-boiled eggs last a remarkably while in the fridge, so when eggs reach near the end of their usable lives, just hard-boil and stick in the fridge. (Have eggs as often as you can, particularly as you have brain-shit going on. You need all the eggs, salt, and 60%-or-more chocolate you can get. Brains are made of cholesterol and salt, so folks with neuro or other brain shit need more of both. Potassium is also aces. You know what has the most potassium? Tomato paste.) Grated cheese keeps in the freezer for ever. Grated cheese will make a lot of things taste nicer. Preserved lemon juice keeps forever in the fridge. Grated cheese + oil + lemon = instant and awesome pasta sauce thatâll liven up the weeks-old dry pasta in the fridge. Slices bread also keeps well in the freezer. Try to have half a loaf or a loaf. Dry bread gets cut in cubes, mixed with oil and the aforementioned instant soup, stuck in oven at lowest until properly dry, then kept in an airtight jar to add to soups. (Over-ripe tomatoes come cheaper. They get turned into soup or sauce, then frozen in portions.)
this is a very good post but why are we glossing over the fact that the alternative to ramen is bees
i have it on pretty good authority that bees are not an affordable eating alternative to ramen.
Seriously, bees are expensive
Trufax.Â
And speaking as someone who is also living off oatmeal, beans, and brown rice, if you need recipes, I have them!Â
Today I made 16 bean soup with chicken sausage and it was crazy good and I got 8 servings out of the one batch (froze half). I usually get the cheapest beans I can find, and GOYA bags of beans are usually $1-2. I soaked them overnight,rinsed them, and threw them in a gallon lidded saucepan with 2 boxes of chicken stock (also on sale for $2), two bay leaves, sauteed green pepper, onion, and celery, some garlic from a jar, about two tablespoons of dried herbs de provence,and the âfancyâ bit was adding $6 bourbon and apple chicken sausages. You can actually sub veg stock for chicken and skip the sausage and make it vegan and it would still taste great.
Oh and Iâve been doing steel-cut oats. I donât buy the name brand ones, I just pick whatever store brand/generic I can get for less than $4. They take about ½ an hour to make, but theyâre super tasty and I make 2 cups of dried oats at a time with dried cranberries and thatâs breakfast for 4 days at least.Â
Iâve also been making black bean soup, red beans and rice, and curried potatoes and chick peas. I got 100 quart and pint take-away containers from Amazon for $20 and they all stack neatly and are perf for one serving of whatever.
Additionally, depending on where you live, whole rotisserie chickens are something like $4-$7 and are easily 4 - 6 servings of protein and on TOP of that, if you stick the carcass in a ziplock bag and then the freezer you have excellent soup makings. Using bones in soup literally squeezes all viable vitamins and minerals out of the suckers. Soup made from lots of bones is great to keep around if you get sick, itâll feed and sooth you relatively easily and as you get better you can add noodles. ON TOP OF THAT, a quarter to a half cup of soup broth added to a lot of dishes also adds those nutrients PLUS flavor.
Hereâs my âHow to eat for a week on $30âł post.
donât forget Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 A Day
Yall are clutch for this lmao cuz ima need this for about the first month after I move
Reblogging cause who knows what your followers are going through rn
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"fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug"]
I donât know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if youâve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :Â
you donât need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that youâve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_confidentiality_program
Address confidentiality program - Wikipedia
someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old
Purim: They tried to kill us, we survived. Letâs tell the story, wear silly costumes, and get wasted. (Optional: have a carnival or a play!)
Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then donât eat bread for a week. This is a big one; youâre going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.
Tu B'Shevat: Itâs Earth Day, letâs eat some fruit.
Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Letâs have a dance party and then start all over again!
Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.
Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! Itâs time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.
Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanahâs somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)
Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.
Shemini Atzeret: Man, I donât even know?
Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.
Chanukah: They busted up our temple and tried to forcibly convert us. We responded with guerilla warfare. Letâs eat some fried food. Candles!
So basically the entire Jewish holiday calendar is giving the middle finger to death and high-fiving, with or without various combinations of prayer and foods.
Yup. Or as we say, âThey tried to kill us, we survived, letâs eat.â
thank you for the descâs bcs they are beautiful and i am now educated
A handy table for everyone:
Yâall have no idea how happy it makes me to see my goyim followers reblogging this. Really. It means the world to me.
Shared on the âspoon shortageâ Facebook page
this is why its depressing to work in a pharmacy.
I was definitely a profit killer when I worked in a pharmacy (which honestly was my favorite job in the entire world, but it was short-lived and nowadays you canât work at a pharmacy like that, itâs all tied in with corporate retail and no one should ever trust me with a cash register ever). It was not, however, actually a profit killer for the pharmacy, just for the drug companies, so no one cared. These days I do medical billing, which means I actually bill OUT from hospitals so Iâm mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies.Â
I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you donât know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you donât.
THIS IS US-CENTRIC. IâM SORRY.Â
1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)
2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.
3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it.Â
4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if youâre in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription ⌠first Iâll make sure you 100% know what youâre doing for safety reasons and then Iâm happy to turn over a link.Â
5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder thatâs a good program.
6. Mental Health America - Keeps a list of their best PAPs for psychiatric medications, which can be some of the most expensive and a lot of pharmacy plans donât cover them at all.Â
I was diagnosed with ADD today which explains positively everything since I was a baby and now in a couple months I try a medication.
I literally thought all the symptoms were the default way a brain works, so youâre telling me some of you can âchooseâ what to pay attention to? Like, if you know you absolutely have to listen to and remember something you just âcanâ even if you donât like it?
And if youâre at a restaurant and three other tables are having conversations you donât just automatically absorb everything theyâre saying?
And if you know you have to do something within the next hour it wonât just remind you of a different subject entirely which reminds you of another different subject entirely and you donât just take you three days to remember the original thing you were doing????
Oh yeah and I was never once fucking told in my entire life until TODAY that ADD is an UNDER-active brain. It feels to you and looks to others like your brain is âoverâ active because the brain is desperately seeking stimulation but deficient in its ability to maintain it. Youâre not distracted by every little thing because itâs all actually interesting or your brain goes âtoo fastâ but because no single thing is ever exciting enough to satisfy your reward processes.
AND THE FUCKING THING ABOUT -THAT- WHICH I NEVER HEARD ABOUT BEFORE is that ADD symptoms can resemble or be misdiagnosed as pure anxiety or depression because negative stimulation is stimulation all the same so an ADD brain looooooves to contemplate the mortality of your loved ones and everything wrong with you and wrong with the world and hypothetical future disasters and what people âreallyâ think of you and even that one embarrassing thing you said to a cashier twelve years ago.
Some other things I hadnât necessarily thought of as ADD-related and I have all day, every day include severe procrastination, executive dysfunction, fearfulness or self-consciousness in social situations, being âsmartâ in some ways but seemingly âstupidâ in other areas, and even hyperfocus on a narrow set of subjects, which of course can all also be symptoms of autism, another thing that may sometimes be misdiagnosed ADD or just kind of the bonus prize you got with it. Some things I DONâT personally suffer from, but maybe you do, and was even more shocked to learn are often ADD symptoms include a disregard for your own safety, harsher standards for yourself than you hold anyone else to, poor impulse control, risk-taking, thrill-seeking, sabotaging yourself and even sabotaging interpersonal relationships or âdroppingâ them too easily (âthat last conversation rubbed me the wrong wayâŚI better just cut ties with them before it gets worseâ) All of these things can be either the ADD brain trying to get its next âfix,â bad habits unfortunately instilled in you from how ADD strained everything else in your life, or a mix of both.
Not sure how much this overlaps adhd symptoms, but I still think I gotta reblog it.
Thereâs nothing more deliciuous than bread!