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I’ve never once thought it was actually necessary to have arrived more than an hour and a half before a flight, domestic or international. I almost uniformly regret it when I arrive earlier. Maybe for some people sitting in an airport is fun but I’d much rather be somewhere without thousands of noisy and irritable people. Ideally, I’d like to arrive at my gate approximately five minutes before boarding.
ashes to ashes, dust to dust, reeses to pieces
And sluts to sluts.
amen
“so this week my town made the news for—” nope
“there’s a restaurant two miles from my house called—” nope
“today I learned [celeb] went to my high school—” nope nope nope nope nope
these are all real posts I’ve seen on the internet that allowed me to identify a user’s hometown instantly. if it’s a small town, that’s doubly dangerous, because a bad actor could trace you just by a unique first name or selfie you once posted. in an age where doxxing and stalking are some of the worst I’ve ever seen it, you HAVE to think twice about what you’re posting online.
i once saw a 13-year old post an image they noted as being “a few miles from their house.” it had a theater in the shot with a unique enough name to be local. one google maps search, now everyone knew not only what city they lived in, but the possible neighborhoods in that radius too. and they had a HUGE following…who all knew this was a 13-year-old child.
so yeah. not to sound like a 90s internet safety PSA…but I’m gonna be that PSA for a minute.
if you’re posting an image, there is NO need to say that you live there. you could just be traveling. “saw this in Montana” is better than “saw this by my house!”
before you post about a venue, especially a restaurant or small store, check and see if it’s local—CRUCIALLY if it has only one or two locations. people might travel to arenas or convention centers, but they’re far less likely to be traveling to Bartleby’s Fish and Chips. if it’s an anecdote and you still live nearby, you can honestly just leave the name out entirely.
if you’re sharing a news story, it can just be a story you found and wanted to share. you don’t have to clarify “it happened in my town,” because even if you don’t mention your town name, an easily-googled news article will.
if you’re seeing a concert or meeting a celebrity on a tour that’s stopped locally, wait until they’ve hit a few more venues before you post about it, or at the very least wait until you get home. this is honestly a smart move for any event you attend: unless you’re marketing yourself, there’s no need to advertise your location in real time.
check your selfie backgrounds for anything identifying. this includes city names on venues, school names, street signs, and house numbers.
this stuff is flexible if you no longer live in your hometown, or if your city is particularly big, but there’s STILL no reason to tie yourself to your school, your workplace, or your street. you can call it paranoid, but as someone who’s seen my friends get literal death threats over fictional characters before, the last thing I want is someone willing to act on those threats finding out where they live.
anyway. PSA over. does a kickflip or whatever
Please also be aware that your posts also provide information about anyone you're with.
I once had a friend post a photo while visiting me with both a unique local business and a set of street signs in the background, while they knew I was being stalked by someone who knew and potentially followed their account. I wasn't in that photo, but other posts from that weekend made it obvious they were staying with me. They hadn't yet been in a position where they regretted having that information publicly available, so it didn't occur to them to avoid sharing it.
Even if you don't (yet) care about your own right to privacy, you're often not the only person you're doxxing
"make an account to-"
Senator Ossoff talks to witness like a Dom roleplaying chastising a Sub.
Just listen to that stern voice.
Senator Ossoff talks to witness like a Dom roleplaying chastising a Sub.
Seen some videos lately of President Trump’s nominees refusing to concede he lost the 2020 election. But assuming Trump had won that election, the 22nd Amendment says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” meaning that he would currently be ineligible to hold office. A natural rejoinder could be that he hasn’t held office twice, but that’s irrelevant because the provision applies specifically to being elected and distinguishes that from holding office. So either Trump lost in 2020 or he’s not allowed to be president now. This is setting aside the fact that I agree with Will Baude that he was likely ineligible to run again under section three of the fourteenth amendment, but that’s a separate story.
Do you think there’s an intrinsic human urge to have a monarch/ruler?
Yes
No
I’m curious about why you answered the way you answered too.
I think for a long time, political actors in the US have relied on norms of correct behavior when deciding how to set up government systems, at least to an extent, but now we’re starting to live in a political climate where the only question some political actors ask “is what can I get away with?” And the system simply hasn’t been prepared to deal with people with that type of framework.
I guess this isn’t necessarily linear. I’m thinking, Jackson broke a whole bunch of norms and just saw what he could get away with in the early 1800s but then after a while, some norms were reestablished. And now, the current administration is hell bent on breaking norms (and laws) again. It would be good if we could come up with a system that incentivized real accountability and rule following as opposed to relying on political actors to behave within accepted norms.
I think for a long time, political actors in the US have relied on norms of correct behavior when deciding how to set up government systems, at least to an extent, but now we’re starting to live in a political climate where the only question some political actors ask “is what can I get away with?” And the system simply hasn’t been prepared to deal with people with that type of framework.
Snake on a tree.
People who hold up their phones the whole concert blocking other peoples’ view are (a) inconsiderate and (b) depriving themselves of the joy of going to a concert.
“Begs the question” does not mean “raises the question.”
I will not accept usage to the contrary no matter how much it slips into the vernacular. Same goes for “irregardless.”
Begging the question - Wikipedia
*Sigh* Now a Supreme Court justice has used it that way as well. I know there are bigger issues facing the Court than use of the phrase “begs the question” to mean something other than the formal sense of the phrase but it’s still frustrating.
But here Justice Sotomayor uses it correctly!!!
I love the amount of hatred the 2021 car is drawn with. because I agree
So, I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life. Not many, but a few. And I’ve also been in a couple of cars that got pulled over. And let me tell you, if you were actually doing something wrong, the officer doesn’t make any small talk, just straight into “I clocked you doing 70 in a 55.” The only time I’ve ever gotten the “do you know why I pulled you over?” was the time when I wasn’t doing anything wrong, and I got let go even though he insisted to the end that I was doing 87 in a 70 (white privilege at work).
“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.
But there’s another trap, that I’ve heard of but haven’t yet experienced. It’s “do you know how fast you were going?” With that one, they’re hoping you’ll say no, because then they can name whatever speed they want – you just said you didn’t know how fast you were going, if you deny the speed they name then you’re lying to them.
Oh, I’ve had that one. Go with “yes.” Don’t give them a number, just say “Yes.” Then they still have to offer a number and you can deny it without contradicting yourself. They could just ask you, at that point, but that’s suspiciously similar to saying they don’t know, and they tend to avoid doing that.
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if you scroll past this just because it doesn’t affect you personally, i see you.
Also, you can always go to court and contest a ticket, and a lot of times you’ll win. Or if the cop thinks you’ll win they won’t even show up and you’ll win by default.
They like to target out of state plates because anyone who would be majorly inconvenienced by a court date two months away is a lot more likely to just pay it.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
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Have you freakin voted yet?!!
