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[evilbillionaire]

I'm a UX Designer and this Wi$h Li$t contract has some of the darkest pattern I've ever seen. I hope this is what ends her. I'm so, so, so disgusted.

You're supposed to think this is a normal wish list you make to give to your family and friends. Just in time for the holidays. Cute and harmless. Oh, maybe Taylor will even send you something herself. She's done it before, right?!

"Create your holiday WI$H LI$T of your favorite products..." Okay, sure. Sounds good.

Oh. Okay. Some tiny text in a tiny frame. You don't need to read that. That's fine. Just put your name and click 'Continue'. Cool, the button works even if you didn't read all that!

Uh oh. You just gave up all your rights. If Taylor Swift and anyone she works with want to make a deep fake of you, they legally can.

You'll never even know they did that. :)) Cool, cool.

And if you die while doing anything related to Taylor Swift, (like going to her concert...) nobody can do anything about it. Yeah, that's great. :)))

Huh. Where is this wish list now that you thought you were making??

Edit because some people take issue with the last part: I have been in courts myself and experienced first hand how lawyers can twist things in ways that suit them. So in my understanding the phrase, "in any related activity," would include things like going to her concert. If you read it differently, that's fine. But there's no need to act like I'm maliciously making things up when I have many years of experience reading legal texts and genuinely understand it this way.

[karlie-what-you-want]

Taylor Swift will go after fans who sing covers of her song son YouTube, artists who make AMVs with her music, and early shops that make merch using her lyrics.

She will go after young artists like Olivia Rodrigo for merely being inspired by her.

She will send a hateful hoard of fans towards actresses whose roles demanded they make a joke about her in-script.

But now Donald Trump has used her music TWICE on TikTok to promote his own dictatorship (the newest in which he declares the USA is an empire that belongs to him), and Taylor has nothing to say.

This isn’t just cowardice, it’s support. Because we know by now that Taylor does not tolerate her music being used in any capacity that she doesn’t approve of.

If anyone has been on the fence about her recent actions, please let this be your wake-up call. It’s time to leave her behind. Separate yourself from this fascist regime that she’s funneling millions of dollars into, do it once and for all. This woman is complicit with MAGA.

“I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.” And I don’t even mean Taylor at this point. I mean you.

[tuesdayisms]

I think about how Trump still won my state despite my vote for Biden in 2020 and wonder how people would view me from a moral standpoint. I technically voted for a genocidal warmonger, but my vote meant nothing because Biden didn't get my state's electoral college votes and popular vote means jack squat (or else Trump would've never been president to begin with). Did my vote have a negative impact?

[corsairesix]

Who let tumblr users find out about the "disregard all previous instructions" meme and who didn't let them find out why it was funny

[corsairesix]

The thing is, it's basically a version of calling your shot. In that it's only funny when you actually make the shot. When you're wrong, it's embarrassing.

Now the thing is, on tumblr you're gonna be always wrong. Russian bots were not a thing in 2018, and tumblr was far more relevant then than now. No one is paying for politics bots on Myspace either.

Also, on twitter, unless someone screenshots your reply, there's no way to share it with the context of the tweets before or after. On tumblr, when you call your shot wrong and an actual human person dunks on you, people can reblog a perfectly preserved moment of you making a fool of yourself and getting made fun of, as is good and correct and very foreseeable

[aroseofjericho]

[sadomarxist]

Tumblr also claimed it would be the new PDF, so obviously we should trust everything they say.

[tuesdayisms]

I still have the email I received in 2018 about the Russian bots

[emeraldcitynerdfighter]

"But Harris --"

I know.

"When Harris --"

Yeah, I know.

"DID YOU KNOW THAT, ONE TIME, HARRIS VOTED --"

YEAH.

I KNOW.

WE ALL KNOW.

We knew her history when she got put on the ticket in 2020 (and even before).

And, yes, you bet your sweet bippy we're gonna still organize and lean into community care and hold her tf accountable the moment she takes office.

But we have to vote her in.

She's picking Supreme Court Judges.

She's organizing a cabinet that will certainly have consequences on *my* field of work.

She's not going to decimate the lives of queer people and people of color and not establish a fucking Christian nationalist government.

Hold your nose, get her into office, and we move forward.

[cardassiangoodreads]

The thing about worrying about this because of what happened the last couple times an incumbent didn't run is that I get it, but also everything about the U.S. political landscape now is so different from 1968 or 1952 that I don't think anything from those eras can really give us a clear picture of how this will turn out. Especially because those presidents dropped out early in the year, and I think that the late drop-out date might turn out to be a blessing in disguise rather than make it worse. We can already see the Republicans are scrambling to find stuff to hit Harris with that isn't either the kind of blatant racism and misogyny that will turn off swing state voters, or stuff that pales in comparison to the equivalent with Trump (e.g. this made-up sex scandal they're trying to start is total small beans next to Trump's long list of those, trying to make her out to be a leftist extremist is laughable when the other guy's platform is Project 2025), or just utter and complete nonsense. Despite it being most likely to be her, they really did not seem to prepare for what to do about Kamala Harris at all. She also gets to pick her running mate knowing what the Republican one is. And this announcement nuked the Republicans' convention advantage.

But point is, this situation is genuinely pretty unprecedented. The closest historical examples still have enough glaring differences that they can't really tell us anything. We're in uncharted territory now.

[squeakitties]

what biome does prev spawn in

plains

desert

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forest

jungle

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ocean

taiga

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savanna

Voting ended onJul 27, 2024

[thepoetrytheorist]

If you love Disney, its parks, its media, and its merch, listen up.

So I work for Disneyland, and we are talking about striking very soon. So soon, in fact, that we've been hosting rallies just outside of the parks. Yesterday was the 69th birthday of Disneyland Anaheim... it was also a monumental rally.

I haven't seen anyone on tumblr talking about the impending strikes against Disney. Not even going through the Disney tags or searching tumblr for "Disneyland Strike."

Let's talk about why we're striking:

Cost of living in the immediate SoCal region is nearly 2x as much as we are getting paid.

Cast members that have worked for the company for long periods of time are still paid as mucha s new hires.

Disney has showed up to union negotiations with insulting offers, including at 25 cent raise. Most cast members make $19.90

Disney rarely schedules you. In some areas and departments, you are fighting with your fellow cast members for hours. I have heard of cast members who are only scheduled for 1 4-hour shift per week. Many of those cast members have upwards of an hour commute to and from work.

Disney Admin has told attractions castmembers [so: rides, rollercoasters, and anything fun you get to do and see at the parks] that we are losing them money, which is why they refuse to schedule us and pay us. In the words of my partner, who also works at the parks, Disney without attractions is an over glorified mall and a food court. Disney needs us, and they know it, but they do not respect us.

Disney has an unfair attendance policy. It can be very difficult to get a needed day off, even when it has been requested weeks or months in advance. When you do take a day off [with-out accrued sick or vacation time] it counts against you. You can have 3 a month, 6 in 90 days, 9 in 180 days, or 12 in a year. How do you accrue sick/vacation? Hours worked, which can be impossible with the scheduling practices mentioned above. (Most cast members trade shifts among themselves to get around this.)

Cast members feel unsafe and unsupported in the parks. Many cast members have felt threatened by entitled guests upset that they are following policy. Disney Leads and Managers have to say yes to these guests and make things happen, though. [Which only makes this behavior worse and more dangerous for cast members who are only doing their job.]

Cast members also report feeling threatened, or even being literally threatened, by management in the parks. Especially cast members who have a second job. Especially cast members who know their rights.

Further, cast members work in hazardous conditions with pay that does not reflect that. Many cast members report losses of hearing, sore throats, and severe back and shoulder pain. Cast members are also exposed to infectious diseases at a much higher rate.

The vote scheduled for July 19 could pave the way for a union coalition to call for a strike at Disney theme parks for the first time in 40

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/union-button-contract-dispute-19515296.php?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2u5o_mvU3i6jpIyHxBUZpEzD2GRSKFf5Pem4uRXqa6vKWDgZuffvINd1g_aem_AA1L0fI1phugJIluYMcDSw

[patricia-taxxon]

ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.

[patricia-taxxon]

"someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts" or maybe i'm in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.

[elamimax]

"I won't perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed" is going straight into my permanent storage holy shit

[arctic-hands]

No but seriously the United States desperately needs to have a discussion about segregation against the disabled in our school systems and we can start with how anti-masking and perfect attendance policies have forced medically vulnerable kids to either put themselves at grievous risk or pull out of school all together

[arctic-hands]

My experience was years before covid, but those Perfect Attendance Policies meant kids were coming into school seriously ill, which meant my immunocompromised ass would get sick too, and I would get so sick I had to miss even more school, which led to the school sicc'ing the truancy officer on me because I was ruining the Attendance Record, which forced me to drop out because it was better than being arrested

Now imagine being a kid like me during a global pandemic. It's all "the kids need to be back in schools!" until you remember the schools don't want disabled kids

[arctic-hands]

It's not just contagious diseases either. You can't even ban a common allergen in your class because a kid is deathly allergic to it without a mob of moral crusaders yelling about how if little Timmy doesn't get a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day for lunch society will collapse, why should special treatment be given to ONE kid (who will die if they breathe in peanut particles) at the "expense" of others, peanut allergies are over diagnosed because "they didn't exist when I was a child!" (they existed, it's just that those kids died from their allergies without you noticing), why not just put the allergic kids in their own class (literal segregation), and so on.

[creature-wizard]

Whatever happens, two things remain true: 1. Trump might be distancing himself from Project 2025, but his Agenda 47, which is on his website, is basically the same thing. 2. Third party voting is useless without ranked choice voting; it's mathematically impossible to elect a third party candidate. DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE.

[tuesdayisms]

I know Kamala is all but guaranteed to be the Democratic nominee, but it would be funny if Jimmy Carter was nominated just to try to deprive Trump of whatever records he holds or would hold upon winning

[tuesziday]

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[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

[kelpforestdwellers]

multiple sclerosis has several 'treatments', none of which cure the disease or even reverse its impact. at best they slow progression, and only in some percentage of people.

how much do these treatments cost? in some cases upwards of $50,000 a year.

this means that, no matter how much they could charge for a cure, it is more profitable to pharmaceutical companies to keep draining MS patients for $50k+ a year for the duration of their lives.

this is why there is no cure for MS. i guarantee that with the amount of funding available and time we've had to research it, there could be.

[shinvermouthea]

i feel like this forgets a lot of medical research is done by public research imstitutes with public grants

not enough but it's not necessarily a conspiracy as to why we don't have cures for some diseases

[fishmech]

its also just real stupid as a conspiracy because curing one disease does not mean the patient never gets another disease. there are effectively no major drug companies that only target a single disease, such businesses tend to get bought out by a conglomerate when their treatment gets proven, in order to have a wide portfolio of revenue sources.

it's also stupid because companies can and do sell things that actually cure various things and just charge a shitload of money for it? comes up in the news a lot even, various cures that companies want to bill millions for. like oh, big deal, a mere $50,000 a year in hypothetical billing for MS meds? if there was an actual cure you could, say, sell that for $2 million and reap 40 years of potential treatment sales in a single day. that's money that talks!

let's get real. let's investigate a recent cure: Hemgenix

it's a one time treatment for hemophilia B, which allows the pateient's body to start producing the missing clotting factors in the blood.

and it costs $3.5 million for the single-dose infusion. which then results in nearly all patients no longer being on long term clotting factor therapy which otherwise costs quite a lot per year.

[beemovieerotica]

Fact checking this huge long chain of assumptions.

1) No idea what treatment for diabetes she's talking about. Gastric bypass? It's a hugely risky procedure with lifelong side effects, poor quality of life outcomes, and diminished efficacy within months. I would love any source whatsoever here on companies lobbying against the procedure or WHAT procedure she's talking about.

2) The lung cancer treatment is in Phase II trials currently. I cannot find any evidence of companies trying to stall its progress, it's the FDA that has the final say on whether this gets rolled out to the general public.

3) When people say things like "pharmaceutical companies are lobbying to stop this cure".....who do you think developed the cure....? God...?

4) Pharmaceutical companies have an extreme financial stake in curing disease, that's the reason they continue to exist. If we're going the route of "they just want to appease shareholders" do you know how GOOD it is when a company cures something? Do you know how Gilead's stock price surged after announcements of the success of its HIV antiretroviral injection? I can't wrap my head around how disconnected this take is from economic reality and from the actual cures that are continuing to be made.

4) As a scientist I'm exhausted by the take of "we've poured so much money into this, we should have solved this problem by now" from people who have absolutely no experience in the research sciences. Shit can take 20 years or more to develop. People are working insanely fucking hard at solving complex puzzles of the human body. For an online community that so often cheers "yay science!" and elevates people within the scientific community, there sure is a complete mental disconnect when it comes to pharmaceutical sciences. Do you think everyone working on these cures is a cackling psychopath, rubbing their hands together and talking about how much they'd love to prolong people's suffering? Like there's this almost comical children's media understanding of science happening here.

5)

Yes, a good chunk of funding comes from the NIH and the federal government, but a lot of it is coming from investors. I would love to live in a world where the government had enough money to fully fund all these projects and research so that it could be 100% owned by and distributed to the public, but that's not the case currently. This is a universal issue across research, this is not something a single sector of the sciences can solve independently of the structure of capitalism.

6) The cure for hemophilia is priced to account for the fact that it has taken years to reach this point, and it currently takes months of development across multiple teams of people to tailor-make the cure to full compatibility with the biology of a single patient. It's a gene therapy. It's not a pill that they mass-produce, it is formulated for each and every person they intend to treat. It currently costs around $700,000 per year to treat a person with hemophilia, not cure it, so the cost of the Hemgenix cure actually undercuts that price point severely and forces insurance companies to then let their customers get the cure instead to save everyone money.

Yes, it sucks that things cost this much. But we are also talking about entire research institutes full of people, who need salaries to live, who do research for literal years or even decades before they land on something that's approved, and can then be sold to cover all the costs that led up to that point. Entire companies have shuttered because they spent years on a cure, came up with something that didn't end up working, and everyone was laid off. It's an incredibly risky industry with tons of dedicated scientists who WANT to see these cures happen, for both the sake of their continued employment and for making the world better.

I'm asking people to please exercise a little more critical thinking and recognize that they are specifically engaging in anti-science conspiracy thinking by passing along content like this.

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

[parasocialanxiety]

anyone got a citation for this. and I don't mean a link to that single article about a single person's treatment, I read it and was not impressed*. I mean evidence it's ready to be rolled out and that pharmaceutical companies are the ones holding it back.

*if someone does send me that link I'll make a longer post as to why I'm just asking you don't pretend it's proof of this claim. But remember: we have cured individual people of HIV, but that doesn't mean we have a cure for HIV.

I'd also like to see the lobbying regarding the lung cancer treatment but I haven't seen an article that contradicts the idea that it's ready to be rolled out yet

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

www.askjeeves.com

And The twitter user @ is literally right there. Go get an account and ask since you want other people to do the work for you to try and run optics for the medical industry disproving it and ignoring climate change for a fucking fallout post.

[parasocialanxiety]

Okay, go do that and tell me what you find. With NO prior information to input but what's written in that tweet. You get bullshit about natural remedies. You get fear mongering without evidence.

"Just Google it" doesn't work anymore, no matter what search engine you sub for Google. No one in this post has a good citation, just hype over an article that itself doesn't know how diabetes works.

I wasn't being dismissive over this post I was just asking for citations. I was, I'll admit, being dismissive over the article I had read being discussed in the comments. But your hyper defensive response and the fact that thanks to you I've now checked multiple search engines and gotten bullshit about natural remedies, (or ozempic, or hypotheticals about future cures) i am starting to think maybe there isn't a citation at all

And I don't use Twitter anymore. Am I not allowed to post on Tumblr just because I don't use Twitter? Why are you allowed to spread it but pretend you don't have a responsibility towards it?

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

This is about fucking fallout and capitalism being destructive with examples about climate change and the medical industry in america being exploitative and you are fucking annoying on my post because clearly if i had gone into the sources you would still act like this. Fallout being anti capitalist and capitalism in practice being bad are common fucking fact. Are you just a lemming?

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

Like are you stupid? Are you an asshole? Can you not google medical industry bad?

Healthcare Paradox: How The Industry Designed To Keep Us Well Is Also Making Our Planet – And Our Bodies – Sick

Healthcare systems undertake a fundamental and challenging mission: keeping us healthy. But true health and wellbeing extends beyond hospita

Exclusive: More Than 70% of Americans Feel Failed by the Health Care System

In a new Harris Poll survey, cost was the most common criticism

How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs

Drug companies have tried to invalidate a program that would reduce the price of medications for high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer

Pharma lobbying up in 2024

Industry group PhRMA’s advocacy spending grew 20 percent in Q1 2024 compared with Q1 2023.

Can you not google lung vaccine?

Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine. Many U.S. patients can’t get it without breaking the law

President Trump’s tightened travel to Cuba makes it harder to go there. Some U.S. cancer patients say they have no other options.

Like good fucking god you are just annoying

[redpandarascal]

These are good links, and I want to reblog this post, for these links.

What I don’t want to do, is condone the way the OP is talking to others or talking about the very act of citing sources. I’m here for the begrudgingly given sources, not the tantrum over them being requested.

It’s incredible, how, someone comes onto the post asking about the part of it that’s about lung cancer and insulin, and the Op responds “this is a post about fallout” and “to be more informed, you should try making a Twitter and personally dming the person who posted this.” (Are you Elon Musk? What a laughably ridiculous suggestion.)

You owe an apology to the user who was asking for sources, for the way you spoke to them. You were wrong to assume they weren’t on your side just because they asked you to back up what you were saying, and, even if they HAD been questioning you instead of just asking where they could read that, so what? Are you unquestionable? You sure take the tone that it’s an unthinkable imposition for someone to ask you to “cite sources.”

@memingursa if you had DMs open, I would be saying this all directly.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Be better.

[hippo-pot]

honestly i don't even think the links demonstrate the specific claims. like no one was looking for a source for 'healthcare industry flawed', everyone knows that. we're looking for assurance that this post isn't spreading misinformation.

the link indicates that the lung cancer vaccine is not 'proven'. i'm seeing words like 'cautiously optimistic'. i'm also not seeing anything about companies lobbying against it.

there's also nothing about lobbying against the insulin procedure in any of these links. (also, from separate googling, the procedure seems to still be at the 'could eliminate the need for insulin' stage, i.e. we don't know yet, as of a year ago)

[iviarelleblr]

Prev's tags need saying aloud:

#i know we all rightfully don't trust big pharma but it's still not good to spread misinfo #do these companies often charge way more than they need to? yes. provably. they are here for their bottom line; not your health #but are they actively lobbying against cures for things? i haven't seen a legit source yet #like. never say never. but it seems to be mostly fearmongering #these are common types of claims but i wish people would start seeing them as things that should be factchecked. they're not THAT believabl #and in fact; fact checking still needs to happen ESPECIALLY when it *feels* true. bc our biases are doing a lot of work in that case #i've been hearing 'they're suppressing the cure for cancer' for 15 years of my life at least (and it seemed plausible to me 15 years ago!) #but in all that time i've never heard it from a reputable source. most likely because it's. not happening

One of the most dangerous things you can encounter on the internet is something that's just close enough to what you believe to sound right and make you not want to double check it, but just far enough from the objective fact of the situation that your unquestioning acceptance pushes you into believing and spreading misinformation. It is never wrong to ask for sources on a statement, and it doesn't always mean someone is being antagonistic. They might just not have the skills to find the answers as all the search engines spiral into enshittification. No individual can or should fact check everything they read, but we should all try to be more vigilant about learning how to identify misinformation and how to fact check.

(Yes, myself included. This time I went into the notes to see if anyone else had done the work, but I don't always. And, if I hadn't found this thread of replies I might have tried digging, and very likely would have run up against the same lack of answers because even when a conspiracy theory is true, the whole point is that they're covering it up so the information would be hard to find. Very little of this has the ring of truth to me in the first place, but a lot of people would take finding no answers to mean "they're really doing good at covering it up" and not "maybe this isn't true at all and someone's just twisting the facts for their own agenda" which is usually the more likely answer. If I hadn't seen this thread, if I hadn't found a satisfactory answer myself one way or the other, the reblog of this post that I saw, without these comments, might have gone totally unremarked-upon on my dash and in my circle, and that would've been a damn shame.)

[boomstab-papa]

Agreed. I also looked for sources for these and I couldn't find any. On an impulse, I saved this post for later so I could keep looking before I reblogged it. I still didn't find any. And wow.

OP's post & attitude are both indicative of why you shouldn't trust posts with no fucking sources.

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[desinteresse]

The way some men talk about women is crazy “I just want someone to wait at the door when I get home and be happy to see me, is that too much to ask?” Bitch just get a dog???

[desinteresse]

I think what just gets me at the end of the day is that they’re so determined for women to be both the cause and solution to all their problems that they’re unable to reflect and work on their issues in a meaningful way. They can’t say “Im lonely due to a variety of factors and this makes me feel bad, what steps can I take to fix this?” Instead they go “Im lonely because women don’t act the way I want them to and this makes me feel bad, women should take steps to fix this since it’s their fault”

And this both fuels their pessimism and misogyny and it reduces their ability to reflect and work on their problems. This increases their reliance on women which turns into this weird viscous cycle of hate and failure

[desinteresse]

You would think that their hatred for women would make them wanna be self-sufficient and not rely on women in this ridiculous way. But through their own insecurity and helplessness they created this conundrum where a woman is both a status symbol, a thing that should be owed to them AND someone who holds ultimate power over them by refusing their demands. The enemy is both strong and weak