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I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising
I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.
If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible
been seeing far too many ppl talking about ICE detaining black citizens in chicago going "where are they going to send them back to?????" like you have severely missed every single warning sign that you've been given and deeply misunderstood what's happening. this was never about sending anyone "back" it's about murdering them and/or using them for labor. the fact that you can get this far into this and think ICE just wanted to send latines "back" is fucking crazy please read something. anything.
and like it makes the lukewarm fucking response to this shit make sense bc these people genuinely thought that they were just sending people back to their country of origin like. oh okay so you didn't believe us when we said we were getting detained and disappeared and killed. you just thought it was a kind of sad thing but ultimately not that bad. you really didn't listen when we said this was going to start happening to everyone the government deems undesirable regardless of citizenship. right. of course you didn't care.
All of the attempts to rationalize this kind of thing have turned out to be lies. They're not only going after people who didn't follow the legal immigration process, or only people with a criminal record, or even people who weren't born in the country. So even if you used to pretend it was about the law, that's not something you can plausibly hide behind now.
nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.
me: oh cool
nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.
me: oh cool
nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.
me: oh... cool?
if gods are kept alive by their followers then NASA is single-handedly the caretaker of SO MANY GODS
i am thinking abt this sooo muchh
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I miss teaching somedays so bad it hurst. I miss doing work I believe in. I miss making a difference. And I miss the kids.
But then there are other days I think about the times I absolutely lost my patience on my family after giving all of my patience to my students. When I comforted students who missed their incarcerated parents or were in agony because they had a rotten tooth and no dental care. When I worked with students who were so disruptive I ended up just texting SOS to our resource officer because things got so bad in the classroom. When I would do all of that and then yell at my own kid who wasn’t getting in the bath fast enough.
I was a good teacher. But I couldn’t figure out how to be a good teacher and a good parent and a good spouse.
Teaching, as I experienced it, required you to martyr yourself. And I think I could have done it, if it was only myself I was martyring. But I couldn’t martyr my whole family.
Today is a Meet the Teacher day at my son’s school. Like I do with all of my son’s teachers, I have every intent to support them in anyway and every way I can. I miss doing that work. But I can help.
145k.
The American government thinks that if you dissappear literally anyone at this point people who might be immigrants, you deserve 145 thousand fucking dollars for a year of labour
But educating the future generations is worth so little to them they won't even toss in the cost of office supplies.
There’s a lot of good work you could do sabotaging ICE from the inside, and it looks like they will even pay you good money while you do it!
Fuck it i'll make a new post. If you're following the mastercard/visa steam censorship thing you might hear about this bill called fair access to banking act h.r.987 in house, s.140 in senate. You might think its the kind of bill we would want to see right? Except its backed strongly by the GOP which is bad...
So yeah.... if you could share this and tell your US reps to oppose this that's be super because this is not it.
Trump telling MAGA he will defund FEMA as Red States suffer catastrophic climate disasters and MAGA does not foresee problems until they are personally affected is the conservative way of life. Too selfish, too gullible, too unserious, too emotionally dead inside, and too historically illiterate.
Their communities are wiped out, and their only savior is the government they are dismantling.
Pay attention to the particulars of Mastercard's responses, because this a textbook example of how to create plausible deniability.
"Mastercard has not barred any legal transaction" is, technically, a true statement – because Mastercard is not the one processing the transactions in the first place. Mastercard does not deal directly with any merchant, and in fact typically refuses to communicate with merchants at all; there's always a payment processing service sitting in between Mastercard and the merchant, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or any of dozens of other service providers.
Consequently, there are two layers of service agreements in place: the agreement between Mastercard and the payment processing service, and the agreement between the payment processing service and the merchant. That second layer of service agreements, between the payment processing service and the merchant, is where all of these content restrictions are being imposed. Mastercard can thus truthfully claim that they aren't barring legal transactions.
Now, if you've been paying attention, you've probably already spotted the issue: if the content restrictions are being imposed upon the merchants by individual payment processing services and not by Mastercard, why do all of those payment processing services seem to have exactly the same content restrictions?
That's where the critical sleight of hand comes in: while Mastercard's own terms of service do not require payment processing services to bar transactions of particular types, their ToS does require payment processors to bar transactions which could be damaging to the Mastercard brand. What constitutes damage to the Mastercard brand is not defined; it means whatever Mastercard wants it to mean. The payment processing services are thus in a position where they can be held in breach of Mastercard's terms of service for basically any reason, which gives them a strong incentive not to test any boundaries.
And that's why Mastercard can truthfully say they have never barred any legal transaction: they're never the ones doing the blocking. The layer of payment processing services that sits between Mastercard and the merchants are enforcing those content restrictions, based on a series of unwritten handshake agreements between the payment processors and Mastercard regarding what does and does not constitute acceptable content – and because the particulars of those handshake agreements aren't in writing, Mastercard can assert that their terms of service do not compel payment processing services to bar any legal transaction and technically be telling the truth.
(This is also why payment processors like CCBill that specialise in adult services can exist, incidentally. Since it's all off the books, specialist adult-services payment processors can have their own special arrangements with companies like Mastercard while still technically being under the same terms of service as everyone else.)
Valve just issued a public rebuttal to the press calling Mastercard out directly on their lies: Valve says payment processors specifically cited a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand
"Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so," a Valve representative said. "Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve, and we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution.
"Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand."
Kind of ironic how much damage pulling this shit is doing to their brand.
Not really, no; it was never about protecting the brand, and it's naïve to believe that it was. Mastercard's terms of service for payment processors invoke brand protection because whether or not a given transaction is damaging to the brand is subjective. Having a "no damaging the brand" policy furnishes a pretext for Mastercard to claim that any transaction they please has violated their terms of service with the payment processor in question, and it's essentially impossible for the offending payment processor to prove otherwise.
Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
This is humanity
Happy Birthday, Curiousity.
Happy birthday, Curiosity.
Happy Birthday, Curiosity.
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Happy birthday, Curiosity.
Happy birthday, Curiosity
Just a reminder when people say “We have to deport criminals” this is, in fact, the policy position they are advocating for. It might sound like a middle road, suburban-voted friendly take, but the US government will bend over backwards to find a crime they can deport you for, no matter how minor.
daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨
In the 1960s it was a common speculation that by 1980 the typical work week would consist of 4 days. And by the year 2000 we’d be working no more than 3 days a week.
Because of computerization, automation, and better efficiencies in workflow.
Guess what happened instead?
Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda
This but for people this post is talking about. 🤣
Get peer reviewed, bitch.
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mon crying as she leads the way for her child daughter's arranged marriage omg. the way she kinda pleads last minute for leida to consider calling it off. leida's surety as she enters the room of the marriage ceremony but the shaky, scared breath she takes as she takes in the full scene. goddamn what a powerful sequence
What I love about this is that the marriage is all part of how Mon keeps her records clean to Imperial auditors. If the marriage doesn’t happen, then Mon gets caught by the Imperial IRS for financial fraud and then handed over to the ISB, and then the rebellion falls apart. Or Luthen kills her first. Either way, if that marriage doesn’t happen, it’s curtains for Mon.
And yet. At the last moment, Mon tried to help her daughter, to let her know this was not a requirement but a choice and she could choose to walk away, walk away in a way that Mon cannot. It would have meant her death, but Mon wanted her daughter to have one more moment of freedom and choice.
And Leida spat it back into her face. Beautiful.
I am generally fine with Dave Filoni’s (apparent) preference for recycling characters across in different shows. He loves his OCs and I’m usually fine with it. But I have to say it now:
If Hera and Bix, or their sons, ever interact with each other outside of fan fiction I am going to RAGE.
Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.
Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.
Holy smokes, guys. It's way worse than I thought. Google actually took away access to every single file of fiction writing I'd made on that account. BUT I backed it all up on Scrivener yesterday by coincidence. So I haven't lost my work, but I could have just lost the 12,000 words I've written this month after a year of really intense writer's block. I honestly don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
Please be careful out there, folks! <3
That is awful! If you're looking for a gdocs-like replacement, Ellipsus @ellipsus-writes is a queer friendly, anti-AI equivalent with online syncing and sharing - I've been using it for almost a year now as a replacement for gdocs and absolutely love it.
I do still back up all my work to local storage on LibreOffice too though, thank goodness you backed up to Scrivener OP!
That's it, I'm done. I'm downloading all my gdocs and not using it any more.
I remember not wanting to google certain things (DIY explosive manufacturing, as an example) from my google profile because I was worried about ending up on a list. This was back in 2011.
Sad to see how much worse things have gotten with google.
every now and then I make a post about food safety and someone says "[other food company] would NEVER" and then I look them up and they sell products containing a fuckload of lead
bob's red mill
they should not be allowed to sell that. literally the highest lead level out of all the cassava flour tested. not only does bob's red mill sell lead, they are really really really good at it too.
