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Playing Webkinz since a little kid 2007. Account: saundra01 —Special Interest— Lex—24

[susiephone]

so i've started playing webkinz again because the world is falling apart, and this trivia question sent me because i had no idea they were updating the trivia games at all post-2010ish

the next question was about the space jam sequel, so apparently they are still on that

[charlikesalmon]

uhh webkinz are y’all hiring? 🥹

[webkinznames]

Emerald Fox - "chickn salid crosont"

[frodoomsday]

MORE WEBKINZ DESIGNS FOR OCS BLEHHHH!!!!

[daily-webkinz]

Today's friend is the Radiant Rhino!

[daily-webkinz]

Today's friend is the Rascally Raccoon!

[gifdog]

webkinz blinkies for a friend <3

[lovelylovekitten]

Got one of my dream webkinz! I've wanted a Ginger Cat ever since I was little and she's just as perfect as I imagined. Her name is Ginger Rose ❤

[rubymoonkinz]

hi im daisyflower19 on webkinz and i missed the chance to get the air hockey table. can someone who doesnt care about it mail it to me or something. thank you

[dreadfulstar]

Commissions! Open!! Under the cut is context.

Please share this to help.

In April, my family and I were in a car accident where I was struck T-Bone driver’s side by an aggressive driver. I received long lasting injury as well as my passenger. We increased family financial debt attempting to recover. The new vehicle, a requirement for commute to work, was a slightly higher loan. The next week uncle then went in for heart failure and resulted in requiring a full valve replacement on all valves. My grandfather was diagnosed with cancer at the same time, then requiring surgery. My mother this month was rushed in for internal bleeding; she has intestinal damage. My mother, uncle, grandfather, and grandmother (final state emphysema and COPD, oxygen replacement unit in the home, bed bound) are all one living arrangement unit. They had to take out liens in order to survive. Property was placed in my name in an attempt to keep housing. This month I began vomiting blood and found out I had beginning necrotic pancreatitis that needs monitored. Medication costs, copays, rent, and car payments are a financial burden but previously possible as I split costs with my fiance (passenger in the wreck). He has been terminated at work as of today. I have a second job and work 70-80 hours a week. Due to this loss, we are unable to pay rent and other expenses. I am unable to receive medical treatment and may die. If I default any loan, my family loses their house as well as us. Without assistance, I am aware I may become critically ill or die, but I am still working as much as possible to cover expenses despite the complications. My second job (full time) notified me they are considering termination due to medical liability of my disabilities.

[alittledropofheaven]

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

She/her also personally fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery...

[alex51324]

Here’s an article that gives more details on the story, and what Harris said about it.  The key points:

It was the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation that refused the surgery to the inmates.  When the inmates fought the policy in court, as Attorney General of California, it was Harris’s job to represent the Department.  Yes, she did it, but it wasn’t something she decided on her own to do.  (Also, not for nothing, the inmates won the case.)

Her characterization of the episode:   “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said.

A policy now exists for inmates to receive transition-related care in California prisons (although apparently the DoC isn’t doing a great job of holding up its end of the bargain*--quelle surprise).  

(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.) 

The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it--and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either.  We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.  

She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views.  (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people--that’s a lot of different views.)  If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on.  (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG--I’m not sure how it works, exactly.)  Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry.  (Another thing our current president does constantly--notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)

So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:

The Department of Corrections had a policy denying gender-affirmation surgery to inmates.  

Two inmates fought that policy in court.

Harris defended that policy in court (or, more accurately, was the supervisor of the person who did so--but the legal documents went out under her signature, and she takes responsibility for their content).

Harris also worked to change the policy.  

If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with.  Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change.  If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it--again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.  

What this incident shows is that Kamala Harris is accustomed to working in a system where she doesn’t always get her own way, and that she knows how to lose the battle to win the war.  As VP, she’s going to need those skills--especially if the Republicans keep the Senate, but even if the Democrats sweep everything in November, we’re notoriously bad at all pulling in the same direction.  We’ve had about enough of the “I’m taking my ball and going home” style of leadership.  

[writingruss]

Bringing back this from 2020, because I’ve been seeing the rhetoric machine spinning up again.

The law, especially in a democracy, is a slow and frustrating thing. Lawyers are sometimes put in positions where they are presenting arguments for something they may disagree with.

The reason why a lawyer would agree to do this often comes down to the political theory that we must rigorously and honestly test ideas, and that requires cogent emphatic arguments from both sides.

It’s easy to say in this case that the correct result should be obvious, But we can’t just design a system that says “oh but you can skip the full legal process for stuff that is clearly right/wrong”

BECAUSE THEN THE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU TAKE THAT IDEA AND USE IT TO PUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS IN JAIL OR EXECUTE YOU.

So yes, we apply this really onerous process to things that seem really obvious because we must apply the same standard to everything.

When you don’t you get shit like the current Supreme Court.

[the-library-alcove]

And to everyone who says, "Well, she should have just ignored the law, followed our her morals, and done the Right Thing!"

Okay.

Remember Kim Davis, that (now former) county clerk in Kentucky who, in 2015, refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs?

You're basically saying that she was right and legally in the right to do so.

[kalessinsdaughter]

It's tempting, isn't it, to disregard laws and principles because you feel know that it's the right thing to do?

But ignoring the law, pretending you're not bound by it, yeah, that's what entitled, privileged people do. People who think the law doesn't apply to them.

The idea that there's an in-group whom the law protects, but doesn't bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but doesn't protect, is conservative, not progressive.

[thebestpartofwakingup]

Are we really arguing in 2024 that people who break and ignore bad and unjust laws are as bad and wrong as people who break good and just laws?

Is that how fucking brain dead, skull empty, push-door-pulling, nigerian-prince-money-wiring, nft-buying, crypto-investing, stupid liberals are now?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

No they're arguing that people who are part of the legal system have a responsibility to adhere to the legal process. They're arguing that things like a right to representation, due process, and fairly run cases are fundamental and do not have shortcuts based on which side you personally like the most. I know this is the piss on the poor website but please learn to read words instead of skimming the first sentence of something and just making up stuff in your head.

[helvetica12point]

I'd just like to add, since it came up in the thread, that homophobe Kim Davis is appealing the loss of her case with the goal of eventually bringing it before the supreme court. The current supreme court.

We should probably be concerned.

[digitalmemoriez]

[dreadfulstar]

Commissions! Open!! Under the cut is context.

Please share this to help.

I submitted this for the employee assistance

In April, my family and I were in a car accident where I was struck T-Bone driver’s side by an aggressive driver. I received long lasting injury as well as my passenger. We increased family financial debt attempting to recover. The new vehicle, a requirement for commute to work, was a slightly higher loan. The next week uncle then went in for heart failure and resulted in requiring a full valve replacement on all valves. My grandfather was diagnosed with cancer at the same time, then requiring surgery. My mother this month was rushed in for internal bleeding; she has intestinal damage. My mother, uncle, grandfather, and grandmother (final state emphysema and COPD, oxygen replacement unit in the home, bed bound) are all one living arrangement unit. They had to take out liens in order to survive. Property was placed in my name in an attempt to keep housing. This month I began vomiting blood and found out I had beginning necrotic pancreatitis that needs monitored. Medication costs, copays, rent, and car payments are a financial burden but previously possible as I split costs with my fiance (passenger in the wreck). He has been terminated at work as of today. I have a second job and work 70-80 hours a week. Due to this loss, we are unable to pay rent and other expenses. I am unable to receive medical treatment and may die. If I default any loan, my family loses their house as well as us. Without assistance, I am aware I may become critically ill or die, but I am still working as much as possible to cover expenses despite the complications. My second job (full time) notified me they are considering termination due to medical liability of my disabilities.

[sincibee]

“Hope ya find what you’re looking for!!”

I love my little oil painting

[x-emokid-x]

Webkinz Cakes

[moreb4tz]

yup

[smoothpeanut]

i would die for her