I Dont Have A Carbon Footprint

[krasnoarmeyets-deactivated191907]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[anton--rayne]

considering putting down the white guy from USA mutual who saw me get racially harassed and vague posted about how he personally doesn't have problems with anyone

[setulose]

Not to sound like a broken record but does it make anyone else viscerally angry how we realized in the very recent past that we can successfully eradicate devastating human-specific diseases (smallpox) yet now there's a million people telling you not to vaccinate your kids against measles. I know I know "everyone will not just" but also for real we could never have measles again if everyone would just be cool

[scienceoftheidiot]

Repeat after me : during the 90s WHO had estimated measles would be eradicated by 2020

No more measles. Eradicated. Forever.

Viscerally angry? Talk about being absolutely furious every fucking second of every fucking day.

[baatjr-deactivated20150830]

yes teenage girls can be dramatic and wild but honestly have u ever even seen what happens when u tell a grown man ‘no’

[the-delulu-main-character]

AMERICANS!!! DO NOT DO THIS TO FLOCK 'SECURITY' CAMERAS. REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD

do not get IR blocking fabric or thick wool to cover your nose and mouth

do not get IR blocking sunglasses since facial recognition has moved up to targeting and identifying the upper face

do not avoid having your phone or any bluetooth devices around these cameras as they can detect and track those signals

do not buy cheap green lasers 1 milliwatt or above from etsy or walmart or amazon (i will not try and find a link if you ask)

do not use them to fry those fuckers from a distance damage the delicate inner sensors by pointing the beam in the lenses

AND unless you want to cost Flock more money in repairs, do not buy a small circle saw or a reciprocating saw and cut down the pole

OR do not climb said poles, spray paint on the solar panels, cover the lens with paint or a sticker, then use bolt cutters to sever the wires

when doing all these things, DO NOT avoid using latex gloves as fingerprints can leak through

DO NOT USE DEFLOCK TO FIND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS NEAR YOU

remember, flock is for YOUR safety :) even though crime rates have not gone down since they were implemented, they're being abused to track down exes and s/os, and many face pools or houses or schools or gymnasiums! Where there are no liscence plates to be found!

DO NOT DO THESE THINGS and enjoy a life under surveillance!

enjoy living in the country where 87,000 of these cameras were used to track down a woman who got an abortion!

enjoy living in the country where there's no consequences for a flock exec to watch a inside of a gymnastics place without their knowledge!

Remember, this is their American Dream.

EDIT: 53 cities have cancelled contracts with flock and are now turning to Axon, in which 🎺 invested 1-5 million dollars earlier this year. Do not limit your focus to one brand.

[sissa-arrows]

In France if you suffer from hair loss as a teenage girl and cannot afford a real hair wig the school will try and force you to go to class bald. The school will make you buy a chemotherapy turban, you will buy two different so that the school can choose which one they prefer and you will prove that they are chemotherapy turban and not hijab but once you wear it they will change their mind and say it looks too much like a hijab and insist on you going bald or buying a real hair wig that you cannot afford.

If your doctor makes multiple documents confirming that you suffer from alopecia because of stress and the medicine you have to take for your epilepsy and that wearing a bonnet or something is recommended for your mental health as you’re not ready to go out bald in high school as a teenage girl, instead of admitting they are wrong the school will accuse the doctor of lying and report him to the Ordre des Médecins (equivalent of the General Medical council). Your doctor will find himself asking you for a document stating that you are not Muslim in order to defend himself and prove that no he wasn’t colluding with you so you could wear a substitute for hijab.

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In France if you are a North African nurse at a public hospital and wear a fabric surgical cap they will try to make you remove it because apparently it’s a hidden hijab. They will accuse you of going against secularism and when you’ll argue that they are discriminating you by assuming you’re Muslim for a surgical cap on your head they will change their angle and claim that you should wear nothing on your hair because you wear the same surgical cap in multiple bedroom which is unhygienic apparently (which is a bullshit argument cause you wear the same scrub/uniform in different bedrooms as well). They will go as far as claiming that disposable scrub caps (you know the thin papery ones?) are not okay to wear in a hospital even if you change it regularly. And then they will fire you for a lack of hygiene because you wear a surgical cap.

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All of that will be done in the name of secularism and women’s right despite having nothing do with either quite the opposite.

The teenage girl’s story is also not just about racism and Islamophobia it’s also about ableism as the girl is convinced that the real reason the school is trying to push her out is because she had an epilepsy crisis in class and nobody knew what to do and the school nurse was absent. It could have ended badly had her best friend not known what to do to help. Apparently it was bad enough to cancel class for the rest of the day and the teacher was shocked to the point of ending on sick leave.

[marzipanandminutiae]

oh and don't forget that many parts of France mandate by law how much skin women must show in swimsuits, which they claim is about not getting street dirt in public pools but which is disproportionately enforced on Muslim or even just Middle Eastern/North African women

(and of course is also some forced nudity misogynistic bullshit in general, to boot)

[prettyinpinkcatgamer]

I didn't really care too much about the french government previously, but now I want every one of that scum dead almost as much as the american government.

[sissa-arrows]

What if I tell you that the guy people (internationally) were fawning about because he was the youngest and first openly gay prime minister we had in France is remembered for one thing that he is still very proud of. He passed a law making “abaya” illegal at school. Except there is literally zero way to distinguish a “abaya” from a summer dress or any long dress. So what happened is that Arab and Black girls ended up being profiled at school and school staff ended up deciding that if a Arab or Black girl says that this is not a “abaya” one way to know for sure was to ask them what they were wearing underneath…

So we have grown adults asking underage girls what they are wearing under their dress and if they wear shorts and not just underwear they have to remove the dress and stay in short or they get send back home… grown ass ADULTS checking what UNDERAGE Black and Arab girls wear under their dresses and making them undress or lose access to education. That’s where we’re at in France…

(And you can’t wear a headband either if you’re Black or Arab but that’s an other subject.)

P.S: For the white French people who will be disingenuous and claim that these laws don’t target Arab and Black girls they actually do because it’s only illegal to wear these stuff if you’re Muslim and because Islam is a racialized religion in the West, France assume that all Black and Arab folks in France are Muslim so white girls are not affected by these laws.

[captain-price-returns]

the republican party under donald trump starting the iran war is going to go down in history as the biggest blunders for the US ever committed by an american president it's kind of incredible. it's a shame iranians are suffering due to this imperialist regime

[tondog]

[charlesoberonn-deactivated20150]

You can reverse the flow of Mako if you concentrate

[diet-poison]

You can trap Mako in a perpetual state of moving forward and backward never achieving freedom if you know how these are animated

[cutecipher]

like. people dont get it. this is from over a decade ago from the fbi itself.

Contacts:.The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Innocence Project, and the National

[cutecipher]

forensic science being fucked is not a conspiracy theory. forensic science isnt just basically regular science.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

in real life research, you create a hypothesis, then experiment to prove or disprove your hypothesis, then draw a conclusion from the results. accurate science is that which is repelicable, aka repeatable under the same conditions. and as a given rule, science must be unbiased by default. researchers must disclose where they got funding. if anyone is found lying about results, they're stripped of their status and barred from research for life. "scientists" trying to prove an agenda by skewing the results are not considered scientists. it's not a perfect system, but it's decent at catching most of the bad actors.

forensic science on the other hand is completely fake. there is no adherence to the regular scientific process. they're so deadset on the belief that their evidence is irrefutable proof of crime, but the reason for gathering evidence in the first place is incredibly biased by its conception. forensics science falls more under a conspiracy theory than actual science. rather than doing research and experiments and drawing a conclusion afterwards, forensics already has a conclusion in mind and will look for any data that aligns with that conclusion and ignore any data that doesn't. if you submitted that to a journal, you'd piss off every scientist in that field to the point where they'd wish to beat you to death with hammers for making a mockery of their profession. but because forensic science is backed by the police and prisons and is used for wrongful mass incarceration, its totally fine apparently. gotta make sure that the united states has the biggest prison population and the highest amount of prisoners per capita out of any country on earth. gotta make sure we maintain our popular of slaves because of that loophole in the 13th amendment. best country on earth, guys. trust. 🙃

[cutecipher]

like. people dont get it. this is from over a decade ago from the fbi itself.

Contacts:.The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Innocence Project, and the National

[cutecipher]

forensic science being fucked is not a conspiracy theory. forensic science isnt just basically regular science.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

in real life research, you create a hypothesis, then experiment to prove or disprove your hypothesis, then draw a conclusion from the results. accurate science is that which is repelicable, aka repeatable under the same conditions. and as a given rule, science must be unbiased by default. researchers must disclose where they got funding. if anyone is found lying about results, they're stripped of their status and barred from research for life. "scientists" trying to prove an agenda by skewing the results are not considered scientists. it's not a perfect system, but it's decent at catching most of the bad actors.

forensic science on the other hand is completely fake. there is no adherence to the regular scientific process. they're so deadset on the belief that their evidence is irrefutable proof of crime, but the reason for gathering evidence in the first place is incredibly biased by its conception. forensics science falls more under a conspiracy theory than actual science. rather than doing research and experiments and drawing a conclusion afterwards, forensics already has a conclusion in mind and will look for any data that aligns with that conclusion and ignore any data that doesn't. if you submitted that to a journal, you'd piss off every scientist in that field to the point where they'd wish to beat you to death with hammers for making a mockery of their profession. but because forensic science is backed by the police and prisons and is used for wrongful mass incarceration, its totally fine apparently. gotta make sure that the united states has the biggest prison population and the highest amount of prisoners per capita out of any country on earth. gotta make sure we maintain our popular of slaves because of that loophole in the 13th amendment. best country on earth, guys. trust. 🙃

[cutecipher]

like. people dont get it. this is from over a decade ago from the fbi itself.

Contacts:.The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Innocence Project, and the National

[cutecipher]

forensic science being fucked is not a conspiracy theory. forensic science isnt just basically regular science.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

in real life research, you create a hypothesis, then experiment to prove or disprove your hypothesis, then draw a conclusion from the results. accurate science is that which is repelicable, aka repeatable under the same conditions. and as a given rule, science must be unbiased by default. researchers must disclose where they got funding. if anyone is found lying about results, they're stripped of their status and barred from research for life. "scientists" trying to prove an agenda by skewing the results are not considered scientists. it's not a perfect system, but it's decent at catching most of the bad actors.

forensic science on the other hand is completely fake. there is no adherence to the regular scientific process. they're so deadset on the belief that their evidence is irrefutable proof of crime, but the reason for gathering evidence in the first place is incredibly biased by its conception. forensics science falls more under a conspiracy theory than actual science. rather than doing research and experiments and drawing a conclusion afterwards, forensics already has a conclusion in mind and will look for any data that aligns with that conclusion and ignore any data that doesn't. if you submitted that to a journal, you'd piss off every scientist in that field to the point where they'd wish to beat you to death with hammers for making a mockery of their profession. but because forensic science is backed by the police and prisons and is used for wrongful mass incarceration, its totally fine apparently. gotta make sure that the united states has the biggest prison population and the highest amount of prisoners per capita out of any country on earth. gotta make sure we maintain our popular of slaves because of that loophole in the 13th amendment. best country on earth, guys. trust. 🙃

[cutecipher]

like. people dont get it. this is from over a decade ago from the fbi itself.

Contacts:.The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Innocence Project, and the National

[cutecipher]

forensic science being fucked is not a conspiracy theory. forensic science isnt just basically regular science.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

in real life research, you create a hypothesis, then experiment to prove or disprove your hypothesis, then draw a conclusion from the results. accurate science is that which is repelicable, aka repeatable under the same conditions. and as a given rule, science must be unbiased by default. researchers must disclose where they got funding. if anyone is found lying about results, they're stripped of their status and barred from research for life. "scientists" trying to prove an agenda by skewing the results are not considered scientists. it's not a perfect system, but it's decent at catching most of the bad actors.

forensic science on the other hand is completely fake. there is no adherence to the regular scientific process. they're so deadset on the belief that their evidence is irrefutable proof of crime, but the reason for gathering evidence in the first place is incredibly biased by its conception. forensics science falls more under a conspiracy theory than actual science. rather than doing research and experiments and drawing a conclusion afterwards, forensics already has a conclusion in mind and will look for any data that aligns with that conclusion and ignore any data that doesn't. if you submitted that to a journal, you'd piss off every scientist in that field to the point where they'd wish to beat you to death with hammers for making a mockery of their profession. but because forensic science is backed by the police and prisons and is used for wrongful mass incarceration, its totally fine apparently. gotta make sure that the united states has the biggest prison population and the highest amount of prisoners per capita out of any country on earth. gotta make sure we maintain our popular of slaves because of that loophole in the 13th amendment. best country on earth, guys. trust. 🙃

[segamascott]

[orionnco]

If you see a community of people missing from a chunk of history (Queer/trans/religious ect) and your immediate thought is "oh they didnt exist then" instead of "oh shit these people had a bunch of their history erased" you have fallen for genocidal propaganda.

[quietwingsinthesky]

look at me. look me in the eyes right now. we will be grateful. for the warrior cats rpg video game. understand? we will be grateful for it. because remember. it could have been a gacha mobile game.

[quietwingsinthesky]

if it is a fully-fleshed out game, a real rpg, even if the gameplay is not great! we are going to be grateful! because every other media tie-in nowadays is a goddamn gacha game! i would take even the lowest effort shovelware over a gambling app, and this is at least going to be higher quality than that!!!

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

this has rewired some neural pathways for me

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI