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Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
most damaging idea of the 21st century: the conviction of vast numbers of people that human history will end within our lifetimes
climate change represents world-altering tragedy if unchecked, but not even in the worst-case scenario does it mean “literally everyone dies”
yet so many people have jumped already to “it’s over, the world is going to end, we can do nothing about it” and are just paralyzingly cynical. How do I explain that the power to imagine a future is essential for creating it
you know the thing where trauma can cause you to just. not expect to live much longer so when you get to 30 you don’t know what to do because you thought you’d be dead by 25
That is happening to all of us right now on a society-wide scale
A lot of people are like. REALLY angry at me for suggesting that “be depressed and do nothing” isn’t necessarily the only response to climate change.
this, this, this, this, this, this, and like, 700 other sources will tell you that most of the effects of climate change will be reversible even if we pass the ‘threshold’ of a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in global temperature
BUT. Even if the worst happens, it will be important to be doing things other than wallowing in misery???
I’m not trying to be callous but for people living today it’s wildly unlikely for the results to be “literally immediate death.”
People will get displaced from their homes by rising sea levels. We have like, years, probably decades, before that happens. It seems so fucked up to decide that we should do nothing, because we’ve already decided they’re going to die anyway????
If a bunch of us are going to die, why not die trying to help each other? Why not try to make sure fewer people die? Why not do something that might reduce someone’s suffering or give them food or clean water or a place to sleep?
I don’t know how to explain to you that people need socks during the apocalypse
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There's a trend on TikTok about white Americans fighting back against white Europeans who say they're not allowed to claim their European backgrounds and while I'm all about about white Americans getting in touch w/ their ancestry...
I become incredibly frustrated at how uneducated they are about that alleged ancestry. Every time I see the term "Scots-Irish" I can feel a blood vessel pop because they think that means Scottish and Irish and it's like they don't know what the fuck they're talking about or the history or geopolitics involved. That's Ulster Scots and they're colonizers in Ireland. ❤️
I got blocked on TikTok for pointing out Scottish colonialism LMAO
Like this is precisely the problem. It's an ethnonationist historical pity party. You don't actually want to learn the history of the places you supposedly hail from. It's pathetic
A lot of US citizens are not willing to understand that to speak about heritage as if its nationality (for example saying someone is Scottish when no member of their family has left Idaho in the last century) is DEEPLY insulting in a significant number of European countries.
We saw this a lot after the last World Cup. Lots of people were talking about how the French football team was "really" African and US tv shows made fun of the French Ambassador for correcting this and saying "no, these men are French". None of them realising that by calling the French football team African they were, in the eyes of French people, invalidating the Frenchness of these young men. "They're African" is the language of the French Far Right, in fact it is the language of the far right in many European countries, aiming to invalidate the contributions of immigrants to our various societies.
I get pissed off when US-ians say Chicken Tikka Masala isn't British or was "stolen" from India because to me that erases the contribution to British culture of the person who invented it. Don't tell me that someone who moved here and created a dish that was so popular that it changed our entire nation's relationship with food ISN'T British. I will fight you over it. That person is arguably far more British than I am.
When challenged about claiming national identity from countries that they are in no way a part of many US-ians will make the argument that they are "more Scottish than you" or something similar. This is almost always an argument based on blood quotient or them partaking in two or three stereotyped activities that are associated with the culture, ESPECIALLY heavy drinking or violence. It is not a good way to endear yourself to members of a culture you are trying to ingratiate yourself with by calling them all wife beating drunks and claiming that your own drunken violence makes you a member of their community.
And as for the blood quotient, many of us Europeans who have had unfortunate encounters with people like this take great offence to people who have never set foot in our country claiming that a 23% DNA match from one of those fraudulent genetic heritage tests (seriously, literally all their data is fake and you're paying them to steal information about you, stop using them) makes them a more valid member of our community than our Polish neighbour who has lived here for the last 15 years.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS POST TRYING TO EXPLAIN THE US POINT OF VIEW ON HERITAGE.
I KNOW the US view on heritage. I hear it all the damn time. What US people need to hear is just how insulting the way they speak about heritage is to those of us who live in these countries. When you speak to us remember that these words have different meanings to us and you are being incredibly disrespectful to valued and loved members of our communities and invalidating their identities as members of our communities in order to set yourself in their places.
Also anyone who claims the US "doesn't have a culture" so you have to claim ours gets an instant block. Please consider just how privileged you are to have your national culture dominate international life. What you see as "default culture" is YOUR culture. You're buying into Imperialism when you see US things as the default and anything else as "other".
TL;DR: When people from the US speak about their heritage from other countries they are often unknowingly using language that people from those countries find insulting and is often used to attack immigrant groups within those countries. People from the US need to be more thoughtful in their use of language and make an effort to speak about cultures they wish to claim membership of in ways that are respectful of those cultures and their current members.
I do not have big enough hands to give this the round of applause it deserves
I apologize if you've already told this story and I just didn't see it, if you did please ignore me, but would you be willing to expound upon your grandmother blowing up a Nazi? Considering your and your mother's experiences I feel this is bound to be a wild ride. especially considering the at least.
Alright so I love the shit out of my badass grandma and so I’m happy to brag about her being the fucking best let’s goooo. she died last year so this is all from my memory. I won’t give super specifics to protect my identity, and hers but here’s the story. Trigger warning for- you know- it was nazi Germany.
So my grandma was born in the bronx to German immigrate parents. This was before there were laws giving citizenship to parents of kids born in America. When she was a tween her dad took her and the family to Germany to visit family despite his brother telling him it was a bad idea.
As soon as they got off the boat, he got drafted and her mom won’t leave without him, so the whole family is stuck in Germany for WWII and my little German-American Jewish Grandma is not having a good time. They have to split the family up a little bit to keep everyone alive so my grandma ends up living with her uncle in a clock shop which she likes because she loves making closes and watches and is excited to learn how to do it from a master. They get her some good fake papers saying she’s German, and use the cover that she came to live with her uncle to learn the clock making trade. (My Family still makes clocks actually!) Anyway she and her uncle “convert” to Lutheran. IE, they fake it to avoid getting found out as Jewish and it works. Grandma is good enough at German that she fits in. But she’s pissed about this Nazi bullshit. She’s a little American, and she’s real proud of that but she has to hide it.
She’s forced to attend nazi youth meetings to keep her uncles shop going. She is conveniently sick whenever they do the actual initiation every few weeks or something.When she’s 16 they force her, and several other teens in her town to work at a local factory making timers for bombs. Most of her fellow kids only know what they were taught, which was only barley enough to make the timers. My grandma realized a few things in the first few months at the factory. 1. They weren’t keeping track of who made what timer. 2. They did not test them before putting them on bombs. 3. The whole nazi party was a disorganized shit show.
So, because she knew what she was doing from her uncles shop she made the timers wrong, on purpose so that they would go off right after being set and (ideally) blow up whoever set it. She did this for several years before she got caught. They arrested her, and said she was responsible for the deaths of an unknown number German Soldiers (Nazis) and would be put to death for it with the other traitors the following day. (not a real trial, you might have noticed) That night she escaped and ran into the black forest where she hid until the war ended. How did she escaped? I wondered this myself for many years. She never told me that bit until very late in her life when said “I did the guard a favor. He was planning on double crossing me though and not letting me out. I could tell. So I just made sure he was asleep when I was done, and then I stole his keys.” Now I’d like to point out that it’s unclear if she actually did manage to blow up any Nazis. They were killing people right and left for any signs of disloyalty to the party so maybe she killed no one. Who knows. Apparently she survived the black forest by stealing a lot of supplies on her way out of town, and later she stole a gun from a French solider and used it to hunt rabbits and stuff. She said she was a pretty good hunter, which my mom confirmed. Sometimes she stole food from French farmers. She lived in an old run down cabin she found and fixed up. One French farmer was willing to trade her rabbits for cheese. She was deep enough in the forest that she didn’t realize the war had ended until she went to steal from a farmer again and saw American soldiers. It was mid June, by this time. She went home and fund her uncles clock shop had been destroyed, but he was okay. He’d fled into the forest after she got arrested, and made due like she had. He stayed closer to the edge of the forest tho and had come back as soon as he saw Americans. Her father was alive, he’d defected to the American side at the first opportunity. The Germans thought he was dead. Her mother, cousins, sisters, and rest of her family had been found out as Jewish and sent to the camps. They didn’t survive. Shortly after she got back, some locals in town put on a baseball game for the American soldiers to thank them for bringing supplies and food. (officially, in reality it’s complicated) My grandma was having a blast, she’d really missed baseball while stuck in Germany. She was having a good time. Now this part is what my grandpa told me. He was one of the American soldiers playing that game of baseball. Someone hit the ball right past his head and he failed to catch it because he was distracted by this beautiful woman playing with them, which is when that same woman, my grandma turned to him and yelled, in perfect English with a slight Bronx accent “HEY ASSHOLE! CATCH IT NEXT TIME!”
These were the first words any woman had said to my grandpa in years. And to quote him: “And I fell in love.”
When I asked grandma why she liked Grandpa at first: “He brought me some cheese on the first date.”
now, more than ever, people need to show their support for trans women. JK Rowling is back on her terf shit on twitter and that means self-proclaimed 'radblr' is going to be having a fucking field day celebrating and harrassing trans women calling us rapists.
seriously, drop harry potter. i don't care what your excuse is for reading the books, creating content for it whether it just be dumb tumblr posts or writing fanfiction. take it from a trans girl in the uk - your engagement does have a tangible effect on our lives, and JKR has openly stated that most people who engage with that series agree with her view.
big fan of that viral post going around talking about the "bible verse that implies jesus is trans" which is entirely made up and not an actual bible verse. joining the war on misinformation on the side of the misinformation
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My Favorite Venom: Let There Be Carnage Letterboxd Reviews
i am such a normal person doing normal people things about this movie
Listen tumblr, I need you all to know that no matter how gay the venom 2 trailers were they do not even come remotely close to how gay the movie really is. There were so many moments where I was completely losing my shit over just how in love Eddie and Venom are. The gays and the monsterfuckers really won this time around and I’m not kidding in the slightest.
Must a movie have a plot?? Is it not enough to watch Tom Hardy be chaotic domestic husbands with some black goo for an hour and a half?
I think what I love most is that Tom Hardy KNEW what people were complaining about after the first Venom.
He KNEW there were people bitching because it wasn't a dark, violent gore fest. And he knew those people would be hoping to see more violence and a more serious story in the second one and he STILL chose to ignore them.
He chose to focus on the parts that HE enjoyed and he chose to give more to the fans who actually showed up for the first one with excitement.
Anyone else would have caved to all the whiners and dudebros out there who complained because Venom 1 was too funny and wasn't taking itself seriously like the films from the universe that shall not be named. Anyone else would have said, "Okay, well, those fans weren't happy so let's give them what they wanted." But Tom Hardy looked and said, "Why? There's plenty of people who LIKED what I did! How about we give them MORE instead and that way I don't lose my fucking mind?"
And I appreciate him.
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if ur having a bad day here have these reviews of the first venom movie to give you a laugh