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they made phone batteries non-replaceable to COVER UP the fact that THEY are putting SINISTER DEVICES inside your phone that they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT. And ME? I ALSO don't want to know about them.

that-grassbro

Hey. You might have seen me before.

I'm Az, as a few of you might know by now, either from my info posts, some of the donations I boost, or some kind of controversy. I've been very vocal about my 4 year journey trying to get out of Tajikistan as a transmasc student.

I recently got the amazing news of a full scholarship to a university in the UK. But I was confronted with the reality that I did not account for all the costs that come with moving. I knew there would be flight costs, vaccinations, visa application fees and more, which is why I've been saving up for the last 3 years.

Unfortunately I'm still short, particularly after realising i missed some hidden fees and particularly the Immigration Health Charge of £2716. I will work hard at making as big of a dent in this as I can, but any assistance at all would be great.

Thank you for reading.

Help grassbro

enbaluka-tokyo-drift

boccher

Love all the yanks in the notes going like "yuropoors don't understand in the states we have use our cars everyday or else we would DIE" yea right I'm sure the good folks in Laos, Peru, Senegal and Rwanda understand that they can just use footpaths and widespread robust public transport to compensate for their petrol prices being like twice as expensive as in the US. They would understand that the US is the only place in the world where car ownership is a life-or-death trade and the only place in the world where unemployed disabled people need to get groceries. Those folks probably have higher wages than the US too so in the end those higher petrol prices even out, right?

problematic-girltwink

Quick demonstrative conversion:

Average gas price in the US right now is around $4.50 per gallon.

$4.50/gal *0.26gal/liter =$1.17 /L

Exchange rate is currently €0.85 to $1.00

So that comes out to a little under:

€1.00/L

The only European countries beating that price point as of may 4th, according to this website (https://www.cargopedia.net/europe-fuel-prices) are Russia and Belarus, presumably due to export sanctions depressing domestic Russian fuel prices.

Most European countries see petrol prices hovering closer to €1.80 to €2.00, with Denmark and The Netherlands at €2.30/L.

Just a quick look at how comparatively low US gasoline prices are even after getting into a pissing match with Iran.

queeranarchism

While it's true that Europe has some of the highest gasoline prices in the world, they also do have some of the most dense public transport systems in the world and the highest income.

The examples Laos, Peru, Senegal and Rwanda were excellent examples because those are some of the many countries that have much higher gas prices than the US, less access to public transport than the US and much lower income.

US: €1.08/L, 85% population has some public transport access, average income 83,490 (GNI per capita) Laos: €1.51/L, below 40% public transport access, 2,000 GNI p. c. Peru: €1.46/L, 73% public transport access, 7,490 GNI p. c. Senegal: €1.41/L, 50% public transport access, 1,680 GNI p. c. Rwanda €1.71/L, 56% public transport access, 1,040 GNI p. c.

Imagine having to pay almost a day's worth of your salary for 1 or 2 liters of gas.

Europeans needs to stop centering themself in this topic and none more so then Denmark and the Netherlands. For the most part they really can take the fucking bus.

Gas prices by country using official data sources.

Public transport access in “major-city” terms: the SDG 11.2.1 lens behind this ranking “Public transport use” is often reported as ridership

queeranarchism

Europeans in the notes: "But have you considered that I, a poor disabled autistic trans woman in debt with a agoraphobia, am suffering more from high gas prices than a cis male abled neurotypical millionaire in Rwanda?"

Yeah, no shit sherlock. That doesn't really change the fact that the focus on how high the gas prices are in the EU and US is completely disproportionate to the impact of those gas prices on their societies. And that focus is a reflection of the imperial power of those countries to prioritize their access to finite resources.

I need you to understand that this is a system problem.

I need you to understand that living in the imperial core comes with privileges that do not disappear just because you're also marginalized along other axes.

I need you to stop making this about you.

bucketofdeltav

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

melyzard

elodieunderglass

@bucketofdeltav says the URL is here: http://tumblr.com/star-system-generator

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ellisillus

anybody else uhhh. anybody else. anyone else uhhhhh

amalgamationillustration

This is honestly likely made worse by the internet that seems to be obsessed with having the worst possible faith interpretation of everything anyone has ever said online ever.

But ya it's almost definitely OCD from the sounds of it, I just wish the internet wasn't oriented in a way to make this harder for people who already struggle with it.

therapatical

what's funny (read: depressing & kinda soul-crushing) is that, when you express to others that you struggle and suffer from this,

somebody will inevitably pipe up with "clearly you don't, because look at this insensitive/ignorant thing you said once!"

yes. because i probably DID agonize over it and try to consider every perspective...... but it is literally impossible to do that, so I missed one

it's so weird because you'd think that somebody who shows that they've put in wayyyyyy more effort towards being kind and considerate of others, would be given a little more leniency when they make a mistake (vs people who don't put in that effort).

however, instead, somehow, it's almost like you're seen as even worse???? as if it is proof you definitely meant to say or do something bad, bc obviously you must have thought of it, since you put in so much effort to think about these things. it gets used to weirdly accuse you of lying, for some reason.

but, again, it's literally an impossible standard to be held to. nobody can be 100% aware and cognizant of all people and issues and perspectives at all times. not even somebody who's more cognizant of those things than the average person! just because you're, like, able to adequately accommodate 60% of necessary perspectives and most people are at like 30%, doesn't mean you're now more guilty for the times when you're wrong vs when somebody else is. it's not 100% and it'll never be.

nobody is omniscient and yet the internet really seems to use that fact to its advantage whenever they wanna take their frustrations out on somebody else

inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy

hate how I will have a very simple thing (tagging flashing lights is a bare minimum of accessibility) and people crawl outta the fuckin woodworks to tell me how stupid that is like bro

inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy

Banging my head against a wall literally you’re correct and it is blatantly ableist to say otherwise

morning-stars-avenue

[Image ID: Two Tumblr hashtags which read "like hey guys. people can die from that." and "it isnt stupid people can fucking DIE if you dont tag for it". /End ID]

inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy

reblog this version please

inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy

Tags: please remember epileptics like me. Seizures can kill people at any point and not just from injuries they cause. Literally it’s called sudden unexpected death by epilepsy. additional tag: disability awareness

mysharona1987

ghost-mantis

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

elodieunderglass

Prenatal care has absolutely improved around the world, but please also note something else:

Stone-carved gravestones in Christian churchyards and sprawling municipal cemeteries are by no means a universal death ritual, and demonstrate most significantly “the ability to spend money on a stone-carved gravestone” combined with “cheap enough local real estate that people haven’t dug it up (yet).”For example, in the United Kingdom, a gravestone and a private grave are only allotted temporarily, especially in very urban areas; leases on graves are often 99 years but can be as low as 25 years (for a cheaper burial, when your mourners might not be expected to need 25 whole rent-paying years to memorialise you.) particularly old or interesting gravestones may remain in situ because they are old or interesting, not because every single person who’s ever been buried remains buried forever.

They are a remarkably poor record of modern population, as well, because…

People don’t want to be buried any more. They especially don’t like the idea of burying children. Burial rates in the UK have crashed, with only 17% of people saying they want to be buried themselves. The vast majority of that 2016 survey preferred cremation for themselves, and would like to have their ashes scattered or placed somewhere meaningful.

That’s absolutely not to nitpick the premise of the post, but to gently remind others that the idea of “death” - as recorded forever by a solemn gravestone with flowers in eternally preserved real estate - was always quite invisibly America, Christian, middle-class and frankly odd; it is increasingly unfashionable; and that the reason you do not commonly see child gravestones is not because children are not dying, but because children are not buried.

madenthusiasms

Member of The Association for Gravestone Studies entering the chat.

1) It’s true that a wander through a graveyard isn’t the best form of data analysis, so how lucky are we that there are also lots and lots and LOTS of studies and mortuary records that also show significant drops in child mortality at every medical advance! Hard data doesn’t just mean “chiseled into rock!”

2) There are extremely famous cemeteries with “a gravestone and a plot” all over the Western world, including London’s Famous Five and Pete Lachaise, the first “garden cemetery” outside Paris. People all over the world still make pilgrimages to see important people who are - absolutely even after 99 years - still buried there.

And that’s just the Victorian era Christian ones. Here’s an above ground burial uncovered from the ash just outside Pompeii.

And that’s not even touching on people buried and memorized inside churches:

To get back to the children - yes, even in active graveyards, ones I’ve had to be very careful not to get a photo of a fresh grave or recent stone, you just don’t see whole sections like these anymore:

I do still find child graves, modern child graves, but they’re entirely different. There’s no innocent lamb iconography, no little angel called back to heaven. There is no resignation that this death was the way things just are. The grief, the horror, the outrage that such a thing could happen to one so young is palpable. The things left there aren’t the tributes made by someone remembering a hero, like the wine at Poe’s grave, not a wreath or a flag for a fallen soldier. They are the last agonizing attempts of a family to cheer and comfort its missing member and even when I am alone in the cemetery I can hear their screams of grief.

orteil42

in case you didn't know they did a study in 2023 and found tumblr had the LEAST gullible social media userbase! congratulations!

orteil42

hello everyone. unfortunately it would appear i disseminated factitious information on purpose

hometoursandotherstuff

beemovieerotica

squareic

it does say something about the state of the queer community that no one really talks about or cares that since 1991 T has been a class III controlled substance in the united states. for decades now trans men and mascs have had our names tracked and traced if we were legally prescribed T. since before some of you were even born, the american govt has had a list of us.

you need to care about the trans men and mascs who have been on these lists for almost 30 years now. you need to care about more than the threat or concept of trans women and femmes being put on a list, because your brothers are already there.

intersexfairy

furious that i've never heard of this as an intersex transmasc so i looked it up to learn more and. well if anyone's curious: "Testosterone is a Schedule III controlled substance based on concerns about its performance-enhancing use in sports. By the virtue of this classification, prescription and dispensation of testosterone are trackable through state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). The number of PDMPs has rapidly expanded over the last 20 years in response to the overdose crisis; these databases now exist in every US state and territory. Individual state PDMP policies expand access to controlled substance prescription data for local and state law enforcement, often without basic warrant or other safeguards to prevent unfettered surveillance. In 9 states, PDMPs also track International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision codes, potentially allowing law enforcement to discern the diagnoses for which testosterone was prescribed."

bezakonik-deactivated20210314

i don't get anon hate simply because everyone loves me and im their favourite. this is true

lonelydesolate

okay, so, that's not how that works, for one,

averagenderedmanta

Hallo! Mein Name ist Marcus Iunius Brutus Caepio, Leiter Kundenzufriedenheit im Römischen Reich. Und heute zeige ich ihnen was auch Sie mit diesem Messer erreichen können.