US citizens need to start community planning now. NOW. There is no going back to normal. When this shit tanks, and it’s already starting to, the entire empire is going to crumble and you need to have a plan and system in place to feed, clothe, defend, and provide—
A lot of folks are finding this comical, but I actually overheard a senior manager compliment one of his employees on her jewelry stack and then later go to HR with “concerns” that we must be paying her too much and that there may be pay inequity.
There are people who want you to believe social anxiety is narcissistic and delusional when you can become a lolcow from a 10 second video of you just existing on a dating app
I was hanging out with my friend who does construction and stonework, and, because of my hobbies and sense of humour, he was like, "you would love it on a construction site— [almost imperceptible pause] ...for a bit" lmfao
🚨Genesee County uses Flock cameras to capture and search vehicle data. But when Kettering University student Josh Tewolde requested records showing where the cameras are, who accessed the data and whether his vehicle was scanned, the county withheld key information.
Its excuse? The records belong to Flock, a private contractor. But the county’s own contract says it owns the data.
Josh is suing because government should not be able to hide public surveillance records behind a private company. If the government uses the cameras, the public deserves transparency.
"Women have always had equal rights." Meanwhile — when anesthesia was first invented, doctors weren't allowed to give it to women in labor because the church declared that the pain of childbirth was God's punishment for sleeping with men. Let that sit for a second.
No. What used to be standard privacy features on social media keep being degraded because you egomaniacs can't stop obsessing over strangers' opinions of you. The entire internet isn't a debate forum. Kids and vulnerable people deserve to have privacy features that work.
For FIFTY YEARS after slavery ended, Black newspapers ran a special kind of classified ad and they are the most heartbreaking documents in American print.
They were called "Lost Friends" and "Information Wanted" ads. Freed people, searching for family sold away decades earlier.
Mothers describing children by a scar on a knee, a song they hummed, the name of the trader who drove them off. Husbands naming a wife last seen at an auction in 1849. Grown men searching for a mother whose face they'd carried since age six.
One New Orleans paper's column was read aloud from the pulpits of some 800 churches — so the ads could reach people who could not read, in every congregation, every Sunday.
It is not remotely surprising to me that a plurality of Americans believed stopping six trans kids from playing sports was worth blueberries that make you dead, but i’m not sure how to rebuild a functional society with such people.
a good enemies to lovers lies mostly in the “to.” its about the journey, its about slowly gaining trust and mutual respect. its about understanding the ugliness of someone and learning to love them anyway. there are so many important steps you have to take to reach “lovers”
They really should’ve done this when it was first revealed what they did. Her death is why it was resurfacing, but she told us what they did while she was alive, which makes this nothing more than damage control and not an actual apology. Sometimes it really is a little too late.
as a reminder: we do not call AI-gen’d works “slop” bc they look/sound/read bad (though many do); we call them “slop” bc they are the result of a machine processing a prompt and spitting out a statistically average mimicry of the authentic human creations in its training data
why won’t y’all just stop having kids? 😭😭😭😭😭😭 y’all don’t want to talk to them, read with them, listen to them, play with them, or even BATHE them. parenthood is not by force
What's happening in Indiana, is the plan. Gary hasn't had power for a week after their power lines came down in a storm. There's NO FEMA. No handing out water or food. There's ZERO coverage on the news. People left completely abandoned. That's the new policy, IT'S YOUR PROBLEM.
Your ongoing 100 chapters long work which are just a bunch of oneshots about different pairings should be each one a individual work and on a collection, instead of tagging 50 pairings and then make people having to go through each one to see the find the fic they want
“An internal investigation found two of the glove shocks lasted 45 and 99 seconds apiece — far more than the manufacturer’s recommended 15-second limit.”
ICE’s “Shock Gloves” have already proven lethal.
Do not allow fascist thugs to obtain yet another deadly weapon.