She barely has the time to heal, and she’s already back to grinding commissions because she has no choice.
If you have any extra spare cash, please send it her way to help her and her family out. 😭
Even 5-10 dollars helps out.
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The removal of juries was the natural next step after the removal of legal aid.
The rich can afford their legal representation, and they can afford to bribe judges too.
We're utterly cooked.
I'll never forget gura getting all her genmates dig thousands of blocks in minecraft with stone tools to atlantis location, procrastinate building it for 5 years and then graduating
Censorship -> Totalitarianism.
Without the free flow of ideas, even the ugly, the forbidden, the "objectionable"... even the horrible; society invariably turns into a totalitarian state.
Every fascist state, every communist dictatorship, every empire and kingdom gone wrong that led to mass deaths all started with good intentions of "protecting the minds of the innocent".
Free speech, as long as it's not illegal... it is the immune system of every open society. Once the machine of censorship becomes normalized, people start accepting the idea that certain thoughts and facts become too dangerous to be spoken... or even thought of.
They always start with things like pornography, heresy, hate, and other taboos... then they end up hamstringing the scientists, the artists, the intellectuals that keep the society's feet to the fire.
The "dark fiction" is essential so that we can stare into the abyss to know what actual evil is, how it tempts, and how it lies. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. Drive the fictional taboos and uncomfortable ideas underground, and they don't die. They fester, recruit the broken, and become the forbidden fruit.
Censorship like this is the slow boil of the frog in the pot. We don't notice it at first, and then when it gets too hot, it's already too late, and we are "cooked". They call it "safety," "harm reduction," "community standards." Same mechanism, same fascism and totalitarianism, just new branding... the same gulags with a more compassionate name under DEI, equity, and inclusivity.
The moment you appoint a middle-aged karenocracy to decide which darkness we're allowed to explore, we are already on that path towards totalitarianism. This time, promoted by payment processors, advertisers, and it is GLOBAL... not just a single nation state.
These Karens are the mid-level bureaucrats at NGOs, HR departments, and “ethics boards” who are ignorant of history, but are dead certain they know "exactly" how society should be... Just like communism, those in power always want to try it again, and no matter how often the experiment is run, it always ends up in mass killings... The Holodomor, great leap forward, purges, cultural revolutions, killing fields...
repairing my pc and microsoft gave me hope that there was an easy fix - but no, they consider not having onedrive in my start menu a system 'corruption', lmao.
I hate the way writers have to be influencers now. It’s the single worst thing that has happened to books. Good writers have to waste valuable time making content when they should be writing, bad writers get book deals because they have a lot of followers
Digital ID, facial recognition technology, bans on protests, 'terrorist' laws for property damage, governments checking bank accounts, ending juries... It's almost as if there's a theme.