Your phone is about to stop being yours.
Android was sold to us as an open platform.
Now Google wants every developer to register and submit ID just to let you install their apps.
Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.
all socialists should be learning from the tactics of the bolivian people and the indigenous communities there. they aren't just on strike, they're putting up roadblocks around the major cities, they're actually shutting the economy down.
The 70-something-thousand dead figure is based on named, registered deaths by bombing or shooting. It doesn't count the unidentified, unregistered, or those murdered by starvation, cold, heat, open sewage, lack of medicine. The fascists have murdered hundreds of thousands.
In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”
The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.
So I got pissed.
Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.
Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.
That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.
Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.
This man robbed a bank for $1, sat down and waited for the police, just to get free healthcare in prison
In 2011 a man named Richard James Verone walked into a RBC Bank in Gastonia, North Carolina
Handed the teller a note demanding $1
One dollar
Then sat down in the lobby and waited calmly for police to arrive
He was 59. No job. No insurance. A growth on his chest. Two ruptured discs.
Calculated that a federal conviction would guarantee him full medical coverage inside prison
The judge sentenced him to 3 years
He got the surgery
He got the treatment
He told reporters on the way out he had no regrets
A 59 year old American man robbed a bank for $1 because it was cheaper than seeing a doctor
I called my mom out on her Homophobia last night. We got into a huge argument now she thinks I'm gay. Literally every-time I've called somebody out on their homophobia, they ask me am I gay. You don't have to be apart of the community to call out bigotry. That's y'all problem now
The fact that throughout human history and across entirely different continents, women had to develop specific cultural practices just to escape the horrors of wartime men is terrifying. Darfur women had the right idea.
i think the most frustrating thing about generative ai is that there is *genuinely* no need for it to exist at ALL. if you were too lazy to write an essay/email, you would just copy from templates online. if you didn't have any drawing skills, you would photobash images together.
Since this is making a comeback:
THIS IS LITERALLY A *FAMINE* FOOD. A dish made primarily for survival. A minority of malnourished Haitians living in slums who lacked food access ate this, esp post-2010 Earthquake. It isn’t a national dish.
We have lived a life that no human being could even imagine, and we have tasted forms of death that did not even exist before; these pains have shaped themselves to become an inseparable part of our daily lives today. This father is searching for his children—where is he supposed to look for them?! Under a house bombed by Israel; he might find them, and he might not.
I have come to hate this life so much, and this wretched, hypocritical world that has abandoned us to the most criminal people on the face of the earth.