✡️☭ he/they, polemicist, computer scientist. computers were a mistake. send me pictures of your cats
فلسطين من النهر إلى البحر 🇵🇸
מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן
loosing a friend is hard
loosing a friend who got murdered because he was Israeli serving his country is the worst feeling ever
I miss you Ohad
you did not deserve this
you are a hero
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
my take on the $50k in a shoebox scam thing is lol we are so fundamentally unprepared for a future where scammers call you in your dead uncle’s voice and say “God said you need to wire him your inheritance or else he’ll send me to Dog Heaven”
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INSTACART IS NOT A DISABILITY CARE SERVICE. IT IS A CAPITALIST ENTERPRISE DESIGNED TO EXTRACT RENTS AND PROFITS BY ABUSING ITS WORKERS. GIG WORKERS ARE NOT BEING PAID TO BE CARE WORKERS, THEY ARE SIMPLY DESPERATE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO EAT
Americans are so funny man. we're some of the most propagandized people on the planet but you can show someone propaganda, *explain to them how and why it's propaganda*, and they'll still respond with "nuh uh"
posting about your buddy who got killed as a member of a fascist occupying army is one way to try to gain sympathy, but it's not one I'd recommend, personally. especially if you're not even willing to be honest with yourself, much less everyone else, about what he "served" for
@vrijomslachtig
as someone who generally passes for a cishet white dude, it's *terrifyingly* common. guys you thought were reasonably well-adjusted will often say some pretty fucked-up shit if they think they're in the right company
barely even joking: one of the Moonies' main scams in Japan was trawling through the news for recent obituaries and calling up the still-grieving family members to scam them by claiming the dearly departed was in hell
do I blame Palestinians who treat the menorah or magen david as a hostile symbol? no. but I would also point out that casually accepting those symbols as hostile, instead of fighting back against the conflation of Judaism and Zionism, is doing the work of Zionists for them.
I dunno what to tell you, when nations use religious iconography to be directly associated with a genocidal war machine, how can you blame people who treat it as a hostile symbol? Would you blame Indigenous ppl who see the cross the same way? I’d say no.
their pitch was basically "your loved one just contacted us from hell, send us your life savings and we will intercede on their behalf." genuinely some of the most evil, scummiest people alive. there's no hell hot enough for Rev. Moon
@Amelia_707
@tinywienerbabe
they're also easy to scam, as they're easily flattered and many of them don't know how to manage money. honestly imo the only reason more engineers aren't NFT bros is bc they're technical enough to know that NFTs are stupid
this is more or less what happened to the Yamagami family after their father died, and their mother basically sent all of the family's money to the Unification Church, leaving her and the kids, including Tetsuya, impoverished. not exactly surprising that he'd hold a grudge!
@snootbrigade
@MPHProject
even ignoring the rest of this mishegas, "discussing your wages is grounds for termination" is literally just illegal under federal law lmao
@poppy_haze
also, and this is important, most of them were beaten to death by other inmates. just in case the kapos of today are wondering about their ultimate fates.
As a Catholic, let me be 100% clear:
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@reefraf64
My guess: there is a significant amount of CSA present in an image pool that all of these companies are drawing upon and it was just recently discovered.
clean, recently-laundered clothing with no holes, mildly worn dress shoes, wedding band. I'll take "things that only happened in my fevered, genocidal imagination" for $800, Alex
@johnnymcgurk1
I was just taking my Merkava for a stroll! why were they shooting rockets at us??? I miss when they just threw rocks and we could run them over as we pleased 😢
Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in.
you can't expect someone being paid often less than minimum wage to care about anything beyond the basic incentives of "don't get fired by getting too many bad ratings". putting the burden of care on precarious workers is not disability justice!
I'm not exactly quiet about my hate for suburbs, but of all the ones I've seen, this is the first that's made me feel not so much "you look at this and tell me there's a God" but "you'd better fucking hope God doesn't have a sense of humor"
@yacobg42
@CaseyExplosion
meanwhile, insane right-wing fever-dream propaganda from e.g. Prager U is just fine, and they're even allowed to run ads for it
great job YouTube
@fuckyouiquit
my dad was a working actor and he'd do the Carnac The Magnificent bit with his residual checks. [puts envelope against forehead] "$2.15"
he was rarely off by more than a few dollars lol
@jdgtranen
I mean the uncharitable read is that people like OP basically are busybodies, Internet Cops: they enjoy or find meaning or fulfillment in policing others' behavior and language, and see themselves as doing a public service. the "social justice" language is just window dressing.
and that's not even considering that people precarious enough to need the horrible "jobs" offered by these evil, predatory companies are *vastly* more likely to be disabled than the people using those apps! your classism is showing and it's not cute!
@marinadovexo
pretty sure it's physically impossible for one person to use all of those before they go bad (and I figure you know this already but they can and do, especially if they're "natural" and not loaded with preservatives)
@ThaumPenguin
how deep in a mine do you have to go to reach untainted ore? I can't imagine it's more practical to scavenge the ocean floor than to just dig several meters below the radiation threshold, right? or is that threshold just impractically deep into the crust?
here's the really fucked-up part: making Jews less safe elsewhere was the intent from the very start. I know I've been banging this drum what feels like constantly lately, but this was literally foundational to Zionism! Herzl explicitly wrote about the need for antisemitism!
@ExileGrimm
Israel's very existence, even if it was marginally less genocidal, also makes Jews everywhere less safe by stirring up (misplaced) racial hatred outside of it. It doesn't even do what it's supposed to say on the can
I don't want to be unnecessarily mean here but I find this quite puzzling. I suppose this behavior would be unintuitive to someone who was not familiar with programming, but this is how almost every "very high level" language works, from Python to Ruby to JS and even Java
on a related note, if you use these apps, fine! whatever! I order from grubhub too often as it is. but stop trying to morally justify it, and for fuck's sake, stop trying to justify anything other than giving the poor schmuck delivering your food a *minimum* of 20%, rounded up.
if someone in your IT department is trying to pressure employees to put corporate spyw—*cough* sorry, "endpoint security" software—on their personal machine instead of just having them requisition a dedicated work machine, they should be audited immediately
this guy literally told my boss that not wanting the software installed on my personal device was a red flag and should be concerning to everyone else at the organization lol. my boss, who is a genuine saint, simply nodded and told me to pick a work laptop.
@ASTEROIDNlGHTS
huh I wonder what those lightning bolts in his name are. probably something innocuous, I'm sure it's just a coincidence that there are two of them
yes, there's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism. that's not an excuse not to make an effort to at least minimize the impact your consumptive choices have on others.
@MorePerfectUS
@generalslug
"And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*."
"What?"
"That the bourgeois are not human."
and it sure as fuck isn't an excuse to be abusive toward service workers, or frankly to show anything other than empathy and solidarity with them. if you can afford to regularly use these apps, there's a pretty good chance you're better off than they are.
@lvamsgatthebeep
hell at this point you could have someone start a video with a preroll black screen with THIS IS PROPAGANDA! on it and people would still be like "no it's not"
@Sturgeons_Law
everything else about the video makes me viscerally uncomfortable but honestly the accent is peak. posh British accent with just a touch of Cantonese inflection and clipping is such a vibe
I think it's important to once again reinforce a key point in the "grooming" Discourse: none of these people actually care about grooming, abuse, or human trafficking. their use of that language is simply a means to an end: to normalize and justify violence against LGBTQ people.
@ThwipThwip_Boom
@vrijomslachtig
yeah if I had a dollar for every time some cishet white person started going on, entirely unprompted, about "the gays" or "the Blacks"...
I've only very occasionally heard one about "the Jews" but that's bc most people realize I'm a Jew pretty quickly (it's usually the hair)
@Bolverk15
also the fact that he's clearly a solid 5 or even 10 levels over the adventuring party, they basically manage to convince a 20th-level paladin to hang out with them for one (1) adventure before being like "lol peace"
@WellsHFoster
@FindSonas
@RaceplayShawty
he posted a *watermarked screenshot* from the video, which has all kinds of insane implications. I genuinely don't understand how he's not in Forever Jail
@sophie_frm_mars
someone I know canvassed for Obama in rural PA, I think for the 2008 election. at one particular house, she knocked on the door and an elderly white lady answered. when asked who they would be voting for, and the lady turned around and said "honey, who are we voting for again?"
I've been bummed out all afternoon about this, it was a guy with a chromosomal deficiency and mental disability who loved Panera as a little treat after work.