Where I draw the line is forcing these ideals upon others that don’t wish to partake.
Says the supporter of the party literally forcing its ideals upon others that don’t wish to partake, with no sense of irony whatsoever, and oddly even pride.
It really is about time someone came out with a vegan version.. Used to have the kosher gelatine free kind in the past, but even those have eggs in :(
Candy corn and dolly mix, those are the sweets I really miss...
That doesn't make the question any less relevant though, since it's something that regularly happens irl, and the answer to "why" is "the suffering is the point".
Does the person who wrote this think old women generally don't get raped?
Or that the rape of an old woman is somehow worse than that of a young one?
"Russian troops raped women while their families were forced to listen" gets the same story across, sensationalising victims' details for clicks is gross.
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
Except what they're all "playing" for are people (and lets be honest, this is aimed at creepy men who can't get matched otherwise, so more specifically they're "playing" for women), with their own wants and needs and often safety concerns, all of which this serves to circumvent, which is definitely not how you "win" at tinder (finding an abuse victim? Sure, but not an actual viable relationship. Which again, tells you who this was designed for and why).
I never said men who can't get matched are creeps, I said this is aimed at creeps who can't get matched but would be willing to pay $500 a month to force themsleves on to others. That's who you're jumping to the defence of here.
Not too long ago I got told off for "costing the company a lot of money", except I wasn't even an employee, I was a customer whose wheelchair assistance caused a minor delay (through no fault of my own I might add).
And all I can think is "what makes a person bootlick that hard?" (socialisation under capitalism and propaganda from birth). It's enraging.
Thanks for responding, and I'm glad they're helping you! Being able to control the thoughts even some must make a real difference..
I've been considering meds for a while, but I worry that they either won't work or have some unexpected side effects that make life worse, hearing from people who actually use them helps in trying to ease those concerns..
I appreciate your response and glad you found meds that work for you!
I don't know how this works with ADHD, but being autistic I know I am much more likely to experience side effects (as I have in the past when I tried different meds), so it might not be that easy to avoid or clear cut to prescribe in the first place, but yeah, the plan is to speak to a gp at some point, there just always seems to be something more urgent to be dealing with..
Thanks, and you really hit the nail on the head there - far too many medical practitioners don't understand autism and neurodiversity in general, and worse, trying to bring that fact up just makes them more antagonistic (even with an advocate by my side, it's quite pathetic really). It's probably one of my biggest hurdles in getting the care I need, and why I'm putting off looking again.. But I will, at some point.
If you think these people don't have any impact, you've not been paying attention to your neighbours to the south (or to us over the pond, or to anywhere where trans and other queer people are being targeted, really)
Lmfao, do as much mental gymnastics as you like, that doesn't change reality, nor make the US defensible in any way shape or form.
says it really doesn’t affect them directly
and that right there is the problem - that you (and your friend) only see an issue once it does.
Maybe try taking your head out of that rotten "standing up for my country" sand and actually try listening more to those already impacted, because I guarantee there are many, they wholeheartedly disagree with you, and it isn't stopping with them.
You don't need to justify yourself to an internet stranger who has no idea how you live and why your space might look the way it does. It's none of their fucking business.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but no, you shouldn't.
Some people struggle to get up for whatever reason, some people struggle to use a toilet for whatever reason, some people struggle to tidy up for whatever reason, and all of those things and more are impossible for some, for whatever reason (especially when they don't have a support network).
Could someone not be doing any of those things because they're "lazy" rather than because they're neurodiverse and/or otherwise disabled? Maybe, but to assume that's the case when there are millions of legit reason is a bad ableist take (from the people criticising you).
Unless you're specifically asking for help with tidying your room, those criticising you for how it looks are being unhelpful judgmental assholes, at best.
And I know it's easier said than done because I struggle with it too - but try to be kinder to yourself.
Being diagnosed autistic as an adult explained so much of my life, as did understanding mental illness and neurodiversity more. Executive dysfunction on its own can wreak havoc on your life, never mind added depression, a bunch of PTSD and cPTSD, and physical disability.. Realising that I wasn't "lazy" like I'd been told all my life, but actually legitimately struggling with a whole load of obstructive shit (that leads to such nonsense as both hoarding tendencies and OCD, as well as like you, keeps me from things I actually want to do because just getting to it is too difficult for reasons), has helped a lot towards at least trying to not be so hard on myself, though the negative voices these kinds of judgmental comments leave to knock about in your brain stay there like a live in bully that's really hard to silence (edit to clarify: because internalising it means it becomes your own voice in your head bullying you).
Which is why I hate it so much when people make them. They have no idea what the person they're judging is dealing with, and unless they're going to be there to help every day to keep on top of things, or at the very least pay for a cleaner and some therapy, they should just shut up.
You really don't seem to understand just how big the wealth disparity between the entirety of humanity and the wealthiest 100 or even 1000 people on the planet is.
Throwing what is essentially pocket change at those who serve the money hoarding monsters (our governments) is as useless as putting a band aid on a cancer, and not even a full finger sized one, but one of those dots, you know that you get for a shot.
Oh, and never even mind that lobbying absolutely is bribery, the fact that anyone actually sees it as a legitimate tool goes to show just how fucked we are.
I'll admit, they said more than I thought they would in this film (like actual talk of blowing up pipelines), but I was left as frustrated as I always do by these mainstream films that think they're ground breaking but mostly just skirt around the issue - capitalism. The word (or even just the fact that it is a systemic issue) wasn't mentioned once.
Anyone who thinks our main or even only problem is oil dependency hasn't been paying attention, and anyone acting only against that single symptom of the problem will never achieve long lasting substantial change.
Green energy under capitalism is still going to come from exploitation, oppression, wage theft, and resource hoarding. It's still going to hold society ransom by charging extortionate amounts for power, and will only enrich the already obscenely wealthy.
So yeah, blowing up pipelines is certainly a more effective step than blocking a road for an hour, and yes, it is time to break the "law" (written by and in defence of those in power. ETA: which at this point also includes simple protests, so really even bare minimum action is now "breaking the law"), but it is those who authorised and those who profit from the pipeline that need to be stopped and held accountable as a very first step, and it's the system that enabled them to get to where they are in the first place (millions of times richer than most people on the planet, and with the power and position to put things like pipelines wherever the fuck they want at the expense of the people and the planet) that needs to be abolished.
Oh yeah, I wasn't expecting much from ch4 but I guess I always keep a smidge of hope that someone might at least allude to it but no such luck, even on such an "extreme" programme (to most people), so I still get frustrated even though I should know better lol..
I just wish someone would give this country (and others) the shake it needs to wake up to this bullshit.. I was going to say I guess it isn't Packham, but who knows, maybe he'll radicalise a bit more off camera..
except in a system literally built on the commodification (and creation of artificial scarcity) of the basics required for survival, for the benefit of a tiny group of people
Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months....
They don't actually give a shit, it's 100% lip service, which they are only paying now because one of their own committed such a heinous crime they have no choice but to "investigate themsleves" to appease people such as yourself and stop the justified calls for abolition (but as this article mentions, any actual action is many years away, by which point no one will actually notice any systemic change because there will be none)
Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”
I love how you completely ignore why they didn't work, namely existing as islands in a capitalism ocean, and capitalism doesn't like competition.
Can you really not see how if everywhere was organised in small communities that then cooperated as needed on bigger issues at different scales could absolutely work (and was literally how humanity worked for like 99% of its existence), as long as there isn't a massive greedy monster looming over trying to destroy it?
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....
No.
Racism is a systemic issue that affects every wealth bracket and living area.
Pretending as if racism only exists in backwater towns among "uneducated" people, and not in big cities or higher education (both within the institution and among those graduating from it), is being wilfully ignorant at best.
Aiming at the systems and people that created, sow, and benefit from racism, instead of at their end products, like white supremacy and capitalism which relies on it.
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Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen (www.businessinsider.nl)
Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
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Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Million Man Marches’ Are Being Held Across Canada. Who is Behind Them and What Are They Really About? (pressprogress.ca)
Everything you need to know about the ‘one million march for children’ to stop the ‘indoctrination of children in public schools’
Germany: Right-wing hostility toward democracy growing (www.dw.com)
Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate (www.theguardian.com)
Apple has withdrawn an app created by Andrew Tate after accusations that it encouraged misogyny and could be an illegal pyramid scheme....
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Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand (thegrayzone.com)
Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law? (www.channel4.com)
Environmental documentary.
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Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months....
Zuckerberg calls India world leader for 'embracing messaging to get things done' (www.businesstoday.in)
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CTV News: London police force says it will take years to remove officers accused of corruption and misconduct (www.ctvnews.ca)
In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (english.elpais.com)
Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”
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A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination (apnews.com)
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....