Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people’s homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it’s one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they’ve sent someone to do utility work on your house.
Some people have shared stories of suspicious “sales representatives” knocking on homes, asking about the home owners and who lives there, fishing for phone numbers, but do not provide business cards, company id, company phone numbers, etc when asked.
They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if they’re not real sales people.
True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddler’s license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they don’t provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.
They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely don’t wear name tags and the Don’t provide id.
Tell them you’ll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.
Actual sales reps also generally do follow “no soliciting” signs. Be aware, be safe, don’t give out your information or that of others under duplicitous means.
Top: textures on various walls in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contain small wanted posters for three criminals: a Goomba, a Koopa Troopa and a Boo.
Bottom: the Art Gallery in the Nintendo Switch version of the game provides concept art for these characters. This reveals that the Boo is nearly identical to Bootler, Lady Bow’s butler from Paper Mario (and who has a small cameo in this game as well), having the same closed eyes, mustache, and pale green color. Assuming this is indeed him, this implies that Bootler was a wanted criminal either in the past or even in the current day.
According to backstory divulged by a Toad NPC from Paper Mario, Bootler used to “travel the world with Goompa and Koopa Koot” in his youth, which the Goomba and Koopa in the artwork may be intended to be young versions of. This is, however, not entirely likely as Koopa Koot has a turquoise shell while this Koopa has a red shell; though shells are exchangeable and it might in fact be the same character.
I don’t think you’re a trans ally until you accept trans people who don’t want to transition. And I don’t just mean medically.
I mean trans men who look indistinguishable from cis women and trans women who look indistinguishable from cis men and they’re happy like that. Who have no intention of changing their style, presentation, or even pronouns.
Some women don’t look like the stereotypical idea of “woman” and it’s the same for men. But they’re still men and women. I need you to understand that gender has no bearing on appearance and people’s comfort in their own bodies is more important than the fictional idea of what manhood and womanhood looks like.
And, yes, some people can’t transition due to disability or funds or whatever and they’re included in this, yes. But you need to accept people who don’t want to either. Who willingly make the choice to not transition in any way because that’s how they’re the most comfortable.
A trans person who doesn’t transition is just as much their gender as anyone else of that same gender. Please get that through your head.
To any trans men who don’t want to transition or change their appearance in any way: You’re a man. You’ve always been a man. You will always be a man.
To any trans women who don’t want to transition or change their appearance in any way: You’re a woman. You’ve always been a woman. You will always be a woman.
The way your body looks doesn’t matter in the slightest, your gender is real and legitimate and valid regardless of any other factors.
I scrolled past this without second thought. Paused. Thought, wait, I’ve never seen a crane on the road. Scrolled back up. No answers. Typed this response, then noticed the book’s author. What a whirlwind
Basically they bring it in piece by piece and assemble it on-site, using a smaller mobile crane (trucks with crane attachments) and once the crane itself is assembled, the top part can use hydraulics to climb up and down its own mast, so it builds itself taller like this
Idk if yall have heard but Claudette Colvin who at 15 years old refused to give up her seat after somebody complained she was sat too close to a white woman and was arrested for it 9 months before Rosa Parks has passed away at age 86
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory
This is what the image looked like compressed to 4 kb
“New Yorkers bite more people than sharks annually” is an excellent example of how statistics can be misleading. Like yeah no shit, do you have any idea how rare it is to even encounter a shark in the wild? They’re not exactly urban animals. I’m pretty damn sure that if sharks were living in big cities like pigeons, just strolling down the streets looking for food scraps, you’d see a lot more news stories about New Yorkers biting them.
If you’re in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:
The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.
The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.
The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.
The recruiter will tell you you’re special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They’re lying.
The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won’t. They’re lying.
The recruiter may tell you you’ll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They’re lying.
The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They’re lying.
Even “It’s just four years!” is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.
The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don’t care what happens to you.
If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.
You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you’ll do them.
The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.
Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.
Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.
Veterans’ benefits suck these days.
Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.
The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.
The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.
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