YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS
Imagine thinking making your country more dangerous and unlivable is a good thing.
bdsm isnt podracing!
I'm not so sure, to be honest
- Should not be undertaken without a good understanding of the risks involved
- Involves more than one person, at least one of whom is often found hitting another on purpose
- Can involve being strapped into some sort of contraption
- Frowned upon to varying degrees in much of conventional society but can be very fun
- Sebulba is there
Ms Swift I had no idea you were on Tumblr
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
Areal distortion caused by Mercator projection; comparison showing actual relative size of each country
"Republicans don't have consistent morals"
Yes they do. It's just that their morals are rooted in "protect the people and things closest to me at all costs". Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.
This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider "like them", but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the "enemy" more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.
It's literally "this is why we can't have nice things". It's your fault.
A conservative may think, "welfare might be nice, and it's true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can't have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can't have them."
This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.
What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it's always about protecting their own.
When I was in highschool, I had a conversation that truly made me understand how conservatives think on a fundamental level. I was discussing with a conservative family friend an essay I was writing that was arguing for the decriminalization of sex work and I spent a while laying out my various arguments and why this issue was important and at the end she said to me "okay, but I don't want my daughter to think that is an acceptable thing to do".
I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: "I don't want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do".
I was struck with a moment of realization that the way I see the world is the exact opposite of this woman. She fundamentally saw the world as centered on her and her loved ones as individuals, and was completely unconcerned with how it would affect society on a larger level. To her, the material harm that was caused to thousands of people is completely inconsequential when compared to the imagined possibility of it signaling something to her family that she personally disagrees with. That is, at it's core the conservative mindset.
Of course conservatives want to protect our loved ones. Nobody else is going to.
“I’m gonna do whatever I have to to protect me and my own” is actually the HUMAN mindset, it’s just people have allowed themselves to have it browbeaten out of them for “The Greater Good”
Leftists care about their families too. The difference is, we’re willing to do things that help not ONLY our families, but other families too, because we realize that benefitting society as a whole benefits us too. We’re also willing to do things that help ALL of us even if it means helping someone we don’t like.
A lot of conservative families with young children benefit from welfare. A major push from conservatives is ending welfare because it MIGHT be benefiting people who “don’t deserve it”. Conservatives whose families depend on welfare are willing to vote against welfare to punish the people who are “cheating the system”. But the reality is, many people and families who desperately need it keep getting rejected because standards are too strict. Many conservatives whose children need food can’t get it.
Many conservatives depend on affordable and free healthcare through the ACA aka “Obamacare”. Conservatives hated the idea of universal healthcare and voted against it. They just voted this month against preventing an increase in premiums. In other words, they voted FOR increased prices. Trump and the MAHA movement desperately want to eliminate the ACA. They have no plan for what to replace it with. Meanwhile, ending it would mean literal death for many conservatives who depend on the ACA to be able to afford life-sustaining medication like insulin and chemotherapy.
Many conservatives survive off disability benefits. But those standards are so strict that it forces disabled folks to live in poverty in order to survive. Many disabled people can’t even get married. They can’t accumulate any savings or pursue the American Dream. A lot of them are veterans. Forced to live in poverty. With their children.
But the same changes to disability and welfare and the ACA that can benefit American veterans and their families are the same laws that might help someone conservatives don’t like. Someone they think doesn’t deserve it. So they vote against change.
Liberals vote FOR welfare. FOR the ACA. FOR disability benefits. We vote to benefit everyone. Even if we don’t like them. Even if we think they don’t deserve it. Even if they themselves voted against the very things they need.
Here's the article:
Their only source for "holding onto devices longer than ever before" is seemingly this:
The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according to a recent survey by Reviews.org, and that cycle is getting longer. The average was around 22 months in 2016.
Which, idk, "longer than ever" is a much more dramatic claim than the reality of "people in 2025 keep their phone around for 7 months longer than people in 2016."
As for why its "bad for the economy," that is backed up by this:
Research released by the Federal Reserve last month concludes that each additional year companies delay upgrading equipment results in a productivity decline of about one-third of a percent, with investment patterns accounting for approximately 55% of productivity gaps between advanced economies. The good news: businesses in the U.S. are generally quicker to reinvest in replacing aging equipment. The Federal Reserve report shows that if European productivity had matched U.S. investment patterns starting in 2000, the productivity gap between the U.S and European economic heavyweights would have been reduced by 29 percent for the U.K., 35 percent for France, and 101% for Germany. Experts agree lost productivity and inefficiency are the unintended consequences of people and businesses clinging to aging technology.
Which for one, it feels like a jump to go from companies to individual people's phone upgrades, and two, funny how this article doesn't mention planned obsolescence literally anywhere! Could that have an impact on why not upgrading your tech constantly slows down productivity? Who knows! Who cares! Not CNBC!
Someone who knows more about tech and that sphere of things could analyze this better than me. They end up talking a lot about refurbishment and repair, which sounds nice, although Right to Repair laws are also never mentioned. They do include a line saying that AI could be a "game-changer" in convincing people to switch models, which.... sure, man 🐖🪽
Out of curiosity, I went through the comments and notes to see if there was anybody defending customers and, no. There’s not. Not a one.
I’ve seen posts where people defend Nazis, but it turns out the one universal enemy is customers.
Elizabeth encounters something unexpected and shocking in the gardens of Pemberley
Inspired by this post and made for @janeuary-month Day 1: Garden. This one is slightly less stupid than the Darcy version I made, but still very silly. Enjoy!
for once it's better to watch this one without sound first
In case people don't realize the full extent of what's going on, we are under siege in Minnesota. I live in an affluent, majority white suburb of Minneapolis, and ICE is all over the place terrorizing people. They showed up at the library, kitted out in their Temu tactical gear, and stormed it.
The library. Please let that sink in.
They've pulled weapons on legal observers and physically attacked them. They're threatening teenagers and children with death. One woman told a story at my, again, affluent, majority white suburban town's city council meeting this week of being shoved from behind so hard that she fell down by an ICE agent, who then said to her, "Stop touching me." A man, in tears and begging for our city government to do something to help our neighbors, described having a baton pulled on him. They're luring people out of their workplaces with lies about "hitting someone's car in the parking lot" and then abducting them. Citizens and legal residents are being detained. People are being racially profiled and snatched. A teenager (a US citizen) working at Target got dragged out and shoved in a car, then dumped a mile away in a Wal-mart parking lot, beaten up and crying. And all of this is after they murdered Renee Good.
I don't emphasize the demographics of my particular suburb to say "but this shouldn't be happening here, we have money!" but to illustrate that the Trump administration has declared war on a US state. Even if you stick your head in the sand because you're white and won't be directly targeted, ICE is running traffic lights, speeding, tearing the wrong way on one way streets, and causing nasty accidents because they think they're above the law. They think it doesn't matter who they hurt or kill, because they're being told straight from the top that they can do whatever they want to whoever they want.
We are all under attack, and this is coming to a city near you if we don't stand up to it. Please stand with Minnesota, as well as LA, Portland, Chicago, and every other place DHS has sent their COD cosplay gestapo. I don't know what that looks like for you but please, please, don't ignore this.
The bad driving is a form of terrorism. They want to cause accidents so they can blame it on the victims, and potentially cause more unrest. It really is just random acts against anyone in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Let me be clear to my fellow white Americans: they want to scare us into not objecting. They want us to put our heads down and be quiet and do as we are told while they abduct and kill our neighbors.
They are doing this not just to terrorize immigrants but to frighten us into silent compliance (or attract the worst among us into active collusion).
If you, fellow white American, ever wondered about “ordinary Germans” in the 1940s, well. Who do you want to be? Which side are you on? When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?
why are the most powerful people in the world all such whiny fucking babies now