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Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.
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dr who is so crazy imagine your species goes extinct except for two theater kids who call themselves The Orthodontist and the Administrator and they just go around causing problems and destroying your entire culture’s reputation
did you hear about the ancient race of enchanted elves? they fell into the darkness of their own hubris. anyway that over there is the two survivors, Wiz and da Boss, who are only taking breaks from kicking each other in the nuts to make out
chekov’s cat: if you see a cat, it will probably be relevant later.
schroedinger’s gun: there’s no way to know if a gun is loaded or not until you physically inspect and check it yourself, so it’s safest to assume all guns are loaded.
Schrœdinkov’s Catgun: If you see a cat with a gun, there’s no way to know if it will be relevant later except to wait and observe.
Placcam’s Razorcave: The simplest explanation for anything is that you have no understanding of the real world.
Murphagoryan Lawrem: The square of the consequences of any two things that can go wrong will equal the sum of the squared consequences of the individual things.
Okkov’s Gunblade: If you see someone with a bayonet, the simplest explanation is that they will stab you in the future.
Schrœdingorean Catrollary: If you put a cat in a triangular box, the hypotenuse face of the box could be both intact and destroyed until you actually look at what the cat’s been up to.
Plurphy’s Cave Law: If you don’t understand the real world, things will go wrong.
Pychœccovamatophy’s theory of cat-shaving cave gun regulations: If you see a cat with a gun in one hand and a blade in the other emerging from a cave on a right-angled path, the simplest solution is to flee along the hypotenuse, but you won’t know until later whether anything will go wrong because you really don’t understand the real world.
You want more minority representation in media but if they have flaws its problematic and if theyre perfect theyre a patronizing mary sue. If they crack under the pressure of the conflict the author thinks that minority is weak and if they overcome the adversity they must be a neoliberal bootlicker who thinks real world bigotry is a matter of personal attitude. You want minority characters but if theyre a villain its violently problematic and if theyre the protagonist then we circle back to the very first sentence. If theyre a side character theyre being sidelined and the author is once again bigoted, and don’t you know that every single minority character death is unilaterally bigoted, without exception? You want more minority characters but if their identity is a big part of their personality or struggles then they’re problematic and if their identity has nothing to do with their personality or struggles then the author is tokenizing that identity for clout. You want more minority characters but every time theres a minority character who doesnt have every single experience that you have then you tell the author to kill themselves on twitter. You wonder why not even minority authors will write minority characters.
I would ask you to read Catch-22, but you’d just call the military base problematic.
Is there any more authentic bisexual experience than thinking that your personal experience of being Bi doesn’t count so you have to consult a more authentic Bi person?
The yellow roads are Israeli-only. The red roads are restricted access, Palestinians can travel on them but must go through dangerous and time consuming checkpoints where they can be shot or held indefinitely, the white roads Palestinians can freely travel on.
I’m the “voting is good” guy but I intend to direct basically all of my you-should-vote energy next year towards the reelection of the 18 progressives who’ve stuck their necks out to call for an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire. They’ve dedicated themselves to a basic standard of human decency, and for it they will be punished with an immense tidal wave of financial and political resources seeking to get them kicked out of office, to say nothing of the threats against their lives. Biden’s on his own.
None of them are from my state, unfortunately but predictably. But OP is right: if you live in one of these states, and in the right district, you’re in a position to cast a vote that could actually matter.
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Telling young zoomers to “just switch to linux” is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you’re throwing them to the wolves
i taught programming to middle school kids last summer and I don’t think you understand how bad it’s getting.
a lot of these kids don’t know what a “folder” is. some of them don’t even know how to right click. I asked my class to put a folder on their desktop and half of the students did not know how. these are like, 11-13 year olds who’s parents thought they were tech literate enough to sign them up for a programming class. most of them did not know how to add a bookmark on their browser. most of them could not touch type.
basic computer literacy is evaporating because everyone does everything on their phone now, but schools are getting rid of any computer classes because “all the kids are using computers all the time anyways!”
I hope they’ll learn more as they get older but many of them wont. the divide between “basic user” and “advanced user” is quickly shifting towards knowing the most simple functions of a computer, and the more people who don’t know how to correctly use their devices the easier it is to sell them shit they don’t need.
I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker
If someone knows it please tell me, I’m pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!
It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol
Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s.
So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem.
BUT! Let’s look closer!
“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.
See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.
Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.
So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.
remember loves: context is everything. and personal opinion matters. If you still find this song to be a problem, that’s fine. But please don’t make it into something it’s not because it’s been stripped of cultural context.
This is actually really interesting. I’ve never known a lot of the background to this song.
You have done your part in trying to understand your
parents. You did consider where they were coming from and why they were doing
this, and it didn’t help. You’ve done enough trying to forgive them. You’ve
made yourself and your feelings irrelevant far too many times already. You’ve
asked yourself ‘why don’t they love me’ far too many times. You’ve cried enough
because of them. You tried to deserve their love for far too long. You walked
with your heart broken and chest empty far too many times. You’ve done enough.
It’s been enough. You walk free of this with no obligation or shame on your
part. You’ve done everything you could. You’ve given them every possible chance
to stay in your life. You’ve allowed them lead you on, with fear and hope in
your heart, for far too many times. You don’t have to do it ever again.
here’s the thing though, its documented that israel also subjects palestinians to personal violence: massacres of palestinians rounded up by ground forces, torture in prisons, destruction of graves, desecration and theft of bodies. not even their own bullshit standards stand to the flimsiest scrutiny
Yes, your phone should be off, but it can still be tracked while offline. Hence, the importance of the blocker bag.
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You should account for the fact that your phone may get lost, stolen, or broken. There’s also a risk of your phone being confiscated by authorities — which means that if they’re able to unlock your phone, they’ll have access to data on you and people you know. It could give authorities access to information about what is being organized and who is doing the organizing and might even give them the information necessary to shut down or prevent protests and arrest those involved.
How to secure your phone before attending a protest / Protect your digital security
“what use is it to be an illustrator of children’s books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?”
some of baraa’s illustrations:
this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a “small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef,” a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:
this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:
“we want a new year that doesn’t kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year’s card unlike any other year:”
baraa is currently fundraising to get her family of 12 out of gaza. she is a friend of mine and this is a reputable fundraiser, so please donate if you can. the egyptian government is currently charging upwards of 5,000 USD per person to get to cairo through the rafah border:
don’t know a thing about 3d printing!! but one day i’ll make a whale skeleton that’s small enough to hang from my ceiling like they have at museums and it’s going to be sick as hell
What I miss about 90s comedy films is that they didn’t feel the need to justify real adult men operating according to cartoon physics.
Like, does he have magical powers? Is he some sort of mystical ninja? No – he’s a regular human man who just got thrown twenty feet through the air by an exploding microwave, tumbled out the window and over the balcony, fell two stories and landed flat on his back on solid concrete, and he’s gonna lay there for a few seconds all cross-eyed and making a noise like “EeEeEeUuUuUuHhHhHh”, and then next scene he’s going to be fine. This is how it works.
Accidentally plugs himself into an electrical transformer, gets shocked so bad he’s visibly singed and his hair is all standing on end, exhales a cloud of smoke and keels over, is back to normal after the next cut.
Actually, people were just more durable in 90s.
This man lives through the entirety of the film. If I recall correctly, this occurred after being hit in the face repeatedly with red bricks that had fallen at least forty feet.
I love how cheaply it was all done, too. Like, the special effects technology to do a proper Looney Tunes style skeleton-showing-through-the-flesh bit existed at the time, but they didn’t budget for it – they just fucking replace him with a classroom model skeleton for one shot. The body falling off the roof is clearly empty clothes stuffed with rags. It looked like shit even by the standards of its time and nobody cared. This film made four hundred million dollars.
btw since i am actually homeless now and the holidays are over i guess i should put a donation link here. you don’t have to give me any money! i know how to live for free. it would just help me be more comfortable
things i’ll spend money on in priority order:
- gas for my car (this will keep me from getting towed and get me to therapy and case management appointments)
- food and water (only if i run out of food stamps, or the occasional hot food treat)
- extra blankets and clothes for the winter (it’s pretty warm so i might not need this)
- laundry
i don’t really like the idea of asking for money since i do in fact have plenty of experience with this situation. i’ve lived in my car for two and a half years total now, and i know if i’m lucky i can survive this way for a long, long time. a little extra cash will just keep me sane and for sure safe without needing to get lucky. so, if you do throw something my way i will appreciate it! it will make my life easier for sure. but, if you’d rather give your money to someone who needs it more (including yourself), i don’t mind at all.
there’s no monthly rewards or anything, but for a bit of fun bonus, anyone who donates will get to see my face reveal
anyone know that reddit post about a girl who’s gf washes her hair and it talks about non sexual intimacy
found it :)
My heart..
This reminds me of this post;
Forgive me guys as I do not remember where the screenshot is from, but I have it here and I wanted to share with you.
I have had guy friends cry because I enthusiastically asked to do their hair in plaits. I have shave my head out of hair frustration a lot but I loved braiding my own hair. like, crown braid casually during a test instead of a ponytail when I needed my hair off my face type speed braiding. and I have a lot of guy friends with that long flowy Viking hair. gal friends love me doing their hair, paid me to do it for prom and shit, so I started asking my male friends to plait their hair like a viking. I stg, some have cried. some freeze like a internet explorer tab.
and this is a thing we just DID at sleepovers to each other as girls! I am used to this level of “let me get uncomfortably close and bond with you” monkey type grooming. it breaks my heart when I compliment a man or offer a sincere “that’s fucked bruh” bear hug and they hesitate or seem to look for a trick. y'all be touch starved and get shit when you try and seek it from anyone in a non sexual context, how is this not a set up for unhealthy thoughts about self worth?
How many times do I have to say this, the first post’s OP is a GUY. Stop erasing men’s experiences with intimacy.
ALSO HE MADE ANOTHER POST ABOUT MAKING HIS GF PANCAKES!!!!
transcript:
My girlfriend had a really long week and was tired. I know she likes pancakes and chocolate so I wanted to surprise her with chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast in bed on her day off. I snuck out of bed early and I followed the directions on the box exactly, but i was worried the batter was going to be too thick with the chocolate chips so I added a bit more milk. Then it was too runny so I had to add more flour, then it was way too thick. So I didnt want to water it down anymore and said fuck it, but then they werent cooking properly. I also tried to make a heart with the chocolate chips but between the thickness of the batter and geberal spatula fuckery they came out more like scrambled pan muffin egg cakes and there was no heart.
You guys, her face just lit up and she was so happy with my pancake mess. She kept putting her fork down to kiss me and the way she looked at me… like its weird to type but I really feel like im something, or like im SOMEBODY you know. It was that same feeling where, I guess I felt really proud of myself for doing something like that, I mean I was pretty shy cause they weren’t nice pancakes but she said I made her happy….
I’m sorry for posting this here again. I just really dont have an outlet where i can talk about romantic stuff like this, people around me arent about that kind of thing but really, being with her and doing these nice gentle things…
anyone know that reddit post about a girl who’s gf washes her hair and it talks about non sexual intimacy
found it :)
My heart..
This reminds me of this post;
Forgive me guys as I do not remember where the screenshot is from, but I have it here and I wanted to share with you.
I have had guy friends cry because I enthusiastically asked to do their hair in plaits. I have shave my head out of hair frustration a lot but I loved braiding my own hair. like, crown braid casually during a test instead of a ponytail when I needed my hair off my face type speed braiding. and I have a lot of guy friends with that long flowy Viking hair. gal friends love me doing their hair, paid me to do it for prom and shit, so I started asking my male friends to plait their hair like a viking. I stg, some have cried. some freeze like a internet explorer tab.
and this is a thing we just DID at sleepovers to each other as girls! I am used to this level of “let me get uncomfortably close and bond with you” monkey type grooming. it breaks my heart when I compliment a man or offer a sincere “that’s fucked bruh” bear hug and they hesitate or seem to look for a trick. y'all be touch starved and get shit when you try and seek it from anyone in a non sexual context, how is this not a set up for unhealthy thoughts about self worth?
How many times do I have to say this, the first post’s OP is a GUY. Stop erasing men’s experiences with intimacy.
ALSO HE MADE ANOTHER POST ABOUT MAKING HIS GF PANCAKES!!!!
transcript:
My girlfriend had a really long week and was tired. I know she likes pancakes and chocolate so I wanted to surprise her with chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast in bed on her day off. I snuck out of bed early and I followed the directions on the box exactly, but i was worried the batter was going to be too thick with the chocolate chips so I added a bit more milk. Then it was too runny so I had to add more flour, then it was way too thick. So I didnt want to water it down anymore and said fuck it, but then they werent cooking properly. I also tried to make a heart with the chocolate chips but between the thickness of the batter and geberal spatula fuckery they came out more like scrambled pan muffin egg cakes and there was no heart.
You guys, her face just lit up and she was so happy with my pancake mess. She kept putting her fork down to kiss me and the way she looked at me… like its weird to type but I really feel like im something, or like im SOMEBODY you know. It was that same feeling where, I guess I felt really proud of myself for doing something like that, I mean I was pretty shy cause they weren’t nice pancakes but she said I made her happy….
I’m sorry for posting this here again. I just really dont have an outlet where i can talk about romantic stuff like this, people around me arent about that kind of thing but really, being with her and doing these nice gentle things…
if you’re wondering how things are going over on the bird website, Green Day was on New Years Rockin Eve last night and performed American Idiot with the slight line change of saying “not a part of the MAGA agenda” instead of “redneck agenda” and conservatives are FUCKING PISSED talking about “how dare they make it political” because none of them have a single ounce of media literacy
HE HAS BEEN DOING FOR LIKE THE PAST 7 YEARS THIS ISNT NEW
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