it’s so funny to me that conservatives think the reason university students become more liberal is because of the actual course material and not like. the fact that universities in the US introduce are oftentimes the first place Americans are introduced to a walkable environment with affordable health care, with community spaces for any affiliation under the sun where they give you free resources and cheap food. with included public transit and opportunities for training in your field of choice. and you realize that for how much you’re spending on tuition/taxes, yeah, you do deserve these things, it would be insane not to have those. and then you graduate and go back to having to buy a car to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store.
It’s also one of the first places a lot of people raised in insular, conservative areas meet “the other”. People of other ethnicities and cultures, people of other religions, other gender presentations, sexualities, etc. You get to know them and start realizing how much of what you “knew” about them was myth or straight-up propaganda.
It’s a lot harder to demonize queer people when the person helping you pass calculus is a trans woman, or your lab partner talks about his boyfriend exactly the same way you talk about yours. It’s a lot harder to believe that immigrants are out to get you when your Hindu roommate cheerfully shares a care package of homemade goodies from home, or Malia down the hall covers your lunch because you forgot to bring your wallet to study group. You start rethinking some assumptions when the 6 foot spike-encrusted goth who sits behind you in lecture hall shows everyone photos of his baby niece dressed like a puppy for Halloween with all the pride of a new parent, and you remember when your flannel and camo-wearing uncle did the same thing at work last year with photos of your little sister.
Suddenly all those “others” are just people. They’re your friends, classmates, coworkers, and maybe even romantic interests. And that’s a lot harder to hate or fear.
I’ve perfectly wrapped gifts for my previous boyfriends, made them homemade cards and baked goods to show how I cared for them. You wanna know what I got in return? I got made fun of, my gifts rejected, and told that “men don’t like stuff like that” so no I don’t think men deserve gifts or anything nice.
I’ve had this shitty experience with one or two particular man, therefore they’re all ungrateful pigs.
Do you have any idea how many men in my life would probably break down crying at how sweet something like this is? Just because the guy you found was shitty about this particular thing doesn’t mean half the world’s population doesn’t deserve that kindness.
And get that “#radfem safe” bullshit out of here. Gender essentialism of any kind is a cancer, another way women and men alike are held down and by the status quo.
In summary, yes, give your boyfriend/husband/male significant other flowers and gifts and attention. Please. Men are not these emotionless creatures society wants them to be, they have desires and feelings and deserve the same kind of compassion as anyone else, and they will appreciate it. If they don’t, well, that’s a problem with that particular person, not every single man on the fuckin’ planet. Jesus Christ.
one of my coworkers has a matching tat w her fiance. hers says “beauty” in cursive and his says “beast” in like an edgy Masculine font & that’s what straight culture is
it’s with a heavy heart that i must announce…. they broke up and now they have this goofy shit on their bodies forever
the really funny thing about the steven universe kiwifarms guys is that (& we also saw this with their ketamine aesthetic counterparts wrt the Notorious Angry Birds Porn Incident) they always seem genuinely shocked and perturbed that nobody cares as much about their niche online beefs as much as they do and will just breathlessly reiterate that some tumblr user/youtuber youve never heard of in your life did whatever over and over at you as if they expect each repetition to be the time you say “OH, I SEE, WELL CARRY RIGHT ON, YOU’RE DOING GOD’S WORK SIR”
like as much as both of these people like to posture about touching grass saying to them “i dont care what this online stranger did” totally short circuits them and theyll just keep repeating it over nad over again hoping that theyll get through to you that SpuddoTV96’s awful beahviour actually Does profoudnly affect your life and everyone Does need to hear about it
the really funny thing about the steven universe kiwifarms guys is that (& we also saw this with their ketamine aesthetic counterparts wrt the Notorious Angry Birds Porn Incident) they always seem genuinely shocked and perturbed that nobody cares as much about their niche online beefs as much as they do and will just breathlessly reiterate that some tumblr user/youtuber youve never heard of in your life did whatever over and over at you as if they expect each repetition to be the time you say “OH, I SEE, WELL CARRY RIGHT ON, YOU’RE DOING GOD’S WORK SIR”
like as much as both of these people like to posture about touching grass saying to them “i dont care what this online stranger did” totally short circuits them and theyll just keep repeating it over nad over again hoping that theyll get through to you that SpuddoTV96’s awful beahviour actually Does profoudnly affect your life and everyone Does need to hear about it
December 12, 2024 - Someone in Seattle reprogrammed a roadside construction sign to read ONE LESS CEO - MANY MORE TO GO. [video]
How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign
How many times have you driven by an electronic road sign like one of these? This is the ADDCO portable sign. Today, you see what is on the inside, and how they are programmed to display important information.
*** WARNING YOU SHOULD NEVER TAMPER WITH THESE SIGNS ***
- The access panel on the sign is generally protected by a small lock, but often are left unprotected. Upon opening the access panel you can see the display electronics. - The black control pad is attached by a curly cord, with a keyboard on the face. - Programming is as simple as scrolling down the menu selection to “Instant Text”. Type whatever you want to display, Hit Enter to submit. You can now either throw it up on the sign by selecting “Run w/out save” or you can add more pages to it by selecting “Add page”
** HACKER TIPS ** Should it will ask you for a password. Try “DOTS”, the default password. In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed it. However if they did, never fear. Hold “Control” and “Shift” and while holding, enter “DIPY”. This will reset the sign and reset the password to “DOTS” in the process. You’re in!
additional comment from a reddit thread:
I work on these from time to time. Other common passwords are the same as most things: 1234, 1111, 0000, etc. They are also often written down inside the service area for technicians. Most new ones also have a QR code that links to the user manual for an explanation on how to operate with the default passwords.
Public Health Scotland: No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV. The HPV jag was rolled out to girls aged 12-13 in Scotland in 2008.
I just went and got my vaccine at the age of 25 last year and it was a fairly easy process + was fully covered by my insurance. It does take around ~8 months to become fully vaccinated though (3 shots for adults spread a few months apart), so if you’re currently sexually active or will be in the future, it’s better to start the process sooner rather than later
i’ve seen enough horror movies starring upper-middle-income white families stuck in spacious haunted mansions. gimme stories about millennials stuck in haunted studio apartments. consider the realism:
why is this protagonist staying in an obviously haunted building despite the glaring warning signs? because a week at a motel would send them spiraling into credit card debt, they’ll take their chances with the vengeful spirits. why did they chose this apartment complex to begin with, despite the many many unexplained mysterious deaths that show up on the first page of a google search? hon some of us don’t have the credit score to move away from high (paranormal) crime areas. how could i be so careless as to sign a soul-binding contract with a demonic entity? bitch they’re called LANDLORDS
Been watching Kevin Can Fuck Himself on Netflix this week. It’s a fascinating show, and easy to digest as background noise while working.
Kevin Can Fuck Himself is a serious drama sendup of the classic sitcom dynamic. It’s two different shows mashed into one another.
The show’s front is your typical Manchild Husband sitcom about a man named Kevin McRoberts. Every episode, he has a new wacky shenanigan to drag his wife and neighbors into, which usually blows up in his face spectacularly.
But Kevin is not the show’s main character. Whenever he’s onscreen, the show is lit and shot in sitcom fashion, with laugh track and applause and musical cues and all that jazz. The universe revolves around him and responds as sitcoms do to his every whim.
But this show is actually about his wife Allison. And whenever she’s away from Kevin, the show changes genres to a serious drama piece. It’s a show about the emotional and financial abuse of being tied down to the role of the Manchild Husband’s “Nagging Wife”, and more broadly the effects that his Comedic Sociopathy have on the put-upon supporting cast around him as well.
It’s the story of a woman’s quest to finally escape from the cage that her marriage to an impulsive, inconsiderate, and entirely self-centered piece of shit has trapped her in.
It’s a really fun angle. This is what the show looks like whenever Kevin’s present for a scene.
Kevin’s show has bright colors and fixed camera angles for that “filmed in front of a live studio audience” effect. It takes place mostly within this one studio set, with characters coming and going through the front and kitchen doors.
Nothing that happens ever has any lasting consequences, and no matter how much trouble he gets into, it always works out fine for Kevin in the end.
Then, when he leaves:
Allison’s story, the actual story of the show, has muted colors and a dramatic camera with four distinct walls. The camera will pan around her or zoom in on things that are important. There’s no laugh track. People bleed. People do drugs or get hurt or all the things that can’t happen on Kevin’s show.
Hers is a serialized drama with a persistent plot running from episode to episode.
These two tones are constantly locking horns with each other throughout the series. Allison might walk on set from the front door into Kevin’s latest stupid scheme and “have a few laughs” about how he’s forgotten something important to her and wants her to pick up his laundry. Then make a few passive-aggressive barbs for laughs, enter the kitchen, switch tones, and break down in front of the door.
It’s both an interesting series and artistically creative.
Community is the most important thing in this world, start building it. We may need it to survive soon
For the love of God, meet your neighbor, and rely on them, and let them rely on you. We can’t be isolated in times like these
It doesn’t even have to be that much, just go over and talk to them, volunteer with a neighborhood group or soup kitchen, donate to a food pantry, just do something for your community. Even if you can survive on your own without aid, others don’t or won’t have that Luxury
I think having no religious people at all would be strictly better than what we have now but the next best thing are those people who claim (often believe themselves) to be religious but treat their faith like a set of metaphors that have no impact on observable reality and can be reduced to “be kind to others, even if it contradicts the uncomfortable parts of our doctrine”.
I know atheists who happen to arrive to the same conclusions the bible did, like homosexuality and promiscuity being a mix of morally wrong, disgusting and degrading to everyone involved.
They will often cite some primitive form of reasoning but once you poke enough holes in their logic they inevitably reveal they’re just conflating things they find disgusting with things that are morally wrong and they need to have a reason for the latter but not the former, so they just make one up on the spot.
On the other hand, I know catholics who are pro abortion because “abortion is wrong but it’s not right to impose their religious beliefs on others”, of course this means they don’t actually believe abortion is murder; but it is kind of impressive how they can manage to avoid the worst parts of their own religion much better than so called atheists can.
Having people like my ocs is so embarrassing like nooooo don’t look at himmm I’m still building himmmm 😢😢😢 nooo he’s not ready for you yet 😢😢😢😢😢😢 he’s still in pre-release beta version 0.8 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
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