Alright, everyone in the comments is like “it was closed because of pirating and don’t you dare list alternatives because loose lips sink ships”
This is completly false. Rabbit shut down because they had no business model, were making no money whatsoever, and went bankrupt. What Rabbit did (host and stream remote-control virtual machines) is not inherently illegal by any means.
Hyperbeam is the exact same thing and I’ve been using it for years for perfectly legal activities – you can display maps for d&d games, have youtube watch parties, play tag-team neopets, whatever you like. It has full access to the internet, so could someone do illegal things? Probably. But you could also do illegal things with your normal web browser. Not my problem.
Unlike Rabbit, Hyperbeam has a side-hustle (main-hustle?) offering more advanced virtual machines to businesses and schools, so they do actually make money and should stick around longer.
Now go experience the world wide web with your friends.
I hate when people say stuff like “oh if seatbelt laws or asbestos bans happened today, they would be controversial!”
Like. They were. There were a lot of people - influenced by multi-billion dollar campaigns - who were against it and thought it was sissy libturd shit.
the most annoying people are people who don’t understand storytelling. they be like “oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning”. yeah no shit. that’s why the story begins here
You can be talking to someone and she’ll be like, “Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don’t deserve voting rights teehee.” And you’ll be like, “What.” And she’ll be like, “Oh I’m sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it’s this Tiktok meme where, if you’re a girl and you do something dumb, you say ‘Women don’t deserve voting rights teehee.’”
And you’ll be like, “That sounds bad.” And she’ll be like, “No no. It’s totally not that bad. It’s just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he’ll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.’” And you’ll be like, “Does that make it better?” And she’ll be like, “Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn’t vote’ a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot.”
And then you drop it there because like, you’re harshing the vibe.
God this makes me think of this screenshot:
“it minimizes you as a person” really wraps up my entire discomfort with the whole “oh but i’m just a girl” thing when used in most situations.
“Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion” story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they’ve been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because “they were probably just a late bloomer” or “no, you just finally found the right person!” and it’s just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn’t right and they can’t stand it.
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
I like the implication that Mexico is responsible for documenting everything else
I’ve literally said for years but the idea of mind control being real is more valuable as propaganda than actual mind control
“Brainwashing” as a concept was invented by Edward Hunter, a CIA-funded writer, to explain away why US troops captured by communist forces during the Korean War were so amenable to their Evil Totalitarian Captors. It definitely wasn’t that they were treated well (far better than the US treated its captives); with POWs allowed to cook their own food, organise sports competitions, and one black soldier even allowed to travel to Beijing to attend university - a privilege he wouldn’t have had back home - nor could it have been that any of these people saw any truth in communist theory. No, the real explanation must be that the communists had developed some nefarious means of controlling peoples’ minds, the same technology which they must have used on their own people to make them all support communism so wholeheartedly!
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My great grandfather was a Russian POW during WWII. He was sent to the gulag.
He was one of the “lucky” ones.
He got back.
The amount of FUCKERY his subsequent behaviour caused my grandmother, and therefore my father and yes, therefore ME cannot be overstated. Like. Encanto gives a teeeny tiny idea of what generational trauma is.
The reality is fucking worse.
He was tortured. He was broken. He behaved so atrociously that my great grandmother, a woman in a country with no divorce, had to leave him with 4 children, 3 of whom young to very young.
I won’t go into the details. But the trauma of that lived in his daughter behaviour toward her son, and in his grandson my father.
DON’T. Come to me. And. Praise the URSS treatment of POW.
Fucking don’t.
Signed: somebody who had to live among the ruins
damn that’s crazy. what did your grandfather do to end up in a soviet pow camp during wwii
this is legitimately the perfect copypasta
This deserves to be in the post itself
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these two should hang out.
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Grueling labor camps for political dissidents in 20th century communist (Marxist-Leninist and subsidiaries) countries very much were things though, as someone whose grandparents actually lived through one, I can attest to the fact that you had to be very very careful about what you said in a public space lest you get sent to labor in horrible conditions with a chance that you won’t ever return.
While they didn’t have any problems because they never messed with politics… they were very aware of the cases where things went differently.
Get over it. Also stop trying to derail a conversation about ACTUAL NAZIS being captured by the Soviets.
This was a post made on February 17th… Do you not have post dates enabled? Obviously this was not the post to make this addition to, but by this point I’ve already realised that myself, you are far too late.
And you are far too late on whining about communist labor camps. It already happened, get over it.
You don’t know what my position on anything is, whether I’ve ‘gotten over it’, or even whether I actually greatly disapprove of these camps as you seem to be assuming. Sure, my reblog above doesn’t exactly paint a rosy picture but that’s because from the perspective of the average person it wasn’t one, that is just a statement about what happened not of my opinions.
I said that my original statement was in poor taste. My response could have been better, tone does not carry through the screen and I should have been more aware of that. You do not need to stay on the offensive.
“the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!” actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book
It’s so nice being on tumblr because you don’t even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you’re good at rebloging posts they like
being mutuals is like we’ve never talked but i saw your vent post and do you want me to kill that person for you. still won’t talk to you tho bc that is scary sorry. love you
“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.
Your mum’s ability to hold up under active gunfire was really hot. I’m your dad now.
Isn’t that the plot of Terminator
Where do you think the plot for Terminator came from?
This is such a classic trainwreck post that has the vibes of a 2014 screenshot posted to Pinterest and then the last addition is just last Tuesday I can’t even
