At a gas station, go in to grab some of my favorite brand of chewing gum (Original flavor Trident), and the clerk said "You look like you should be famous." I thanked him, and agreed.
At the grocery store, a cashier woman told me I look like Justin Timberlake. I've gotten that one a few times, and I take it as a compliment.
and one last one, I was on vacation with my girlfriend at the time, and we found this bar in South Carolina that had a big dancefloor, a great DJ, and almost nobody dancing. I love dancing, so I went out and started grooving to the music, just slipping between random dance moves, having fun because there was like nobody there to judge me. After dancing for a while, I'm about to go back to my waiting GF, when a pair stop me, a guy and gal. They said I was a great dancer, and asked what dancing school I attended? I told them I've never gone to a dancing school, I just do what feels natural.
“This appears to be a clear attempt to stifle both journalistic activities and pro-Palestine speech,” said Widdi, Seligson’s attorney.
As cops love to say, you can beat the charges, but you can't beat the ride. These charges likely won't stick, and he'll be sent on his way, but the effect of this attempt is clear. They want everyone who supports a free Palestine to be looking over their shoulder, wondering if they'll be swept up with trumped-up charges just like this journalist. It's how they "legally" suppress you.
13 months would be great for salaried employees too (so long as the pay per month isn't reduced, which, well, of course it will be, but a man can dream)
had to set my VPN to isreal before it'd let me watch it. Not available in the US, Canada, or Germany, but good ol' apartheid isreal getting all that sweet sweet John Oliver goodness 🙄
The case involved districts for county commissioners in Galveston County, Texas, a community of about 350,000 people, where the last round of redistricting redrew a district in which Black and Hispanic voters together made up a majority of voters. The redrawn boundaries reduced their combined share of the district’s electorate to 38 percent, and a lawsuit claimed that doing so violated Section Two of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits drawing maps that dilute minority voting power.
A lower court and the three-judge appellate panel both ruled that the new map was a clear violation of the law.
"Yeah, they broke the law by gerry-mandering your district in order to dilute your voting power..."
But the full Fifth Circuit disagreed, saying that the law does not explicitly allow voters from more than one minority group to “combine forces” to claim their votes were diluted.
"...but you both complained about it at the same time and we've decided that means we can ignore you because magic legal words that totally aren't racist."
The 12 judges in the majority were all appointed by Republican presidents.
An MoD spokesperson said: “We do not tolerate abuse, bullying or discrimination of any kind and encourage any personnel who believe they have experienced or witnessed unacceptable behaviour to report it. All allegations of unacceptable behaviour are taken extremely seriously and are thoroughly investigated. If proven, swift action will be taken.
“The MoD settled this claim with Kerry-Ann Knight in June, with no admission of liability.”
"We've investigated ourselves, found nothing, done nothing, admitted to nothing, but here's a nice PR-friendly answer and some money to fuck off."
We've both been afforded far too much trauma. It's not our fault, but I'll be damned if I make my problems someone else's. It's like, the one thing I don't want to do. There are other ways to make a positive impact on the world without having children, heck, just look at Mary "Mother" Jones!
In my head, I envision year 2084 as one where humans are isolated mostly to the poles of the Earth, the only suitable farmland left. Where life is nothing like what I would recognize, and we're merely prolonging the inevitable migration into underground dwellings, away from the harsh barren hellscape of our own creation.
But that's not the reality. Human beings have the remarkable ability to adapt, and change our environment to suit our needs. I know that there are people smarter than I, that will figure out how to curb, and ultimately roll back the most devastating aspects of our pollution crisis. I know that we will survive, and thrive into the future, even if it means shrinking the population down from it's current 8 billion.
But today, I can pick any spot on the globe, and find a terrible human caused crisis there, and some conservative politician doing everything in their power to make it worse (and make money off of making it worse). And that just fucking kills me.
those are two different things. When things are bad, it's our duty to address it, lest it become worse. But you can be positive even in the face of a crisis. There are times in my life in which I felt like my world was crumbling before my eyes, and with the benefit of hindsight, I now view those circumstances differently. Sometimes hard changes need to be made, and you can come out the other side stronger and more resilient for having survived it; often times in a better place than you were before (whether that's physically, mentally, emotionally). Then, with those lessons learned, the next moment you feel like the sky is falling, you can remind yourself that you've been through bad before, and sometimes a new perspective is the only thing standing between you and acceptance/peace.
Also, if you're having to avoid talking about things because it upsets people, then try to find a new avenue for who you speak that to. I recommend therapy, where the attention and purpose is you and your feelings. Having someone listen, and help you through difficult times/emotions, is an invaluable resource, that I hope you're fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of.
While I think the Netherlands has a commendable approach to prison and rehabilitation, This dude should not be a representative for your country. If you say he's served enough time, we can disagree (because he absolutely did not), but the choice to put him in Netherlands Orange and on international TV was a colossal mistake.
Likely we will just inject sulfur into the atmosphere with unknown consequences.
Kind of the only hope we have left at this point. One which I'm desperately holding onto.
Articles about insect populations being decimated by something like 70%... They are the ones most vulnerable to climate change, and they're all dying. How people can see that and not understand is mind boggling.
Yesterday I had a climate change anxiety attack. I came to the conclusion that despite wanting to have children, I shouldn't because the earth is currently dying underneath our feet. Watching outside my window, a cat I've been taking care of brought her litter of kittens to take shelter under my awning, and it had me feeling very bitter, that I would never know the blissful highs and devastating lows of parenthood. All the joy and pain and love that embodies raising a child, past generations have forfeit through destructive environmental/corporate/profit-centered policies.
I was able to calm myself down, oddly enough through a few memes I saw. one of which being an old cunieform tablet that had a transcription of a man from Assyria decrying how the world was falling apart back in 1200 BC. And the second, one of Neil Degrasse Tyson saying simply, "If we can geo-engineer other planets, we can certainly fix our own."
Made me feel a little more hopeful, that we could still prevent the worst of it, and perhaps fix what we couldn't prevent.
Still not sure about having kids though. If I still even can, with the level of microplastic in my testes, and PFAS everywhere else.
I very much dislike being negative on-line. I think we could all stand to be more empathetic and humble in our approach to others. In my on-line gaming, I almost exclusively am positive. The rare times I turn negative, is when someone starts being mean to someone. Flaming, blaming, or just posting vile stuff. THAT, I take exception to. Bullies only understand one thing, and it's their own medicine. I'm all positivity until you post something racist, sexist, or generally vile, then I'm coming at you both guns a'blazing.
This, I'm certain, was in the forefront of the conservative justices minds when they declared that a former president couldn't be charged for "Official acts" made while president. Nice gift to bush and the rest of the war criminals in his administration. They tortured people. They're war criminals.
Isn't it great how dark money super pacs can spend unlimited resources on influencing our campaigns? Where does the money come from? Foreign governments? oligarchs? apartheid states? Who knows! Yay citizens united! I didn't want free and fair elections anyways, that'd be too easy, too smart, too economical, too practical, and enrich our lives by making campaigns last only a couple months at most! I'd rather live life on Hard Mode, where every fucking day is a struggle against multi-national billionaire conglomerates that control everything around me! Wheeeee! Life is terrible! Thanks citizens united!
At a gas station, go in to grab some of my favorite brand of chewing gum (Original flavor Trident), and the clerk said "You look like you should be famous." I thanked him, and agreed.
At the grocery store, a cashier woman told me I look like Justin Timberlake. I've gotten that one a few times, and I take it as a compliment.
and one last one, I was on vacation with my girlfriend at the time, and we found this bar in South Carolina that had a big dancefloor, a great DJ, and almost nobody dancing. I love dancing, so I went out and started grooving to the music, just slipping between random dance moves, having fun because there was like nobody there to judge me. After dancing for a while, I'm about to go back to my waiting GF, when a pair stop me, a guy and gal. They said I was a great dancer, and asked what dancing school I attended? I told them I've never gone to a dancing school, I just do what feels natural.
That last one is definitely my favorite, though 😊