Idk how prople with anxiety are greatful for self scanning machines, those mfs keep breaking on me and i have to get a worker while a queue builds up brhind me, at that point the cashier is the safe choice.
Idk how prople with anxiety are greatful for self scanning machines, those mfs keep breaking on me and i have to get a worker while a queue builds up brhind me, at that point the cashier is the safe choice.
I love this so much
[Image IDs: the first tweet is from Lila Byock (@/Lbyock) from June 15th, 2023 and it reads:
Sarandos: Netflix is investing billions in Korean content to undermine American writers.
Korean writers: Fuck you, pay us.
That first tweet quote tweets the second image, a tweet from Tim Shorrock (@/TimothyS) from June 15th, 2023 that reads:
Korean writers picket in solidarity with Writers Guild of America. ✊
That tweet has a link to an article that I posted after it. /End ID.]
So, for those of you unaware: The Korean entertainment industry is an absolute nightmare. Actors have gone years never being paid for work they're owed pay on. The idol industry is terrible in all the ways. And it's honestly no surprise the industry is shit for writers as well. Glad to see the Korean writers are standing up for themselves too!
i think you should be able to live without a phone i think phones should never be required or expected or assumed i think when things require you to scan a qr code or something thats the devil and hes corrupting every strata of society
requiring an app for the deals at the supermarket is an act of war
Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized
Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees
I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there
Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.
many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.
Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.
It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.
Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized
Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees
I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there
Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.
many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.
Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.
It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.
One single republican decided to base his vote on a reasonable evaluation of available data and it quite possibly improved thousands of lives. I hope maybe in my lifetime I’ll see an America where that isn’t shocking for a politician to do, and maybe one in which people’s entire well being doesn’t come down to just one extra guy having a shred of decency.
something very charming about “I don’t really know what’s going on here but I don’t think it’s my problem” as a response to the anti-trans hysteria
How do I tell people that Hobie is in fact labeled as “badmouthed teenager” since 2014 and is 16-17 in the comics and that just because he doesn’t have a confirmed/canonical age in ATSV, he’s still in the age range of a teenager (16-18) and that he is most definitely not 28 like people are saying (They’re getting things mixed up with Prowler Hobie, who is an adult, and assuming his age of his facial features in his current redesign while saying micro aggressions and I don’t know how to say it without getting jumped…again)
How do I tell them Punkflower has been a thing since 2018 or 2019 and they have interacted in the comics (they are close in age)
How do I tell people that if they’re against Punkflower and calling it a proship then it’s the same thing when people say Hobie and Gwen did ykyk. (They don’t want to accept that fact because they’re just homophobic and would rather focus on Hobie’s age until there’s a girl in the mix ‼️)
Also I would like to add that in the movie they kept making jokes about how Hobie and Gwen had something going on, and we know for a FACT that Gwen is 16 because she said in the first movie she's 15 months older than Miles who is 15 in ATSV.
If Hobie was really 19/20 then why in gods name would they be making hints about them being together.
Just bc one guy said that Hobies original concept was him being 19/20 doesn't mean that's how old he really is.
On a Wednesday morning in May, Hannah got a call from her lawyer—there was a warrant out for her husband’s arrest. Her thoughts went straight to her kids. They were going to come home from school and their father would be gone. “It burned me,” Hannah says, her voice breaking. “He hasn’t done anything to get his bond revoked, and they couldn’t prove he had.”
Hannah’s husband is now awaiting trial in jail, in part because of an anti-pornography app called Covenant Eyes. The company explicitly says the app is not meant for use in criminal proceedings, but the probation department in Indiana’s Monroe County has been using it for the past month to surveil not only Hannah’s husband but also the devices of everyone in their family. To protect their privacy, WIRED is not disclosing their surname or the names of individual family members. Hannah agreed to use her nickname.Prosecutors in Monroe County this spring charged Hannah’s husband with possession of child sexual abuse material—a serious crime that she says he did not commit and to which he pleaded not guilty. Given the nature of the charges, the court ordered that he not have access to any electronic devices as a condition of his pretrial release from jail. To ensure he complied with those terms, the probation department installed Covenant Eyes on Hannah’s phone, as well as those of her two children and her mother-in-law.
In near real time, probation officers are being fed screenshots of everything Hannah’s family views on their devices. From images of YouTube videos watched by her 14-year-old daughter to online underwear purchases made by her 80-year-old mother-in-law, the family’s entire digital life is scrutinized by county authorities. “I’m afraid to even communicate with our lawyer,” Hannah says. “If I mention anything about our case, I’m worried they are going to see it and use it against us.”
Covenant Eyes is part of a multimillion-dollar market of “accountability” apps sold to churches and parents as a tool to police online activity. For a monthly fee, the app monitors every single thing a user does on their devices, then sends the data it collects, including screenshots, to an “ally” or “accountability partner,” who can review the user’s online activities.
For Hannah’s family, their Covenant Eyes “allies” are two probation officers in Monroe County’s Pretrial Services Program charged with scrutinizing their web activity and ensuring that Hannah’s husband does not violate the terms of his bond while using one of his family members’ devices.
Covenant Eyes doesn’t permit its software to be used in a “premeditated legal setting,” such as monitoring people on probation, according to its terms of service. But public spending documents, court records, and interviews show that courts in at least five US states have used Covenant Eyes to surveil the devices of people who are awaiting trial or released on parole.
Neither Covenant Eyes nor multiple officials in Monroe County responded to repeated requests for comment and detailed questions about the app’s monitoring.
While the use of Covenant Eyes in a criminal-legal setting likely only represents a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people under court-ordered electronic surveillance, the stakes are still high for those required to use it. The app’s accuracy could determine whether a loved one lives at home or behind bars. Legal experts say that its use raises serious constitutional and due process concerns.
“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little oversight.”
[...]
Jonathan Manes, an attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center’s Illinois office, says the surveillance Hannah’s family faces likely violates several of their constitutional rights. “This feels like an extraordinarily intrusive violation of the family’s First Amendment rights to be able to access the Internet and communicate without being monitored,” he says. Manes adds that because the software effectively enables continuous and suspicionless searches of the devices of people who haven’t been charged with a crime, the family’s Fourth Amendment rights were potentially violated.
Lastly, Manes points out that by indiscriminately surveilling whatever the phone is displaying, the app could collect sensitive data that includes the family’s communications with their lawyers, as Hannah feared. “It’s interfering with his right to speak in confidence with his attorney,” he says of Hannah’s husband. “It’s impeding his ability to prepare a defense and exercise that Sixth Amendment right.”
“This strikes me as quite chilling,” Manes adds. “It’s what happens when someone’s home becomes their jail cell, and now everyone they live with is subject to the same kind of surveillance as the person who is charged.”
Several legal experts expressed concern about the monitoring conditions imposed by the judge in Hannah’s husband’s case. But Phyllis Emerick, the chief deputy public defender in Monroe County, argues that because Hannah’s husband and his family consented to the surveillance, they gave up their rights to privacy. “He agreed that he would not access electronic devices in his household in exchange for release,” she says. “It was the family’s choice to continue living with him.”
Weiss, of the National Bail Fund Network, disagrees with the idea that any type of surveillance is permissible so long as a person agrees to it to avoid jail time. “Sure, they consented to this, but it’s at the barrel of a gun,” she says.
When I read the full article, it got even worse. This is absolutely frightful, and it's forcing the victim of this overreaching surveillance to pay a third party for the government to spy on the family. Very clearly violating the 4th and 8th Amendments.
i know someone who wasn't allowed to use the internet or a smartphone and every time he tried to open a bank account the police would talk to the bank and it would get mysteriously closed a week later. And every time he got hired he had to tell the police and they would go and have a talk to the employer and demand surveilance on THEM. He eventually got a job doing deliveries for cash but he wasn't allowed to do ubereats etc. because he couldn't have a smart phone or bank account.
He had a tag which malfunctioned but still got him thrown back in jail for several months during the early pandemic and eventually on appeal it was shown the tag malfunctioned but all they did was let him out after locking him up for several months for no reason.
Simultaneously they're surprised that ex-convicts have a hard time fitting back into society and rehabilitating.
Has anyone told the newcomers not to interact with corporations and questionable celebrities? Yeah, that's how we render them useless and make this site unprofitable. The last Twitter exodus had some slimy things crawl in, and we swept most under the rug out of sight.
And on the mobile app, if you hold and drag the make a post button, a fun thing happens.
As a support main, nothing warms my dead little heart than seeing a Rein positively interacting with suppoorts.
I dont care if their on the enemy team, thats wholesome af, keep it up.
When you attempt to report a player on playstation for ingame behaviour it now says this, I dont think the report gets processed at all.
SPOILERS FOR ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE.
A quick (too short to be called long but too long to be called short) rant about Miguel O'Hara.
Alot of people who love Miguel hate Miles and alot of people who Love Miles hate Miguel and its all boiling down to the topic of is the theory about canon events correct?
Personally i prefer the idea that while canon events can be subverted they cant be erased, so for example Miles can save his dad but he cant bring him back to life, if that makes sense.
But i also believe that canon events arent real at all, i fully believe that Miles is proof that canon events can be ignored and prevented.
Anyways back to double full moons Miguel.
Alot of the people who like Miguel like because first of all, i mean look at him, and second because they believe hes a victim of his own accidental making, trying to prevent the same catastrophe from repeating, and alot of the people who dislike Miguel do kt because they believe that hes afraid of being wrong, that maybe he did cause his own daughter death, but that hes also taking it out via chokeslamming children.
I think that Miguel doesn't even believe his own theory, i think Miguel is a sad old man, caught up in his own guilt and trauma, a man whos so caught up in his ideas of survivors guilt and shame, that hes fully convinced himself that hes caused this, that hes killed his own child by simply being there.
I think Miguel wants to believe hes wrong, that the universe collapsed for a completely unrelated reason, but hes also so scared to find out what else could of caused so many people to die, what else besides a monster who wasnt even bitten by a spider to become spiderman.
Miguel isnt just infatuated eith the idea that he killed his own family, hes scared that hes wrong, because if he didnt kill all those people, it means hes been punishing himself for no reason, that hes been punishing the wrong man.
It also means that he doesnt actually know what caused the other universe to collapse, that theres something out there that could cause it to happen again and he doesnt know when why where or what.
Wouldn't you be scared too?
people (mostly on twitter) are pissing me off so much with the "its reddit, who cares"
like, its not a social media, its a collection of forums, if you hate certain subs for their politics or opinions, dont visit those (you control the buttons you press or whatever)
meanwhile were about to lose so much information about niche hobbies and interests,
and these are the same people who were complaining last week that you cant find anything on google without adding "reddit" at the end,
are you fucking stupid, do you want to have to look through unrelated blogs and ai generated/pay walled quora answers everytime you need technical assistance or wanna talk about a hobby? is that what you want?
im this close to losing it
now that I know a 14 year old on YouTube animated the Lego universe scene in the movie and also made a Lego version of the movie’s trailer, it makes Miguel’s line to Lego!Peter, ‘you’re one of our best’, take on a new meaning
it’s the Spiderverse team telling the 14 year old kid that he’s one of their best!
Note how she states that it was more difficult to get permits to do this shit than actually coordinate the drones.
Companies will want to do more of this, but environmental/wildlife laws make it difficult. So, they'll lobby to weaken them. Be vigilant. This woman accidentally said the quiet part loud. They won't let that happen again - this is our only warning