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for the redditors coming here, this is how we spread news of important events in the world, with a Destiel meme
For everybody who's been here a while and felt like Wiley E. Coyote just after running off the edge of the cliff when they scrolled down to find nothing below
2004.
something about being seen and seeing like a mirror someone else, so you can't hate yourself in them but there's enough of you there that it starts to feel safe
I'm 43 years old, and I still can't listen to "Land of Confusion" by Genesis without residual terror from that damn video.
i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked.
2003.
I have no idea why the neighbors are cheering I just know it's a little fucking late for that
keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
Folks, Temu is just Wish/Shein/Whatever shitty marketplace of the hour is direct-selling to get around import tariffs and this post in particular is garbage.
The first image is a screenshot from this website, and the article that says "The Temu app is a pyramid scheme that has been gaining popularity recently" ends like this:
The USA Today article and the final screenshot are actually both the same article written by Kim Kommando and hosted on her website AND USA Today where she is a regular contributor. Kommando is not a cybersecurity expert, she is a computer sales and marketing expert who pitches content as a way to sound like you're good at tech even if you don't know anything about tech (which hey, they say to write what you know.)
Kommando is also a Fox tech news contributor and in every mention of China in that article she refers to the country as "Communist China" - so she's recommending that you uninstall Temu so that you're not sending data back to "Communist China."
To be clear: Temu is a datamining piece of shit that sells products produced by underpaid workers and direct ships them from China to you. Their return policy means that if you have a problem you're better off throwing away the problem product than returning or replacing it. It is like if fast fashion weren't just for fashion but was also for garden hoses and car parts. It's only popular because it is spending a shitload of mony on advertising and it is literally the same business model as Wish there isn't anything special about it. Temu sucks and you shouldn't install it and honestly none of us should be using these absolute trash direct sales marketplaces because there is a global impact to cheap consumerism that doesn't seem worth the exchange of encouraging businesses like this to exist as a tradeoff for getting a shitty five dollar polyester dress in the mail.
Temu is bad but it is not especially or uniquely bad, and it seems bad for privacy but not in a way that is any worse than facebook.
OP has actually updated the original post with a Snopes link, an exhortation to do your own research, and an apology for any implied Sinophobia but I still kind of want to yell a little bit.
The "do your own research check your own sources" thing only works when you, OP, haven't ignored the conclusions of one of your sources. This post was originally either misleading on purpose OR op just didn't bother to finish reading articles before posting about.
So don't go yell at OP here, but I want people to note that as of this reblog this post is less than a week old and has about 36k notes. I've seen it floating around a few times and I've never seen it with additional information or the update from OP.
It is *difficult* to update incorrect posts on Tumblr and they can grow legs remarkably quickly. If you're going to make informative posts about a subject you need to show your work and screencaps don't actually count, as you can see here.
So yeah i guess this is your general reminder: If you see a post on the internet that upsets you or makes you worried or makes you angry or makes you scared and that post doesn't make it easy for you to check their work and verify what they are saying is true, please don't share it until you've checked to see if it's true for yourself.
Anyway, just going to reblog the playlist from my last poll real quick, since it's on topic and all.
I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator
yall wont trick me into listening to kpop
you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).
I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire! Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music: spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet. Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)
Ar Sp -- Ar Spārniņiem
SuFi Iziet Iel -- Suņi Iziet Ielās
Limuz+ns Uz Kr+ta -- Limuzīns Uz Krīta
Lai Dz+vo Tas -- Lai Dzīvo Tas
Zelta }akete -- Zelta Žakete
K -- Kā Man Gribētos
Also K -- Kā Tevi Sauc
Bonus fun fact: "Also K" is also The Other Kā Tevi Sauc, because when I searched for the video, I found a Citizens LV song of the same name. It is not the same song. It is totally different. Very fun, naturally.
Incredible Reddit update. Spez has a new and terrible idea:
Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.
Reddit’s current policy says moderators may be removed by higher-ranking moderators or by Reddit itself for inactivity or violations of Reddit-wide rules. They may also remove themselves. Many have held their positions for years.
“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.
“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”
This seems to be a very stupid idea that he's developed on the fly rather than something the admins as a whole are in on and conspiring to inflict on the site, but it's worth being aware of.
The idea that there's something problematic about the existence of moderators, or about moderators feeling they have ownership over the forums they create, is something that you typically only see in jerks who hate the fact that they're bound by rules (particularly anti-bigotry rules) on a particular sub and who hate the knowledge that they don't have the ability to recreate the same forum at the same level of popularity on their own, so it's interesting to see it touted by Reddit's CEO.
2002.
I wonder sometimes if it'll ever be easy again
it will, of course, but I might have to do some hard things first
Once again, it is Extreme Contour Time.
Bit better.
Once again, it is Extreme Contour Time.
Just like the last two times, I'll post names of all songs and a playlist based on votes at the end. If you want to know what a song is, just ask me. I will reblog with links to my previous two polls in a second, so you can what kinds of things I typically listen to.
And please reblog so there's more votes! I like watching the numbers move around. I'm easily entertained.
Playlist!
Just like the last two times, I'll post names of all songs and a playlist based on votes at the end. If you want to know what a song is, just ask me. I will reblog with links to my previous two polls in a second, so you can what kinds of things I typically listen to.
And please reblog so there's more votes! I like watching the numbers move around. I'm easily entertained.
Playlist!
Help save mature forests in the US
Here’s the link for my followers! It’s super easy— all it needs is your name and an email address.
just because it's tumblr--this is indeed for 2023, he only said July 20th
