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God, as somebody that grew up in a largely jewish community, holocaust denial is like... so fucking weird.

Because I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t terrified of swastika’s, including when I was so young that I didn’t even know what a swastika was.

Because it’s such a strangely specific feeling to be born in the wake of a tragedy so massive that you can still feel it’s reverberations and were born with a weird sense of survivors guilt that will shadow you forever

Because when we were younger and our parents refused to tell us exactly what the holocaust was, we would trade our grandparents horrific experiences like they were scary stories across the camp fire, repeating them over and over to ourselves and eachother so we could figure out what it all meant.

Because I’d see those books with grey photos of Auschtwitz prisoners on the cover and feel like they were looking straight fucking at me.

Because every single Yom HaShoah you’d hear grade school children get up and say “my grandmother was the only one left of her family” or “they barely got out before it started” or “they managed to hide in an attic for months on end” or “my great grandmother managed to jump off one of the trains with her daughter in her arms” or “my grandfather has numbers on his arms but he won’t talk about it” or “my great aunt was shot just before the liberation so she couldn’t get out,” like it was normal.

Because we were always taught to run if we were in a group of non-jews that started making nazi jokes, to laugh along and then take the fuck off to stay safe.

Because the question always lingered over our heads, “what if it happens again? what if it happens to us?”

.... and them some stupid fucking college age white trash dickhead stands up and says “it didn’t happen” or “it wasn’t that bad” and I just can’t... fathom that? Like how the fuck wasn’t this part of your life? How is this not etched into your bones?

And its because it’s not. Like people didn’t grow up with this shit, some people can afford to deny the holocaust and deny antisemitism because it won’t hurt them.

It’s just... fucking wild.

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Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.

Florida Man: Chaotic evil. New York Man: Chaotic good.

Holy shit. Nah dude look up the entire story, it’s INSANE.

The dude got arrested once before this for using a painter’s extension rod to point the stoplight cameras into the sky instead of cutting the wires. He didn’t cut the wires until AFTER he got out after being arrested the first time–which he did after posting facebook videos that prove that the stoplights are intentionally rigged to trick drivers into citations–the yellow lights at intersections with cameras only last THREE SECONDS, as opposed to the five seconds they last at other stoplights without cameras in the same county.

When he cut the camera cords, he reported his deeds to the news -himself,- and then politicians pressured the local police force into arresting him. The local police and sheriff deputies actually SUPPORT him for his actions because the lights have been killing innocent people! During his most recent arrest, one of the Sheriff’s Deputies actually -offered to bail him out-. When he got home again after these incidents, there was a surveillance camera planted at his house BY THE GOVERNMENT to watch him! His reaction to being surveilled? He painted over the camera in America’s flat out fucking ballsiest “fuck you” to the gubmint I’ve ever heard of. And it gets EVEN CRAZIER. After painting over the camera, suddenly this guy–his name is Stephen Ruth by the way–started GETTING ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE. He reports that a car intentionally tried to hit him in a head-on collision, and after talking about the car to his neighbors, they confirmed that the car in question (Or at least, one that was visibly identical, its occupants included) had been staking out his house! Somebody was legitimately trying to MURDER HIM over his discovery and his actions!

As a final insult to injury, Ruth pointed out that the VAST majority of the cameras were found SPECIFICALLY in lower-to-middle-class neighborhoods. As well, the victims of these rigged stoplights tried to go to the local news station to talk about the deaths of their family members that occurred from the rigging. Aaaand… The local station, “News12″, never aired their interviews. Remember how I said that, after cutting the cables and calling the local news station, Ruth was arrested because of pressure from politicians? Get this: News12 is actually owned by CableVision, who PROVIDES INTERNET SERVICE TO THE CAMERAS.  Whereas mister Ruth was only trying to help people and save lives, he’s been caught up in a full-blown fucking government conspiracy that’s out for his blood. This guy isn’t Robin Hood, he makes Robin Hood look like a -CHUMP-.

Like I get that it’s a dick move if it’s not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you’re a massive fucking pussy.

It’s more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a “pussy” for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn’t been fired or “laid off”. Now he’s got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader. Because there’s people who think “this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it’s good enough for me and you, and let’s have no more talk of this change nonsense”.

This is why there’s talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who’ve come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model coming. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

The whole year proved that people still get enough work done without going in person and we know all that commuting is hell on the environment. There actually ought to be a push to “ban” physical office work; absolutely no business should be able to force you to go somewhere if your work can be done from anywhere at all.

I say this as someone who has never had an office/cubicle job myself, but holy shit the notes are an absolute trainwreck of people thinking office workers have “cushy” jobs they should appreciate better. No, no they do not, office workers have a high suicide rate for a reason. More to the point, you shouldn’t be making any worker’s rights into a “who has it worse” race.

yeah like if you wanna talk about being a pussy: i’m a man who works a Real Manly Man He-Man Butch Boy Job. i work in a dirty factory that reaches 110 in the summer, as a welder. i work with sharp molten metal, power tools, leather gloves, fire, protective helmets, whatever. i couldn’t work from home, unfortunately. my work does have to be done inside that shitty fucking factory; i don’t want to burn my house down or figure out where to install five steel jigs the size of banquet tables plus a welding machine.

but anyone who can work from home should get to work from home. being locked up somewhere you hate for twelve hours a day is miserable, and realizing that it’s not even necessary, that you’re only being forced to do it so someone above you can feel important again, is grounds for feeling intense grief, horror, helplessness, and regret.

also if you think the only acceptable manly emotions are anger or indifference, you have internalized some really sad and fucked up things about the human condition, and should think a little harder about how men are people too.

I realized I have CPTSD and got to start healing.

I realized I’m agender and got to start figuring out what that means for me.

I had enough energy to hang out with my chosen family at the end of the day and realize I love them even more than I thought I did.

I got to enjoy lunch with them most days.

I got to go for walks in my neighborhood more often.

And now people want me to put back on the “professional” dress and go back to working in a cubicle cause...

Why, exactly?

Why, exactly, should I submit myself to what is effectively mental torture?

Because I “have to actually go to work?” Working from home hasn’t been a fucking vacation. I still get up early and sit down and work. The difference is I’m not doing it where someone can look over my shoulder, which has been a blessing for my anxiety.

I’ve been more productive while working from home. My bosses have noticed I’m significantly more confident these days and I’m growing in my role noticeably faster.

What reason could you possibly give me as to why I should go back into the office when every scrap of evidence says that working from home is better?

You bet your ass I’m liable to break down in tears.

rb to give the person you reblogged from a really cool knife

they were fucking what now

The NFL’s usual stance on concussion claims is bad enough, this is next level fucked up.

I'm sorry the N

The what now?

Firefox has encountered a bug

@maslab

Me after a production deploy.

Workers owning the means of production. Sharing the profits. #CopyAndPaste

To be fair to the original owners, it looks like they were looking to sell it anyway and that coincidentally lined up with the workers unionizing, so they decided to sell it to the workers.

PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM

I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.

some playtime

honestly, out of all the games that might have patch notes reading “fixed a Geneva convention violation”, Stardew Valley was not one I expected.

Lol?!?

This far from the first game to do so. This specific Geneva Conventions violation is so common in video games the Red Cross itself has had to tell the industry to knock it off.

My favorite part of it all is that it makes “Neopets violated the Geneva Conventions in the early 2000s” a completely true sentence.

This is such an indictment of the red cross, dont you have first aid to do and shelters to make? You really threatening litigation over whats essentially just copyright infringement red cross?

I mean, they’re not trying to be dicks specifically. XD

Imagine yourself needing medical help, you can barely see what’s in front of you and manage to stagger towards what you think is a hospital only to find out it’s an ad for a video game.

Like, we get to play games with Lord Xyzzyquozotilganondorf and Planet Qyifhvuhgihbfusohjauoi and the continent of Vygwybfiqhikasplat and see some dude with a dozen arms waving hello to us, but they can’t manage to come up with anything more unique and original than a red cross?

Is the above post also supposed to be implying that lawyers be out here building shelters and giving first aid.

Humans are not parasites on the world.

One thing that I think a lot of Environmentalists in America really overlook is that humans are supposed to be part of an ecosystem.  Humans are part of the food web; we fill an environmental niche, just as much as beavers and wolves do.   

We are SUPPOSED to interact with the environment- the problem arises when we begin interacting with the environment in UNSUSTAINABLE ways. This idea that we should try to “return” the environment to the way it was “before” humans so so so often ignores the way that Indigenous people all over the world were (and are) an important part of their environments- and trying to “preserve” those places without people filling their ecological niche can cause harm in super weird ways. 

You know how its shitty for deer populations if you take out all of the wolves? It’s just as bad if you stop all human hunting too. Humans hunting deer has been an important part of the food web for thousands and thousands of years! Deer populations NEED hunters- human, wolf, cougar- to stay healthy. 

Yes- massive clear cutting of forests and strip mining is bad. HOWEVER, not allowing Indigenous people to practice traditional controlled burns of grass lands? Not only makes wildfires worse, but ALSO fucks up the bio-diversity of those grasslands. Totally unmanaged “pristine” grasslands without humans are actually less healthy than grasslands that are sustainably managed by people.

Mono-crop super farms are not good- but humans have been farming for thousands of years- tending for plants and increasing their yield, monitoring the soil, in ways that benefit those plants and the other animals that eat them, and the other plants that use that soil, and the insects that make their home there. Sustainable, diversified farming isn’t bad. 

Laying out acres and acres of asphalt and oil pipelines? Bad. But digging natural cisterns in the dessert that catches rainwater for grazing animals to use? Benefits the entire ecosystem and all the animals in it. 

We are part of the environment. We belong here. And the ecosystems that human beings evolved in and lived in need us just as much as we need them. We aren’t parasites on the planet, we are a part of it. It’s just that global capitalism has thrown us terribly out of balance.  Colonialism and profit-seeking are the problem- not human beings existing.  

The goal of environmentalism should not be to protect nature by keeping humans totally separate from it, but rather to restore balance with our interactions with nature, for sustainable practices that help us coexist with the ecosystems that we are part of. That we have been a part of forever.  And that is hard with billions of people on the planet, yes, and we will need to be clever and resourceful and thoughtful to find ways of restoring that balance, it will take a lot of people working together to find those answers- but humans’ greatest trait has always been our cleverness and our ability to work together. 

Thank you. Thinking of the human race as an invasive species will only deplete our hope faster. It serves no good purpose.

Exactly. Also “invasive” is just…invasive WHERE? Where on Earth, save maybe Antarctica, could you possibly consider humans invasive? Because any answer a person could give will instantly have some real….bad racist implications.

It’s a nice thought but personally I think the human population has grown too large for this to happen. Can’t even get along with one another long enough to solve a simple problem let alone fix the environment.

I’m not really sure where racism comes in to play though. Most people, that I’ve interacted with at least, agree that indigenous practices are preferred and it’s the western modernized culture that has ruined the balance of nature. Though if a practice is bad for the environment (or just bad in general), it is bad regardless of the culture involved.

Personally I think we’ll need some major apocalyptic event that greatly reduces the population before we are able to actually get back to a balance.

But hopefully I’m wrong and humanity will get their shit together one day. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is eco fascism. You’re saying that a genocide event would be a good thing. You’re saying that if a tsunami kills a billion people tomorrow, we should be happy about it.

Never forget that when climate disasters kill loads of people- it is the global south that is hurt first and worst. Formerly colonized peoples and global poor are the ones to suffer and die, while the rich will fly off to their private bunkers and Mars colonies run by Indentured servants and will be just fine.

Overpopulation is not the problem. Killing huge amounts of people isnt the solution.

No no, you are ever so slightly twisting my words. Impressive actually. I said I think that’s what will happen or need to happen for humanity to get it, not that I want it to or that I would be happy about it. Especially because I would also likely die in such an event. Like you said, mostly the rich would survive.

I’m a cynic, not an “eco fascist”. Interesting term there. No need to manipulate my words to try and make me a fascist.

Saying that the only way for humanity to survive is to purge the population? My friend, your environmental nihilism may not be INTENDED as eco fascism, but it serves the same end.

It deincentivizes people to do the work that is required for us to come together and fix these problems. It saps people of motivation to improve where we can improve. All it does is inspire hopeless apathy and resignation to letting Elon Musk and whoever else suck the Earth dry and kill people in the process.

Do not fall for that shit. Fight back against it. We are not so helpless and lost that mass death is the only way out. Think about who that rhetoric benefits and reject them.

Every species will spread and grow to the point it fills the ability of the environment around it to support it.

While we have created an environment wherein we are encouraged to constantly overuse the environment around us, this does not mean the answer is “mass death” of a portion of the population. It means we need to take a step back and take a look at how we use the environment around us, and how we can help it grow along with us.

I love how all of the Batman villains are like “ah he’s not at the manor, it’s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch

Batman’s Villains: The butler will be easy prey!

He’s just an old man...he doesn’t have any of the Batman’s gadgets or training or fighting skills!

Alfred: Oh my you’re right

There’s something else of Master Bruce’s I don’t have as well

(Cocks a shotgun) A CODE AGAINST KILLING

Batman’s Villains: Wayne isn’t here to save you old man!

Alfred:

if you support donald trump unfollow me. full stop. hopefully no trump supporters are dumb enough to think they’re welcome here, but seriously. gtfo my page. block me while you’re at it.

If you don’t feel any need to reblog this unfollow me.

Seriously what the fuck you spent money on those donate to a homeless shelter instead you fucking demons

This is more common than you may think. Many urban areas that have high homeless populations are using “defensive architecture” more and more. Sloped and divided benches to keep the homeless from sleeping on them. Spikes placed in sheltered areas where they tend to stay. City planners argue they are only trying to relocate the homeless, pushing them to see out shelters and homeless centers. But that rings hollow. They just want them out of sight. I don’t have a simple, easy solution. But this isn’t it. Making things harder for the homeless does not help them.

All these corporations have so much money to spend it on putting spikes on places where homeless people sleep yet absolutely NOTHING goes to those who are homeless. This country really doesn’t give a fuck about the well being of homeless people at all

this is heartbreaking fr .

By the way you can remove these spikes with wither a sledgehammer and a heavy metal spike (sharpened crowbar with a downwards slant and the handle removed or something similar) or a concrete saw if you’ve got one of those. It’s illegal to do but it also only takes about an hour if there aren’t too many spikes.

Alternatively, if you put a mattress over them they become useless, although you do risk having the city take the mattress. Normally they don’t reinstall the spikes if you keep removing them.

As for the benches, a concrete or hand held circular saw can cut off the arm rests of the benches with too many arm rests to sleep on. Just remember: Wear protective goggles and practice proper safety if using power tools. All of this stuff can be bought at Home Depot or your local variant of Home Depot.

For legal purposes I have to advise you that this is illegal and I’m not advising you to do this.

remember: they can’t catch you if you’re faster than they are!

Also!! If you wear a hard hat- orange construction vest and carry a clipboard people are more likely to believe your legit and not call the cops on you

ok, that last one is pretty good advice

I fucking HATE society

It seriously breaks my heart ;-;

let me be very clear that if you voted for donald trump or support him in any capacity you are not welcome here. my blog is not the place for you and i do not want you interacting with me. 

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Is 1 in 100 immigrants possibly harming me supposed to be a threat when it was recently found that 6% of Americans actively support neo-nazi views?

Sounds like the immigrants would just be improving the country.

As usual.