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I'm of two minds about how smoothly the folks coming over from Reddit are integrating. Like, yes, on the one hand, being welcoming to newcomers is a virtue – but on the other hand, inventing new cultural norms on the spot and insisting with a straight face that we've always done things this way just to fuck with them a little is a time-honoured tradition (come on, back me up here, Australia), and I can't help but feel that we're missing an opportunity for community enrichment.
but it’s so funny when they find out that what we’re telling them is true
they dont want us to know this but the real cure to the agonies is to engage in shenanigans. tomfoolery even
They are studying us in petri dishes
I laughed so hard at this. If this wasn't my own experiences with multiple fandoms on here I don't know what is. 😂
In case anyone actually cares about this issue, some good news: 227 migrants were rescued off the Canary Islands and 294 migrants were rescued off the coast of Italy yesterday/today.
Haven't seen anyone talking about it on here for some reason so I thought I'd share!
Ok everyone time for the big question:
YOU AINT AS SLICK AS YOU THINK YOU ARE
IT'S ALL CHROMIUM BASED
FIREFOX IS THE ONLY NON CHROMIUM BASED BROWSER ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW
STOP LETTING GOOGLE WIN AND JUST SWITCH TO FIREFOX
IT TAKES LIKE 5 MINUTES AND IT PORTS OVER ALL YOUR PASSWORDS AND BOOKMARKS
I AM BEGGING YOU
tomfoolery at an all time high
we are so fucking back baby
THIS IS BIG BIG BIG! YES!
NO MORE FED USE OF PRIVATE PRISONS!
President Biden signed the executive order January 27, 2021. This is the first time I’ve even heard of this. Here are a couple of links with more info:
Biden gets a lot of flack for being a generic neo liberal rather than a cool leftist, and trust me I’m 100% on board with criticizing Biden, but it occurred to me that, at least by my standards, he’s the best president I’ve lived under. Clinton was just “What if Reaganomics but with a saxophone”, Obama did pass the ACA, but he also cut it to bits to appease the republicans who didn’t vote for it anyway, and he constantly bombed middle-eastern civilians. I’m not even gonna bother mentioning any of the republicans since I don’t need to convince my intended audience that they’re bad.
Biden, while he’s obviously had some major bad decisions (breaking the rail strike, failing to defend trans rights), has done more actual good than I think anyone else I’ve lived under. He’s nearly completely ended drone strikes, he’s addressing the debt crisis (everyone knows about the $10k, but very few I’ve seen know about the changes he’s made to how federal student loans work that make them far less of a burden/deathtrap), and now there’s the above, which I’m just learning about.
Never let perfect be the enemy of good, and while Biden is very far from being a perfect president, I’m pretty comfortable calling him a good one.
There is smth enormously dispiriting seeing the race to save the submersible separated in the nyt headlines listing by barely a sentence from the greek mass migrant drowning scandal
If you feel powerless and demoralised in the face of news like the recent shipwreck, consider donating to reputable search-and-rescue charities like SOS Mediterranee, which operates two rescue ships to help prevent needless loss of life among migrants making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean
These organisations are not a complete solution to the political problem of the migrant crisis in Europe, but they are a way of ensuring your money is spent on saving lives
I get why people are talking about the whole submarine titanic thing.
It's awful.
But I'm here to address a different boat related tragedy.
One that absolutely breaks my heart.
Where a boat of migrants sank off the coast of Greece.
This boat had 300 Pakistanis and more than 500 Syrians.
The boat was carrying migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Egypt who were fleeing their countries dire economic conditions.
And we're trying to reach relatives in Europe.
What happened with the submarine is a terrible thing.
I just wish this story got the same coverage.
One is about billionaires the other about people escaping economic disasters.
Both about people losing their lives.
This definitely reminds me of the captain, Carola Rackete, who rescued 42 refugees at sea was facing jail time for her kindness and for helping them—because Italy’s policy was to NOT help refugees at sea.
(source)
There are two completely different standards for rescues at sea, depending on your country of origin and your skin color.
And refugees and asylum seekers from the global south are treated just as badly on land.
These glaring double standards are racism, plain and simple.
And for the record, anyone and everyone from the Greek Coastguard ship who helped sink the boat full of innocent men, women and children need to face a lifetime in prison.
This is very clever.
I like this.
One of the issues we are facing now, given that venture capital is no longer fire hosing cash into social media networks (or at least not in the way it used to 10-15 years ago) is sites need to make money.
Having a tag that is affordable to say "I have services, they are available" helps fix that.
Independent creators have been able to create relatively gargantuan-sized audiences for very, very, very little money in comparison to pre-social media methods. Which is a good thing.
As we start hitting the brick wall of "networks need money" + "independent creators having access to cheap marketing is a good thing," clever solutions need to exist.
This is one such and it's great.
Sorting and filtering capabilities are undoubtedly not far behind and/or on some whiteboard somewhere.
This is immensely pleasing.
So, they found the wreckage of the oceangate sub. That window at the front of the sub that they advertised as being the biggest one of all the deep sea submersibles? The one that was only certified to 1,300 metres, even though they were planning on repeatedly going to depths of nearly 4,000 metres?
Yeah, well, it failed (wow what a shock. not) and there was a "catastrophic implosion," and the guys on board are dead. Like, instantly dead.
Details are scarce at present, but the wreck has been found less than 500 metres from the wreck of the titanic, and I suspect that the implosion happened during the descent and was what caused the loss of contact (that the ship on the surface then took 8 hours to report).
And honestly???? I feel like that's the kindest possible outcome for the men in question. I personally would choose an instantaneous death rather than spending over three days in a metal coffin at the bottom of the ocean waiting for the oxygen to run out, squashed into the space with 4 other people who are all panicking and defecating and urinating and vomiting in the tiny space with me.
Apparently the submersible split in two, by the way. Just like the Titanic itself. The submersible that was called the Titan. So the Titan and the Titanic are now both resting at the bottom of the ocean, both split in two, and five more souls have been claimed by those waters. Do you think we might stop sending people down to look at the wreckage now, or nah?
if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality
the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts
