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We live in hell.

Musk moving on from monkeys to the kind of people who would volunteer to test his technology just solves two problems in my book...

NO. The desperate and destitute are included among the “types who would volunteer,” and also people don’t deserve to be tortured to death just because they’re annoying and stupid. “Annoying” and “stupid” are not crimes, but the torture of animals and humans alike should be a crime under all circumstances. We should be sickened by the thought of anyone being tortured at all, for any reason. There are some lines that should not be crossed.

Frankly, the fact that Musk is not already on trial for animal cruelty is baffling to me. In world where the public got their scientific knowledge from actual scientists, as opposed to science fiction movies, he would be. Any brain scientist (or for that matter, any family doctor) worth their salt could’ve told him that his experiments wouldn’t work.

Firstly, the brain does not respond well to even the mildest of internal injuries.

Secondly, the nervous system is a closed system- it has not evolved to receive electrical input from outside sources in any meaningful or functional way.

And finally, the human brain is more than just a series of electrical impulses, and our current understanding of it barely scratches the surface of its complexity. Comparing the brain to a modern computer is like comparing a smart phone to two cups connected by a string. I don’t care how “far” we’ve come in robotics and AI, computer scientists need to be fucking humbled.

Then again, Elon Musk and other technology junkies like him have a long-standing habit of ignoring biology. For example, one of the limitations that makes living on Mars literally impossible is the fact that Earth’s atmosphere contains more nitrogen than carbon and oxygen combined. You cannot keep the air in an enclosed system breathe-able just by filling it with plants, because plants alone are not enough to replace Earth’s nitrogen cycle. And I’ll bet my bottom dollar that Elon has no knowledge of the nitrogen cycle, because I can guarantee he has never once considered asking an environmental scientist for any help whatsoever. No need for biology when you have physics and math to play with.

It’s a hold-over from early religious philosophy that assumed the “spirit” was more “pure” than the body, and therefore more important. Biology is squishy and gross, computers are metallic and clean, therefore we should all want to exchange our flawed biological bodies for “pure” robotic ones. But now I’m rambling.

Man who famously ignores health and safety standards while releasing products prone to major failure with inadequate protective measures, who has literally never understood a single scientific principle in his life, would like you to let him experiment on your brain!

I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

congrats to these people on being funnier than me on my own fucking post

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human: dude you've been in our d&d group for literally like three years, you don't need to keep asking if you're invited every time

vampire: i knowww, i just get anxious ok?

human: oh fair

I feel personally attacked. Lol

One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this “I will not speak to you without a lawyer” can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state “I am now invoking my right to a lawyer” and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with “I am invoking my right to have a lawyer present”. You can’t just tell them you won’t talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say “well they just said they wouldn’t speak without a lawyer present. That’s not invoking their rights to a lawyer. It’s just stating a fact.” even just stating your right to a lawyer doesn’t count!

PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.

Here are some more “ambiguous” phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:

“Maybe I should speak to my lawyer first.”

“I might like a lawyer.”

“I think I should have a lawyer present for this.”

“Could I speak to my lawyer first?”

“How long until my lawyer gets here?”

And perhaps most egregiously – “Get me a lawyer, dawg – ‘cause this is not what’s up.”

Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:

1) “Am I free to leave?”

It’s worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were “not in custody” to get around their Miranda rights.

2) “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”

Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.

3) “I am invoking my right to an attorney.”

As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Don’t get cute. Don’t get sassy. And on the flip side, don’t get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly – say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.

Because even after you’ve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. They’re not supposed to interrogate you, but they’re allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, that’s really your fault for talking after you said you wouldn’t, isn’t it? Can’t possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated – if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldn’t have talked to them in the first place.

The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once you’ve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy. 

Putting it all together:

Ask: “Am I free to leave?”

If they say no, say: “I am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.”

And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.

Finally, a very important disclaimer:

I may be a lawyer, but I’m not your lawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what I’ve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didn’t get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight – we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were “too ambiguous” or certain types of questioning weren’t actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is still fundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it. Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, there’s a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no one’s even thought of yet – and that’s precisely the problem.

Watch this video: “Don’t Talk To The Police”

I am begging my followers to please watch this video from start to finish. I know it’s long, but it is incredibly valuable information that everyone needs to know, especially if you’re involved in any form of activism.

Every single cop lies. Every single cop lies and manipulates and twists the situation around to get a confession. Even when they know that the person is innocent, even when they know that what they have isn’t enough to convict someone, even when they know that that confession has been made under duress or manipulation. All they care about is getting anything to put someone behind bars.

It doesn’t matter how eloquent or innocent or experienced you are. Do not talk to cops.

The video is a doozy. Aside from all the good advice, the racist dog whistling from the officer really jumps out. In fact, his whole segment was pretty effective to drive home the point that officers are literally trained to manipulate you and fuck you over. He does say he doesn’t “try” to put innocent people in prison, but he never says he tries to keep them out either. He also explicitly states that he destroys material that could be helpful to you.

In short, DO NOT TALK TO COPS.

hey y’all please please please read this and watch the video and do research if you can, this is really scary /srs

Hack the planet. 

SHES IN THE SYSTEM!!!!

*hacker voice*

AAAAAAAAAAA

[Video description: A video of a toddler standing at a laptop on a low table, mimicking typing by mashing her fingers into the keys. Two people behind the camera talk as the baby types.

Person 1: Hack the cloud.

Person 2: Hack the cloud, hack the cloud, girl.

1: Hacking hacking… wait, are you in the mainframe? Get in the mainframe!

(The baby points at something on the screen)

1: Yeah, there’s the mainframe. Get it!

(Person 2 laughs)

1: Get in the mainframe!

(The baby looks up and yells excitedly)

1: Yeah! We’re in!

2: Yes! Get it, girl, get it!

1: We’re in!

2: Hacking hacking hacking! Go go go!

(Baby starts excitedly slapping the keys with open hands)

(Person 2 wheezily laughs)

1: That’s what I do too.

End description.]

I will not sleep until feminism has achieved examples of Those Two Guys or Just Some Guys in movies, like, character design that is funky, possibly dumb as shit, absolutely a good time

I want this for us

you know what? I finally remembered an example of this.

Despite everything … Undertale is still here for us.

the decrease in costuming quality over the last 20 years has been soooo precipitous & nauseating. i’m not even talking abt marvel’s cg supersuits or anything this time, look at the fabric quality, structure, layering, character, and craftsmanship of older costumes in 102 dalmations (2000) vs cruella (2021)

ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)

lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)

this trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. don’t forget costumers are unionized

*slams hands on table*

"N-no, that's not all! They burn whole villages and hold princesses against their will!"

[knight continues to advance]

ultimately i think the reason i don't take a deeper dive into scp stuff is because nothing will ever live up to scp 5031

it starts with Edgy Murder Monster (Who Is Weird) standard fare and then ten or so diagrams later you are like. profoundly emotionally invested. and then you get to the last sentence which makes you cry irl

researcher 1: this right here is a murderbeast. lock it in the shame cube and never pay attention to it

me: yeah okay. it's a keter scp what did i expect.

researcher 2, ten years later: i never met researcher 1 but he was a Bitch. anyway i want to know if scp5031 can befriend a chicken.

me, already reaching for the tissues,

I’m actually gonna go ahead and link to 5031 just to try to encourage even one more person to enjoy what’s got to be one of the greatest literary achievements of the past decade.

my only further thoughts that i want to express shall be expressed through these memes

Ok I read the link and I am actually crying now. “one of the greatest literary achievements of the past decade” I’m not arguing

Transcript:

Hey, Big Al, why do all the people in my life with ADHD have such a weird sense of humor?

Oh, that's 'cause we're all super understimulated.

What does that even mean?

Imagine that the inside of your brain had an itch that you really couldn't scratch, but that itch was actually boredom, but that boredom was actually pain.

Oh, I see, yeah, that- that helps me none, zero at all. It also sounds pretty terrifying.

No, it- it's really not a big deal, you just kinda have to learn to restructure your life around it, including comedy.

Okay, so how does it affect the way that you interpret comedy?

So a side effect of understimulation is that your brain is constantly and more often than others' active. You're always thinking, you're always analyzing, you're always trying to problem solve. Because of exactly that, normal comedy and normal humor is a bit predictive, and doesn't really land with people with ADHD.

So what does land with people with ADHD?

Stark, abrupt chaos. Because it cannot be predicted, nor calculated.

Okay, so what would that even look like?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Okay, why?

The Fitnessgram Pacer Test is-

That landed for me

Holy fucking shit

yeah I’d carry that one over too

Stuff like this hit's really close to home with me because I had an abusive paternal figure growing up. It's easy for you to assume that this is an outrageously extreme example that someone's prolly just blowing out of proportion; don't. Abusers often use tactics like this. It's about control and taking control away from their victims. This also means controlling the narrative, and controlling who the victim can talk to about their issues. The thing is, over issues like this, the best response is to assume the victim is being legit. Even if they're not, wishing them well won't have anywhere close to the same repercussions as assuming a legitimate victim of abuse is lying. I'm only saying this bit here because there are people in the notes of this post trying to play this entire post off as a hoax. I am talking to them personally now. You are not helping anyone except the abuser. The best-case scenario here is that you are a child who's never had to live with abuse. Because the worst-case scenario is that you yourself are an abuser. Either way, the best thing for you is to stop.

this this thiiiiis AND adding to clarify, one of the biggest signs of abuse is that it sounds fake. which is bizarre, i know, but it’s part of the control.

it’s hard to take abuse seriously even when it’s happening to you. abuse is terrifying, it’s seriously fucked up, so victims don’t want to think it’s real. this happens to everyone. it’s how the brain protects itself.

OP wants to believe that of course their husband is a rational good hearted person who just needs to understand tha water and lights cost money, they’re not hurting the OP on purpose, this is a misunderstanding. no one would do anything so bizarre deliberately, right? it’s unbelieveable. sounds fake.

and it sounds fake to other people, too. OP can’t tell the story without sounding like a crazy lying bitch. i guarantee you if she brought it up in front of a third party, her husband would deny that it’s happening.

that is the abuse. that is gaslighting. he is changing her perception of reality to one that he controls. he is saying, Bizarre and crazy bullshit will happen to you and you have to fucking accept it as normal, and if you dare to talk about it no one is gonna believe your story.

The only thing I can imagine that could explain this is that he's deliberately trying to make her think she's crazy. And it's working.

She needs to get out.

This is sometimes referred to as the “Trunchbull Method”, yes, like the horrifically abusive principal in Matilda.

She does it on purpose, and actually explains why in the book.

Essentially, if you are going to be abusive, she says you should go 150%. Really commit, be as wildly over the top as you can… that way, if your victim ever does get the courage to tell someone about it, what you did will sound so outlandish that no one will believe them.

“Our principal doesn’t like pigtails, so she picked a girl up by her hair and threw her over the fence.”

No parent would believe that… it’s too far. Surely no one would do that. (But if you know the story, you know it happened.)

“My husband leaves every light in the house on and every faucet running all day, and says that it’s literally impossible not to… and when I’ve tried to explain why it’s a problem, his excuse is that I’m not a mechanic, so he doesn’t have to.”

It sounds unbelievable… no one would be that stubborn and off-base, right? And most people who hear that won’t believe it. Which is how her husband wants it.

If he can break her down and make her doubt her own sense of reality and logic over something as trivial as a lightbulb, that leaves her wide open to manipulation on major issues like money, pregnancy, property.

The Trunchbull Method is insidious, especially when there’s no physical abuse and it’s just emotional/verbal. With the right conditioning, most of the victims don’t even see it as abuse.

Notice how she’s the sole member of the household with a job, that he’s mooching off her and has been for some time, and has been gaslighting her (while wasting hundreds of dollars, if not thousands) for months, to the point where she is genuinely wondering if she is insane…

…and even when people point out the abuse, she still firmly believes that it’s not? She wants to reach out for help, but she still feels guilty, because he tells her it’s her fault… and a part of her believes it.

This is exactly how this method of abuse works. When someone tells you what’s going on, and it sounds like abuse, calling them a liar or saying you don’t believe it will only ever help their abuser.

Believe them. Help them. Make sure they know you support them. Help to ground them in reality if you can, assure them that they aren’t crazy. That their thought process is rational.

example: “You’re right- turning off lights when you leave a room is very easy. And small children learn to turn off faucets when they’re done with them. You’re correct. His behavior doesn’t make sense, and neither does his excuse.”

Make sure they know you’re in their corner and will stand by them.

On average, it takes seven tries to leave an abusive relationship. Seven.

The more support a victim has, the faster that number goes down.

Update: as of 4 days ago (today is 11/19/2021) she left him and is trying to get her life together… but knows that she is struggling with the loneliness.

She goes into a lot of the things he did (tw: he body-shamed her, insulted her, and hit her regularly) but here’s her update. If you can and feel up to it, please offer her some support and love. Let’s do what we can to make sure she doesn’t feel alone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/quo3s6/i_separated_from_my_husband_who_was_abusive_how/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Oh thank heaven she’s okay

“that is the abuse. that is gaslighting. he is changing her perception of reality to one that he controls. he is saying, Bizarre and crazy bullshit will happen to you and you have to fucking accept it as normal, and if you dare to talk about it no one is gonna believe your story.”

shit I think I needed to hear that

Please, please, please reach out if this is happening to you. Emotional abuse is real, and it often starts that way and escalates into physical and sexual violence.

You are not alone. You are not crazy. (And even if you were, you deserve to live with people who treat you well.)

The phone number for the US national domestic violence hotline is 1-800-799-7233. You can also text START to 88788. They're available 24/7, and have English, Spanish, and 200+ other languages available. (Immigrants are at greater risk for being abused.)

Please spread this!

lizard out there really gonna do it

this lizard is braver than any US marine

he’s going for it, the absolute madlad

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Pass along and use the shit out of them

No one should own knowledge, and the pursuit of knowledge should be guarenteed.

👏👏 NO ONE SHOULD OWN KNOWLEDGE AND THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE GUARANTEED 👏👏

I’m sorry I’m trying to read the subtitles.

Thank you Queen 🖤

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WOW, THANK YOU ISN’T ENOUGH 👏🏽

So dope

This may be one of the most fascinating and attractive things I have ever seen. They IMPROVISED that?

Yes they did! God, I love Jack and Jill competitions, they are the coolest. They’re like the best part of a dance social (spontaneity; leaning into the lead-follow connection; the joy of dancing with different people and not just your choreography partner, so you get the same moves and steps with different style and feeling and nuance) but combined with the absolutely insane level of skill that you get when people have been dancing as amateurs and professionals for literal years.

Here’s another, one of my favorite dance videos online. Trendlyon Veal and Robert Royston are both West Coast Swing dancers, so there’s no crossover appeal, but look at them. LOOK AT THEM GO.