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Anonymous asked:
WHERE is the video with the guy with the laptop dancing to really bad music please i need this
before i hit play i was like “I’m sure ‘bad music’ is subjective” … and then
every time i see a 4chan screenshot with (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) it always makes me laugh regardless of if the post is actually funny just because of the public announcement that they took op out back and shot them
"This tweet has been deleted." is close but not nearly as funny
Anonymous asked:
would you pick up an electrode for us 🥺
no. i cant throw an electrode that far
feel free to stop reblogging this literally any time
One day my mom overheard me and my friends talking about anime and asked what "tsundere" meant. After I explained it to her, she said, "oh, so it's just like you then", which is NOT something you can come back from
For a few weeks later she took to calling me "tsundere" at any given opportunity. It was hellish and my friends never let me live it down
Looking at the past 10 years of box office Top 10s, it’s far faster to note which movies aren’t based on a pre-existing property: Frozen, Gravity, Inside Out, Zootopia, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Onward and Tenet. That's it. Eight movies out of 100. Two of them even let you see a person.
autistic power couple
When you fuck around and find out you now longer have a job.
I'm going to post something and I know it's going to be controversial, but I need everyone to read to the end and see where I'm coming from here. Please read this carefully before you reply, because I know a knee jerk reaction to this will be negative.
We have got to stop saying that killing all sex offenders is okay. We have to stop with the "kill your local rapist uwu" crap.
Look, I'm a survivor. I get hating abusers. I would be fine if my abuser got hit by an eighteen wheeler. But this idea that all sex offenders should be killed is bad.
First, let's look at the original reason behind the Sex Offender Registry (SOR). In 1989, Jacob Wetterling was murdered by a neighbor with a previous conviction for assaulting a child and because computers weren't common yet, cops couldn't easier check on the local pedophiles. The idea was to have a list of local offenders to check when similar crimes appeared. Makes sense, right?
But the SOR didn't stay limited to violent offenders. It expanded to include anyone who committed a sex crime (we'll get to what that means in a second). It also let civilians see who was on it, but not why. It became a way to prevent people from living near schools and denying people jobs. It created a homelessness problem and widespread vigilantism.
Second, let's discuss what a sex crime is. It's not synonymous with rape or assault. It's not even synonymous with harassment. Sex crimes includes everything from having sex in public, sex work, public urination, and streaking, to violent crimes like assault and rape. Being on the SOR doesn't say what the crime is so there's just as much chance that a person did something stupid as someone being a full blown predator. This doesn't matter to vigilantes. It means that someone who went streaking in college can't live near schools even if they're not a pedophile and have nothing to do with attacking kids.
What is and isn't a sex crime is vague and that can be added to. Kentucky has made drag a sex crime. Florida and Texas made supporting transgender children and giving them medical care into a sex crime. Do we want transgender people to be on the SOR? Are we really threatening to kill those people because they live in the deep south?
Let's not pretend that this hasn't happened. A Tumblr user explained that her wife is on the SOR for hitting on a woman in a bar in the 1990s. She was arrested for soliciting. She wasn't doing that but it didn't matter. Homophobia won. Even after the law was changed and homophobia was officially stricken from the books after the Lawrence ruling, she remained on the registry. That brings me to my next point.
Third, the registry is forever. Yes, I believe that predators will always prey on people and usually can't be reformed, but as I've said, not all of these people are predators. If you get caught for public urination because you're blackout drunk in your twenties, you will be on the registry when you're fifty. Getting off that registry is nearly impossible, even if your conviction is over turned. The woman I mentioned in the previous paragraph attempted to get off the list three times unsuccessfully.
Fourth, there are juveniles on the SOR for "child porn", because they took pictures of themselves. The law is so strict that anyone caught with pictures of nude minors goes on the registry, even if the picture is of themselves and was taken consensually, or was a picture of a partner who was the same age. I think we can agree that sexting as a minor is a bad idea but minors still do it. Putting a sixteen year old on a permanent registry, preventing him from getting jobs or housing, because he took a dick pic is insane. This is the result of zero tolerance laws.
In a similar vein, people on the SOR are often unable to see their own children at schools or hospitals because they're unable to be around kids. That would make sense for someone who is a known pedophile, but it doesn't make sense for anyone who fits any other scenario. Again, we're making it impossible for people who went streaking once to visit their own children in hospitals.
The sex offender registry takes people who have committed a variety of crimes (and some of those shouldn't be crimes to begin with) and paints them all with the same brush. We can't pretend that someone who has sex in public is equivalent to someone who has assaulted multiple people. They're not comparable. The SOR was established to make it easier for police to solve crimes but it's warped into way to brand people and make them easy marks for vigilantes. Saying we should kill everyone on that list is absurd.
This will get worse as more transphobic laws are added. Trans women will be marked as a predators for merely existing. Trans people who use the bathroom might be on a list forever. Parents who love and support their children will be labeled as sex offenders and unable to see not only their kids, but any child.
I know a lot of well intentioned liberals are saying things like "guillotine all sex offenders" and similar things as a way to counteract the lack of support survivors get and the number of people who manage to stay out of jail and offend again and again. I get it. I do. But this rhetoric is very right wing and it encourages the sort of violent attacks that the far right is famous for. The GOP, despite being the hard on crime party, encourages vigilantes. When a person is killed, it's easy to dismiss their murder because they were a sex offender. We saw this with one of Kyle Rittenhouse's victims. Was that man actually a pedophile? I don't know. But his murder should be brought to justice regardless of anything else. Victims don't stop being victims because the victim is a bad person.
This isn't new. Multiple right wing governments, including the US, have labeled political dissidents as perverts to get away with harming them. Just look at the Lavender Scare led by Sen. McCarthy. The public doesn't care if perverts and pedophiles get sent to prisons.
I am not saying we shouldn't punish child abusers, harassers, and rapists. We should. But we have to really consider how flawed our justice system is and how many innocent people are on the SOR before we talk about killing everyone on it.
The people who are convicted of violent sex crimes, the ones that do the most harm, also don't deserve to be on a public registry
The SOR is making people homeless because even if there are no zoning restrictions or they can find a place to live with restrictions, it's hard to find a place to rent. It's hard to find a job. No house no job, hard to do your check ins, hard to pay for your new license or whatever other fees they throw at you. Fail to show up or pay? Back to jail for you. Restrictions like these just perpetuate the prison system
I agree with everything said about how there are bullshit reasons people get put on these lists and people may even be innocent of any actual crime and still get on here
But action against "kill all rapists" mindsets needs to include the type of people you don't have any sympathy for
This is also true. The existence of the SOR assumes that people can never change and doesn't allow for change.
Restrictive probations are pretty much a way for the state to get money. That's true for pretty much all probation.
Dude literally received death threats from Italian fascists for his research on Italian cuisine
Read this article here (no paywall):
“Parmesan, he says, is remarkably ancient, around a millennium old. But before the 1960s, wheels of parmesan cheese weighed only about 10kg (as opposed to the hefty 40kg wheels we know today) and were encased in a thick black crust. Its texture was fatter and softer than it is nowadays. “Some even say that this cheese, as a sign of quality, had to squeeze out a drop of milk when pressed,” Grandi says. “Its exact modern-day match is Wisconsin parmesan.” He believes that early 20th-century Italian immigrants, probably from the Po’ region north of Parma, started producing it in Wisconsin and, unlike the cheesemakers back in Parma, their recipe never evolved. So while Parmigiano in Italy became over the years a fair-crusted, hard cheese produced in giant wheels, Wisconsin parmesan stayed true to the original.”
Another Wisconsin cheese W
