22. Pansexual. Gender is a mystery that I haven't yet solved,so any pronouns. Autistic. INFP
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mostweakhamlets:

mostweakhamlets:

I really hope people online aren’t getting the wrong impression of unions and that they’re flawless Things that will protect them from any and all mistreatment and that strikes are fun little treats union workers get

Unions are People not Things. Union leaders can fuck up. Unions can definitely operate in a way that gets you low wages and poor benefits if you’re not being represented well.

A union by itself does not guarantee you anything. Unions take work and money to run. You pay dues, you go to meetings, you vote. You protect each other in a union. You don’t join a union and magically have everything taken care of for you.

Strikes are a powerful tool but are scary. They’re not a goal to achieve. Unions don’t aim to go on strike during negotiations.

Anonymous asked:

Why don't zoomers use emulators or torrent things anymore? A good amount of zoomers could probably figure it out with time but people either just buy digital games or use pirate streaming sites.

3liza:

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I think there’s a certain technical knowledge gap between people whose first computer was a Windows XP machine and people whose first computer was an iPad. On a mobile device like that, even the filesystem is abstracted away from you, so if that’s all you’ve used your whole life, you may not know what a “folder” or a “file” is. If you don’t know what those are, how could you be expected to understand something like torrenting? Then add the layer of a VPN, which is basically a necessity when torrenting lest you get a love letter from your ISP, and I’d say it’s all but impenetrable for our strawman.

Idk man. Torrenting isn’t hard, but there’s a barrier to entry that a lot of people who grew up using smartphones aren’t equipped to handle. There are plenty of millenials who don’t know how to torrent either, and plenty of zoomers who do. It’s just a technological generation gap.

a big reason is that zoomers are terrified of “viruses”, an amorphous threat they’ve heard about their whole lives in association with piracy but don’t actually understand. I run a discord specifically geared towards helping newbies learn to pirate things and generally be more independent on their devices and this is usually the first bit of misinformation (that viruses are omnipresent and all-powerful and impossible to avoid) we have to debunk for people.

in working with people on this project I’m finding that fear in general is a major generational culture difference. zoomers are terrified of everything. they have a good reason to be, don’t get me wrong, but most of them have been taught no coping skills or resiliency whatsoever, they’ve just been raised to be scared of everything all the time without any lessons on how to do things that scare them and manage risk, and a lot of them only have avoidance as a coping tool.

they especially have not been taught to critically think about supposed threats or research the truth about rumors or stories they’ve heard, and “researching” anything on Google is now such a dicey proposition I’m not sure you can even really debunk things for yourself anymore unless you’ve already grown up without Web 3. this isn’t their fault, their parents and teachers have done this intentionally, but it really makes me angry that so many young people are being needlessly made to suffer like this.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so much zoomer horror, especially creepypasta, is based on the ideas of ghosts in the machine, malevolent third party or “rogue” software, mind controlling corporate software projects, etc. millennials wrote most of these stories but zoomers are the primary audience and their consumption of the genre reflects their anxieties about technology

slutwater:

21stcenturyschizoidfag:

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My plentiful harvest

deconstructed log cabin for sale OBO

spiffiesttea:

there is a beast of some sorts in my askbox

a screenshot of a tumblr ask boxed. it is filled with anonymous asks in all caps saying, "GET SCARED!!! RAHHH!! GRGRGRRR!!"ALT

canadianwheatpirates:

trashincognito:

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I think sometimes people forget that the gov is the corporations’ bitch, not the other way round.

This has made the city go “wait, it sucks that we can’t punish corporations who do this”, though:

Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia tweeted Friday that StreetsLA would be fining Universal Studios $250 for trimming trees without a city permit. He also said that “outdated laws limit fine amounts and aren’t equitable across offenders, especially big corporations” and that he will recommend these laws be reevaluated. 

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egberts:

striders:

mothman-did-nothing-wrong:

striders:

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can anyone translate whatever the hell my little brother has going on rn

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this is such a good point. @walnutsupreme why aren’t you doing numbers yet

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crunchbuttsteak:

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Decision 2024

lacefuneral:

lacefuneral:

lacefuneral:

sipnet:

towerofglass:

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House is pregnant

good for him!!!!

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it was a baby girl! what should he name her?

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all VERY good suggestions!

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krystal-prisms:

todaysbird:

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good. you do not deserve to have bird imagery

Tumblr has the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing with their next mobile icon update

blackwidownat2814:

eames-with-a-rose:

mysticalchildkore:

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Fact

That’s not a controversial opinion…it’s the truth.

tazatouille:
“I CREATED YOU. YOU CREATED ME.
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tazatouille:

I CREATED YOU. YOU CREATED ME.

desolationlesbian:

Explaining to all companies that the three requirements for me to use a social media with any frequency are:

  • A chronological follow-only feed, ideally which I can set as default
  • Anonymity (my real name and face are not required)
  • Have a desktop version

You may call me boomer or whatever but if a social media doesn’t have bare minimum these three things then I will never use it ever. I won’t even make an account. You can suck at everything else but these are non-negotiable. The fact that they are anathema to profitability does not matter to me. If you cannot provide me these three things then I will simply not use any social media at all.

mcgregor:

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You and I both know who could help you with this.
AHSOKA |
August 23