I can’t stand all this talk about Alexa being a wiretap, that is a gross misrepresentation of the purpose of devices like Alexa and their function in our lives. if it’s not intercepting phone calls through some connection to your phone line, it’s not a wiretap and it’s not wiretapping.
the correct terms for a covert listening device are bug and bugging.
Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.
Stop using "miku made (x)" to defend something being shit. Miku didn't make minecraft. Notch did. Notch is a nazi and a generally evil person and his antisemitism is present in minecraft whether you like it or not. I love minecraft but the villagers make me uncomfortable. I'm not comfortable as a jew w/ characters who are big nosed and money-loving, made by a nazi, being treated as these cute icons by the "uwu minecraft cottagecore frog snail bees miku" crowd.
I like minecraft! But like. Stop using this stupid meme to excuse and ignore its faults.
Adding on as an ethnic jew here! I think the origins of the Miku meme were wholesome, but most people just use that meme as a way to like, avoid thinking critically about anything. Whenever I try to talk about Minecraft’s faults, and the way it was affected by Notch, I am interrupted every time I say his name with “you mean MIKU” and it’s just...I don’t know, disheartening?
People are starting to do the same thing with Harry Potter now, and it’s really deconstructing Jewish people’s discussions about things in the source material that CANNOT be separated from the creator, like the villagers in Minecraft as per your example. The way goyim exclude actual Jewish people from conversations that have EVERYTHING to do with Jewish people needs to change.
On a side note, if you draw villagers as like a ‘cutesy’ thing, please be careful with the features you give them. Generally be cautious about antisemetic stereotypes of Jewish people, and apply that caution when drawing villagers, or hell, ANY character. And if I see anyone making an ‘evil banker villager with a big ol’ nose and evil goat horns UwU’ OC, I will go fucking ballistic.
TL;DR: LISTEN TO US JEWISH PEOPLE! And be careful of stereotypes in your media/characters.
Wait you’re telling me the reason we call it a romp of otters or a murder of crows is just cuz some jackass back in 1486 was just fucking making shit up???
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to do this challenge as neatly as planned, but work has killed me these past days and everything is just a little too much right now. I’m still angry and disappointed I had to bring inktober to a halt, especially because I felt I was doing good so far…but it was bound to happen sooner or later anyway.
Anonymous asked:
What is antifa fighting for? Ive seen videos where you all mostly appear to just be bullies. But i dont believe the videos as im sure they are editing based on someone else's agenda. I just thought I would go to the source so i can make an informed decision.
Antifa’s fight is best summed up by the motto “respect existence or expect resistance.” We are fighting for the right of people to live their lives peaceably and without threat of discrimination, dehumanization, vilification, scapegoating, deportation, abuse, violence, enslavement, or genocide because of their ethnicity, race, religion, language, gender or sexual orientation, migrant status, or disability.
You’re correct that the videos you’re seeing are carefully edited to make antifa look like the aggressors. There’s a clear pattern going on that runs like this:
a) fascists/far right bigots announce a public event to incite violence against their perceived enemies, recruit more followers, and gain publicity.
c) the day comes and the people in the community they’ve chosen for their event stand with anti-fascists in opposition to them.
d) some of the more tech-savvy fascists deliberately try to provoke counterprotestors by threatening them, harassing them, endangering them, or assaulting them.
e) the counterprotestors use every means imaginable to stop this without resorting to physical force. When none of it is effective & they resort to physical force, the fascists record it, then post edited videos showing only the reaction to their harassment & assaults, then immediately start begging online for money via crowdfunders etc.
b) From that same event, the “innocent elderly gentleman” who was “assaulted with a crowbar” by antifa is well known local nazi John Blum, who came to the event with a collapsable police baton which he was threatening antifa with for several minutes.
d) Likewise the “antifa attacked an innocent father and his 5-year-old daughter.” That was Johnny “shitty 300 cosplayer” Turano and his 24-year-old adult daughter Bianca, who travel the west coast harassing leftist protestors like they did this past Saturday, showing up at an entirely peaceful counterprotest and harassing people for the better part of an hour. Johnny repeatedly tried to smash people in the face with a metal shield before the crowd made them run away by dousing them with water and pushing them. Here’s a particularly creepy video of the two of them getting tattoos, which we’re pretty sure a five-year-old wouldn’t be allowed to do. Here’s another video of them calling an actual five-year-old girl a terrorist.
You have to ask yourself why people would be going to these lengths to make anti-fascists look bad. Maybe it’s because they see antifa as a threat to their political goals + they also see an opportunity to make bank off of gullible conservatives by revving up the ol’ right wing outrage machine.
Look, at the end of the day, if you’re not smart enough to recognize that facism is bad and should be fought against, maybe you should take a long, hard look in a mirror.
So I read an article today where the BBC interviewed the Untitled Goose Game developers and they referred to the goose with singular they/them pronouns in:
The goose isn’t morally righteous. The goose sits outside of human morality. They aren’t causing trouble because it’s the right thing to do… they’re doing it because they’re a goose.