i hate holiday music so much “giddyup jinglehorse pick up your feet” has the mouthfeel of somethign my homophobic high school coach would yell at me on track day
Are you aware that Amazon Ring Cameras are partnering with Flock to create a private database of your face, license plate, movement patterns, and then selling that data to law enforcement and federal agencies?
Not just that, they’ve been just giving specific user data to police without warrants for nearly a decade. Street view, voice capture, indoor outdoor cameras, everything captured by Ring and other Amazon devices.
What’s more insulting is their devices are more expensive than those that don’t require a constant internet connection. So you give Beff Jezos access to your personal life to do what he pleases with, and you pay him for the privilege.
I think a big reason why “children are an oppressed group” gets (wrongly!) read as a “pedophile talking point” is that everyone treats children so terribly that actual child molesters can speedrun winning a kid’s trust by like, actually respecting their needs and perspective, at least at first. Which means that the only way out of this mess is for all of us adults to treat children with respect, so that abusers can’t use the rareness of that respect as a weapon.
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Yeah I’ve been thinking a lot about how cults will prey on marginalized people and how it’s so much easier to push an “us versus them” mentality on a person who already (legitimately, accurately) perceives the world as hostile to them
this is by far the funniest jigsaw_quotes post i genuinely cannot stop thinking about the sight of like, jigsaw opening his wallet in the checkout line at the Death Trap Lowe’s and he has like two pennies and a dime in there. and he just sighs
im just not convinced humans were ever meant to be this busy
every day i am surrounded by people who need more naptime, and more playtime, and more storytime, and more playdates and parties and sleepovers. when it comes to worktime, however
This Calvin and Hobbes strip is as timeless as always
hello child born between the end of the 1990s and beggining of the 2000s, welcome to my saw trap. in front of you is a computer, you can learn to code and guarantee yourself the only career that will be available in a couple of decades, or you can play around on ms paint and develop a beautiful creative mind that will starve to death forever, you have a few years to choose but by the time you do it’ll be too late
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