one time i went to a work event with my dad and he was talking about some celebrity and one of the other guys there was like “i have no idea how you know all this stuff, i’m too old for this” and dad was like, “oh, you know, i’ve got teenagers” in a very ‘they force me to watch their garbage’ sort of way at which point i realized dad had been using me as a smokescreen for his love of mtv for years
when i was younger he would always let me bring my gameboy along to keep me entertained and then he would ask what i was up to in enough detail to establish that he had a basic understanding of pokemon, in order to establish dominance over the other, non-pokemon-understanding parents
Is it possible that maybe your dad enjoys spending time with you and that your interests became his, and he’s not just tryna flex on other parents
i have never at any point had any interest in mtv and he’d wait until other parents were around to ask uninteresting questions and then give them this look
I’m making jokes but like this is literally so crazy — as tho like Sexual encounters between adults is something we all need to be protected from by corporations… as tho the whole point of Facebook wasn’t started as a way to evaluate women’s sexual attractiveness
Sex workers told everyone that FOSTA/SESTA was the beginning and justification of a substantial amount of internet surveillance + control and that got totally ignored.
This is on FB, right?
It’s almost like they want to erase any sign of LGBTQ+ folks whatsoever. Hmmmmmm
HELP A YOUNG BLACK TRANS KID MOVE TO A SAFER PLACE
PAYPAL: paypal.me/pyrytin or jeminakarikoski@hotmail.com
Hi! I’m Yemaya, a 18 years old non-binary pal from Finland. I need help moving away from my current location.
I moved to my current apartment because I had to get away from my abusive ex-boyfriend, and I had to do it fast. I don’t really know anyone here, I don’t have ayone I could call for help if needed (that doesn’t live over an hour away from me).
Lately i’ve been noticing actual NAZIS walking past my apartment. I didn’t pay attention to that at first since there was just one, but now i’ve noticed 3 different ones walking around REALLY CLOSE to my apartment. I’m super anxious about this because I am the only person of color who lives nearby.
I would like to move to the same city where my friends live, because people there are a lot more accepting and there’s a lot more POC there. I would also have a safety net if something happens.
The house i’m living in is also really REALLY old, and i’m being sick all the time because it’s freezing here.
I need to raise about 675€ to get an apartment there, so literally ANYTHINGHELPS!
I want to move as soon as possible, because even though nothing has happened yet i’m scared of going outside alone, so please spread this as fast as possible.
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Question: how do you KNOW that they are “nazis”?
I’m sorry about your situation and all, but the SJWs and the MSM have used the word to describe people who don’t agree with them and they’ve basically overused the word to the point where (without solid proof of actual Nazism) no one will take it seriously anymore.
At least one has actual nazi patches and one had a jacket that said something about “protecting the father land” aka finland and the lion logo which is mostly used by racist idiots and alt-right.
I know I may seem a lil hysterical but at the previous place where I lived people actually started to glue flyers and stickers right next to the house me and some other POC lived in that said we are ruining their children’s future and Finland needs to be protected from us.
know what I hate? how uni’s have all of these “de-stress events” and preaching about mental health around exams but don’t actual want to fucking do anything about the shitty system of education they’ve created that literally makes kids have anxiety attacks and suicidal thoughts. yes education should be challenging, but it should not compromise your wellbeing for it. it’s like saying “yeah we realize the system is horrible, but here have free hot chocolate, it’ll make everything better”. the education system is flawed and broken and they know it, but they could care less.
John Hennessy, the chair of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., was recently asked whether Google providing a search engine in China that censored results would provide a net benefit for Chinese users. “I don’t know the answer to that. I think it’s — I think it’s a legitimate question,” he responded. “Anybody who does business in China compromises some of their core values. Every single company, because the laws in China are quite a bit different than they are in our own country.”
Hennessy’s remarks were in relation to Project Dragonfly, a once-secret project within Google to build a version of its search engine that meets the demands of the ruling Chinese Communist Party — namely, that Google proactively censor “sensitive” speech and comply with China’s data provenance and surveillance laws.
I worked as a research scientist at Google when Dragonfly was revealed — including to most Google employees — and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification.
I worked as a research scientist at Google when Dragonfly was revealed — including to most Google employees — and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification. That’s part of why I object to this constant drift of conversations about Dragonfly from concrete, indefensible details toward the vague language of difficult compromise.
When news of Dragonfly first broke on August 1, a Google staff member who had secretly worked on Dragonfly took to the company-only Google Plus forum. The language was clear: “In my opinion it is just as bad as the leak mentions,” the staffer wrote, adding that they had asked to be removed from the project and another employee had left the company over their discomfort. At this point, my internal alarms went off, and I started pointedly asking my team and management if there was any official company response.
While employees were waiting for an official response at the next company-wide meeting, we were also sharing links to details about the project that we found through directly scouring Google’s source code, which is mostly available to all engineers. Even though much of Dragonfly had been kept from prying eyes, or “siloed,” the pieces that slipped through were disturbing. One of the Google-constructed blacklists for search terms contained numerous phrases, including “human rights” and “Nobel prize.” Code had been written to show only Chinese air quality data from an unnamed source in Beijing. And Dragonfly linked searches to the users’ phone numbers.
Due to having recently moved to Toronto to support my wife’s career, I was working remotely and was disconnected from any internal organizing efforts against Dragonfly. So when the company-wide meeting came and went without any substantive response to hundreds of impassioned appeals from employees, I exercised the strongest speech available to me and submitted my two-weeks notice to my manager — and the rest of the company — in the form of a six-page document listing my objections to the project.
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