i’m gonna say something that doesn’t feel good but you might need to hear it: bending over backwards being a people-pleaser, being conflict averse and not telling anyone your needs, and then being resentful and upset when your needs aren’t met is a You problem first
not related but also just good advice: when you’re lowkey frustrated with someone and can’t quite figure out why their behavior is bothering you, i highly recommend examining if they have broken an imaginary rule or standard that you hold yourself to
Some libraries can even get you hooked up with social workers and local aid programs. The important thing is investigating what YOUR library can do for YOU.
I swear, some of you people somehow manage to possess all of the three most unfortunate character traits someone can have: a) kinda stupid, b) obnoxiously contrarian, c) deeply annoying.
stuff you say when you don’t give a fuck about women quite frankly
Hence the not-uncommon adage that the washing machine did even more for women’s liberation than the birth control pill
Greta said she was forcibly undressed and israeli guards took photos of her while naked and this is not surprising because when palestinians were released they were talking about this form of assault on tv. I just wonder where theyre sharing these videos of naked palestinians. Among telegram channels? WhatsApp? R they gonna blackmail them the rest of their life and threaten to release their naked photos if they dont become collaborators. Especially with the advent of AI in the mix this is horrible
Whats especially interesting in this article is that the Swedish authorities deliberately downplayed what she went through so she has to speak on it
Even though ‘turtle island’ is a more accurate term than ‘America’, I would also like to note that not every tribe has the turtle myth, not every tribe calls this land ‘turtle island’ in their language. We are not a monolith, it is impossible to describe the diversity of traditions and people on this land with one term. The term ‘indigenous culture’ is more of an umbrella term that is used to describe thousands of tribal traditions and cultures, each having their own unique differences.
So… tldr is yes, call this land ‘turtle island’ because it is a more accurate and decolonized name than ‘America’, but don’t be surprised when a native person tells you they don’t call this land ‘turtle island’.
the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad’s hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he’s in weird ambidexterity situation where he’s not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf
It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just…went away. As you note, it…hasn’t in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.
But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.
If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can’t. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.
It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don’t even make them. And it’s not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.
All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.
I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren’t enough lefty desks–and there never were. Some classrooms didn’t even have a single one.
I could go on.
But the point is, bigotry isn’t just a mindset shift. People can’t just decide they’re not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything’s fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they’re never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.
pisses me off that gender is just pattern recognition thats been drilled into us since birth. why didnt they teach us something important instead like which snakes are venomous
the fact that im supposedly wble to tell if someones a girl or boy by one glance but i have to google is a spider can kill me is so incredibly shortsighted
A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.
Specifically, because she couldn’t afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.
This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn’t pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?
as a disabled person who has a similar brain implant, and also as part of a clinical trial, I am begging everyone to quit with the “this is just like my scifi dystopias” because it is pushing aside the real problem in favor of getting scared about your movies and tv shows.
the part about doing it to recoup financial losses is literally just made up. it’s not even in the linked article, never mind any other article you will be able to find about this incident.
you can’t get profit out of a used medical implant that has already been approved and passed muster. where it’s even legal to reuse them at all, that’s basically charity. it will cost more to explant the device, recondition it, and reimplant it than the device is worth. if the device is experimental, i.e. it hasn’t been approved for medical use, that’s never going in a human body again! what the fuck are you going to do with it? melt it down for scrap? that scrap isn’t going to be worth even a meaningful fraction of what the device cost. it would have literally have saved more money to tell her “ok, keep it, good luck!”. either there’s some medical-law reason the removal was compelled, or they didn’t want to risk liability in case something went wrong with it.
like note that even according to the article, it wasn’t because she couldn’t afford it. it wasn’t “we remortgaged our house but we needed more money”. the company simply refused to sell.
“this is just like repo!!!” is blatantly untrue and doesn’t help us. the “real problem” I’m alluding to above is that these companies keep their shit as monopolized and as proprietary and as locked-down as they can, so if anything happens to them, we’re shit out of luck. like if you want to help us, intellectual property law is one of the first places your eye should fall. imagine a world where the company was forced to make the design of this device public the instant it was clear they’re not going to be doing anything with it
The implanted devices had a 3-year battery-life. The trial was scheduled for 2 years, with the protocol allowing for an optional extra year of use “as dictated by reasonable medical care.” However, with the company closing shop, there was no option but to explant the participants’ devices.
Leggett’s husband pleaded to buy the device. However, he and Leggett were told this was impossible. The device was built with proprietary components, and without ongoing manufacturing, there was no way to repower it. More pressingly, without the company, there would be no infrastructure to monitor the data and recalibrate the device. Just under 5 months after her wedding, Leggett’s device was removed.
I mean I think we should live in a world where no one can stop you from keeping an actively leaking battery in your skull if that’s what you really want, and that on those grounds this is still a horrific thing to happen, but. everyone circulating this is not reading and everyone above me adding to this reblog chain is lying
