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a smoky, salty, and savory taste rather than being sweet https://beezzit.com/blogs/news/meat-honey-the-strange-secret-of-vulture-bees
#TheInternetNamesAnimals was my favorite viral Twitter trend. Remember the danger noodle?
Brennan clears throat, adjusts glasses, makes prolonged eye contact with everyone in the room simultaneously
"Okay. OKAY. I have been sitting with this for six hours and I cannot physically contain it anymore.
The Thin Blue Line narrative—and I mean this with my whole cardiovascular system—is one of the most effective and insidious propaganda apparatuses in the history of American mass media. And it works because the characters are GOOD. They’re charming! They’re funny! They have FEELINGS and RELATIONSHIPS and they are genuinely trying to do the right thing, and that is EXACTLY how hegemony sustains itself. It doesn’t show you the institution. It shows you Tim Bradford, and you love Tim Bradford, and now you have quietly absorbed an entire framework for how crime and punishment and community and safety are supposed to function in a civilized society WITHOUT EVER BEING ASKED TO CONSENT TO THAT LESSON.
And I’m—look. I’m not saying don’t watch it. I watch it. I’m ON it right now. I’m saying watch it awake. Watch it with the part of your brain that remembers that the writers’ room is making choices, that the network has relationships, that the genre itself has a politics that predates everyone in this room.
…Does anyone want to do a Cop Cuties bit with me?"
Brennan clears throat, adjusts glasses, makes prolonged eye contact with everyone in the room simultaneously
"Okay. OKAY. I have been sitting with this for six hours and I cannot physically contain it anymore.
The Thin Blue Line narrative—and I mean this with my whole cardiovascular system—is one of the most effective and insidious propaganda apparatuses in the history of American mass media. And it works because the characters are GOOD. They’re charming! They’re funny! They have FEELINGS and RELATIONSHIPS and they are genuinely trying to do the right thing, and that is EXACTLY how hegemony sustains itself. It doesn’t show you the institution. It shows you Tim Bradford, and you love Tim Bradford, and now you have quietly absorbed an entire framework for how crime and punishment and community and safety are supposed to function in a civilized society WITHOUT EVER BEING ASKED TO CONSENT TO THAT LESSON.
And I’m—look. I’m not saying don’t watch it. I watch it. I’m ON it right now. I’m saying watch it awake. Watch it with the part of your brain that remembers that the writers’ room is making choices, that the network has relationships, that the genre itself has a politics that predates everyone in this room.
…Does anyone want to do a Cop Cuties bit with me?"
Vice News covered this more than a decade ago in “This Is What Winning Looks Like.” They literally filmed a conversation where a US soldier tried to explain to an Afghan police chief why raping children was bad. His response was “who else are we going to fuck?”
If Israel hadn’t recognized them, would Somaliland be that bad? They do seem to operate mostly independently from Somalia. They have an actually functioning government, their security situation is better, and self determination seems an important value.
Swahili has 10 different “genders,” called “noun classes” or “ngeli,” and none of them correlate with sex. Instead, the third-person singular pronouns are:
- he/she and him/her: yeye
- his/her: wake
I see pride! I see power! I see a badass mother who don’t take no crap off nobody!
"One day you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters?
You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is ‘anarchist calisthenics.’ Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-anarchist-calisthenics
That was my first time testing the backup. Good suggestion.
Yes. It automatically closed after two weeks of me waiting on a response after they said they’d escalated it.
Paid. I also found it hard to believe, which is why I checked the logs, tried working with their support staff, and wrote my own program to confirm.
It’s a privacy-focused backup service.
Correct me if I’m misunderstanding something, but I think you can still control Nova’s permissions through your phone’s App Permissions manager just like any other app. I didn’t allow Nova any permissions even before they were acquired, and I certainly don’t now. Does that help with your very valid privacy concerns?
I resonate with your sentiment against minimal launchers and in favor of FOSS apps. I’ve tried a few and haven’t found any I like.
I like Nova launcher, personally.
Here’s the search feature: https://catalog.archives.gov/search-within/12044361