Jerry’s new fundraiser to cover his moving costs. He has had to move out of an abusive household with his ailing father.

But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.

Anyway, scientists DID figure out how to grow colored cotton. They genetically engineered it to be bright fuckin pink, and they didn't "just find out" about it, they already knew which is literally what inspired them to attempt the thing they just accomplished. Begging y'all to stop pretending that scientists don't know things, don't have interests, don't grow up in farming communities or have family who taught them this. Scientists are people. Do you seriously think people who use genetic engineering to make eco-friendly pink cotton don't know anything about textiles?

Anyway. Bright pink cotton without dyes, because science is awesome

Yes. CSIRO scientist Doctor Colleen MacMillan led the team that figured this out. They used tobacco plants for testing because of the genetic similarity. Basically if the tobacco leaves produced colors when injected with a bit of the experimental genetic material, the scientists on the team already understood that the color change would affect cotton bolls as well.

They grew bright red and bright yellow in a petri dish.

And yes, Doctor MacMillan knows lots of things. Here's a list of some of her publications.

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It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.

And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.

I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.

Yes. This. Correct.

The reason you hear so much about how women COULD NOT POSSIBLY EVER DEFEND THEMSELVES OR GO AGAINST MEN IN SPORT is twofold.

Socializes women to THINK that this is impossible and to keep them from developing self-assurance in their own physical abilities.

To make shitty dudes feel better about themselves.

Navigating gender dysphoria? Be heard and be counted in the science.

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And when I say system I don't mean the economy or whatever, I mean the system of money being accepted tokens of a value concept.

Them holding all the money is like as if they want to play football with us but they're taking the ball, and locking the gates to the pitch, and hoping that we'll keep playing football with them. It's reaching a point where we can't help but realise that we're not actually even playing football, we're just standing on the outside of a small, locked pitch, with the food and everything on our side, while they sit locked inside with the ball. They'll say we can play football with them for three seconds and in exchange we must bring them more food than they could ever eat food. But like, why would we bother with the and their game that no one else is allowed play?

Hello, I am writing you today as I know that there will be meeting this [Date and time of meeting] to vote on [Bill Name/Number]. I ask you to consider these reasons before you vote on [Date of the meeting or voting session] and why I am making the decision I am making.

First off, [Rep. Name] - I understand the need to make technology and the internet more safer for children, I can completely understand that. However, the way that this bill goes about it - is just wrong. Massive surveillance and requesting credit cards/ID's are personal pieces of information. Which is a serious breech of privacy and makes it a prime attack for hackers!

To further support my cause, we have seen where some states and websites have already implemented such procedures and to put it blunt - that information was not safe! Hackers were easily able to take that information! A very good example of this is Discord!

With that said, moving onto the second point of why this bill should not be passed. If you care to look at most online spaces - this bill is received very negatively. Nobody wants this bill, most people I have talked too - DO. NOT. WANT. THIS. BILL! The only people that want this bill are big tech companies and lobbyists that want to be off the hook for how they have harmed children! They also want this - to have information that they can use against us. This bill practically hands this to them.

Also for what is worth, these bills do not protect children/people, in fact - you may be causing them more harm. Many children/people use the internet as way to find connection(for hobbies or similar interest), address problems in their lives and find information on what to do (Think: abuse, bullying, mental health, physical health, etc….). Many children/people also use the internet to find much needed resources and aid. By introducing age into the equation, less children/people will able to find connection or use those resources.

Not to mention, this bill also harms adults in other ways - the requesting of credit cards/ID's or DL's - assumes that everyone is privileged to have one. That is not the case - and so - this bill is also classist and may even fall into discrimination of not just class, but disability. Which I am happy to discuss more if you so wish to do so!

With this in mind, I will leave this last message, that by limiting the internet - all that creates is that people find ways around the system and that is where more harm could be done. As they could get into a really dangerous situation and have no where else to turn too! You could make the analogy that this akin to some of the Abortion Bans passed and I would argue that they could be connected in some ways - but that is discussion for another time!

Lastly, if you want to make the internet more safer for children - the answer is not constant surveillance and the giving up of private information to access the most basic forms of technology. Might I suggest a media literacy class or some type of media education that can go a much longer way than what is proposed in [Bill Name/Code]. It does take more time, but there is no shortcut for good!

Please vote against the [Bill Name/Code] and any other bills like this in the future!