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THIS WILL KILL DISABLED PEOPLE

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I had a barely 2 year old iPad that just up and quit working, I brought it to apple and they said it was a software issue with no fix. My apple insurance had JUST expired, so they told me I’d have to trade it in and spend $600 on a new one. I couldn’t afford that so I took it and left.

I ended up sending it to a mutual connection who fixes apple stuff on the DL. He figured out that the “software issue” was actually just a bad battery - a $100 fix. There was NO WAY that apple wasn’t going to pocket the $600 and then turn around and resell it for a profit.

we have to work together to get there <3

[image id: Engels and Marx holding hands.]

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texts

the principles of communism

the communist manifesto

the black panther’s ten point program

in defense of self defense

pedagogy of the oppressed

the wretched of the earth

why i won’t vote

heterosexualism and the colonial / modern gender system

racism in the communist movement

abolish restaurants

other links

crush capitalism (pretty neat website if you’re new to communism)

List of Atrocities committed by US authorities

So what a lot of people may not know is that the Torah is mostly like. a farming manual. A day-to-day life guide for 6,000 years ago. And so it has instructions for harvesting, of course. But it says specifically that you shouldn’t reap all the way to the edge of your field, and that you should leave that for the poor. It also says that you shouldn’t take the fallen grapes from your vineyard, and to leave that also for the poor. And a lot more little things like that.

So why is it encouraged? Why doesn’t it count as stealing for the poor to take the food you grew?

I really can’t stress how much Tumblr/Staff’s appearance during the Yahoo/Verizon days has been misguided attempts at increasing DAUs (daily active users) at the behest of Tumblr’s owners while The Actual Staff, the fucking people actually doing the work, were screaming “PLEASE LET US JUST MAKE THE SITE BETTER”. I was on the iOS team. It took us years of negotiating and advocating to just set aside some time to literally bring down the crash rate and improve the app’s performance.

We had to twist the message of “the app takes more than 10 seconds to launch because it’s broken” into “more users will use the app if it launches faster 🙂” in order to achieve that. That was one of our greatest successes because it spread to Android and Web too (latency from the server). And it WORKED. We ended up with numbers to back it up. Crash rates plummeted as slowly but surely, the apps became faster and more performant. Plus the work we did specifically for that goal led to less crashes and better performance in other areas because it shed a light on spaghetti code that had needed fixing for years.

Sure it wasn’t something users noticed easily, because it was more easy to notice “the app is crashing all the time” vs “the app is not crashing”, but it was honest work that actually helped users. But that doesn’t lead to hockey stick revenue graphs so it wasn’t prioritized.

Many corvids also mate for life. They have foods they prefer more than others, and it has been discovered that they can also know and remember their partner’s favourites, and bring those treats to each other, even if they personally don’t care for this food source.

Is that love? A crow cannot be forced to do something it does not want to do, they do as they please and it pleases them to bring gifts to their partners. What is love but joy that stems from the joy of another?

Do they know what love is? A jackdaw knows that another jackdaw it can see has seen it in return - do they know that a spouse that brings them treats does it as a treat to themselves as well?

After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.

Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.

RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.

However. Often when getting food after marching practice, or on our scant breaks, I’d drive my friends to burger king or little ceasers or starbucks or whatever, and sometimes not all of my friends could afford the food they wanted. And well…food is food. I have a big appetite, and as long as I didn’t go crazy overboard and order catering for the whole band, a few extra burgers and shakes wouldn’t stand out on a monthly bill. So I bought my friends food. 

I did this for several months, and sometime during that came out to my parents. They both thought it was a phase, and that I would grow out of it. Since they’re not terrible people their approach to me having ‘a boy phase’ was to let me do my thing and wait for me to change my mind. I didn’t change my mind, and eventually they understood that, but that’s a whole other post. The point is my dad didn’t discourage me from transitioning, but avoided talking about it with me. He stopped calling me his daughter, but replaced it with child rather than son, that kind of thing.  

But back to the credit card. Eventually I started feeling guilty. TECHNICALLY I was obeying the rule ‘food and gas only’, but I knew I was bending it. I nervously admitted to him one day that sometimes…on occasion…once in a while… I’d buy a friend food. I waited solemnly for his judgement. He walked over to me, put his hands on my shoulders, looked into my eyes sternly and said,

“Zackary, we are Italian. If you let your friends go hungry….” (and here he decided to shake me just for a little emphasis) “I will disown you.”