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“She deserves to be punished too.”

“I’m not saying I support rape, but-”

“Sorry to say - she deserved it.”

“She put herself in harm’s way”

“But if she was fingered, then that’s not rape.”

“She ruined their lives.”

“Yea, but did you see what she was wearing?”

“Boys will be boys!”

“She should know better than to drink at a party…”

  “He should’ve enjoyed it.”

“She must’ve lead him on.”

“But she orgasmed. That means she liked it - “

“Women can’t rape because…”

“Be grateful it wasn’t a man!”

“I’m sorry she hurt you but don’t call what happened to you rape, it’s an insult to the REAL victims…”

“You weren’t raped, you’re just lesbophobic.”

“She’s his wife, it’s her job to please him.”

“Oral isn’t rape.”

“Well he wasn’t armed, she could have walked away.”

“Guys can’t be raped, they love sex!”

“She didn’t fight back; it wasn’t rape.”

“But they didnt have proof-”

“There are no ifs ands or buts when it comes to secual assault/rape. No matter what, the person who did it should be punished. If the person has no proof, still believe the victim. It is better to believe a victim and be wrong than support the person who did it and be right.”

“They’re young, they don’t know any be-“

“Nothing actually happened, that doesn’t count as sexual assau-“

happened, that doesn’t count as

sexual assau-“

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The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

transphobe with a separate

seat for one person

Except minus the maybe

The internet, and the world, needs to be designed around PEOPLE.

There's this concept I want to introduce to some and present to others. It's called:

The Irreducible Minimum

It was a concept introduced to me during the Obama administration when he was trying to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay

There were some who were there due to administrative issues

There were some who had served out their sentences

There were some who just shouldn't have been there

Yall remember Obama? He WAS actually fucking trying to do good things. I want yall to remember while you CONTINUOUSLY throw this black man under the bus for being slightly more conservative than you that HE ACTUALLY GOT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE, LIKE SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK ARE **YOU** DOING. And also he was being fought at LITERALLY EVERY GODDAMN STEP.

Ugh

Anyway

He was trying to close this prison. But there was a problem. And it was political, and it was physical, and it was real

There was a small group of people who were NOT there due to administrative issues and had not served out their sentences and were literally there because they were ACTUALLY the type of people you maybe think SHOULD be in a place like that. They couldn't be relocated for specific and individual reasons, they couldn't be released without sparking an international crisis and maybe a war, and they were too important to just, uhm... kill.

And so due to these handful..I think it was like 14 people, they couldn't close the facility

THIS is what I think of when I think of the internet. Human goddamn rights are what's at stake when it comes to closing that facility.

And human rights are what's at stake when it comes to running the internet and producing technology.

Tech companies have to think of The Irreducible Minimum when it comes to just who will be hurt or negatively affected by their tech.

Especially when it comes to tech like search functions. The Irreducible goddamn Minimum of people who are hurt by shitty algorithmic search functions, or worse, fucking stupid large language model focused search? It's HUGE.

I'm talking to every company on earth who insists on including large language models and algorithms instead of human curated feeds and ACTUAL search functions: You are hurting people, and you are doing it on purpose.

There is a minimum of people who will never be able to learn your system

There is a minimum of people who will never "just get better at doing it"

And you are HURTING THOSE PEOPLE ON PURPOSE

Let us fucking choose what we want to see on our feed. Tell your goddamn shareholders to shut the fuck up and wait. Not every fucking quarter needs to show explosive growth.

And to the fucking investors; sit down, have some fucking patience, and stop trying to get-rich-quick. Every company on earth is twisting itself inside out trying to please investors who literally the only thing they care about is "number go up" and this quarters earnings statement is bigger than last quarter.

Companies are being forced to eliminate humanity from their business model because they need to service your stupid fucking debt

If you invest in a company, any company, and you have the wherewithal, you need to start using your voice to tell companies that you will be patient with them

Study who you invest with. Invest in things you ACTUALLY believe in. Put your money in companies you ACTUALLY want to talk to and have a say in what direction they move in, and then help them move in a direction that helps people

And tell them that they will lose your vote, and your money, if they DON'T start actually catering to what will actually serve people.

If we do that, If yall do that, companies like Google and Meta and TikTok WILL CHANGE COURSE. And even companies like fucking dumb ass automattic will follow suit because that's where the trend is going.

Guess what they're starting to do?

Eat into my unemployment

Meaning I'm getting less and less and fucking less

I haven't paid my phone bill

I haven't paid my electricity

I'm trapped like a rat in my house

I'm down to eating one meal and one small snack a day and I'm fucking STILL not gonna make rent

I've been trying so hard to sell my books instead of begging. But even though someone blazed my post, and even though I've had people talking, and even though people have been having fun in relation to my universe, and even though I'm getting more consistent doing my streams, I've sold two books.

I have to ask for immediate assistance again. I absolutely cannot afford to pay my rent the way things are going. Everything is maxed out. I've tried and tried and tried to do this by actually selling books

It's not fucking working. Almost nobody is interested. I have to beg for yall to support me again or I'm fucked.

there have been several instances of young baleen whales running afoul of something and being captured for rehabilitation, yes! they were mostly gray whales.

which makes sense, gray whales are slow enough to get caught in the first place and hardy enough to not immediately stress themselves to death over being poked and put in a tank (as long as hundreds of pounds of delicious shellfish are on offer, anyway)

none of them were ever kept very long, they were rehabilitated to a healthy weight and then released. (healthy weight for a juvenile gray whale is almost 20,000 lbs. BIG baby)

yeah