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NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

Calling on all Gen Z-ers to signal boost the crap out of this again. 

This seems especially important since in most of the country right now, all restauraunt business is takeout.

The short version:  When you look up a restaurant’s phone number in the Yelp app, Yelp gives you the option to call for “Delivery or Takeout” or “General Questions.”  If you choose General Questions, it calls the restaurant directly.  If you choose Delivery or Takeout it calls Grubhub, which then reroutes your call to the restaurant.  You are none the wiser because this rerouting happens automatically.  Then Grubhub charges the restaraunt 15-20% of your order total for this “service”.   Oh, and they record your phone call too.

Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone. 

With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called ‘off-Facebook Activity’ which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting ads… which means they’re selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits. 

 Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didn’t have to tell us about when they updated the app, it’s, of course, automatically turned on. 

From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.

Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.

Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).

This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them

Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.

The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.

This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.

This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what they’re doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.

THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity. 

maybe people are getting defensive because they are being attacked.

maybe people dont like getting death threats, being suicide baited or “accused” of being pedophiles.

maybe older people in fandom have lived through stuff like strikethrough and want to avoid a repeat of that.

The idea we just didn’t talk or think about all this shit? If there’s one thing fandom has always done it’s think way too much about why we like what we like.

See, this is at least part of why we’re getting defensive - because the underlying assumption in so much of the discourse from younger folks is apparently we’re old and senile and must have forgotten how to be moral human beings (I’m sorry, but I’m 49, and I come from a family of people who live into their nineties - I’m not due to hit senility for at least another thirty years).  No, we’ve actually thought this one through, kids - and we’ve had a bit more thinking time than you guys have.

But the other reason we get defensive?  Is because we can hear our younger selves in your scoldings.  We can hear the parts of us which wanted to believe things are capable of being black and white, things are capable of being simple in this massively complicated world.  We can hear the parts which keep arguing constantly if we just said the right thing, or did the right thing way back when, the bad thing which happened to us wouldn’t have happened, and the fact it did happen was an indicator of our personal moral wrongness.  And we know how much damn work and effort and tears and sweat it took to even reach détente with this bit of us, the bit which wants to punish us for finding any kind of pleasure in life at all, and believe it or not, we really don’t want you to have to go through the same sorts of hells we went through.

There is worse evil in the world than an age gap in a fanfic - and unfortunately, you children are perpetuating it upon yourselves.  As a wise man once said, evil begins when you start treating people as things - and this includes when you start treating yourself as a thing.  Humans are allowed to feel pleasure - and this includes pleasure at things other humans don’t enjoy.  Trying to dictate what’s “appropriate” and “inappropriate” to cause pleasure… well, that’s a step on a road which leads to things like declaring sexualities, races, entire religions, entire cultural groupings, to be anathema. 

It was not only rude, but honestly completely fucking stupid. One of the comments this got was literally “its fiction my dude” they’re right!

There will always be stuff that exist that I don’t jive with. Avocados. I fucking hate avocados, does that mean I should be rude and bully people who like them. no.

My concern with people should not be about what they like, but who they are as a person. And the fact it’s taken me roughly a year to figure that out is a kinda sad.

There was defiantly superiority complex stuff and self righteousness. This mentality I had was just beyond shitty. (and very catholic of me now that I think about it)

And I will also admit I’m adding to this post cause it’s getting traction again I was kinda hoping it would die, but ya know the internet!

God, I hate avocados so much.

I am from California.

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.