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It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

plus hoodie kid gave him the opportunity to back down and apologize for being a dick, but instead ICE kid relied on the implied threat of legalistic tools as a shield against the consequences of violent rhetoric, further bringing on his FAFO moment

the legal concept of "fighting words" is why punching nazis is typically safe to do in a free democratic society

I disappeared from Tumblr not because I stopped caring, not because Gaza became safe, and not because the war ended. I disappeared because life forced me to make decisions I never imagined I would have to make. I sold my phone so I could provide food and water for my family and the children, and then I bought a cheap phone with very limited capabilities. In Gaza, the phone I once used to connect with the world became less important than providing a meal for a hungry child.

I came back today to see that people are still talking about Gaza, but the suffering of the children has not stopped. Children don’t understand politics or negotiations, and they don’t know what plans and statements mean. They know hunger, fear, displacement, and cold. They know what it feels like to lose their homes, their safety, and people they love. For them, war is not just a headline on a screen it is a childhood being stolen from them day after day.

I came back to Tumblr because I could no longer stay silent. Maybe I returned with a simple phone, but I returned with a voice that wants to remind the world of one thing: Don’t forget the children of Gaza. If you cannot help them, share their stories, reblog their voices, and help their message reach others. Because a child who goes to sleep hungry tonight cannot wait for another headline, another plan, or another promise.

>looks inside

Also check your source and context

Huffpost is a right wing propaganda company playing a game of trying to make left-wing people fight each other.

Think strategically, when stuff like this comes out.

Also historically you can't just disband a bunch "soldiers" without them causing massive problems almost immediately.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.