Yee haw am i right

If you are not a legal adult there are so many ways for you to be harmed through the internet, and the more comfortable minors feel the more at risk they are of being taken advantage of

When I was growing up at the beginning of the internet age I was constantly shown informational videos on how people could get my name and address from just a screen name, To Catch A Predator was on and showing all the ways adults posed as minors to trick them into being abducted, and even shows like Catfish on MTV were always there to remind you that if you did not already know someone in person you couldn’t be sure who they were online

For years I only went into sites geared towards kids and even then with strict rules on how to keep any identifying information out of my screen name and to never answer personal questions online. While YouTube existed, a large chunk of the videos didn’t involve peoples faces like almost all do now

When I got a tumblr at 16 I knew porn could come up at any time and I was cautious of how I used it because of that. People regularly scoffed at the idea of clicking a link you were sent in a message and who could be so dumb as to click one

I don’t want kids to feel safe on the internet because they aren’t, and people looking to take advantage of kids want them to feel comfortable. They want minors using their legal name, posting videos of their school, showing their face as they wear school sweatshirts. I’ve seen so many recent stalking cases that happened because the person used the Snapchat map feature that allowed people to see where they went and for how long every day

I think that it’s good to accept that kids exist on the internet and getting rid of some of the more horrific Wild West aspects is good (Chatroulette type situations, easy to stumble on beheading videos) but the amount that social media sites are telling people they’re safe for minors and said minors can let their guard down makes me very nervous. It is not difficult to film your 13 year old nephew for a TikTok, post it like it’s your own, then ask the other 13 year olds who like it where they go to school

And this is not me blaming Gen Z or calling them stupid, as I said the only reason I knew how to be safe was because the culture around me so heavily pushed all the tactics on how to be safe and what the consequences of not being safe were. Gen Z grew up with shows about how great is to be a successful teen vlogger, with child influencers, with teenagers who put their face and identifying information in Vines being tracked down and given prizes by Ellen DeGeneres. The entire culture they’re being brought up in is designed to tell them that being open online as a child isn’t just cool it’s a way to be successful and validated

Dr. Nikola Tesla did not sign bad contracts. He signed an excellent contract with Westinghouse to bring AC power to America. Westinghouse was the big competitor against Edison Electric, which ran DC power. Thomas Edison was a massive prick and Edison Electric went around doing its best to convince everyone that AC power was dangerous, most infamously by electrocuting an elephant to death and developing the first execution-style electric chair using AC power. All of this cemented in the mind of the public that AC power was dangerous and deadly, while DC power was somehow safer.

By 1890, Westinghouse was in trouble. George Westinghouse went to Tesla and laid out the truth: if he honored the royalty contracts that he’d agreed to pay Tesla, he would go bankrupt. So Tesla tore up the contracts. He walked away from millions, maybe billions of dollars because he believed that wireless electricity should be free to the world. Westinghouse went on to bring AC power to homes across America.

ask-omnipony:

I don’t really believe this mumbo jumbo

I mean it’s a goddamn hat.

Right..?

The white rose, it symbolizes the unique beauty of all the women who wish not to be with a nice guy such as myse-

I wonder if this works with other kinds of hat…

Nothing ventured, nothing gained…

WHEEEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE THAT’S AMORREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

oh boy…….

Luckily, this nonsense doesn’t work on girls.

Observe…

And it can’t possibly work on motorcycle helmets.

I must test it.

Nothing happening so far…

What in the world?

Oh why not? This should be interesting.

Here we go!

Were all mad here in Underland!

What the hell! Never Again!

… Actually …

Alright, I gotta try this!

Can’t be that bad!

….

LOL

i wonder if it works for flower crowns?

here goes nothin-

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DID I JUST-

Okay Clearly something is up.

Hmm… I wonder

I’m sure nothing could possibly…

I wonder what happens when you wear 8 of these at once…

what could possibly go wrong?

eww, it smells like fuckboi

welp, down this rabbit hole we go…

nothing’s happeni-

WTF-

I wonder if this would work with a wolf hat.

May as well try it.

Please don’t be awful, please don’t be awful, please don’t b-

get wet 4 furry

This is obviously fake

Look, I’ll prove it

Y’all are just acting

Watch and learn

Whelp guess I gotta put on the hat now

Can’t be that bad, I mean what’s the worst a squid hat can do to m-

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Edit: yes there is a typo here, pls stop mentioning it

This took so fucking long to make, but please do enjoy

They did not have a single interaction, yet were connected to each other.

It’s shown in Tommy’s silence when Niki says there’s a boy he would be friends with if they had met.

It’s shown when Tubbo looks at Tommy’s corpse, feeling something for a friendship he never had with the boy.

It’s show when Tommy starts to cry as he walks back to Techno and Wilbur, thinking about a boy who he doesn’t know the name of. It’s shown when Tubbo looks at Tommy, thinking of a boy who’s name he only knew because he was royalty.

Strangers to each other in this life, but not in the others.

Tommy mourned Tubbo while Tubbo mourned Tommy.

the two women who couldn’t lead more different lives; a captain who fought and bled her way to the top and a flower shop lady who worked with the local children and lived peacefully

sharing a solemn nod, perhaps not even knowing the others name

juxtaposed in caves surrounded by the enemy, making the ultimate sacrifice and sending them all to hell as a last stand for their home

It’s crucial that in this time we recognize how this myth has gone on to divide us as a community from other minority groups and realize that the root of these injustices comes from nothing else except the continuing value of white supremacy.

In the wake of these attacks on the AAPI community, please donate to any anti AAPI Racism groups, but if you cannot, it is just as important that you educate yourselves on AAPI racism and bias because for so long our problems have been written off as “trivial,” “not enough,” or simply unseen. Hating Asians and spitting slurs and objectifying comments is too commonplace and is laughed off as a part of media culture. It needs to be taken seriously.

The reality is we are all victims of the racial hierarchy and the unchecked fetishization, violence, and ignorance to Asian American issues has culminated into what we see today.

Here are some articles I strongly recommend reading through as a very brief start to your education. If you can’t read them all, that’s fine but please at least read one! (15 min read) National Geographic: “America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens.” Emphasizes how different Asian communities have been impacted by America’s history of Anti-Asian scapegoating, blaming, and how we have never been accepted by White America. (note: it says u gotta put an email to subscribe, i literally just mispelled something random and the pop up went away so please don’t let that dissuade you): (link) (5 min read) PBS: “The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S.” Goes into the history of the model minority myth and how Asian immigrants have been weaponized against the Black community and even other Asians by White Americans even while being continuously discriminated against: (link) (3 min read) Women’s Media Center: “How The Fetishization of Asian Women Leads to Violence.” I cannot emphasize enough how sick I am of Asian women’s fetishization being written off as a preference without impact when googling them literally just links me to hundreds of violent porn sites: (link) (5 min read) The Cool Bears: “’Yellow Fever’: The Fetishization of Asian Women.” Similar to the previous articles but it identifies how this fetishization manifests in day to day humor and conversation: (link) (7 min read) CNN: “The History of Attacks against Asian Americans is Complicated. Addressing it will be too.” Not my favored news source but a good overview of the Asian American community’s generational attitude change towards discussing racism: (link) If anyone has any other resources to add, or if any of these sources contain misinformation I have not caught, other asians please feel free to add on and correct.

i drafted a report for u using microsoft paint enjoy

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