This is unfortunately true. Despite having an IT admin as a dad, it only taught me how to more effectively circumvent censorship. I went as far as using the 3DS browser to access stuff I wasn’t supposed to

This isnt a violet08 image, this has been around longer (i believe)

just because people can give criticism does not mean the system actually accepts criticism or even that it does not retaliate against such criticism. yes there are instances where criticism has led to genuine change (easy example is “The Jungle”), but for every instance of successful criticism i argue there are hundres, thousands, even millions of instances where said criticism has led to the harassment and discrimination; tenfold if the person was a minority in any capacity. by and large american media, industry, government, and society has suppressed any and all forms of criticism or even nonhegemonic thought until its existence has been so normalized amongst cishet white peoplr that they finally let it exist in a heavily moderated and monetized manner. this can be seen time and time again with hayes codes, mccarthyism, the civil rights movement, the suffrage movement, queer acceptance, trans acceptance, the war on drugs, 9/11 and the wars in the middle east. we are actively seeing it right now; you cannot look at the NYT, Time magazone, the WSP, CNN, or any major American media institution and tell me that they are actually free press. At best they are controlled opposition. this is not a conspiracy theory, these are documented facts¹. This has only gotten worse as more tech CEOs have bought more and more news and media companies. anyone who actually reports on important, topical information in a way that is contradictory to the Americam hegemonic system of thought has been target, oppressed, and even sanctioned². Mainstream media has enjoyed a degree of freedom allowed by the understanding that maintaining the visage of a free press was important, the current high profile cases as of late³ are realistically the exception correcting itself.

America is not free, has never been free, and will never be free until the system is radically and fundamentally changed. The ideals expressed in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are noble, but the implementation of those beliefs were created by entitled white men who encoded racism, misogyny, bigotry, and hatred into the DNA of the country. At one point there may have been an opportunity to change the direction of America to actually align with the values it professed, but much like a cancer that has metastasized to every part of the body any effective treatment would be lethal; America cannot both exist and actually improve. From the moment this country was built on stolen land we have placed ourselves on fhe wrong side of hidtory, and what has become evident now has always been evident to black, brown, queer, and disabled people. It is not a few apples that are rotten; the barrel itself has rotted.

^1. https://futureofmedia.hsites.harvard.edu/us-media-index^

^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_government_attacks_on_journalists_in_the_United_States^

^3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2026/01/31/journalists-are-being-arrested-fired-and-silenced-what-this-means-for-the-future-of-the-profession/^

The US never did. The American media has been lying to people for over a century and people have been pointing that out just as long. Now the media is so horrifically corrupt that everyone is starting to notice it, not just minorities or queer people.

they’re saying people like to crowd around looking at the panel, and that an arc flash will kill everyone there in a microsecond without the proper precautions

You’re missing Belize. While we’re not an island (we do have those) we are on the Caribbean Sea.

They’re great! Plrnty of bugs like moths and butterflies nest in ground coverage so leaves are super important. Thats why you shouldnt mow or move them

Im largely the same. Im generally a non believer and my sense of spirituality is not tied to any deities, but I don’t know that they’re not out there so in vwry particular cases I still practife some amount of worship. Mainly at funerals.

“my doctor told me to put boiling water in my eye! if im not gonna listen to him why am I paying him?”

Tha k you for being a considerate ally

Leave out the grandchildren bit, it’s unnecessary, condescending, and presumptive. Grandchildren shouldn’t be expected (unless a person has expressed a desire to have children) and is completely irrelevant for such a conversation.

As a trans person i think I’d sooner transition from beign British than my gender

it’s also interesting how increasingly absurd economics gets the further it dissociates from reality.

people are dying

BUT THE DOW

turns out the thursday goat service brings in Dianne from networking who remembers she needs to reboot a apecific device weekly, but its not documented anywhere. When Dianne doesn’t do this everyone freaks out and grabs another goat to sacririce which brings her back because who is she to say no to some good goat, and the cycle is continued and reinforced

i think the best example of this is music. most people have very good relative pitch perception, but mediocre absolute pitch perception. that shared relative pitch perception though will often be built based on ones own experiences and life. the shared perceptual relativity is both developed socially/culturally and innate based on how we process and abstract information, but that says nothing about our absolute perception of that information.

This is really funny to me and something i might use unironically if I had a truck, especially as it could also be practical

Yes but for all we know one person perceives the pickles in a way i would consider tart or sour while the other may perceive them as sweet. but relative to everyone’s individual perception this fits along the broader categories that people may experience. the relatuvity may be the same while the absolute nature is not

The relative perception of things may be similar while the absolute perception of something differs wildly for everyone

the logic might be the same, the perception may not

Daniel Biss says he didn’t take any AIPAC money but was also not willing to denounce aid to Israel on the same level as Kat did. I haven’t looked enough into whether or not he accepted shadow money from AIPAC, but its very telling that AIPAC celebrated his win over Kat even though their opebly funded candidate Laura Fine lost.