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I FUCKING LOVE SPONGEBOB, IM A TRUE FUCKING SPONGEHEAD. REBLOG IF YOUR A FELLOW SPONGEHEAD

Another aspect of the Gaza Genocide that I want to talk about is the complicity of Internet banking and crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe.

I have seen multiple Gazans raise enough money to leave for Egypt, but the banks and the crowdfunding websites freeze their money or cancel their funds for "suspicious activity" or whatever. Every day that passes in Gaza supplies get more scarce, conditions get more deadly, and the price to cross into Egypt gets more expensive. I've seen people, like ghost-90 here on Tumblr, raise the full amount to get their entire family out of Gaza, but their money gets frozen for so long that the original goal is only a fraction of the price now needed to cross the boarder.

These financial institutions should not be allowed to get away with contributing to the death toll in Gaza. They are intentionally keeping people trapped in a kill zone by withholding money that is rightfully theirs.

I'm so pissed and angry that every avenue for relief for Palestinians is being cut of left and right. It is vile that Gazans are being extorted for 10s of thousands of dollars by the Egyptian gov just to save their family's lives, but even when they play by this corrupt game, the world still finds a way to make them suffer.

My heart is with every Palestinian for the rest of time, from river to sea you will all be free. 🇵🇸❤️

Yacare Caiman, 2020-12-21

Whenever I see a post talking about how it's okay to steal from huge corporations, when they have shit like self checkout, I always want to jump up and say they have cameras and are collecting your information and you need to be so careful because yeah like they're inflating the prices and running monopolies and price fixing with competitors but everybody is caring about shoplifters more and that's really fucked up, but you also need to consider that Target might be keeping track of every time you don't scan something or intentionally scan it wrong, and just waiting for it to add up to a felony.

Which feels entirely beside the point and almost inappropriate to bring up when the point is that the customer is already a victim of theft, but I feel like there are people encouraging others to do stuff that can absolutely end up with them in jail without mentioning at all that it's a risk.

This is real and here are some sources discussing facial recognition in various retail settings. fuck corporations but also go in knowing all the facts 🫡 Kashmir Hill is a great journalist who’s entire beat is facial recognition and how it’s deployed, and she’s an amazing resource if you want to learn more about facial recognition in general. highly recommend her new book on clearview ai too, it’s a great read

ACLU lawsuit that stops clearview from being sold to retail in the us (but doesn’t stop retail from buying other facial recognition tech) https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-v-clearview-ai

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/technology/facial-recognition-stores.html

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/barred-from-grocery-stores-by-facial-recognition/

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/barred-from-grocery-stores-by-facial-recognition/

Targets privacy policy, scroll down to the camera section

You are the coolest person in the world to me for finding all those sources.

The brotherhood of steel respecting pronouns was not on my fallout bingo card

I had to mentally send myself a reaction image the other day. I ran up the stairs on all fours, said to myself “i’m such a locationpilled scampercel” and then perfectly envisioned this image

please i've already hurt so much

Do people realize that Israel is so unrestrained that it’s now launching attacks in Lebanon and Syria as well. Do people realize how little Arab people mean to these genocidal maniacs that they are now killing people in three Arab countries. Can genocide apologists pause their pure hatred for Arabs to at the very least admit this. Or are we going to pretend that Israel has a reason to be intensifying attacks in Damascus right now

choices made in anger is such a crazy image. if you know what i'm talking about

i'm gonna thrup

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

KOSA IS BEING PUSHED FOR REAL THIS TIME

‼️URGENT: KOSA has been officially introduced in the House as of today.

We need to spread the word on social media and urge people to send emails to Congress through stopkosa.com.

• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.

• We will be having a calling day on TUESDAY (16 th April) to make clear to Congress that there is still a ton of opposition to these bills. https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-rodgers-and-ranking-member-pallone-announce-legislative-hearing-on-data-privacy-proposals-1

• House Energy and Commerce is holding the hearing so they are the best offices to call this week ‼️ https://energycommerce.house.gov/representatives

• You can use http://badinternetbills.com/ to contact your congresspeople !

• And https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative to find all of the phone numbers of your House Representative, and faxzero.com to send up to 5 free faxes a day

While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.

SPREAD THE WORD !!

it's really cool how you can dedicate 20 years of your life to serving the US state dept and get murdered by a cop in one of their colonies and your government won't even mention that to avoid making the colony look bad

listen to me. listen. your actual job in life, and it sucks that your 5th grader teacher didnt explain this adequately enough, is to ask for help when you need it and to accept charity when it would take a weight from your shoulders. Otherwise you end up like Sisyphus- or even worse, Walter White

idk if anyone here has been following the manny ellis case but the tacoma pd just did their own internal investigation and unsurprisingly found that their killer cops had “done no wrong except for the use of profanity ”while killing manny ellis and payed them each $500,000 to resign for a grand total of $1.5 million in tax payer dollars to pay off murderers after keeping them on payed leave since they killed him

they got payed leave for 3 YEARS capped off with an additional $500,000 plus benefits for murdering someone, leaving “in good standing”

the officers in question are christopher burbank, matthew collins, and timothy rankine, these men are murderers who have been given the opportunity to live comfortably off blood money for years if not the rest of their lives if managed properly, all because they killed a mentally ill black man

for people who are just now hearing about his case

Manny Ellis was a musician, he played drums at his church, a father who loved his daughter and son greatly, he was working on improving his life. he was killed by three officers and initial reports claimed he died from an enlarged heart due to drug use, newly confirmed report by the medical examiner found he died from respiratory arrest hypoxia and physical restraint.

His sister Monét Carter-Mixon is still fighting for him.

here is the gofundme for his family funds go to legal fees among other things.

here is a petition from action network

(his sister Monét, his brother Matthew, his mother Marcia)

The Goyim are fucking wild, the way I would have dumped that casserole over that woman's head, also divorce that wife.

LegalEagle did a very interesting breakdown of "the battery episode" of Better Call Saul where he actually used this as an example of something you can legitimately sue someone over. Feeding a person food that they have not consented to eating is assault.

holy fuck i hate evangelicals so much

The wife is an antisemite and this guy needs to divorce her, holy crap.

I've been seeing posts about stuff like this lately and what I haven't seen enough of is clear statements about:

The point of kashrut is not that something will happen. That's a Christian framing. Christianity posits sin as something that has a direct effect. Judaism doesn't.

Kashrut is centered around the idea of intent. It is a practice. Feeding an uknowing person who holds by kashrut (at whatever level, in whatever way) food that violates their practice does not unleash some kind of wrath of God on them. It is, however, a violation of their trust, and of their practice. It has self-imposed consequences. The entire premise of "I will feed this person a thing they refuse to eat to show them that it's fine" is not only unethical, but it has nothing to do with the cause/effect of that person's choices and perspective religiously or culturally. (It also should be unnecessary to point out that the consequences of violating a dietary restriction are often not immediate, and feeding someone a food they aren't used to eating can cause problems many hours later.)

Judaism approaches the commandments and the mitzvot (or religious obligations) from the perspective of those that are between man and God, and those that are between man and man. Kashrut is between man and God, ie. each individual has to make decisions for themselves and those decisions are between them and God (or not, in the case of atheist Jews), and no one else. There is no place for another person to intercede, and if they do, the consequences will be in the affected person's conscience and emotional soul. (Which also means that from a Jewish perspective, these in-laws were positing themselves as God, which I'm pretty sure is also not something Evangelicals are fine with, let alone Jews.)

When it comes to kashrut, like I said, the framing is centered on intent. For example, kashrut requires leafy greens to be checked for bugs, because bugs are not kosher. If a person does their due diligence to check for bugs and finds none, and ends up eating one that they unintentionally missed, they have not violated kashrut. However, if a person does not check for bugs and eats a leafy green, even if it has no bugs on it they have violated kashrut because they didn't check.

The thing is, an example like the above AITA is not in violation of kashrut, but the person affected nevertheless felt violated themselves, and likely guilty and possibly tainted. And while they don't have to, a lot of people in this situation still do feel this way, and that's natural. Many rabbis will say that to resolve that guilt you can do teshuvah, whether it's through davening or tzeddakah or both. (I think Chabad.org has a page on this specific issue but tbh I don't feel like linking to them for a number of reasons so feel free to do your own research or talk to your friendly neighborhood rabbi.)

So for any Evangelicals who want to feed Jewish (or Muslim) people food that violates their religious practice just to prove a point, maybe just cut out the middleman, don't mess with people's food, and donate to your local homeless shelter instead (but not the Salvation Army).

This is important.

I don’t believe I’m going to hell if I eat pork. I don’t believe G-d will punish me if I eat pork. I don’t need anyone to “prove” to me that it’s okay to eat pork.

(Although I’ll note that if you don’t eat pork for a long time, and then you do, it can have very unpleasant effects on your digestive system, so doing this to someone is harmful in a myriad of ways.)

I’m not afraid to eat pork: I choose not to eat it. I find the idea of eating it distasteful and a violation of my ethics and identity. It’s not about being afraid of divine wrath.

But I fear that’s too nuanced for the average Christian to understand.

Telling the son he can't go to the mother-in-law's house isn't a punishment; it's a reward.