Fallacies sunt rerum species.
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help-my-ocs-breached-containmen:
the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not
you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot
other assorted roles may include
- retrieval team for objects in the backseat
- custodian of the parking garage tickets
- “All clear my way”
- en-route dining concierge
- announcing “Horses!” when there are horses
Don’t forget the Tommy Gun
You should never forget the Tommy Gun
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Just like how we “can’t afford” high speed rail or walkable urbanism, but can pour hundreds of billions of tax dollars into subsidizing the car and oil industries and building/maintaining all car infrastructure. They pave over paradise to build parking lots and we foot the bill.
Literally every industry is like this btw. The nation-state exists to extract further wealth from workers and funnel it to capitalists, while legitimizing harsh violence against any resistance to this exploitation.
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Welcome to the Protestant Work Ethic where if you are not working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.
heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”
and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work environment I don’t know what will
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It costs you literally nothing to leave service dogs the fuck alone.
yall. this isn’t a joke. if i can tell a 5 yr old “my dog is working, please let her be” and they understand then you can too. those dogs ARE working. they have a job to do. and when we say ‘leave them alone’ that includes making faces at them and baby talking them. literally act like they are just someone’s bag or something. if you distract them they could fail to alert their owner to a seizure or blood sugar issue or allergen. you are literally jeopardizing someone’s life bc you can’t have basic decency, respect, and self control.
SAY IT LOUDER
am I allowed to tell the person I’m proud of the dog? Or should I just not bring up the dog?
Ignore the dog. Do not mention the dog.
Would you walk up to a stranger and be like “Oh damn your wheelchair is doing such a hecking good job being a wheelchair you go lil buddy!” no? then don’t do it to service animals that are clearly wearing their vest/collar/harness whatever it is that marks them as service animals
[ID: Comment from @certifiedcoolkidno1 “animals…..aren’t…….objects…….”]
Service…..animals…..are…..legally…..classified…..as…..assistive…..devices…..
Y’all literally do not care how many disabled people you kill and how many disabled lives you ruin - you want to coo at and pet the cute dog.
Go fuck yourself asshole.
Here, if you want a comparison that isn’t an object: I worked as a caregiver for people with developmental (usually accompanied by physical) disabilities. My job was to accompany them into the community for various activities including shopping, dining, and leisure activities. And everywhere we went people would come up to ME and tell me what a good person I was, what a great service I was providing, god bless me, etc.
Not only was it embarrassing for both me and my consumers, it was distracting! I was supposed to be paying attention to my consumers and their needs, which could often change rapidly depending on their conditions, and instead I was having to deal with some prick who felt the need to voice what a martyr I was for doing my job. And they’d usually get angry if I ignored them or informed them they were distracting me from my job, which sounds familiar.So yeah. Leave. The Dog. Alone. All you’re doing is making yourself feel good while distracting the dog from its job and endangering the person it’s supposed to be helping.
Question: I know service dogs are for a variety of maladies (I hope that’s not offensive, if so plz correct me) so is it wrong to even go up to the person and calmly tell them their dog is cute and ask them to give them a pet for me later when they’re off the clock? Without actually giving the dog attention?
What exactly is it about “Ignore the dog. Do not mention the dog.” that y’all aren’t grasping.
Oh right. It’s not what you want to do so you’re just going to keep trying to weasel your way around it. Because fuck disabled people, it’s a cute dog.
What’s really getting me is that all of these “but what if I” examples blatantly involve inserting yourself into a disabled person’s life just to get to their dog. Like
[ID: A white stick figure on a black background. Orange text says “that’s a human person”]
people love talking to my dog or asking questions while we’re in line and therefore can’t just leave. if we’re in line chances are I feel terrible, he’s doing his job and I’m trying not to fall on the floor I do not have the time or energy to answer questions. he knows he’s a good boy and that he’s very smart. I know he’s doing a good job. I should not have to worry about people petting him when I’m having tachycardia and actively need him to do his job. just leave us and our dofs alone
disabled people: leave me and my assistive devices including service animals and caregivers and aides alone
ableds: but what if-
disabled people: leave me and my assistive devices alone
ableds: but what if-
disabled people: what part of “leave me and my assistive devices alone” are you not understanding here
disabled people:
leave me and my assistive
devices alone
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Why is this such a hard concept? I’ve had people come up to my service dog opal and do everything like make straight up inappropriate comments about GENITALIA (yes I’m dead serious) to pull her tail or pet her.
She keeps me alive and functioning and yes she is also a living creature who I treat better than family but for the love of all things good do NOT mention the dog. You will know if it is off service and you can pet her then. Otherwise please leave us the fuck alone.
“But-”
No.
“But-”
No.
“But-”
For FUCKS sake, NO!
One word, two letters! N-O!
No, there isn’t an exception, no, there isn’t a “But what if I” scenario, and NO, goddamnit, YOU CAN’T PET THE FUCKEN DOG.
Hands off, eyes off, attention on the person and keep your goddamn mouth shut about the animal, for fucks sake.
But what if I leave the dog alone, and don’t mention it, and respect their wishes, and go about my business without harassing them?
YES THIS IS PERFECT!!! YOU FIGURED IT OUT :D
I have a service dog. She helps me with a mental disability (I’m bipolar with high anxiety and am classified as disabled) and the number of people who coo at her and then go “so who are you training her for?” Is unreal.
She’s for me and no I will not elaborate. All of the above is absolutely it. Leave us alone. Let us go about our business and don’t talk to me.
The number of people who come up and talk to me about my dog or force me to answer questions about him while I am trying to deal with what to ke are incredibly stressful activities make it not worthwhile to have a service dog. So instead of risking that I just don’t leave my safe bubble of home and a few very safe activities. Which directly limits my ability to form a support network and have new experiences that might increase my safe bubble.
All because people can’t keep their fucking mouths shut about a dog.
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ALTCool interaction I just had on twitter! It’s not easily enforceable, but it seems like the thing youtube are doing where they detect if you are using an adblocker is not only economically unviable, but could actually be illegal in europe under GDPR! It requires determining if you have specific software available on your computer, which legally you can’t do without consent under GDPR. I really hope someone is able to fight this! I know it’s a longshot but it would be super cool.
Link to Alexander Hanff’s original tweet showing a legal letter from the EU that re-enforces this point: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/722861362607747072
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I’ve been watching so much Leverage lately while in the grippe of a terrible cold and honestly it’s been so soothing in this billionaire-bootlicking day and age to watch a show that is so unashamedly fond of just straight up psychologically torturing corrupt rich people. Like remember that episode where they locked a hedge fund manager in a hospital and made him think he had a fatal disease? Every single ep the client is like “I just want him to face legal justice for what he did to my poor daughter/grandpa/pony/etc :(” and the crew is like “Not only will we do that, we will also find out this bastard’s hopes, their fears, their deepest darkest dreams and desires, and rip their whole life to shreds right in front of their eyes while they watch and weep in abject dispair. And then we will give you $2 million dollars cash.” Fucking legends. Do Elon next
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The Prison Industrial Complex is real.
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Newly-sworn-in Republican Speaker Mike Johnson wants the House of Representatives to continue the impeachment inquiry started by his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, despite the lead impeachment proponent and investigator, Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer, having made clear he does not want any more hearings.
Johnson, in his Thursday interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity admitted he would support – or at least not block – an impeachment attempt against President Biden to move forward, because the base wants it.
“I know people are getting anxious and they’re getting restless and they just want somebody to be impeached,” Johnson said, as The Washington Post‘s Philip Bump reported Friday.
“But that’s not — we don’t do that like the other team,” he claimed, referring to Democrats. “We have to base it upon the evidence, and the evidence is coming together. We’ll see where it leads.”
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Mike Johnson is a selfish theocrat who projects his democracy-destroying insurrectionist thieving onto boogeyman.
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[image description: ““Attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes,” pointed out Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. “Cutting off men, women, children [from] water, electricity and heating with winter coming,” she continued—“these are acts of pure terror.” Von der Leyen is right, of course, but in this instance she was referring to Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure. As for Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s infrastructure, Von der Leyen says that Israel has the right to defend itself.”]
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My first question to someone who’s like, “You should give up writing and learn to code!” would be to ask, “Is that how you entertained yourself during the pandemic? With long videos of people coding? Or did you read books and watch TV and movies like the rest of us?”
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conservatives-arekilling-america:
Louisiana is a welfare state.
Mike Johnson is cheerleader for the guy with three marriages and paid for adulterous sex with port stars.
Republicans borrow money from Social Security and never pay it back.
Can we just eliminate their opinion from the discussion based on their proven history of disinformation and bullshit?
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