MonkeyTown

joined 1 year ago
[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Neat, I support this effort big time.

I was so paranoid when I got my memorial tattoo done.. it’s in Latin, and my Latin is not awesome.. I did weeks of research and was very confident I had it right, so I had my prof take a look and somehow I did indeed get it right, yay!

I was paranoid because my first tattoo was supposed to say one thing in Japanese, had the right character on the stencil and everything, and the artist fucked it up figuring I wouldn’t notice, and it’s not a word at all. Thankfully it’s covered unless I’m naked, and nobody who has seen me naked can read Japanese..

Unfortunately I’m so rusty on all my languages I won’t be much help, but I’m for sure gunna lurk!

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

No thanks, I’m ace.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Presumably yes.

But for a bigger picture question, are all of those others able to interbreed with each other, as well? If yes, they are basically like different races of human or breed of domestic animal. If not, it gets much more interesting in terms of classification.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

So women aren’t allowed to be called she/her anymore because woke? We can’t use gender neutral they/them either because that’s also woke. I’m curious how we are supposed to be referred. This anti-woke stuff is getting really complicated.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve never had to get a vehicle inspected in Wisconsin as far as I can recall. There are some areas that do emissions testing but that’s about it.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, that’s probably for the best. Don’t need more people like that, and if they feel strongly enough to take such drastic measures, they absolutely would have passed on that mindset.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Archive link because this is too important for people to be turned away by a paywall

https://archive.ph/HYbBG

The takeaway that I got here is basically that even a burner phone can hypothetically be linked to you, if you take it home with you after a protest. And if you aren’t using a burner phone, they can get so much granular historical data about you that your whole life is laid bare.

And zero warrants required, because of course this needs to be abused as much as possible.

What do normal people even do about this sort of thing? Flock cameras at least can be disabled or hacked, but this? We don’t have access to cell towers nor the ability to choose which we connect to, we don’t meaningfully have the ability to opt out of data tracking.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s so your alien chest burster doesn’t ruin your garment when it comes out. The work must continue, no stoppages, throw the next poor sap in the body bag.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not even just factories, inmates are basically farmed out to whatever company wants cheap slave labor to lower the bottom line. That includes fast food places, retail places, etc, not just what you’d think, like factory labor and farm work..

https://portside.org/2025-01-03/alabama-profits-prisoners-who-work-mcdonalds-deems-them-too-dangerous-parole

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I’m looking at getting a used one with a lot of miles for that much 😭 so yes.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

The illusion of choice is even more illusory than it seems.

Even if there was real choice inherent in the systems themselves, most people have limited ability to take advantage of said choice without completely starting over, usually with damn near nothing.

What I mean is most people aren’t wealthy, they don’t have in-demand skills, they don’t have family abroad, they can’t get sponsors to other countries. That means they are effectively stuck wherever they are, until something so bad happens they have to abandon their lives and flee.

[–] MonkeyTown@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not to be “that guy” but they left the solar system in 2012 and 2018, as in crossed the heliopause and the “wall of fire”.

Your point stands, but I thought you might be interested to know that :)

Here’s an article about it https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-found-a-30000-50000-kelvin-wall-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system-81411

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