“A million students protesting for free education… Not a single one realized that the government does that already? It’s called work for it you over entitled brats…before everyone gets butt hurt, I’m all for figuring out a way to get more assistance, but free? You’re kidding me.” – Tim French
me: I want to be educated
some douche: leave your family when you’re still a minor and become an imperialist murderer
me: why
some douche: you gotta
Like we should be talking about how the military-industrial complex coerces easily-influenced, gullible teenagers into enlisting in order to pay for unattainable higher education.
It’s not “I worked for it lol” it’s “I was tricked into selling my soul and bodily autonomy in order to be the first person in my family to go to college”
My father was in the Marine Corps for almost 23 years, and his body and mind are fucked up from his years of service, when I entered high school he said wanted to use his GI bill so that I could go to college and get an education. SURPRISE, they denied him the transfer, and now the money that is rightfully his is just sitting around, meanwhile the VA won’t do anything to help with his medical issues, nor will they give him his GI bill even tho he has appealed for it SEVERAL times. I’m graduating college this year and he is still trying to get his GI bill. So fuck this mentality that you need to sell your soul and possibly lose your life to an institution that only cares about you when you’re active duty. Fuck all the people who claim that they “Support the Troops”, because you don’t. If you did, you’d be helping the wounded, mentally ill, impoverished, etc.. troops and veterans.
also everyone can’t join the military???? some people have physical disabilities or health problems that restrict them??????? this is stupid af
“I would like an education without having to sell my soul to student loans for the rest of my life.”
“okay, but are you willing to literally kill people for it?”
And bonus, if you’re involved in something ~illicit~ you sometimes don’t get any benefits at all! My mom has a friend who was involved in ‘action’ we were supposedly Not Involved In back in South America back in the day, and he got a discharge and a “We’re not willing to admit you were on active duty because We Were Never There, so have fun getting medical treatment. By the way, don’t talk about this, okay?”
(He talked about it, obviously. It was the only revenge he HAD).
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Very excited to share a new comic I made with @annasellheim (The first part by Anna, the second part by me)
We both really believe that @plannedparenthood is vital for women’s health, so to show our support we made a comic about our lovely experiences there.
If you have any questions or just want to support PP, visit https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
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chaotic good
chaotic goat
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Things are conspiring
I’d kinda blocked today out to do my computer non-upgrade – well, case-upgrade, motherboard is kind of a horizontal movement. This was, of course, foolish. Foolish because whilst the board was meant to arrive today, early, and the case ‘before 10am’, this almost never happens. I mean, technically, the board was meant to arrive last week, but the expedited 2 day shipping from USPS took 7 days.
So first up I tried to call our realtor who was meant to send us stuff to look at, and hadn’t. After leaving a message, I gave in and found other things to do.
First up I had a look at the UPS I picked up for 7 dollars at Goodwill. Now they proclaim the test everything, so I had moderate hopes. Although it smelt a bit of hot component, which made me a touch suspicious. Still, I plugged it in – no life. I flipped it over, the battery was disconnected. Ah!
Connected the battery. Plugged it in. No life.
Oookay.
Open the case, the hot component smell becomes more pronounced. Uh oh…
I don’t even have to look hard:
The voltage regulator has gone bang. So I popped in an order for one, it being only 50c (actually I’ve ordered 10, because that was the same price as ordering one and a 5th of another). Then John pointed out that in the photo the fuse F6 (right at the front) has also gone. So I need to bring it back in and do some more investigation…and work out what F6 should be.
Still, the battery is 12.27 volts, which is a good start :)
I could just take it back, but it is something for me to poke at.
Still…
Then I had
a playan argument with KiCad. Not its fault, I’ve never really used board layout stuff, and I’m needing to learn – a lot. After some prolonged cursing (this tutorial I found is great, except that it seems to relate to a different version of KiCad, so occasionally, I’ll press button X and Z will happen, not Y. For example, a dialog box that doesn’t appear when I press it, or a function that’s not there, but somewhere else. Hopefully I’ll get it eventually).Then I hear the scuffling of the UPS delivery person. Quietly trying to slip away before I can spot it. I grab the box and pull it in, resisting the urge to open it immediately, I eat lunch.
I can, I think, at least start transferring components into the new PC case.
I open the box, slide out the new case and…
Well, fuck.
Some of the blanking plates are bent, there’s a snapped attachment lug rolling around in the case, and the front of the case is flapping off the front like a dying fish.
So, refund request commenced, again.
I’m beginning to wonder if anyone in the US can ship electronics. I order stuff from China and it takes a month to get here, but it’s well packed and arrives in one piece. I order something from within the US and it arrives smashed and broken. I am annoyed.
…and then I rang the realtor who has been “snowed under” and promised to send us some stuff having leapt to do another search now and will, definitely, come and view the property that he wanted to show us today.
Feh.
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Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.
Oh my god that is so much better than nascar, sign me the fuck up
I couldn’t watch this. I’d be worried that any of these vehicles had developed any degree of sentience… We have enough trouble with the roomba being in servitude.
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SpaceX just made history by landing a rocket on a boat — and that’s a really big deal.
Follow @the-future-now
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Sometimes I just start singing and my mom joins in
Whoa…
#don’t trust this
#they’re probably sirensThat, my friends, is the O Magnum Mysterium by Tomás Luis de Victoria. I would love to live in a house where people just casually sing music like this
No. These people are, in fact, sirens.
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rina_takei The window washer is back to play with Guinness
I’d be willing to bet that this is the highlight of both of their days.
