“Bird celebrates freedom in many ways—freedom from traffic [and]
congestion as well as freedom of speech,” the company said. “In the
quest for curbing illegal activities related to our vehicles, our legal
team overstretched and sent a takedown request related to the issue to a
member of the media. This was our mistake and we apologize to Cory
Doctorow.”
Here’s a rough translation, with notes:
1. We are so groovy!
2. We accidentally formulated a laughable legal theory and sent it to a
journalist. Who among us has never done something like that.
3. We’re not going to come right out and claim that motherboard swaps
are a violation of Section 1201 of the DMCA, but we’re sure gonna imply
it!
tldr: “We’re sorry you’re angry at us.”
While this apology is better than a threat, it raises more questions
than it answers, like “Would it be OK to threaten someone who wasn’t a journalist?” and “Which illegal activity, precisely, are you referring to?”
They probably didn’t even look at crowdfunding considering it’s talking about organizations.
Hey uhhhhh…. this just isn’t true. Millennial actually OUTGIVE their previous two generations percentage wise, they just give differently than the last two gens. We spread out our money instead of doing multiple big donations throughout the year. For one of my masters classes I did my final paper on millennial giving and here is my fav source that breaks it down: “In 2014, 84 percent of millennial employees gave to charity and 70 percent of them donated more than an hour to a charitable cause, according to the Case Foundation’s Millennial Impact Report: 2015 (download required). Sure, boomers and Gen Xers are giving more in terms of dollars ($732 and $1,212 per year, respectively), but at an average of $481 given each year, millennials are quickly gaining influence over the philanthropic space (source: The Next Generation of American Giving, 2018). Considering that millennials earn less than their counterparts did and are often riddled with student debt, years away from owning a car or a home, these numbers are significant. If people become more generous over their lives and are more likely to give if their parents give, millennials will become the most generous generation in history. One can easily imagine this reaching 95 or even 100 percent by the time they reach midlife. As millennials double as a working population, their share of charitable donations is likely to reflect that growth. Organizations should be doubling down on their efforts to connect with and reach millennials.” (Forbes, “How Millennials Are Changing Philanthropy, Justin Wheeler)
In conclusion: If nonprofits are hurting it is because they refuse to engage with millennials and their communities, not because millennials “aren’t giving”.
i strongly recommend that people add things like “gender critical”, “radfem”, “radical feminism”, “terf”, and “terfsafe” to their filtered tags. tumblr’s blacklist system will hide reblogged posts if the op put one of your filtered tags on it. this is a really easy way to not accidentally reblog posts by transmisogynists so often. it filters posts both on desktop and on mobile. and you can always click to view the post and double check the op if you want.
on mobile: go to settings > general settings > filtering > +new
on desktop: settings > account > scroll down to filtering and click the lil pencil
I had a server tell me about how he was harassed into going to a church baptism ceremony by a not so close friend and to get them off his back he agreed
He decided some time before that of he was going to be forced to do this her might as well have fun with it right? So he goes to lush and buys one of the black bath bombs, and cuts it in half.
Now fast forward to the day of and he is wearing a small harness under his shirt that is keeping both haves of the bath bomb one either shoulder blade.
He volunteers to get baptised
They take him up put him in the white robe and then he waits for his turn. Now the friend who invited him had no clue what he is doing. They are pleasantly surprised to see him participating.
Honestly. A mistake on their part.
I only knew this guy for a max of 45 minutes and I could already tell this dude was a chaos entity.
So his turn comes up and they go to dunk him and the water immediately starts to foam and turn black and he starts screaming like a banchee jumps out the water and hisses at the priest
Everyone fucking lost it and her was banned from ever attending that church again.
So yeah all in all seems like a great thing to do for a hilarious story
See, in many modern animes, you’d probably get the protagonist to say something like, “Wha-WHAAAT? Uh, b-but we’re both girls! Shouldn’t you be giving this to a boy or something?”
I really like how Usagi handles it. She’s not undermining the girl’s feelings and she’s taking her seriously. And while she doesn’t reciprocate, she offers her friendship instead of just brushing the girl off and going “ew, gay weirdo!” Sailor Moon really did empower women and sexuality, and this is one of the many scenes that showcases that.
This is the funniest email I have ever received from a professor
also most considerate
okay yeah I see your “most considerate” post, but honestly??? it should be more widely accepted that making people (students, employees, etc) do work while they’re unable to is a VERY shitty thing to do, and the fact that everyone is praising the professor for extending the deadline after op explained they were extremely physically compromised should NOT be considered heroic in the slightest, and really just showcases what a fucked up capatalist hellscape we live in but yeah theyre considerate whatever
No it’s considerate bc the professor made the text really large so it would be easier to read without straining since op said the computer was making their migraine worse.
That’s actually above and beyond what even most decent people would do, it’s really nice that they stopped to think about making it easier for their student to physically read the email.
