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Over 50,000 Pages of Documents Reveal Private Security Methods Against Standing Rock Protesters
Over 50,000 pages of internal documents reveal methods of surveillance used at Standing Rock, coordination with the National Sheriff’s Association, and profit model of Tigerswan itself.
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Experimenting with different visual cues to show that a character is not quite fluent in a language yet. Commentary and extras below the cut. (the other language is kalaallisut, a real language spoken in greenland, albeit machine translated and probs not 100% accurate)
1. Blurred bits
I feel like this one isn't very visually pleasing, but it speaks to me more regarding how learning a language feels. You don't quite make out what the words are, and slowly pick up bits from what is being said. This also adds room for uncertainty on the character's POV, the speech bubble wouldn't be theirs, but what you read off it would be their thoughts regarding whats being said. The blur also helps keeping things incomprehensible even if you speak the other language being spoken.
2. Bits in multiple languages
This one adds room for out of the speech bubble commentary. It doesn't make misunderstandings as easy as with the blurred speech, and with an agglutinative language like kalaallisut it might end up being confusing to organise or break the sentence's syntax. It looks cleaner than the blurred bits though, and it still makes the other language incomprehensible (if you dont speak kalaallisut, that is). Colour coding would help indicate whats being understood by the main character and what isnt, and the texts would slowly be fully red across the chapters.
3. Faded colour to indicate not understanding
This makes the reader able to understand everything, and relies on the reader memorising that faded = not understood by the character. Other than that, colour coding would indicate a change of languages.
I like the reader only understanding what the character can understand and I like the types that leave kalaallisut still visible. Though option 3 might be cleaner and easier to manange.
4. Faded colour + blur
This is something I thought after posting it earlier on patreon. Blurring the parts the main character wouldn't understand can be a way for the brain to quickly skip through the missed text, in hopes that at least the first reading will match what the character is understanding.
Also, for the enjoyment of my 4 greenlandic followers, heres the machine translated kalaallisut version I used for 1 & 2. I had to use a double way translation tool and an annotation tool to be sure the words were somewhat related to what I wanted them to be. I can't really fact check it though, so I hope that whichever way the translator messed up is at least worth a chuckle.
If you'd like to see more of this kinda stuff, please consider supporting me on patreon
#comic#marangatu#language learning#brart#brazilian artist#latino artists#brazilian artists#greenland#if i were to make this a big project id hire a translator btw#and fool myself into learning a 7th language probably#the more languages you learn the less you care about how many people speak it or how profitable it'd be#sometimes the most dellicious languages to study are hidden in a 800km range area#also its amazing to see how many different ways there are out there to structure words and make sentences. i love languages#kalaallisut#comics
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It should be a criminal offense if an insurance company is responsible for a delay in a policyholder's necessary health care.
Withholding prescribed treatments, even for just a day, can be anywhere from inconvenient to catastrophic for the victim. Medical providers may not withhold necessary treatment from any patient on any grounds, as it is their duty to provide it-- it should be justly illegal for any "middle man" to interfere with a medical provider's legal and ethical obligation to treat a patient.
Severity of the charge and its legal consequences should depend upon the scope of the offense (length of delay) and its consequences to the victim (impact on the person).
The testimonies of the victim, the pharmacy, and the medical provider who prescribed the treatment should be key considerations for the determination. Additional important testimony should come from the victim's other medical providers, housemates, family, educators/mentors, colleagues/coworkers, or employers.
The charge should become criminal record for the company. The company (perhaps the agent's office) should be fined per day delayed.
Some taxation can be applied; just to pay off the folks who do the filing, advocacy, testimony, processing. A hefty majority of the fine should be compensation owed to the victim.
If delays became a criminal charge on companies' records, then companies would have a strong motive to terminate agents who aren't performing with punctuality. It would become their best financial interest to invest only in timely agents who would, in turn, gain a best interest to invest only in timely subordinates.
I posit that insurance delays would wane significantly, resulting in more timely delivery of treatments to policyholders, and many people's qualities of life would improve drastically for it.
#of course. this is an idea that sticks /within/ the overall capitalist framework.#the purpose is to promote the welfare of the people /while/ they are trapped within the structure#hopefully helping enable them to -- among other things -- abolish and emancipate themselves of the structure altogether#i know that the ''real'' problem is the /existence/ of insurance companies#the privatization of health care. the profitability of health care.#the fact that money is power in our system. the fact that whoever has it is allowed to control the lives and deaths of others#the true solution to the problem presented here is the abolition of the capitalist system that manufactures it.#what i provided is a sort of ''meantime mitigation'' strategy#*sigh*#rant#psych major rants#fuck capitalism#guillotine the rich#health care#insurance#pharmacy#socialism#leftist#leftblr#anticapitalist#ableism#healthism#classism#medical abuse#medical neglect#systemic inequity#accountability
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The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice // Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
#text#birthings#iwtv#armand#mdr#the locked tomb#good night. I’ve been thinking about this for the past two months.#plus the passage where gideon says my father has made my bones denser than titanium. etc.#but there’s a certain enacting of colonial violence on armand and alecto’s bodies (and the erasure of the evidence of that violence) that#doesn’t quite fit in with what we see being explored with gideon. but nonetheless that still has flavours of uncomfortably intimate accesse#that a parent has to a child’s body even if they haven’t been around to be a Parent.#the violence is institutionalised in gideon’s case but armand and alecto sort of experience it outside of the bounds of society#(depending on whether you choose to read marius as somebody who exists outside of social rules / as somebody who specifically profits from#existing exploitative social structures when they suit him)#tva
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Okay but genuinely. Why is Cats so severely hated on. I get the 2019 movie is largely what brought it back into the public conscience and thus strongly shaped the current generation's view of the show but there has to be more than that, people were hating on it even before the film came out. It almost feels like Cats (or god forbid LIKING Cats) is treated as somewhat of a musical theatre taboo. The One Show no one likes and you're not allowed to like because everyone will look at you funny, even folks who don't normally care much about musical theatre. Come on guys they're just kitty cats
Yadda yadda nice opinion did a youtuber give it to you try forming your own opinions on things without parroting other people's etc etc
#cats#it could be because of oversaturarion mixed with its weirdness#you know. longest running show ln bway and west end at some point hugely profitable#from what I've heard it was practically everywhere for a while. even non musical enjoyers couldn't escape it#people were probably quite sick of it and that the show admittadly does have a rather odd premise and unusual story structure did not help#even after the cats fever or whatever you wanna call it died down the public resentment still lingered#and just became ingrained in the public conscience#sort of like how on here one of your posts blowing up is generally seen as an annoyance likely as a vestige of the time people's notifs#were on the dash (apparently?? I wasn't on here back then I only heard rumours) meaning a post blowing up practically made the site unusable#and even though that feature is long gone the attitude torwards your posts breaching containment is still present#I think I'm rambling and getting off topic. I was talking about Cats right#yeah right uhh okay uhm tldr hating cats for no reason dumb thank you for listening
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I am delighted to meet another who has used hypnosis for the sake of cheating at Nintendo games. I will typically have a suggestion that when I announce "Crash!" my partner will be compelled to veer off the track.
What methods do you use?
Oh, it's fun to use pleasure triggers I find in these instances. Once the opponent is properly softened up from their own aroused state (not always necessary by any means but a grand thing to playfully rub in their face), it's easy to start just using hypnotic pattern and narrating to them what comes next. A fun one is to make the power ups into different effects, so if they have the power up they have a delicious dilemma if they want to actually use it. If they still need a little correction, it's always great to make them getting hit by items separate effects. I find the randomness to keep the playful tone and mood I want. While I'm not really competitive by nature in games, this is a delightful place to abuse one's power.
#ask me anything#mind control for fun and profit#honestly using hypnosis when playing video games or board games or any games really is just a delight#loose rule sets for structure and something that is clearly bounded by the game itself makes for good impromptu bullying
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maybe it’s just me, but the corporate environment’s expectation that everyone must be working to move up/get promoted at all times is absolutely exhausting. every performance review you get asked about what you’re doing to grow a new skillset or what role you want to move into next and it feels like there’s this unspoken rule that you’re not allowed to say “actually I’m happy with my current roles and responsibilities, can I just be left alone please?” it’s a constant demand of more more more. if you’re good at one thing, they’ll put five new things on your plate that you have to frantically juggle and then the juggling. never. ends.
#maybe it’s like… a micro version of the macro structure of capitalism#by that I mean the logic that profits must INCREASE every year for a company to be a success#therefore the burden on each individual employee must also increase as the driving force behind the profits#you feel me?#I’m not an economics major. I don’t know shit about all that. this is just me speculating#I just wanna be able to pay the bills man. not run myself into the ground mentally and physically all the time
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wow a post vaccine baby is no joke! Haha I'm in danger dot gif.....
#mama blogging#i am soooo so staunchly pro vaccine. give my kid all of em. give me all of em. lets gooo#but boy. motherhood has honestly given me more compassion for anti vaxxers.#the individuals i mean. not the ones who profit over misinformation but like families without platforms#this is distressing!!!#i can see how if you were in or found the wrong circles you would quickly get some terrible ideas#i'm pretty emotionally vulnerable right now and i actually feel a pull to Blame Something For Baby Cry!#i am able to remind myself that the benefits outweigh the distress#but im not gonna lie watching your baby scream while he gets shots#and then be miserable all afternoon#sucks!!!!!#idk i think we probably dont do enough to support young families on a structural level and that contributed to antivax mess!!!#anyway. yay vaccines. please pray for me as my child mounts a hell of an immune response.
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Once again: Brandi Carlile is one of the most influential people in the music industry right now, and if you haven’t realized it, you’re not paying attention.
#she is absolutely RUNNING the Americana genre right now#the way she refuses to be the token and pulls up every boat with her#the way she is forcing the music industry to quit leaving these influential women behind as everyone profits off their sacrifices#I think the biggest difference is while other people treat the industry as an enigma#she treats it as the professional society it actual is#and manipulates the actual power structures with that
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Sometimes i wonder why Eddie and Lauretta could find Carlo attractive. Like he's not the most handsome man, he's arrogant and self-centered, with some oddities, occasional paranoia (but given the last scene with him in canon - he can be relatively charismatic?). but i've long been of the opinion that it's all about his energy??? assertiveness? ambitions?? i mean judging by the records about him Carlo really tried to make the most of this life??? Connections with journalists and politicians, the planetarium, charity, he had a company in Ohio, he found new ways to earn money ( was the first to go international in fact 😭)
He also seems to have generally used material patronage as a way to gain loyalty?? I'm saying this because of the Mickey the Crab story, it's written that he used to be in the Vinci family, but moved to Falcone's because Carlo paid more and got him out of the army (+he gave Eddie a brothel in gratitude for his loyalty; +in ch10 Carlo emphasizes that he will pay Vito and Joe well if they successfully take out Clemente)
anyway. just an old thought
Upd. And funny how it's the absolute contrast with Clemente, who uses intimidation and cruelty to his men. Now I'm wondering how Carlo came to this way of connecting with people (=materialistic)
#Well and in eddie and lauretta's case I want to believe they found his quirks materialism and cruelty appealing#carlo has the sun tarot card vibes to me??? but ofc like the darker version of the sun#but maybe (100%) im projecting once again bc the sun is my card#and i deeply respect ambitious n energetic people#Abt ch10: yes i know it's a basic phrase#but i'm in my second year of working in the theater and i'm used to the story/characters being built largely on words#so i pay attention to it a lot#All this thing bout generosity in payment is basically investing for profit in the long term#Profit is loyalty in this case#But anyway. Now i will think how this structure came into his cursed head 😭😭#Idk imo almost every character's trait has a background#m2
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it's wild to me that some "leftists" on here can't imagine the possibility of a society that doesn't play on people's most selfish and cruel impulses in order to operate
#i don't think that anarchism esp the tumblrified permutation of it is entirely unproblematic but if youre saying that humans cannot do#anything without a profit incentive and strict hierarchical structures i feel like you just have a very low opinion of humans beings#*human beings. sorry brainfog cant type etc etc
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what the fuck does this mean. the whole staff? the staff blog? the entire tumblr company? what is oh my god the edible just hit holy fuck
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#barry.txt#do you think staff is just like. one guy? making decisions out of his personal biases?#its structurally transphobic bc its a fucking profit based company#im. tags added later. we're watching narduwar and im hot#ray and gerard should fuvk <3
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everyday I miss miitomo .. aaa
#these screenshots are not even good or the most interesting/funny/cool ones from back then#they just so happen to be ones I found in a folder so am thinking about them solely for the memory of it all#WORST thing is I never even had friends (still don't have friends really that have many similar interests to me lol..epic hermit moment) who#played or were willing to do I didn't really use the social aspects much. if there were any?? maybe I'm just making up a better game in my#head lol.. I thought maybe you could visit your friends apartments at some point or something? I know you could have multiple mii characters#and put them in their own apartments too.#I could also be mixing it in my mind with tomodachi life. which is a superior game. but also I think mostly I just loved the dress up and#photo creation aspects of this. That you could spend like 30 minutes putting your little avatar person in different lttle poses with differe#nt backgrounds and import your own custom background and etc. etc. And the community questions & answers section was always ridiculous#WHY is it that all actually good and cool things end up shutting down and nobody cares about them but then some tv shows/games/etc. can keep#going for like 808989598590 years when they are actually very bad and stinky and pointless#I know probably something somehting profit motive. if something sucks but is hyped blindly and sells then that's all that matters.#things that are cool and innocative but have a small audience get poo poo pee pee Not Good Enough For Shareholders whatever#>:(#This is why I don't play apps or online games /anything live service or that is dependent on external things to function#Like every once in a while I do but for the most part if something is not it's own self contained experience then I dont care to even get#invested in the first place because it could just randomly be taken away from you at any time without warning or etc.#Also just charmed by anything that incorporates personality tests into part of the structure of an app even in a minor.comepletely trivial w#ay due to my preexisting obsession with anything in the realm of that topic (enneagram. mbti. etc. even astrology. just any way humans categ#orzie and analyze themselves. NOT because I think they're all scientifically valid methods and swear by them in practuce but like. the theor#y of it. I love personaliy testing from like.. a cultural perspective? like the fact that humans make this stuff up at all. and how they use#it and conceptualize it and apply it to their lives. the different frameworks within which the same traits can be categorized in different w#ays. one person looks at X trait and says its bc theyre a virgo. another explains the same exact trait by saying it's bc theyre an infj. etc#I mean some of them I do find actually personally fun to get into themselves (enneagram mostly) but mostly I just like the.. analysis#tfw you're such an analytical person you like to spend time analyzing analysis. Thinking abt the ways people think about thinking abt things#Actually Ive talked before about how I don't relate to/care about/get emotionally attached to media/dont exhibit Fan Behviors or join fandom#s or etc. BUT that is actually the one vaguely media related thing I WILL do. after watching something I like going to places like that#'personality database' site which is the public voting on character's personality types. and I do enjoy going to read the comments. not bec#ause I care about the character themselves. but I love seeing the paragraph long debates about like.. why Whoever is actually an intp NOT an#intj . or like 'OBVIOUSLY theyre 3w4 so/sp ILI are you FUCKING BLIND??!'. essays breaking down every cognitive function they ehibit and why
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i just got done with my third chiro appointment, and like. I've noticed a significant improvement in terms of how much pain I'm in but I'm also noticing i can't like. stay sitting up. I can sit, which isn't always the case, but the muscles in my back are so loosey goosey/ not responding/ spasming that I keep curling forward until my head is almost pressed to the bed in front of me while I'm sitting cross legged. Don't know what that's about but it's affecting productivity something awful.
#like#i have shockingly good muscle tone considering how little i can move so this isnt a strength issue.#Ish. Like. the thing with eds is that if you have it severe enough your muscles have to pick up the slack for your ligaments#which results in you building way more muscle than you would expect#I cant lift more than 25lbs in like a bag or something without dislocating my elbows/shoulders#but i can bench 180~ and barbell squat my own weight#its just a matter of not pulling on anything#Tbh i think this is just the level of Nonsense that happens when my muscles arnt constantly tense.#my ligament structure isnt sturdy enough to work without that extra reinforcement#Anyways ive needed a back brace since i was 12 but insurance wont pay for it and like fuck am i able to shell out the 20k myself.#Ive looked into corsets but my proportions are so weird that id need a custom pattern#which is Pricey to get from a reputable company. like 2-3k which is better than 20. but still out of reach.#Im not confident enough in my drafting ability to make one myself.#seeing ms.banner. a real and skilled seamstress who knows what shes doing. lay herself out with a bad corset pattern is kinda#a good sign that maybe i an idiot whos sewing experience is stuffed animals and quilts. should not fuck around with my spinal health#I think id be more comfortable doing it myself if there were more mens corset patterns and more examples of how non#lingerie mens corsets are like. meant to work#i dont exactly need bust support. and most women's corsets dont have the shoulder support mens do. and thats like.#the area im most scared about fucking up bc its already a nightmare#tbh when i get the sg shop open im putting all the profits into a savings account and just working hard to get the budget to pay#for a proper corset.
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I'm wondering, thinking about quotas. This is something I've honestly always felt quite conflicted about. I think we need quotas. Desperately. We need support programs to get disadvantaged people into the jobs and positions they want and we honestly desperately need them in but that they but have a way harder time getting into. But I'm just unsure whether a quota is the best way? Especially since they're often so specific and do not address the reasons why and how people end up disadvantaged. The Greens party has a women's quota of 50%. Nice. But do they have a quota for people who, as the statistics say it, have a migratory background? Because in our city that would be 40% and I just don't think they do. What about trans men, inter people who are legally men and legally diverse people or those with no legal gender. Are they included in the women's quota? Do they have to out themselves to get access to benefits compensating their disadvantagement? What about disabled people who not only do not have a quota but who might need accommodations to do their jobs, or can only work part time? Is there are quota for people without college education, or are we still seeing that as a needed qualification instead of an institutional barrier. How is the party working to make politics safer for marginalized people who will experience way more and way more personal media harassment, as well as threats and physical attacks? And how are they communicating this to the people they are trying to reach who feel worried and hesitant!
Isn't a quota just treating one symptom of the problem and then you only get the most privileged people of the particular group that you created the quota for?
There's a quota in medicine for inclusion of disabled people. But people still get told that they can't study medicine cause the uni cannot accommodate them. So do we just have the quota to look good? I know I sound like I'm just saying let's change the system fundamentally and not do the small steps like quotas but that's not what I want. What I want is for individual people to receive whatever help they need to get into whatever job they want. If the uni cannot accommodate one person, move the classes into a building that can, give them more semesters time to finish, organize a driver. I don't care. And don't make them jump through hoops for it. Make it easy. Make it easier for degrees from other countries to count here. If someone who studied medicine/electronics etc 20 years ago here is still qualified to do their job with a few extra trainings, the same should be true for anyone else whose education was according to different standards than our current ones in this country. Idk. I don't have the solution but I'm frustrated u know.
#Also also. Why are only a few languages recognized as like. Second learned languages??? Wtf is up with that#Idk just. So much structural bs#And I really really feel the. Only the most privileged people from a marginalized group profit from quotas thing#It's just never gonna be representative
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its happened so many times now where i or someone criticizes the state of techology and how its all proprietary by default and the notes fill up with a hundred computer nerds explaining that if you just spend hours searching for, coding, and/or installing custom warez then you could avoid all of that hassle. as if tech companies just Have to make their devices with all the trackers and bloatware and paywalls and hidden on-by-defaults and backdoors
#cro zone#ok to rb#sometimes its well meaning but its usually with an engineer's smugness that really sets me off#i have a lot of love for computer nerds but if you act like ur better than me bc you spend more time working on ur computer? just shut up#i consider myself pretty tech literate and i have a lot of free time but that doesnt mean i have the ability to customize my whole setup#i shouldnt HAVE to do that just to avoid basic os shortcomings that are purposely structured in bc profit motive
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