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btw we as disabled ppl need to get more comfortable with making nosy people uncomfortable when they're fucking rude. whenever a customer basically announces to my entire store "why are you shaking so much haha" i always make sure to match their volume when i respond "i have a neurological disorder :)". and they always get soooooo quiet and embarrassed after like oh I'm sorry

make them feel bad 2024!!!!!!!!!

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#YES but only because of felix colgrave #highly recommend watching the music video for source #i love the animation so much

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the UK's 'anti-BDS' boycott bill is returning to parliament for a third reading and vote Wednesday 10th of January.

this proposed law is not aimed at individuals, it would be impossible to stop people from boycotting, but instead targets public bodies like universities, public sectors, and councils in the UK. this would prevent public bodies from making ethical choices about where they want to invest their employee's pension funds. e.g. pension funds could be invested into companies that make arms for countries committing genocide.

the anti-boycott bill explicitly mentions Israel, trying to give them protection from public body boycotts as well as undermine the Palestinian led campaign for boycotting. it's disgusting and disgraceful.

share and reblog this post with your UK friends if you are not a UK resident.

UK residents, contact your MP and demand they oppose the anti-boycott bill. Palestine Solidary Campaign UK have an email template here.

UK residents, if you are able to join, Palestine Solidarity Campaign have organised a protest during the anti-boycott bill vote, Wednesday 10th of January outside of Parliament, London.

UK residents, if you are able to join, Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK have organised their 7th National March for Palestine, Saturday 13th of January in London.

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Sorry I'm kind of dissociated and my vocab crashes during that can you explain the Biden drug thing in just. Shorter simple sentences.

Sure! You're not the only one who's mentioned being unclear on what it means either, and I'm happy to help

(Context for anyone else: US Sets Policy to Seize Patents of Government-Funded Drugs if Price Deemed Too High, via Good News Network, December 11, 2023)

From the very basics:

When drug companies create new drugs, they get a legal protection called a "patent." The patent means no one else can make or sell the same drug for whatever number of years.

Usually, this is about 10 years after the drug starts being sold to the public.

So, for those years, that one drug company is the only source of whatever medication. And since people need their medication, drug companies can charge however much money they want.

Meaning a lot of drugs that people need to live cost way too much money to buy.

So, with this, Biden told drug companies "Fuck you, if you keep making medicine too $$$ for people to afford, I'm giving your competition the right to make and sell those drugs too."

The US has never done anything like this before.

This is a huge threat to the whole (awful) drug industry in the US. It will save people thousands of dollars. If he does this, it will save lives.

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Edit 12/17/23: Quick note, as people have said in the notes, this only applies to drugs made in part using taxpayer money. Which is! Literally all of them!

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still mad I wasn't able to get my vaccine because the pharmacy decided my insurance was expired and cancelled

it's still coming out of my paycheck though, according to the computer system at work

#A HUNDRED DOLLARS A PAYCHECK. AND FOR WHAT!!!

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the way being employed keeps you from video games and other various activities is so sick. genuinely demonic

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Too late.

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So today I learned about the existence of Border Leicester sheep. You’re welcome.

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#i listened to them TODAY of course

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BDS has updated their calls for consumer boycotts to include: Chevron (and Texaco and Caltex by extension): x

They have also officially called for a boycott of McDonald’s: x

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go to look for help with why my dishwasher isn't working right. find an article. feels like it's written by ai. look at the profile image of the author. tiny, low-res image of a man. the name of the author is nichole. im all for gender fluidity but this image looks fake. look at the 'our team' page. one person. claims he's an hvac enthusiast. look up his name. look up the company name. it's not even a real company, but owned by another. look up that company. says it's run by a person named goncharov, started when the meme was picking up traction. go back to the original 'hvac enthusiast' and search his name. he runs a company that just fills websites with words to bump them to the top of searches. using chatgpt.

oh yeah and the website said the mold in my dishwasher is totally healthy. im going to reddit to look for help.

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we are on like covid variant #100037 and rsv/flu/pneumonia cases are rising and people will show up unmasked and be like “yeah i’ve been sick for days :/” like. ok. Get the fuck away from me then? why are you out here breathing on everything. the very least you could be doing is masking. NOT hacking into open air every two seconds.

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Honedge -- aoki

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Me: *agonizing over whether a semicolon goes here, what the proper dialogue should be there, other assorted rules and semantics*

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

THAT'S ALLOWED?

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