I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:
You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to
[email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.
These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )
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cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point
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Oh, you think you're safe now?
Nothing can deliver you from these paws!
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a final vague before I banish the rest of my thoughts to the drafts for public release day. I barely paid attention to most violence or body horror warnings on archives, I barely pay attention to those warnings on most horror podcasts, they don't really get to me, especially if they're just described as opposed to enacted on-audio. I Am Now Paying Attention To Those Warnings On Protocol.
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I have had regular olfactory, tactile and auditory hallucinations my whole life, hypnogogic hallucinations most frequently but sometimes randomly throughout my day. No doctor, therapist, or psychiatrist has ever been concerned when I tell them about this and usually dismiss it immediately. This has led me to believe hallucinations are actually extremely common, so, out of scientific curiosity...
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[ID for first post: two screenshots from the linked Vox article. The first reads:
The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas By lan Millhiser Apr 15, 2024, 10:26am EDT
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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas,
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[ID for reply: three screenshots from further down the linked article. The first reads:
Indeed, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in a brief opinion accompanying the Court's decision not to hear Mckesson, the Court recently reaffirmed the strong First Amendment protections enjoyed by people like Mckesson in Counterman v. Colorado (2023). That decision held that the First Amendment "precludes punishment"' for inciting violent action "unless the speaker's words were 'intended' (not just likely) to produce imminent disorder."
The reason Claiborne protects protest organizers should be obvious. No one who organizes a mass event attended by thousands of people can possibly control the actions of all those attendees, regardless of whether the event is a political protest, a music concert, or the Super BowI. So, if protest organizers can be sanctioned for the illegal action of any protest attendee, no one in their right mind would ever organize a political protest again.
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Indeed, as Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett who dissented from his court's Mckesson decision, warned in one of his dissents, his court's decision would make protest organizers liable for "the unlawful acts of counter-protesters and agitators."' So, under the Fifth Circuit's rule, a Ku Klux Klansman could sabotage the Black Lives Matter movement simply by showing up at its protests and throwing stones
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new exceptions to the First Amendment. It then ruled that the First Amendment does not apply "where a defendant creates unreasonably dangerous conditions, and where his creation of those conditions causes a plaintiff to sustain injuries.
And what, exactly, were the "unreasonably dangerous conditions" created by the Mckesson-led protest in Baton Rouge? The Fifth Circuit faulted Mckesson for organizing "the protest to begin in front of the police station, obstructing access to the building," for failing to "dissuade" protesters who allegedly stole water bottles from a grocery store, and for leading "the assembled protest onto a public highway, in violation of Louisiana criminal law."
Needless to say, the idea that the First Amendment recedes the moment a mass protest violates a traffic law is quite novel. And it is impossible to reconcile with pretty much the entire history of mass civil rights protests in the United States.
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So this feels important…
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The Magnus Protocol episode 12 is secretly Rusty Quill's pitch for a Showtime adaptation of the Magnus series
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Worst lap dance ever, 0/10 would not recommend
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The #tmagp vague tag Latest search hasn't updated in more than half an hour and I'm upset
EDIT: Oh it updated with this but just completely ignored the other vaguepost I made in the interim, and presumably other people's vagueposts too. OK
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one of the ways the silt verses blew me out of the water was the allegorical resonance it's got for its trans characters. anyone who has spent enough time around trans people knows at least one woman who is going through paige duplass shit and knows at least one man going through faulkner shit. and they both come from families who are materially supportive in ways that really, really matter. which also doesn't matter at all, actually.
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