sometimes i have too many emotions and sometimes i have none at all but i always always feel like i’m drowning
Learn how to swim Bitch
i made this post when i was in A Mood and all the replies are so angst and depressing except this Whole Ass Mood. Learn how to swim Bitch it’s 2018 we’re dealing with our problems
The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
every time i hear a clone proudly say “it’s what we were born to do!” before they go off to do something that they fully expect will kill them, i want to punch myself and sifo-dyas and the kaminoans and the republic and sheev palpatine all in the face.
Grab Sifo-Dyas by the ankles and swings him around to hit the others.
Vetinari: You have two cows. You convince them they will better off with you alive and in control than not.
Sam Vimes: You have two cows. They are probably guilty of something. Loitering, probably.
Young Sam: Where are your cows? Those goes “baah.” Those are sheep. They are not your cows.
Moist von Lipwig: You steal two cows. You convince everyone they are made of gold and sell them for a fortune. You get arrested and become Minister of Agriculture.
Tiffany Aching: You have two cows. An elf tries to steal them and you hit it with a frying pan.
Nac Mac Feegle: Someone has two cows. You steal them, then fight them, then fight yourself. You win.
Rincewind: You run away from cows.
Unseen University: You have two cows. One is caught up in a magical accident and is now a chair. The other has become a professor.
Sybil Ramkin: You have many cows. They aren’t dragons, so you don’t care. You have 37 dragons.
Nanny Ogg: You have a cow and a bull. You enjoy explaining how they will make more cows.
Granny Weatherwax: You wish Gytha would stop explaining how you get cows.
King Verence: You try to create an economic plan for your country based on bovine products; your people are too busy listening to Nanny Ogg.
European Union’s Article 11 and 13: Fair use and internet freedom is under threat
In 10 days, the European Union will vote on two articles that will affect fair use
So in case you don’t know, fair use is the law that allow content creators like me, as well as others amongst the cartoon community to use the intellectual property of other people for education, criticism, parody, etc.
Article 13
What the European Commission* proposed is to require all internet platforms such as Google, Facebook and Youtube, to use automated systems to filter out all content for copyright infringement. The problem with automated systems is that they could not tell the difference between fair use and some bloke who reuploaded a whole episode of a show online. So for example, if I do a South Park review, which falls under fair use, Youtube’s computerised filter will still take it down because it’s algorithm could detect the clips I used, but it cannot detect that it’s under fair use.
Such automated systems might not only remove content that falls under fair use, but also parodies, remixes, and memes.
The majority of us folks in the cartoon community on Youtube rely on showing clips of cartoons in a form of a review or analysis video. Such a filtration system would render this supposedly legal practice impossible, as the filtration system couldn’t even detect that our content is under fair use. Therefore, we will have to go through Youtube’s bureaucratic system in order to get our videos approved for fair use, a task that is rarely successful.
Article 11
Another article that might be implemented will introduce a so called ‘link tax’. Content creators and news redistributors such as Facebook or Google News will have to pay a tax in to the original intellectual property holder in order to link and quote parts of journalistic content online. This significantly reduces the ability for news to spread, and to a greater extent of concern, critics cannot hold the journalistic source accountable for any flaws as they are not allowed to source or quote from them, which is an impediment on the freedom of speech and criticism.
One could argue that all these policies could protect intellectual property holders. But the facts stand that an open- source internet, that allows content sharing and redistribution, as well as reviews and critiques that fall under fair use, have vastly increased the audience of many IP’s.
So how will this policy affect you?
This will have an effect on everyone- regardless of whether you live within our outside of the EU. For example- if Youtube implements an computerised system to weed out duplicates of intellectual property, which could include instances of fair use, it’s going to scan through all videos worldwide, affecting content creators everywhere. This is not only the case for Youtube, but for many review or media critique blogs on sites like Tumblr, and many more.
As for the link tax, you won’t be able to share a news article on Facebook, Reddit, or in any social media. Sites such as Reddit, which is based on an analysis of a particular piece of text, might die due to this article
What can I do?
For viewers within the European Union, I encourage you to do a little more research on this topic, and then you could use this tool linked below to contact your MEP. This tool gives you a framework of a script that you could use to make your statement. You could also find your MEP using a website that is linked below. European viewers could also contact their MEP’s via email and Twitter using saveyourinternet.eu- link is in the description as well.
For viewers outside of the European Union, persuade any friends who live in Europe to call their MEP’s with the procedure above, and most importantly- spread the word. Coverage on this new article has been rather sparse, and by garnering the attention of all, you might be able to put a stop to this.
Below you could find the proposal from the European commission, which has amendments from the Council of the EU- it’s 68 pages and rather difficult to read, but you could use it as a reference.
Since the coverage of this issue is so sparse, I might have have got some of my information wrong. If you spot any informational errors please state it in the comment section below. And if I got something significantly wrong, this video will be deleted, but from what I’ve seen from the EU’s perspective, and the perspective of digital rights groups, I am convinced that this new article could be a threat to our internet freedom of speech, criticism, and culture.
It’s 1:28 am where I am now… These took quite a while.
And also thank you to the lovely model used for demiguy. They were kind enough to send me selfies to use as reference since I was stuck with the poses ❤
Look at this lad. Image: THX, Ltd.The Deep Note, the distinctive synthesized crescendo that is THX’s audio trademark, is one of the most iconic sounds in all of film. For the effects firm’s 35th anniversary, they’ve now shared the sheet music behind the sound.
thanks i hate it
how dare you i love it
I can hear this image and I’m crapping myself as is standard
Can you imagine a choir singing this and how chilling that would sound
The whoosh is in D Major!
It got better: in a capella (please make this guy famous, his talent is unmatched)
tora42's nonsensne 