when I was a kid, my dad told me that if they ever reinstated the draft (and included women in said draft) that I had his support if I went out and did some minor crime to get arrested so I’d no longer be able to be drafted. I think it’s important to have those kinds of conversations with kids. I might have had a lot of dumb ideas and misguided opinions growing up, but I always knew it was morally worse to contribute to the US war machine than it was to break a law.
May I also add:
* note: these are current disqualifiers to the U.S. military, and upon a draft they may be more lenient, unfortunately *
• Depression
• ADHD
• Personality disorder
• Low credit score (I don’t know what number range)
• Certain injuries or surgery history
• Vision impaired (to what extent I don’t know)
• Hearing impaired (to what extent I don’t know)
• Asthma
• Overweight (I don’t know what they qualify as overweight)
-out of sight = out of mind, as in, if you can’t see it, you will forget it exists. Set up your space such that, when everything is put away, you can still see it all (remove closet doors, shallow shelves so nothing is behind anything else, etc.)
-one-step access. None of this “to get to this thing, I have to get a stool, remove the box in front of it, grab the thing i want, put the box back, put the stool back-” nah. One step access. Not even “this thing belongs behind this thing”. Open drawer. Is thing right there? good. Have to move other thing to get to it? bad. Multi-steps means you’ll rarely use it, and when you do, it will NEVER GET PUT AWAY AGAIN. Multi-step access is for deep storage and the items that get the least frequent use.
-an item’s home is within arm’s reach of where you are most likely to use it/want to put it down.
-items can have multiple homes and that’s ok. I have three pencil/pen cans around my room, and like two or three places where I’m “allowed” to place things like my wallet and keys (and I am NOT allowed to place them anywhere else, because then I’ll lose them forever).
-examine the mess on your floor and determine the categories, then ask why those things are on the floor.
—Why pile of clean clothes? because I didn’t want to fold them up. Solution: fuck folding clothes, clothes only get sorted into categories and then dumped into drawers or crates. That’s fine and ok.
—Why pile of kinda-dirty-but-can-still-wear clothes? because I don’t want to put them away (i wore them once) but i don’t want to put them in the laundry basket (they’re not really dirty yet). Solution: have a home for “kinda dirty” clothes. I drape mine over the edge of my hamper.
—- a bunch of trash on your floor? Because the trash can is all the way over there. Solution: put a bunch of trash cans all around your room.
—- pile of papers on desk? because i need to put them in my files where they’ll eventually go. Solution: one of those cute magazine boxes on desk, specifically for “to file” papers.
-permanent piles on surfaces go in cute little boxes exactly where they already were. e.g. pile on nightstand consisting of wallet, keys, meds, phone, etc??? cute little box right on the nightstand for all that stuff you’ll grab every day. Pile on desk of shit that you need to take back out to the kitchen but haven’t yet? grab a little tray specifically to accumulate things you’ll take back out to the kitchen at some point. box on nightstand for “stuff that could/usually does go in purse, but isn’t there today for whatever reason”. Lil box for “random tiny shit that I should put away at some point” like hair ties, safety pins, push pins, etc.
-it’s ok for things to “live” in the place where you’ll need them next, even if it’s not “away”, so long as those things aren’t in your way. My pjs live on my bed, because I’m going to wear them again tonight. If I’m feeling fancy I’ll fold them and put them at the foot of the bed. Most days I’ll just yeet them on there and that’s where they Belong. My meds belong in a lil box on my nightstand, because that’s where I’ll set out my pills for the next day.
- “dump station” = right inside the door, where you’ll divest yourself of everything automatically anyways. Hook for your purse, hook for workbag, a few hooks for coats etc (even though coats “live” in the closet, it’s ok for them to live here too), box/tray for wallet etc, place for shoes. Because I’m gonna dump them the moment I walk in the door anyway, and if their “place” isn’t right there, they’re just gonna end up part of the mess
-beware the corner piles. Observe them, question them, solve them. Shit accumulates in “dead spots” on the floor where you don’t walk often. Watch those piles. What are those piles? Where are their homes? And why aren’t they there? Are their homes too inaccessible? Did I accidentally start a new hobby and none of the supplies for that have a home yet? Is it something “in progress” that I still intend to work on/do something with?
you’ll still go through the cycles of accumulating mess and destroying it all in one go, but the mess accumulated will be so much less and so much easier to deal with.
Adhd really is like… bedroom is slightly messy it would be nice to tidy it some
bedroom is very messy I really should tidy up
bedroom is chaotic I NEED to tidy but my brain says no. Why. Whyyy.
I guess I’ll just have to watch where I step in here for the rest of my life. The mess is everywhere. I’m one with the mess.
A sudden Need to Clean™ makes you get the room looking like some fancy homes magazine cover, and you think “I’ll never ever let it get that bad again, and then…
In most of the English speaking world, “nutritionist” is not a protected title, meaning there is absolutely no regulation of who can call themselves a nutritionist and literally any quack can call themselves a nutritionist without any sort of education or qualifications. If you need medically reliable dietary advice, see a registered dietitian (or look up what an educated, registered nutrition professional is called in your area if the terminology is different).
Of course individuals vary within any profession, but a dietitian will generally have at least a bachelor’s degree with classes on things like food science, nutrition, anatomy, biochemistry, etc., as well as clinical training and passing a registration exam, while literally anybody could claim to be a nutritionist.
Honestly, this goes for any other profession that relates to your health. Be informed about which professional titles are regulated and which aren’t where you live, and be informed about the level of education/accountability required for said title, so you can make an informed decision on who to seek help from. There’s so many titles that aren’t regulated in any way but still sound official, and it’s so important to know when it’s somebody you’re trusting with your health.
In it, I revisit my 2015 Locus column
on the idea of an Internet of Things that treats people “as sensors,
not things to be sensed” – a world where your devices never share your
data with anyone else to get recommendations or advice, but rather,
where all the inanimate objects stream data about how busy they are and
whether they’re in good repair, and your device taps into those streams
and makes private recommendations, without relaying anything about you
or your choices to anyone else.
As I’ve often written, the most important thing about technology isn’t
what it does, but who it does it to, and who it does it for. The
sizzle-reels for “smart cities” always feature a control room where wise
technocrats monitor the city and everyone in it – all I’m asking is
that we all get a seat in that control room.
My editor tells me that this is the last piece that will be commissioned
for Guardian Cities, and I’m sincerely honored to get to close out an
outstanding, longrunning project on urban reporting and theory.
It’s a safe bet that the people who make those videos imagine themselves
as one of the controllers watching the monitors – not as one of the
plebs whose movements are being fed to the cameras that feed the
monitors. It’s a safe bet that most of us would like that kind of
god’s-eye view into our cities, and with a little tweaking, we could
have it.
If we decide to treat people as sensors, and not as things to be sensed –
if we observe Kant’s injunction that humans should be “treated as an
end in themselves and not as a means to something else” – then we can
modify the smart city to gather information about the things and share
that information with the people.
Imagine a human-centred smart city that knows everything it can about
things. It knows how many seats are free on every bus, it knows how busy
every road is, it knows where there are short-hire bikes available and
where there are potholes. It knows how much footfall every metre of
pavement receives, and which public loos are busiest.
-Thrown out my boarding pass while saying to my mother, “it’s okay she’s in a wheelchair of course someone will just give up their seat for her”
-had staff kneel down to me and talk to me in a baby voice and say, “oh sweetie you didn’t understand me I asked you if you could walk
-been through every thorough pat down known to man
-had my wheelchair banged up to the point I had to by new wheelchair tires
-had staff talk over me and about me as if I wasn’t there
- had staff complain about me while I was being moved in a transfer chair
-was brought to a flight of stairs up to a plane and staff was shocked that I couldn’t board that way
-was sent a bus to pick me up and bring me to the wheelchair accessible boarding spot. They had to send a second bus because the first one they called for was not wheelchair accessible
And NOW, the Department of Transportation is proposing laws for aircraft that would:
- FORCE me (and other SD teams) to get paperwork proven that my highly trained service dog is well behaved and isn’t gonna poo everywhere
-FORCE me (and others) to arrive and HOUR earlier than anyone else on the flight so my service dog can be WATCHED FOR AN HOUR before deciding if we’ll be allowed to board
This is being disguised as a way to control people taking advantage of ESAs and what it is trying to do and what it will do is IMPEDE disabled people. They want to refuse legitimately trained miniature service horses. They want to make ESAs not allowed in aircraft at all. And they want to discriminate against disabled folk even more than they already do. This is not okay.
There is about a month or two left for the public to comment on the DOTs proposal. Please comment and help out our disabled community especially those with animal helpers
This company is almost set up as a cult holy shit.
For anyone who doesn’t feel like reading the article, TL;DR:
• PETA violates labor laws regarding unpaid work and overtime
• PETA’s ideology decides whether or not you can get anywhere and you are shamed or fired for not following it
• Employees are forced to watch traumatizing videos of animal abuse over and over, are not provided any sort of emotional support, and are shamed for complaining about it
• PETA has employees donate to them and generally grabs money at every turn
PETA is asking for money right now due the wildfire damage in Australia, do not donate to them.
I think what concerns me the most is that I’m not the only fan she has on her personal page I’m sure…was she so sure that everyone on her friends list would agree with what she was saying? that no one would screenshot it? that no one would be upset or offended? I’m mostly disgusted by these comments. they’re just plain fucking nasty and gross. I doubt this will spread much on here but i just felt so compelled to share because I was speechless
astrolocherry gotta go fuck her. ever since this shit about the coronavirus has hit int’l news and national news in america, many people been showing their asses and been acting REAL xenophobic and racist towards chinese people. cherry better be lucky this website is mostly dead cause she’d delete fast as fuck
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the illusion was always that we just had to do it. just “do” the homework. the meal prep. the college application. just write the email, send the homework, follow up with that interview, clean your room. these are easy things, one-click things, two-hours-max things. we had so many people in our lives shout it at us. “why didn’t you just do it!”
often my answer was a soft i don’t know. an i-got-tired when actually it was more like - i couldn’t. i just couldn’t. it feels like everything is covered in snow. don’t you know that i’m mad at myself too? i want this stuff just as much as you do. i want to live in a clean house with good food and have an okay job and know i’m not disappointing the people i’m coming home to. i don’t like missing opportunities and having to scramble in a panic about last-minute things.
i’m a fully grown adult. she is posing for a pic on insta. if you want a life like this, go out and get it. it’s 2pm and i haven’t eaten breakfast. i am staring at the space where i should be working.
fandom. social justice. explosions. general badassery. JESSICA. *puts on cool girl sunglasses* *jet flies by overhead* 24, nb butch lesbian, they/them or he/him
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