listen: fight club and pulp fiction are good movies, i love them both personally, but if a guy (and you KNOW the type of guy i mean) says they are his Favorite Movies then u need to run. RUN. plan ur exist exit strategy now. if ur texting him then just make something up. “haha i gotta go now. it was nice talking to you. bye!” if you’re somewhere with him just leave. do parkour if you have to. run like the wind. get away from that man
Even David Fincher, who directed Fight Club, agrees with this:
“My daughter had a friend named Max. She told me ‘Fight Club’ is his favorite movie,” he said. “I told her never to talk to Max again.” (link)
By law, anyone with a severe disability is eligible to have the government discharge their federal student loans. The administration took steps four years ago to make the process easier by letting people who are totally and permanently disabled use their Social Security designation to apply for a discharge, but few took advantage. The Department of Education is now taking it upon itself to identify eligible borrowers and guide them through the steps to discharge their loans.
“Too many eligible borrowers were falling through the cracks, unaware they were eligible for relief,” said Education Under Secretary Ted Mitchell in a statement. “Americans with disabilities have a right to student loan relief. And we need to make it easier, not harder, for them to receive the benefits they are due.”
However, you can’t get student loans ever again if you do this unless a doctor certifies you as no longer disabled, and if your taxable income changes within three years of the discharge they’ll retroactively nullify that and want you to pay, and also the writeoff will be counted as taxable income, so be careful.
It’s that last bit that really stings. It should be made possible to defer that across multiple years rather than owe the full tax bill for the writeoff, yikes.
“That is not all communism can be” you come tell Estonians. “Communism =/= Soviet Union” you tell us. Do you think we are stupid or ignorant? We are well aware of that communism has many forms, take look at China, Vietnam and who else.
Yet you ignore the fact who you’re telling it to. You’re telling it to Estonians who while young enough not to remember Soviet Union, grew up with stories about their parents and grandparents having suitcases packed in case one day someone knocked at their door at midnight. Stories about their grandparents being sent to Siberia for owning bit more land than their neighbours. For being teachers or soliders for Republic of Estonia. Stories about their relatives being killed for refusing to go to Siberia.Stories about food store aisles being completely empty. Things like soap, bananas and sausages being luxory.
Estonians, who while being richer than some countries, are still struggling to catch up to the Western Europe. Estonians, whose country had to accept donations of Finland in 1990′s, despite once being as rich as Finland.
Why do you think I get so much facts about Estonians being anti-social?Because saying wrong thing in wrong place could land you one way trip to Siberia in animal wagon. You never knew who was listening to your speech, after all.
While communism is not just Soviet Union, first thing Estonian remembers when someone says “Communism” is not “Equality”, it is “deportations” or “shortage of food”.
Yep. For example, I am only 15 (and that means I have the luxury of being born into an Estonia that is independent) and I have heard so many stories about how my mother had suitcases with warm clothes packed under her bed at all times while she was a kid or how my grandmothers mother was sent to siberia for not filling the wood norm for her colhose, being ratted out to the authorities by her own brother. And I have read so many more in textbooks and heard so many more from my other great-grandmother who was born to the first independent Estonia and survived the whole World War 2.
Believe me, those stories are not fun to hear about and it should NOT be normal that the first thing that comes to mind when you are asked to think about injustice or communism is how evil your own neighbour country is, but for us, it is normal. And we still fear russia even though we both (Russia and Estonia) have signed the peace contract after we won our independence and Estonia is a part of the European Union and NATO, we still fear them.
Also, what is awful, is that how recent these events are. We only became independent again in 1991. These things happened to our parents and grandparents. That is not so long ago. Imagine yourself being afraid of the sound of the bombs right now. Or being scared that someone will knock on your door in the middle of the night and without any explanation or any chance to change clothes or bring anything along, you are forced inside an animal wagon and deported without stopping for anything (it’s a two-week trip) to Siberia, where it’s always at least -20 Celsius (about -9 Fahrenheit). See how awful it is yet?
Looking towards Ukraine nowadays, it scares me that after all these years, Russia is still willing to take what it wants by war. I do not want to flee my country (at the chance Russia invades us again), but because my mother works for the country, she would be among the first who are killed (according to history). I believe that from history we should learn to do better, do not to do such horrible things as bombing or deporting people to slave camps anymore. But I think that that is what Russia does.
I know it’s not fair to judge a whole country by what their leaders do, but that doesn’t change when heard, what emotions the word “Russia” creates in estonians.
As Lennart Meri once said:
“Estonians like Tchaikovsky’s and Dostoyevsky’s Russia, but Estonians don’t like Stalin’s and Lenin’s Russia”
I’d like to add a little story about the deporting to Siberia. My great-grandparents from my mother’s side were supposed to be deported to Siberia one winter. The person with the list rode to their home on a motorbike. The only reason that they weren’t deported, the only reason i was even born and am here today, was because the motorbike slipped on the ice covering the road and the man who had the list crashed and died. The list was never found and my great-grandparents remained in their home.
I doubt there is a family in Estonia who doesn’t have a story related to deportations.
My own relatives were shot because they refused to go along with the Soviets to get on the train. I’ve been in that place where they were shot and despite it being years ago, I still get chills every time I think of that house.
I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, I’ve got your solution.
Native-Languages is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!
Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
Also, consider tracking down where the specific tribe you’re looking at mostly lives and looking at census data. This might not work in all circumstances, but you can often find the list of names registered in a year. Pick a year close to when your character was born, take the first name from one person and the last name from another and ta da - you have a legal name that somebody of that age and nation might actually have. (I did this to name the Mohawk main character in Working The High Steel). Contrary to what a lot of white people believe, not all Native Americans wander around with names like Running Horse and Sitting Bull. Some do, but you need to do your research and find out what people from the nation, or at least the area, your character is from actually call their kids.
(Not knocking the site given, which does indeed look useful, just pointing out another resource for naming your characters accurately).
Excess food is a serious issue in the US. After paper, food scraps are the nation’s second largest source of waste, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Leftovers fill 18 percent of landfills and make up over 30 million tons of what is sent to dumps each year.
“Imagine a football stadium filled to its brim. That’s how much food goes wasted every single day in America.”
Komal Ahmad created a nonprofit service called Feeding Forward. Through a website and mobile app, Feeding Forward matches businesses that have surplus food with nearby homeless shelters. Here’s how it works: when companies or event planners have surplus food, they tap the Feeding Forward app and provide details of their donation. A driver is dispatched to quickly pick up the leftovers and deliver them to food banks. After the Bite Silicon Valley food-tech conference in early June, leftovers gathered at this event fed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
so you know how people who believe in chemtrails, will often acknowledge that many, perhaps even most, contrails are just contrails, and chemtrails are the ones that last too long or are created suspiciously or even hidden in with regular contrails
do you think by captain kirk’s time, people back on earth still keep an eye out for UFO’s, and are like THAT SPACESHIP. THERE. THAT ONE’S UP TO SOME SHADY BUSINESS, and it’s like calm the fuck down bob, it’s just vulcans. and bob is like NO, IT’S NOT THE REGULAR ALIENS,IT’S THE SECRET ALIENS. WHAT DOESN’T THE GOVERNMENT WANT US TO KNOW!??
Y’know, I know there was a fandom desire for Bucky to be Jewish to give Cap an every-important-ethnicity on his team.
But I love the fact that Abraham and Howard were the ones who built Captain America. He is quite literally the Golem built by these two modern-day Jewish wizards to go where these men could not, and defend their people from the men who would kill them.
And Abraham put the words in Steve’s head: not a perfect soldier, but a good man. That’s Steve’s shem.
Oh, I like this! There is definite literature out there on how the superheroes created by Jewish writers and artists were inspired by the Golem, the artificial being formed by a great rabbi (though not wizards!) and powered by a written name (shem) of G-d to protect those helpless before anti-Semitic forces.
The idea, then, that two Jewish scientists bent their heads together and formed a strong being during the Nazi era to go out and protect, which is always the Golem’s duty and role (no matter what you’ve seen of golems in video games and books and television shows created by non-Jews), is a powerful one. Especially as a Golem cannot be created truly, as only G-d can create life from nothing, and neither can Erskine or Stark create a hero from nothing.
They have to start with the raw material that is Steve Rogers and his goodness. And the word golem originally referred to raw material as well.
Yes, I want to repeat I love this. And I love a Jewish Bucky because I see no reason at all to have to pick.
What’s even more interesting to me, in this scenario, is a Howard who’s hiding his Jewishness, even here, but who can’t help responding to it. Like, the whole point of that Agent Carter reveal was that he had a secret, that no one knew, and it makes the idea so poignant, that Howard is literally with his people, but he can only communicate that in secret, if he communicates it at all.
I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again: it comes down to whether you want more false positives or more false negatives. Do you want to have such stringent requirements for ‘counting’ as lgbtqiap that some people who many consider lgbtqiap get left out? Or do you want more lenient requirements so occasionally someone may ‘count’ who some people within the community think shouldn’t count, but get included anyway?
I am always going to err on the side of false positives and inclusion, because that’s the kind of community I want to be a part of. The potential negative impact of having a ‘faker’ or something in lgbtqiap+ spaces is far outweighed, in my mind, by the persistant negative impact of this sort of aggressive, vigilant gatekeeping that causes people to have to prove their oppression and hold it up to some shifting standard of what’s ‘oppressed enough.’
A community built on that kind of code doesn’t feel safe for many of us whose lives don’t fit a very specific narrative. Hypothetical false positives are far less damaging to our sense of community and inclusion than this sense that any of us could have our lgbtqiap membership revoked whenever gatekeepers come up with a good enough excuse to exclude us.
For the record, and I apologize for the slight derail here, this is a very good explanation of my stance on gender purists, transmedicalists, truscum, gender hipsters or whatever.
I will always, always, always err on the side of believing anyone who identifies themself as trans.
Always.
I will always take the “risk” of welcoming a person into the “trans community,” such as it is, who turns out not to be trans than exclude or bar a trans person from receiving the support they need because they don’t fit my or someone else’s definition or expectation of what transness looks like.
…omg this.
This kind of logic should also be considered in questions of Jewish identity, frankly.
Also I think there’s something to be said for the fact that identity policing keeps people conforming, keeps them in the closet, and generally serves the interests of anti-tolerance people better than it serves the interests of equality and progress.
