OK, time to regroup and get some nutrition and hydration in. Of course I got distracted messing with that instead for too long.
Also, sorry I wasn’t around to see your messages earlier @soilrockslove . And wouldn’t have been able to respond if I had seen them
It hasn’t been the best few days, but at least I think I figured out what the main trigger there was. Hopefully things will pick up some, and I can be less of a flake
I did find a workaround, and reinstalled from another Google account. (Like I said, not the best brain day so far.)
Shouldn’t have been necessary, but the app is at least as usable as ever on this phone again.
Wow, that really helped me! đł
I followed Play Store instructions to turn beta off at the bottom of the app page, then uninstall it to reinstall the production version.Â
So, come back to reinstall? Beta is still the only option visible, and it’s now saying that’s full. With no install button. So no way to reinstall the production version without sideloading from elsewhere.Â
Honestly, if it were just Tumblr developers involved here? I wouldn’t be surprised at much of anything by now. But, this looks like it would pretty much have to be on Google’s end. And I am still not finding any way to turn off beta testing entirely, rather than by the app.
Posting this through Chrome. If I want to use the app, that means the tablet for now. Hopefully I can get the spoons together in a while to complain at the Play Store, but I really was not doing great today before this annoyance cropped up.Â
Aha, I see what the problem likely is with the POS app I woke up to today, after very deliberately turning off auto-update again recently. (Which had somehow defaulted back on, after I turned it off before. Unexpected surprises I just do not need.)
That setting is indeed still showing as toggled off, but it looks to have switched me over to beta anyway đą
No obvious way to opt out for specific apps in the Play Store, so I guess I wonât be beta testing anything through there for now.
ETA: OK, with some searching it seems that you can indeed opt out with individual apps. (As it should be.) It should be made more obvious how to do this from the actual app page. It’s way down at the bottom there, and I am not having the best brain day.
sure, when my grandfather fought nazis and fascism he was âa heroâ and âon the right side of historyâ but when i do it im âway too sensitiveâ and âno better than they areâ
Thatâs because when our white grandparents fought Nazis, it was for fear of them taking power away from other white people.
White Europeans and Americans were explicitly fine with genocide and the ideologies that led to it â a great many people, including Churchill, vocally supported most of what the Nazis were doing. Their only fight with Nazis was to maintain sovereignty from takeover.
Todayâs Nazi-fighters usually have a problem with white supremacy and the antisemitism and racism etc behind it â which most of our white grandparents didnât see a problem with and neither do many white people today.
This is why so many people donât see any reason to stop the Nazis now, or why many others think itâs purely a struggle for Democrats or other neoliberal parties in other countries who might lose political power if they gain traction. Many people donât see Nazis as a real problem unless they threaten the political power of other white people.
White supremacist organizations and movements have been a life-threatening scourge for people of colour and Jewish people this entire time. Itâs really important that we focus on that as the real threat, or we risk having the same myopic perspective as generations past.
This was a great addition to my original post so Iâm reblogging it.
(The latest mobile update has the editor screwed up to the point that I canât figure out how to format this decently right now.)
Important to consider here: The American eugenics movement after World War II (part 1 of 3)
âAs readers will learn throughout the series, people from all walks of life supported the eugenics movement. It was common public policy at the time, and its tacit or overt acceptance reflected the social mores of that era, as morally reprehensible as that seems now.â
As long as this stuff had a low likelihood of directly impacting them? âRespectableâ White Americans were overwhelmingly fine with Those Others getting hurt and wiped out. And a lot of this thinking lingers on, with its socially acceptable public face changing over time.
A judge in Belarus cleared the way for the construction of apartments atop two former Jewish cemeteries on Monday, saying the court lacks the jurisdiction to take any action, Radio Svoboda reported.
The Tsentralny District Court allowed the planned construction of the apartments on the former Jewish cemetery in the eastern city of Gomel. The motion also pertained to earthworks already underway in the city of Mozyr at another former Jewish cemetery, as per permits issued in 2015, according to the World Association of Belarusian Jews.
The judge was ruling on a motion seeking an injunction against the construction filed by Yakov Goodman, a Jewish-American activist for the preservation of Jewish heritage sites in his native Belarus. Local authorities last year approved a project for the construction of two luxury apartment buildings on the grounds of a former cemetery on Sozhskaya Street.
Both projects mean that bones of Jews buried in the two cemeteries âwill end up in city dumpsters,â Goodman told JTA earlier this week.
âŚ.Last year, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makai and Lesley Weiss, chair of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of Americaâs Heritage Abroad, signed a joint declaration at the World Jewish Congress headquarters stating âEach party will take appropriate steps to protect and preserve properties that represent the cultural heritage of all national, religious, or ethnic groups that reside or resided in its territory.â
Goodman said the signing only encouraged authorities âto further attacks on Jewish heritage sites.â
Before the document was signed, Goodmanâs association accused Belarusian authorities under the countryâs authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, of destroying three synagogues â one in Luban and two others in the capital, Minsk â and at least two Jewish cemeteries in addition to Gomel and Mozyr.
This isnât the entire article, but Iâm asking everyone to read and research whatâs happening in Belarus right now. The graves of Jews are being dug up, our bodies tossed in dumpsters, all for an apartment complex.Â
I recognize that there might not be anything we can do, but the information needs to be out there. Jewish Cemeteries are desecrated every day across the globe, but this is a different kind of evil.
sure, when my grandfather fought nazis and fascism he was âa heroâ and âon the right side of historyâ but when i do it im âway too sensitiveâ and âno better than they areâ
Thatâs because when our white grandparents fought Nazis, it was for fear of them taking power away from other white people.
White Europeans and Americans were explicitly fine with genocide and the ideologies that led to it â a great many people, including Churchill, vocally supported most of what the Nazis were doing. Their only fight with Nazis was to maintain sovereignty from takeover.
Todayâs Nazi-fighters usually have a problem with white supremacy and the antisemitism and racism etc behind it â which most of our white grandparents didnât see a problem with and neither do many white people today.
This is why so many people donât see any reason to stop the Nazis now, or why many others think itâs purely a struggle for Democrats or other neoliberal parties in other countries who might lose political power if they gain traction. Many people donât see Nazis as a real problem unless they threaten the political power of other white people.
White supremacist organizations and movements have been a life-threatening scourge for people of colour and Jewish people this entire time. Itâs really important that we focus on that as the real threat, or we risk having the same myopic perspective as generations past.
This was a great addition to my original post so Iâm reblogging it.
they are legitimate questions! like if they really want people to embrace that rhetoric, do they not expect anyone to ask âhey, just how far does this extend?â if you make a claim like âwatching m/m porn when youâre not a man is homophobicâ then you have to be willing to follow that to itâs logical conclusion. I want to know what that means for genderfluid people. I want to know if that makes all straight men who view porn misogynists.
I knew antis were gonna ignore that post so Iâm not surprised but I am disappointed that when faced with clarifying questions that completely tear down their ideology they canât even come up with a half-assed attempt at an answer.
This. There are people I follow who talk about how fujoshi/âyaoi fan girlsâ fetishize them, but no one really gives details about what this means. Like when I talk about how yaoi helped me to understand Iâm not broken for being female and a top because it was the first example Iâd ever seen of role divorced from gender and anatomy⌠pretty much no one yells at me. But yet I am not a gay man.
Some people have said theyâd like me to write switching in my slash, but thatâs as much as I ever got, and usually they back up when I say the above anyway.
So itâs really hard for me to figure out whatâs actually bothering people. Especially since I never see it from gay men I know offline so it seems very tumbly.
I think this is an example of the thing where itâs a lot easier to build broad coalitions if you keep your goals vague.
Ask a bunch of antis these questions and I suspect youâd get a bunch of different sets of answers. Any attempt at an official line on all these questions would probably alienate many antis, leading to numerous arguments, schisms, and defections. Even just answering questions like these as individuals might be harmful to coalition solidarity, because it would reveal differences between coalition members that everyone was previously unaware of. Itâs much easier and safer to just point everyone at common enemies and let the power of the typical mind fallacy and âthe enemy of my enemy is friendâ keep the herd of cats together.
Note: this is the dynamic that both major USA political parties run on.
I suspect part of the reason the extremist groups are so notorious for having schisms at the drop of a hat is that extremism selects for people who Take Ideas Seriously and will actually answer questions like this.
Ferrai has this bullshit agreement that if you buy one of their cars new off the lot, you have to sign a contract saying you basically donât own the car and have to uphold their brand standards with it.
Itâs sets a startling example of not owning something despite buying it and the court needs to use this as a chance to strike it down as unethical.
This shit again? And I thought it was bad enough with ford and john deer telling farmers they didnât own the tractors they bought from themâŚ.
Yeah, they have this really unethical clause in the purchase contract you canât modify the car or do anything with it that theyâd consider âunbecoming of the brandâ, which is why they were able file this suit.
It seems kind of bizarre at first until you realize how horrifying that is in the age of âdo you own what you buy?â being a huge a debate (especially in tech).
This is pretty much Ferrariâs philosophy from the start, they are extremely prideful of their cars like if they were made from Godâs hands or something.
They are very snobby, infact the owner of Ferrari doesnât like the people who buy their cars since because they are bought for âstatusâ.
They also never test their cars on public tracks in comparison with other racing cars like when they wanted to test out the Porche 918 Spyder vs The McLaren P1 vs LaFerrari. Take a guess who bailed out on the performance test.
Just an update
Lambo are the perfect people to jump in on this because they make insane cars and they are never above clowning them up because Lambo are all about THE DRAMA â˘
My dad is an automotive journalist (or was, he just retired) and that story is one of his favorites. If itâs not true, it is basically so enshrined in automobile industry legend that it might as well be fact.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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