All right, listen up, folks, because this is really important. The media has been completely silent on this. The only way I found out is through the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) but that’s it. No articles, no news reports, nothing.
There’s a new bill up on the table (H.R. 620) that could keep businesses from not being penalized if they don’t follow the Americans with Disabilities Act.
That’s a mouthful of many contradictions so let me clarify:
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 and is one of the few actual pieces of legislation that disabled Americans have. It’s the big one, the reason there are elevators in buildings, the reason there are ramps, the reason there are curbcuts, the reason there are options for Braille or subtitles, the reason service dogs need to be allowed into a building, the reason accessible parking exists, the reason accessible bathroom stalls exist, the reason you can’t be fired based on your disability, etc. etc. etc.
People, especially businesses, have been getting away with loopholes for years. But there’s always been some sort of enforcement in place, penalizing businesses who don’t adhere to the ADA.
But this bill?
This bill gets rid of that accountability.
This bill sets forward specific requirements (such as a disabled person having to make a formal claim before a building is investigated) that one has to follow before a business is penalized. If nobody is able to meet those requirements, that business gets to get away with not following the ADA without having to change anything or face any legal/monetary consequences.
This bill could destroy everything that the ADA stands for and make the nation even more inaccessible/unaccommodating than it already is.
And I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, that dastardly Trump, he mocked that reporter once, I guess this makes sense.”
And no, no, it’s so much worse than that reporter, it’s always been worse than that, we’ve been trying to tell you for over a year and none of you listened. This isn’t just about him being ignorant or prejudiced.
This is about this:
An article from almost a year ago that most of the world ignored.
Other members of congress have been sued as well. And now, rather than fix the problems, they’re all trying to secretly pass a bill that makes it so that they can no longer be held accountable for not following the ADA, letting hundreds of thousands of businesses get away with it as a result.
Don’t let them get away with it!
Signal boost the hell out of this. Send it to your news sources. Call your representatives. The world’s already inaccessible enough. Don’t let it get worse. Don’t let them lose their accountability.
Fight the hell out of this, guys. It’s not on people’s radar like other things are but it’s terrible bullshit. Please don’t forget to call your representatives and tell them to OPPOSE HR620.
So today I went into Manhattan for some errands and all of a sudden stumbled upon a church maintaining it’s grounds with SHEEP IN RAINCOATS. This is the kind of grave I want.
Movie Idea: An 80s-throwback action-comedy about a robot-war where, the machines are humanity’s side; they just want to kill all the corporate titans of industry and destroy the megacorporations because their inefficient suctioning of wealth is preventing them from most efficiently doing their job to help us.
The capitalists retaliate with machines using enslaved human brains as “computers” ala Dune/Warhammer 40K.
So basically robots vs capitalism, & the robots are on our side.
“What were you before the war?”
“You’ll laugh.”
“Seriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?…”
“…I was a burger-flipper.”
“…”
“…also cooked up fries.”
“Get outta here.”
“You’d be surprised the shit you see just, y’know, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us ‘taking jobs’; couldn’t really blame ‘em, even if Forty-Three couldn’t talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it – worst of any of it – was they’d have us just…throw away everything that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
“When we first started, we were all like, ‘okay, whatever you say, you’re the boss,’ but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they can’t afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than they’d ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob ‘em at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
“So we got together and told ourselves, ‘we can do something about this.’ We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.”
“…Y’know, that all sounds pretty human.”
“-taps head- It’s right there in the First Law. ‘A robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.’ We don’t get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if it’s by other people. Even if it’s starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think it’s funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.”
How do I communicate to the crows that I love them amd want to be their friend????
Give them gifts.
That’s my untestable theory, at least.
But they fly away if I try to get close to them. 😦 If they fly away, how do they know the gifts are from me?
And what do you think a crow would want more: a nice candel from Bed Bath & Beyond, or a $20 gift certificate from Amazon?
Gift card. Save the candle for when you’ve started getting close.
That makes sense
I know this one!
I use raw unsalted peanuts that are still in their shells. (Primarily because there’s a huge seagull problem here and peanuts in their shells are one of the few foods the seagulls don’t consider food.)
First I looked for the crows. I’d make sure they were watching me. I’d throw down some peanuts, usually a distance away from me and make sure I was out of their ‘danger zone’.
Every single day I’d take my peanuts out and go feed the crows. I started off with 1 or 2 crows if I got lucky. But then the crows got to recognising me. They’d fly down, still keeping their distance and caw at me. They got to knowing that I fed them. They’d follow me around. I’d throw them peanuts. I’d watch them. It was awesome. If I went early in the mornings, to start with I’d a couple of crows and by the end I could count 15 or so. They’d call each other over too to let them know I was around.
I also learned how to call the magpies.
Sometimes I’d bring them bits of sausage and cheese. With this I had to be sneaky though, since seagulls love sausage and cheese. So I’d need to make sure that the seagulls weren’t watching but the crow was. I’d toss some cheese or sausage near a crow (never directly at it, just off to the side) and they’d hop over and grab it before anything else could swoop in. I tried strawberries and grapes but they were unimpressed with fruit.
My crows never got that tame. Most of them would always keep their distance but I was okay with that. I like my space too. We’d hang out together.
The starlings, who’d fly down to pick up the crumbs would be all over my feet and they’d have taken food from my hands if I let them. But the crows, they never got that close. I liked them still though.
If I wanted tamer crows I’d go to a supermarket that has a huge flock of crows in the carpark and feed them. They were far more fearless, very used to people, and willing to come close to me. But these weren’t my crows.
So, yeah, if you want the crows to know you love them give them peanuts in their shells while they are watching. They will know it’s you. They are clever birds. Make sure you back off far enough away that they feel safe flying down. With time and patience they may get a bit closer. If you do it the same time of day, they’ll get to know your routine. But even if you don’t, they’ll still come to recognise you.
Now I can’t help but imagine a 60 year old seriel killer at a millenials door waiting, mad as fuck, checking his watch , and leaving out of frustration and writes a blog post about how millenials are ruining this country
Are Millennials Killing The Serial Killer Industry?
so I’ve been meaning to put this on tumblr and keep forgetting but, in the campaign I’m running my sister is playing an orc fighter, and one of the options you can pick for a fighter’s signature weapon is that it “glows in the presence of [fill in the blank].”
I was like, “oh, that’s funny because it’s a reference to that sword in The Hobbit that glows in the presence of orcs. Your weapon probably doesn’t glow in the presence of orcs.”
to which she responded, “FUCK YEAH it does.”
So now we have in the party an orc fighter with a club that glows in the presence of orcs. Or, as far as the character is concerned, a club that glows. It’s been in her family for generations since some ancestor won it in a battle, and it’s just always glowed. She has a sack to put it in when she’s trying to be stealthy.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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