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Man, the state of American truck breeding has gotten so unethical. They’re so far removed from their working breed roots on top of that most truck owners do not need a working breed. Trucks used to be powerful but sleek. Now they’re just heft to no purpose.

The older lines were able to lift huge loads without superfluous bulk. They were also easier to load and unload with low beds. The new lines are so tall that getting them loaded is actually harder.

Not to mention temperament has gotten way out of hand. Trucks used to be incredibly docile- for such a large automotive a good disposition was paramount to the breed. But the current lines are unacceptably territorial, making them a danger to other cars around them.

The very tall hoods also pose a real risk to their handlers and pedestrians, I think the trucks get skittish about how little visibility they have and act out which is unfair to them and those they threaten out of fear.

I just wish people would think before pushing for unreasonable breed standards. They’re definitely falling into form over function and it’s such a shame.

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Top 10 most racist land acknowledgments, ranked by how extinct the author believes the indigenous inhabitants are

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Please read this. It's important. On August 7, Israel's security cabinet approved Netanyahu's plan to occupy the rest of Gaza and forcibly displace the population to the south, where they will be expelled from Palestine into other countries. This is a final push of the genocide.

Yesterday (August 20), Israel's military spokesperson announced mobilization of another 60,000 reservists and stated plainly "We have begin preliminary operations and the first stages of the attack on Gaza City." Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military killed at least 81 Palestinians yesterday alone.

The cost of displacement is too high for my friend Mahrah and her family to manage, and the infrastructure and resources are already destroyed in the south where they are being forced under threat of death.

If the Israeli military can succeed in its occupation of Gaza, it will mean no shelter or safety for the rest of their lives.

@mahrahpalestine wrote to me, "Many consequences and indescribable feelings come with the risk of displacement and re-displacement. No one can imagine the difficult psychological state we are going through now: anxiety, fear, and tension."

Please, donate anything you can so they can survive. Her family's fundraising has been vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan.

You can donate to her family's campaign here:

GoFundMe (hosted by @cannilyuncanny)

Chuffed (hosted by @omegaversereloaded)

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Showing the rings of Saturn to Bronx street sex workers, Via.

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my opinion on the current porn ban is that it benefits the state to have its people filled with shame. they want you to be ashamed of yourself and they want you to hurt others who aren't ashamed of themselves. these changes will not benefit the marginalized

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The fact that people are treating the idea that men have privilege over women as like. An example of "radfem" thought and a dangerous indication of trans women falling for "TERF" thought is actually quite scary. This is like basic feminism. No, this idea isn't contradicted by intersectionality. What are we doing here.

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it's so epic that transmisogyny on this site has 0 long-term social consequences so like every single day i have to see somebody's unfunny 80k nothingpost reblogged onto my dash and go "oh hey i remember that guy from baselessly accusing someone i care about of being a rapist pedophile because he thought she was annoying and netting her months of death threats"

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Matti Suuronen, Futuro House, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 

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don't say "2010's music" and then play something from 2017-2019. that's not 2010's music to me. they're sonically so different from 2010-2016 to me

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I may be unemployed but Mondays are still the worst because it’s yet another week of submitting my ‘filing certification’ (proving that I have applied to at least 4 jobs in the past week) to my state’s labor department office and I’ve still received no money from my (submitted) unemployment benefits claim. They haven’t even fully approved of my application for benefits yet. I’m so exhausted. I just want a job or, at the very least, for my worthless state government to finally pay me what I’ve been owed for the past month.

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A lot of you think we're fucking joking when we say "don't blindly trust accusations against transfems" huh

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elbekreuzung 2, my new crush <3

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hitting return early on libby when there's people waiting and feeling like a benevolent queen distributing alms to the poor

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I'm making a new post since the original post is over a month outdated (Momo is now healthier than ever) and, almost one month post-layoff, I have still only received a few interviews without follow-up and my unemployment benefits are still in review, so I've received no official financial help from the state yet.

My name's Suit (though most of you probably know me as Adrian or Dairy or Lake or Maz or the Suit system), I'm disabled and trans, I was a crisis counselor before being laid off and now I'm struggling to find employment due to being disabled and trans.

With everything still going on for so many others in similar situations, I feel awful about asking for help again but the money I've received for my prescriptions and groceries to supplement what I'm allowed to get from the food bank has been tremendously helpful so far. Any mutual aid help or signal-boosting of this post is greatly appreciated.

Cash App $stonebutch Venmo messymarsupial paypal.me/adrjmes

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Reminder that Sudan-Funds shares multiple campaigns that are in need as Sudan faces one of the most frightening man-made starvations in history

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tried to explain to a white liberal that i felt weird seeing white people make racist sounding jokes about AI ("tin crow laws", "wirebacks/silverbacks", "my daughter better not come home with no god damn clanker") because of how ingrained it is into the "white" identity to incite genocide by inventing an outgroup, and how that's the only "white heritage" that exists because "whiteness" was invented 200 years ago from ideology.

i was told i was "flexing my history knowledge" for bringing this up, and then accused of promoting bioessentialism for saying racism defines white blood-- something objectively true, as "whiteness" cannot exist without an outgroup.

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By the way, this is an actual thing I received in the mail from my state’s department of labor (Iowa Workforce Development) after I filed for unemployment last month. Not a single thing in this entire booklet about how to ask landlords or utility companies for an extension on rent or bills (something that is absolutely possible to do and definitely recommended if you suddenly become unemployed) but countless bullet points of completely dogshit advice like this.