Priest: If these places you’re going [to] claim to have spiritual attachments, I would do nothing to invite them into any kind of conversation. [supercut of the boys inviting conversation] Shane: [calling out in a silly voice] Deh-mon? Ryan: Stop calling it that. Shane: DEH-MON! [cut] Shane: If you want me off your bridge, you’re going to have to throw me off. [cut] Shane: No! I just wanna talk to the demons! [cut] Shane:If you want me off this bridge, you’re gonna have to kill me! [cut] Shane: I’m gonna lock myself in here with a ghost. [cut back to conversation with priest] Shane: So treat it like a fine art museum… [cut back to supercut of Shane yelling at demons] Shane: FUCK YOU, GOATMAN!! [cut] Shane: I think this demon’s a wimp! Ryan: He’s lost his mind! [cut] Shane: Goatman! I’m dancin’ on your bridge! [cut] Shane: [lying on a pentogram] Rock n’ roll, buckaroo! [cut] Shane: Hey, you demon fuck! [cut] Shane: [calling out to a demon] You fucking wimp! [cut] Shane: I disrespect your bridge, Goatman!
women!! go watch ocean’s 8!! as expected it’s getting the ghostbusters treatment and getting bad reviewers from, ofc, mostly men in a bunch of platforms – for instance the rotten tomatoes score is at 68% and dropping and the audience score is 54%, which is quite bad, and also dropping. i wonder how is that possible if the reaction i’ve seen from women were overwhelmingly positivie hmm and what’s also interesting is that if you counted only the reviews written by women you’d get a critic score of over 80% 🤔🤔 even tho it has its flaws, the movie is good, fun, well acted and absolutely does not deserve such low scores. but its a movie totally ABOUT women and made FOR women, of course men would act like this. so go support this movie! give it your money! it deserves to succeed! it is a good movie damn it!! fuck men!!
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.
Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.
Wow. This really hit me hard.
EAT
Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.
Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.
OTW Legal and our allies have been active in fighting on fan-unfriendly legal proposals in the EU. Since these proposals were introduced in 2016, OTW Legal has submitted comments opposing them and has joined in calls for action against them. We’ve managed to hold them off so far and encourage some revisions, but a key vote will be happening in the European Parliament’s JURI committee on 20/21 June that could have a significant impact on the Internet and fan sites. In particular, two provisions of the current proposal would be bad for fans. Article 11 would impose a “link tax” that would make it more expensive for many websites to operate, and Article 13 would impose mandatory content-filtering requirements on websites that host user-generated content. These provisions have been hotly debated and revised a bit since the last time we reported on them. (For more on recent revisions and debates, see these discussions by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Hogan Lovells Firm) But despite revisions, they’re still bad deals for fans. Importantly, they don’t preserve the “safe harbors” that websites rely on to operate, and they don’t include user-generated content exceptions.
Without safeguards for user-generated content, Article 13 would require your favourite websites to implement systems that monitor user-generated content and automatically remove any content that could potentially infringe upon copyright, giving publishing giants the power to block your online expression. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, GitHub, Soundcloud, etc., could be required to block the upload of content based on whether it has been “identified” by big corporations, rather than based on its legality. The law is still being debated, and it is difficult to predict how it would impact the OTW’s projects, including the Archive of Our Own, if it is passed. Regardless of how this vote comes out, the OTW will work as hard as we can to keep the Internet fan-friendly. But we need your help. The most effective thing you can do right now is contact your Member of European Parliament. You can use one of these tools to e-mail your MEP or call your MEP to tell them that having user-generated content on the internet is important to you.
Here’s what you can tell them: Without safe harbors for user-generated content, Article 13 of the Copyright Directive would stifle free expression on the Internet. We don’t want mandatory filtering. Algorithms don’t understand limitations and exceptions to copyright like parody, public interest exceptions, fair use, or fair dealing, and we don’t want our non-infringing videos, website posts and art blocked because of a biased algorithm created by big corporations. We want the law to protect user-generated works, not harm them.
OTW Legal will keep fighting for fan-friendly laws!
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