It actually pisses me off more knowing Tumblr was perfectly able to solve its cp problem but just didn’t until it ended up on the news
I dunno if banning half the userbase with poorly-coded bots qualifies as “perfectly able”
Despite glitchiness, they wiped MAP and MAP positivity tags, have put in a new report for drawn CP, have cleared out drawn CP tags, have deleted multiple known pedophiles’ blogs.
Even if some people had to be taken down on the way (with a system in place that makes your blog easily obtainable if you feel you’ve been wrongly deleted, with all of your posts and blogs still in tact), they fixed the problem within a few days.
So, to reiterate:
Tumblr was perfectly able to solve its cp problem but just didn’t until it ended up on the news
having your tumblr (temporarily) deleted = literally being killed by a nuclear bomb
But the protests were about more than just how Google handles harassment. On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher,
six of the walkout organizers — Erica Anderson, Claire Stapleton,
Meredith Whittaker, Stephanie Parker, Cecilia O’Neil-Hart and Amr Gaber —
explained that employees’ grievances included a history of pay
discrimination, systemic racism and the unequal treatment of contract
workers.
And Google executives have neglected to even talk about
some of the five demands that the workers presented in conjunction with
the walkouts.
“They did not ever address, acknowledge, the list of
demands, nor did they adequately provide solutions to all the five,”
said Stapleton, a marketing manager at YouTube who has been at Google
for more than 11 years. “They did drop forced arbitration, but for sexual harassment only,
not discrimination, which was a key omission. Nothing was addressed
regarding TVCs [contract workers] … I think we didn’t see
accountability in action.”
“You don’t have 20,000 people in the streets planned in
three days if there isn’t something deeply, structurally wrong,” added
Whittaker, the founder of Google’s Open Research group.
Parker, a policy specialist at YouTube, initially read a
prepared statement to her San Bruno, Calif., colleagues during the
walkout, but then asked them a question she hadn’t written down. Where,
she asked, did Google get the tens of millions of dollars it paid to
Rubin and other senior executives accused of sexual misconduct?
“They got it from every time you worked late,” Parker
said. “Every promotion you didn’t get because they said there’s not
enough budget, you have to wait. It’s from every contractor who came to
work sick because they have no paid time off. These are conscious
decisions that the company is making, and abusers are getting rich off
of our hard work.”
And the walkouts, the organizers agreed, have in some
cases turned strangers into allies. People who had been raising red
flags for years and felt they weren’t being heard suddenly realized that
they were not the only ones who thought Google wasn’t hearing what it
needed to hear.
“We’re giving our feedback about what’s wrong through all
of the official channels,” Parker said. “We’re filling out the surveys
every year. We are talking back in TGIF [all hands meetings] and asking
these questions, and nothing is happening. But once we begin to find
each other, and see each other all speaking out and all saying,
fundamentally, the same thing, then the fear starts to go away. Once we
start taking collective action, then we can’t be stopped.”
he’s mirroring! cats do that to be social that’s also why they will lie on laptops or books. they want to do what their humans are doing because they enjoy being in the same room and socializing that way. getting him his own prayer mat was a really good idea bc now he gets to mirror without being in the way!
The other thing is that cats have a very good sense of time and tend to like regular schedules. If OP’s family members pray every day at the same times, in the same place, the cat knows the drill and probably considers this an official Household Activity which requires Feline Supervision.
For his first Thanksgiving alone in 1985, Scott Macaulay was thinking that he would have to heat up a frozen turkey dinner and turn on a football game to stifle the silence in his apartment near Boston.
With his parents recently divorced and “nobody talking to anybody,” he said, “I was looking at a pretty rotten Thanksgiving. And I absolutely hate to eat alone.”
Then Macaulay, a divorced vacuum cleaner repairman, had an idea: What if he took out an ad in his hometown paper, the Melrose Free Press, and invited 12 strangers to join him for Thanksgiving dinner? It seemed like a manageable number to host at the First Baptist Church he attended — and, yeah, it was a little crazy, but it had to be better than being lonely.
“I knew that I couldn’t be the only one in this situation,” he said. “There had to be at least a dozen people out there who didn’t want to spend Thanksgiving Day alone.”
Actually, more.
Since those 12 strangers gathered around his table for turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie 33 years ago, Macaulay has made his free feast an annual event, inviting anyone to make a reservation by calling his office phone number that’s printed in the paper. He does not own a cellphone or computer. Through the years, he has fed plenty of widows, widowers, homeless people and college kids who can’t make it home. A few years ago, one of his guests crawled under the table. All are welcome.
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