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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

I am genuinely terrified everyone will forget, or has already forgotten, how different people were 15-20 years ago. Since then, all technological innovation has worked toward the goal of sapping human attention as a commodity and society is far worse for it.

POKEY AND THE LITTLE GIRL STAND ATOP THE ICE!! POKEY GREETS THE LITTLE GIRL THUSLY: HELLO THERE SMALL CHILD!!! HE ASKS: DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS ABOUT THE RICH MAN?? HE CONTINUES: HE'S DEAD!!! THEY CONTINUE TO ENJOY A PLEASANT DAY UNDER THE SHINING SUN WHILE THERE IS A NICE SONG PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND!!

This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away.

So don't let it go away. Keep it going.

In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

There are three specific good things I would like to wake up to find have happened (ranked in order of immediacy of need, not necessarily scope of impact); if the universe could please oblige, I'd be ever so grateful. Please and thank

an enormous number of problems with modern society trace back to the widespread acceptance of fraud and lying more generally and we should change that

a functional future DOJ should massively crack down on this kind of behavior

So instead of addressing any issues, Mastercard is FURTHER supressing criticism.

They're panicking.

Don't. Stop. Calling.

you know what would be really funny?

if people started calling MasterCard saying "I mentioned MasterCard in a Riot/Valorant/League of Legends stream and I got timed out/warned/banned. I don't understand why that would happen. Can you explain it to me?"

Mastercard has reached the stage of desperately trying to gag people for saying bad things about them

WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WORKING

Riot Games Accused of Blocking Mastercard Discourse in VCT Chat As multiple different parts of the art, entertainment, and gaming industries are being impacted by ongoing crackdowns from various payment processors, it appear

Riot Games is accused of actively suppressing any negative comments related to Mastercard or otherwise mentioning the anti-game/NSFW censorship movement on its esports broadcasts.

The decision to do so was reportedly made internally, according to an obtained statement.

www.si.com/esports/news...

I reached out to Riot for comment on this, and did my best to keep things to what I was able to find while writing this up.

But I can't really beat what my bud @johnxuandou.bsky.social said:

bsky.app/profile/john...

"rabies vaccine causes dog autism" is probably the funniest conspiracy theory I've ever heard, tbh

the person who did this study's questions has the heart and soul of a Poster

Someone on here pointed out that you can get your titers checked, but if it's been decades since your last measles shot, you can also skip that step and just get another measles shot as a precaution. I did at my last physical, and it was easy.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

this is very close to the question I used when interviewing potential QA staff

the passing answer, was also essentially "communicate that something seems wrong, make sure we are actually doing the thing we need to"

>90% of people didn't pass, and that was in ~2015. I imagine it's worse now

CAN CONFIRM. Riot's mods are immediately nuking any mention of mastercard, and giving lengthy chat timeouts for otherwise innocuous comments.

unsure how effective comments will be w/o absolutely massive numbers, but its EXTREMELY telling that mastercard feels they have to resort to this.

this is 110% true - I've taught kids who never did anything with a computer but play Fortnite to code, make art and music, hack websites, and sometimes all of those to the same kid!

there are so many with a vested interest in saying art/code "is not for everyone"

it's the pedagogy that sucks

is this number too low? yes

is it barely lower than the number of people who know that the earth goes around the sun every year? also yes

a lot of people just don't know shit, is the thing

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…

HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775

HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000

PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.

NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think a lot of it is also that the US economy has been collapsing for the past few years.
People see all these great games... and can't afford to buy and play them - they need to keep scraping for every last dollar they can save because they have no idea how long they're going to have to survive

The sad young literary man is alive and well on Substack On literati Substack, it’s still 2005.

You know, you can write a blog without supporting a company heavily invested in fascists, ask me how I know

www.vox.com/culture/4212...

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We ARE at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

A reminder that bounty hunting is illegal in Illinois and these rangers can likely be charged under those laws.

Unless you live in the southern hemisphere or you've been tested for it, it is extremely unlikely the illness you are currently experiencing at the height of summer is the flu

stuff like this, while funny, is still playing into AI grifters' hands.

you're still using the product to make fun of the product.

They don't give a fuck if you mock it, they care about user numbers, and you're contributing to those by opening their website.

DON'T EVEN ENGAGE.

this only works if it's an ubisoft studio, because that's the only way anyone would still be getting paid :P

There's a good tactic to keep them on the phone longer in here: Start by saying you're concerned about a statement that the processor has put out, and then read the entire statement without stopping. This will cause confusion and awkwardness if they just repeat it back to you, which they likely will

🚨 Happening now in LA. ✊🏼
RISE UP! LA is leading the way for our country. 📌

I want to be a kind creature with a worldview rooted in empathy so bad but I'm forced to be a survivor cockroach holding on to my moral core with a grip so tight it hurts because the alternative is letting them make us into something worse

this really does explain why I have zero desire to buy AAA products these days