youre thinking of gen z, the gayest, most trans, most racially diverse, most atheist generation of all time and they are gonna fucking change the world.
aquiver (quivering, trembling): headphones on full volume, cold winter breeze, nervous glances, desperately trying to live life to the fullest, to-do lists and journals, daydreaming, missed opportunities and wanting to prove onself
mellifluous (sweet, smooth, pleasing to hear sound): dried flowers, morning rays of sunshine, eloquent sentences, waiting for a sign, mythology and fairytales, sucker for aesthetics, Polaroid pictures and old architecture
hiraeth (a homesickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was): neon lights, airports and gas stations at night, either being extremely private or always oversharing, the adrenaline of winning arguments, marble and ice
limerence (the state of being infatuated with another person): long eye contact, staying up until 3 am, wanting to pick a random train and get away, being described as “out of it”, sitting in a car just to finish listening to that song, fatalist humour
syzygy (an alignment of celestial bodies): never being fully satisfied, inferiority superiority complex, overthinking, reading 5 books at once, dark academia, late night conversations, “is this all there is?”
ephemeral (lasting a very short time): chasing the feeling of being alive, laughing and crying at once, wishing to be a mermaid, saying “I don’t care” very caringly, either writing really long answers or just “ok”
vellichor (the strange wistfulness of used bookshops): googling random trivia in the middle of the night, being extremely enthusiastic but never actually finishing the project, poems and pretty words, caring too much, never having enough book marks
Aries: Net neutrality
Taurus: Net neutrality
Gemini: Net neutrality
Cancer: Net neutrality
Leo: Net neutrality
Virgo: Net neutrality
Libra: Net neutrality
Scorpio: Net neutrality
Sagittarius: Net neutrality
Capricorn: Net neutrality
Aquarius: Net neutrality
Pisces: Net neutrality
I’ve already commented on one post, but I can’t with a clean conscience sit by without making my own.
I see so many posts about Net Neutrality, and while I think it’s tremendous how many of you are emailing the FCC, some of those emails aren’t going to change minds.
Some of you are emailing the chairman himself. Ajit Pai was a former Verison employee. It doesn’t matter how many emails you send to him. You could literally tell him that you depend on the Internet’s resources to live, and he would not bat an eye.
Many of you are putting in your emails that hospitals and schools will see troubles. I appreciate the effort, but when these men are the very same men who have already taken SO MUCH from hospitals and schools, will they?
What you NEED to do, is speak their language. That language is dollar signs. Make your voice sound like MONEY THEY WILL BE LOSING.
We live in a nation where restaurants are failing because no one can afford a $20 meal anymore. What makes the FCC think we can afford more than $60 Internet? E-commerce is essential to the US economy. If users are forced to go through paywall after paywall, they will STOP purchasing anything off the Internet. The nosedive in stocks will be the likes of nothing you’ve ever seen.
Without the freedom to choose which websites we visit, the internet, for many of you on Tumblr like me, will become virtually meaningless. Make THAT the message you spread to these two “Yes votes.” Tell them that if the Internet becomes just like cable TV, which none of us are able to afford, they will LOSE the few dollars we have.
They’ll be interested in hearing that.
These are the emails of the two FCC members voting “yes” on the repeal of NN. If anyone’s mind is going to be changed. It has to be one of these guys. And it has to be before December 14th.
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
If we speak their language, there may still be hope. Good luck, everyone.
Another effect I think that may occur, that I have yet see discussed elsewhere, is something like the internet stock crash of 2000. Because unless your site can get to be part of one of the giant providers’ packages, your traffic is going to vanish, which means your site will follow. Multiply that by hundreds or thousands, and then you have content creators out of work adding to unemployment, a plummeting computer market (why buy new hardware when bankrupt internet firms are blowing out servers at pennies on the dollar?) and other follow-on issues. This may include massive slides in the ad revenues of the big internet providers. The end of net neutrality may mean killing the goose that’s been laying the golden eggs since the recovery of 2009.
Have you ever made money online? That was possible because of net neutrality. Tumblr is full of artists who depend on income generated online to make ends meet in the real world. As an artist myself, I’m actually terrified of what my prospects are if net neutrality is repealed. Why are you guys sleeping on this?
Discount Deity of Death 