Hi anon! I am looking into this and I’ll post about it as soon as I figure it out, sorry! I know a way to do this exists somewhere.
Okay guys, turns out I was wrong about this, sorry! I have contacted the support team at the Archive and I’ll let you know as soon as I have a solution for this. Hang tight!
hey @allthecanadianpolitics this is enforceable in at least ontario which means that discord users have to opt out too
I will read this later on a bigger screen. But wtf.
Alright guys here’s the copy-pasted text from the twitter thread! Easier to paste into your email this way.
To Whom It May Concern,
As stated in the Discord Terms of Service, You have the right to opt out and not be bound by the provisions requiring arbitration by sending written notice of your decision to opt out to Discord by email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com.
The notice must be sent within 30 days of this Terms of Service taking effect, or your account creation on the Service.
I hereby exercise the aforementioned right to opt out and not be bound by the provisions requiring arbitration. This email is a written notice of said decision.
It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments.
Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society?
You literally can’t.
The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle.
It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon.
I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue.
govts and corporations have deliberately put the onus on yr individual choices so the system can continue being as destructive/profitable
God bless this post this pisses me off so much
Also this hyper-individualist shift of responsibility is largely an American thing and consumerism is framed as a solution- e.g., buy more shit that’s sustainable! That’ll fix the problem (buy a new, green water bottle! buy a new, green car! buy a new, green whatever-the-fuck that’ll just ultimately produce more waste)!
I took a course in sustainable engineering.
The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.
Private individuals hardly make a dent, even in ideal conditions.
Thank you.
Extra important note for spoonies. Please don’t feel bad for needing disposable medical equipment, pill bottles, long showers, micro fiber blankets, packaged pre-made food, straws, paper plates etc. You’re not individually ruining the environment, you’re doing the best you can while taking care of yourself. The blame is on corporations.
And now this ridiculous straw ban nonsense. They FEEL like they’re accomplishing something so that’s all that matters. And they simply don’t care or don’t believe disabled voices.
That is the exact spot my parents found a stray kitten. Nice little addition to the family, but would have been a terrible addition to the pavement had she not been very vocal OTL
No joke, the place where that cat is resting in this picture is called a “dead cat hole” it’s an automotive term. Don’t believe me, look it up.
This is also where I found a stray cat, she was up in there during a thunderstorm and I begged my dad to let me being her inside and that’s the story of how I got my first cat.
Please don’t skip over this without reading it and making a mental note. Even if you don’t have a car, tell your parents or whoever, and make sure to do this. You think that’ll never happen but that’s what everyone thought who had this happen and didn’t check, and that poor cold cat met with a terribly sad end.
Does everyone understand that the Russian trolls weren’t trying to spread information about racism? They made anti-racist posts to ingratiate themselves with social justice blogs. The message they were ultimately trying to deliver was that you should stay home on election day, and it worked on a good number of you.
Question of Smoke 