If ur arabic ur great
If ur arabic and muslim ur great
If ur arabic and queer ur great
If ur arabic and muslim and queer ur great
I know it seems hard to believe but you’re not bad you’re not awful
Hey if you’re not arabic can you reblog this? I hardly ever see any positivity towards us and I just wanna spread love to my Arab siblings
Enrollments are down 23 percent in Illinois, and most people don’t realize the deadline for signing up this year is just weeks away.
That early deadline — Dec. 15 — is itself a result of Republican efforts to kill the ACA, also known as Obamacare. The Trump administration this year shortened the sign-up period from three months to just 45 days.
Heed this warning if you are among the tens of thousands of people who are uninsured or buy your own insurance who might want to sign up for the ACA for 2019. Don’t be left out in the cold just because the federal government has shrunk the enrollment period and slashed by 90 percent the amount of money being spent to get the word out that it’s sign-up time.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll published Wednesday, only a quarter of Americans know this year’s open enrollment deadline is Dec. 15. In Illinois, sign-ups are down from about 95,000 at this time last year, to about 73,000 this year.
That’s bad news not just for the people who will find themselves without insurance in 2019, but also for the chronically ill, the disabled, the elderly and others who stand to see their premiums go up because there are fewer people in the insurance pool. Costs also will go up for taxpayers because the Cook County Health and Hospital Systems provides half of the care for people in the county who don’t have insurance.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues in its effort to kill Obamacare. On Thursday, it was reported that the administration wants to allow states to give people permission to use federal insurance subsidies to buy health insurance outside the ACA marketplaces. That would allow the subsidies to go to substandard insurance policies that healthier people might buy, driving up costs for people, such as those with preexisting conditions, who need better insurance benefits.
Enrollment numbers also may be down because Congress last year eliminated the individual mandate, which requires people to have health insurance or pay a fine. The Congressional Budget Office estimated at that time that eliminating the mandate would lead to 4 million fewer people signing up for ACA insurance for the coming year.
In the Nov. 6 elections, many congressional candidates who campaigned in support of the Affordable Care Act triumphed at the polls, which means congressional efforts to repeal the law soon will end for at least two years.
So Lila threatened Marinette that she was going to get Adrien, huh. Like is there any chance that Lila is sure that only Marinette can stop her from getting him?
And you know what?
I want her to meet Kagami, try the same nonsense with that warrior fencing queen.
Ok but also? There’s no reason why she should be so confident that she’d get him anyway??? Even without Marinette in the picture at all. Like he’s polite to her but generally shows obvious signs of discomfort with her, and she just??? apparently sees his body language and thinks “yes what I’m doing is appropriate and good and he likes it” as he’s trying to back away
It’s funny cuz in 1st and 2nd grade i didn’t have recess. Just lunch. Tho we also had like gym and typing and music and stuff with different teachers, so the main teachers probly got breaks then
I didn’t think Ninjas were real, just spy’s and sometimes assassins but no one you’d specifically call “ninja”
Ninja is something of an affectation from later eras being backwards projected onto history. However, there were a number of groups that specialized in infiltration, sabotage, assassination, espionage and other “irregular warfare” tactics, often passed down in familial lines. The Iga clan of the Tokugawa period is a notable example.
The general distinction for the historical ninja groups as opposed to someone who just performed irregular warfare (like a guerrilla or a spy), was that the ninja in question had to be a mercenary, operating outside of the feudal hierarchy, and had to be a professional, so no slitting throats as a side-hobby.
Hey, wanna know why the modern idea of ninja is “wears black clothes”?
These are “Kuroko”.
Kuroko are men and women fully dressed in black and that wear tabi on their feet. They are Kabuki theater stagehands. When they are on stage, the audience is supposed to ignore them, pretend they aren’t there, as they are “special effects”, not people per se on the stage.
Well, see, some Kabuki plays liked to play with this idea.
In certain plays, a notorious character will suddenly get stabbed by a Kuroko and die. This is shocking to the audience because Kuroko are just straight up not supposed to exist as people or characters in the play, but suddenly, one of these special effects just murdered someone. Then, they’d remove the face covering veil and reveal they were one of the characters all along.
It was a meta manner of narrative, basically. A plot twist, if you will.
That’s why the modern image of Ninja was derived from Kuroko: Unexpected Assassins, striking when no one is supposed to strike, and gone like the wind, just like that.
“Ninja” actually looked like this:
Just your regular run of the mill peasant.
That was the entire point.
To not be noticed. To be one with the crowd.
Espionage history !
As both a ninja AND a theater kid- this pleases me
I love the picture from the stage up there – your eyes do sort of just slide right over the Kuroko helping the actress stand and show off.
I’ve seen this concept before and it is SO MUCH better with pictures
I loved learning about this stuff. A lot of modern stories/shows/etc inspired by or about ninja actually do come from documentation of supposed or perceived techniques and weapons used by historical ninja. But a lot (like running on water, etc) was likely embellished or an issue with misperception and reconstructed memories
I know folks mean well, but arguing that Article 13 will deprive media corporations of the free advertising furnished by Internet memes and fan media isn’t going to get you anywhere because that’s the entire point.
The whole idea of Article 13 – and the push toward copyright overreach more generally – is to make self-publishing (of all kinds, not just fan media) so onerous that only folks who operate under the auspices of corporate backers can afford to do it.
i.e., they’re trying to roll back to the pre-Internet status quo when a tiny handful of publishing corporations had absolute control over all non-local media distribution channels, and – unless the author was independently wealthy – media was permitted to reach a wide audience only with their explicit approval.
The mechanism is pretty straightforward: Article 13 and legislation like it would establish a presumption in law that the corporate claimant in any copyright dispute is correct, and place the onus upon the author as a private individual to prove otherwise. At the time of this writing, the average cost of bringing a copyright dispute to court is in the neighborhood of $200 000. What private individual has that kind of money?
It’s not just about fan media. This type of legislation would allow publishing corporations to claim that they own anything they please, and hosting providers would be obliged to block distribution of that content purely on the claimant’s say-so, unless and until the dispute is resolved in court – and unless you’ve got two hundred grand to burn, that resolution will never happen.
Of course, there’d be remedies short of going to court – like, say, signing on with a publishing company yourself, so that they can “protect” your intellectual property on your behalf. See where this is going?
Pointing out the potential for short-term harm to publishing corporations’ bottom line is a non-starter because no amount of loss of exposure could possibly outweigh the benefits to the publishing corps if the long game pays off.
Which is really ironic since corporations and politicians don’t give a rat’s ass about long term damage to the economy/environment/healthcare/etc if it means a lot of short term profit.
People, please be careful. There are also people tracking children and people and putting bids on them based on their profile pictures on whatsapp, tracking and kidnapping them. Especially young children, so please be cautious, especially parents who have their children as their profile pictures.
Please pass this on to everyone so that they are aware of the danger. I don’t how it is all around the world but I know it can’t just be here so please please spread the word. Thank you.
I keep getting these like twice a week. Please reblog!
I get these constantly good to know my instinct to block them were good ones
if you don’t have access to poorly-secured and un-backed-up debt records, you can help do this via legitimate means by donating to rollingjubilee.org– they buy debt (the way debt collectors do, for steeply discounted prices – like $20 to buy $500 in outstanding debt owed by someone) and just… forgive it, so it doesn’t need to be paid by the person on whom it’s a burden.
Disheveled Mess 