Gaza Global Strike Rules Redux

On March 9th, Israel plans to invade Rafah, so there will be a global strike from March 7th to March 9th. I'm updating my strike rules I gave to myself.

General

1. Minimize spending and banking, including cash, debit, and credit. This means don't get into any emergencies. /hj
   
2. No work or school (or any driving for that matter) unless it's for a protest or an emergency. Remember to email your professors/teachers or supervisors in advance, and don't lie about the reason.
   
3. Show activism in any way you can, including with clothing like keffiyehs or Palestinian flag shirts and verbal announcements. The May 17th strike says to wear red for Rafah, for example.
   
4. Use your social media account as a platform for Palestinian voices (and other voices facing genocide). Do not use it for anything else, including publicly liking non-Palestine tweets or mindlessly scrolling non-Palestine tweets.
   
• P.S. I don't recommend exclusively tweeting art, especially if it's only copyrighted characters being Pro-Palestine.
• It is highly suggested you retweet donation links, because you haven't been doing that at all unless it's linked to a megathread.
  
5. Strikes are not the time to leave social media unless required from the strike. See rule 4.
6. Entertainment streaming counts as spending, even if you already subscribed days ago!
7. Do not platform amoral people who are trying to strike but are failing to or are hesitant to strike. Both are examples of making it about themselves. Be a good example of a striker.
• People making the strike about themselves include people critiquing the strikes for being too unorganized because "oh how can we just pay taxes before the strike". Don't shoot the messenger.
  

 Not Just During Strikes

1. Keep boycotting! You have enough privilege to not limit yourself to BDS or the "big three" in terms of the boycott!
2. Donate to whoever you can, including the Daily Click at arab.org, any charities or organizations helping Palestine, or individuals in/with family members in Gaza.
3. This includes E-Sims to sites like Nomad, Holafly, or Simly.
4. Email and call your representatives about taking action to Gaza. Obviously, calls are more important than emails, especially during 9-5. You can do this daily.
5. The most important thing you can do is take to the street, march, chant, and anything you can do to publicly protest as a group. Our collective action is the best thing we can do.
6. Coffee Revolution. People are gonna be peeved if you don't participate.
   

Current Strikes

• The next strike called will take place from August 11th to August 18th.
• Note, if you decide not to participate in any "unorganized" or "optional" strikes, please still follow both the "General" and "Not Just During Strikes" rules every day (except for the minimize banking/go-to-work-and-school/social media talk about Palestine only rules).
• By the way, even if self-imposed, there should always be boycotts or strikes on days where "extremely major entertainment events", like the Superbowl, the Oscars, the Met Gala, etc. Awareness is crucial and all eyes on Gaza and Rafah is necessary. Israel is striking Palestine almost every day! 2 million people are at constant risk of death!
  

Previous Strikes

I'll update them if I miss any!

• August 3, 2024
  
• May 17, 2024
  
• May 10, 2024
  
• May 5 - May 11, 2024
  
• April 15, 2024
  
• April 1, 2024
• March 7 - March 9, 2024
  
• March 2, 2024 (some say it's extended until March 10, 2024)
  
• February 29, 2024
  
• February 19 - February 25, 2024
  
• February 17 - February 20, 2024
• K-Pop only: January 23 - January 28, 2024 (some extended it to the 31st, some to February 29th, some are doing it as a permanent boycott)
  
• January 21 - January 28, 2024
• December 29, 2023
  
• December 18, 2023
• December 11, 2023
• November 6, 2023
  
• October 20, 2023
  

Is It Really Cooking?

I just learned how to make chicken salad sandwiches! It didn't take as short as I'd like but I did my best!

My dad did most of the important work but I did the rest of it. He cooked chicken breast (to 165 degrees, note to self), while I shred it up into chicken slices and stirred it with mayo, salt, and pepper. I also cooked bacon (50% of the way in, at least, but the steam scared me so my dad did the rest).

Is it really cooking if I didn't do it the whole way through? I say yes. At least I had someone else cook most of it for me instead of a pre-cooked breast and bacon.

Bad News and Good News

 The bad news is:

1. I had a Real Ghostbusters keychain and I accidentally ran my swivel chair over it. It snapped into two, but I put it back together. I can't use it anymore, though. This was yesterday.
   
2. My dad got laid off the job he had for almost 10 years. I hope it's not karma because I asked him last year if he ever got laid off before and he said no.
3. My procrastination is getting worse.
   

The good news is:

• My VTuber is coming together! I got her Live2D lineart done. I am currently working on the flats.
   

Random thing

Reinstalled the Sims 4 again. Getting a lot of custom content.

Tried to install half of a Simmer's entire CC catalog on CurseForge, it was so annoying.

Found out CurseForge is owned by an Israeli company that directly donated to the IDF.

I... guess I won't have to deal with that again?

What AI should we worry about?

1.  LLMs -  Standing for large language models, it scrapes from the Internet. It can be harmful for even public domain works. This includes ChatGPT, Sora AI, Google Gemini, Bing Copilot, Stable Diffusion, etc.
   
2. Generative AI - Specifically the type that can generate writing, images, or audio without human intervention besides a prompt or source of images. Even a model that asked for all the data from all individual owners can be used for harm depending on its purpose. All examples for example 1 apply here too, but another example could be an AI dance generator, where you can generate how "someone" moves. Even if the data is consensual, it is extremely dangerous because it is considered deepfake technology.
   
3. Androids - An android is an artificial being resembling a human (doesn't have to be a robot). Its primary function, first and foremost, is to replace humans in some way. There would be no need to make a human if it weren't to replace a career, a child, a friend, a romantic partner, etc.
   
4. Robots that specifically have two dots and a curved line as a face - It's the trend. People who use this willy-nilly have no interest in you.
   

memes that died peacefully

I haven't seen hate for these memes, they just kinda died.

• Movie theater-mushrooms-nuts-high school
• Planet of the Bass
• Lario
• The Eight Crazy Nights replacement text meme
• Goncharov (at least outside of Tumblr)
  
• Possibly "I can't even watch when she touches his hair and I've watched a snake eat a cow" in the future
• Little Miss ____ (some people were annoyed but I never seen it again after it died)
  
• "I can't believe we're both goth and trans!"
• D4DJ *death threats*/children die - at least outside of Roblox
• Smurf Cat
• Leaked 20XX memes
• Giant moth that loves lamps
  

I'm guessing "America ya" will die peacefully, like the Azumanga memes which are currently dead. If it won't die peacefully, it will burn to the stake.

My thought on Ruth Bat-Seraph

They're not gonna get rid of her, nor her alter ego of Sabra. Changing the outfit is a guarantee, even a Zionist would call it cheesy, but on the off chance they got rid of her, Disney would get in big trouble, more so than if activists boycotted the movie. Starbucks lost $12 billion, McDonald's lost $1 million, but Disney? What will they lose? Will Elio be a flop? Will Lilo and Stitch be a flop? Even if Brave New World becomes a less successful movie than The Marvels, I believe Disney will not get rid of Sabra because it is more of a risk for them to get rid of her than not.

Note about the boycott, there are two main ones:

• The Big Three Boycott, which calls for a boycott of McDonald's, Starbucks, and Disney.
• The BDS boycott, which calls for a consumer boycott of 10+ different companies and Israeli produce, among other types of calls for action. They have Disney under a pressure campaign, not a direct boycott, but boycotting is encouraged when a reasonable alternative exists.
• But, while it's not in the primary boycott list, they have called on a boycott of Marvel because of the new Captain America movie until they remove Ruth Bat-Seraph/Sabra from the film.
• It seems easy for many people when it comes to the MCU, but it does mean you have to boycott Beyond the Spider-Verse.