April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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Lance Armstrong
JanitorAll the stuff needed for a great thanksgiving dinner goes on sale in the weeks up to thanksgiving.
BallOfSunshine
MemberIn theory (i.e. what we're told as children) is that the holiday began after a relatively meager harvest in the early colonial period. They were thankful to have survived, in part due to the natives' help and knowledge of the local land.
Now, whether it was those pilgrims that decidd to turn on the Native Americans or pilgrims who came later is entirely up in the air. One way or another, more pilgrims came, and the older pilgrims passed on this "thanks-giving" tradition where you express your gratitude for what you have in life, no matter how small.
Thanksgiving itself had little to do with the Native American genocide; it's more coincidental that they feature heavily in the holiday's supposed origins.
But there's not much we can do to change the past, man. What's done is done.
kohne
MemberWhat kind of spice do you use for a gryphon? In this case, just a bit of "Mrs. Dash" will do. :)
Or is that "Miss Dash"? ;)
Nolamancy
MemberI came here for the art.
Not a...
History Lesson
Calcifer
MemberPersonally I don't feel the native genocide is relevant to it much, people often forget the way things were in the past, for instance many of those pilgrims were not really wanting to come, there were a lot of people coerced or forced to board those ships cause monarchs wanted to colonize, and sadly for all their cool culture and the like the natives were really behind in weapons and society, and at that time in history sadly that was what happened to most such groups. I try to take it as we were worse then across the board and no side technically had clean hands, but we are not guilty of our father's sins and a holiday that brings families together and helps ya to be thankful for the life you got is worth keeping I think.
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