Remember if you’re out at a store and someone says “This is a robbery” you can say “no it’s not” and then the robber will leave because theyre a robber and this is no longer a robbery .
You can not just say this without dropping the whole story
Ok so,
My dads coworker is at the front and this man comes Up and hands him a document.
The coworker took a Look at the document and while he couldn’t read the things written by Hand, because he wasn’t wearing his glases, he did notice the Logo of a different Bank so he’s like:
“Oh, sorry sir you can’t do that here! You have to go to the other Bank for this :)”
The man, visibly confused leaves, but dosen’t take the document with him.
The coworker, now just as confused as the Guy actually Takes Out his glases and reads the hand written part:
This is a robbery
Can you imagine trying to rob a god damn bank and the teller just cheerfully tells you to go rob the competition instead
I worked as a bank teller for several years and a few things you should know, bank robberies happen far more frequently than you might think and they come in waves. When a bank gets robbed a notification with photos goes to all banks in the area to be on the lookout. And there are two kinds of robbery, the pass the note and the takeover (what you see in movies).
So our branch had had a big takeover robbery as well as a note one. We also had a teller that had transferred to our branch after having been through a robbery. She was sweet as apple pie, hair up to the ceiling, southern lady who had just been through multiple robberies.
A guy comes in and hands her a folded note. Her immediate thought was “this guy needs to learn you don’t hand bank tellers notes. I am just not going to read that.” So how the conversation goes:
Her: how can I help you today?
Him: I’m here to get money
Her: great *hands him a withdrawal slip*
Him: all the information is on the paper
Her: to process the transaction I need you to put it on my piece of paper
SO HE FILLS OUT A WITHDRAWAL SLIP. Meanwhile another coworker is looking at her latest robbery notification email thinking the guy at the window looks a lot like him but the teller is calm and seems to be following standard transaction.
Back at the window the teller notices his name on the withdrawal slip doesn’t match the name on the account so she asks for his ID. He once again tells her all the relevant info is on the folded note but also gives her his ID and says it is his dad’s account. She tells him he will need a check from his dad to get cash. He grabs the note and leaves.
ONE HOUR LATER
Two new robbery notifications hit our emails, both branches within a mile. It is our guy. Teller goes over to the manager and sheepishly informs them he was here and the time. Security department is notified as are local police and the FBI. The FBI comes over believing that these poor tellers had been robbed for the 3rd time in a month and take her statement. She is completely embarrassed telling them how everything went down and he kept signaling to the note and telling her to read it but she was just done.
To which this FBI agent of 40 years who has been to the scene of many bank robberies (several at this branch in recent weeks) says: Ok. Let me see if I got this right, he came in fully intending to rob you. He gave you the note and you just…refused to read it? So he left and went to the bank literally across the street, handed them the exact same note, and they just handed him five grand? Do I have that correct?”
Her: I am so embarrassed
FBI: this is best thing I have ever heard. He even handed you his ID! Holy-
Her: I feel so dumb!
FBI: don’t! This is the best thing I have ever heard. This is going to be in training courses. (He sat there giddy for at least 5 more minutes)
I have a similar story from my friend Fred, who is a great human and I like him lots.
He was working at a 7-11 that got robbed a lot, working nights. And he was bored and read though his entire contract and learned if you’re shot at work you get $200,000. Also, he hated his boss and the job.
So when a guy came in to rob him at gunpoint he got excited and was able to hatch the plan he had been pondering while dealing with a Shitty Boring Job.
“Dude. Shoot me in the leg. Right here- it’ll go through and not hit anything vital and I’ll be able to quit this fucking job. I’ll give you fifty fucking grand to shoot me in the leg then you can take everything in the register.”
This ended with him chasing the weeping attempted burglar out of his store screaming “SHOOT ME YOU FUCKING COWARD I WANT THE MONEY”.
One of my uncles was a branch manager at a local bank when I was a kid. His branch had the dubious honor of being one of- if not the- most robbed bank in the area. There was a bullet hole in the wall behind his desk where he’d been shot at once.
One day, this guy came in and announced he was there to rob the place. This man was smoking a cigar with one hand and had a gun in the other.
My uncle pointed at the “No Smoking” sign and told him in no uncertain terms, “Put that cigar out, or finish it outside first.”
This guy, bless his heart, went back outside to finish his cigar.
My uncle locked the door behind him and waited for the cops to show up.
This is what I like to call the Bugs Bunny Deescalation Strategy
TL;DR: If you are able, could you email your senator and tell them that you support the Fresh Produce Procurement Reform Act? They will actually give a shit this time I promise, they just need to know you care*. Email is fine! All you have to type is “I support the Fresh Produce Procurement Reform Act”. You can tell them Tumblr sent you if you want.
HERE’S WHY: In my day job I help administer paperwork for one of the best government programs you’ve never heard of, the Local Food Purchase Agreement. This program:
Buys produce from small sustainable farmers with an emphasis on supporting BIPOC farmers
Pays those farmers good money
Gets local businesses to pack that produce
Delivers the produce to food aid programs in schools and community organizations to be distributed for free without conditions
Broke people get extremely nice fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, meat, eggs
A lot of the products are heirloom and culturally important foods. No generic government potatoes here.
Also there are huge funding carve-outs for indigenous food sovereignty products
People send in notes about how this is what they’ve always wanted to feed their families but they usually can’t afford it. I love this program so much.
^ This is a stock photo but the produce genuinely looks like this. I have both worked in and lived off food aid programs in my lifetime and if you ever have you know that “brown bananas” and “fun game! find the squash that isn’t moldy” is usually the best it gets. Produce that is actually fresh and high-quality and tastes nice and is heritage varieties of culturally important foods is basically asking for the moon. Except they might actually give us the moon this time. It turns out that the moon only costs, like, twice what my small town spends on police every year. Let’s get the moon!
*Here’s the thing, no one hates The American Farmer. Farm stuff is almost always bipartisan. This makes it easier to get food to people! Let’s do the thing!
Here’s a link to the text of the act if you want to read it for yourself.
I think people who find the Jedi’s rule on attachment awful don’t consider that being a Jedi isn’t a regular job.
They’re not space cops, they don’t put their little Jedi outfit in the morning and take it off when they get home at night while leaving their responsibilities at the door.
You are a Jedi, always, because you can’t turn off the kind of powers that come with it and not adhering to a strict code of conduct is dangerous, and not only for yourself.
It’s saying ‘if I had the choice between saving my sibling/parent/spouse or 100 people, I need to make sure that I wouldn’t let my personal feelings get in the way of making the logical decision.’ It’s Anakin saying that irrational attachment and possession are forbidden, but compassion is essential to a Jedi’s life. It’s having friends, family and lovers, and still acknowledging that if something happens to them, you wouldn’t burn down the galaxy to get your revenge.
It’s not a grand title that comes with a cool laser sword, it’s a way of life. A difficult one, which demands to make sacrifices and utter control of yourself.
It’s not for everyone, and that’s why Luke gives Grogu a chance to back out. To say ‘alright, maybe I can’t do that and would prefer to stay with Din’.
And it’s not the end of the world if Grogu doesn’t become a Jedi! It only means he’s not ready to adhere to the philosophy that comes with it. And it’s not the end of the world if Grogu chooses to be a Jedi! It only means he will have to learn that some things must be more important than Din when you become so powerful.
I think one of the reasons Fandom struggles so hard with understanding the Jedi’s beliefs is that Western culture romanticizes the fuck out of unhealthy, possessive relationships. It’s not just the Star Wars fandom, look at pretty much every fandom and you’ll see tons of it. Fantasizing about possessive relationships is, of course fine, but internalizing that those types of relationships are desirable is where things get dangerous. It also doesn’t come out of nowhere, these types of relationships are so common in fandom partly because they’re shown so much in film and television.
Anakin didn’t Fall to the Dark Side because he was in love with Padme. Anakin Fell to the Dark Side because he was possessive in his attachment to her. Anakin’s possessive nature was most blatant with Padme, in part because we expect to see possessive attachment in romantic relationships. However, Anakin’s possessiveness was equally blatant with his hunt for Luke. Vader’s life was miserable after his fall to the Dark Side, but he still wanted to turn Luke so that he could possess him. It wasn’t until Luke showed Vader how to love selflessly that Vader was able to turn back to the Light.
Anyone who has watched The Clone Wars should realize the Jedi are full of love. Their love is a selfless one for all living things. Where the Jedi lost their way is mainly because they were forced to fight an ongoing war where it became harder and harder for them to follow their code of ethics- leaving them to become increasingly strict to defend their psyches. The no attachment rule isn’t about giving up loved ones completely, it’s about being able to let them go in order to focus on the greater good.
Holy shit, this paragraph from Yanis Varoufakis’s next book, Techno-Feudalism:
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I literally don’t have the space for any more physical books, but I’ve downloaded every Underrealm book on Kindle. I read The Alchemist’s Touch specifically because of this post and I seriously can’t recommend the Underrealm books enough. they are absolutely fantastic.
I don’t really read anymore, not like i used to. And of i get a masters this year like i am planning to then that isn’t going to change. But hell yes I’m going to go and buy these books because THIS is exactly the kind of thing that i want to support!
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One day I will have a job and a bank account and I will have money from the job in the bank account and I will use some of the money to purchase these books
Hey did you
did you know
did you know we have a podcast now and you can literally listen to the books for free.
(You probably didn’t. That’s okay because it’s very new).
It’s slower than buying and reading them, but it’s great if you have no book budget but you do have some listening time!
its like a real life version of that children’s song with the magic bridge that you had to dance across
Highlights:
–all the old people –one dude who starts doing the Cotton-Eye Joe and has the steps on lock –quinceañera girl with a dress bigger than the circle –lots of kids but particularly the dude who’s doing the helicopter with his little girl –an entire section of Millennials doing dance moves I recognize, oh the nostalgia
