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        Beijing, Chick-Fil-A, and Clothes: Hong Kong Protest Gear Summer 2019
 Yellow construction helmet
 Goggles
 For flying debris
 Protects against rubber
 bullets, tear gas canisters,
 flying bricks
 Gas Mask
 Protecting against tear
 gas, which Hong Kong
 police use liberally
 Broad face cover
 To counter facial-recognition
 technology
 Black t-shirt
 Uniform adopted by
 Hong Kong protestors
 in contrast to white Ts,
 worn by Beijing supporters
 Backpack
 Typically holds snacks,
 water, change of
 clothes. tools and
 sometimes laser pens
 Lycra skin covers
 To protect against tear
 gas effects
 to shine in officers
 eyes.
 Elbow& knee pads
 For for falling,
 crawling and scuffing
 on city streets
 Umbrella
 Protection against rain
 and pepper spray
 Loose change
 For subway fare, to
 avoid being tracked
 through electronic
 transit passes
 Heat-resistant
 gloves
 To throw hot tear gas
 canisters back at
 police
 Photo: Saลกa Petricic/CBC
cisphobicmac:
thecringeandwincefactory:

i-hate-chick-fil-a:
This guide will be useful to Americans when we need to protest
This is great stuff for situations where youโ€™re dealing primarily with cops - just please keep in mind that one size does not necessarily fit all situations. 
Weโ€™ve found locally, for instance, that nazis here like to use knives. A lot of knife injuries come from attempting to fend off an attack, and thus result in slashing injuries to the arms. Fortunately there are very light, flexible, and relatively inexpensive products originally intended for butchers to use that are great for this and will cover your whole arm or forearm.
Always research this stuff ahead of time and look at what other people in similar situations are doing and share the information you find. And remember that you donโ€™t need to reinvent the wheel to protect yourself. And always mask up.

This persons comment wasnโ€™t rebloggable but I felt was an important addition. 

        

            
            

                
                
                    Beijing, Chick-Fil-A, and Clothes: Hong Kong Protest Gear Summer 2019
 Yellow construction helmet
 Goggles
 For flying debris
 Protects against rubber
 bullets, tear gas canisters,
 flying bricks
 Gas Mask
 Protecting against tear
 gas, which Hong Kong
 police use liberally
 Broad face cover
 To counter facial-recognition
 technology
 Black t-shirt
 Uniform adopted by
 Hong Kong protestors
 in contrast to white Ts,
 worn by Beijing supporters
 Backpack
 Typically holds snacks,
 water, change of
 clothes. tools and
 sometimes laser pens
 Lycra skin covers
 To protect against tear
 gas effects
 to shine in officers
 eyes.
 Elbow& knee pads
 For for falling,
 crawling and scuffing
 on city streets
 Umbrella
 Protection against rain
 and pepper spray
 Loose change
 For subway fare, to
 avoid being tracked
 through electronic
 transit passes
 Heat-resistant
 gloves
 To throw hot tear gas
 canisters back at
 police
 Photo: Saลกa Petricic/CBC
cisphobicmac:
thecringeandwincefactory:

i-hate-chick-fil-a:
This guide will be useful to Americans when we need to protest
This is great stuff for situations where youโ€™re dealing primarily with cops - just please keep in mind that one size does not necessarily fit all situations. 
Weโ€™ve found locally, for instance, that nazis here like to use knives. A lot of knife injuries come from attempting to fend off an attack, and thus result in slashing injuries to the arms. Fortunately there are very light, flexible, and relatively inexpensive products originally intended for butchers to use that are great for this and will cover your whole arm or forearm.
Always research this stuff ahead of time and look at what other people in similar situations are doing and share the information you find. And remember that you donโ€™t need to reinvent the wheel to protect yourself. And always mask up.

This persons comment wasnโ€™t rebloggable but I felt was an important addition. 

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        God, Jedi, and Life: Technically, he wasn't supposed to be outside the Temple at all,
 not without Obi-Wan's permission
 "Technically" is just another way of saying you are breaking the
 rules, Obi-Wan would say. Either you obey a rule, or you do not
 He was devoted to his Master, yet sometimes Obi-Wan's
 earnestness could really get in the way. Anakin didn't believe in
 breaking Jedi rules. He just wanted to find the spaces between
 them
 Anakin was well aware that his Master knew of these
 midnight jaunts. Obi-Wan was amazingly perceptive. He could
 sense a shift in emotion or
 thought faster than an eyeblink
 Thank the moon and stars that Obi-Wan also preferred not to
 hear about his midnight trips. As long as Anakin was discreet
 and didn't get into trouble, Obi-Wan would turn a blind eye
 Anakin didn't want to trouble Obi-Wan, but he couldn't help
 himself. As the night wore on and the Temple quieted, as the
 Jedi students turned off their glow rods and settled down for
 night meditation and sleep, Anakin just got restless. The lure of
 the streets called him. There were projects he had to complete,
 droids he was building or refining, parts to scavenge, rusty
 treasures to uncover. But mostly he just needed to be outside,
 under the stars
 Only those of us who have been slaves can
 he sometimes thought.
 really taste freedom,
gffa:



Way of the Apprentice | by Jude WatsonI GIVE ANAKIN A LOT OF SHIT, BUT I REALLY LIKE THIS MOMENT A LOT.ย  I love that he feels a restlessness that the other Jedi donโ€™t, because they grew up in a safe, secure, supportive environment, and Obi-Wan getsย that Anakin isnโ€™t quite the same and needs to run around a bit more.ย  Itโ€™s just FEELINGS ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR BOTH OF THEM.And I love that it shows the balance Obi-Wan is striking with Anakinโ€“โ€either you obey a rule or you do notโ€ is cutting through to the spirit of things, but thatโ€™s not necessarily a judgement thing.ย  Obi-Wan himself isย โ€œbreaking the rulesโ€ by turning a blind eye to Anakin going out at night, because itโ€™s for the good.ย  It fits so much with how itโ€™s not about the letter of the law but about the spirit and intention of what youโ€™re doing, the motivation behind it, the whyย of it, the bigger context of it.ย  Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s important to put in that Obi-Wan could sense the shift of an emotion in the blink of an eye, why itโ€™s tied into the same context of Obi-Wan turning a blind eye when Anakin genuinely does need to get out and move.And I love that Anakin recognizes this part about himself.ย  He spends so much of his life not really understanding himself or what he really needs, that this moment of something that actually seems to help, along with how heartbreaking it is that he has to experience this feeling at all, just makes me allp.s.ย โ€œObi-Wan was amazingly perceptive.ย  He could sense the shift in emotion or thought faster than an eyeblink.โ€ oh my godย Anakin sounds EXACTLY LIKE ME when I talk about Obi-Wan,ย โ€œHeโ€™s the greatest person who ever lived, heโ€™s the smartest person who ever lived, THERE IS NO ONE BETTER.โ€SAME, ANAKIN.ย  SAME.ย  RIGHT DOWN TO I AM MAKING THE SAME EXACT FACE WHILE READING THIS BOOK.
        

            
            

                
                
                    God, Jedi, and Life: Technically, he wasn't supposed to be outside the Temple at all,
 not without Obi-Wan's permission
 "Technically" is just another way of saying you are breaking the
 rules, Obi-Wan would say. Either you obey a rule, or you do not
 He was devoted to his Master, yet sometimes Obi-Wan's
 earnestness could really get in the way. Anakin didn't believe in
 breaking Jedi rules. He just wanted to find the spaces between
 them
 Anakin was well aware that his Master knew of these
 midnight jaunts. Obi-Wan was amazingly perceptive. He could
 sense a shift in emotion or
 thought faster than an eyeblink
 Thank the moon and stars that Obi-Wan also preferred not to
 hear about his midnight trips. As long as Anakin was discreet
 and didn't get into trouble, Obi-Wan would turn a blind eye
 Anakin didn't want to trouble Obi-Wan, but he couldn't help
 himself. As the night wore on and the Temple quieted, as the
 Jedi students turned off their glow rods and settled down for
 night meditation and sleep, Anakin just got restless. The lure of
 the streets called him. There were projects he had to complete,
 droids he was building or refining, parts to scavenge, rusty
 treasures to uncover. But mostly he just needed to be outside,
 under the stars
 Only those of us who have been slaves can
 he sometimes thought.
 really taste freedom,
gffa:



Way of the Apprentice | by Jude WatsonI GIVE ANAKIN A LOT OF SHIT, BUT I REALLY LIKE THIS MOMENT A LOT.ย  I love that he feels a restlessness that the other Jedi donโ€™t, because they grew up in a safe, secure, supportive environment, and Obi-Wan getsย that Anakin isnโ€™t quite the same and needs to run around a bit more.ย  Itโ€™s just FEELINGS ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR BOTH OF THEM.And I love that it shows the balance Obi-Wan is striking with Anakinโ€“โ€either you obey a rule or you do notโ€ is cutting through to the spirit of things, but thatโ€™s not necessarily a judgement thing.ย  Obi-Wan himself isย โ€œbreaking the rulesโ€ by turning a blind eye to Anakin going out at night, because itโ€™s for the good.ย  It fits so much with how itโ€™s not about the letter of the law but about the spirit and intention of what youโ€™re doing, the motivation behind it, the whyย of it, the bigger context of it.ย  Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s important to put in that Obi-Wan could sense the shift of an emotion in the blink of an eye, why itโ€™s tied into the same context of Obi-Wan turning a blind eye when Anakin genuinely does need to get out and move.And I love that Anakin recognizes this part about himself.ย  He spends so much of his life not really understanding himself or what he really needs, that this moment of something that actually seems to help, along with how heartbreaking it is that he has to experience this feeling at all, just makes me allp.s.ย โ€œObi-Wan was amazingly perceptive.ย  He could sense the shift in emotion or thought faster than an eyeblink.โ€ oh my godย Anakin sounds EXACTLY LIKE ME when I talk about Obi-Wan,ย โ€œHeโ€™s the greatest person who ever lived, heโ€™s the smartest person who ever lived, THERE IS NO ONE BETTER.โ€SAME, ANAKIN.ย  SAME.ย  RIGHT DOWN TO I AM MAKING THE SAME EXACT FACE WHILE READING THIS BOOK.
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Alive, Animals, and Cats: Meg
 OVeganMegane
 Vegans who feed their pets meat:
 u guys have gotta see the bigger
 picture. We shouldn't support
 animal exploitation w/ our money
 That's it.
 7/13/16, 10:50 PM

 aer
 @thelilmermade
 @VeganMegane yes um so how
 would I feed my cat?
 7/13/16, 11:02 PM
 lI VIEW TWEET ACTIVITY
 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade is your cat male or
 7m
 female? :) check out this website for
 more info: vegancats.com/
 veganfaq.php

 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade I know you want to
 best for your companion, and I
 won't deny that there are risks, but
 you can minimise those risks!
 5m
someoneintheshadow456:

nautica-the-savant:

marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand โ€œv-dogโ€ which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because youโ€™re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

iโ€™m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

itโ€™s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DONโ€™T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gatherย โ€˜round. Letโ€™s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells.ย We cannot produce this vitamin ourselvesโ€“no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaeaโ€“some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute. ย Cyanocobalaminย is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. Weโ€™re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that itโ€™s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sourcesโ€“primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements.ย In nature, cats donโ€™t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivoresโ€“meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin Dโ€“D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception hereโ€“some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not veganโ€“Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism.ย The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog.ย 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They donโ€™t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (โ€œmy dog is a vegetarian and hasnโ€™t died!โ€), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go.ย 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldnโ€™t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

Dear Vegans,
If youโ€™re not willing to at least feed your dogs and cats commercial food, get a rabbit or a parrot.

        

            
            

                
                
                    Alive, Animals, and Cats: Meg
 OVeganMegane
 Vegans who feed their pets meat:
 u guys have gotta see the bigger
 picture. We shouldn't support
 animal exploitation w/ our money
 That's it.
 7/13/16, 10:50 PM

 aer
 @thelilmermade
 @VeganMegane yes um so how
 would I feed my cat?
 7/13/16, 11:02 PM
 lI VIEW TWEET ACTIVITY
 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade is your cat male or
 7m
 female? :) check out this website for
 more info: vegancats.com/
 veganfaq.php

 Meg @VeganMegane
 @thelilmermade I know you want to
 best for your companion, and I
 won't deny that there are risks, but
 you can minimise those risks!
 5m
someoneintheshadow456:

nautica-the-savant:

marbledmartin:

thegrumpymathematician:

nunyabizni:

sarcasmsuitsme:

skypig357:

iswearimnotnaked:

hi hello CATS!!!! CANNOT!!!! BE VEGAN!!!!! 

i cannot believe i have to fucking say this. 

dogs are omnivore and IF YOUR VET APPROVES your pooch MAY be able to go on an APPROVED(!!!!!) commercial vegan dog food like the brand โ€œv-dogโ€ which has all the essential vitamins, protein, etc. (the oldest record winning dogs have been vegan) 

cats are CARNIVORE and cannot fucking live on a vegan diet. a vet would laugh in your face and probably find some way to have your pet taken away from you because youโ€™re obviously not fit to have an animal if you think you can feed a cat a diet based on your own ethics 

iโ€™m vegan but this is so fucking harmful. 

itโ€™s about minimizing your harm, not putting your animals on risky diets in an attempt to be perfect. 

DONโ€™T FUCKING DO THIS TO YOUR PETS

Idiot people

If you see someone you know doing this, report them for animal cruelty and neglect.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


This posts, and many of the notes on it, are bothering me. Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed colleagues from outside the confines of the gender binary; gatherย โ€˜round. Letโ€™s throw some science in this joint.
1. Humans. Humans are not cats. Humans are not dogs. One would think this obvious, but people have a tendency to attempt such interspecies comparisons when discussing diet. Humans are order omnivora; we have essentially evolved in a manner that attempts to give us as much dietary flexibility as possible. We do, however, require a substance called B12 (or cobalamin), which is extremely important for brain and nervous system functions, as well as the synthesis of DNA and the construction of red blood cells.ย We cannot produce this vitamin ourselvesโ€“no animal, plant, or fungus can. The enzymes used in cobalamin production are essentially unique to bacteria and archaeaโ€“some species of which hang out in the digestive tracks of other animals. We get cobalamin in a roundabout way from fish, shellfish, meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products. While there is no naturally-occurring, vegan source of the vitamin that has been demonstrated effective in a human study of statistically significant sample size, effective synthetic forms do exist and can be used as a substitute. ย Cyanocobalaminย is one of the most common and is frequently found in fortified foods and vitamins. In short: Humans are omnivores. Humans have evolved for dietary flexibility, including viable vegetarianism. Humans did not evolve for veganism (be extremely suspicious of people who tell you that we did, as they are lying), but due to modern technologies, veganism is also a viable diet that humans can thrive on, should they so choose.
2. Cats. Cats are order carnivora. Cats require (amongst other things) an amino acid called taurine. Weโ€™re not quite sure how, exactly, but we know that itโ€™s extremely important to feline heart wall tissue, retinal tissue, and brain tissue amongst other things. Cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, and must get it from other sourcesโ€“primarily shellfish, fish and meat. Taurine breaks down when heated, so feeding your cat a home-cooked diet rich in this foods is also not necessarily a good idea (talk to a vet). Secondary (read: SUPPLEMENTARY. NOT A SOLE SOURCE OF TAURINE.) sources of taurine for cats include dairy, eggs, and seaweed- or yeast-based taurine supplements.ย In nature, cats donโ€™t really need to worry about getting enough taurine, because (as you may have noticed), taurine sources are indeed the things that cats tend to catch and eat. However, a cat that lives in a human household is dependent on humans for food, and sometimes humans are utter fucktrucks. In short: Cats are obligate carnivores. Their primary source of nutrition is meat. They must eat meat, preferably as close to raw as possible. They have digestive tracks designed for digesting meat. There are vegan/vegetarian cat kibbles on the market. Do not buy them. Your cat is neither vegan nor vegetarian, and if you adjust their diet as if they were, you are a terrible person who is harming and possibly killing your pet. You suck. End of discussion.
3. Dogs. Dogs are slightly more nuanced here. They are facultative carnivoresโ€“meaning that they optimally should eat meat, but can survive on other things if resources are scare. Dogs also need the amino acid taurine, but can technically manufacture it themselves if the proper building blocks are in their diets. They also need vitamin Dโ€“D3 is preferable, but D2 can be used to some degree. Dogs are somewhere between us (the true omnivore) and the cat (the true carnivore). A vegan or vegetarian diet will keep a dog alive, certainly, but is unlikely to allow your pet to thrive as it lacks the recommended nutrients. You should probably be feeding your dog meat. The exception hereโ€“some dogs are allergic to conventional dog foods, or find symptoms of certain diseases alleviated by vegetarianism. In this case, a veterinarian (not you, layperson, I mean an actual trained veterinarian) may determine that the benefits of putting your dog on a vegetarian/vegan diet outweigh those of feeding your dog meat. This is relatively rare, but does occasionally happen. And no, actually, the oldest dog is not veganโ€“Bramble is the only dog on this list that I found had some indication of veganism.ย The oldest dog on record is an Australian Kelpie named Maggie, who was not vegan. It is more likely that Bramble lived that long despite the veganism, not because of it. In short: If a vet thinks that your dog may be allergic to dog food/require a special diet and recommends you try feeding it a vegetarian/vegan diet, listen to your vet. Otherwise? Dogs are carnivora. They do need vegetables and other sources of nutrients, but their optimal fuel, as it were, is meat. Your dog needs meat to be happy. Fucking feed your dog.ย 
Now, I did manage to find two veterinarians who disagree with every other study I dug up and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Their articles are here and here. They donโ€™t really have sources, and are essentially wholly dependent on anecdotal evidence (โ€œmy dog is a vegetarian and hasnโ€™t died!โ€), but for those of you data cherry-pickers reading this, there you go.ย 
As a rule, dogs and cats need meat. If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem, not theirs. If you try to implement a vegan or vegetarian diet for your pets because you implemented one for yourself, you shouldnโ€™t have those pets. That is animal abuse. (By the way, those of you not feeding your cats and non-allergic dogs the food they need to survive and thrive? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not love your pets?)
TL;DR If you do not want a pet that must be fed meat, you should under no circumstances acquire a cat or a dog. Thank you for your time.

Rebloobing for the more detailed info on B12 and obligate carnivore vs true omnivores


Always reblog. 

Dear Vegans,
If youโ€™re not willing to at least feed your dogs and cats commercial food, get a rabbit or a parrot.

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Bad, Books, and Clothes: he Swiss are voting on a plan to end poverty forever.
 Step one: give every adult $33,600
 a year, no strings attached.
 There is no step two.
 Photo: Flickr/twicepix
fangirltothefullest:

tank-grrl:

hello-missmayhem:

cptprocrastination:

doomhamster:

belcanta:

nikkidubs:

attentiondeficitaptitude:

belcanta:

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.ย 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

โ€œBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?โ€ screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. โ€œYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!โ€โ€œBut where will people get the incentive to work?!โ€ Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheโ€™d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. โ€œYou think people should get paid forย nothing? I workย hard for my money!โ€
โ€œBut who will serve me?โ€ grumbled Marty McMoneybags. โ€œWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressโ€”because Iย doย have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich isย stressfulโ€”on them?โ€ He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. โ€œLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iโ€™mย rich??โ€

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while Iโ€™m sure you could scrape up a few people whoโ€™d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. โ€œHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48kโ€ฆ enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.โ€ Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneโ€™s time. (Speaking as someone whoโ€™s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneโ€™s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and โ€œnon-skilledโ€ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnโ€™t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenโ€™t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenโ€™t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnโ€™t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyโ€™d be spending it. Theyโ€™d be getting all the stuff they canโ€™t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnโ€™t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenโ€™t getting money they donโ€™t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iโ€™m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

reblogging for more top commentary

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.ย 
But wait, thereโ€™s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnโ€™t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well.ย More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonโ€™t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m reblogging for.

The only reason people are against this is because when people are financially stable there is less crime (therefore less prison industrial complex free labour) there are less medical problems (IE less hospital visits meaning less money for the medical and pharmaceutical companies) and the point I am making is that a full guaranteed income to all means that those wealthy people at the top get less money and so they try and fool you into thinking itโ€™s bad so you help encourage them lining their pockets. 

        

            
            

                
                
                    Bad, Books, and Clothes: he Swiss are voting on a plan to end poverty forever.
 Step one: give every adult $33,600
 a year, no strings attached.
 There is no step two.
 Photo: Flickr/twicepix
fangirltothefullest:

tank-grrl:

hello-missmayhem:

cptprocrastination:

doomhamster:

belcanta:

nikkidubs:

attentiondeficitaptitude:

belcanta:

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.ย 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

โ€œBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?โ€ screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. โ€œYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!โ€โ€œBut where will people get the incentive to work?!โ€ Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheโ€™d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. โ€œYou think people should get paid forย nothing? I workย hard for my money!โ€
โ€œBut who will serve me?โ€ grumbled Marty McMoneybags. โ€œWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressโ€”because Iย doย have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich isย stressfulโ€”on them?โ€ He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. โ€œLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iโ€™mย rich??โ€

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while Iโ€™m sure you could scrape up a few people whoโ€™d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. โ€œHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48kโ€ฆ enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.โ€ Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneโ€™s time. (Speaking as someone whoโ€™s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneโ€™s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and โ€œnon-skilledโ€ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnโ€™t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenโ€™t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenโ€™t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnโ€™t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyโ€™d be spending it. Theyโ€™d be getting all the stuff they canโ€™t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnโ€™t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenโ€™t getting money they donโ€™t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iโ€™m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

reblogging for more top commentary

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.ย 
But wait, thereโ€™s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnโ€™t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well.ย More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonโ€™t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m reblogging for.

The only reason people are against this is because when people are financially stable there is less crime (therefore less prison industrial complex free labour) there are less medical problems (IE less hospital visits meaning less money for the medical and pharmaceutical companies) and the point I am making is that a full guaranteed income to all means that those wealthy people at the top get less money and so they try and fool you into thinking itโ€™s bad so you help encourage them lining their pockets. 

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Being Alone, America, and Click: Jason Fuller, Contributor
 Working to bring about the best in America, both on-line and off.
 Impeachment Is No Longer Enough;
 Donald Trump Must Face Justice
 Impeachment and removal from office are only the first steps;
 for treason and-if convicted in a court of law-executed.
 06/11/2017 10:39 pm ET
 for America to be redeemed, Donald Trump must be prosecuted
 Donald Trump has been President of the United States for just shy of six months now. I
 think that most of us among the electorate knew that his presidency would be a relative
 disaster, but I am not sure how many among us expected the catastrophe our nation now
 faces.
friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

hominishostilis:

abstractandedgyname:
siryouarebeingmocked:

mississpithy:

bogleech:

notyourmoderate:

angrybell:

thinksquad:


http://archive.is/5VvI5


Huffpo, everybody. 




Can someone tell me what high crime or misdemeanor Trump has committed that merits this? Or is the HuffPo just publishing outright fantasies?

God dammit, Iโ€™m now in the position of defending Huffington. I didnโ€™t want to be here. Okay, @angrybell โ€ฆ actually, @ literally everyone who reblogged this uncritically as a tacit endorsement and agreement. Such as @the-critical-feminist that I reblog this from.My first question has to be: are you serious? Donโ€™t read that with a tone, donโ€™t read that as an attack. Thatโ€™s my first question: Are you asking a serious question about what high crimes or misdemeanors Trump has perpetrated? Are you asking a sincere question or is this the sort of rhetoric that doesnโ€™t translate well into text? And, if you are actually asking this question, are ou going to hear the answer or are you going to immediately start concocting your counter-argument because you just know in your heart that anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong, so you start formulating a plan to prove them wrong before you actually hear what they have to say?Next: did you read the article that was posted in the link you responded to? Because the author of that article does a reasonable job of explaining their thought process behind the headline. Or did you lash out before you read the article? Okay, presuming that you did read the article in good faith, evaluate its points, perform the follow-up research to understand context, and still disagree with the central tenets and simply believe that the authorโ€™s reasoning does not hold up for whatever reasons you have chosen not to state, and you believe their source information is falsified for whatever reason you have chosen not to state, I will move on. After I have given you and yours every conceivable benefit of the doubt and every charitable assumption. Because if the article itself doesnโ€™t convince you, thereโ€™s the fact that Donald Trump has broken literally every federal law against corruption and conflict of interest. Not one or two, not most, not all but a few. Literally every single law we have against corruption, from the Constitution to the informal guidelines circulated as a memo from the White House ethics scholars. Heโ€™s broken literally every one of those rules. Heโ€™s openly traded favors for money and favors for months now. Hell, that Chinese influence-peddler that paid him off for sixteen million dollars should have been enough to get him convicted of treason. Sharing code-word level classified information with a government on the opposite side of an ongoing military conflict isnโ€™t *necessarily* treason, unless the information was part of a share program with an allied nation and wasnโ€™t his to distribute. Thatโ€™s aiding a foreign aggressor at the expense of a military ally, and thatโ€™s treason. Giving aid and comfort to enemies of the nation. Obstruction of justice is pretty clear-cut, thatโ€™s an impeachment, except that the justice in question is also a matter of national security, so thatโ€™s treason. Again. Defaming the former president? Misdemeanor, impeachable. The way he drags his heels nominating posts in Justice and State could be prosecuted as dereliction of duty. If he has tapes of Comey, heโ€™s on the hook for contempt, if he doesnโ€™t then heโ€™s on the hook for witness tampering. Hell, deleting the covfefe tweet is destroying federal records, which is a misdemeanor, and impeachable. The man doesnโ€™t go a week without bringing on an impeachable offense. Strictly speaking, every time he goes to Mar-A-Lago heโ€™s committing grand larceny by fraud, because heโ€™s taking millions of dollars of American funds for his own benefit, after promising not to do that. There are dozens, hundreds maybe, of impeachable offenses already in this 140 days, โ€œhigh crimes and misdemeanorsโ€. Actual counts of treason, punishable by death by hanging, is probably only five or six counts. Only five or six counts of high treason by our sitting president. His job does not put him above reproach. His job is to *be* above reproach. And heโ€™s failing that job. 

Trumpโ€™s supporters probably believe heโ€™s done nothing impeachable or treasonous because they spent eight years claiming on no grounds whatsoever that Obama was impeachable and treasonous, just because they didnโ€™t like him. They now probably convince themselves that these facts about Trump are as fake as their Obama theories and theyโ€™ve ruined the gravity of these terms for themselves.





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His job does not put him above reproach. His job is to *be* above reproach. And heโ€™s failing that job.


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I like how Bogleech doesnโ€™t know many Trump supporters are former Obama supporters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/obama-trump-swing-voters.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama-Trump_voters
Itโ€™s not even a secret. But why am I not surprised bogleech - that intellectual titan - failed to do basic research?
And last time I checked, no nation required their politicans to be perfect. Which is what NYM is asking for with that quote; perfection. Thatโ€™s what โ€˜above reproachโ€™ means. An impossible standard, considering people โ€œreproachโ€ Trump for feeding fish wrong, for his skin color, for any and every little thing, even if they have to twist reality into a pretzel to do it. In fact, Iโ€™ve seen people take pictures of kids in cages from 2014, and blame Trump for it.

So this:


Are you asking a serious question about what high crimes or misdemeanors Trump has perpetrated?


Is a question of this:


Can someone tell me what high crime or misdemeanor Trump has committed that merits this?


Seems you missed the part that saysย โ€œmerits thisโ€.


Next: did you read the article that was posted in the link you responded to? Because the author of that article does a reasonable job of explaining their thought process behind the headline. Or did you lash out before you read the article? 


(The underlined is in the subtitle, not the headline.)


Okay, presuming that you did read the article in good faith, evaluate its points, perform the follow-up research to understand context, and still disagree with the central tenetsโ€ฆ
Context? Central tenets? Do you not know how highlighting works? You donโ€™t need to know the context, or any other point, when youโ€™re indicating a specific, explicit, and isolated quality.
The subtitle called for Trumpโ€™s execution, weโ€™re 5 paragraphs in and you havenโ€™t even acknowledged that part yet. Or at all, Iโ€™m guessing, because Iโ€™m not reading further. You keep talking around it. You accuse others, preemptively, of not hearing the answer and pre-โ€concoctingโ€ a response, and yet youโ€™re waffling on about shit around the one, sole, isolated thing that was indicated in the first place.
This isnโ€™t about ignoring context, this is about criticising one thing. Which is a thing people are allowed to do, by the way, just because people criticise one thing, doesnโ€™t mean theyโ€™re criticising everything about the everyone involved, and everything said before, adjacent to, and after that one thing, and therefore are required to include all of those things in their consideration and assessment of this one thing.
The specific criticism of the indicated quality is the advocation of Trumpโ€™s execution. Thatโ€™s it. No context is needed to understand that this is what was said, especially since that which was said, which is being criticised, is explicit. No amount of,ย โ€œSo, click-bait subtitle that you donโ€™t see until youโ€™ve already clicked on the article link out of the way, hereโ€™s what I actually meant when I said I wanted this person tried and executed,โ€ could excuse the use of that language, let alone actually believing in it.
Itโ€™s likeโ€ฆ itโ€™s like if someone makes a typo, someone else is like,ย โ€œOh, seems you made a typo,โ€ youโ€™d jump in like,ย โ€œBut what about theyโ€™re perfectly reasonable spelling everywhere else? Hm? Forced to ignore contextual perfect spelling I see. Theyโ€™re lack of typos everywhere else explains this typo, and vindicates itโ€.
You and whatโ€™s his face, James, fuckin ReasonAndEmpathy or whatever now, yโ€™all keep sayingย โ€œbut what of the context?โ€ when the criterion of criticism is isolated, atomic, specific, and/or explicit. No amount of context invalidates the very specific, singular words explicitly spoken.ย โ€œSure he called for Trump to be executed, but he explains himself.โ€ Fucking and? When did the death sentence become ok? When did that happen? Moderates are ok with the death sentence now? Aight, weird.


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 Working to bring about the best in America, both on-line and off.
 Impeachment Is No Longer Enough;
 Donald Trump Must Face Justice
 Impeachment and removal from office are only the first steps;
 for treason and-if convicted in a court of law-executed.
 06/11/2017 10:39 pm ET
 for America to be redeemed, Donald Trump must be prosecuted
 Donald Trump has been President of the United States for just shy of six months now. I
 think that most of us among the electorate knew that his presidency would be a relative
 disaster, but I am not sure how many among us expected the catastrophe our nation now
 faces.
friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

hominishostilis:

abstractandedgyname:
siryouarebeingmocked:

mississpithy:

bogleech:

notyourmoderate:

angrybell:

thinksquad:


http://archive.is/5VvI5


Huffpo, everybody. 




Can someone tell me what high crime or misdemeanor Trump has committed that merits this? Or is the HuffPo just publishing outright fantasies?

God dammit, Iโ€™m now in the position of defending Huffington. I didnโ€™t want to be here. Okay, @angrybell โ€ฆ actually, @ literally everyone who reblogged this uncritically as a tacit endorsement and agreement. Such as @the-critical-feminist that I reblog this from.My first question has to be: are you serious? Donโ€™t read that with a tone, donโ€™t read that as an attack. Thatโ€™s my first question: Are you asking a serious question about what high crimes or misdemeanors Trump has perpetrated? Are you asking a sincere question or is this the sort of rhetoric that doesnโ€™t translate well into text? And, if you are actually asking this question, are ou going to hear the answer or are you going to immediately start concocting your counter-argument because you just know in your heart that anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong, so you start formulating a plan to prove them wrong before you actually hear what they have to say?Next: did you read the article that was posted in the link you responded to? Because the author of that article does a reasonable job of explaining their thought process behind the headline. Or did you lash out before you read the article? Okay, presuming that you did read the article in good faith, evaluate its points, perform the follow-up research to understand context, and still disagree with the central tenets and simply believe that the authorโ€™s reasoning does not hold up for whatever reasons you have chosen not to state, and you believe their source information is falsified for whatever reason you have chosen not to state, I will move on. After I have given you and yours every conceivable benefit of the doubt and every charitable assumption. Because if the article itself doesnโ€™t convince you, thereโ€™s the fact that Donald Trump has broken literally every federal law against corruption and conflict of interest. Not one or two, not most, not all but a few. Literally every single law we have against corruption, from the Constitution to the informal guidelines circulated as a memo from the White House ethics scholars. Heโ€™s broken literally every one of those rules. Heโ€™s openly traded favors for money and favors for months now. Hell, that Chinese influence-peddler that paid him off for sixteen million dollars should have been enough to get him convicted of treason. Sharing code-word level classified information with a government on the opposite side of an ongoing military conflict isnโ€™t *necessarily* treason, unless the information was part of a share program with an allied nation and wasnโ€™t his to distribute. Thatโ€™s aiding a foreign aggressor at the expense of a military ally, and thatโ€™s treason. Giving aid and comfort to enemies of the nation. Obstruction of justice is pretty clear-cut, thatโ€™s an impeachment, except that the justice in question is also a matter of national security, so thatโ€™s treason. Again. Defaming the former president? Misdemeanor, impeachable. The way he drags his heels nominating posts in Justice and State could be prosecuted as dereliction of duty. If he has tapes of Comey, heโ€™s on the hook for contempt, if he doesnโ€™t then heโ€™s on the hook for witness tampering. Hell, deleting the covfefe tweet is destroying federal records, which is a misdemeanor, and impeachable. The man doesnโ€™t go a week without bringing on an impeachable offense. Strictly speaking, every time he goes to Mar-A-Lago heโ€™s committing grand larceny by fraud, because heโ€™s taking millions of dollars of American funds for his own benefit, after promising not to do that. There are dozens, hundreds maybe, of impeachable offenses already in this 140 days, โ€œhigh crimes and misdemeanorsโ€. Actual counts of treason, punishable by death by hanging, is probably only five or six counts. Only five or six counts of high treason by our sitting president. His job does not put him above reproach. His job is to *be* above reproach. And heโ€™s failing that job. 

Trumpโ€™s supporters probably believe heโ€™s done nothing impeachable or treasonous because they spent eight years claiming on no grounds whatsoever that Obama was impeachable and treasonous, just because they didnโ€™t like him. They now probably convince themselves that these facts about Trump are as fake as their Obama theories and theyโ€™ve ruined the gravity of these terms for themselves.





โ€œ

His job does not put him above reproach. His job is to *be* above reproach. And heโ€™s failing that job.


โ€œ






I like how Bogleech doesnโ€™t know many Trump supporters are former Obama supporters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/obama-trump-swing-voters.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama-Trump_voters
Itโ€™s not even a secret. But why am I not surprised bogleech - that intellectual titan - failed to do basic research?
And last time I checked, no nation required their politicans to be perfect. Which is what NYM is asking for with that quote; perfection. Thatโ€™s what โ€˜above reproachโ€™ means. An impossible standard, considering people โ€œreproachโ€ Trump for feeding fish wrong, for his skin color, for any and every little thing, even if they have to twist reality into a pretzel to do it. In fact, Iโ€™ve seen people take pictures of kids in cages from 2014, and blame Trump for it.

So this:


Are you asking a serious question about what high crimes or misdemeanors Trump has perpetrated?


Is a question of this:


Can someone tell me what high crime or misdemeanor Trump has committed that merits this?


Seems you missed the part that saysย โ€œmerits thisโ€.


Next: did you read the article that was posted in the link you responded to? Because the author of that article does a reasonable job of explaining their thought process behind the headline. Or did you lash out before you read the article? 


(The underlined is in the subtitle, not the headline.)


Okay, presuming that you did read the article in good faith, evaluate its points, perform the follow-up research to understand context, and still disagree with the central tenetsโ€ฆ
Context? Central tenets? Do you not know how highlighting works? You donโ€™t need to know the context, or any other point, when youโ€™re indicating a specific, explicit, and isolated quality.
The subtitle called for Trumpโ€™s execution, weโ€™re 5 paragraphs in and you havenโ€™t even acknowledged that part yet. Or at all, Iโ€™m guessing, because Iโ€™m not reading further. You keep talking around it. You accuse others, preemptively, of not hearing the answer and pre-โ€concoctingโ€ a response, and yet youโ€™re waffling on about shit around the one, sole, isolated thing that was indicated in the first place.
This isnโ€™t about ignoring context, this is about criticising one thing. Which is a thing people are allowed to do, by the way, just because people criticise one thing, doesnโ€™t mean theyโ€™re criticising everything about the everyone involved, and everything said before, adjacent to, and after that one thing, and therefore are required to include all of those things in their consideration and assessment of this one thing.
The specific criticism of the indicated quality is the advocation of Trumpโ€™s execution. Thatโ€™s it. No context is needed to understand that this is what was said, especially since that which was said, which is being criticised, is explicit. No amount of,ย โ€œSo, click-bait subtitle that you donโ€™t see until youโ€™ve already clicked on the article link out of the way, hereโ€™s what I actually meant when I said I wanted this person tried and executed,โ€ could excuse the use of that language, let alone actually believing in it.
Itโ€™s likeโ€ฆ itโ€™s like if someone makes a typo, someone else is like,ย โ€œOh, seems you made a typo,โ€ youโ€™d jump in like,ย โ€œBut what about theyโ€™re perfectly reasonable spelling everywhere else? Hm? Forced to ignore contextual perfect spelling I see. Theyโ€™re lack of typos everywhere else explains this typo, and vindicates itโ€.
You and whatโ€™s his face, James, fuckin ReasonAndEmpathy or whatever now, yโ€™all keep sayingย โ€œbut what of the context?โ€ when the criterion of criticism is isolated, atomic, specific, and/or explicit. No amount of context invalidates the very specific, singular words explicitly spoken.ย โ€œSure he called for Trump to be executed, but he explains himself.โ€ Fucking and? When did the death sentence become ok? When did that happen? Moderates are ok with the death sentence now? Aight, weird.


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        Bad, Books, and Clothes: he Swiss are voting on a plan to end poverty forever.
 Step one: give every adult $33,600
 a year, no strings attached.
 There is no step two.
 Photo: Flickr/twicepix
tank-grrl:
hello-missmayhem:

cptprocrastination:

doomhamster:

belcanta:

nikkidubs:

attentiondeficitaptitude:

belcanta:

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.ย 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

โ€œBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?โ€ screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. โ€œYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!โ€โ€œBut where will people get the incentive to work?!โ€ Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheโ€™d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. โ€œYou think people should get paid forย nothing? I workย hard for my money!โ€
โ€œBut who will serve me?โ€ grumbled Marty McMoneybags. โ€œWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressโ€”because Iย doย have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich isย stressfulโ€”on them?โ€ He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. โ€œLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iโ€™mย rich??โ€

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while Iโ€™m sure you could scrape up a few people whoโ€™d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. โ€œHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48kโ€ฆ enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.โ€ Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneโ€™s time. (Speaking as someone whoโ€™s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneโ€™s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and โ€œnon-skilledโ€ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnโ€™t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenโ€™t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenโ€™t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnโ€™t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyโ€™d be spending it. Theyโ€™d be getting all the stuff they canโ€™t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnโ€™t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenโ€™t getting money they donโ€™t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iโ€™m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

reblogging for more top commentary

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.ย 
But wait, thereโ€™s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnโ€™t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well.ย More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonโ€™t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m reblogging for.

        

            
            

                
                
                    Bad, Books, and Clothes: he Swiss are voting on a plan to end poverty forever.
 Step one: give every adult $33,600
 a year, no strings attached.
 There is no step two.
 Photo: Flickr/twicepix
tank-grrl:
hello-missmayhem:

cptprocrastination:

doomhamster:

belcanta:

nikkidubs:

attentiondeficitaptitude:

belcanta:

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.ย 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

โ€œBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?โ€ screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. โ€œYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!โ€โ€œBut where will people get the incentive to work?!โ€ Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheโ€™d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. โ€œYou think people should get paid forย nothing? I workย hard for my money!โ€
โ€œBut who will serve me?โ€ grumbled Marty McMoneybags. โ€œWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressโ€”because Iย doย have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich isย stressfulโ€”on them?โ€ He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. โ€œLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iโ€™mย rich??โ€

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while Iโ€™m sure you could scrape up a few people whoโ€™d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. โ€œHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48kโ€ฆ enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.โ€ Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneโ€™s time. (Speaking as someone whoโ€™s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneโ€™s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and โ€œnon-skilledโ€ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnโ€™t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenโ€™t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenโ€™t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnโ€™t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyโ€™d be spending it. Theyโ€™d be getting all the stuff they canโ€™t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnโ€™t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenโ€™t getting money they donโ€™t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iโ€™m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

reblogging for more top commentary

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.ย 
But wait, thereโ€™s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnโ€™t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well.ย More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonโ€™t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m reblogging for.

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        America, Bad, and Books: he Swiss are voting on a plan to end poverty forever.
 Step one: give every adult $33,600
 a year, no strings attached.
 There is no step two.
 Photo: Flickr/twicepix
lazorsandparadox:
tank-grrl:

hello-missmayhem:

cptprocrastination:

doomhamster:

belcanta:

nikkidubs:

attentiondeficitaptitude:

belcanta:

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.ย 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

โ€œBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?โ€ screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. โ€œYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!โ€โ€œBut where will people get the incentive to work?!โ€ Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheโ€™d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. โ€œYou think people should get paid forย nothing? I workย hard for my money!โ€
โ€œBut who will serve me?โ€ grumbled Marty McMoneybags. โ€œWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressโ€”because Iย doย have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich isย stressfulโ€”on them?โ€ He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. โ€œLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iโ€™mย rich??โ€

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while Iโ€™m sure you could scrape up a few people whoโ€™d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. โ€œHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48kโ€ฆ enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.โ€ Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneโ€™s time. (Speaking as someone whoโ€™s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneโ€™s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and โ€œnon-skilledโ€ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnโ€™t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenโ€™t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenโ€™t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnโ€™t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyโ€™d be spending it. Theyโ€™d be getting all the stuff they canโ€™t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnโ€™t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenโ€™t getting money they donโ€™t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iโ€™m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

reblogging for more top commentary

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.ย 
But wait, thereโ€™s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnโ€™t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well.ย More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonโ€™t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m reblogging for.


With debt levels spiraling out of control as they are, america might have to do this in the near future, in order to prevent economic collapse from people just not having money to spend. The only problem i forsee with this is that, in order to get the money to distribute, taxes on rich people would have to increase by a lot, and if taxes raise too high, they just fucking move to another country to avoid paying them. If there was a way to prevent this, or if the whole world implemented a standard like this at the same time thereby removing the incentive to flee tax hikes, then this would absolutely work out great

        

            
            

                
                
                    America, Bad, and Books: he Swiss are voting on a plan to end poverty forever.
 Step one: give every adult $33,600
 a year, no strings attached.
 There is no step two.
 Photo: Flickr/twicepix
lazorsandparadox:
tank-grrl:

hello-missmayhem:

cptprocrastination:

doomhamster:

belcanta:

nikkidubs:

attentiondeficitaptitude:

belcanta:

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.ย 

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

โ€œBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?โ€ screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. โ€œYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!โ€โ€œBut where will people get the incentive to work?!โ€ Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheโ€™d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. โ€œYou think people should get paid forย nothing? I workย hard for my money!โ€
โ€œBut who will serve me?โ€ grumbled Marty McMoneybags. โ€œWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressโ€”because Iย doย have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich isย stressfulโ€”on them?โ€ He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. โ€œLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iโ€™mย rich??โ€

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

The thing is, while Iโ€™m sure you could scrape up a few people whoโ€™d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. โ€œHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48kโ€ฆ enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.โ€ Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneโ€™s time. (Speaking as someone whoโ€™s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneโ€™s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and โ€œnon-skilledโ€ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnโ€™t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenโ€™t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenโ€™t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnโ€™t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyโ€™d be spending it. Theyโ€™d be getting all the stuff they canโ€™t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnโ€™t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenโ€™t getting money they donโ€™t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iโ€™m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

reblogging for more top commentary

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.ย 
But wait, thereโ€™s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnโ€™t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well.ย More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonโ€™t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m reblogging for.


With debt levels spiraling out of control as they are, america might have to do this in the near future, in order to prevent economic collapse from people just not having money to spend. The only problem i forsee with this is that, in order to get the money to distribute, taxes on rich people would have to increase by a lot, and if taxes raise too high, they just fucking move to another country to avoid paying them. If there was a way to prevent this, or if the whole world implemented a standard like this at the same time thereby removing the incentive to flee tax hikes, then this would absolutely work out great

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Community, Drunk, and Dude: SOME
 DUDE WAS
 HANGING
 ALL OVER
 HER, SO
 WE TOOK
 OFF
 โ–  โ–  and got her to leave with us.
 She was drunk and we didn't
 trust him.
 KE
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/MakeYourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence. END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project.
 This projoct was supported by grant no. 2008 WR-AX-0008 awarded by the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S Department of
 Justico. The opinions
 recommendations esprossed n this pablication aro those of the authonist and do not neccssarily represent the views of the granto

 ICOULD
 TELL
 SHE WAS
 ASKING
 to stop. So l stepped in and told
 my buddy that was no way to
 treat a lady. And he backed off.
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/Make YourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence.
 END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Projec
 This project was supported by grant no. 2008 w R ะะฅะž008 awarded by the Office of Volence Against women US Department of Jusace. The opinions, findings con
 recommendations espressed in this publication are those of the authorls) and do not necessarily represent the views of the grantor

 HE WAS
 ACTING
 ALL SWEET,
 OFFERING
 HER A
 but it just didn't feel right.
 So my friends and I stepped in
 and got her out of the bar.
 MAKE
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/Make YourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project
 This project was supported by grant no. 2008-WR-AX-0008 awarde
 recommandations opres

 SHE WAS
 ON HER
 OWN, SO
 I MADE MY
 MOVE
 โ–  โ–  โ–  and told the guys hassling her
 to back off. They were really
 crossing the line.
 MAKE
 YOUR
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/Make YourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence. END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project.
 et was suppo ted by grant no 2008 wRAยท0008 warded bytie olice et ve ence Against wor enu s Depa tn eat oDist ca nt ope ins findings arch sions and
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ethiopienne:

Make Your Move is an effort from Missoulaโ€™s Intervention in Action Project, a group of community organizations dedicated to ending sexual violence. Itsย campaignโ€™s goals are to: 1) Engage men and women as allies to prevent sexual violence by increasing awareness and education about the dynamics of sexual violence and 2) Encourage bystanders to foster healthy non-violent relationships and interrupt attitudes, language and actions that support sexual violence.

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                    Community, Drunk, and Dude: SOME
 DUDE WAS
 HANGING
 ALL OVER
 HER, SO
 WE TOOK
 OFF
 โ–  โ–  and got her to leave with us.
 She was drunk and we didn't
 trust him.
 KE
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/MakeYourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence. END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project.
 This projoct was supported by grant no. 2008 WR-AX-0008 awarded by the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S Department of
 Justico. The opinions
 recommendations esprossed n this pablication aro those of the authonist and do not neccssarily represent the views of the granto

 ICOULD
 TELL
 SHE WAS
 ASKING
 to stop. So l stepped in and told
 my buddy that was no way to
 treat a lady. And he backed off.
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/Make YourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence.
 END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Projec
 This project was supported by grant no. 2008 w R ะะฅะž008 awarded by the Office of Volence Against women US Department of Jusace. The opinions, findings con
 recommendations espressed in this publication are those of the authorls) and do not necessarily represent the views of the grantor

 HE WAS
 ACTING
 ALL SWEET,
 OFFERING
 HER A
 but it just didn't feel right.
 So my friends and I stepped in
 and got her out of the bar.
 MAKE
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/Make YourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project
 This project was supported by grant no. 2008-WR-AX-0008 awarde
 recommandations opres

 SHE WAS
 ON HER
 OWN, SO
 I MADE MY
 MOVE
 โ–  โ–  โ–  and told the guys hassling her
 to back off. They were really
 crossing the line.
 MAKE
 YOUR
 Visit us at www.facebook.com/Make YourMoveMissoula
 for tips and events to help keep your friends and community
 safe from sexual violence. END SEXUAL VIOLENCE
 A message from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project.
 et was suppo ted by grant no 2008 wRAยท0008 warded bytie olice et ve ence Against wor enu s Depa tn eat oDist ca nt ope ins findings arch sions and
 racana mendah) ns 0prossad ฤฏa1hs publication are those of the authors) and d. not necessarily represent the views of the เธฎ,antor
 This P
atleastiamme:
ethiopienne:

Make Your Move is an effort from Missoulaโ€™s Intervention in Action Project, a group of community organizations dedicated to ending sexual violence. Itsย campaignโ€™s goals are to: 1) Engage men and women as allies to prevent sexual violence by increasing awareness and education about the dynamics of sexual violence and 2) Encourage bystanders to foster healthy non-violent relationships and interrupt attitudes, language and actions that support sexual violence.

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        Alive, Animals, and Children: (Ja)ded @thefathippy 20h
 maooo000
 Judy Harris
 Yesterday at 5:04 PM.
 0+
 Why the zoo charge us to
 look at animals they stole?
 this ain't even yall shit
 Sharon
 @MySharona1987
 Replying to @thefathippy
 To be fair, they are doing a lot to help pandas
 screw.
 4:56 AM- 11 Jul 2018
mysharona1987:

little-butch-crouton:
severelynerdysheep:

somehavegonemissing:

spookyboyfelix:

princess-nakamoto:


mysharona1987:


No, seriously: I do think zoos do a *lot* of good. Much of the time.
Itโ€™s not necessarily a Seaworld situation.


Yeah a lot of animals donโ€™t even have habitats anymore anyway. So zoos are just giving them a home. Even if people come to see them nearly everyday, its better then being kicked out of their habitat eventually by man.


The funds from zoos are often used to feed the animals anyway (most zoos are non profit they cant use that money for people) if you pay to go to the zoo you are paying to keep those animals alive

Zoos also educate people about animals, allowing for people to fall in love with the weird and wonderful.  They help promote habitat preservation and putting a stop to poaching. Please donโ€™t dismiss zoos, theyโ€™re not the same places as they used to be in the 1800s, or even the mid 1900s. 

So while Zoos are absolutely miles better than they were historical, there are still many serious issues. In terms of education, while I totally get why most people believe that zoos teach people (children especially) about how to protect animals and their habitats and are great places of education, this is not actually the case. In reality viewing captive animals in zoos only teaches people how animals react to boredom, depression, and stress in captive situations. The most effective methods of education in zoos come via presenting videos, documentaries, interactive modules, graphic displays, and computer simulations. which all show animals in their natural environments and do not require any animals to actuallyย be kept in zoos.
In terms of the work Zoos to in regards to speciesย conservation and habitat preservation,ย zoos really are not effective, especially compared to other conservation and preservation work. While there are zoos that do good conservation work, most of the significant conservation work is not from zoos but other organizations that work with wildlife and natural habitats. Most animals in captivity are not even classified as endangered, with the priority of Zoos being in getting hold of animals popular with visitors, rather than those who face extinction. When it comes to breeding programs (and breeding animals in captivity arenโ€™t the best way to help in conservation)ย  ย zoos do spend plenty of money on these programs however half of the animals being bred by Zoos are not classed as endangered in the wild and 25% are not threatened species but ones popular with visitors. Itโ€™s also actually massively more expensive to keep animals captive in zoos than to protect equivalent numbers of them in the wild! When it comes to the research, few Zoos actually support meaningful scientific research (with fewer employing scientists with full-time research jobs) and of those that do employ scientists its common for these scientists to study free-living animals rather than those within the zoo. Due to the nature of any research that does take place in zoos, the results of this research also generates little information about how to best conserve species in the wild as studies of captive animals have limited benefits to animals in the wild and animals brought up in captivity are less likely to survive in the wild if reintroduced as they often donโ€™t have the natural behaviors needed for survival in the wild. More effective methods of habitat preservation and species conservations would be a multipronged approach tackling habitat loss and climate change, investing in conservation programs in the wild, education, working with local communities, seriously addressing poaching etc. and also to move away from the Zoo model towards more ethical and effective models of species conservation.ย 
Just a few of the other ethical issues with Zoos include surplus animals, who, when grow older, and are less attractive to patrons, will often be sold or killed. Animals who breed frequentlyย also are sometimes sold to game farms and ranches where hunters pay to kill them and other surplus animals are sometimes sold to roadside zoos,, private individuals, animal dealers, or to laboratories for experimentation purposes. The animals not sold often end up being fed to other zoo animals. In terms of the health of these captive animals, many develop health conditions and mental health problems such as Zoochosis. Of course, a major problem with zoos as well is that the animals who live there are kept in enclosures that donโ€™t allow them to live their lives in a natural way and donโ€™t compare with the natural habitat the animals were meant to be in. Zoo animals have to spend day after day, week after week, year after year in the exact same enclosure. This makes their lives very monotonous. Take elephants, for example, elephants in the wild, are used to traveling many miles a day in herds of about ten related adults and their offspring but in zoos are usually kept in pairs or even isolated in incredibly small enclosures compared to what they are used to in the wild. Elephants kept in zoos often show many signs of being mental distress and the average lifespan of elephants in zoos is around 16-18 years, instead of the 50-70 years they can live in the wild.


Iโ€™m just going to copy paste your response when people ask me what Iโ€™m going to school for. Iโ€™m very pro zoo and I want animals in their natural habitat just as much.

This is genuinely quite an interesting discussion.
        

            
            

                
                
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 Judy Harris
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 Why the zoo charge us to
 look at animals they stole?
 this ain't even yall shit
 Sharon
 @MySharona1987
 Replying to @thefathippy
 To be fair, they are doing a lot to help pandas
 screw.
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No, seriously: I do think zoos do a *lot* of good. Much of the time.
Itโ€™s not necessarily a Seaworld situation.


Yeah a lot of animals donโ€™t even have habitats anymore anyway. So zoos are just giving them a home. Even if people come to see them nearly everyday, its better then being kicked out of their habitat eventually by man.


The funds from zoos are often used to feed the animals anyway (most zoos are non profit they cant use that money for people) if you pay to go to the zoo you are paying to keep those animals alive

Zoos also educate people about animals, allowing for people to fall in love with the weird and wonderful.  They help promote habitat preservation and putting a stop to poaching. Please donโ€™t dismiss zoos, theyโ€™re not the same places as they used to be in the 1800s, or even the mid 1900s. 

So while Zoos are absolutely miles better than they were historical, there are still many serious issues. In terms of education, while I totally get why most people believe that zoos teach people (children especially) about how to protect animals and their habitats and are great places of education, this is not actually the case. In reality viewing captive animals in zoos only teaches people how animals react to boredom, depression, and stress in captive situations. The most effective methods of education in zoos come via presenting videos, documentaries, interactive modules, graphic displays, and computer simulations. which all show animals in their natural environments and do not require any animals to actuallyย be kept in zoos.
In terms of the work Zoos to in regards to speciesย conservation and habitat preservation,ย zoos really are not effective, especially compared to other conservation and preservation work. While there are zoos that do good conservation work, most of the significant conservation work is not from zoos but other organizations that work with wildlife and natural habitats. Most animals in captivity are not even classified as endangered, with the priority of Zoos being in getting hold of animals popular with visitors, rather than those who face extinction. When it comes to breeding programs (and breeding animals in captivity arenโ€™t the best way to help in conservation)ย  ย zoos do spend plenty of money on these programs however half of the animals being bred by Zoos are not classed as endangered in the wild and 25% are not threatened species but ones popular with visitors. Itโ€™s also actually massively more expensive to keep animals captive in zoos than to protect equivalent numbers of them in the wild! When it comes to the research, few Zoos actually support meaningful scientific research (with fewer employing scientists with full-time research jobs) and of those that do employ scientists its common for these scientists to study free-living animals rather than those within the zoo. Due to the nature of any research that does take place in zoos, the results of this research also generates little information about how to best conserve species in the wild as studies of captive animals have limited benefits to animals in the wild and animals brought up in captivity are less likely to survive in the wild if reintroduced as they often donโ€™t have the natural behaviors needed for survival in the wild. More effective methods of habitat preservation and species conservations would be a multipronged approach tackling habitat loss and climate change, investing in conservation programs in the wild, education, working with local communities, seriously addressing poaching etc. and also to move away from the Zoo model towards more ethical and effective models of species conservation.ย 
Just a few of the other ethical issues with Zoos include surplus animals, who, when grow older, and are less attractive to patrons, will often be sold or killed. Animals who breed frequentlyย also are sometimes sold to game farms and ranches where hunters pay to kill them and other surplus animals are sometimes sold to roadside zoos,, private individuals, animal dealers, or to laboratories for experimentation purposes. The animals not sold often end up being fed to other zoo animals. In terms of the health of these captive animals, many develop health conditions and mental health problems such as Zoochosis. Of course, a major problem with zoos as well is that the animals who live there are kept in enclosures that donโ€™t allow them to live their lives in a natural way and donโ€™t compare with the natural habitat the animals were meant to be in. Zoo animals have to spend day after day, week after week, year after year in the exact same enclosure. This makes their lives very monotonous. Take elephants, for example, elephants in the wild, are used to traveling many miles a day in herds of about ten related adults and their offspring but in zoos are usually kept in pairs or even isolated in incredibly small enclosures compared to what they are used to in the wild. Elephants kept in zoos often show many signs of being mental distress and the average lifespan of elephants in zoos is around 16-18 years, instead of the 50-70 years they can live in the wild.


Iโ€™m just going to copy paste your response when people ask me what Iโ€™m going to school for. Iโ€™m very pro zoo and I want animals in their natural habitat just as much.

This is genuinely quite an interesting discussion.
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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inlovewithaleheather:

thecuckoohaslanded:


gerbthenerd:

alexander-lamington:


thelizardprincess:


biglawbear:


blacksirencry:

swaglexander-the-great:


#Thatโ€™s a#Thatโ€™s a blue ringed octopus#Youโ€™re going to die do you realise that#It is literally one of the most deadly animals in the world#Not just in Australia or just in the ocean in THE WORLD#Put it DOWN#And go to a hospital jfcย via platonic-rabbitย 
me tryna find out if this fool died


โ€œThe blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in.[8] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean.โ€
Holy shit


And this is why I donโ€™t go in the ocean anymore


Also the blue rings literally only show up when it is distressed so this person has angered it!!! You are in danger friend!!!


Actually this guy keeps them as pets theyโ€™re on his instagram (william_exotique) and he frequently holds then and I just? Donโ€™t know why? And also every picture or video he posts of them shows the blue rings so theyโ€™re always in distress I just do not understand why heโ€™s doing this



#AMY EXPLAIN HOW DUMB THIS GUY ISย 
I mean OP pretty much covered it. ย A blue ringed octopus is almost on the level of CONE SNAIL on the list of things you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PICK UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
But ask and you shall receive, ย On this episode ofย โ€œFun Facts With Cuckoo,โ€ DEAD. ย YOUโ€™RE DEAD. ย EVERYTHING IS DEAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE OCEAN EVER AGAIN.
There are many things that will kill you.

[citation needed]
There are fewer, but still many things that will kill you FAST.
There are yet fewer things that kill you fast and by such an overwhelming margin of overkill that nervous laughter is our only solace in the dark of this terrible, surprisingly Lovecraftian world of unearthly horrors that we live in.
Of the things that I know about which will kill you fast via just plain insultingly potent venom, which is a not insignificant number of things because I know a not insignificant number of things, there are about 3 things in the ocean โ€“ IN THE WHOLEย OCEAN โ€“ which are so insanely, mind-bogglingly deadly that there is pretty much no possible hope for survival (I mean you CAN, but god help you if youโ€™re ever in that situation, because godโ€™s just about damn near the only thing that CAN help you). ย THE. WHOLE. OCEAN.
Those three things are the Irukandji (a tiny (1cm) species of box jellyfish, which has stingers not only on its tentacles but on its BELL, for reasons no one has definitively figured out, and is so toxic despite its size its sting can cause a severe brain hemorrhage), the cone snail (a group of carnivorous sea snails that is accepted to be the most venomous animals on earth, with a STUPIDLY fast acting and extremely powerful neurotoxin that has in at least one case killed a human ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY, because the swimmer who found two beautiful shells (unfortunately cone snails tend to have very pretty shells which makes people want to pick them up) was holding them up for a picture and ended up being stabbed in the neck by not one but TWO cone snails at the same time, and it is believed that she was literally dead before she hit the ground, I mean LITERALLY in a 100% non-fictional and non-exaggerated way, in between the time the two cone snails stabbed her and the time her limp body hit the sand, she was not alive anymore), and the blue ringed octopus.
It is POSSIBLE to survive any of these. ย But not without immediate medical attention. ย Of these three, the Irukandji is by far the most treatable, because Australia and other coastal regions (including Florida and other parts of the US) are kind of experienced in dealing with box jellyfish.
The blue ringed octopus will fucking kill you. ย Thereโ€™s no antidote for their venom, ONE COMPONENT OF WHICH (tetrodotoxin) is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide. ย Itโ€™s a powerful neurotoxin (most of the worst venoms are because the species that produce them need to kill or at least paralyze their prey quickly, like jellyfish whose fragile tentacles could be damaged if their food doesnโ€™t stop struggling) that attacks the sodium channels and causes muscle paralysis. ย It doesnโ€™t necessarily kill you quickly. ย It PARALYZES you quickly, so that you canโ€™t really call for help or describe the problem, and you will probably end up slowly suffocating from a paralyzed diaphragm. ย Tetrodotoxin can be metabolized by the body in a matter of hours, but it can also kill you in a matter of minutes if you get a lethal dose (which isnโ€™t much, the 

LD50

 or median lethal dose, the dose at which you have a 50% chance of survival, is only 8 MICROGRAMS per kilogram of body weight (as tested in mice)). ย This is, by venom standards, not a large amount, which means the animal that is capable of putting this venom inside your body is very very good at killing the absolute shit out of you.
DONโ€™T TOUCH THE BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS.
Now, because overkill is my motto, let me briefly explain why Conus geographus is the undisputed champion of YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE, AND FURTHERMORE FUCK YOU FOR THINKING OTHERWISE.
A cone snail walks into a bar. ย Youโ€™d expect the bartender to ask,ย โ€œwhatโ€™s your poison,โ€ but they were paralyzed before they could ask and OH LOOK theyโ€™re already FUCKING DEAD ON THE GROUND.
Conus geographus is about 4-6 inches long and natureโ€™s equivalent of Avada Kedavra. ย Cone snails literally have their own KIND of toxins named after them: conotoxin. ย Not only is there no antidote, but their venom AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS our ability to find a cure, because we barely understand how it works AND conotoxins are so internally varied, even within a single species, that any one antidote isnโ€™t going to help because theyโ€™re constantly mutating and evolving their venom to prevent their prey from evolving a resistance to it. ย Plus their venom is like, a bunch of different venoms all at once JUST IN CASE any one of them wasnโ€™t good enough.
I want you to read these two sentences from the wiki page on conotoxin:
โ€œConotoxins have a variety of mechanisms of actions, most of which have not been determined.โ€


โ€œThe LD50 of conotoxin is 50 ng/kg.โ€
Remember how the 

LD50ย of tetrodotoxin is 8ฮผg/kg? ย Conotoxin is 160 times more potent. ย FIFTY NANOGRAMS PER KILOGRAM HAS A 50% CHANCE OF KILLING YOU. A 220-POUND HUMAN HAS A 50% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AGAINST JUST 5 MICROGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN. ย 
I DID SOME MATH. ย 
IT WOULD TAKE 7-9 MILLIGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN TO KILL A BLUE WHALE, THE HEAVIEST ANIMAL TO EVER LIVE. (based on weight estimates from 300-400,000 lbs.)
Conus geographus is so fucking deadly thatย โ€œIn two cases of envenomation, only 0.0002-0.0005 mg resulted in severe paralysis.โ€
THIS THING KILLS STUFF SO HARD THAT BEFORE YOU HEAR THE FIRSTย โ€œMORTAL KOMBATโ€ IN THE MORTAL KOMBAT THEME, THEREโ€™S PROBABLY ALREADY BEEN A FATALITY.
And guess what? ย Cone snails donโ€™t do that NOOB SHIT with the superficial biting or stinging. ย Your wetsuit or gloves wonโ€™t protect you. ย Because homeboy didnโ€™t bring teeth to evolutionโ€™s knife fight. ย Oh no. ย It brought a motherfucking radula POISON HARPOON. ย Itโ€™s lightning fast and has way more piercing power than some silly little cnidocytes or salivary bacteria.
Another component of their venom is being researched for its potential as a pain reliever. ย โ€œWHY WOULD YOU DO THAT????โ€ you might reasonably ask. ย And you would be right to do so, because science has gone too far and has surely sinned against the very image of Mollusca Kedavra. ย Well, it turns out the answer isย โ€œResearch shows that certain component proteins of the venom target specific human pain receptors and can be up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine without morphineโ€™s addictive properties and side-effects.โ€ ย Thatโ€™s right, the part of their venom that SPECIFICALLY DOESNโ€™T HURT YOU is up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
Also, Conus geographus (along with one other cone snail species, C. tulipa) is the only known non-human animal to weaponize insulin. ย In addition to the normal insulin that the snails produce for their own use, their bodies manufacture an ADDITIONAL insulin molecule that is similar to the kind produced in fish (which they eat) for the sole purpose of stunning their prey through hypoglycemic shock. ย BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY DONโ€™T FEEL LIKE THEYโ€™D KILL YOU HARD ENOUGH OTHERWISE.
IF you are going to survive the ALMIGHTY CONE SNAIL, WHO KNOWS NO FEAR, TRIUMPHANT HEDGEMON OF THE MOLECULAR ARMS RACE, TRUE BORN HEIR TO THE SCYTHE OF DEATH ITSELF, FISHSLAYER, GOD AMONG MOLLUSKS, WHOSE WRATH IS MERCIFUL ONLY IN ITS BREVITY, ADMIRABLE IN ITS BEAUTY AND UNSULLIED BY THE UNWORTHY TOUCH OF MORTAL HANDS OR SCALES OR REALLY ANYTHING IN RANGE OF ITS RADULA HARPOON, then literally the only thing thatโ€™s going to save you is for you to be kept alive artificially (externalizing your respiratory functions to force your body to continue breathing, basically) until the effects of the venom wear off. ย And because of how quickly this venom acts, you need to get that medical attention VERY, VERY FAST.
And if you donโ€™t get it, you will still be conscious while the paralysis slowly suffocates you to death.
Donโ€™t touch the pretty shells.


Iโ€™ve never been so intrigued to learn how easily I could be fucking exterminated from existence by the overpowered sea creatures of the world. Youโ€™ve done a better job at keeping my attention then any of my teachers ever have.


You know what Iโ€™m putting this on the writing blog cause I personally can see potential in some fantasy villain attempting to weaponise cone snailsIn which case, all hail snail king ๐ŸŒ 
        

            
            

                
                
                    Alive, Anaconda, and Animals: i-should-be-writing-rn:

inlovewithaleheather:

thecuckoohaslanded:


gerbthenerd:

alexander-lamington:


thelizardprincess:


biglawbear:


blacksirencry:

swaglexander-the-great:


#Thatโ€™s a#Thatโ€™s a blue ringed octopus#Youโ€™re going to die do you realise that#It is literally one of the most deadly animals in the world#Not just in Australia or just in the ocean in THE WORLD#Put it DOWN#And go to a hospital jfcย via platonic-rabbitย 
me tryna find out if this fool died


โ€œThe blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in.[8] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean.โ€
Holy shit


And this is why I donโ€™t go in the ocean anymore


Also the blue rings literally only show up when it is distressed so this person has angered it!!! You are in danger friend!!!


Actually this guy keeps them as pets theyโ€™re on his instagram (william_exotique) and he frequently holds then and I just? Donโ€™t know why? And also every picture or video he posts of them shows the blue rings so theyโ€™re always in distress I just do not understand why heโ€™s doing this



#AMY EXPLAIN HOW DUMB THIS GUY ISย 
I mean OP pretty much covered it. ย A blue ringed octopus is almost on the level of CONE SNAIL on the list of things you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PICK UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
But ask and you shall receive, ย On this episode ofย โ€œFun Facts With Cuckoo,โ€ DEAD. ย YOUโ€™RE DEAD. ย EVERYTHING IS DEAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE OCEAN EVER AGAIN.
There are many things that will kill you.

[citation needed]
There are fewer, but still many things that will kill you FAST.
There are yet fewer things that kill you fast and by such an overwhelming margin of overkill that nervous laughter is our only solace in the dark of this terrible, surprisingly Lovecraftian world of unearthly horrors that we live in.
Of the things that I know about which will kill you fast via just plain insultingly potent venom, which is a not insignificant number of things because I know a not insignificant number of things, there are about 3 things in the ocean โ€“ IN THE WHOLEย OCEAN โ€“ which are so insanely, mind-bogglingly deadly that there is pretty much no possible hope for survival (I mean you CAN, but god help you if youโ€™re ever in that situation, because godโ€™s just about damn near the only thing that CAN help you). ย THE. WHOLE. OCEAN.
Those three things are the Irukandji (a tiny (1cm) species of box jellyfish, which has stingers not only on its tentacles but on its BELL, for reasons no one has definitively figured out, and is so toxic despite its size its sting can cause a severe brain hemorrhage), the cone snail (a group of carnivorous sea snails that is accepted to be the most venomous animals on earth, with a STUPIDLY fast acting and extremely powerful neurotoxin that has in at least one case killed a human ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY, because the swimmer who found two beautiful shells (unfortunately cone snails tend to have very pretty shells which makes people want to pick them up) was holding them up for a picture and ended up being stabbed in the neck by not one but TWO cone snails at the same time, and it is believed that she was literally dead before she hit the ground, I mean LITERALLY in a 100% non-fictional and non-exaggerated way, in between the time the two cone snails stabbed her and the time her limp body hit the sand, she was not alive anymore), and the blue ringed octopus.
It is POSSIBLE to survive any of these. ย But not without immediate medical attention. ย Of these three, the Irukandji is by far the most treatable, because Australia and other coastal regions (including Florida and other parts of the US) are kind of experienced in dealing with box jellyfish.
The blue ringed octopus will fucking kill you. ย Thereโ€™s no antidote for their venom, ONE COMPONENT OF WHICH (tetrodotoxin) is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide. ย Itโ€™s a powerful neurotoxin (most of the worst venoms are because the species that produce them need to kill or at least paralyze their prey quickly, like jellyfish whose fragile tentacles could be damaged if their food doesnโ€™t stop struggling) that attacks the sodium channels and causes muscle paralysis. ย It doesnโ€™t necessarily kill you quickly. ย It PARALYZES you quickly, so that you canโ€™t really call for help or describe the problem, and you will probably end up slowly suffocating from a paralyzed diaphragm. ย Tetrodotoxin can be metabolized by the body in a matter of hours, but it can also kill you in a matter of minutes if you get a lethal dose (which isnโ€™t much, the 

LD50

 or median lethal dose, the dose at which you have a 50% chance of survival, is only 8 MICROGRAMS per kilogram of body weight (as tested in mice)). ย This is, by venom standards, not a large amount, which means the animal that is capable of putting this venom inside your body is very very good at killing the absolute shit out of you.
DONโ€™T TOUCH THE BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS.
Now, because overkill is my motto, let me briefly explain why Conus geographus is the undisputed champion of YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE, AND FURTHERMORE FUCK YOU FOR THINKING OTHERWISE.
A cone snail walks into a bar. ย Youโ€™d expect the bartender to ask,ย โ€œwhatโ€™s your poison,โ€ but they were paralyzed before they could ask and OH LOOK theyโ€™re already FUCKING DEAD ON THE GROUND.
Conus geographus is about 4-6 inches long and natureโ€™s equivalent of Avada Kedavra. ย Cone snails literally have their own KIND of toxins named after them: conotoxin. ย Not only is there no antidote, but their venom AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS our ability to find a cure, because we barely understand how it works AND conotoxins are so internally varied, even within a single species, that any one antidote isnโ€™t going to help because theyโ€™re constantly mutating and evolving their venom to prevent their prey from evolving a resistance to it. ย Plus their venom is like, a bunch of different venoms all at once JUST IN CASE any one of them wasnโ€™t good enough.
I want you to read these two sentences from the wiki page on conotoxin:
โ€œConotoxins have a variety of mechanisms of actions, most of which have not been determined.โ€


โ€œThe LD50 of conotoxin is 50 ng/kg.โ€
Remember how the 

LD50ย of tetrodotoxin is 8ฮผg/kg? ย Conotoxin is 160 times more potent. ย FIFTY NANOGRAMS PER KILOGRAM HAS A 50% CHANCE OF KILLING YOU. A 220-POUND HUMAN HAS A 50% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AGAINST JUST 5 MICROGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN. ย 
I DID SOME MATH. ย 
IT WOULD TAKE 7-9 MILLIGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN TO KILL A BLUE WHALE, THE HEAVIEST ANIMAL TO EVER LIVE. (based on weight estimates from 300-400,000 lbs.)
Conus geographus is so fucking deadly thatย โ€œIn two cases of envenomation, only 0.0002-0.0005 mg resulted in severe paralysis.โ€
THIS THING KILLS STUFF SO HARD THAT BEFORE YOU HEAR THE FIRSTย โ€œMORTAL KOMBATโ€ IN THE MORTAL KOMBAT THEME, THEREโ€™S PROBABLY ALREADY BEEN A FATALITY.
And guess what? ย Cone snails donโ€™t do that NOOB SHIT with the superficial biting or stinging. ย Your wetsuit or gloves wonโ€™t protect you. ย Because homeboy didnโ€™t bring teeth to evolutionโ€™s knife fight. ย Oh no. ย It brought a motherfucking radula POISON HARPOON. ย Itโ€™s lightning fast and has way more piercing power than some silly little cnidocytes or salivary bacteria.
Another component of their venom is being researched for its potential as a pain reliever. ย โ€œWHY WOULD YOU DO THAT????โ€ you might reasonably ask. ย And you would be right to do so, because science has gone too far and has surely sinned against the very image of Mollusca Kedavra. ย Well, it turns out the answer isย โ€œResearch shows that certain component proteins of the venom target specific human pain receptors and can be up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine without morphineโ€™s addictive properties and side-effects.โ€ ย Thatโ€™s right, the part of their venom that SPECIFICALLY DOESNโ€™T HURT YOU is up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
Also, Conus geographus (along with one other cone snail species, C. tulipa) is the only known non-human animal to weaponize insulin. ย In addition to the normal insulin that the snails produce for their own use, their bodies manufacture an ADDITIONAL insulin molecule that is similar to the kind produced in fish (which they eat) for the sole purpose of stunning their prey through hypoglycemic shock. ย BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY DONโ€™T FEEL LIKE THEYโ€™D KILL YOU HARD ENOUGH OTHERWISE.
IF you are going to survive the ALMIGHTY CONE SNAIL, WHO KNOWS NO FEAR, TRIUMPHANT HEDGEMON OF THE MOLECULAR ARMS RACE, TRUE BORN HEIR TO THE SCYTHE OF DEATH ITSELF, FISHSLAYER, GOD AMONG MOLLUSKS, WHOSE WRATH IS MERCIFUL ONLY IN ITS BREVITY, ADMIRABLE IN ITS BEAUTY AND UNSULLIED BY THE UNWORTHY TOUCH OF MORTAL HANDS OR SCALES OR REALLY ANYTHING IN RANGE OF ITS RADULA HARPOON, then literally the only thing thatโ€™s going to save you is for you to be kept alive artificially (externalizing your respiratory functions to force your body to continue breathing, basically) until the effects of the venom wear off. ย And because of how quickly this venom acts, you need to get that medical attention VERY, VERY FAST.
And if you donโ€™t get it, you will still be conscious while the paralysis slowly suffocates you to death.
Donโ€™t touch the pretty shells.


Iโ€™ve never been so intrigued to learn how easily I could be fucking exterminated from existence by the overpowered sea creatures of the world. Youโ€™ve done a better job at keeping my attention then any of my teachers ever have.


You know what Iโ€™m putting this on the writing blog cause I personally can see potential in some fantasy villain attempting to weaponise cone snailsIn which case, all hail snail king ๐ŸŒ 
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Be Like, Shit, and Smell: transpeter-deactivated20180411
 i'm happy that mcu peter's spidey sense isn't
 being shown as a miracle worker, like i'm
 happy peter's sense went off to danger that
 was laughably close to peter. people have this
 misconception (mainly due to the 2002 spidey
 films) that his spidey sense will give peter a
 heads up to threats wayyyyy in advance, but
 that's not the case. like there have been many
 times when peter's spidey sense doesn't really
 alert him to danger until the danger is really
 close, sometimes close enough that regular
 people have already noticed said danger.
 and even then, peter often ignores it bc it can
 go off to things that aren't necessarily a threat
 but COULD be. like a wad of paper being
 thrown at him by flash, a puddle on the floor
 that could make him slip. so sometimes peter
 just ignores it bc it goes off all the time to shit
 that really isn't that dangerous. the sense is
 basically like a really reliable, and sometimes
 annoying, gut-feeling. the spidey sense is so
 cool but it's still a sense not that different
 from sight or hearing or taste or touch, and it
 isn't all powerful or always very helpful
 % transpeter
 So basically spider sense just
 gave peter anxiety.
 honestly i never thought of it like
 that but yeah basically jfhfhdhd
 super anxiety
 romentical
 radioactive spider: look! i made a superhero!
 the avengers: you fucked up a perfectly good
 teenager is what you did. look at him. he's got
 anxiety
 % starkologist
 I sense a faint smell of danger
 and-chaos-ensues
 This isn't your average, every-day anxiety
 This is
 Advanced Anxiety
Spidey Sense
        

            
            

                
                
                    Be Like, Shit, and Smell: transpeter-deactivated20180411
 i'm happy that mcu peter's spidey sense isn't
 being shown as a miracle worker, like i'm
 happy peter's sense went off to danger that
 was laughably close to peter. people have this
 misconception (mainly due to the 2002 spidey
 films) that his spidey sense will give peter a
 heads up to threats wayyyyy in advance, but
 that's not the case. like there have been many
 times when peter's spidey sense doesn't really
 alert him to danger until the danger is really
 close, sometimes close enough that regular
 people have already noticed said danger.
 and even then, peter often ignores it bc it can
 go off to things that aren't necessarily a threat
 but COULD be. like a wad of paper being
 thrown at him by flash, a puddle on the floor
 that could make him slip. so sometimes peter
 just ignores it bc it goes off all the time to shit
 that really isn't that dangerous. the sense is
 basically like a really reliable, and sometimes
 annoying, gut-feeling. the spidey sense is so
 cool but it's still a sense not that different
 from sight or hearing or taste or touch, and it
 isn't all powerful or always very helpful
 % transpeter
 So basically spider sense just
 gave peter anxiety.
 honestly i never thought of it like
 that but yeah basically jfhfhdhd
 super anxiety
 romentical
 radioactive spider: look! i made a superhero!
 the avengers: you fucked up a perfectly good
 teenager is what you did. look at him. he's got
 anxiety
 % starkologist
 I sense a faint smell of danger
 and-chaos-ensues
 This isn't your average, every-day anxiety
 This is
 Advanced Anxiety
Spidey Sense
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Chicago, Clothes, and Dating: deliamelodyofficial:

goldaquarius:

thesunsword:

jehovahhthickness:


jessnesquik:


jehovahhthickness:

Stop dating abusive women 2018

Hardly any women are gonna reblog this tbh ๐Ÿ™ƒ


A lot of women behave like this and think this ainโ€™t abuse 
But let a nigga slap them, damage their clothes and pour a drink on them, all hell will break loose. 
EVERYONE CAN BE A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE! 


Buddy has the soul of an angel and composure out of this world 

Just in case anyone wants the context: He has been making music in Chicago, he recently performed to a large audience and met London on da track, who offered him an opportunity in LA. She didnโ€™t want to leave Chicago because of her business there. He told her that she doesnโ€™t have to go, he just needs to do this for his music. She got upset because he straight up told her that he valued his career over their relationship and she did this.ย 
Now Iโ€™m not a relationship expert, but I will never understand how some of yโ€™all expect people to put you above the shit they have to do. Always put your career, your job, your livelihood first. This was all kinds of fucked up, really fucking abusive and manipulative, he should definitely go to LA with or without her.ย 

Many women *WILL* reblog this, because part of feminism is acknowledging that women are just as capable of being abusive as men. Acting as though women cannot be abusive is misogyny, and relies on the misogynist tropes that women are frail, and innocent in comparison to men. Any true feminist must acknowledge that neither of these things are necessarily true and that a woman is in fact capable of being abusive whether itโ€™s to another woman, a man, or a nonbinary person.The reason we focus on abuse from men towards women is that it is more prevalent, and institutionally encouraged, justified, and allowed without consequence, while a woman evenย โ€œtalking backโ€ to a man is to beย โ€œput in her place.โ€Donโ€™t bring your weak, fragileย โ€œFew women will reblog thisโ€ shit up in here. We know what abuse looks like when we see it.

        

            
            

                
                
                    Chicago, Clothes, and Dating: deliamelodyofficial:

goldaquarius:

thesunsword:

jehovahhthickness:


jessnesquik:


jehovahhthickness:

Stop dating abusive women 2018

Hardly any women are gonna reblog this tbh ๐Ÿ™ƒ


A lot of women behave like this and think this ainโ€™t abuse 
But let a nigga slap them, damage their clothes and pour a drink on them, all hell will break loose. 
EVERYONE CAN BE A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE! 


Buddy has the soul of an angel and composure out of this world 

Just in case anyone wants the context: He has been making music in Chicago, he recently performed to a large audience and met London on da track, who offered him an opportunity in LA. She didnโ€™t want to leave Chicago because of her business there. He told her that she doesnโ€™t have to go, he just needs to do this for his music. She got upset because he straight up told her that he valued his career over their relationship and she did this.ย 
Now Iโ€™m not a relationship expert, but I will never understand how some of yโ€™all expect people to put you above the shit they have to do. Always put your career, your job, your livelihood first. This was all kinds of fucked up, really fucking abusive and manipulative, he should definitely go to LA with or without her.ย 

Many women *WILL* reblog this, because part of feminism is acknowledging that women are just as capable of being abusive as men. Acting as though women cannot be abusive is misogyny, and relies on the misogynist tropes that women are frail, and innocent in comparison to men. Any true feminist must acknowledge that neither of these things are necessarily true and that a woman is in fact capable of being abusive whether itโ€™s to another woman, a man, or a nonbinary person.The reason we focus on abuse from men towards women is that it is more prevalent, and institutionally encouraged, justified, and allowed without consequence, while a woman evenย โ€œtalking backโ€ to a man is to beย โ€œput in her place.โ€Donโ€™t bring your weak, fragileย โ€œFew women will reblog thisโ€ shit up in here. We know what abuse looks like when we see it.

                    
                    

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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