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i dont care if monday sucks... tuesday cost me sixty bucks... wednesday thursday give no fucks. it's friday im a duck
Just a casual reminder that posting on the internet about how you would want to do physical harm to members of the US government is something that they can (and will) detain you over, so just be careful what you say in public spaces like, uh, on Tumblr.
I have got bad news for you about how connecting to the internet works and how corporations will respond to requests from the government.
this is your semi-regular reminder that tumblr has cooperated with the fbi to hand over user information in a very public way at least once. and that's not the only way the feds can collect information on you either
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of
Please click on this link if you still think you have any real anonymity online
This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.
Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.
And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.
They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."
I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.
So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.
Salt was hugely important before refrigeration, and one of the ways of getting salt was from the sea or from brine springs. There were a few ways of doing this, which depended on the natural resources available in the area. You could put the saltwater into a large, flat pool and wait on dry air and the sun to do evaporation until there was no water left and you just had the salt, or you could boil saltwater using enormous quantities of fuel to get rid of the water.
But in places where big pools weren't feasible, they did everything in their power to reduce the amount of fuel required for the production of salt, because fuel takes a lot of time and effort to collect and drives up costs.
Enter the graduation tower!
The idea is that you take some source of salty water, pump it up to the top of a wooden tower filled with brushwood (typically blackthorn), then let it trickle down, which greatly increases evaporation by maximizing surface area and exposing the water to the wind along the way. When the saltwater reaches the bottom, it's saltier than it was, and you can send it through again until it's reached the point of saturation. If you do this with ocean water, you can reduce the amount of fuel needed by a factor of ten.
Plus it looks and sounds awesome - these were sometimes called thorn towers.
And at the start of the 20th century, when other forms of salt production had skyrocketed in efficiency, the graduation towers began to be used for healthcare, because as you might imagine, the air next to the graduation tower is very salty, more than it is next to the seaside. From what I can find it seems like the main thing it does is thin mucus, though there are a lot of other health claims.
There are still a few working thorn towers that you can go visit, mostly in Germany or Poland, but they're either historical curiosities keeping a tradition alive, or health and wellness centers, distilling down a brine spring for supposed special properties.
I just laughed for one year watching this. The casual walk-off is just deadly.
i just love him so much
The different poses really got me 😂
Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.
“We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.“
The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space (Hiltzik, LA Times)
SOLIDARITY IN SPACE!!!!!
The opening poster is missing a *lot* of nuance in favor of a message, and makes a totally bullshit supposition of the “punishment.” Because NASA doesn’t work that way.
Now, before I begin, I am in no way undercutting the efforts of these astronauts or their work and what they helped accomplish as far as how they contributed to how astronauts are treated in space. I simply wish to clarify a few things.
Firstly, the three astronauts were, in fact being overworked, they were being given so many tasks that during morning check-ins only one was attending so that the other two could continue working, they were badly behind schedule and this resulted in what we currently call crunch. This had also resulted in a shortening of their sleep schedules which led to increased stress, this is compounded by the fact that sleep in space fucking sucks. Microgravity, machine noises, disrupted circadian rhythm, and the literal inability to “lay down” makes achieving sleep frustrating at best.
So, the overworked, under-rested, weary astronauts… forgot to check in for a single orbital period. They worked the whole time.
This fatigue was noted afterwards and the day after NASA had what Carr referred to as “the first sensitivity session in space” where their schedules were re-evaluated.
Suggestions of a “strike in space” are unsourced and exaggerated. And near as we can tell NASA took the whole matter reasonably and DID change how astronauts were scheduled.
Now, l let’s talk about the hardcore bullshit of the consequences. Mister “makes shit up” in the opening tweet is misrepresenting facts. First, the youngest astronaut on the mission, Gibson, was already 37 when he flew, the others were 41 and 43, why is this important? Because Skylab 4 happened in 1973-74, the next planned manned spaceflight? Apollo-Soyuz in 1975, the crew for which had been chosen before Skylab 4’s crew had even gotten back to Earth, and the next manned mission wasn’t until 1981. In the intervening period the only one that would’ve been even up for consideration would’ve probably been Gibson and that’s if he had kept up with his physical fitness in those seven years. Pogue retired from NASA a few months after returning home, Carr retired in 77, and Gibson retired in 1982 after serving as CAPCOM for STS-1 in 1981 (meaning he WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE CREW), he stated he was “uninterested” in flying on shuttle missions.
Rant over. Short version, astronauts were overworked, forgot to check in, had their schedules re-evaluated, resulting in general reassessment for future missions, all had good careers after the fact.
I really like winnie the pooh, Can you draw winnie the pooh pleaseeeeee
Happy 10 year anniversary to this absolutely foundational post
#really cannot emphasize enough how much iguanamouth changed the site’s sense of humor and therefore the timeline of the western world
i’m in tears over this
you have to consciously unlearn racism and continue to watch for it because it will come out without realizing. because so much of society is structured around it. shrugging and going "i dont care" or "i dont know how else to say it" means you are okay with being racist and hurting other people with how much you dont give a shit about them.
i drink san marzano tomato sauce to gain acid spit and i gleeked on my brother and watched him burn
i could jumpstart a car with my breasts
yeah whatever next time ur stuck out on the road dont expecr me to come bouncing
I need to remember that 90% of the people discussing politics on here are basically operating at this level of historical literacy.
i love this reply in particular
what if we all explode
This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.
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Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭
THEY ARE
when i was 8 i had a very intimidating russian woman as a music teacher- she was both my opera instructor and piano teacher. about a month into piano, she sat me down and said to my mother and i "this child- very beautiful voice, good for singing. i will not allow this child to continue piano. god did not want this child to play an instrument. he told me this in dreams. that is all."
my mom had it written down on a slip so we could remember the exact words because it was so funny. i HATED playing piano and i was definitely not good at it (i did end up having a good 5 years of opera training and ended up being a pretty accomplished choir singer though) and the idea of god sending my incredibly severe and serious russian piano teacher a dream begging her to stop teaching me piano was probably the funniest way it could have gone.