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Spring in China

Blooming

The air here smells familiar, and the wind sounds almost sad, like the low and distant howling of the dog you never had.

tietto

My hand slipped

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Ocean Photography by Japan’s Ryo Minemizu

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by IrenHorrors

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save the bees… and save the bats, save the wasps, save the moths. they are all pollinators, and they are all important to the earth, even if our human eyes don’t deem them as charming as hummingbirds. we have to protect them too!

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the LITERAL point of this post was that even if we don’t particularly like certain pollinators, we shouldn’t condone their extinction.

it’s heartbreaking that people are reblogging this with “i hate wasps, they can die!“ wrong! try again! it’s actually not about you, sorry.

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void

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1594alpes (by Rémi Bridot)

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“From the day we sailed the Titanic was on fire” — John Dilley, fireman aboard the Titanic

what in the heck

wirehead-wannabe

“The obvious question you might come up with at this point is, “why can’t you just put out the fire?” That’s because of the incendiary nature of coal. In general, a coal fire is extremely difficult to deal with under the best circumstances. If you had all the resources in the world and a good deal of space to work, they can be impossible to put out. Aboard a ship in tight quarters, it gets even more difficult.

An example of the difficulties with a coal fire would be the coal fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. This fire broke out in a mine in the Northeast United States and has proven impossible to put out. How impossible you ask? It’s been burning since May 27, 1962.”

Holy shit

“Another issue that has always caused confusion was the Titanic’s speed. It was running at full speed when crossing the Atlantic Ocean, even when there were warnings of icebergs in the area. There were rumors that the ship was trying to break some kind of speed record, but the Titanic was not built for speed. This mammoth ship was a luxury liner. Molony indicates that this could have been caused by the fire-fighting activities.

In order to fight the fire, the stokers had been shoveling the burning coal into furnaces to burn the fire away. If the stokers had been shoveling as much coal as possible that could be the reason for the speed of the ship. As excess coal was burnt, the engines would work harder, generating speed. The stokers had been shoveling coal into the furnaces nonstop for 3 days fighting the fire during the maiden voyage. Molony thinks this is the reason why the ship was going at full speed when it hit the iceberg.”

Wow that makes *so much sense.*

tuesdayisfordancing

I saw this article and just assumed it was political satire. What the fuck.

isaacsapphire

Ditto. What the fuck.

alexanderrm

( DuPage County Register, 26 Apr 1912, Fri, Page 7 - I found this in the Snopes article on the subject)

Dilleys’ report was in newspapers in 1912; how did this not get into the massive cultural memory of the Titanic? I’ve heard accounts of how it sunk at least 10 times and never about this.

owlistic

Yeah the reason you’ve never heard of it was because there was a coverup after the sinking. I don’t remember the name of the documentary I watched, but it basically said that the Titanic’s sinking was entirely preventable, but the people in charge were more worried about their reputation and money. The fires in the bunkers was just part of the equation. They also only had just enough coal to get them to America because there was a coal miner strike at the time. So I think there was still the possibility of slowing down, but they were told not to because then they would need more coal, which was coal they didn’t have, to be able to make it to America. So they preferrred to risk maybe hitting an iceberg over certainly running out of fuel. Which is bad enough, but in addition, the fires in the bunkers caused a weakness in one of the bulkheads, which were the water tight walls meant to keep the ship afloat in case it took on water. This was reported and I think could have been fixed, but they were told basically to hide it and leave it alone. It’s now theorized that this is why it broke in half suddenly, the weakness gave way because it couldn’t hold under the pressure.

I think there were also some shoddy decisions made about the building of the exterior, but I don’t remember the details there.

But what REALLY infuriates me is that all of this was known. We have records about it. The fireman that’s quoted above gave hours of testimony on what happened, and dozens of people who worked on the ship did as well. But the people who made the ship and made these decisions never saw any repercussions because the judge in charge of the case was paid off. He looked at all the damning evidence against the owners and wrote it off as a terrible, unpreventable tragedy. This has remained the narrative to this day because history is written by those with money.

iraffiruse

addressmysol

People try to use “snowflake” as an insult, but like HAVE YOU SEEN ACTUAL SNOWFLAKES???

viostormcaller

What. The fuck. Holy shit

nxkdeep

abandoned roller coaster

my-feminism

In the Netherlands, abortion is freely available on demand. Yet the Netherlands boasts the lowest abortion rate in the world, about 6 abortions per 1000 women per year, and the complication and death rates for abortion are miniscule. How do they do it? First of all, contraception is widely available and free — it’s covered by the national health insurance plan. Holland also carries out extensive public education on contraception, family planning, and sexuality. An ethic of personal responsibility for one’s sexual activity is strongly promoted. Of course, some people say that teaching kids about sex and contraception will only encourage them to have lots of sex. But Dutch teenagers tend to have less frequent sex, starting at an older age, than American teenagers, and the Dutch teenage pregnancy rate is 9 times lower than in the U.S.