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[chewedcorn]

Just Another Day in Quarantine

[stimman3000]

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[phyrexia]

Soup

[laszlos-deactivated20250927]

Hot hot soup

[catwithbenefits]

fuck if it’s this easy why do they close the goddamn road for like five months shit

[oppa-homeless-style]

all outta soub :(

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

I work for the road crew in the summer. Crack sealing (the process you see above) is fairly quick and simple. (Though holding a hose that pumps literal tons of 350F tar into the road in the middle of the summer is NOT easy)

I think what a lot of people underestimate is just how much road there is in your city. And just how many directions the crew gets pulled.

For our city of around 50k people there are 8 of us.

Also, crack sealing is a wholly temporary measure, meant to slow the break-up of the roads, it’s not a permanent fix.

Roads tend to get closed for months on end because we have to tear the whole thing up, then, depending on the class of road, we either have to hammer-drill into concrete to lay rebar and the pour concrete, or we can get straight to paving. If it’s a road requiring concrete we’re required to wait at least 24 hours for it to set.

So after 2 days we’re finally able to pave. But the city allocates one (two if we’re lucky) 5 ton truck to transport material.

A relatively short paving job requires at a minimum of 60 tons. So that’s 12 trips to the asphalt factory and back. Each ton is around $80.

TL;DR

There’s a lot of road, not many of us, and soup is expensive.

[magnumpicactus-deactivated20230]

Leave the soup men alone.

[princessofbadassery]

Leave the soup men alone, and go vote for people who will pay for more soup and more soup people

[pyomorphic]

anything that is produced under capitalism can be produced under socialism better, more affordably, more sustainably, etc. but with that being said a lot of products won’t exist. and I really had to grapple with this idea for a long time, especially how to justify that to other people, but one day I realized that it was a ridiculous concern to have. it exemplifies the toxic nature of consumerism.

there are people dying on the streets because they don’t have a home or dying in their homes because they don’t have medicine, but you can’t purchase kellogg’s frosted flakes or whatever in cuba so I guess that means we’re superior. consumerism is insidious and damaging in many ways, and the fact that people, myself included, believe that you must have a choice between 35 different name brand cereals or freedom dies is a supreme demonstration of that.

[theroguefeminist]

okay but more of us need to say we are antifa - like if everyone who opposes fascism and trump just refers to themselves as antifa, its going to be harder and harder for moderates and conservatives to write it off as a “terrorist group.” 

i know people who are trump supporters. talking to them is the perfect opportunity to say “i’m antifa” or “i support antifa” watch them freak out and then follow up with: “antifa just means anti-fascism - it’s not an organization.. are you for fascism? because i’m anti-fascist.” 

i cant believe i have to say “normalize antifascism” but here we are

[theroguefeminist]

In response to the hot takes in the notes that antifa is a terrorist organization or militia… like… you quite literally are buying into propaganda I don’t know what else to tell you.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[filthygrandpa]

The only way we can help

[howaboutfondue]

Guys! They also have a shop where you can buy t-shirts that provide them money for planting the trees in Brazil!

Also each t-shirt you buy is 20 planted trees! Check out their shop!!

Please reblog this, they need as much help as they can get.

[world-of-cats]

[sirartwork]

reblog for noises

[marmarsoulless]

This makes me -extremely- uncomfortable

[drtanner]

I like how literally every other cat in the room is absolutely fine while this weird fucker is just YURRGLURRGLRRRYRRRRRing it up like a madman.

Why is he so upset. Who did this to him.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

that cat would have been put on trial for witchcraft in the 1500s

[artorbust-deactivated20211111]

This cat sounds like an old Italian man

[boxxtrott]

Don't mind him, he's just summoning a demon to scoop his poo.

[mycroftplayingoperation]

this show’s dialogue is iconic

[thebestoftumbling]

[ohhhhthatburns]

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK???????????

[boxxtrott]

Whomst gave this permission to be 🔥🔥🔥

[thebestoftumbling]

[ohhhhthatburns]

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK???????????

[la-laborista-republiko]

[scoutsmoocrew]

Cows are getting a bad rap and it's time to set the record straight: Giving up meat won't save the planet

A UN report claimed that livestock was doing more to harm the climate than all modes of transportation combined, but this isn't the case.

[mad-dyspunktional]

Many people continue to think avoiding meat as infrequently as once a week will make a significant difference to the climate. But according to one recent study, even if Americans eliminated all animal protein from their diets, they would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by only 2.6%.

According to our research at the University of California, Davis, if the practice of Meatless Monday were to be adopted by all Americans, we’d see a reduction of only 0.5%.

[healthy-purple-sandwich-deactiv]

Shit its almost like the real problem is corporate greed causing mass pollution on an unimaginable scale.

[faggotjoke]

@acti-veg can you please comment on this? I would but I don’t have the energy

[acti-veg]

Well if you can’t trust those directly profiting from raising cattle for food to provide an unbiased representation of the emissions of the livestock sector, who can you trust? I’d like to refer you all to The John Hopkins Center’s response to this infamously misleading paper, and I’ll summarise the key points here:

The paper states that livestock production is responsible for 4.2% of U.S GHG emissions, this calculation fails to account for several major emissions sources, including animal feed, forage, transportation of livestock and the product transport emissions. 

The paper confuses global GHG emissions with those related strictly to U.S. emissions, a very basic error which translates to completely inaccurate conclusions on estimates as to how effective a shift away from animal products would prove in terms of reduced global emissions.

The paper focuses on GHG emissions but does not acknowledge the other ecological and public health impacts of animal agriculture, failing to account for agricultural runoff, air pollution, antimicrobial resistance, impacts to rural communities and other harmful consequences.

The paper focuses on efficiency per unit of livestock but fails to account for the scale of food animal production and the total environmental footprint of animal agriculture.

Basically, this study was shared far and wide despite being deeply flawed, and I find it hard to think of a more blatant example of confirmation bias than that. The  evidence from the past decade overwhelmingly suggests that a global shift away from animal agriculture is absolutely essential to avoid the worst effects of climate change. But if you can find one or two outlier studies which grossly and irresponsibly understate the impact a reduction in animal product consumption would have then it turns out that’s the only research people will pay any attention to. Check your sources folks.

[acti-veg]

Just to add some information on the author of this piece and his allegiances, courtesy of @vegannerdgirl​:

[ironpour]

[ruinedchildhood]

[teathattast]

boi he shittin

[saltsyy]

[von-felden]

*epidemic of porn bots breaks out due to tumblr’s own negligence*

tumblr staff:  We will fix it (:

[smidnite]

If this ain’t the tea, tho.

[agnesstarker-deactivated2020060]

Yet pornbots still exist

[springlockedfoxy]

It only got 50% of the porn bots. And 50% legit users.

[therapist-anon-deactivated20220]

A perfect balance of bullshit and fucking bull shit.