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So basically the cylinder that science has used as THE kilogram since 1889 has been losing microscopic weight, like a few billionths of a kilogram. What scientists plan to do is instead of having a physical object set the standard for how much a kilogram weighs, they’re going to express it in terms of Planck’s Constant, a fundamental constant in quantum physics as unchanging as the speed of light in a vacuum. By dividing Planck’s Constant by the Meter and the Second (both already defined by fundamental constants), you get an insanely small weight. Multiply that by a big enough number and you get one kilogram!

So instead of measuring all weights against an object that can change, the kilogram is defined by unchanging physical constants and pure math.

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kropotkhristian-deactivated2019

“But then Ocasio-Cortez spoke, followed by Bush, and I saw something truly terrifying. I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for the populist lines they were shouting from that stage.

I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education.

I saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends meet, to accept the idea that a “living wage” was a human right.

Above all, I saw how easy it would be to accept the notion that it was the government’s job to make sure that those things were provided.”

You guys, the Daily Caller just published the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life. It is literally an article where a conservative is just terrified to death that they nearly felt empathy and love.

This article is like the biggest proof I have ever read that conservatives are just pathologically afraid of kindness.

You guys, I shit you not, this is an actual factual article by an actual factual conservative saying that they are “terrified” by the idea that their children deserve healthcare and education.

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There’s… not even a punchline. Like, the article concludes just a few lines after the quoted section, with no suggestion for why anyone SHOULDN’T support things like universal healthcare. Not even a token “but, you know, the money,” or “but you have to EARN it.” It just ends.

I guess the audience is expected to fill in the blanks? Like “gosh, I almost cared about an unrelated human being, but CLEARLY the very concept is absurd.” Which is… pretty sad, honestly.

kropotkhristian-deactivated2019

I’m telling you, at least according to this article, it is literally just terrifying to think that your kids deserve healthcare and education.

That’s literally it. There isn’t anything else.

argumate

“I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education“ is one fucking hell of a sentence, really.

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hey, archive that shit. don’t give the Daily Caller clicks. what the fuck

https://archive.fo/dTGOR

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we all know capitalism is fucking evil but one of my favorite stories to tell from Retail Hell is that time my district manager got annoyed that 2 poor people were taking food out of the dumpster occasionally so he told us all to start pouring bleach over all the items we threw out so people couldn’t use them/it would hurt them if they touched it directly. never did that and absolutely have participated in “employee theft” by stealing bags of food from the dumpsters to donate to the local food bank but like. he really did just want us to directly harm people over food that was already in the literal trash.

daddy-doms-are-gross

when managers and CEOs get up in arms about “employee theft” they’re actually talking about people like me who don’t throw out the 30 pairs of shoes that we weren’t able to sell and instead bag them up and throw them behind the dumpster for retrieval/donation later. I once took home $450 of food and another night got $500 worth of makeup. Perfectly good electronics get thrown away bc the packaging was tampered with. We throw away food, cosmetics, and household products 30-60 days before their expiration dates (which are also kinda bullshit anyway). The whole retail model is structured around this idea of massive waste.

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thepigeongazette

I haven’t entered the living room in 5 years

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ruinedchildhood

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? - Official Trailer

foxyfandoms

When someone asks you “what does a good Christian look like?”, tell them: Fred Freakin’ Rogers.

skiplo-wave

It’s only the trailer and I already feel my eyes getting watery :’)

nightblightowl

Man I didn’t even watch Mr. Rogers growing up and I’m fucking crying.

childofwestwind

I miss him so much, I won’t be able to watch this with out crying. :(

vijara

look: the right people will get it. the right people will see you and appreciate you for the person that you are. the right people won’t require you to dilute, censor, or edit yourself in order to be worthy of their time and affection. you don’t need to waste your time on people who are committed to misunderstanding you

westendblues

please stop calling Black children who have different interests and tastes white

it’s damaging and alienating

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inspredwood

Always relevant

steviemcfly

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

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Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

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ihavebecomethesun

Honestly, this was so inspirational.

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LSSC | 2018.02.08

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wornseoul-deactivated20210821

Just going to leave this here

astralinterloper

)dangernips:

!!!

To date they have killed far more Muslims than any other religious group. It’s not Islam vs Christianity, nor is it ISIS vs Christians, it’s ISIS vs the rest of the world. The media’s portrayal of ISIS is simply manipulative propaganda to inveigle the masses into harboring prejudice against Islam/Muslims and thus supporting US imperialism. They’ve duped the entire west into believing the Christian persecution is the primary, or even most significant endeavor of ISIS. I won’t even mention how ISIS was actually created by the US(either directly or indirectly).