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@governmentcantdenythis
straight up, i think we need to start unironically using the term megacorporation
amazon, disney, pepsi, pretty much any company that owns enough subsidiaries that you’re probably touching five of their products at any one time without realizing unless you know very well where everything you buy comes from
that’s a megacorporation
and it’s bad, todd
WE LIVE IN AN OLIGOPOLIC KLEPTOPLUTOCRACY AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE
we care, it’s just hard to spell
^ SO MUCH TRUTH
No, but you can misinform. You can with-hold information like the lag time it takes for ballots to get in. You can avoid posting any information at all about how to do mail-in voting. You can discourage it. You can smear campaign it. And you can make it very inconvenient.
Guys listen - REGISTER and CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION FREQUENTLY
Please note that Absentee and Mail-in Voting are being impacted by COVID 19. Go HERE to do some reading about Early and Absentee Voting.
Every state’s rulings/ regulations on Mail-in Voting are different. Check HERE for what’s happening in YOUR state.
Some states are sending out absentee / mail in ballots automatically. MOST aren’t. You need to be registered and you have to REQUEST one and the stipulations for requesting one are different for each state. So check yours for the requirements.
If you are voting by mail-in ballot please be aware that the deadlines for getting those votes in are BEFORE NOVEMBER!!
Don’t sleep on this. It’s coming up faster than you think and I can GUARANTEE YOU that the conservative right-wing pro-dumpster-fire people are going to do whatever it takes to get as many votes in as possible.
The opposition VASTLY outnumbers them, but that only matters if we DO SOMETHING.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO ALLOW TWO WEEKS TO MAIL IN YOUR BALLOT
THINK OF OCTOBER 20TH AS ELECTION DAY THIS YEAR!
If I were to make a discord server for Emeto based RP or otherwise, would anybody be interested?
Anyone know of any emeto discord servers?
For those of you lying on your resumes about being proficient in Microsoft Office, time to actually get those skills. Jobs exams are becoming more popular. Companies are testing you to make sure you actually know your shit.
Facts especially when it comes to typing words per minute
Typing.com is free and really helps to practice your typing!
Agreed I just took a skills test at a job interview on Microsoft office
I was told by someone who applied there that one of jobs in interviewing for actually tests you on excel in the interview so now I’m having to take an excel class in preparation.
Word, excel and outlook could be on these exams
Spend an hour on YouTube with an Excel Basics playlist, and I promise y'all will be straight
Check out this link for free Microsoft Office 365 introduction and tutorials:
Find training and tutorials for Office 365 and Office apps, including Outlook, OneNote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Skype for Business, and mor
It’s free, approachable, and most definitely what you’ll encounter in the modern workplace. I’ve used this myself a lot.
Purebreds vs Mixed Breeds
When it comes to any domestic animal species in which distinct breeds exist it's easy to see a stark difference between those animals selectively bred to meet a breed standard, and those that are not.
To say one is better than the other is really silly and inaccurate. Both purebred and mix bred animals have their own pros and cons, and when choosing a new pet or breeding it's very important to keep this in mind.
In general the big pros of purebreds are predictability, and desired trait selection. You know what this animal should look like, and that gives you directional focus on selecting potential mates. They are predictable, which is very useful in domesticated animals, especially when it comes to breeding them for a specific purpose, be it work, production, or companionship. It's also a great source of pride for many breeders!
There are cons as well, though. Selectively breeding removes natural variety from the gene pool, which can have consequences such as weakened immune systems, lowered fertility, and susceptibility to different illnesses. There is also of course animals that are selectively bred for unhealthy traits, such as brachyphelmic snouts, lack of cartilage, and overproduction.
Mix bred animals have some wonderful pros that often directly counter the cons of purebreds. They are genetically varied, are extremely useful in understanding genetics, and generally have excellent fertility rates and strong immune systems.
Then the major downside to hybrids is that a lack of predictability and uniformity can result in unwanted and unexpected traits appearing. Without knowing what's in either parents' background you can accidentally produce terribly unhealthy animals.
Predictability is good, but so is genetic diversity. That's why many dedicated breeders of purebred animals will occasionally outcross their stock carefully. This requires work to be done to return to the breed standard and remove unwanted traits, but dramatically boosts diversity, and may also be used to add a trait missing in your lines.
For example, with my Langshans they are a solid, well-developed breed that really needs no improvement other than continuing to make wise decisions to keep them healthy and well mannered. They're also genetically diverse enough that crossing in a new breed would almost definitely do more harm than help. With them I boost diversity just by adding Langshans from other lines.
Orloffs, however, nearly died out which left them with a seriously inhibited gene pool and we lost the best examples, so we're building the population back from a small handful of subpar birds. The result is that, despite being a 400 year old breed, they're a project breed. In this case it may be worth it to outcross to other breeds in order to return them to what they're supposed to be. In the USA our birds are tragically undersized. We can line breed extensively, as we have, but this decreases fertility and eventually plateaus. So carefully introducing a different but similar breed to a line could seriously improve the breed, and after just a few generations (3 to 7 on average iirc) you end up with birds breeding true and looking like some really fine purebred Orloffs again. For me, specifically, I'm looking into getting a pair of Malay hens to put Miles over. Malays are part of the Orloff's original lineage and they have the type, size, build, and skull shape that were once typical of Orloffs. They do not, however, have the correct feather type, comb, temperament, or intense cold hardiness of Orloffs. So it's a trade off, and requires serious dedication to do right.
When crossing breeds it is extremely important to have a solid understanding of the genetics for your animals so that even when producing hybrids you have an idea of what to expect.
Sometimes, though, it can be fun and educational to cross breeds to see what comes of it! Chickens are great because if you already have a mixed flock like we do then it does no harm to add some barnyard mutts to the mix. Things like dogs, which are harder to keep in large groups, really should never be bred just to see what happens. Irresponsible breeding comes in both purebred and mix bred forms, as does responsible breeding.
Well, that's all of my babbling for tonight. Here's Miles in all his glory. He would like some giant wives.
A little animation for Asexual Awareness Week.
It took me a long time to realise this was me.
Discovering that asexuality was a thing changed my life.
I am not alone.
And neither are you.
I only learned one minute ago that instead of a single adjustable tap like the entire rest of the world, the sinks in Britain just have a separate “hot” tap and separate “cold” tap. What the fuck is that shit. How do you people get lukewarm water out?? You just have to wait until the sink itself fills with both extremes???
yer all sayin America has these two and I’ve never seen one in three decades of living from one coast to the other, my mind is blown
OKAY IT SEEMS SOME PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT BECAUSE THE PHOTO ISN’T CLEAR ENOUGH
There are two different faucets on that sink. Two spouts. One only has a “hot” knob and one only has a “cold” knob. Two streams of water come out of this type of sink and neither can come out lukewarm. Here’s another photo of one:
They apparently do make it difficult enough that you can buy adapters for them and some people just make their own:
There are also lots of British people complaining about them in memes:
So I was right that these things are a shitty pain in the ass, I dunno if they’re really at their most common in Britain but I know I have seen 10,000 sinks in America and every single one just had the single stream.
…it…
…..it was supposed to be a bunch of random disconnected doodles…
Thank you guys for so many notes in such a short period of time. As for our dear star-crossed Pokemon…
They’re doing just fine.
christmas without hrt is just cismas 😔
@doodledrawsthings I had to draw these for you like, immediately
A little story about how I recently met a new little buddy: Franky
Hey! It sure is dusty here haha. Didn’t come on tumblr for a long long while. I figured since it’s hard to post comic strips like this on twitter and instagram I’ll just use tumblr to share these : > pls enjoy~
Another way cats happen…
Reblogging for that, and also because people who are kind deserve more notice.
I thought they named the kitten Crap.
I know we like to talk about as autistic kids who’re geniuses with numbers, or beautiful musicians, or incredible artists. But that’s really not the norm. Autistic kids aren’t all savants. I have an autistic sister, and have worked with people on the spectrum, and most of the time you’ll find that autistic people are just autistic. And they don’t have to make up for it by having a brilliant mind. They don’t have to prove their value by being special in certain areas. They’re valuable because they’re people. Don’t spread the idea that autistic people have to be savants. That’s just perpetuating the idea that impairments are something to be ashamed of
Hey jesus we found it, you guys
We found a post that says “my sister is autistic” and “I’ve worked with autistic people,” and it made a good and valid point instead of being full of trash
I never thought I’d see the day
I’ve said before that a parody song needs to be a good song in order to be a good parody, just like a parody movie needs to be a good movie, but it’s also crucial to note that the joke can’t just be “wouldn’t it be so dumb if somebody did this”, that’s lame as hell, to make the joke work you must simply do this, with full commitment to the concept and trust in your audience, only then can you create magic.
when you think oh it would be hilarious if some loser did this, be that loser.
this is an instruction to you, specifically, the person reading this right now.
Go be that loser and make something great.
