A rural First Nations community in Alaska has lost its’ only potable water source as of January in freezing weather. The laundromat was the ONE community location to get clean water. They rely on river water and donations right now.
There is an Amazon wishlist with cleaning products, formula, small electric-free washers for elderly + disabled people, washing buckets and water-carrying buckets, and hand tools to cut through the ice in the river to access water, amongst other things.
The Tuluksak Native Community is a Yup'ik Tribal Government in Tuluksak, Alaska. They have a 30%+ positive COVID rate.
Please ignore the GoFundMe link right now. There is no way to access the funding as far as I know. Message CeeJay on Twitter ahead of time or direct funds to the Amazon Wish List, which can be sorted from lowest price to highest.
3 am rant time because people don't know jack shit (or just couldn't be bothered to care less) about fish because they're fish
First off, if you think fish are just ornaments and not pets that you should take care of, like actually give a damn about or put any effort towards, fuck you.
Second, if you just don't know how to take care of fish that's fine! However, either rehome them or learn. The internet is right here.
I saw a Facebook post posted to Reddit about a mother asking a mom group about giving out goldfish, like actual living goldfish, as party favors for her son's birthday party. Cute idea in theory, but ultimately a really bad one because a lot of people don't know jack shit about fish. There are also those who just don't care about them.
Rant below.
So here's the main source of my rage this morning:
Because a living creature should just live in and breathe waste until it suffocates because buying a filter is apparently too damn hard right? It's not like fish can suffocate if the ammonia level gets too high (which has a higher chance of happening when you're not filtering the water) or anything. Guess the fish should just die of shock if the temperature changes too drastically for its little body to handle. Thermometers and heat sources are just too much hassle. All this is perfectly fine because it's "not a puppy".
Smfh
Why the hell do people think something should just die because monitoring the environment and putting any real effort into a creature that depends on them for everything just happens to be too much of an inconvenience or because it's small and fragile?
If you don't want to or are unwilling to put effort into taking care of a fish, maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't fucking get the fish.
No, actually you just shouldn't get the fish.
It doesn't matter that "it's not a puppy". Fish are living creatures that depend on whoever is supposed to be caring for them for everything including survival. If you're going to force a living creature to live in your house under your rule the least you could do is give them adequate living conditions.
Bettas are not meant to be without filtered water either. ^
I typically don't hold it against anyone when they don't know how to take care of a betta right. I'll only hold it against someone when they have been educated on the topic and/or have the resources to educate themselves about it, and they blatantly decide they're not going to put all the effort in or look into it and still decide to keep the fish anyway.
Bettas have been marketed as the easiest fish to take care of for years. The aquarium starter kits at Walmart for example actually do not provide an adequate environment for the fish. There usually isn't enough room and the filters aren't the safest. Heaters usually don't come with them either. They can be good short-term when you have nothing else but you don't want to move a fish around a lot because it can be traumatizing to them. Too much stress can kill a fish.
The small fish bowls like the tiny ones are disorienting for the fish. Imagine wearing the "weed" glasses high school. Now imagine wearing them constantly.
Yeah.
They also cannot sit in a bowl of plants. This does not filter the water. Instead you end up with this scenario:
All of this information is available in multiple places on the internet and everyone's got access to it most of the time. There's free Wi-Fi in just about every restaurant/store etc. If you're going to the store to buy a fish to keep as a pet, odds are you can spend about 20 minutes looking up how to take care of them properly.
If you want to give out fish themed party favors, please just do this. v
It's cool as fuck, no one suffers, and it lasts forever.
as long as you’re on the road with me, putting my life in danger, it sure as hell IS my business. don’t look at your fucking phone while your car is moving. you’re going to kill someone.
I did a report on actual studies of this for college. It is part of a category of behaviors referred to as “distracted driving,” a category which includes driving while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.
The reason drunk driving is bad is you have inhibited judgment and a depressed nerve response. If you are drunk driving, and there’s something you need to avoid or react to, you are more likely to make bad reactive decisions, and make them much slower than a sober person would. (I do not recall offhand the name for the type of distraction this represents neurologically.)
Looking at your phone is something called a COGNITIVE distraction, which means your focus, in that moment, is entirely on a separate task, because contrary to popular belief, “multitasking” is not a thing that actually exists neurologically. It is possible to switch between multiple tasks in such a way that you make progress towards both at nearly the same time, but within the same INSTANT, your brain CANNOT, by design, perform two cognitive tasks at the same time without greatly impairing your performance at both of them. Even talking on the phone while driving, keeping your eyes fully on the road at all times, is a cognitive distraction that makes it much harder for you to pay attention to your driving and to the people around you, and even people who claimed to be proficient multitaskers, when tested, proved to be highly prone to accidents while talking on the phone AND far less effective at responding to the conversations they were having, because it is not possible for the human brain to do both things at the same time. Talking on the phone while driving was found to be approximately as bad as drunk driving.
But it gets worse.
If you are traveling at highway speeds, and you look down at your phone for just six seconds, you will have traveled roughly the distance of an American football field while your eyes were completely away from the road.
This, obviously, is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
A person under the influence of alcohol will have a DELAYED reaction. A person whose eyes are not on the road because they are texting will have NO reaction. In the event of an accident, this means full speed collision head on with no actions taken to mitigate the damage.
What every study ever done on the subject showed, unambiguously and by a CLEAR margin, was that TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE DANGEROUS TO YOURSELF AND OTHER MOTORISTS THAN DRUNK DRIVING. You are both more likely to be INVOLVED in an accident and less likely to REACT to it in time to save your life and the lives of other people on the road.
Drunk driving is punished HEAVILY by law, and rightly so, because it is a reckless endangerment of public safety.
If you text while driving or check facebook while driving or do anything else on your phone instead of keeping your eyes on the road, YOU ARE MORE DANGEROUS TO YOURSELF AND OTHER DRIVERS THAN A PERSON WHO IS SEVERELY DRUNK, YOU ARE A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND YOU SHOULD BE STOPPED. Other people on the road have every right to hate you for it and to hope someday the law catches up on this issue.
If you’re driving on the same road as me, YOU TEXTING IS MY FUCKING BUSINESS, because you are putting MY LIFE in danger.
If you want to text while in transit, you shouldn’t be in the driver’s seat.
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