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She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.

deathtalksaboutlife

Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.

Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.

Classy.

Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.

thebiscuiteternal

She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.

beserkerjewel

Also she was placed under a gag order so she couldn't talk about it

babyanimalgifs

This seal relaxing halfway under water

(via)

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

steel-kun

Name a conspiracy theory superior in raw power to “there are no actual forests on Earth"

dream-cassette

imma need some context on that cause WHAT?

steel-kun

“forests” = minuscule form of what trees on Earth can be, basically saplings “mesas” = not landforms, but petrified ancient tree trunks IIRC the theory goes that all forests on Earth were destroyed ages ago and it takes them ridiculous times to regrow, with those giant mammoth redwood trees just being the oldest ones that have grown the most

maxeth

evidence 1:

shattered-earth

This conspiracy theory is absolutely wild and includes the assertion that all rocks are left over remnants of plants/trees from a “silicon era”. Although it’s obviously.. not true.. they really have some amazing photos that feed your imagination of a fantasy world, i’ve compiled their best:

do you think giant trees would have proportionally giant branhes or would they just be like furry green spears? LOL

trisshawkeye

I love how the implication is that the flat tops of mesas were caused by something equally enormous CUTTING THEM DOWN

gncgalactus

Paul Bunyan

durnesque-esque

I am afraid… and enthralled.

animalsnaps

Snaps

transpondster

americana-plus

As of 2018 they were still alive, but I cannot find anything more recent.

suspend

how do you know if you're in love???

I honestly asked my friend this same question just hours ago as I was clueless myself but thinking about it now I think it’s when for the first time after what seemed like a dreadful year (or life), you look forward to waking every morning knowing he (let’s use he as it’s me talking) will be there for you. I think it’s just plain seeing him and being happy that’s he’s around. It’s being happy just by hearing his voice. No matter how bad your day is, one message from him would make your entire day. It’s when he makes you want to write long letters and huge poems. It’s not all about “lust”- it’s more of the intimate relationship you have together. It’s when the simplest of things count. It’s when you start to mature and start to plan something with him for the future. It’s when he makes you want to start fixing your life. It’s when he’s always in your head 3 pm or 3 am. It’s when you can’t stop talking or thinking about him. It’s when you just really always miss him even if he’s right beside you. It’s the “I used to like green eyes but now blue eyes are my favorite”. It’s when all love and cheesy stuff just apply for him. It’s when you begin to see nothing but him and you value him like you value yourself. It’s not the “heart pounding, hands sweating” feeling but more of the “I feel home” feeling. It’s more of like talking to yourself- being yourself with someone without worries. It’s when you begin to really trust him with everything and that includes your happiness. It’s when he’s your happiness. It’s when subconsciously you change for the better. It’s when you once again start opening up after a long time. It’s when you are denying it at most cause you are afraid of how strong you feel and last I think while you’re reading this- there’s someone in your head right now and you’re just contemplating whether you’re in love with him or not but hey the fact that he or she is the person (out of billions of people) in your mind while you read this must say a lot.

jorrrrr

What do you do when you lose this kind of love?

suspend

I broke up with the person I was thinking of while writing this because that’s what you do when you lose this kind of love- you let go and you move on.

You don’t cling onto the person because “two and a half years has been a long time and it’s a waste to end it here”. You end it because you’ve had enough thinking twice whether the person is still worth staying with or not. You let go because you find yourself looking back, comparing and missing the old times than cherishing the present. You let go because you have to stop defending that person and start facing the truth that things have changed. You let go because you let go of anything that upsets you whether it be work, hobby or a person.

And you let go because you have to stop being selfish. There is someone out there wanting to love the person you’re holding onto and they deserve to feel this genuine love from someone and not a pity love from you.

When you lose this kind of love, you move on. You do it because it’s the best choice for you. You move on because you’ve been hurt enough and it’s time to be happy. You move on because you don’t deserve to doubt the love that someone gives you. You move on and whenever you crumble, remind yourself on why you left in the first place.

And you move forward because you won’t find the right person for you while you’re holding onto the wrong one.

erentheghost

This is the realest advice I could have ever read, and everyone deserves to read this.

kaijuno

Freshman year of college I was in a philosophy class and I was giving some sort of group presentation. The prof asked my group “what do you think is your purpose in life?” And none of them really had an answer while I just said “to make the world a better place for those who come after us” because in my mind that’s just the obvious answer. The prof looked kind of taken aback that I just had an answer on the ready and was like “Why? What’s your motivation?”

In that moment I realized I was in front of a lecture hall of privileged students. I was surrounded by people who didn’t know poverty or desperation like I had. I clawed my way here on scholarships while they were legacy kids or trust fund babies. In that moment it clicked in my head that there’s this level of empathy that you can only gain when you have absolutely nothing to lose. A level of empathy that only the impoverished have. A level of empathy that screams out that you have to fight to make things better even if it doesn’t benefit you. It’s a concept that you can only really grasp when you have nothing to lose and the kids before me hadn’t known that pain. They hadn’t developed that kind of empathy.

My only answer that I could give the prof was “Why wouldn’t I?”

lazy-polyglot

A level of empathy that screams out that you have to fight to make things better even if it doesn’t benefit you.

iphisquandary

all the angry rich people in the notes:

theroguefeminist

also to all the people who are arguing that class privilege has nothing to do with empathy, studies show that richer people have less empathy

i know u dont like to listen to us commoners but… lmao

cookievampiress

And just so y’all aren’t confused sympathy and empathy or two completely different things sympathy is wanting to cry for someone empathy is crying with them. You can’t earnestly relate to painful experiences if you’ve never had to have them in short it’s hard to scream with a silver spoon in your mouth.

stephencolbertly

Amber Ruffin Apologizes to Seth like a Sexual Harasser

muffindaddy

laueana

“I used to think I’m not depressed; I’m just anxious. And I didn’t understand. But I’ve always been - I was anxious as a little kid. I think I started having real bouts of strong anxiety around - in fourth grade, I remembered - fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, I mean, through high school. And I was - just had a lot of anxiety and anxiety in the night and getting up a lot and not understanding what it was. And so I remember there was a period in my life in my 40s when people were saying, you know, maybe you’re depressed. And I would be irritated. I would say, I’m not depressed. I have anxiety, but I’m not depressed. And then, of course, when I finally went and got some help, you know, at this sort of big, chaotic time in my life, one of the first things that the doctor said to me was - I said I’m not depressed. I’m - I just have anxiety. And they said, you know, yeah, anxiety is a - chronic anxiety is a - it’s a subset or form of depression. It’s a mode, you know? And so I think because I was able to function so well - I can always work, I can always get up and do what has to be done - and I just thought, well, I’m not depressed. And I had read accounts of people with real depression who can’t get out of bed. And I said that’s never been me. And so I’m not that, so I don’t have depression. But I realized that anxiety is a form [of it]. It’s certainly something that can get in the way of your life. And yeah, I did go down - it’s sort of a classic trope, but I think there’s a lot of truth to it, which is when you’re a performer, when you’re on stage, there’s no thinking. You just have to act. There’s no time to think. You just do. And so for that time that you’re in front of people, in a weird, crazy way, you’d think that the anxiety would be at its peak. And it’s not. Everything goes away because there’s no time. You’re just in front of them. And you just react. And you completely rely on your muscle memory and your inner clown that’s been there since you were born. And you just go. And it’s very liberating, and it’s really freeing.”

— Conan O’Brien, Fresh Air with Terry Gross (October 2, 2019)

autumn-anti

what prision should be 4:

rapists

pedophiles

murderers

abusers

what prision shouldn’t be 4:

non-violent drug dealers

drug addicts (who need help + support, not prison time)

protesters/activists

poc who get arrested 4 doing things white people would never get arrested 4 doing

rape/incest/abuse/etc victims who kill their attackers (self defense)

homeless people who are just chilling + not doing anything illegal (like a homeless person is just sleeping + the cops arrest them 4 some dumb reason)

a lot of people, actually (ex. people who steal like a single apple bc they’re starving, people who take animals from abusive owners, squatters, undocumented immigrants with no/minor criminal records, prostitutes + sex workers, poor people, the mentally ill, etc)

wynx-hates-pedos

The fact that this post is controversial on tungle dot hellsite says a lot about the site’s political environment.

wezstrdxfctgvhbjnkm

this post isn’t controversial it just doesn’t cover the majority of the prison population and doesn’t touch on the much more complex reality. It’s very easy to say a starving person stealing an apple doesn’t deserve incarceration. What about someone dealing drugs to feed their family? How does that change if it’s marijuana or heroin? What if those drugs happen to be laced? How does mental illness play in? At what point doesn’t it impact culpability? Is pedophilia a mental illness? It is according to the DSM. Does that make your post contradictory? People need to stop simplifying the CJS like this because it’s not as easy as black and white who we feel deserves punishment in a purely retributive gut-feeling way.

A ton of people who shouldn’t be in prison are incarcerated, countless studies find that prison does not help people rehabilitate. But we need to talk about the complex reality of the situation and give evidence not just make lists on tumblr lmao

sectionthirtyfive

#KillMascotsSaveThePeople

@blairerussellphoto

wmkoot

Support Aboriginal business. Their clothing line is fire and based from Canada so you do not have to worry about the conversion rate from American to Canadian.

wmkoot

And they just dropped their fall/winter line

dynastylnoire

DOPE I want

thetrippytrip

My girl spoke nothing but fucking TRUTH. Now that’s this kind of Women we need our girls to look up too.

ladygreytea76

Who is she?

enigmazing-blog

Sarah Kendzior.

She’s an expert in authoritarianism and has accurately predicted almost everything that is happening - her unflinching insight and analysis is terrifying but invaluable right now. Well worth following on twitter.

anosci

fucking

why did i never see this until now

thessalian

You know what saddens me?

How fast she has to talk.

If a man were saying that, he’d be going slowly to emphasise points. He’d be indulging in the occasional ‘you know’ or other filler words. He’d be able to stop for breath. Notice that she didn’t do that. She had the whole thing memorised and she got it out with barely a pause to breathe.

Why?

Because she expected to be interrupted.

What she said was awesome and is absolutely true, and is frankly underlined by the fact that she had to say the whole thing all at once for fear that she wouldn’t be able to say it at all if she so much as stopped to breathe because one of those older white men sitting around her would interrupt and roll right over her.

asktheangels

Lately I’ve been getting most of my pep talks from Mister Rogers.

mintypineapple

Great. Now I’m disappointing Mr. Rogers.

maculategiraffe

Mr. Rogers is not disappointed in you. He’s proud of you for listening and thinking about what he said, and he hopes it plants a seed where sometimes maybe you notice yourself making an unhealthy choice and recognize it, because that’s the first step towards growth towards your best and healthiest self, which is a journey and a process, not an ideal state of which you are falling short.

Mr. Rogers loves you for just your being you.

chillyfeetsteak

hello police this post made me cry

farlee-wander

Raven makes mistakes sometimes.

To read more comics like this, click here!

vacuousbacon-deactivated2021032

Frick I love this

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you feel bad and good and very confused

traumatised-mum

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

anisetheapothecary

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

malcolmcooks

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.