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Also do you guys really think that paypig post is real? Anyone can edit their PayPal balance via developer tools, I made this fake screenshot a month ago.
Doesn’t hurt to reblog this. Worst that can happen is I don’t get any of that $50000000 bajillion dollars
REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS
9 million people fucking love dogs
Here we come 10.
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I’ve finally found it again
the elusive 10 million note post
they say no two people reblog it with the same original text
6 zoo myths that arent true
Most behaviors that you see keepers demonstrate at the zoo or aquarium are natural behaviors that the animals do in the wild. When the animals do them, the keepers give them a treat and pair it with a gesture or a word, so that they associate them, and eventually the word or gesture is enough to elicit the behavior because the animal knows that there’s a reward. But here’s the thing: most of those behaviors are encouraged because they help veterinarians and keepers do health checks.
Yeah, its cute when they nose boop the stick, but also keepers need to check their vision and depth perception and mobility. Sea lions are so cute when they wave! But vets and keepers need to check under those flippers to make sure that they’re healthy and that they don’t have any restrictions on their motion or cuts on their skin. Why do they ask animals to jump? Again, to make sure that they’re healthy, and also because its fun and animals LOVE to move around and jump and have fun, its mentally stimulating.
This is the most important thing I will ever reblog and anyone who is still ignorant enough to think zoos are awful can fuck off my blog. Zoos are necessary. If you think otherwise please unfollow me because I don’t want you here.
This is super important for people to see. I have worked at a zoo and I can not tell you how many times I’ve had to defend the zoo for the good they do. People need to learn that zoos are actually helping save endangered species.
Remember: Sea World is not a zoo and doesn’t really care about animals unless they can make a profit. Fuck Sea World.
Alternatively, Busch Gardens does care for their animals.
It’s like ending network neutrality/fair peering arrangements for postage, basically??
basically, yeah.
Is this going through Congress or Senate? Which representatives are to be called?
- Admin
whoa canada
someone needs to turn down that sass level
Two things to know about Canada!
We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.
We are sorry if you don’t
fun story about the reason they do that (at least in America)
once this lady spilled her McDonald’s coffee on herself and ended up getting like 3rd degree burns and since there was no warning on the cup she was able to claim she didn’t know it would be hot (or at least that hot) and won a lawsuit against McDonald’s for $1 million
That’s what the media smear campaign against her would have you believe, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the McDonald’s in question had previously been cited - on at least two separate occasions - for keeping their coffee so hot that it violated local occupational health and safety regulations. The lady didn’t win her lawsuit because American courts are stupid; she won it because the McDonald’s she bought that coffee from was actively and knowingly breaking the law with respect to the temperature of its coffee at the time of the incident.
(I mean, do you have any idea what a third-degree burn actually is? Third-degree burns involve “full thickness” tissue damage; we’re talking bone-deep, with possible destruction of tissue. Can you even imagine how hot that cup of coffee would have to have been to inflict that kind of damage in the few seconds it was in contact with her skin?)
Yeah I’m tired of people joking about either the “stupid” woman who didn’t know coffee was hot or the “greedy” woman making up bullshit to get money.
She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses.
So they can still legally serve you something that could sear off the end of your tongue or permanently demolish the front of your gums and just give you a big fat middle finger in court. “The label SAID it would be HOT, STUPID.”
obligatory reblog for the great debunking of the usual ignorance spouted about this case
obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement
it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing
watch the documentary Hot Coffee, it lays out all of the facts and examines the response to this case and explains why everything you think you know about this case is bullshit, and explains why tort reform is bullshit in an entertaining and informative manner
The woman injured in Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants was 79 years old at the time of her injuries, and suffered third-degree burns to the pelvic region (including her thighs, buttocks, and groin), which in combination with lesser burns in the surrounding regions caused damage to an area totaling a whopping 22% of her body’s surface. These injuries that required two years of intensive medical care, including multiple skin grafts; during her hospitalization, Stella Liebeck lost around 20% of her starting body weight.
She was uninsured and sued McDonald’s Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I’m not even going to dignify it with any further explanation.
The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid; the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald’s, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000.
Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald’s already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy the coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself.
The Liebeck case was absolutely not an example of litigation-happy Americans expecting corporations to cover their asses for their own stupidity, but we seem determined to remember it that way. It’s an issue of liability, and the allowable lengths of capitalism, and even of the way in which our society is incredibly dangerous for and punitive towards the uninsured, but it was not and is not a frivolous suit. Please check your assumptions and do your research before you turn a burn victim’s suffering into a throwaway punchline.
#don’t fricking get me started on Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants the level of misinformation floating around is staggering#I know that it’s an older case but it still makes me really mad that people treat it as this big dumb thing?#the fact that the media took a serious case and turned it into what it is to us today should piss people off#the level of distortion of facts is astonishing and upsetting and nobody seems to hear about it?#sorry I’m done I just#it upsets me when a legal travesty like this is just dragged out for some#’haha americans are sOOOOOOOo dumb!!1!’ humor#I MEAN GODDAMN IF YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE FUN OF AMERICANS AT LEAST MAKE FUN OF US WITH FACTS OKAY
jesus, i actually didn’t know about any of this, thanks for clearing that up
Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants at the American Museum of Tort Law
The McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case: Know the Facts at Consumer Attorneys of California
Always reblog. The deliberate misinformation/corporate propaganda about this case is misogynist and ageist as FUCK.
If you don’t have time to watch the above documentary there’s a clip of Adam ruins everything on YouTube that covers this
Alright. So, how do I explain this
My country is deeply controlled and manipulated right now. There is anti-lgbt propaganda everywhere you look, from giant banners in the streets, flyers, to adds on the internet and most tv channels.
I’m from Romania. One of the poorest countries in Europe. It is deeply christian, on the orthodox side, and the church now has control over the political and social situation. Our “politicians” are so corrupt they are making laws to make corruption legal, looking out for their friends who already got into delux prisons and hoping they won’t get there as well.
A few years ago, the church created this “union”, and they named themselves “Coaliția pentru familie”. In english it means “The Coalition for the Family”. They have created a series of rules, and these include
1. Writing in the Constitution that marriage can only be between a man and a woman (because i suppose it wasn’t clear enough in their opinion), and making it so it can never be changed.
2. Making abortion illegal. No matter whether it was from rape, incest, or if it meant the death of the mother or/and the child.
3. Making any contraceptive means illegal.
4. Stop women from going to work, making them dependable on their male counterparts/family members. And no, i’m not exaggerating that is actually what they wrote
5. Honestly there are so many more these are just at the top of my head
And, in 2016, the Coalition got approx 3 million votes.
Now, i’m not saying that they faked the votes. They (probably) didn’t. However, i know that most people probably didn’t even know what they were signing. They went in churches and made people vote. My grandmother doesn’t know how to read or write; all she knows is how to make a signature. She goes to church and i wouldn’t be surprised if they made her and people like her vote for things they really don’t understand.
Moving back to 2018. The political situation in Romania is….
Horrible.
On the 10th of August, there was a protest the diaspora organised. They came from countries all around the world back in romania to protest against the horridly corrupt government. The gov got the gendarmerie involved, and so over 450 people got into hospitals, some of them even in critical condition. And nobody is answering, moving the blame from themselves to the protesters themselves. And, amongst all this misery and conflict, in order to distract the people, they decided to have a refferendum. Against gay marriage.
The refferendum is asking whether they should change the constitution in the way the Coalition wants to or not. It costs over 45 million euros, and it’s going to be in 2 different days, 6 and 7 of october. It is very illegal. They complain that it’s not clear enough, but if that were the case it would mean that
a. Gay marriage is already legal, therefore they are depleting people from human rights
b. It’s not legal, making this whole thing absolutely useless.
This is only the beginning. There is no way we can win; the population is still deeply homophobic, racist, xenophobic, sexist, etc etc whatever you can think of, it is. But if this thing passes, then the other “laws” will have a chance too. And so, we’ll be moved back in the eighteenth century.
There is propaganda everywhere, especially in the big cities. These are just a small portion of them:
This internet add hurts a lot. 1918 is a very important year in our history, as it was the year we were able to unify Romania, and it is seen as the wish our people had for hundreds and hundreds of years, and so many people died for that dream. And now, they’re comparing this piece of shit of a refferendum with our nation’s only goal?? On the 100th anniversary????
Newspaper propaganda, where they are comparing gay people to fucking nazis
Tv add
They say “protect our kids” but to be honest with you, i feel anything but protected right now
My hands are shaking as i’m writing this. Our only hope is that people will boicot the ref, but many have been told by their priests that if they don’t go vote, they will publicly be shamed.
Here’s a link to an article that probably explains things better than i did
Romania to hold vote on whether to permanently ban gay marriage | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/romania-gay-marriage-ban-referendum-vote-lgbt-rights-a8541461.html
If anyone has more useful information, like a petition or something, please do not hesitate to add it. The only goal of this post is to bring acknowledgment to people who aren’t from romania, as it seems that nobody knows what is going on. So please, please share.
What a wonderful initiative! Spread the word.
holy shit, spread this like wildfire guys before November
Like when I say ‘white people need to talk to bigots because bigots don’t listen to minorities’ I did not say ‘and it will be easy and fun’.
I know it’s easier to be like ~boo hooo the world is so evil and there’s nothing I can dooo~ but it’s statistically and experientially understood, just by fucking 3rd grade logic, that a bigot will be less amenable towards the subject of their bigotry.
Bigots don’t just ~not like~ minorities- they don’t think we’re human. It’s not about whether they agree with you or not in the moment. Like, pause.
Understand this:
Calls to action for white people to oppose bigotry are calls for white people to position themselves as opposition. THEY ARE NOT CALLS FOR ~SUCCESSFUL DEBATE~
Do not think you are expected nor are you likely to just go around arguing with bigots and they’ll go ‘I agree with you because you’re white!’.
Your job is to be sandpaper.
Every time they open their mouths to make a bigoted joke, or a bigoted remark, or post their shitty bigoted opinion online, you grate against them.
Your job is to make it hard to be a bigot or a fascist. Your job is to ostracize them. Your job is to speak over them the way they love to speak over minorities. Your job is to make it difficult, lonely, annoying, stressful and unwelcome to be a bigot.
When you are white and silent, You are making it easy. You are just letting it happen.
When minorities speak up for themselves, they are in danger, and the bigot just writes off our arguments as the chattering of ‘lessers’.
You, white people, whether you think so or not, are their peers.
Specifically those of you who look and talk like, to an outside observation, your average white american.
Bigots think you all think like them, but are too scared to say it. That, or you’re too much of a coward to stop them.
YOUR JOB IS TO PUSH BACK AND PROVE THEM WRONG.
YOUR JOB IS TO SEPARATE THEM FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
There are devils among you and if you want to stop being associated with them then fucking prove it. You’re pretty much the only people who can.
Take note. Allyship ain’t fun and games. It’s work. - Kalilah
I love this. Privileged people: Your job is to be sandpaper.
On their own, fascists and bigots of all stripes are weak. Solidarity across cultures stops them, because they only have power when the world thinks they do and grants it to them. Isolated, they’re revealed as aberrant and unstable, as sickly worms gnawing on the roots of society.
Every time you encounter mico-aggressions, hate-motivated “humor,” hate speech, and other sh*tty behaviors, demonstrate that these deviants are alone, that they don’t represent your beliefs.
Use whatever privilege you possess to stand up, speak out, and - when necessary - act against hate.
Never tolerate intolerance. Your silence is seen as unspoken acceptance.
Together, we can change the world. But we need to work together. Stand against those who would destroy. Stand in solidarity with the oppressed.
gentle reminder in this cold-n-flu season to not take mucinex if you’re also taking an SSRI (antidepressant)
always google “drug interactions [insert drug names]” to make sure that combining meds won’t make you more sick
mucinex DM specifically
the dextromethorphan reacts badly with the serotonin and can cause really bad anxiety and insomnia. it can also cause something called serotonin syndrome, or serotonin poisoning.
regular mucinex is ok, but you should always double check medication reactions!
dextromethorphan also reacts with bupropion (wellbutrin) which is not an ssri (like lexapro or zoloft) and is used to treat anxiety and eating disorders in addition to depression! even if you aren’t on an ssri for depression, double check the interactions of your specific anxiety and depression meds (and other mental illness medications) just to be safe
Here’s a good resource for checking drug interactions!
May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨
can we please stop reblogging that post about david bowie being a p-dophile because he supposedly slept with an underage groupie
the groupie, lori mattix, said in an interview with thrillist that she lost her virginity to him in 1973 when she was 15. but in an earlier interview with paul trynka, she claimed it happened in october 1972 when she was only 14. she also completely changed the narrative, first saying she snuck into his hotel room and later deciding he approached her at a restaurant.
also, according to another ex-groupie, she was confirmed in a relationship with jimmy page in the summer of 1972, well before bowie ever toured in california, where she lived.
he was pretty vocal about his stance against p-dophilia as he wrote “shopping for girls” about child trafficking in thailand, threatened to fire his drummer for sending teenage girls to his hotel room, and refused to perform the kiss scene written into the movie labyrinth because jennifer connelly was 14 at the time.
its good to fact check before spreading accusations as serious as this, especially about an activist who campaigned against racism against aboriginal people in australia, openly criticized MTV for not playing music videos by black artists, and, with his wife iman, donated millions of dollars to various human rights organizations in the third world.
Guys, PLEASE REBLOG THIS. Even if you’re not a HUGE fan, reblogging this will do a lot of people a lot of good
I am sick and tired of stories about how “her innocence and purity is the only thing that can defeat the darkness”. You don’t defeat the darkness by being innocent and pure. You defeat the darkes by kicking and clawing and raging. You defeat the darkness muddy and sweaty and bloodstained and on you knees. You defeat the darkness by raging war on hell until the devil himself begs you for mercy. You don’t defeat the darkness by singing to squirrels and being a virgin. Stop telling little girls that any woman who slays her enemies with her own two hands can not be good or kind. I’m not saying you shouldn’t sing to the squirrels. Sing to the fucking squirrels, but you better get your claws out when the knights of hell come to call because your “innocence and purity” are sure as hell not gonna defeat them. I’m all for the disney-princess-stuff, but women aren’t split into virgin princesses and evil queens. I know a lot of people have a hard time grasping this, but warrior princesses can sing to squirrels to. ♥🌹
Warrior princesses can sing to squirrels too ♥️
Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
Reblog to actually save a life
Serious matter time!!!
There’s a new label pedophiles are using to defind themselves, SOMAP. This means Semi-Offending Minor Attracted Person. And guess what!! It’s fucked up!!
This disgusting blog made the term and is also into beastiality.
This is fucked up, and you know how much Tumblr LOVES it’s users? They aren’t going to do anything about these literal illegal actions. So, if you see someone calling themself a somap, this means they’ve probably done some fucked up shit!! Watch out guys, and please stay safe.
BY THE WAY:
if you think pedophilia is a sexual orientation,
if you identify as a MAP/SOMAP whatever,
if you support the age of consent being lowered,
YOU ARE NOT WELCOME ON MY BLOG. LEAVE!!
Edit: The blog, which I recommend blocking, is pinkpetal-pedo! Again, watch out and keep safe.
THIS IS DISGUSTING.
BOOST!!
can everyone who agrees with this nasty somap/map shit just die in a fire already? like honestly, just do animals and children a favor already.
Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.
Guys, this is really important. Until now, Google collected your data, but did not attach your name to it. Now, they can, and will. This new thing they’re doing will allow them to collect your data across searches, your email, Youtube, Maps, Google+, and all their affiliates, and build a complete profile of YOU.
If that doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: they own and can sell all that data, including anything you create and send (artists and writers, take note).
There is a way you can opt out of this ridiculousness. It’s described in the link, but if you’re still not sure about it, please ask me and I’ll guide you through how to turn all this off.
This is my wake-up call. I’ll be locking down my devices and scaling back what I put through the big Google machine, which means you may see less of me across social media. I’m going to keep researching this, but it may mean in order to keep the rights to my creative work, I’ll have to keep it out of Google’s hands. And that may take some doing.
Duckduckgo is a nontracking search engine….may be worth a try.
So according to the article there is an opt out for this. Instructions are I the last paragraph. I’m on mobile so I’ll edit this more later. EDITED TO INCLUDE OPT OUT INSTRUCTIONS
To opt-out of Google’s identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Google’s My Account page, and uncheck the box next to “Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services.“ You can also delete past activity from your account.
FUCKING BOOST!!!!!
Just did this. The opt out and deletion process was easy and painless. Considering what we’ve seen of data breaches and the fact that Google straight up deleted their “Don’t be evil” clause? It seemed worth it to me.
ARTICLE 11 AND 13 HAVE BEEN REJECTED
The European Parliament voted against the Copyright Directive in a 318-278 vote. It will be debated in full in September leading to a new proposal. We won this battle, but the war is not over yet.
I am so worried about Article 11 and 13 that are being voted on tomorrow. If they pass, and I know it won’t happen overnight, it will mean a total and complete filtering of all content being uploaded to any website in the European Union, which will block any unauthorized use of content. It means no more transformative works - no more of my gifsets, no more of pretty fanart and fan edits and meta-posts and gif reactions and much, much more of what makes a fandom experience.
If the Articles pass, it means the gifs I’ve been making for the past 6 years on this website will potentially become illegal. It means that every single reaction gif you have saved in a folder will not be able to be uploaded again. It means that any picture, any media, any song, any video you post will be scanned and potentially filtered off the internet because of these filters.
It will also mean that any citation you make, or any hotlinking you make, might become illegal if you can’t pay a fee to the press you’re linking to.
Whereas article 11 makes it illegal to link to copyrighted material (wtf??), article 13 makes it illegal to upload content of which you do not have ownership.
Knowing how well that’s working for YouTube so far, you can imagine how well it’d work if it rolled out onto the rest of the Internet.
It is WORSE than Net Neutrality. This is a censorship machine.
The vote for or against happens tomorrow, July 5th. If you can, leave a voice mail, an e-mail or a tweet to your MEPs so they wake up to them tomorrow - and sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet
Both articles came from a good place - to limit Fake News and other disruptions, but their current wordings are disastrous and they MUST be reworked.
We have a little under a day left to fight it.
Do it with all your might.
