LucyNewChrist

[howiviewafrica]

A Urine Powered Generator. An amazing accomplishment by four brilliant girls. The girls are are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).

    1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.

The system works like this:

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.

The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.

The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.

This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

[japesofwrath]

This is amazing. Give them a billion dollars right now. They may have just saved the planet. 

[thefontnazi-deactivated20121115]

folks are doing a PISS poor job of reblogging this.

[nowyoukno]

Source for more facts on your dash follow NowYouKno

[the-treble-deactivated20160823]

That was super nice of them.

And now I’m mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause that’s really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.

[rice-to-the-occasion]

American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because “nobody helped the US in our disasters.”

>.>

Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O

[awesomonster]

It isn’t just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:

“Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]”

So its not just “they gave us 14 cows”, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people don’t know about it.

[gweatherwax]

Wait, you guys DON’T KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????

Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks). 

We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that’s needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations. 

The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.

And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:

Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts

‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

So please, don’t you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT Y’ALL REFUSED IT. 

[randomthingsthatilike1]

Oh wow I had no idea this happened it’s really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow

[jadedhavok]

I’m so angry.

I didn’t know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, that’s something we, the people, should hear about and we don’t.

Please don’t blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We don’t have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they keep a lot from us.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Spread this shit. 

[twixieshores]

After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most generous nation on earth.

[fanfckery]

Okay, Katrina thing. Only Texans really knows this? and even then it’s not wide spread. Mexico sent their army. They sent their army for relief efforts. Didn’t call ahead, they drove all the way to San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies. When people actually got a call from them saying “Hey, we’re sending people up.” The people who answered said “What? We can’t…” “Too late, already there.” This was while the government was turning down help. So yeah, other countries send relief. Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to assist. Like… we don’t hear about this shit. At all.

[awellboiledicicle]

I can second the above with the fires. 

Most the time, when people say “oh FEMA or something sent people right?” re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them. 

If there’s a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up it’s ass, help is offered and most the time– shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if it’s talked about at all. 

They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a fireman’s a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth. 

We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while ago– not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer “this is horrible and we’re helping” and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and people’s important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace. 

What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to “but our people can handle it because we’re the best at handling things” and then they move on before the idea it’s out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impact– by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the “eh, we can handle it and everyone else out there– they need our help because they’re not so good at handling disasters like we are.” People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of community– we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because they’re considered unimportant.  Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that they’ll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if it’s in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually they’re rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless aren’t important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.

So, when we do get help for any of the above, it’s possible that most people may have no idea about what’s happened, let alone that help’s been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vague– the news don’t care to give the nitty gritty. You’ll know something happened and people are suffering and “gee, isn’t it good you’re not them” and then now the weather.

So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.

[petitepenquin]

International response to Hurricane Katrina:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina 

We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it

[evilelitest2]

American Media really fails regularly 

[iammyfather]

Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring power.  California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and having outside TV News does to your information flow.

[lucynewchrist]

Long thread. Very informative.

[wilwheaton]

I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, but I've watched the Cards Against Humanity episode of Table Top twice now. I cackle loudly throughout, even knowing the horrible responses. Thank you.

There is no shame in this, at all. WATCH IT AGAIN WITH THE SOUND TURNED UP TO ELEVEN.

[lucynewchrist]

Ahhh ELEVEN.

It gets better.

[ultrafacts]

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[lucynewchrist]

"I will cut you like a fish." 😂

[bellygangstaboo]

I’m sure we hear more about him in the future. We have got to get these kids to understand that striving to be a rapper, football and basketball player is not the only thing out there. Unfortunately, kids make fun of kids who get good grades or are in honor classes because they don’t view it as being cool. It is critical to stop the bullying and stop that mentality. At some point the cycle of poverty needs to stop somewhere within a family. A child that focuses on school and graduates high school and moves on to college helps end the perpetuation of repeating the cycle of uneducated people in a family structure. When that child graduates and hopefully moves on to a great career. Numerous inventors were black.. THIS is what our youth should focus on, strive for!

[lucynewchrist]

Super cool.

[ipsadixit]

Let’s give credit where credit is due: Women’s March organizers Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour 

[w4stey]

i find the lack of notes disturbing.

[cockingballs]

don’t ever let the fact that women of color had a huge hand in organizing the biggest worldwide protest in global history be erased

[swan2swan]

“You simply melt right in

It doesn’t matter what your skin

It doesn’t matter where you’re from

Or your religion”

[refinery29]

This is the power of a sanctuary city standing up for immigrants’ and refugees’ rights against the xenophobic machinery of Donald Trump

If you live in New York City, keep this information in mind in case you see racist or Islamophobic harassment. If you don’t live in NYC or another sanctuary city, call your mayor to demand they declare your city a sanctuary city now! Read more about what’s at stake for so many undocumented young people here.

[blackness-by-your-side]

This woman is a hero. Freddie Oversteegen was only 14-years-old when she and her sister Truus joined the Dutch resistance during the second World War, now she’s 90.

“I remember how people were taken from their homes,” she said in a recent interview with Vice. “The Germans were banging on doors with the butts of their rifles—that made so much noise, you’d hear it in the entire neighborhood. And they would always yell—it was very frightening.”

There were times when Freddie Oversteegen and her family were living in a boat where they were hiding Jewish couples and kids and people from Lithuania in the hold of the ship. When she turned 14 she got brief military training and learned to shoot and to march.

This story highlights the fact that women always make history on their own not asking for credits for their contribution. 

So many brave women are unfairly forgotten. This is unacceptable! Freddie Oversteegen’s story deserves to be told! 

[sexemulators]

[lucynewchrist]

Must remember.

[ollebosse]

by Zofia Rydet

[lucynewchrist]

"She said, 'There's something in the woodshed, and I can hear it breathing; it's such an eerie feeling.'"

[blazepress]

Sun rays shine on the warm breath of a polar bear.

[buttbuttgoose]

Alternate caption: Fire-breathing polar bear shows off his skills

[thatsmoderatelyraven]

The real cause of global warming

[led-leviathan]

But everything changed when the Fire Bears attacked

[thetrippytrip]

[rawr-booklover]

OMG

[lucynewchrist]

Best footnote.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Mummies are just upper-class zombies.

[lucynewchrist]

I read this as the parenting variety of mummies. Yup, valid.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Underwater sculpture honoring Africans thrown overboard from the slave ships

This is huge. Honoring our ancestors.

[lucynewchrist]

Beautiful.

[thenerdsaurus]

Meet The 2018 Winter Olympic Nigerian Women’s Bobsled Team

“Seun Adigun, a former Team USA bobsled break(wo)man has teamed up with Akuoma Omeoga and Ngozi Onwumere to spearhead the first African bobsled team in the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics Games. In South Korea 2018, the Winter Games will welcome Africa’s first-ever contestants in the bobsled games..”

[lucynewchrist]

Looking forward to it!