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i once again want to say that hulu used to be entirely free with ads, and if you watched two minutes worth of commercials at the start of an episode the next 24 hours would be commercial-free. and now you pay $11.99 per month to watch things with commercials. what the fuck are we doing and how did we allow this to happen lol.

1five1two

masculine energy this feminine energy that. well i’m out of energy

batbetbitbotbut

need me some of this "renewable energy" I keep hearing about

cosmonautroger

sometiktoksarevalid

steampunktendencies

This is a literal "Hammerhead" shark created by artist Matt Sanders.

The sculpture is made from 685 reclaimed steel hammer heads and weighs 500 lbs (about 227 kg). It took approximately 2,500 hours of work to weld together. Sanders even used sledgehammers for the eye sockets and ball-peen hammers for the eyes to give it a realistic look.

It was displayed at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California and remains one of the coolest examples of upcycled art out there.

baelonthebrave

biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

chemists will be like this is a molecule

blackwoolncrown

okay but this is what the best render of a human cell looks like

They are not kidding

normal-horoscopes

We are full of so many fuckign guys

dianapocalypse

yellow-cat

help! my dog is sharp

yellow-cat

help. i cant fathom the sharp edges of my dog

yellow-cat

help. its something else now

kreftropod

feyosha

IT IS SAID THAT LOVE CAN SOOTHE THE SAVAGE BEAST

kaity--did

I know the allure of negativity and losing all hope is so strong but you can't! That's what those fuckers want! You have to be radically hopeful, out of spite god damnit

kabaks

i think we need to abolish subscriptions. im tired of remembering passwords and giving out my email. check out as guest, no you may not know my name. die

liberalsarecool

We need real journalism and and independent press. Language matters.

24ozsteak

you ever just hand things to ur pet to sniff so they can feel included

gaytanic-panic

tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020

findingfeather

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.

One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”

I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”

“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”

Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.

And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”

The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.

“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”

The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”

“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”

So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.

But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well.

Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.

What the whole world would look like.

Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.

If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

myfatfuckingface

That Vonnegut quote brings this particular moment to mind:

Yes, it’s just a pie. Yes, the pie itself doesn’t do much direct damage in the grand scheme of things. But the pie is resistance, and resistance inspires resistance. Resistance inspires survival. Throwing pies sometimes starts a movement. Throwing pies sometimes saves lives.

And of course, we haven’t spoken about the inherent morality of throwing pies at oppressors in a world where oppressors have outlawed pie throwing. At the very least, pie throwing is a reminder to the oppressors that no matter how much money they have, no matter how much power they have, there are still some people, some moments they can’t control.

I’d rather go out throwing pies than just rolling over and accepting that pie throwing isn’t going to solve anything. Yeah, the pie throwing doesn’t immediately solve the problem, but it doesn’t have to because it’s just a starting point. So throw the damn pie.

holy-muffins

So throw the damn pie

exwife-of-frankenstein

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runawaymarbles

I think that like. Look. I don't really want to get into an arugment about the ethics of violent action. But I will say that from a stance of pure messaging, going up against black bloc protestors gives law enforcement a chance to look cool and tough and macho. But trying to fight a bunch of guys in inflatable frog suits doing the cha-cha slide makes them look like fucking morons. Especially when they have to go on TV and act like the guys in frog suits are a national security threat. They look like little babies that are scared of sports mascots, and the longer they do it the more support they lose.