Call of the Running Tide

Bennett. 23. Taken. Studying electrical engineering. Trying to get out of Boston. Guns, tall ships, mountains, the ocean.

[sea-room]

I’m out.

If you need to reach me, ask @mountain–miss, @bears-for-the-bear-god, @gruene-teufel, or @brittania-rex and they can put you in contact with me.

[tha-guy17]

When he clears the camber with the second kick

[northern-lady]

Yosemite 2011

[adream30]

[autumnhollow]

by: waterfall2704

[stepintomymindforawhile]

[europhobics]

Apple Diversity Chief Apologizes For Saying White People Can Be Diverse

Apple VP of Inclusion and Diversity Denise Young Smith apologized on Friday for saying that a group of "blue-eyed blonde men" can contribute to diversity because of their "different life experiences."

From the original article:

At the One Young World Summit in Bogota, Colombia, last week, Smith joined Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and KPMG International’s Global Head of Corporate Citizenship Lord Michael Hastings on stage in a panel discussion covering racial injustice. Moderated by Quartz reporter Aamna Mohdin, the session focused on the broader implications of diversity in the workplace.

[…]

“Diversity is the human experience,” Smith said. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.” That particular comment went over well with the assembled crowd, but Smith caught flak for a follow up. “There can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” Smith said.

Media outlets pounced on the statement, while diversity advocates decried Smith’s words as contradictory to the fight for workplace equality. As noted by TechCrunch, which procured a copy of Smith’s letter, the statement appeared to suggest diversity of thought is a suitable stand in for proactive hiring practices adopted by a variety of tech firms, including Apple, to foster racial and gender diversity.

[…]

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

Imagine getting this offended because a black woman says that diversity should be about getting different perspectives, rather than about filling racial or gender quotas.

[thevoluntaryist-deactivated2018]

Things more disrespectful to the American flag than kneeling.

Secret FISA courts

The government’s support of ISIS in Syria

Laws infringing on the 2nd Amendment

Targeting your political opposition with the IRS

Prosecuting people who expose government crimes as traitors

Sending America’s youth to fight in preemptive and  unconstitutional wars of aggression that never end

Free speech zones

Career politicians

A powerful central government

Killing family pets during no-knock raids at the wrong address

Shooting unarmed people who are having a mental illness crisis

Bailing out bankers

Taking money from poor people in America and using it to prop up rich dictators  while calling it “foreign aid”

Mandating that people must purchase a product they don’t want or face penalties

[rate-my-reptile]

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL dirt and you may find A Friend And Boy…

[wombshaker]

i love speaking with people who are more intelligent in a certain field than i am, like it’s just great to sit back and listen to somebody educate you on shit they’re passionate about

[motoriginal]

Jeep Brute

[lobo-de-luna-deactivated2018082]

[eyestothe-skies]

[goodbyeobama2]

[gunslingerearp]

It can be literally 5 minutes and we’ll do this

[enrique262]

♥ Cute Date Ideas ♥

Stopping the encirclement of the German 18th Army at Krasny Bor.

[schuetzengrabenmints-deactivate]

The Hiroshima mushroom cloud, through a window in one of the three B-29s which went on the bombing run.

This image was either taken from The Great Artiste or Necessary Evil.  The Great Artiste was equipped with blast measurement instrumentation, and Necessary Evil served as a strike observation and photography aircraft.  Aboard both aircraft were Manhattan Project civilians belonging to Project Alberta, who’s mission was to assist and observe the delivery of the atomic weapons used against Japan during World War II.