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gas cloud get squished (gravitational collapse) then sometimes smaller elements can squish together to make bigger elements (nuclear fusion) and this continues as long as the smolest elements (hydrogen and helium) are in the core
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Watch: The most wonderful moment of joy came when he entered a Nazi guard bungalow.
We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isnât infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.
Really truly, watch the video, reblog it. Teaching about the holocaust is so necessary for our generation before it slips under the rug and people forget about it.
The only time Iâll reblog a mic.com post
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okay, iâm just putting this out here because it needs to be said and iâm sick of letting the bullshit train continue when i could help stop - or at least bring attention to - it. i have a friend who is diplegic and therefore uses a manual chair (her twin was also quadriplegic and in a motorized chair) and when we watch movies with wheelchairs in them, we like to critique the designs.
do you know why mcavoy couldnât/canât drive his motorized wheelchair? BECAUSE THE FUCKING WHEELS ARE ON THE WRONG WAY. HANK MCCOY, WHO IS SUPPOSEDLY AÂ âGENIUSâ, DESIGNED THE WHEELCHAIR SO THE BIG WHEELS ARE ON THE FRONT AND THE SMALL WHEELS ARE ON THE BACK.
LOOK!
LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. DO YOU KNOW WHY HE CANâT DRIVE IT? THE SMALL WHEELS ARE AT THE FRONT BECAUSE THEY ARE SMALL AND THEREFORE ALLOW FOR LOTS OF FINE CONTROL, AND THE BIG WHEELS ARE AT THE BACK BECAUSE THEY OFFER POWER. WHEN THE BIG WHEELS ARE ON THE FRONT IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO CONTROL WHERE YOU ARE GOING. ITâS LIKE WHEN YOU WALK BACKWARDS ON A BIKE AND TRY TO STEER STILL WITH THE HANDLEBARS. I SAT BACKWARDS ON MY FRIENDâS MANUAL CHAIR AND TRIED TO WHEEL MYSELF. IT WAS LIKE COMPLETELY REWIRING MY MOTOR SKILLS EVERY SECOND I WAS MOVING. IT. IS. BULLSHIT. AND ALL OF CHARLESâ CHAIRS ARE LIKE THIS!!! HANK!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!
ALSO. Charles would have THE WORST backpain from that stiff-ass unnecessary fuckin metal backrest that goes all the way up. YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLEâS BACKS GET UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN SITTING FOR HOURS ON A LONG PLANE OR CAR RIDE???? YOU KNOW THAT FEELING??? THAT FEELING ISÂ THIS CHARLESâ LIFE, OKAY. HIS BACK HAS TO BE UNNATURALLY STRAIGHT ALL THE TIME. THIS CRITIQUE IS TAKEN FROM MY FRIENDâS EXPERIENCE BECAUSE SHE ALSO HAS A HARD BACK CHAIR AND HAS BEEN TOLD SHEâS GOING TO HAVE AWFUL BACK AND SHOULDER PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF IT. YET HARD BACKS ARE STANDARD AND SLING BACKS - LIKE THE ONE IâM GOING TO SHOW YOU IN A SECOND - ARE NOT! THIS IS BECAUSE THE WHEELCHAIR-GETTING SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN AND ITâS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD REALLY CARE ABOUT BUT IT IS A RANT FOR ANOTHER DAY). THE POINT IS, CHARLESâ BACK IS ONE HURTINâ UNIT IN THIS CHAIR I GUARANTEE YOU. HE OBVIOUSLY DOESNâT NEED IT FOR TRUNK CONTROL. HE HAS AMAZINGLY FREE RANGE OF MOVEMENT ABOVE HIS HIPS. THIS CHAIR IS Â B U L L S H I T. HE CANâT DRIVE, HE CANâT SIT UP IN A COMFORTABLE WAY. POOR BABY IS H U R T I N G Â but right, Hankâs ~~a genius~~
In contrast, look at this chair!
Look at those tiny-ass wheels on the front! The user of this could spin ON A DIME. Itâs Nice as Fuck. Look at that back. (Okay Iâm not 1000% certain itâs a slingback) but it doesnât go all the way up the userâs back! Thatâs some free-range-of-movement-let-your-spine-do-almost-anything-it-wants-shit right there. Since Charles pretty clearly has full use of his trunk in the movies, this would make much more sense. Also, Ann (friend) and I really donât see why he would want an electric wheelchair when he clearly could have a manual one that allows for even more control.Â
AND OKAY, all wheelchairs should be specific to their users. Some people need more back support. In Annâs quadriplegic brotherâs chair there was a neck brace and little wing things on the side that came out and clamped around his body. Some peopleâs foot rests need to go out like Charlesâ does (whether or not he requires this is kind of foggy, espc. since the overall design is so. asinine.). Some need their footrests to be more in like the orange chair. Some people get tilted wheels, some people donât. (Also the process for deciding this is bullshit - on government insurance they will only build your chair with the assumption that you will never leave your house and therefore itâs almost impossible to get âadd onsâ like sling backs and tilted wheels and under-the-seat brakes WHICH SHOULD BE STANDARD, AGAIN, BECAUSE IF YOU DONâT HAVE THEM YOU COULD HAVE MORE MEDICAL ISSUES DOWN THE ROAD OMG THIS SYSTEM IS SO BROKEN).Â
But I think we can ALL fucking agree that your wheels should go on the goddamn correct way so you can, you know, steer. And that maybe your chair should be designed more like a mobility assistance device than a fucking 1860âČs gentlemanâs club wingback for no goddamn earthly reason.
SHIT this stuff gets me riled up.
wow this is really interesting and makes a lot of sense! New headcanon is that Charles only uses the ridiculous X-chair when heâs teaching a class but the second he has spare time he settles into a wheelchair like the one below and just goes âaahhhhhhhhâ
@spiftynifty is absolutely right, I was about to criticise his wheelchair as well, but then I noticed that he uses a completely different one when he is actually outside with Hank and Summers brothers (sorry for super bad quality)
Let me reblog this with an addition because YOU SHOULD STILL ABSOLUTELY CRITICIZE HIS WHEELCHAIR. Yes, he uses the manual wheelchair outside. Wanna know why?Â
Regular motorized wheelchairs are REALLY REALLY heavy. Charlesâ motorized chair, even if its a light weight alloy, is made ENTIRELY out of metal. Itâs probably too heavy for wheeling through gravel and across the lawn. He would sink. Also, let me re-iterate, ITS WHEELS ARE CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY TOO POORLY TO HAVE ANY CONTROL WHATSOEVER. THE *WHEELS* ARE GODDAMN METAL, IMAGINE WHEN ITS ICY OUTSIDE. YEAH. YEAH, ITâS NOT GOOD. And when itâs not icy and heâs trying to wheel across the grass with those stupid-ass wheels â into the pond he goes. Also, Hank put the motor like one fucking inch off the goddamn ground so when the HEAVY WHEELCHAIR inevitably SINKSâŠâŠâŠ. Yeah. Charles is up the creek without a paddle.
As for this manual chair, it is also subpar. Although the wheels are mercifully in the right place, it looks too small for him. The wheels need to come up higher so that when he wheels himself, the rim grips are right there. Also, his arms should be able to go back pretty far on the wheels. Where they are now, you can only get a little bit behind your hips (again, speaking from experience). The high back on this chair AGAIN restricts his movement in this aspect. Charles probably will have shoulder pain that may result in surgery down the road with this chair (because it looks SO MUCH like Annâs chair and thatâs exactly what Ann has been told will happen to her).Â
Second of all: I understand youâre just trying to make canon work and are not being bad people (please believe me, I know this), but absolutely no disabled person should have to switch chairs for mobility purposes multiple times a day. These chairs should be built for every day needs. Is wheeling on carpet a bitch with a manual chair? YOU BETCHA! Easy fix: take away the rugs; itâs Charlesâ house. Is it more exhausting to go up hills in a manual? Oh my god, I donât know how people do it, it is the worst. But maybe thatâs a struggle that should be shown, instead of magically having him transfer to a new chair whenever a new problem arises? Think: would you like to cart around 47 different mobility devices that you would have to transfer in and out of just because your house and/or your chair, is not built for your life convenience? Maybe they should just build the chair better. It is a part of Charles and it always will be. BUILD. IT. BETTER. Charles is lucky enough to be a multimillionare with his own lab/engineer to build chairs for him. Hank is 100% capable of making a chair that would defy any disabled personâs wildest dreams. ExceptâŠ. itâs apparently more important that we just make the chair âlook coolâ. Never mind that 1. It doesnât, 2. WHEELCHAIRS THAT WORK FOR DISABLED PEOPLE ACTUALLY CAN LOOK COOL TOO!! WHAT A CONCEPT.
I am just sick and tired of the way disabled people are portrayed in film and media 99% of the time. Wheelchairs are not sick gadgets to do whatever the fuck you want with. They are actual mobility devices that millions of people use, and truthfully representing the lives of those people is important. And hey, wheelchairs are fucking cool! They donât need art direction to make them be chill! They just need good design, that again, reflects the ACTUAL LIFE the character lives. These are MOBILITY ASSISTANCE DEVICES. They are their legs. It is completely impractical and inconsiderate to think that a disabled person should just hop from chair to chair whenever the need arises.
Well, that was almost a spiritual experience. Thank you for that, madneto. I learned a ton from your righteous wrath.
I have nothing more to say.
LOL, I love Bonesâs version - itâs so true!
Fascism is here.
I hate this. I hate it so much. We havenât âtaken our country backâ, all the leave voters have done is split the country right down the middle, with immigrants and decent, apologetic people on one side and racists on the other side who now feel they have a sense of legitimacy for their hate because of a referendum that was conducted following a misinformed and blatantly false propaganda campaign.
this makes me so fucking sick
Iâm at least 75% convinced that Britan voted to leave the EU purely out of the knee-jerk British impulse to say âfuck youâ to anything France is involved with.Â
Thatâs actually the reason they didnât want in to begin with. Also, the General de Gaulle (French President when they joined in) always said âGuys donât let the Brits in theyâll just nitpick and be jerks and go away when we wonât do exactly as they wantâ.Â
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
Literally the last 1,000 years of English-French history has been them hating each other and going to war with each other every other year for trifling matters.Â
WW2 they were allies, but it was a weird sort of âOnly weâre allowed to go to war with France dammitâ thing.Â
Ever since I embraced a loose and permeable version of polyamory, falling in love with my closest friends has stopped being a problem
It helps that I expanded my definition of desire into the platonic realm So now I consider that I have a few platonic, semi-platonic, and non-platonic lovers, who I can have different degrees of physical contact with But the one constant is this incredibly vast emotional depth - if we can explore each othersâ psyches and be there for each other, no matter how much time has past or how far away we are, then weâre lovers And the radical honesty, because I am so so done with holding back and restraining myself, and if you canât handle all of that, you say so, but we negotiate openly and explicitly Those are pretty much my conditions for anything other than a familial, professional, or casual relationship: - Some kind of more-than-usual physical contact - Emotional depth - Radical honesty
âPeace, peace. Thank you, Debra, thank you, BET. Thank you Nate Parker, Harry (Belafonte), and Debbie Allen for participating in that. Before we get into it, I just wanna sayâŠyou know, I brought my parents out tonight. I just wanna thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career. That uh, they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also to thank my amazing wife for changing my life.
Now, this awardâŠthis is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country, the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. Alright?
Itâs kind of basic mathematics. The more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.
Now, what we have been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow managed to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So whatâs gonna happen is we are gonna have equal rights and justice in our own country, or we will restructure their function and ours.
NowâŠI got more, yâall. Yesterday wouldâve been young Tamir Riceâs 14th birthday. So I donât want to hear anymore about how âfar weâve comeâ when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12 year old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich.
Tell Rekia Boyd how much better it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt.
Now the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isnât gonna stop this, alright? Now dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someoneâs brand on our body, when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies. And now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies?
There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we havenât done, thereâs no tax they havenât levied against us and weâve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow conditional here. âYouâre free,â they keep telling us. âBut see, she wouldâve been alive if she hadnât acted soâŠfree.â
Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter. You know what though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And letâs get it straight, a little sidenote:
The freedom of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. Thatâs not our job. Alright? Stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interests in equal rights for black people, do not make suggestions for those that do. Sit down.
Weâve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo. And weâre done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment, like oil, black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them. Gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.
The thing is though, just because weâre magic doesnât meant weâre not real. Thank you.â
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Norman Smith, the BBCâs assistant political editor just said that this has been a very British revolution, âno shots have been fired, no blood has been spilled.â
AN MP WAS MURDERED IN THE STREET! SHE WAS SHOT AND STABBED AND KICKED!
FFS!
Heâs parroting Farage. What a complete and utter wank stain.
and Marine Le Pen is asking for a referendum for France to leave the EU
plz noÂ
just no
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Just a few thoughts on this monumental morning
Well, what a great start.Â
Honestly I feel betrayed
20+ years Iâve lived as a European in the UK. Everybody knows a European here, everybody works with, or teaches, or is taught by, a European in the big cities. And yet. I am over and over again surprised that the British people can vote against minorities and disenfranchised people - and not even in their interests! British people arenât voting in their best interests!!! I dunno, this is all confused and messed up, Iâm not expressing myself properly, but I feel betrayed.
