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Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

fridjitzu

scarletgoldenthorn

Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.

deniedmysign

Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.

inushiek

Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy

mllemusketeer

I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.

greaseonmymouth

also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.

blackwoolncrown

The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.

best-of-memes

The shadow on his shirt makes it look like the guy in the back is badly photoshopped into the picture.

adeles

Who am I? I am a girl who loves my island. I’m the girl who loves the sea It calls me. I am the daughter of the village chief. We are descended from voyagers. Who found their way across the world. They call me. I’ve delivered us to where we are. I have journeyed farther. I am everything I’ve learned and more. Still it calls me.

theweirdwideweb

marvelsmostwanted

Turns out that healthcare is more expensive than one (1) iPhone

nitramaraho

Here have a vine compilation that I made and enjoy I’m not late to the party or anything

katswenski

pattythenest

Are you fucking kidding me

browsedankmemes

gogomrbrown

SHOOK

Damn

whoa

omgosh

I…see exactly what you did there

wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva

If any of y'all try to say, “We survived Reagan, we’ll survive this,” expect a fucking earful from me.

Have you ever noticed that young gay men seem to vastly, overwhelmingly outnumber old gay men?

We most certainly did NOT survive Reagan.

penbrydd

As someone who personally survived the Reagan/Thatcher years, I’m gonna second this. The minimal margin by which some extremely fortunate and possibly privileged members of our community crawled out of the smouldering wreckage of that period is not actually a sign that ‘we’ survived. We, as a cultural group, lost so much and so many that modern LGBT+ culture is essentially reinventing the wheel as far as cultural concepts go. We didn’t survive. We started over.

dancinbutterfly

This. Its true for LGBTQ people with Reagan and you know what? It’s true for us and these MOTHERFUCKING NAZIS. Jews didn’t “survive” the Holocaust. They killed 6 million of us which prevented more than ten million of us from EVER BEING BORN due solely to Nazi exterminations and nothing else. And aside from murdering us like we were on an assembly line, Nazis just like Bannon and Trump’s people systemically destroyed more than a thousand years of European Jewish culture, history, literature, religious teachings, architecture and just general knowledge in about a dozen countries by destroying them (books, records, personal property, businesses and synagogues), or giving away to gentiles (books, art, jewelry, private homes, privately owned businesses, livestock, pets, personal possessions) so we wouldn’t have the resources either to put those communities back together afterwards.

Look around Europe today. Where are the Jews? Find one, go on. You’ll find a few, maybe but not many. We don’t live there anymore because we weren’t just wiped out, we were also driven away. We had to start over in new countries that spoke new languages with dead relatives and a failed world on our backs. We were destroyed and we still haven’t picked up the pieces - not with the stats showing Judaism on a decline all around the world. So not again, goddamnit. Not to anyone else.

amireal2u

Modern Hebrew as its used today is only about 50 or 60 years old. It had to be RECONSTITUTED from biblical Hebrew. THOUSANDS of modern words had to be created, in fact a system to create the words had to be created (i.e. how nouns and verbs are related, someone runs, they are a runner) so that it was somewhat organic. Because we lost so much. It is possible that without the staggering black hole of history some of the other common dialects would have taken their place as the main language, but the truth is a concerted effort had to be made to recreate Jewish History and Culture.

deadcatwithaflamethrower

The next four years are not just about surviving. They are about fighting back. They are about PROTECTING those under attack.

Never forget. Not any of this.

kingrudegyalchina

Yikes

musiqlxvechild

This is terrifying

philosophercat-deactivated20220

FUCKERS THROWIN IN WITH LGBT+ NAH, GET OUTTA HERE

upperstories

Very angry about at least 3 things 1. Pedophelia is not equatable to being trans or homosexual because NEWSFLASH neither trans people nor homosexuals pride themselves in victimizing and taking advantage of children SEXUALLY. Being trans doesn’t put children in danger. Being homosexual doesn’t victimize other people. Being a pedophile does. 2. Pedophiles are taking advantage of social justice terminology and giving it a worse image than it already has 3. BEING GAY AND TRANS IS NOT EQUATED TO ASSAULTING CHILDREN!!!!! PEDOPHILIA SHOULD NOT BE NORMALIZED!!!!!!

PEDOPHILIA IF ENACTED IS A FORM OF ASSAULT!!!!!!!!!!

IT IS A LITERAL CRIME!!!!!!!!

A CRIME AGAINST CHILDREN IT SHOULD NOT BE AN NORMALIZED PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!

brachial-saur-blog

Patton Oswalt was so right when he said “the evil people are very adept at learning all the correct terms to fit in.”

thatfloatingcat

Guys this refers to the “Clovergender” movement which was deliberately created by anti-trans/anti-LGBT/anti social-justice folks to deliberately discredit trans people, ESPECIALLY nonbinary trans people. This is a deliberate, planned undermining. They are counting on the average person not being able to recognize that this DID NOT COME FROM OUR COMMUNITY. Do not believe them. Do not support this. Make it clear where this came from. Make it clear that this is an identity deliberately created by the intolerant to make trans/nonbinary people look unreasonable.

skygenders

Fox news just @ me next time

violeteyedmedium

Reblog if you are an alpha woman who are unable to love, you support alpha women who are unable to love, or you just laughed really hard at the article title

raebird5

Here’s another Vine comp for you in these trying times.

allinternationalnews

Colorado Lunch Lady Fired for Giving Kids Free Meals Says She’d Do It Again http://ift.tt/1JoLWZu

amaralikecamera

from the article:

…“I would have kids start crying when I told them they didn’t have money in their account because they were terrified of getting the cheese sandwich.”

The district’s policy is to give a student a hot meal and charge the parent’s account the first three times they forget lunch money, communications director Tustin Amole told ABC News today. The fourth time, the student is given a cheese sandwich – a single slice of cheese on a hamburger bun – and a milk.

…Curry felt she could not stand by and keep letting it happen.

“It’s not nutrition. It’s not healthy,” she said. “It’s wrong on so many levels, and I hated to see food go to waste. I hated to see food thrown away that could’ve been given to these children that are hungry.”

Curry was supposed to take the students’ food, throw it away and replace it with the cheese sandwich and milk if a student had exceeded the $7.60 debt limit, she said. Instead, she would cancel the transaction and remind the student to bring their lunch money.

Curry acknowledged that her actions went against the district’s policy and when asked why she did it, Curry said, “Because it was the right thing to do and sometimes doing what is right is not what is easy.”

once again, under capitalism, noncompliance with immoral rules means the employee loses her livelihood. and less children have food.

stele3

Christ. They would rather throw the food away than feed a child.

whitmerule

Because humiliation is important!

kyraneko

They actually designed the policy to throw food away rather than feed a child.

They deliberately have the child pay after they’ve received the lunch and before they eat it, so that the child gets food that cannot be returned to the serving supply.

They have no interest in retaining the food.

They have no interest in not wasting the food.

They have no interest in not losing the monetary value of the food.

It’s just as fucking gone in the dumpster as it would be if the kid ate it.

But they’d rather put the food in the dumpster than let the child eat it.

They crafted this policy and practice to tell a child that they are less deserving of food than a dumpster that does not need to eat.

spacegate

From grades 1-4 I literally did not eat lunch in public school. There wasn’t even a cheese sandwich to give out for kids that couldn’t buy lunch. I just sat there and watched other kids eat. We were so poor there was no brown bag lunch to be sent to school with, and no lunch to be had at school. Sometimes I’d be lucky enough to find enough loose change out and about to save up money for a carton of milk or something (and hope that it wasn’t spoiled when you got it). But really, nobody cared that two kids never ate lunch for three years straight (me and my brother). And rarely there was food waiting for us when we got home. If we wanted to eat, most likely we’d have to catch some fish or go out in the woods to gather stuff.

Luckily I was accepted into MHS (A private school for orphans and the poor) and they fed us all for free so at least then I started getting nutrition that I needed.

Public school sucks. At least, mine did.

God I’m surprised I didn’t get scurvy or rickets as a little kid.

nekosamadead

I remember we were too poor to have lunches for school but not poor enough to get free or reduced lunch so I never got to have lunch at school. I only really got to eat when a teacher took pity on the kid that was making fuck me eyes at food in the garbage, so hungry she’d be willing to dig through the trash to eat something. Thankfully I had some teachers that if I worked during lunch cleaning or something they’d give me a potato cooked in the microwave, but unless I got money or my friends/teaches fed me scraps, I just didn’t get to eat. School districts don’t really give two shits about if a kid eats or not.