Dice Goblin

25 yo --Chaotic dungeon master--Transman 🏳️‍🌈--

[did-you-know]

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.

[mckitterick]

And don’t forget wave and geothermal power.

The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:

Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.

Everyone wins!

[solarpunkcast]

The ways we can produce sustainable, renewable energy grow by the year. There is zero reason to keep maintaining oil and natural gas industries!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[the-greek-goddess]

Actually Yes! In the state of Kentucky, the state government sent down health officials to talk with the elders and explained what’s going on. The elders decided to disband their weekly church meetings (they are going to have church within their families instead) and social distance. They shut down their businesses and are tending to their families and their crop. A couple of good family friends are Amish and they are taking really good care of themselves and their neighbors (baking food and giving it to them). My Mamaw (my dads mom) is immunodeficient so she can’t go out to the shops and they are keeping her in food and necessities. They are also sewing masks for local hospitals, nursing homes, immunodeficient people, and their families.

[morticious-delicious]

Adam, Savage. 

[spiroandthelacktones]

By the way I recently watched that episode about how germs spread and could not reccomend it highly enough because they creatw such an effective visual way to see the spreading of bodily fluids and it also demonstrates how by far the only really effective way to avoid spreading germs is if people take responsibility for themselves and take actions to limit spreading their own germs to others

[disasterenergy]

this might come across as anti capitalist but,,,,,, i want to enjoy life

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

this might come across as anti capitalist but,,,,, i want everyone to enjoy life

[bunnyboybosom]

This may seem anticapitalist but,,,,, everyone should have access to service that allow them to enjoy life

[im-in-way-2many-fandoms]

This may be anticapitalist but,,,,,,,I don’t think people should have to prioritize their paycheck over their personal well-being

[motherscarf]

This might be anticapitalist but fuck capitalism

[gahdamnpunk]

VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS

[blueinkblot]

The other thing about measles is that it resets your body’s memory of other diseases. So all those times you’ve gotten sick? Your body’s memory cells no longer remember those illnesses, so even if you get the same type of illness again your body will react like it’s the first time you’ve been sick.

It’s so much worse than “just a disease”. 

[viostormcaller]

Measles does WHAT

[kari-izumi]

Holy fuck

[touyadraxon]

What the fuck what the fuck what the fUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

[toopunktofuck]

antivaxxers also sabotaged the human lyme disease vaccine. they literally conspired online in usenet boards to go out and participate in the vaccine trials, and they all proceeded to complain of arthritis, the only symptom of lyme disease they were apparently aware of. this caused media hysteria about the vaccine. if you remember the flu vaccine hysteria around the swine flu epidemic, it was kind of like that. despite double-blind trials being unable to support their claims and instead displaying that the vaccine was safe and effective, the damage was done, and the vaccine was shelved in the USA. you can get a lyme disease vaccine in Europe, but Europe has a different strain of the bacteria that causes lyme disease.

Lyme disease can become very serious, it can infect the nervous system and cause neurological problems especially in young children who are often bitten on the head or the neck, undiagnosed it can cause chronic health issues that mimic other diseases. Without safe prophylactic measures beyond trying to minimize contact w ticks, this has driven people who have had lyme disease, have chronic effects from mass-disseminated lyme disease infection, or people who believe they have chronic lyme disease to go to quack doctors and undergo unsafe, unapproved medical treatment in an attempt to stop suffering.

This would not be happening on the scale that it is if antivaxxers didn’t straight up execute a supervillain plot to sabotage the lyme disease vaccine bc this happened the same year andrew wakefield published his fraudulent research on the MMR vaccine

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness

these people are fucking dangerous beyond compare

[wingsy-keeper-of-songs]

Anti-vaxxers are a plague upon humanity. I work at a daycare, and we are REQUIRED by LAW to have those kids vaccinated, but somehow some parents find ways around these requirements and end up giving these preventable diseases to everyone else. I was given the mumps by one of these kids whose parents either didn’t care enough to get the kid vaccinated or fell for that Jenny McCarthy bullshit. The mumps is a miserable illness and I am damn lucky that it was a fairly minor case. But minor or not it is still beyond painful to swallow and my entire right cheek swelled up to double it’s size. It was awful. I had to go to the ER on fucking Thanksgiving Day because some parents decided they knew better than every doctor practicing medicine who urges people to vaccinate their kids. VACCINATE. YOUR. KIDS.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Anti-vaxxers would rather have dead children than vaccinate them because they believe lies. That’s what it comes down to: dead children.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[seliphra]

FYI: THIS IS SUPER ILLEGAL

A landlord MAY NOT keep your deposit over ‘normal wear and tear’. They may ONLY collect on something that is YOUR FAULT. They cannot charge for carpet wearing down or needing a new coat of paint after a few years, or the furnace needing a replacement because it’s old. They can charge you for punching a hole in the wall that you never fix, or spilling paint on the carpet requiring a specialized cleaning or replacement. And they may ONLY keep what covers the repairs (If insufficient, then and only then may they keep the whole deposit, as in your deposit did not cover the damage you caused). 

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS A TENANT. You landlord MUST return your deposit unless it was damage you directly caused, and ONLY the amount needed to fix the damage, and not one penny more. 

[renthony]

If there is any damage to the unit when you move in, DOCUMENT IT. Take photos and make sure they’re dated.

If something breaks while you live in the unit, and you can’t fix it easily yourself, REPORT IT. Make the landlord deal with it. 

Document what the unit looks like when you move out, before the final inspection–because landlords can and will try to fake damage. Have proof of what damage was yours, if any, and what damage was not. 

Landlords will try to fuck you out of every penny you have, including in ways that are horribly illegal. Don’t let them.

[somethingaboutblacktop-blog]

Visit Original Link

[the-ick-vault]

wow

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Jolene (33 R.P.M) - click for .mp3

Unsure where this came from, if not the palsied hands of the good Lord himself.

Simple premise: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slipped from 45 to 33 rpm. Nothing more; no studio trickery, no trip hop drum breaks. The guitar lopes back in and around itself. The bass becomes elastic, hot rubber. The violin stabs become sustained cello lines. The backing choir’s split harmony rattles around, slinking ghostly into the corner.  And most importantly, Parton’s once-frantic vocal is transformed from bubblegum country scrawl into something approximating field holler reverence. 

An already perfect song made transcendental..

[clairesclitpiercing]

Who would win in a battle for my immortal soul: the devil on his fiddle or “Jolene” at 33 RPM

[solarpunkcast]

Don't buy into overpopulation theories. The Earth has enough for all, and we have the capabilities to provide for everyone.

Demand is not the issue, supply chains are.

https://overpopulationisamyth.com/

Episode 6: Urbanization: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad City? Cities are overcrowded. The world is not. Read the science behind this video… Epi

[solarpunkcast]

Here’s a slew of sources for y’all as well:

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/mar/9/how-racist-myths-built-population-growth-bogey-man

https://www.pop.org/debunking-the-myth-of-overpopulation/

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-overpopulation-myth

Another video explaining why population isn’t the problem

“Why you shouldn’t obsess about “overpopulation”“

“I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why.”

which comes with this handy graph that shows the poorest people contribute the least to carbon emissions

[hiraethade]

[intricatelogic]

Fixed it!

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

I remember seeing a different post pointing out that Native Americans are basically already living a post-apocalyptic world.

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

Indigenous Resistance Is Post-Apocalyptic, with Nick Estes

Nick Estes discusses the deep historical roots of Standing Rock, why Indigenous peoples have taken a leading role in the climate justice mov

“Indigenous people are post-apocalyptic. In some cases, we have undergone several apocalypses. For my community alone, it was the destruction of the buffalo herds, the destruction of our animal relatives on the land, the destruction of our animal nations in the nineteenth century, of our river homelands in the twentieth century. I don’t want to universalize that experience; it was very unique to us as nations. But if there is something you can learn from Indigenous people, it’s what it’s like to live in a post-apocalyptic society.

One of the positive meanings of the title of the book, Our History Is the Future, is that in times of great turmoil and destruction, people didn’t just stop being humans. They didn’t just give up. And while we think of resistance in many ways as a kind of act of defiance that’s spectacular and militant, it also happens in everyday realities, in how we keep alive these stories. People still had children in times of destruction. People still raised families. They did their best to keep alive the nation through genocide.”

[view-from-up-here]

[libradical]

queue this post when it’s your birthday and be surprise

[wahtdahel-blog]

Most of the medical research was done on white males and their response to medicine. This is why medical books should only serve as a framework but clinical expertise matters more.

And this is why we need more black doctors.

[populationpensive]

There is a great instagram called Brown Skin Matters that has certified photos of different rashes and skin conditions. I find this VERY helpful. I just recently stumbled on it and it’s a nice, quick, resource. 

[zenkaiankoku]

This is what they mean when they say we’re killing people of color. Our healthcare system caters to white skin. And it needs to change.

[imfemalewarrior]

If anyone following me is a doctor or is studying to be a doctor you should follow this instagram for learning purposes so you can better treat all of your patients! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[welcometonightgayle]

Results of LGBT gatekeeping:

Trans community is no longer a safe and accepting place where you know you won’t be misgendered

Ace people have gone back in the closet

Ace and aro people don’t feel safe and valued anymore

Everyone is fucking fighting, misgendering each other, calling each other slurs, nitpicking each other’s identities

Things that gatekeepers claim that gatekeeping will do, but that it still hasn’t done:

Made LGBTphobes accept us

Made the LGBT community better in any way

Helped trans people transition any faster

[catsbeaversandducks]

The Cutest Meow Compilation

By Bubba the Cat

[awfulsquad]

its saturday rb saturday shorts [yt]

[dicktouching]

is this Polygon Castlevania monsterfucker Zelda canon timeline read-every-book-in-Skyrim guy?

[awfulsquad]

yeah

[noisystudentbird-54ns]

You can reblog Saturday shorts every day of the week if you’re gay enough

[thenatsdorf]

Puma cub boops the trail cam.

[pyrophantom]

Master list of U.S. cop statistics

- https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ 1/3 of people killed by strangers are killed by police

- http://www.killedbypolice.net/ 308 people killed by police as of 29 March 2018 (feel free to check how many there is now. There will be a number right in front of the victims name.)

- https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/ 2-4x more likely to be domestically abused by police officers

- “In one in 11 cases where someone died because someone else intentionally shot them, a police officer pulled the trigger,” or 55,400 people hospitalized in a single year not including 1000 who died.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/landmark-study-police-brutality-problem/

- https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/this-teenager-accused-two-on-duty-cops-of-rape-she-had-no?utm_term=.wwmPEZO0J&bftwnews#.uwYxpzr4d cops are allowed to “have sex” aka rape people in their custody in up to 35 states (this link has a demographic of you would like to see if your state is one of them)

- http://projects.buffalonews.com/abusing-the-law/data.html# this database collected over 700 cases of sexual assault by police officers not including in prisons or jails over a 10 year period. But keep in mind 2 out of 3 victims come forward. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

- https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/nice-vs-nightsticks.html Cops get at least 10 get out of jail free cards they can give to their friends (this article is about NYPD but I can’t see why any other department would be different. If you have other articles about different city/town departments feel free to add on).

- https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvv3a/shot-by-cops a helpful article with demographics on how many people were shot at over a 7 year timeline (2010-2016) by the 50 largest police departments in the U.S. it also shows what races were shot at.

- https://nypost.com/2017/10/19/nypd-one-glitch-away-from-losing-track-of-millions-in-civil-forfeitures/ cops are allowed to take whatever they want from peoples houses with no explanation. According to this article it’s impossible to keep up with how much NYPD cops loot because their system would crash but in 2013 alone the system calculated $68 million with of property stolen by police.

- http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2017-safest-year-cops-war-citizens/ according to this article 2017 was the safest year for cops in almost 50 years yet cops killed over 1000 people according to http://www.killedbypolice.net/

- https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html as of 27 June 2005 it was legally declared that the police are not here to protect us.

-feel free to add on any other info or correct any info I may have gotten wrong

-Add your own countries. It’s important that cops in every country are a problem not just the U.S.

[pyrophantom]

Here’s how to deal with arrest and how to protect yourself:

- https://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/7-ways-police-will-break-law-threaten-or-lie-you-get-what-they-want police are legally entitled to lie to you in order to get what they want here are tactics they will try.

- https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/law/law/polygraph do not take a polygraph. They are not admissible in court it’s a waste of time and cops will use it to put pressure on you.

- You have the legal right to record what is happening and write down everything (badge numbers, names, conversations, keep a detailed account of what happened).

Stay safe everyone