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Yes all sentences follow these guidelines more or less. This is a great visual💯
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Meet the man who was under the hood, electrocuted and urinated upon by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison, this is the reality of the US democratic state and its imperialism military.
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TW: graphic description of rape and torture
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I’m out of ideas.
very serious space drama
THE BEST PART IS THAT KARGA USES THE CORRECT NUMBER OF FINGERS
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Unmute !
The girls are TALKING
the girls are FRUSTRATED because they are READY TO PERFORM AND TAKE DOWN THE PREY
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fuckin lol
Another day, another politician that thinks Trump doing something they do means Trump should get all the criticism instead of realizing they’re both wrong
weleapedintothevoid
The difference here is that Trump spends tax payer money for his golfing and AOC spent her own paycheck on a video game to unwind. They literally aren’t the same thing at all
Right, where do you think that paycheck comes from?
Were you born this stupid or did you have to work at it?
Ok, just to be clear, do politicians get payed with tax money or not?
If you honestly think a government employee spending their own salary is functionally identical to charging leisure trips to your own golf courses to an expense account and billing the Secret Service for being there, just because they’re both paid for with taxpayer money, I can’t help you.
But what’s the difference in the end? They both paid for something with taxpayer money.
Okay. It’s very simple: When the government disburses money to its employees in the form of a salary, the transaction where the taxpayer is concerned is concluded. The taxpayer has paid the employee for services rendered. What that employee does with that salary after that isn’t the taxpayer’s business, since the taxpayer already got what they paid for.
To put it another way, you wouldn’t argue that Doris from the DMV is “spending taxpayer money” when she spends some of her salary on a pedicure and claim it’s the equivalent of a presidential golfing trip, or that a soldier buying a case of beer with his salary is a waste of tax money. Because you are paying them for the job they did.
In other words, it’s not fucking taxpayer money anymore.
It is, however, still taxpayer money when it is part of an account set aside for expenses incurred in the execution of one’s duties, and the President uses it to pay himself for taking vacations, and to pay himself again for the taxpayer-provided security detail.
And even if I were to play your stupid false equivalence game: At $300 per console and a game price of $59.99, AOC would have to buy 369,455 Nintendo Switches with a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for each to reach the $133 million racked up by Trump’s golf trips. So even if you were to blubber about how it’s all a tragic loss of taxpayer money either way, there’s your fucking difference you goddamn moron.
We’re done here.
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Working Towards Those #CrowGoals
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🔥 agriculture?
The way we do it now is utterly unsustainable, and I fear deeply that a crash is coming that will starve billions, and no one seems to want to face that and keeps pouring their efforts into doing what we’re doing now, but harder.
This scares me too. Demeter has begun to show up in my work and the warnings she brings are terrifying
I’ve gotten the same from Freyja and Freyr, and even Odin.
It’s what fuels a large part of my efforts to grow as much of my own food locally as possible, and extra.
juliawrites98
Oh.
Oh that’s why I need to fight the HOA on the gardening restrictions.
Oh.
Oh shit.
Remember too that I live in farm country.
I’ve seen the farmers struggling to get their crops in these last few years, as the weather changes. I’ve seen corn and bean fields drown these last two years, after being planted a month late due to wet fields. (the way climate change is affecting the midwest is largely more rain)
I’ve watched them compact and mistreat our topsoil…Iowa’s black gold…and desperately pour more fertilizers on it as yeilds decline.
A crash is a’comin. I don’t know when, and some folks are working to right things, but not enough of them and not fast enough.
The issues we’ve been & are currently seeing with the supply chain due to Corona are only a foretaste, I’m afraid. Yeah, we’re hearing now about the dairy and meat issues, but I saw a photo about a week ago of literal hills of potatoes that are just…rotting at this point…because they were due to be processed for restaurant chains, and the farmer had no other market for them.
So it’s not just agriculture as an industry that needs to change, IMO (though it desperately, definitely does!). It’s Western society as a whole.
Yup.
I’m in a good place, actually. Because we get our meat from the local butcher a mile from our house, who buys cattle and hogs and poultry from local farmers. That supply chain is a lot shorter and a lot more resilient than those that supply cities.
And of course vegetables I grow and forage.
The big thing for me is grain. All that’s grown around here is grain for animal feed; if I want wheat and oats I’mma have to grow my own. Currently I order bread flour from a small mill in Montana, but that relies a lot more on the postal service to get it here and is the most expensive part of the meat-carbs-veggies for me to get.
-perks- I’ve been trying go get a good source of flour. There’s nothing local. Care to share info? But also, have been trying to research local grains and just… not using “normal” flours?
So, I know the way agriculture is right now is unsustainable, but I was wondering if yall had places yall recommend for how to do it right? I’m trying to start a garden to supplement our food and I’m not sure where to look to be sure I’m using good practices
Permaculture. Look up permaculture.
Feed your soil! Compost is the best thing ever. Compost and composted manure; add ‘em to your soil, however good it is. Mulch with something organic that will break down and continue to feed your soil.
wodneswynn
Feed your soil deep–Deep!–and avoid tilling whenever possible
Little a tilling to break new sod or whatever is okay, as a treat, but you’re gonna compact your subsoil at the same time you fluff those first few inches of topsoil, which will decrease capillary capacity and permeability and absolutely buttfuck your soil ecology even in the short term, and over time it’ll become just completely impermeable, which: Hampers root growth, increases erosion, increases leaching and runoff, promotes flooding and droughts at the same time (!), increases soil salinity, and just obliterates soil ecology. And these are problems that will persist for generations after we’re all gone.
Good food starts with good soil, and we have Done Some Shit to this continent’s soil over these past 500 years.
“Subsoil is a sterile and boring layer of rock dust” factoid a lie. There’s a whole ass ecosystem down there.
Okay, but what do you do if your subsoil is rock? Not dust, but straight-up high-iron granite rock? Soil depth of under a foot total is common here, and in a lot of places some of even that is just gonna be gravel, and all of it is going to be very thoroughly waterlogged at least once a year for an extended period.
Asking not to say “I can’t” but because subject matter experts.
Raised beds. Terraces. Hugelkulture. You’re gonna have to bring in lots of organic matter. If you’re close enough to society, you can get arborists to drop by freshly chipped material for free. Some municipalities also offer free or deeply discounted chipped material or even compost. Yes, you might end up with something not desirable, depending on where you are, which can mean anything from actual trash to black walnut (juglone), but hey, free or cheap. You can also start composting if you haven’t already.
Areas of our property have no soil, just bedrock. You build up.
And you make do the best you can. Not all areas are good for agriculture (in fact most aren’t), and in those cases, restoring native ecologies with native species and habitat is really your best bet.
Friends and neighbors, look up “Backyard Homesteading” for books and articles on how to prepare your property for home agriculture and food production on many, many levels.
And take note of the excellent advise listed above!
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JUST PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN A LITTLE LO
Just. JUST
Could you just.
OmG
Source: justcatposts
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Anonymous asked:
People on disability shouldn't get a stimulus check, theirs should be donated to repaying all the money they've mooched off taxpayers.
This is not the first time I’ve gotten a message like this. I always find it curious. Because if you have this attitude you are either invincible, rich, or a fool.
I used to be in this tech nerd community and there was this older fella who slowly revealed himself to be a super right wing asshat. He complained about immigrants mooching, black people mooching, poor people mooching… everybody was mooching his taxes. Meanwhile, he was 65 and working hard. Paying his own way. Doing things proper like a good American.
He was no damn moocher, that’s for sure.
Then he got sick.
He could not work anymore.
Lost his medical insurance.
His savings ran out in about 3 months.
And he became a fellow moocher.
He had to sign up for Medicare and disability.
But then he realized that wasn’t enough to live on. Boy, was he mad. ALL CAPS POSTS about how he can’t afford rent. He can’t afford food. He started posting links to his Paypal asking people to donate. He got furious at people because no one would give him money. Called us all bad people for not helping him in his time of need. He had to move to a smaller place. Sell a lot of his tech.
He was so very angry.
“I WORKED HARD.”
“I DID THINGS THE PROPER WAY.”
“I DESERVE MORE THAN THOSE MOOCHERS!”
Even after his experience, he viewed himself as different than other people trapped in the safety net. He deserved more because he had a bootstrap attitude. It didn’t occur to him that a lot of people on welfare or disability probably worked hard too. That he was no more or less deserving than them. It was sad to see his experience didn’t instill any empathy.
He’s a lost cause. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe you should think about how long you could last before you’d have to mooch. Are you set for life? If you were in an accident and unable to work ever again, would you be able to live comfortably and manage your expenses? Think about that. And think about the fact that disability pays less than minimum wage. Could you live your life on $750 per month? What changes would you have to make to accomplish that? Use your imagination and really try to put yourself in those shoes.
$1200 is not a windfall for me. It is maybe 4 months of having slightly less financial anxiety. That anxiety is a part of my life. It is inescapable and I have conceded it will always be there. It is the dread of seeing $14 in my bank account towards the end of the month and hoping I didn’t forget about an automatic payment. It’s the fear of looking in my freezer and wondering if two bags of frozen chicken nuggets are enough to last until I get my next payment.
But now I am getting $1200 and for a few months maybe I don’t have to feel some of that anxiety. I can reallocate that anxiety to the world being on fire and worrying about my dad getting sick.
But you want me to send it back?
What’s even sadder about your attitude is you are focusing on the wrong people. I’m not a moocher. I’m an insignificant financial speck in the grand scheme. I’m probably a percentage of a penny on your tax bill. But then you look at companies like Amazon who used loopholes to pay no taxes. They also got cities to subsidize offices and warehouses. So not only did they not pay taxes, we paid them for the honor of giving people low wage jobs with poor benefits and dubious working conditions.
What about our F-35 fighter jet program? For years they didn’t even work properly and they still haven’t even been used for anything and they will probably rarely be utilized because of drones. But we will spend a trillion dollars on them anyway.
What about oil subsidies? About $20 billion of our tax dollars goes to the fossil fuel industry every year. An industry that has never struggled to turn a profit. Just look at pictures of Dubai and ask yourself why we are giving them subsidies.
We give corporations billions upon billions of dollars even though they are making record profits. And then we find out they were operating so close to the edge that they can’t even last a month without us giving them billions more.
But my $750 per month makes me the moocher.
Sure.
For the time being, if I write something I think is important, I’m going to post it here too. You can blacklist #long post if you don’t want to see it. Or unfollow.
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Firehose vs Flamethrower
This is everything I didn’t know I needed to see today
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#katara vs azula (via @xactodreams)
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Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?
You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.
mothedmans
you. you get it.
(tags via @jeremiahsmysteriosotouch)
alls-well-that-ends-here
Counteroffer: Big dramatic cloak to protect your identity that you drop on the floor before every fight
I can’t believe the compromise is Obi-Wan Kenobi