“Cars kill more people than guns! What’re you gonna do, regulate cars next?”

You idiot. You moron. You utter buffoon.

Cars ARE regulated. 

The permit test. The permit. The practice year. The regulations on how many hours you have to drive and at what hours and with whom. The driving test. The license. The requirements regarding insurance. License renewals. Road laws. Highway laws. Speed limits. Seatbelt laws. Carseat laws. Laws against drinking and driving and other forms of intoxication. Red lights. Not passing in intersections. Right of way.

WHO can drive and WHEN and HOW and WHERE are all regulated, because yes, a car in the wrong hands can kill a person. Just like a gun.

Oh but wait, there’s more!

I, as a licensed driver, can’t drive anything I want. I can’t drive a motorcycle. I can’t drive a speedboat.

You know what else I can’t drive? One of these.

To drive a semi-truck, I would need a Commercial Driver’s License or CDL. There are age limits involved, as well as required hours of training and study. There’s a written test and a driving test. There are also medical requirements.

And even if I passed all that, you know what I STILL couldn’t drive? One of these.

To drive a semi loaded with hazardous materials, you would have to get a federal H endorsement added to your CDL. And to get that, you have to jump through even MORE hoops, including another written test and a background check.

So yeah, guns should be better regulated. Any Joe Blow shouldn’t be able to stagger down to a gun show and get himself a sweet piece without some oversight. 

And ESPECIALLY no one should be getting their hands on a semi-automatic assault rifle like an AR-15, aka the Hazardous Semi Truck of guns. There are professional reasons that a person might need clearance to handle and own such a weapon, but not a civilian. Not an unscreened rando off the street.

Try not to be such an utter wanker that you place the mere potential of a power-boner over the lives of actual children like those killed in Parkland, Sandy Hook, and elsewhere.

There’s also the fact that if I fuck up and injure, or even KILL someone with my vehicle, or another person’s vehicle, or a vehicle I’m not even supposed to drive in the first place- I CAN AND WILL BE PUNISHED FOR THAT.  I will be made responsible for that damage/death.  Insurance exists to help cover the costs of damages- both to cars and people.  If my negligence with a vehicle leads to someone’s injury or death- my access to vehicles in the future WILL BE COMPROMISED.   .

So yes… we do regulate cars.  We also regulate the DAMAGE CAUSED BY THOSE WHO DRIVE THEM.

also, cars are meant for transportation. sure they can kill people but their sole purpose is not to kill. a gun’s ONLY PURPOSE is to maim or kill its target. you can’t take a road trip on a gun or load up a gun with groceries. fuck outta here with this bullshit comparison.

when someone says “gun control”, what conservatives hear is “all guns everywhere have to be illegal forever and you’ll go to jail for life for even lookign at a gun”, because conservatives are incapable of not thinking in extremes and have no concept of things like “compromise” or “middle of the road.”

Russian soldiers witness the awakening of an elder god.

Why does this stuff always happen in Russia? What are they doing?

Reality decided that’s the only place where it can cut lose, considering they don’t seem to give a fuck about anything. 

“According to some of the YouTube comments, the fire was caused by burning zinc, and the screaming came from the underground pipes that had somewhat of a ‘flute’ effect when the air passed through the tubes.“ 

cool

http://en.zockme.com/screaming-fire-eerily-burns-out-of-the-ground-in-russia/

me: okay that’s a fire what’s so weird about it *unmutes* ………..okay…….

This is from an unaired X-Files episode and you cants tell me any different

Whatever ate Tunguska just woke up and it is HUNGRY.

Lovely.

What a punch

This happened in Seattle. The nazi was shouting at people and telling folks of color to get out of the country, a crowd gathered after he chucked a banana at someone, anothe rperson told him off, then this guy punched him. No one called the cops. When he finally woke up he was asking for help getting up and the few who tried were told he’s a nazi and immediately dropped his ass. The cops finally had to come helpnpick his ass up. He refused to really tell the cops what happened as he took his armband off.

The story is fucking wild.

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/09/18/25419894/witness-neo-nazi-threw-a-banana-before-he-got-socked-in-the-face

Make nazis scared

I don’t usually encourage violence, but do your civic duty and punch a nazi

No victim, no crime.

why do people stan Loki when the ultimate anti-hero has been here the entire time

https://tmccsettlement.com/

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-and-doj-reach-resolution-with-toyota-motor-credit-to-address-loan-pricing-policies-with-discriminatory-effects/

The buyer response deadline is May 8, 2018 - a month from today!

THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH

THE NOVEL “DRACULA”

THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

THE DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH

… Okay. I believe you. But like… how?

NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 AS A CARD GAME MANUFACTURER AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS HAPPENED IN 1890 OR LATER

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT DRACULA WAS EARLIER WHAT THE FUCK

YOU COULD WRITE A DRACULA FANFIC WHERE DRACULA TRAVELS TO JAPAN AND BUYS A PACK OF NINTENDO BRAND PLAYING CARDS AND IT WOULD BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. SAME DEAL FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES.

No no no no no!

Don’t write fanfic!

Those things are in the public domain!

You can legally write, publish, and sell a Dracula book where Dracula travels to Japan and buys a pack of Nintendo brand playing cards!

Same deal for Sherlock Holmes!

what if you write a book where dracula and sherlock holmes travel to japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of nintendo brand playing cards that they both wanted

Here’s where the romance happens

Honestly people who refuse to ship m/f ships because they’re “straight” or whatever are so fucking boring, like I don’t ship people based on gender, I ship based on chemistry. Shipping isn’t activism, you don’t get woke points for having the most “progressive” ship like this is supposed to be fun so fuck off with your fandom policing and get a life.

Anyway I wrote this as a bi woman who is tired of being policed on what ships she can support as a “good bi” and also as someone who is tired of all m/f relationships being labeled as straight. I like to have a variety of ships, and shockingly, not every gay ship appeals to me more than a m/f ship.

^^^^^^^^^

watching invader zim feels like looking back at a powerful and ancient civilisation which kickstarted society as we know it but the society as we know it is 00s style random humour 

like you watch it and gir makes a “TACOS!!” joke and your first thought is “haha, they mustve been influenced by the humour of the time” but no. then you remember zim was before all that, it was the birth mother, the alpha and the omega. zim did it first.

Galaxy passing a black hole: image credit NASA

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REblog if you are Asexual, support Asexuals, or spend most of your time actually thinking about Superheroes.

This is actually a Flying fox species. A Northern Blossom bat. Pixie is a subadult and 8g. Currently raised by our volunteers, she still needs a bit time before she will start to fly but getting more active now.

Photo/caption by Wildlife Rescue Darwin

If this goes on... The 1% will own two thirds of the world by 2030

The House of Commons Library has published research projecting the post-2008 growth of inequality until 2030, arriving at an eye-popping headline figure: at current rates, the richest 1% will own two thirds of the world’s riches by 2030. I think that number is too low. Here’s why.

The years since 2008 have been boom times for inequality: the collapse of debt markets and the trillions in state bailouts were a bit like the collapse of the USSR, a moment in which public assets and public money could be massively shifted into the hands of super-rich people who just stole shit like crazy, and got away with it, even when they were caught red-handed.

The House of Commons Library projections assume that inequality will progress linearly, without accelerating, but there are accelerants aplenty on the horizon. No less than the Wall Street Journal predicts that we will see massive, bursting debt bubbles in domains like student debt, scammy bonds overrated by captured rating agencies, upside-down markets dominated by index funds, and a resurgence of “complex” (Wall-Streetese for bullshytt) financial instruments.

All other things being (ahem) equal, these impending crises pose major opportunities for accelerating inequality. When the banks are blown up by student debt defaults or cascading collapses of scammy bonds, governments will face more pressure to bail them out, not less – because the decision to bail out (rather than break up) the banks in 2008 has made the failure of even one of the world’s major banks into an immediate systemic risk that far outweighs the prospective, speculative benefits of diversifying and down-regulating the finance sector as a whole as a volatility-reducing measure.

The banks have not gotten any better since 2008, after all: they’re still stealing like crazy, at every level and every opportunity, with no consequences to speak of, ever (don’t hold your breath waiting for better from the  Democrats: they’re long on oligarchy).

In the Guardian’s coverage of the report, they quote George Freeman, a Tory MP, to get the official line on why inequality just isn’t that bad: “mankind has never experienced such rapid increases in living standards. Around the world billions of people are being lifted out of poverty at a pace never seen before.” I have heard these words uttered so many times, by so many Kubler-Rossing capitalism apologists who are beyond denial (“OK, wealth inequality is really a thing”), and moving smartly into bargaining: “But surely you have to admit that inequality isn’t a problem in and of itself – it’s only when the rich make everyone poorer that inequality matters, but since inequality is just the result of uplifting the job-creating ubermenschen, it’s the price of admission we as a planet will have to pay for ‘being lifted out of poverty.’”

It’s far more likely that letting a tiny number of crooked, ruthless plutocrats have an outsized role in policy choices has slowed the growth of human progress, rather than accelerating it. After all, the more a country is dominated by its super-rich, the more its policies are aimed at increasing the wealth of the already-wealthy. Policies that uplift poor people only fit through the Overton window if they don’t gore some rich person’s ox.

Then there’s the outsized role that rich peoples’ irrational prejudices play in the policy sphere: whether that’s Wahabism and its systematic oppression of women, or American hydrocarbon barons’ climate denial, Mike Pence’s Dominionism, Gwyenth Paltrow’s multi-million-dollar science-denial business, Putin’s violent aggression against anyone who criticizes the Russian Orthodox church, or Prince Charles’s absurd belief in homeopathy. When the richest of the rich can swing policy outcomes just by insisting that they’re right and everyone else is wrong, evidence is unceremoniously dumped and we all have to survive the shear where uncaring reality meets uncompromising ideology.

It’s worse than that, actually, because when the shear occurs, the rich don’t just admit they were wrong and move on. They jail people who point out their mistakes, get their paid-for lawmakers to defund research into their pet theories, and deny, deny, deny, until the seas rise and measles kills all our kids.

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/07/optimistic-projection.html

cat doesn’t want to get out of nice warm bath [x]

The towel on the head is what kills me forever, too precious.

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GIFSET FOR MONTHS.

mini onsen

@blackkatmagic

To brighten your day?