(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

The Y-Axis isn't that bad. Plus they have precise figures for every 2 years on the graph itself. This isn't a misleading graph.

The improvement is actually greater than this graph shows, since while house fires more than halved, the US population increased by 51% from 220 million to 332 million.

The number of house fires per 1000 people per year went from 3.289 to 1.023, a 69% reduction.

People always treat 'the right to a fair trial' as like a special privilege you grant to people who deserve it (because they didn't do a bad crime crime) and something you should rescind to people who don't deserve it (because they did do a bad crime), and not see it as a diagnostic tool for checking whether or not they *did* actually do a bad crime.

As if the worse the accusation, the *less* discerning you need to be about whether it's true or not

Related: I want to see a Phoenix Wright style game where a couple of your clients actually are guilty, but it's still your job to defend them. The purpose of the defence is to make sure the police and prosecution are doing their jobs - you're not protecting "that murderer" from justice, you're protecting justice itself from sloppy evidence standards and the presumption of guilt.

Here's additional promo art of Lumiose City from Pokemon ZA!

This is official? It's so beautiful I thought it was fanart.

American mink with iced fish.

weird how no one ever comments on the absence of smells unprompted. the nose just isn't a topic of conversation unless it's urgent huh

"it's dark in here" normal regular observation

"finally some quiet" relatable exclamation

"doesn't smell like anything in here" absolutely deranged sentence

hot take (?): I don't think any drugs should require a prescription. Like I get why we have a separate category of, like, tested and approved drugs that your health insurance will cover and doctors mostly can't get sued for prescribing, but it's fucked up that it's illegal to get them any other way.

This change was originally introduced in the Durham-Humphrey Amendment in the 1950s. I can't find any of the details of the original arguments around the amendment, but the fact that Durham and Humphrey were both pharmacists is, uh, suggestive.

I see where you're coming from but antibiotic resistance is a real problem and prescriptions are helping slow it down at least a little bit, so I support having some kind of gatekeeping for those.

Some Jewish kids go to Narnia and the White Witch is endlessly frustrated because she wants to make it always winter but never Hanukkah, but she doesn’t follow the Hebrew calendar so she can’t accurately predict when it’s supposed to be.

I was going to scroll past this but then I stopped to think about it and now I just have to ask:

would Elijah show up in this version of the story to give the kids swords and wine?

“But why won’t you give me a weapon?” asked Lucy.  “I’m sure I could fight if I needed to.”

“Because you have not yet reached the age of bat mitzvah,” said the prophet.  “I would not place such responsibility upon you before our laws count you as ready.”

Happy Hanukkah from Narnia!

My husband has suggested "always winter and always Hanukkah" for a somewhat more surreal vibe

no sburb beta earth au where dave "microcelebrity" strider suddenly gains a big following on the internet after a spike of people discover his sbahj comics online when a screenshot of one goes particularly viral and turns into a [top text/bottom text] meme and some hipsters are like "woah,, this is actually some really avant garde stuff". when he's churning these out sitting in the bathroom stall at school once a day during lunch period. so then he gets REALLY popular and then inevitably gets cancelled at some point when a communications/poli sci major reads one of his comics and then types up a whole memo board explaining how sbahj is actually neo-conservative propaganda written as part of a conspiracy to undermine the 2008 obama presidency. and there's a whole rage war since the memo board was written really convincingly with red arrows and circles drawn around sweet bro's head and everything and dave hasn't made any public statements about it and also no one actually understands what sbahj is about. so threads are being written up about this and people are like emailing death threats to each other over it and someone even tries to doxx him and then manages to find out he lives in texas and some people start actually taking the whole thing seriously because He's From Texas (never mind the fact it's houston). meanwhile dave just started his midterms and he has to focus because he actually cares about school and his future and so he takes a short "hiatus" which people freak out even more over because they take it as him backing away due to the allegations online. and then after winter break dave comes back and opens up a q&a for his 169th "bro wee ar doign it wee ar making it hapen" special and at some point after a barrage of questions in his inbox (q: was "swety bro and hela jeff crassh on the freway" inspired by a real car accident you were in? a: i don't own a car / q: what job do you have in real life? a: unemployed but i pick up roadkill off the street sometimes / q: who did you vote for in the 2008 primaries a: i didn't) someone finally has the bright idea to ask "hey how old are you" and he replies "i'm 13" and all hell breaks loose.

Omg 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

Cats are unbelievable 🤣🤣

Clark Kent: *tossing his functionally indestructible baby hundreds of feet up into the air*

BB Jon: higher!!

Clark: okay!! *throws him again*

BB Jon: higher higher!!!

Clark: haha okay! *throws him right up into the stratosphere*

BB Jon: again!!

Clark: you want to go higher?

BB Jon: !!! yes!

Clark: *throws him up even higher*

Clark: *waiting for his baby to come back down*

Clark:

Clark:

Clark:

Clark:

Clark: oh no

Lois: Clark where is the baby

Clark: oh I put him down for a nap, completely unrelated, I need to go into space really quick goodbye *flies away*

Lois:

Lois: CLARK-

Someone in the Watchtower is looking out the window, admiring the view, and suddenly they see a baby go by

Hal, looking out the window:

*laughing baby floats by*

Hal: hey what the fuck

*frantic Superman flies past after the baby*

Hal: …….if anything that raises further questions

#hes not even superman he’s just in his work clothes

Hal Jordan, doing Green Lantern stuff in earth’s orbit:

Hal, looking around: *sees a completely normal man, dressed in business casual, just chilling in the void of space like it’s nbd*

Man: o_o

Hal: o_o

Hal: *blinks & the man is gone*

Hal: oh my god

Once you’re throwing something that high (and before reaching space), is it even possible for that something to come straight back down?

How much would Superman have to move to catch his baby? Could his power overcome that issue somehow, making sure the baby comes straight back down? What kind of forces would that place on the baby?

I have so many physics questions that I am super unqualified to answer.

you’d be getting some coriolis force throwing something that high up. obviously the way to compensate for it would be to launch your baby straight up from the north or south pole

so i guess i’m saying superman should be doing this exercise from the fortress of solitude.

I don't know a ton about physics and even less about comics, but I do have a baby, and I can confirm that he absolutely wants to be thrown as high as possible as often as possible so that part checks out

Today's bird is this naughty kea trying to steal my peppermint tea

Some Jewish kids go to Narnia and the White Witch is endlessly frustrated because she wants to make it always winter but never Hanukkah, but she doesn’t follow the Hebrew calendar so she can’t accurately predict when it’s supposed to be.

I was going to scroll past this but then I stopped to think about it and now I just have to ask:

would Elijah show up in this version of the story to give the kids swords and wine?

“But why won’t you give me a weapon?” asked Lucy.  “I’m sure I could fight if I needed to.”

“Because you have not yet reached the age of bat mitzvah,” said the prophet.  “I would not place such responsibility upon you before our laws count you as ready.”

Happy Hanukkah from Narnia!

given that from what i understand hanukkah is a fairly minor holiday in judaism and all of the jewish holidays shift around the solar calendar because they’re based on the lunar calendar, why did hannukah end up the ‘compared to/ competes with/ said alongside christmas’ one? or does it somehow always end up around the same time despite being on the lunar calendar? (e.g. ramadan shifts by about 10 days every year because it’s on the lunar calendar and doesn’t consistently line up with anything).

Yes, this is a difference between the Jewish and Muslim calendars! The Jewish holidays shift earlier every year, but they don't shift all the way around the solar year: every several years there's a leap month (like a leap day but it's a whole month) which pushes them all back. So hannukah is always somewhere between late November and early January, and usually in December.

Some Jewish kids go to Narnia and the White Witch is endlessly frustrated because she wants to make it always winter but never Hanukkah, but she doesn’t follow the Hebrew calendar so she can’t accurately predict when it’s supposed to be.

I was going to scroll past this but then I stopped to think about it and now I just have to ask:

would Elijah show up in this version of the story to give the kids swords and wine?

“But why won’t you give me a weapon?” asked Lucy.  “I’m sure I could fight if I needed to.”

“Because you have not yet reached the age of bat mitzvah,” said the prophet.  “I would not place such responsibility upon you before our laws count you as ready.”

Happy Hanukkah from Narnia!