It took about 15 minutes for snowmobilers to shovel the moose out. (Photo: Jonathan Anstey/Facebook)
Excerpt:
A remote area around Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland doesn’t see many passersby on the best of days. But on a freezing late December day, the odds of a moose stuck in a snowbank finding a lifeline get even leaner.
Ok, I know I already told you guys to look at this, but if those are not the most fucked-up districts you’ve seen… Then I do not want to live in your state.
District 6 is actually non-contiguous, seemingly in two places. Who allowed that?! District 3 as well.
Whoever drew those borders… Well, I would like to have been present for the meetings where they did so. And thank goodness these districts were only in place for five years, from 1993 to 1998.
I know I’ve said before, though probably not on Tumblr, but I can’t wait to read testimony/deposition transcripts from someone tasked with making gerrymandering algorithms. Or someone who commissioned them. It’s only a matter of time. Here I wait. I will have my satisfaction.
fractal madness
These are not the most fucked up districts I’ve ever seen. I live in Illinois. Ladies, gentlemen, and various others, I present to you the earmuffs.
one has to wonder, is this really so wrong? is strictly geographic representation actually superior?
Lads, might I present my once homeland (now living in NC because of course)
The state of Texas
Notice that the city of Austin has five districts segmenting it, with one of those districts extending up to around Dallas–roughly 300km.
Texas is a very large state, but it is an open secret just like the NC district map that this was done entirely to dilute influence of the larger cities.
that’s amusing, congresspeople with 300km long districts should be required to maintain an office at either end and spend at least an hour a day in each one.
That would require a level of accountability that the people of Texas simply cannot bear lest the tyrannt of common sense enslave them.
I wish more parents could see how many asks I get that read something like this:
“I’m a teenager, and I have a very serious problem in my life. I want to take mature and responsible steps to deal with this problem. But my parents will totally freak out if they catch me.”
If you are not just not-helping, but actively standing in the way of your child helping themselves, because you’re so focused on whether they’re “good” that you completely forgot to care whether they’re safe or happy… stop that. Please stop.
Please understand that you either have a mutually trusting relationship with your child, or you don’t. You can’t demand their trust and extend none of your own. You can’t say “you can tell me everything” and then punish them when they do.
Because of your shit attitude, your terrified fifteen-year-old is out there trying to deal with huge adult issues entirely on her own, is showing up alone and in secret to medical appointments or counseling or to report a sexual assault. And that should shame you a fuck of a lot more than whether she’s texting with boys or not.
Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.
And people say stuff like ‘lol don’t you hate it when you look up in the middle of the night and see a spider on your ceiling’ like bitch (!!) i could have Nicholas II last czar of Russia hangin from my ceiling fan and i would be none the wiser
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