Month: February 2018

Home Depot destroys 1 million pounds of supplies in wake of hurricane | WSB-TV

memecucker:

The company crushed one million pounds worth of goods, according to Waste Management records obtained by Channel 2 Action News. They were sent to a local landfill and claimed on the company’s insurance — rather than sorted for hurricane survivors.

The company doesn’t dispute the destruction but, citing liability concerns, insisted to Channel 2 Action News that no other options were available.

“That was the easiest thing to do.” said Turnbull. “Was it the best thing? No. I don’t think it was the best thing.”

Home Depot destroys 1 million pounds of supplies in wake of hurricane | WSB-TV

kevkuyken:

niggazinmoscow:

Flint in 2018! FLINT STILL DOES NOT HAVE CLEAN WATER!  

Hi, I’m from Flint.  Little context for everyone who isn’t geographically or emotionally close to the issue.

tl:dr; Flint actually a) does have clean water, but b) it could still be cleaner, and c) it does not come from the Flint river so these pictures are misleading; most important though is that d) the Flint water crisis is not over, it just isn’t about water quality any more.

The Flint river has always been and likely will always be unsuitable for drinking; this is not liable to change, and this is not the issue.  Posting images of the Flint river (above) is both not pertinent to the issue and not news to people from the greater Flint area.  Growing up in the region, we all knew not to go swimming in the river, not to drink the water from the river, and not to even eat fish we caught from the river.  For reference, I’m speaking of my childhood, more than 30 years ago.

Flint’s drinking/bathing water always came from Detrot, and it was usually clean enough to drink; it was monitored regularly, and whenever there was a contamination concern, a “boil advisory” was put out alerting people to boil the water before drinking or cooking with it.  Even then, that was not about lead levels, it was about the chance of a contaminate like bacteria or something, and furthermore it was usually just a precaution.  On the whole, Flint’s water (which was really Detroit’s water) was fine.

When the source was switched to the Flint river in 2014… that was the problem.  It’s something everyone in Flint knew was a bad idea, and most people in Flint didn’t know was happening until it was already a done deal.  It was an unethical, criminal decision made by legislators who wanted to line their own pockets at the cost of the lives of impoverished people.  You can find plenty of literature about this online, but the point is that now, the source has been switched back to water from Detroit.  The lead levels are now within EPA standards, though obviously the ideal lead level is absolute zero, and the reason that the levels are still above zero is because lead has leeched into the pipes.  To have the best possible water quality, Flint needs a complete copper repiping, which is a whole different can of worms to open.  The point is, the Flint river can be as filthy as you see above without it mattering to Flint’s potable water supply.

But just because the water is drinkable, that doesn’t mean the problem is over.  Because even though the water is acceptable for use, there are still people in Flint who are being told they need to pay for the lead-laden water that they couldn’t even bathe in.  That’s right, friends, people are expected to pay the city for the water that was killing them.  People have had their water shut off, because they refused to pay for poison.  Meanwhile, the poisoners (a.k.a. legislators) are largely walking around free, and many of them are still in office.  This is the problem with Flint: not the water quality, but the accountability for literally criminal negligence.

kyraneko:

thezohar:

transpeter:

latinextra:

transpeter:

remember when you were a kid and you’d be reading history books or something and you’d see that someone was born in the 1890s and they seemed EXTRA OLD because they were born in the 1800s, and they were born at the very end of the 1800s but it still made them seem that much more ancient. like you could see someone born on december 31, 1899 and to you they seemed older than they would’ve if they had been born january 1, 1900

anyways today i was at my baby cousin’s house and he’s like 4 years old, and he asked when my birthday was and i said september 13, 1995 and he was like “wow you’re old” and i said i was only 22 and he said “but…1995. that’s OLD!!” and god…. i was born in the 1900s and the generation of kids who find that inherently old are being born. i knew it would happen but god it was a weird feeling.

but this also happens with us too…if you are a “1900’s kid” and someone says that they were born in the 2000’s its like….what do you mean that you are 15? You are five years old.

TRUE!!! like whenever someone says shit like “hello, i was born in the year 2000 and i’m 18 years old” it’s like nah you’re two. you’re two years old. you may only be about four years younger than me, but you are two.

listen we all know time stopped working properly in about 2007, and may have stopped moving at all somewhere between 2012-2014

my theory is we had so many people time-traveling to 2016 to fight over the US presidential election that it warped whole decades around it in either direction

nativeskins:

‘A Living Burial’: Inside the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians

There have been many attempts by the U.S. mental health establishment to lock up, restrain, sedate or destroy the spirits of Native people, but none so notorious and depraved as what was done at the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians. Maybe that’s why stories of the people who suffered there are so hard to come by. Fortunately, a cadre of researchers are working to reconstruct what really happened in a federally-funded psychiatric gulag that was fully operational only 85 years ago. There’s no centralized archive to dig through, and whatever remnants remain of Hiawatha inmate lives are scattered like ashes across multiple states and numerous warehouses of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Fragments from the pitiful records of two inmates are gathered and rewoven here, allowing these imprisoned ancestors to finally speak their past to our present.

Read the whole article here.

Source: indiancountrymedianetwork.com