THE RESULTS FOR THE VOTE ON EU CENSORSHIP AND LINK TAX.
This it the breakdown of MEPs via their country of origin.
ORANGE is GOOD.
GREEN is BAD.
BLUE is abstain.
PLEASE SPREAD AND REBLOG SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE HOW THEIR COUNTRY PERFORMED – EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE EU. THIS IS NOT AN EASY THING TO FIND.
France and Romania did the worst. If you live in these countries, your representatives were all for destroying the internet. You will need to work twice as hard campaigning your reps when this goes back for a second discussion in September.
Congratulations Sweden, Poland, Netherlands, Lithunania and Estonia.
THIS IS NOT OVER.
The legislation goes back for a re-do in September before we’ll have to fight this battle again.
HOLY SHIT, POLAND, SOMETIMES I LOVE MY COUNTRY SO MUCH ❤
The man dialled 999 after he sank “thigh deep” into the road in the Heaton area of the city and got stuck.Firefighters from Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service had to dig the man out with a hammer and chisel.
He escaped uninjured, apparently thanks to the fact he was wearing “his granddad’s Dr Martens”.A fire and rescue service spokesman blamed the heatwave and warned people to be mindful while walking around.We’ve seen railtracks buckle, threats of water shortages and concerns over pets and the elderly and vulnerable, but there is a new victim of this summer’s heatwave – the roads.
Americans and Australians who keep saying “It’s not that hot” our damn roads turned to liquid because it’s so abnormally hot
what do yall pave your roads with? chocolate?
What the fuck
God i wish that were me
As a Brit, OUR SHIT IS BUILT FOR COLD, NOT HOT.
Also y’know complaining about the weather is a national pastime soooo
Look, if Minnesota can do swings like this and the state survives, you folks in England should be able to make roads that survive 90 degree heat
The trouble with England is that, in contrast to Minnesota or even the eastern seaboard US, it doesn’t conceive of itself as having extreme weather. It’s like how every winter it snows a little at Heathrow and they lose their shit completely, only even more so. I have spent a ton of time there and my personal experience is that every summer extremely hot and humid heat waves happen, but nobody there thinks of that as a regular thing, it’s always a Freak Event to them, even the 657th time. So private households other than seriously rich people’s never just have air conditioning as a matter of course (even one window unit, forget about central air), and all of the buildings have been designed for coziness in a sleety February and retain heat like a mf, and even the roads aren’t built to heatproof enough specs to sustain temperatures that I have repeatedly experienced there, year after year, even as a frequent visitor. They do suffer more than we do in the same conditions, because they’re not set up for it, because they labor under the delusion that it’s not normal for them. It is. It has been for a while. Maybe this is just the last two or three decades and it’s an early global warming effect, but, like, wake the fuck up, maybe? I am extremely sympathetic. I go through absolute hell every summer. I survive because NYC has accepted what it’s dealing with and interior spaces are kept under reasonable control in summer as well as winter as a matter of course. If anything we have an over-air-conditioning problem, but that’s a separate issue and at least in principle highly manageable. There are a whole lot of first-line measures to be taken against summer hell that England is still leaving on the table.
(I realize air conditioning will fuck up the planet long term but until we achieve fully automated luxury communism globally and can all move to naturally habitable places I’m prioritizing my mental health above worrying about it; also there is plenty of lore about how to use fans properly and swamp coolers and shit that isn’t getting deployed either)
Air conditioning won’t fuck up the planet even a little bit if you power it with nuclear or, really, anything but dead dinosaurs.
yeah, +1 for nuclear. it’s a shame American environmentalists got so traumatized in the 20th century by Cold War dread interacting with a few highly reported bad incidents due to early-technology missteps that they developed a colossal blind spot around this. we should do it like France.
“Mr. Trump was apparently referring to
Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a
decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global
head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr.
Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with
knowledge of his role.
During Mr.
Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important
lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the
renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a
time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because
of his troubled business history.”
One BILLION dollars worth of transactions between Trump and the son of a SCOTUS Justice somehow escaped notice until just now? I call bullshit.
Donald Trump is corrupt. The Trump family is corrupt. The Republican Party is corrupt. The conservative justices on the Supreme Court are all corrupt. And corporate media is complicit.
Deutsche Bank, in case ya never heard, is also the prime #1 money laundering operation for Russia. Like, they’ve been fined for a $10 BILLION+ money laundering scheme back in 2016.
So now we have SCOTUS Justice Kennedy (retired) + Tr0mp + Russians.
I remember a long time ago there was this guy on an infomercial that claimed he had the cures to many illnesses. He claimed that these were surefire treatments that the “FDA doesn’t want you to know about.” They were all contained within his $30 book. He said he didn’t care if the FDA came after him, he was brave enough to share this knowledge. And in one part of the infomercial he claimed that he had a cure specifically for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I was so desperate back in those days. I heard him say Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and it was like my brain just reset and I was born yesterday. My brain was all, “I think this guy can cure you!” And I was all, “Okay brain! Sounds good to me!”
I barely had any money, but I sent this huckster $30 for the book. It took a very long time to get here. I guess he had to ship it through multiple secret routes to keep the FDA from intercepting it.
I opened the book and hurriedly skimmed through it. Frantically looking for my cure. I was already imagining myself taking fantastic trips to see my friends. I was thinking about what jokes I might tell at the comedy club. Maybe I’d finally go to Tokyo like I always dreamed of.
As I read the book, I noticed there weren’t a lot of cures. The only thing I saw so far was that you can drink a spoonful of vinegar for a tummy ache. Most of the book was talking vaguely about the cures the FDA is keeping from the public. But it wasn’t listing the actual cures. The rest of the book detailed this man’s perilous struggle against “the man.” Talking about his heroic quest to bring this information to the masses. He basically used made up conspiracy theories as filler to make the book long enough to seem substantial.
I finally found the mention of CFS. It was about a paragraph long. All it said was that he knew the cure. But the cure was not in the book. It was missing! I kept going and got to the end of the book. The book basically said they can’t actually put the cures inside, because it was against the law to publish them. He Mario’d me. Your life changing cure is in another castle.
But fear not!
There was a URL to a “secret” website.
Once you get to the website (which wasn’t much of a secret, you could totally google it if you knew what it was), it had a database of all the “cures.” Just sign up and pay the subscription fee to log in and search for what ails you.
I’m not sure what was wrong with my brain at this point. Normally I’d be able to recognize this scam the second I turned on my TV and saw this slithering fraud with his whitened teeth and fake smile. But I was at such a low point back then. I just wanted to be better. I just wanted to see my friends again.
So I signed up for the website and gave this bastard more of my money that I didn’t really have. Credit cards are free money, right?
The website was a mess. I’m pretty sure it was designed by monkeys. Drunk monkeys. Alcohol-impaired monkeys that used Geocities as a web design influence.
But it was now the moment of truth. I was one search away from my cure. I typed in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and an article popped up. However, the cure was not a cure anymore. It was a “remedy.” And the remedy was to help lessen some of the symptoms of CFS.
It told me to take a bath.
Not just any bath though!
It listed a few things to add to the water. Mainly lavender oil.
I guess the FDA didn’t want me to know about lavender oil, which can be purchased over the counter for $7.
My heart sunk. I finally realized what I should have realized $70 ago.
It was a scam. And I fell for it. I fell for it super hard.
And I just cried. I cried a lot.
In a way, it was a bit of a wake-up call. I realized that I needed to stop hoping for a miracle cure. I decided that I had to adapt and figure out a life I could live under my current circumstances. I had to come up with new hopes and dreams that were more realistic with my health constraints. My life will always be a struggle. And that is okay. As long as I find ways to actually live my life, to be with my friends and loved ones, and be productive in some way, I can continue forward.
I don’t know if $70 was worth that particular epiphany… but it needed to happen.
As for the infomercial huckster…
If you hadn’t guessed already, it was Kevin Trudeau.
And if you’d like a nice happy ending to this tale of woe, I think I’ll let Wikipedia take care of that for me.
1. Try following a dog around. It doesn’t have to be your dog. In fact most vaguely dog-shaped things are fine. Try a badger, for example, if you want an amazing workout for your crawling muscles and also to get stuck in a hole and have to be dug out by the fire brigade.
2. Instead of taking the lift, try removing bricks and supporting beams from the building until the floor you want comes down to you. Not only does this provide an intensive workout for your cardiovascular system, you can also sell any valuable building components on the black market. Always make sure to practice safe floor removal.
3. Do you sit a lot at work? Try motorising your desk. You may still be sitting, but the effort required to propel your chair down the road after it is a workout in itself. Plus the danger of being sacked if you fail to keep up with your desk will certainly get you moving.
4. If you are having trouble finding places to exercise, try having a mysterious accident with something radioactive. This could open up new and relatively uncrowded exercise spaces, for example the sides of buildings or the troposphere. Make sure to have the sort of accident that gives you superpowers not the sort of accident that results in an international incident. If you can.
5. Add in running to your daily routine by summoning the dead, who will never stop until they have snuffed your lights out, from out of their meagre graves. Whilst this is a very effective motivator, you may want to get in good shape first as the dead do not have an adjustable speed parameter. Also useful in honing your driving, hiding and door-barricading skills.
6. Do you have trouble making time to lift? Do you fly a lot? Do two birds with one stone by lifting yourself. You may need bootstraps. No, I’m not sure what those are either. Anyway, once you are airborne, generate thrust by kicking your own buttocks and you may be able to get as far as Croydon.
7. There are also a lot of fairytale exercise outcomes that can be achieved by relatively easily-obtained equipment, such as cursed shoes or doors into infinite labyrinths. Probably the best way to get a trial selection is to insult your local goblins. ‘Hairy-eared mushroom-sitters’ works well.
8. Laughing tones up your face muscles, allowing you to do feats of face strength like competitive chewing and having a stiff upper lip. The bigger the face movement, the better. This is why evil masterminds can out-chew all but the most competitive pie-eaters.
9. Keep weights next to your television. Eventually you will lift the television by mistake whilst engrossed in drama, and possibly break it, setting the stage for a spontaneous full-body swearing workout.
10. Finally, the eternal fight against the inevitable march of entropy can use up a calorie or two. Try cleaning something which will end up dirty again, despite having already been cleaned. Now do it again. No, that was a week ago. It needs doing again. Great for the despair muscles. Get to it.
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