Shoutout to my 90 year old grandma with dementia (she thinks she’s back when she was 20) and she misunderstood us when we said her nursing home cook didn’t make food for OTHER people and she thought we said “colored people” and she got so mad she was ready to steal food so she could feed everyone. Keep in mind she thinks she’s in like 1940s and she is READY to defend poc. Shout out to you grandma.
I also appreciate that she’s sure she can steal food from the cook
90 year old thief. She doesn’t play when it comes to equality
Chaotic good never fades
My grandmother is also in her nineties and thinks it’s still 1945. A couple years ago she was having a rough day, so to cheer her up I tried to find some more recent that WWII pictures of her best friend from her Coast Guard days, and was shocked when the first thing to pop up in a google image search of her name was her friend with then president Barack Obama. My grandmother was confused at first because she knew her friend had no children or nephews, but she was absolutely delighted when I told her “that handsome young man standing with Olivia” was the president of the United States
Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and spurring extreme measures to protect them.
For what they say is the first time, volunteer groups in Arizona and Colorado are hauling thousands of gallons of water and truckloads of food to remote grazing grounds where springs have run dry and vegetation has disappeared.
Federal land managers also have begun emergency roundups in desert areas of Utah and Nevada.
“We’ve never seen it like this,” said Simone Netherlands, president of the Arizona-based Salt River Wild Horse Management Group. In May, dozens of horses were found dead on the edge of a dried-up watering hole in northeastern Arizona.
As spring turned to summer, drought conditions turned from bad to worse, Netherlands said. Parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are under the most severe category of drought, though extreme conditions are present from California to Missouri, government analysts say. Parts of the region have witnessed some of the driest conditions on record, amid a cycle of high temperatures and low snowmelt that appears to be getting worse, National Weather Service hydrologist Brian McInerney said.
East Coast: At least 10 million people are at risk this week under flood watches and warnings issued because of heavy rain across the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic. The National Weather Service warned about “potentially dangerous, even life-threatening” conditions over the next few days.
Southwestern US (From WeatherBug)
A colossal ridge of high pressure centered over the Texas over the last week or so will shift into the Southwest, taking the oppressive heat with it. Even still, temperatures across the Lone Star State will soar into the 90s today into the weekend.
The real heat will instead be found across Arizona and California, where daytime temperatures will easily reach the triple digits. Excessive Heat Warnings and Advisories have been issued for parts of Arizona, Nevada and California, and Oregon, including Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego, and Portland.
Temperatures in Death Valley, Calif., could get as high as 125 degrees, with lows staying above 100 degrees the entire night. Temperatures in interior southern California will likely reach close to 120 degrees, with highs near 100 even in Los Angeles.
Wanna feel nauseous? They now suggest parents put something important, like their phones, by their child’s carseat so they won’t forget and leave their child to die in a hot car. Even if nothing else did, this proves how messed up we are as a society, that we’ll forget a child in a car, but not our phones. As of July 7, 16 children have died in hot cars this summer – so far.
The thing that makes me most nauseous out of all the nausea-inducing stuff about that headline, is the implication that even the article-writers don’t deem children themselves “important”.
Which is probably uncharitable towards people whose effort was put toward reaching the kind of people who just FORGET that their kid is in the car, but. Ugh. I don’t like it.
That is not what the article was suggesting to do, and if OP had read Gene Weingarten’s deservedly Pulitzer-winning article on this phenomenon they would’ve known that. The whole point of Weingarten’s article was that if you’re capable of forgetting your phone, you’re capable of forgetting your child, precisely because in these situations the brain doesn’t prioritize by order of importance. The problem is not that parents don’t consider their children to be more important than their phones–they forget their phones too! They forget everything! Thus, even if someone did consider their phone to be important, they would still forget it, because the inverse of “if you’re capable of forgetting your phone, you’re capable of forgetting your child” is “if you’re capable of forgetting your child, you’re capable of forgetting your phone.” OP’s commentary is garbage.
What the article actually said was this:
“Or place your purse, briefcase or cellphone in the back seat as a reminder that you have your child in the car.”
Parents who forget their children in the car think they have already dropped them off at daycare or whatever (of that the other parents has them) and thus don’t think to look for the kid/check they’re not there, because why would you do stuff like that with an empty backseat when the kid is at daycare? However, even when the kid is at daycare, they still need their purse/phone when they go to work (or whatever); not having it constitutes a break in the routine, and thus overrides their sense that everyone is fine vis a vis the kid and they can go to work. It’s not about them missing their phone more than their kid because the phone is more important, it’s about the role the phone plays in the timing of the routine.
I mean shit, I don’t care how nauseous it makes you if it fucking works.
Also, ‘these people’ who forget their kids are in the car are probably the same sort of people who say that scornfully, too arrogant to consider the possibility they might make a horrific, tragic mistake to take action to ensure that they don’t. Short-term memory is not at all infallible, acting like this sort of thing somehow proves the parents don’t care about their children just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of neuroscience and psychology.
Safety groups have been pushing it for years telling people to put something you will need when you reach your destination.
You may not always have your laptop, your purse, or your cellphone. But you do always have a shoe.
So when you put your kid in the back, put your left shoe back there, too.
A shoe, yes, that’s ideal. Myself, when I read Weingarten’s piece and was like “okay how do I not do this,” the idea that came to my mind was to literally tie a string from my wrist to the baby’s car seat. Like a spy handcuffing themselves to a briefcase.
A possible failure of this, though, is if I were so out of it that I were like “why is this string here?” and then detached it on my end without having to go to where it led. That’s why the shoe is better, because you have to encounter the baby to retrieve it.
Yeah – I think especially just one shoe would work really well, because you genuinely cannot actually leave the car without noticing its absence, while anything else is possible for you to remember a few hours later when you need it, which could be too late in a heat wave.
It’s kind of boggling to me how someone can say ‘look how horrible this thing is! It’s appalling! And what’s truly sickening is the way people are trying to stop it from happening’, without maybe re-thinking that logic at some point.
In a shocking move, Macmillan / Tor announces that they will begin a “test” of scaling back library lending and waiting 4 months after release date before making e-books available to libraries. They say that it’s because library lending is adversely affecting their sales.
This honestly seems like a giant greedy cash grab, and I’m very disappointed with Macmillan and Tor. I cannot believe they would do this to their library patrons.
Saudi Arabia gave women permission to drive and this is the first thing they do 😭
This shit’s harder than ANY post malone track
Somebody on twitter called her SaudiB
SaudiB
The lyrics are even doper!!! :
Yo, you seem to be forgetting that today is the 10th That means no need for taxis The steering wheel in my hands I smash the pedal under my foot I won’t need anyone to drive me I’ll help myself by myself I’ve got the drivers license ready with me So put the seat belt on the abaya (the outfit she’s wearing) And keep an eye on the sidewalks and the other on the mirror R is for going back, D is for going seeda (straight) Watch out for every car If it was a Ford or Cressida, your life won’t be great Come! Pick me up! Take me there! Bring me back! That’ll ruin the plan If you want me to come pick you up, you gotta pay up Gas money! Don’t underestimate it! Debt! If you pay or don’t that’s still debt “Careful, don’t slam the door hard” that was before Now if you slam it hard, I’ll tie you with the seat belt
In one case described in the project, six men in black masks swept through an apartment in the early-morning hours, refusing to identify themselves as they herded the tenants into the living room. In another, seven plainclothes agents surrounded a taxi with guns drawn, taking away the passenger without saying who they were, leaving the man’s belongings, and one confused driver, in their wake. In a third, a couple was walking to the subway when two agents in jeans and sweatshirts tackled the boyfriend to the ground. When the girlfriend, six months pregnant, grabbed one of the unidentified men, she, too, was thrown to the pavement.
There are other, less hands-on examples. There are numerous accounts of ICE targets being told that the voice on the other end of the phone was a municipal police officer looking to meet up to discuss an investigation, only to find, once they were in handcuffs, that that was never the case. There are instances of agents grabbing people before, after, and in court. There are stories of unmarked vehicles lurking outside targets’ homes for hours, and there are accounts of degradation, such as the man who said he was arrested by 10 agents with guns drawn, shackled, and told that he was a “fucking immigrant” and a “piece of shit.”
And then there are stories that hint at the creation of lingering psychological trauma, like the time half a dozen agents and two local cops pounded on a residential door at dawn, refusing to slide a warrant underneath as a terrified 8-year-old boy hid in an attic above them. When the boy’s father eventually relented and opened the door, he was taken away.
Dubbed ICEwatch, the interactive project, released Monday, is the culmination of years of work by the Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights, two of New York City’s leading legal advocacy organizations.
Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
Really starting to worry as July comes to an end new bills are coming and I’m already in the hole due to multiple emergencies, including the family vehicle breaking down (it was replaced but with a $490 van that needs a lot of work), there is not enough food to last and we don’t even have the gas money to get to the foodshelf.
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