that feeling when you see someone wearing a jacket with a shit-ton of patches and you need to get closer so you can tell what type of punk they are
counterpoint: girl scouts
Are you trying to tell me that girl scouts aren’t a type of punk?
SHIT fuck you’re absolutely right
Actually, I totally have something to add to this.
So walking home from work yesterday, I passed a girl scout and her big sis selling girl guide cookies, and I was like: Score! I just got kickback money, so for once I have money on hand, and they never come to my house!
As I’m walking up, I hear the person at the door they’re currently at …let’s say he was berating the poor girl for being brown.
So when he slams the door, the little one just turns to her sis and cheerfully says something like ‘That’s another one for the list. I think he’s at least a two!’
And I’m already behind her at this point with my $10 out for two boxes of thin mints, and she’s all like ‘ah thanks!’, and I ask “What’s this list …?”
“My big sister is keeping a list here of racist fucks and she’s going to break their windows and stuff on halloween!”.
Anyways, girl scouts are precious little angels.
Oh right, this.
I checked around the dude’s house late halloween night.
All his windows were broken.
THE HEROES WE BARELY DESERVE
AHHHHH IT’S ON MY DASH AGAIN AND NOW IT’S UPDATED????? BLESSED??????
It really grinds my gears when non-Indigenous people make up ridiculous reasons why Indigenous sovereignty is unfathomable and that “colonization happened, we can’t undo it so you might as well stop complaining about it.”
Like someone once said to me “Oh my god but if we give you your land back there will be millions of refugees and that’s not okay.”
First of all, why is it so unimaginable that we would simply become citizens of the Algonquin nation in this scenario? (Ottawa is unceded, unsurrendered Algonquin territory. It always was Algonquin land, and always will be Algonquin land.) When Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949, my grandparents became Canadian citizens, they didn’t get deported to Britain. That makes absolutely no sense.
Second of all it undermines the idea of our nations being sovereign nations. As if we never had borders, as if we never had law and order, as if we never had urban multicultural centres. As if we didn’t have all the same things other nations have. It promotes the whole “primitive people running around lost” myth, which facilitated colonization in the first place.
And lastly it promotes the idea that the only thing that (for example) makes me Mi’kmaw is my blood quantum. Not the way I was raised, not the community I belong to, not the language I speak, etc. The amount of cultural exchange, trading, multicultural societies, etc. that we had and some of us are really out here thinking we were always “100% Mi’kmaq” or Cree or Anishinaabe or whatever else. Surprise y’all, people all over the world always been fucking. There’s a reason why Mi’kmaq stories talk about Inuit and about Indigenous peoples from South America.
Anyway this has been a PSA. Until next time, peace and love.
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.
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