Are you tired? Bored? On enough pain meds to incapitate a horse? May I recommend: The Bear Cams.
The Bear Cams are live steams from Katmai National Park in Alaska. There are 6 livecams, 3 highlight reels, and 1 meditation reel. There are live Q&As with park officials, a very dedicated comment section with people who can seemingly magically identify which bears are which, blogs, weather, etc.
But most importantly: Bears.
Bears!
Baby bear!
Bears!
…Fish? (Sometimes with bears.)
If you’re not interested in bears (who are, at the end of the day, bears and thus prone to eating salmon in gruesome ways and occasionally killing other bears), explore.org has a number of other livecams such as: turkeys, sheep, kittens, dogs, alligators, and jellyfish. But the bears are in peak season right now, and they have a fat bear competition later on in the year, so I highly recommend them.
I especially like the “zen cams” of sunsets or waterfalls and the like, very soothing.
Yanks claim that knife crime will just replace gun crime if guns are banned, but then mock the UK for trying to restrict knives as well. When will they admit they just have a dangerous obsession with weapons?
I think you’re missing the point. If you heavily restrict guns and people just move to knives, as they have in London, what do you think happens when you heavily restrict knives? You can infringe on peoples freedoms as much as you’d like but it wont make them any less violent.
If you don’t see the problem with making it harder for people to get a basic kitchen utensil because it could be used to hurt others I don’t know what to tell you. What’s next? Hammers? Baseball bats? Motor vehicles? Mag lights? Razors? Pointy sticks? Rocks? The list could go on forever. You could coat everything the the whole of the UK in Nerf foam and people would still beat each other to to death with their bear hands. Maybe it’s better to address what motivates people to act violently rather than banning any and every potential tool they could use to enact that violence?
The way our laws work not only are there prohibited weapons, but anything that could be used as a weapon becomes illegal if they can show you have it for that purpose.
>Judge Madge has already proposed grinding down the sharp point of knives, and now believes a tax would help combat the stabbing epidemic he dubbed a “public health emergency”.
> (…) Judge Madge said eight or 10-inch knives with a pointed blade — which a butcher, fishmonger, or chef may occasionally but “rarely” use — are the weapons that can cause the most damage. He added: “Why can’t all those with any role — manufacturers, shops, police, local authorities, the Government — act together to reduce the sale of long pointed knives and provide an alternative of knives with rounded ends?
It’s…it’s actually worse than the headline.
Keep in mind, you already have to be 18 to buy a knife in the UK.
Even butter knives because they are a kind of knife
London man, having his arm hacked off with a meat cleaver: wow I’m sure glad it’s not a pointy knife
Gang members know there are advantages in using acid to hurt someone rather than a knife because “the charges are more serious if you are caught with a knife and the tariff for prison sentences are much higher”.
Dr Harding added that “acid is likely to attract a ‘GBH with intent’ charge while using a knife is more likely to lead to the attacker being charged with attempted murder”
(And no, further restricting access to common cleaning products seems unlikely to address any of the root problems here, any more than placing age restrictions on scissors and paring knives has done so far.)
“We were talking about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which was something which resembled an iPad, long before it appeared. And I said when something like that happens, it’s going to be the death of the book. Douglas said, No it won’t be. Books are sharks. And I must have looked baffled at that because he looked very pleased with himself. And he carried on with his metaphor. He said, Books are sharks … because sharks have been around for a very, very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs. And the reason sharks are still in the oceans is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark is. He said, Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in them in microseconds. They’re really good at being books, he said, and books, no matter what else happens, will always survive. And of course he’s right.”
I have owned four separate smart devices. My primary use for all of them has been reading books.
(Including fanfics and web serials.)
I have owned many smart devices and computers, and I still have 4 bookshelves full of books. I’d 100% rather a physical book over something on the screen.
I mostly got into ebooks because I was in a college dorm, and didn’t have room for a collection. Still went to the library regularly.
I have loads of physical books. When I had to replace my second to last car, I took 75 books out of the back.
But with a cellphone, I can carry around three thousand books in one hand, and have any number more available at a whim, I can read in no light at all, and as I age, my eyes get worse, and I can easily adjust the text size, which is not something I can do in an actual book. (Yes, reading glasses and magnifying glasses, both of which add extraneous hardware. And I already have to wear reading glasses…)
Books are very good at being books; even a damaged book can still be read to some extent, where a damaged phone can’t, but I can keep my entire library handy at all times, vs having to try and remember which of 69,105 boxes the paper book I need is in…
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“First of all, impeachment and removal from office are two separate procedures, and the latter does not necessarily follow from the former.
Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body formally brings charges against a government official, similar to an indictment. For high government officials such as the President of the United States, that process is undertaken by the U.S. House of Representatives, who must pass articles of impeachment formally stating the allegation(s) against the President. However, only after the U.S. Senate has conducted a trial and found the defendant guilty (by a two-thirds vote) would the accused be removed from office…
Section 4 of Article II does not state — or mean — that if any President, Vice President, or other civil officer is impeached (with or without subsequent conviction), all such persons are also removed from office. The procedure for impeachment and potential removal from office would apply only to the persons specifically named in the articles of impeachment passed by the House.”
“Roger’s favourite game is crushing his feed bucket! Roger is our alpha male kangaroo, he is 10 years old, height 6ft 7, weight 200 pounds and 100% muscle. I raised him from a tiny orphan baby kangaroo.”
Donald Featherstone, creator of the plastic lawn flamingo, and his wife Nancy spent at least three decade of their 37 years of marriage wearing complete matching outfits made by Nancy herself.
They would race each other to their shared closet in the morning and the winner would get to pick the outfit for the day. (x)
He not only looked like the guy who invented the lawn flamingo, he acted like it.
So I like that talent vs. skill post, and it really rings true to me as someone who was singled out as “talented” but still needed to develop skills to be able to do the thing professionally at all, and is really just one of many doing the thing.
But as I’ve mentioned before I ALSO think that sometimes tumblr acts like talent ISNT a thing, and I feel… less comfortable about that. I get the idea, and hell the science, behind “tell kids they made a wonderful effort, not that they’re smart” and I just…
I don’t know. I was abused. I worry that if people had never noticed my gift, or noticed it but never commented on it, I might have had nothing at all. In my darkest days at least I was smart in a unique way, and that was special. I might never have thought I deserved to live if there wasn’t SOMETHING special to preserve.
So iunno. I think research on what motivates kids is important, but… I’m not completely convinced that talking about talents is out of bounds.
Like… I was reading as a baby. Not a toddler. I’m not sure how people were supposed to not notice that so they could make my reading about “effort.”
I didn’t know what phonics was until I watched NT kids sound words out and went “that seems handy.”
Other kids stopped me and made me spell words for them, while they looked at them written on paper. If I got it wrong, I got made fun of.
I feel like making talent the elephant in the room will get people bullied for being neuroatypical, just like they get bullied for *not* being able to do things.
Talking about effort instead of talent is super critical if you are trying to encourage individual children in their education/development, but beyond that I think avoiding discussion of talent does a disservice to literally everyone.
Like, framing you as a reader as only about effort does exactly the disservice to you you describe, and it tells the kid on the other side of the room with undiagnosed dyslexia that they’re problems are entirely their fault.
I mean, its possible to go too far in either of these directions. Its true that talent is not the be all and end all, and if you struggle with something, you can still get better at it, and even eventually excel at it, if you are willing to put in a lot of hard work. But its wrong to not admit that for some people the amount of work necessary will be more, and for some people it will be less.
This, exactly! I’m so glad you get it.
It’s not that I think the observations about effort vs. talent are WRONG, it’s that… sometimes people do things in their head.
And while I’m sure that’s complex processing, it’s usually not processing the person has access to. Usually the experience is “I just know.”
It’s important to emphasize to that person that they also can develop related skills, and that they’re not likely to remain notable for whatever it is as an adult if they don’t, but… calling that talent just sounds confusing to me.
“Wow, you *really tried* hard to tell that sign said No Smoking but was missing a K!”
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