I see all of y'all hopping on the Bernie Sanders train and that’s cool, because he has some awesome ideas. But, if he gets elected, please remember that he’ll more than likely be fighting a Republican controlled Congress and the President’s powers are limited.
Please don’t get this guy elected because you want things to change and then abandon him when that change can’t happen immediately.
That’s a really good point and also why we should encourage people to vote in the congressional elections in 2016 and 2018 so he can get a congress that will actually work with him.
Vote in all elections! From city to congress to presidential
Very true! Midterm elections are suuuuper important and you should vote in them!
that’s exactly what happened to obama. they literally tried to block everything he did.
So let’s not let history repeat itself.
Vote in every election
Vote in every race on the ballot, all the way down to the end
Okay, but this is obviously a reference to when Lucy found the Wardrobe. A “year” ago. But it was a lifetime ago. So the last time he didn’t believe her was a good thirty or forty years ago. Incredibly sweet. Until you see Peter’s face. Imagine Edmund saying this EVERY SINGLE TIME Lucy does something. Lucy: “I think that there’s a Minotaur in the woods, lets not picnic there.” Everyone Else: “There’s no Minotaur in those woods.” Edmund: “Well if Lucy says so, I’m not going.” Later Edmund: “How was the picnic?” Peter: “…stupid Minotaur…”
tumblr has a sad-boner for the burning of the library of alexandria
which was not actually one burning but several
and while the Library of Alexandria was an immense historical and national treasure, a lot of ppl tend to forget about the other book and library burnings that occurred in antiquity
Places like the library of Nalanda, in India, which contained an elaborate classification system to hold what was then seen as the largest collection of Buddhist literature
and the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, which contained Greek and Arabic works on mathematics and astronomy to zoology and cartography
and more recently, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (no, that does not mean sexual witchcraft) which was burned by the Nazis b/c the majority of tomes dealt with same sex relationships and gay rights and acceptance.
and omg, this makes me so mad. The Libraries of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada has all its collection thrown away in an attempt to save taxpayer money and on the hope that all of its material was digitized. Only 5 to 6% was.
and the Saeh library in Lebanon, which was burnt b/c of terrorism.
Book burnings are happening right now, y'all.
Not to mention how the Spanish systematically destroyed the entire literary output of whole societies in Mesoamerica, to the point where we only have a handful of their codices today
We should talk, too, about the heroism of those trying to save books from violence, not least because the deliberate destruction of cultural artifacts is evidence of genocide. A few libraries not mentioned above:
The National Library of Bosnia, located in Sarajevo, which was destroyed in August of 1992 by Serb forces. It was targeted with incendiary shells, and over a million books testifying to Bosnia’s multicultural history were lost in the resulting fire. Aida Buturović, a young librarian, was killed by sniper fire while trying to carry books from the burning building. The Oriental Institute, housing the majority of Sarajevo’s Islamic manuscripts, was destroyed that May, but it wasn’t the first library burnt in Sarajevo: during World War II, the Nazis decimated the collection of La Benevolencija, one of the oldest Jewish organizations in the city.
The Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, which was burned in January 2013 by Tuareg rebel forces fleeing the city, who had been using the library as a barracks. The fire destroyed 4,000 manuscripts - but Abdel Kader Haïdara, a librarian, saved 400,000 more from libraries all over the city by smuggling them out in the preceding months. He had help, and the ‘book rustlers’ of Mali - who risked their lives to do it - saved 800 years of West African history.
the one where US President Jamie Foxx’s first act on screen is to announce the removal of all US troops from the Middle East and everyone’s like mr. president but u can’t and he sincerely doesn’t get it? Like, you guys don’t want peace and prosperity and harmonious mutually beneficial international relations??? Look I negotiated all these complicated agreements with political leaders worldwide EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAY I PROMISE
US President Jamie Foxx is also a giant nerd who loves helicopters and history and giving shout-outs to little kids on Youtube and all his staff openly and unconditionally adore him
which is something we all have in common b/c I also adore him AND SO WILL YOU
all the bad guys are white supremacists and skeevy industrialists trying to thwart the President’s otherwise perfectly feasible plan to achieve world peace
not a single solitary whiff of the ol’ racially stereotyped terrorist anywhere, amazing what you can do when you try
Channing Tatum’s introduction in this movie consists entirely of a scene where he’s having an extended argument with a squirrel named Clyde
you think I’m kidding? I’m not fucking kidding. He argues with a real live squirrel. He tries to reason with it for like two solid minutes. It’s amazing
Channing Tatum is Hermione Granger’s well-meaning fail dad who is trying very hard not to be a fail dad but he’s failing at it, so in a last ditch attempt to convince his daughter not to hate him for the rest of her life he takes her on a road trip to the White House
Hermione Granger-Tatum is intelligent, well-read, a history buff, politically savvy, keeps her cool in a national security crisis and charms her way into US President Jamie Foxx’s good graces with minimal effort
she’s eleven
‘Stop lying to children’ fuck man, that’s was brutal
this is not a rescue mission movie btw. This is a movie where a hard working pacifist politician teams up with an ex-soldier with mediocre credentials but a big heart and together they prevent WW3
I mean yeah, 2/3 of it is people shooting at eachother, but there are also MOMENTS, e.g.:
Channing Tatum tenderly talking about how much he loves his little girl while patching Jamie Foxx up in a dingy basement
p. much any interaction between Jamie Foxx and Hermione Granger-Tatum, but especially the one where he realizes he has to soldier on or risk disappointing this incredible and promising young lady who believes he’s a hero
the fact that Jamie Foxx reacts to being shot at repeatedly with a very realistic range of emotions but also never wastes a single instance of situational humor
Jamie Foxx stabbing [redacted for spoilers] with a pen right after a ‘pen is mightier than the sword’ reference
‘The President wants to do the thing’
‘You look terrible,’ Maggie Gyllenhaal informs Channing Tatum, who is bruised, bloody, exhausted and soaked to the bone after all the sprinklers in the White House went off for no reason other than to get him soaked to the bone
(spoilers: Maggie Gyllenhaal doesn’t really mean that)
THE ENDING IS SO CHEESY BUT SO WONDERFUL GUYS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND
WORLD PEACE IS ACHIEVED
WE ARE REMINDED IN NO AMBIGUOUS TERMS THAT US PRESIDENT JAMIE FOXX IS WHOLEHEARTEDLY ADORED BY HIS STAFF
HERMIONE GRANGER-TATUM DOESN’T HATE HER DAD ANYMORE ALSO HER DAD GETS A JOB ON THE JAMIE FOXX’S SECURITY DETAIL AND THEY ALL RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET IN THE PRESIDENTIAL HELICOPTER THE END
this movie is completely ridiculous in the best ways and 2 hours of my life very well spent 10/10 pls watch
so
probably i am going to watch this film at the weekend probably
HAVE PPL NOT WATCHED WHITE HOUSE DOWN?
GUYS WATCH IT.
DO YOURSELF THIS FAVOUR.
IT’S THE GREATEST DIE HARD MOVIE THAT IS NOT A DIE HARD MOVIE. IT IS WHAT DIE HARD 5 SHOULD HAVE BEEN. AND ONCE YOU GET TO THE LAWN SCENE YOUR LIFE WILL BE CHANGED.
I’M TELLING YOU. CHANGED. THERE IS YOUR LIFE AND MOVIE PRE-LAWN SCENE IN WHITE HOUSE DOWN AND YOU LIFE AFTER.
IT’S SO FUN AND ACTION AND OUR HEROES ARE TWO DADS SAVING THE DAY, AND THE DAUGHTER IS SO GREAT. EVERYTHING ABOUT WHITE HOUSE DOWN IS AMAZING TO WITNESS.
Nearly 10,000 people have died in just over two years after being denied full sickness benefits and told to get a job, the Government admitted.
After an 18-month Freedom of Information battle with the Mirror, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that 2,380 people died between December 2011 and February 2014 after failing controversial government tests and being found “fit to work”.
A further 7,200 people claiming Employment and Support Allowance died after being put in the “work-related activity group”, which means they get reduced benefits and are told to get a job.
The Mirror first used Freedom of Information laws in 2012 to expose how every week 32 people were dying after being put into the work-related activity group following “work capability assessments”.
The DWP insisted that the death rate for people on benefits had fallen over 10 years to 2013 “in line with the general working age population”.
But the death rate of those in the “work related activity group”, who now get the same rate as the jobseekers allowance, rose in 2013 to 532 per 100,000 – more than double the general working age population.
"Don't mind me, I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would think that business experience qualifies someone to be president. Let's see... you ran an organization that was about delivering the least possible service at the largest possible margins with the goal of siphoning off funds to a small number of people. Sure, I can see why you would be good at helming an organization aimed at delivering the greatest amount of service to the largest number of people at the lowest cost. Or... hmmm."
Yep.
A seasonal bit of chemistry from Compound Interest. Click to enlarge.
Her silver tongue honed by decades in corporate marketing, Carly Fiorina has used two debates, and a steely determination on the campaign trail, to climb near the top of the polls for the Republican nomination.
But Americans should pause on her biggest professional credential for our highest office: a short, disastrous stint atop one of America’s iconic technology companies, Hewlett-Packard.
The clearest measure of her performance — and the report card preferred by Wall Street — is H.P.’s stock price, which dropped by 52 percent during her tenure of almost six years.
Yes, Mrs. Fiorina served during the worst fall in technology shares in history. But she managed to underperform her key competitors; IBM’s shares declined by 27.5 percent and Dell’s fell by 3 percent. ...
Investors were so down on her that H.P.’s shares jumped by almost 7 percent on the day of her firing. And in ensuing years, she appeared on several “worst C.E.O.” lists, including those of CBS News and USA Today.
Don't mind me, I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would think that business experience qualifies someone to be president. Let's see... you ran an organization that was about delivering the least possible service at the largest possible margins with the goal of siphoning off funds to a small number of people. Sure, I can see why you would be good at helming an organization aimed at delivering the greatest amount of service to the largest number of people at the lowest cost. Or... hmmm.
“One of my wife’s distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again,” writes the exasperated owner of a prime 2 bedroom apartment in New York City in this Ask MetaFilter question. “She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as well as the “out of town” excuse for any remaining dates. This got us off scot-free, but we both knew the time would come again… and it’s here. We need a final solution.”
He goes on to list two different possibilities he can think of for getting this woman to stop asking for free room and board. The first is a little white lie, something about their keys being hard to duplicate. The other is to be vague, to say something like “Sorry, that isn’t going to work for us” and hope she doesn’t ask why.
The first few answers give this poster very direct advice: Just say no. No need to give an explanation, it’s her who’s being rude by asking. Others give him advice that was probably more like what he was expecting: other ways to be vague like claiming that it’s “One of those random `Life in NYC things.’”
Another thread of discussion popped up around whether or not the woman asking for a place to stay was being rude. Some posters couldn’t understand how simply asking to stay in someone’s apartment was rude, while another went as far to say that putting someone in the position “having to be rude and say no” was rude in and of itself.
It is into this context that user tangerine contributes this answer:
This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture.
In some families, you grow up with the expectation that it’s OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture.
In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you’re pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won’t even have to make the request directly; you’ll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept.
All kinds of problems spring up around the edges. If you’re a Guess Culture person — and you obviously are — then unwelcome requests from Ask Culture people seem presumptuous and out of line, and you’re likely to feel angry, uncomfortable, and manipulated.
If you’re an Ask Culture person, Guess Culture behavior can seem incomprehensible, inconsistent, and rife with passive aggression.
Obviously she’s an Ask and you’re a Guess. (I’m a Guess too. Let me tell you, it’s great for, say, reading nuanced and subtle novels; not so great for, say, dating and getting raises.)
Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people — ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you’ll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you’ll spend your life in a cloud of mild outrage at (pace Moomin fans) the Cluelessness of Everyone.
As you read through the responses to this question, you can easily see who the Guess and the Ask commenters are. It’s an interesting exercise. (#)
After this comment many users, including the original poster himself, began to use these terms in discussing the issue. And why wouldn’t they? Ask Culture and Guess Culture describe two valid yet opposing ways of interacting with the world with very little value judgment given to them. Framing the argument as such was a stroke of utter genius by tangerine, broadening the perspective of many who participated in the discussion and adding to the general lifebuzz.
This is great. I’m so very, very, very much an “ask” person. Any sort of social ambiguity tends to send my brain into overdrive with questioning and second-guessing and helplessness (because once the “indirect” norm is set I know “directness” is rude but I struggle with subtle communication, *especially* when I’m already anxious, so I’m left feeling like I have no communication options at all). BUT I have become aware that my directness can be uncomfortable and off-putting and that not everyone feels the same freedom to say no depending on circumstances. So I have learned the art of backing off as soon as I sense resistance and presenting requests/inquiries in ways that are much easier to say no to (like explicitly framing the request with, “It’s totally okay for you to say no to this, and I’m checking because I’d like to know if it’s an option, not because I’m expecting the answer to be yes”) and behaving appropriately when “no” is used (i.e., keeping my disappointment to myself, not pushing the issue, not hanging onto resentment, or otherwise subtly ‘punishing’ the other person).
Good food for thought. I’m definitely an Asker, not a Guesser, but I feel like a lot of my issues in communication come from when I try to work in a Guess manner. Hmmm.
If it’s the same for one, it should be the same for all.
If you’re referring to bakeries being asked to make cakes for gay weddings, there is no parallel whatsoever with a kosher restaurant not serving ham and cheese. The combination of ham and cheese is inherently forbidden by Jewish law. The very act of making a ham and cheese sandwich is forbidden, as well as the fact that the presence of the ham in the deli would in short order render all the food there non-kosher, hence changing the fundamental nature of the business. However, at least the last I heard, the bible doesn’t actually forbid making a cake. Or even making a cake for a gay wedding. It only forbids the gay wedding itself. So it is not the same situation at all. But even if it WERE, you’d at least have to be consistent and refuse to serve anyone who has ever done anything the bible forbids (not just picking this one thing and ignoring all the rest), which is…oh wait. Everyone. Might as well close up shop.
And if you’re hinting at Kim Davis, well, she has every right to do exactly what every observant Jew does and not work a job that requires her to do something against her beliefs.
Leave us Jews out of this, thanks.
Plus, actually. If an atheist bakery refused to make a religious cake that would, in fact, also be discrimination. US law forbids discriminating on the basis of race, gender, religion and sexual orientation. Refusing to make a cake because you disagree with their religious practices is also illegal, and probably would garner public outcry. This would cover a Muslim wedding, a Christian wedding, a Sikh wedding, a Bar Mitzvah, a Christmas cake, a cake for an Iftar meal, or, hell, if someone wanted a cake for Holi. (LOL I don’t think bakery cakes are common during Holi, but you know what I mean.)
And also, literally nowhere in the Bible does it forbid a gay marriage celebration. Some parts can be read as forbidding same-sex sexual relationships, but gay marriage is not mentioned ever.
Moreover, the analogies for the Jewish and Muslim businesses are completely flawed and nonsensical.
By definition, a kosher deli does not have bacon on the premises, and therefore, it cannot be provided in the first place. It’s not being withheld from specific people due to their lifestyle choices or beliefs. Ordering a side of bacon at a kosher deli is not an option for anybody.
Likewise, a halal caterer who doesn’t provide liquor for events is not specifically excluding certain clients due to their religious beliefs. Given that they wouldn’t even have a liquor licence to begin with, there’s no way they could be accused of discriminating against specific individuals. Nobody gets a liquor package because, again, it’s not even an option.
Requesting pork at a kosher or halal restaurant is like requesting a Samsung Note at the Apple Store: YOU WILL BE DENIED BECAUSE THEY DON’T SELL IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. You can’t get your tires rotated at the Post Office because IT’S NOT A SERVICE THEY OFFER.
On the other hand, if you make your living selling wedding cakes, but refuse to provide one of those cakes to a potential customer because you don’t approve of their upcoming same-sex wedding, then that’s discrimination.
Not offering a service or product to your entire customer base is not the same as denying certain people because of their sexuality/gender/race/religion/etc.
Your analogy is bullshit, go home.
I can’t remember who it was but someone else in jumblr said, “There’s a difference between ‘I won’t serve ham’ and ‘I won’t serve you’”
clint barton accidentally breaking his tv remote and is too lazy to get up and change the channel manually so he just lays there on the couch and watches the soap operas. kate coming over three days later to find clint still on the couch with the tv on, a blanket covering him and tears streaming down his face as he whispers, “christine deserved so much better than she got”
I’m really tired of only seeing posts for trauma survivors who have managed to stay kind. not all of us can. not all of us can do that and still cope.
shoutout to my fellow trauma survivors who expect the worst, who are unfriendly, who have learned not to be vulnerable because people have used vulnerability to hurt you, who are quick to bare teeth, who are jaded and exhausted, who learned to compartmentalize and shut to things away and not feel, who are called bitter and disappoint people who expect us to be model survivors.
we are no less valuable or human than anyone else.
Thank you, Senator Elizabeth Warren, for standing up for reproductive freedom.
I know it’s not the solution, but a big part of me, since starting medical school, wants to take people who pretend that illegalizing abortions prevented them on a tour of a hospital ward somewhere they’re still illegal.
The smell of rotting flesh on a living person is something you never forget.
I don’t hold with a lot of things, but you’d never catch me advocating that we illegalize some other kind of surgery on consenting adults. People do it anyway, and they do it wrong. And they show up with bacterial soup where flesh used to be, and they can easily die of it. Especially now, with resistance to antibiotics such an issue that our hospitals have a chart of what diseases are most resistant to what antibiotics just in our area. I may think liposuction is a surgically unnecessary unacceptable risk, but no one deserves to die from a botched liposuction by an illegal provider, or a botched silicon injection.
Legalize all surgeries by competent and well-trained providers. Illegalize all others. Make care accessible to everyone. Make informed consent the cornerstone. God, the days I spent shadowing in an abortion clinic, I went from being apologetic about abortions to thinking “This? You can’t even see the villi yet.” Let alone the embryo. In the first eight weeks or so, you cannot recognize anything even vaguely human-like, even crouched over the uterine contents squinting at them in a water-filled glass bowl over a light source, which you do every time to make sure that there aren’t any unexpected findings. There are certain conditions that are rare, but for a provider in a major urban area with few clinics, like the one I shadowed, who might do hundreds in a year, the odds are she’ll encounter them at least occasionally and someone with, for instance, a hydatiform mole, which is something like “what if the blastocyst turned into aggressively invasive cancer instead of an embryo,” needs urgent medical attention.
In general, I think high schools need to devote more time to human physiology. Everyone should know how their blood and guts work, at least at a basic level. When I took a specific class on medical terminology in high school, part a prep course for people interested in nursing, I was shocked to discover how little I knew and how little my classmates knew–things that any medical professional would consider absolutely basic, we had no idea. We filled in the gaps with intuition that was wrong. And for many people, that’s never remedied.
We’d be having completely different national conversations if everyone knew how bodies work. That’s just a fact. You’ll never meet a competent doctor who wouldn’t make birth control freely available to literally everyone if they had the chance. They’ve seen the consequences. Not just botched abortions, back in the day, but I saw a kid whose mother was on meth during the pregnancy. The mother cleaned up afterwards, but the kid has excruciating constant migraines. At six, that’s a hell of a burden, and the mother’s guilt was palpable and unrelenting. It may not have even been related, but what if that poor addicted woman had had actual control of her reproduction? I doubt she would have chosen to be pregnant then. An IUD, a Norplant, would have meant she could have waited until she cleaned up and felt ready for the responsibility, even without the presence of mind and resources to use a condom. Addicts deserve medical care, too. They deserve choice.
Everyone deserves choice. Even reckless people, even drug addicts, even people who don’t have a sympathetic story. And the people running the national conversation on abortion want to ignore that in favor of talking about “innocent” people, whether that’s the sympathetic woman (nobody talks about trans men or nb people) getting an abortion or the embryo or fetus being aborted. It makes me so angry, to be so irresponsible with how we talk about bodies, health, minds, choices. Dignity.
Wandering around New York City PISSED because there are all of these empty luxury apartments in a city with such a high homeless population. He just starts tearing down doors and ushering people inside (and then repairing the doors because whoops he did not think that through)
Every time a reporter tries to ask Natasha who does her hair he interrupts her snarky response with I DO
Getting dragged into tv interviews and getting weird questions he’s not really qualified to answer until finally someone asks him what he thinks the founding fathers would have to say about net neutrality and he just says “I don’t give a fuck what they’ve have to say” before this impassioned speech about freedom and information equality that everyone is too afraid to interrupt
Literally dropping everything to show up in Ferguson. Like, thanks police department for all your hard work but you can go home now because the people have spoken and they’d like you all to retire early Captain America’s got this covered
He does not tell the Avengers
He does not tell Fury
He leaves a note for Bucky but like it’s really vague “ttyl gotta go school some haters” and Bucky has no idea what that’s supposed to mean because Steve basically COLLECTS HATERS LIKE THEY’RE POKEMON
Speaking of haters remember that time in Iron Man 3 where Tony gave out his home address and basically told a terrorist to come find him? That’s not good enough for Steve. Nope. He adopts one of those army dogs with the titanium teeth and just starts jumping out of planes and knocking on doors like “hello have you accepted Steven Grant Rogers as your ass-kicking savior?” like this is a weekly occurrence. Arms dealers, the leaders of drug cartels, human traffickers, he just keeps finding things to get pissed about.
Because he doesn’t like bullies.
Like everyone in the tower sits him down and they have an intervention for him and he promises to find his chill
Starts doing Sesame Street appearances and everything seems normal
And then he disappears on a rampage and resurfaces on the news standing at the protest lines of an abortion clinic escorting women inside and covering their faces with his shield
He probably comes across Coulson at one point and he’s not even surprised he’s just like accepted the fact that nobody stays dead anymore like he’s honestly expecting to punch real hitler in the real face one of these days
Steven Rattner reviews the Fiorina business legacy.
