This scene reminds me of the story about the shopgirl and the older customer, he admired her necklace, a star of David, and nearly broke down crying at the thought of a young Jewish girl walking around wearing such a thing, voluntarily, with pride.
We like to think the internet within the past half decade or so has honed shitposting down to a science but racing horse names have us beat by decades
This is a case of necessity is the mother of invention- for both race horses and purebred show animals, every.single.animal. needs to have a unique name for record keeping purposes.
Imagine trying to come up with a cool username if you aren’t allowed to add random numbers and underscores- only pronounceable words. Now imagine that this website has had tens of millions of users, and even after someone leaves the site their username can never be recycled.
WELCOME TO PEDIGREE SHITPOST BINGO
Pedigree Shitpost Bingo would make a great horse name
The funniest Star Wars twist would be if instead of a family-reveal it was a not-family-reveal where Kylo Ren finds out he’s adopted and not even related to Darth Vader at all
I’m really glad this anti-Confederate backlash has picked up steam, because we’ve allowed Confederate apologists to completely seize control of Civil War history. The fact that we even think of it in terms of “North vs. South” or “Union vs. Confederacy” is a sign of that influence. It should be “America’s Slaveowner Revolt.” We ask questions like “what if the South won the war”, as if that was remotely possible given their numbers and logistical failures. The Confederacy was barely a government. Within a year of forming there were riots from food shortages. The whole notion that this was between two equally formidable and legitimate sides is a fallacy of the so-called Lost Cause.
This isn’t griping from a history buff by the way, the Lost Cause has been one of America’s chief guardians of white supremacy for 150 years. The Big Lie about states rights affects politics to this day, and always in the context of letting states curtail civil rights that the federal government has guaranteed. Prior to the Civil War, when Northern states tried to push back against fugitive slave laws and make themselves sanctuaries for runaway slaves, the government cracked down hard on them. There was not a peep about states rights on that. We see it happening today. The states rights scolds have not said a word about Jeff Sessions threatening to destroy cities that refuse to hunt undocumented immigrants. Yet somehow the rights of states become sacrosanct when they want to keep gay couples from adopting kids. All of this is relevant to our current situation, and hopefully taking down some statues of (frankly overrated) treasonous generals is just the beginning.
I don’t understand poor people who worship the rich, trust the rich, and assume the rich have this, god like infallibility.
Like theres so many poor working class people who feel they don’t deserve a living wage, health care, and that the rich have their best interests at heart, while they’re suffering and watching family and friends either go bankrupt or die from medical debts, or just being so poor they never had a chance to get ahead in the first place.
But that’s why poorly funded, incompetent public schools are important to the rich. Why this idea of blaming immigrants for stealing jobs and opportunities, while the rich specifically employ immigrants, bus immigrants over the border because they would rather pay a super low wage to immigrants, than give an american minimum wage, which still isn’t a livable wage, is important to the rich. Why it’s important to make it seem that it’s a race/religion issue, that it’s Muslims fault, black peoples fault, lati@s fault, whatever.
I mean, 99.9 of the rest of Americans who aren’t rich, specifically the ones who side, without question, without a second of self reflection, that the rich, the ones in power, the police, will always have your best interest at heart, actually care about your wellbeing are fools. America specifically brainwashed them to be fools. Like sadists, telling these people they deserve the pain.
Anyone who isn’t a part of the super rich, your bodies could litter the streets and the rich won’t give a shit.
They are not on your side.
Every goddamn bit of this. It looks more and more like the super rich are trying to take everything they can from is before they build themselves castles on hilltops so they can survive while the rest of us suffer I squalor until the rising seas drown us.
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly round up of all things merchandise. This week we’ve got even more San Diego Comic-Con exclusives to drool over, some new Lego from the upcoming Ninjago movie, and the best plastic recreation of Bruce Campbell’s face the world has ever seen. Really!
What's great about making me want to cane pedestrians? Go home and do that shit, assholes.
There are so many things to love about travel but street drinking has quickly become one of my favorite activities abroad. If you live in a place where it’s legal (and normal) to walk down the street with a beer, maybe you can’t imagine what the big deal is. For the rest of us, it’s pretty great.
me, arriving fifteen minutes late to dinner with friends: sorry im late guys! traffic was normal im just a fucking idiot with no concept of the passage of time
So... still now word on teaching the police to interact with the public?
A bill newly passed in the New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday would require schools to teach kindergarten through 12th grade classes on how civilians should interact with police.
I bet in the early days of the Justice League, when the original seven were still trying to work as a team, before any of the sidekicks came, before the Justice League became a giant extended family, the other members would occasionally forget that Batman was a father to a tiny, energetic little boy until they were forcibly reminded.
“I’m afraid we’re going to have to move the budget meeting this Saturday. Yes, I’m afraid something more important has come up. Dick is asking to go back to the Natural History museum for the 6th time this month. He likes the wooly mammoths, they remind him of elephants.”
“Yes I understand, Luthor’s plans need to be… Wait, can you hold on a second Clark?… Dick, I swear to God if you jump off that banister you may survive the fall but you will not survive me, do you understand? Yes, I thought so… Sorry, you were saying Superman?”
"Flash, act natural, pretend we are in a serious discussion and I am asking for your signature for very important League business and not because Dick has been begging for your autograph since he heard about you joining the team. Dammit Allen do not smile like that this is serious.“
“Get your mind out of the gutter Jordan, there’s a thunderstorm in Gotham and Dick’s stuffed animal was frightened of the lightening. Why else would he be in my bed at 4 in morning? More importantly, why are you calling at this hour causing my rightful cranky son to answer the phone?”
“You’re a magnificent warrior Wonder Woman but motherly you are not. You need to hold them properly, like this, to soothe their fears. Dick likes to be held after a nightmare, you just stroke their head, assure them that everything will be fine, perhaps rock them gently… genTLY DIANA.”
“Aquaman, do you have a moment? Dick’s been feeling a bit lonely at the manor, I’d like to get him a pet but with our busy schedules it needs to be something manageable. How the hell did you did ‘Tiger Shark’ out of ‘Manageable’? I just want a damn goldfish.“
“I don’t take your meaning Cyborg I am very clearly doing work here. Yes, that monitor in the corner is always running, it’s just security footage from the house. Yes, I check in to make sure Dick is still safe in bed and he hasn’t been kidnapped or started climbing the chimney again. No, I am not being overprotective, just wait until you have children Victor then talk to me.”
Like we need a rocket scientist to know GOOP is BS
Gwyneth Paltrow’s “modern lifestyle brand” Goop offers customers a range of tips, tricks, and products to make their lives better and healthier — some which are polarizing or just plain weird. For instance, the Goop website sold “healing” stickers that it claimed were made from material designed for NASA space suits. But the folks at NASA say that’s all a bunch of overpriced hooey.
Gizmodo reports that Goop removed claims that the Body Vibes stickers sold on the site were related to NASA after the agency said its space suits don’t, in fact, use the same material the company claimed were in the wearable stickers.
On Thursday, Goop created a post promoting the wearable body stickers — which sell for between $60 and $120 a pack — that claim to “rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies.”
“Body Vibes stickers come pre-programmed to an ideal frequency, allowing them to target imbalances,” the site states. “While you’re wearing them—close to your heart, on your left shoulder or arm—they’ll fill in the deficiencies in your reserves, creating a calming effect, smoothing out both physical tension and anxiety.”
The post, which has now been altered, originally claimed that the stickers were “made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut’s vitals during wear.”
This, NASA tells Gizmodo, is not true, as they “do not have any conductive carbon material lining the spacesuits.” Instead, the spacesuits are actually made of synthetic polymers, spandex, and other materials, a rep for the agency said.
Former chief scientist at NASA Mark Shelhamer was a bit more blunt in his reaction to Goop and Body Vibes’ claims telling Gizmodo, “Wow. What a load of BS that is.”
“If they promote healing, why do they leave marks on the skin when they are removed?” he asked, referencing Goop’s warning that some employees who wore the stickers for the prescribe three days were left with visible marks.
Gizmodo reached out to Goop and Body Vibes for information on their research that concluded the stickers contained material used by NASA and peer-reviewed research that found the stickers actually work.
In response, Goop provided a statement to Gizmodo, noting that “advice and recommendations included on the site are not formal endorsements and the opinions expressed by the experts and companies profiled do not necessarily represent the views” of the site.
“Our content is meant to highlight unique products and offerings, find open-minded alternatives, and encourage conversation. We constantly strive to improve our site for our readers, and are continuing to improve our processes for evaluating the products and companies featured,” the company said.
As for the statements about the conductive carbon material used in the stickers, Goop says based on NASA’s comments it has sent Body Vibes an inquiry on the matter and removed the claim from Goop, “until we get additional verification.”
Liberals calling for assassinations are committing cultural appropriation and need to stop. That's a republican word, and we need to stop stealing it.
Johnny Depp, accused domestic abuser and confirmed dumbass, made a dumb joke Thursday night while giving at talk at the Glastonbury festival before screening The Libertine, the 2004 flop that he’s currently trying to convince people is actually quite good. During the conversation, the reanimated carcass asked the…
My parents live along the bank of the Deschutes River in Bend Oregon. During the summer they open up the doors to allow the cool, calm breeze to flow through their home. On this day they, they had a lot more than a breeze roll through. I parade of Canada Geese and their juvenile goslings decided to take a tour of their home.
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They did so in a single file line entering from the rear of the home and walking straight through to the front door. Quite a few of them even left “gifts” for my parents as they passed by. My parents have lived in their home for over ten years, this was the first time anything like this had happened.
One Japanese diver has been friends with the same fish for 25 years – and this is not a fairytale, guys. It’s for real.
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Hiroyuki Arakawa has been entrusted to oversee one of the Shinto religion’s shrines called torii, which is located beneath the surface of Japan’s Tateyama Bay. Over the decades, he got to know marine creatures who live around the shrine, and, most importantly, became buddies with a friendly Asian sheepshead wrasse named Yoriko. Their beautiful relationship was captured on a viral video, in which we see Arakawa’s custom of greeting the fishie with a kiss.
One recent scientific study showed that fish can recognize human faces – and that’s a big deal. “Scientists presented the fish with two images of human faces and trained them to choose one by spitting their jets at that picture,” Dr. Cait Newport from Oxford University told CNN. “The researchers decided to make things a little harder. They took the pictures and made them black and white and evened out the head shapes. You’d think that would throw the fish for a loop. But no, they were able to pick the familiar face even then – and with more accuracy: 86%!”
This new evidence makes the diver and Yoriko’s friendship even more inspiring and legit.
