This is the biggest middle finger to an infantry assault I’ve ever seen.
Yeah, attacking this place would be a tactical nightmare. So many overlapping fields of fire, no cover or concealment on approach, and all those moats and walls… ground assault would be suicide.
but that asethetic
Shit. Even if you take a piece of it they can still shoot you from the inner walls. Someone was either pissed or a genius when they built this. I’m assuming the lower left section faced towards another nation or enemy since it seems more complex in that direction.
Fuckin' sad. And then the fuckboys turn around and act like the reason that black women haven't "invented" as much as white men is somehow indicative of a flaw on the part of the black women.
another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great
O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION
BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE.
EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’.
CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES
so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink
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fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes
The perpetual republican dilemma: "Complicit, or Incompetent?"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) just pulled Vice President Mike Pence into the heart of the Russia investigation, asking former FBI Director James Comey whether Pence was aware of the concerns about Mike Flynn's Russia connections both prior to and during his brief tenure in the administration—that is during the transition. Which Mike Pence directed.
Comey: "My understanding is that he was."
That undermines Pence's claim that he was totally ignorant of Pence's Russia ties and that Flynn had lied to him about it. That supposed lie, remember, was the justification Trump gave for firing Flynn.
Our culture really romanticises the idea
of a (usually male) brooding misunderstood loner who’s an asshole to everyone
but secretly has a heart of gold, so it’s frighteningly easy to meet a guy who treats everyone around him badly and believe without evidence that he has a heart of gold.
Don’t fall for it.
And a lapse in cruelty is not evidence of kindness.
Addicts deserve access to money, to their choice of food, to shelter /and to drugs/. Addicts deserve autonomy just as much as anyone else. And homeless addicts just as much so.
If your support of people is contingent on them never touching any kind of drugs, you are valuing your personal morals over other people’s autonomy and other people’s lives.
There may be other reasons beside pee-party YES that Comey could have to not deny this, but... I just really, really want this guy taken down by sex workers.
James Comey just dropped another mysterious bombshell in the Senate Intelligence hearing into his firing as FBI director by popular vote loser Donald Trump—he confirmed the veracity of the infamous "Steele dossier" by telling Chairman Richard Burr he could not comment on it in open session.
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The veracity-or-not of the Steele dossier âÂÂgoes into the details of the investigation.â CanâÂÂt discuss in open setting. So thatâÂÂs bad.
Meaning, Burr expected Comey to essentially dismiss the dossier. He didn’t, and what’s more basically proved that it is core to the ongoing investigation.
i believe that robots and AI won’t become evil overlords, but genuinely helpful in taking jobs that are dangerous to humans, as well as assisting the disabled and elderly. and a lot of other stuff. fuck dude i just love robots, please be nice to robots they are our beautiful artificial children
thats true, the reason we are where we are is because reagan essentially gave power back to big business with huge tax breaks and cuts to regulation and convinced a generation that “liberals” & progressives are bad words while stoking racist caricatures of welfare queens as the reason they are poor when trickle down economics was just slight of hand
Fuck Reagan. He was so fucking evil and awful, and the greatest con the right wing ever pulled on America was tricking otherwise-intelligent people into believing the Reagan myth.
I know that my life has given me all the reasons in the world to be angry. And I know that any given black woman in this country, and probably most others, has dealt with at least a hundred times more shit than I have.
That sequence occurs in the grim no-man’s-land between English and German
battlefield trenches. Though Diana has been told she can’t cross it and must play by man’s
rules, she takes it upon herself to save women and children threatened
by the Germans. It’s a very powerful moment. We have a
character committing to her true self, doing what she believes needs to
be done.
With the latest reports suggesting that the American Health Care Act — a budget resolution intended to repeal and replace much of the Affordable Care Act — would leave more than 23 million consumers without insurance and facing higher out-of-pocket costs, it’s no surprise that consumers are a bit uneasy when it comes to their healthcare. In fact, a new survey suggests that in the face of rising costs, some families are foregoing medical care to save a few — or a few thousand — bucks.
A new report from Bankrate found that 25% of Americans say in the last year someone in their household decided not to seek medical attention when it was needed simply because of the cost.
According to the survey, which analyzed 1,002 telephone interviews of adults living in the U.S. in May, older millennials — ages 27 to 32 — were the most likely to skip out on medical care, with nearly 32% — or 1-in-3 — saying they didn’t see a doctor when they should have.
A Washington, D.C., resident tells Bankrate that she was surprised by how expensive things can be even when you have insurance.
“Things like urgent care,” she says. “I’ve been able to pay out-of-pocket, but I thought insurance would cover more of it.”
About 25% of consumers between the ages of 37 and 52 didn’t seek medical attention, while 23% of adults between 53 and 71 years of age failed to visit a doctor because of possible costs.
“It’s very concerning that people are foregoing medical attention because of the expense,” Robin Saks Frankel, credit card analyst at Bankrate.com, said in a statement.
According to that survey of 1,007 adults, concerns about healthcare have increased significantly in the last year. More than half (57%) of Americans said they lack confidence that they and their loved ones will be able to afford health insurance.
Part of the reason that some individuals have foregone medical care over cost worries is likely brought on by their lack of insurance, according to Bankrate, which found about 13% of respondents don’t have insurance.
But the concerns aren’t less for those who currently have health insurance, as keeping it is a big worry. More than 56% of consumers say they are worried they might not have affordable health insurance in the future.
One Maryland woman tells Bankrate that with proposed changes she’s worried she’ll have to pay more to keep her insurance.
“I don’t want to be paying more,” she said.
Of these consumers, Generation Xers are most concerned with 64% of people ages 37 to 52 worries, followed by baby boomers (58%), millennials (56%), and the silent generation (35%).
Consumers had the same worries in Consumer Reports’ survey, which found 41% of respondents are not confident that they will have access to the doctors, tests, treatments, and medications they need. That’s an increase from 35% in January when we first asked the question—a statistically significant jump.
As for individual preference on the future of healthcare, 43% of respondents say they prefer the current Affordable Care Act system to the proposed American Health Care Act.
No matter which healthcare policy is used, the Consumer Reports’ survey found a majority of Americans believe the government should do something. Nearly 78% of respondents said they believed the government should help make sure people have access to affordable, quality healthcare.
This is almost as disturbing as the conversation between the boyfriend, his mom and me where she asked us about the latest Alien movie, and in spite of the fact that none of us has actually sat down to watch an entire Alien movie, we had a cogent, thoughtful, and meaningful conversation about them.
What's almost as awesome as Jessie is hearing two guys discuss her performance in so much detail for so long, and never once being creepy or horrible or anything less than absolutely fan-girling.
“Meet Jessie Graff, the Supergirl stuntwoman and American Ninja Warrior competitor who made history (again) on the show, where advanced athletes compete in near-impossible obstacle courses.
In season five she was the first woman to qualify for the city finals. In this season, she’s the first woman to conquer the new 14.5 foot Warped Wall (aka SUPER HARD) in the Los Angeles qualifiers.
And she did it all while wearing a Wonder Woman costume. Because, we repeat, she is a real-life superhero. Watch the glory for yourself.”
