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First, they tell you you’re wrong, the climate isn’t changing.

Then they tell you, well, it’s changing, but it’s entirely natural, and humans have nothing to do with it.

And finally when reality sinks in, they announce that it’s happening, humans cause it, but it’s ALL THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS FAULT.

We have officially reached stage 3. Carly Fiorina is blaming environmentalists for the severe California drought.

With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided, Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.

Fiorina, California’s 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.

Right. First clue you’re a wackaloon is that you’re talking to Glenn Beck. But the second clue is that your proposed solution to a lack of water is to build more reservoirs to hold the water that isn’t there.

This one’s dedicated to Dee – a happy belated birthday to you!

More exercise.

Vani Hari, AKA the Food Babe, has amassed a loyal following in her Food Babe Army. The recent subject of profiles and interviews in the New York Times, the New York Post and New York Magazine, Hari implores her soldiers to petition food companies to change their formulas. She's also written a bestselling book telling you that you can change your life in 21 days by "breaking free of the hidden toxins in your life." She and her army are out to change the world.

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Deerp. (photo via sabineastroph)

savedbythe-bellhooks:

Source: Communion: the Female Search For Love by bell hooks

ridingwithstrangers:

Architectural Density in Hong Kong

With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his ‘Architecture of Density’ photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his photographs of any context, removing any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattening the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Infinite and haunting.

Editor’s Note: Co-signed.

fencehopping: Giant balloon popping in slow motion.

carry-on-my-otp:

If Stuntmen from the old movies don’t have your full respect then I just don’t know what to say to you

4gifs:

Yoink. [video]

“I can show you the world…”

(photo by argueswhendrunk)

Sometimes, your workday just needs the kind of pastoral background music that makes you feel like you live in a village full of animals, right? Nintendo's popular Animal Crossing lets you make your living through labor no more complex than collecting shells, fishing, and shaking trees for surprises, which fills one with simple longing. Read the rest

Euro Truck Simulator 2 [official site] has long captivated Adam and I with its surprising mixture of relaxing night drives and compulsive business management mechanics, but the area it most needs improvement is in its scenery. I play it in order to slip into a trance of cornering and lane transitions, but I’d be pulled from my roadriding reverie less often if the view beyond my windshield didn’t remain so similar regardless of whether I was in Plymouth or Poland.

SCS Software promise that approaching DLC expansion Scandinavia will satisfy my hunger for greater diversity in my scenery and service stations, stating in a blog post that they’ve thrown more artists at the peninsula than anything they’ve released previously, including ETS2 itself. Check if they’re right with the teaser trailer and screenshots below.

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But it's probably still happening without him. 

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More birds.

timblywimbly:

This scene is one of the funniest things I’ve seen

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He gets it.

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Why Women Don’t Negotiate Their Job Offers:

misandry-mermaid:

In repeated studies, the social cost of negotiating for higher pay has been found to be greater for women than it is for men. Men can certainly overplay their hand and alienate negotiating counterparts. However, in most published studies, the social cost of negotiating for pay is not significant for men, while it is significant for women.

The results of this research are important to understand before one criticizes a woman — or a woman criticizes herself — for being reluctant to negotiate for more pay. Their reticence is based on an accurate read of the social environment. Women get a nervous feeling about negotiating for higher pay because they are intuiting — correctly — that self-advocating for higher pay would present a socially difficult situation for them — more so than for men.

But here’s a twist: we love it when women negotiate assertively for others. It’s just when women are negotiating assertively for themselves — particularly around pay — where we find a backlash. Unsurprisingly, research also shows that women perform better (e.g., negotiate higher salaries) when their role is to advocate for others as opposed to negotiating for more for themselves. Men’s behavior and the ensuing social effects don’t shift much depending on whether they are advocating for themselves or others.

pervocracy:

What I Mean When I Say I’m Sex-Positive

• I think freedom of sexuality is something that we all need and very few of us have
• I think sexual pleasure is a legitimate thing to want and ethically pursue
• I do not judge people for the (consensual) sex that they have or want
• I will not tolerate slut-shaming
• I will not tolerate hatred of people based on gender or orientation (including asexual)
• I will not tolerate hatred of sex workers
• I believe comprehensive, honest, non-judgmental sex education is necessary for public health and happiness
• I think understanding of sexual consent—what it is, why it matters—is sorely lacking in society and crucially important
• I reject preconceptions of what kind of sexuality a person should have, whether these preconceptions are based on gender, age, culture, disability, survivor status, or basically anything else
• I value people’s individual freedom of choice in determining their sex lives (including the choices not to have sex)

What I Don’t Mean

• Everyone should have sex
• Everyone should have kinky, non-monogamous, exhibitionistic, pansexual sex
• Accepting someone’s sexuality means you have to participate in it, watch them engage in it, or hear about it in detail
• Nothing related to sex is ever hurtful for anyone
• Feminism should be all about sex
• Sex fixes everything

I don’t condone the behavior of the Atlanta teachers and administrators who cheated on high-stakes tests, although I also think that the cheating was foreseeable given the incentives (and this can’t be an isolated case.) But this is a classic case of vastly disproportionate punishment:

On their eighth day of deliberations, the jurors convicted 11 of the 12 defendants of racketeering, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison. Many of the defendants — a mixture of Atlanta public school teachers, testing coordinators and administrators — were also convicted of other charges, such as making false statements, that could add years to their sentences.

Judge Jerry W. Baxter of Fulton County Superior Court ordered most of the educators jailed immediately, and they were led from the courtroom in handcuffs. Judge Baxter, who presided over a trial that began with opening statements more than six months ago, will begin sentencing hearings next week.

Hopefully the sentences won’t reach 20 years, but the fact that they were sent to prison immediately suggests that many years of hard time will be involved. It strikes me that more than token jail time for this offense is absurd, particularly in a country where the de facto punishment for torture and economy-destroying financial fraud is “nothing.”

jovenvirgen:

FULL HD grabado en el cine a luquita!

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I am all about the late night snack. We just refer to it as the "fourth meal of the day" at our house because there's pretty much zero chance of it not happening. I do love a good weekend celebration snack night with all the junk food I can handle, but I try and keep the snacks on the healthier side during the week to balance out my weekend splurges. I had been making (and really enjoying) this healthy cookie dough dip recently, but I couldn't help but wonder how I could make it more chocolatey because, you know, chocolate = better. And what's a great way to make chocolate even more delicious? That's right, coconut!

We're partnering with Califia Farms, who happen to make my favorite coconut almond milk, to make this chocolate coconut cookie dip. It tastes like you're dipping your favorite fruit or pretzels into a chocolate coconut macaroon, and since it's dairy free and I make mine with a natural sweetener, it's a pretty healthy option that I don't have to feel guilty about! Hooray!

Chocolate Coconut Cookie Dip (Dairy Free!)
Adapted from Chocolate Covered Katie's Healthy Cookie Dough Dip

1/4 cup Califia Farms Toasted Coconut Almondmilk 
1 1/2 cups of white beans (a 16 oz can drained and rinsed)
1/8 teaspoon salt (rounded)
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup nut butter (choose almond or cashew butter unless you want it to have a peanut butter taste)
1/3 cup oats
sweetener to taste (you can use honey, another natural sweetener, or regular sugar)
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup toasted unsweetened coconut

Add all of the ingredients (except the coconut) together in a food processor and blend together until the mixture is pretty smooth.

Toast the coconut in a dry pan over medium heat until it turns a golden brown color. Watch it and stir often so it doesn't burn!

Sprinkle the coconut into the processor and pulse to blend together. You can eat it right away, but I usually chill it for an hour or so in the fridge before I eat it.

Don't forget to save a little toasted coconut to sprinkle on top of your dip as well! The coconut almondmilk really does make all the difference in the world here, as the coconut flavor really comes through and brings it all together. This dip has a great texture that's perfect for scooping onto a pretzel or a piece of fruit. To be honest though, I usually just grab a spoon and eat it straight from the container! I think that's a pretty good sign though, so I'm OK with that...get your snack on, people! xo. Laura

Credits // Author and Photography: Laura Gummerman. Photos edited with Stella from the Signature Collection.

Supermarket | Bath, England, UK

(I and my seven-year-old son are shopping for a birthday present for a girl in his class. She’s asked for dressing up clothes or accessories so we get a wand, tiara, and jewellery. I also have our regular shopping in the trolley. We get to the tills and there’s at least a three person queue at each till. We join a queue and have waited a couple of minutes when my son puts the tiara on and waves the wand.)

Son: *in a “posh” voice* “I’m the Queen and I say this line should move faster!”

(I and a few others smile at his playfulness when a man in line at the next till yells at me.)

Man: “You can’t let your son do that. If he turns into a f****t it’ll be your fault.”

(Everyone stops and stares at him in horror whilst the cashiers call for a manager.)

Son: “What’s a f****t?”

Me: “It’s a nasty word that only nasty people use so you mustn’t say it.”

Man: “It means gay, kid.”

Son: “What’s gay?”

Man: “It means you’re bad and going to Hell for being evil.”

Me: “It’s when a man loves a man and a lady loves a lady.”

Son: “Oh, like Uncle James and Uncle Ian?”

Me: “Yep, just like Uncle James and Uncle Ian. They’re not bad, are they?”

(My brother is a paediatric oncologist and his partner is a paediatric nurse. We’ve tried to explain what cancer is and how my brother and his partner make children feel better when they’re poorly.)

Son: “My uncles make children better when they have poorly blood and poorly bones. If you make them go to Hell that means you want the children to be poorly.”

(The manager and a security guard turn up but my son looks this man in the eye and holds his stare.)

Son: “Do you want the children to be poorly? Do you want them to be sick and have to go to Heaven?”

(Everyone is now staring at my son. The man has gone red and is looking around.)

Manager: “Sir, I believe you’ve just been outwitted by a child. You should leave now and keep your disgusting views to yourself and out of my shop.”

(The manager offered to pay for our shopping but I declined. He did, however, offer my son a toy. He chose a dress for his friend’s present.)

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