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Society Isn’t Perfect, But You’ve Got To Admit, We’ve Made It Pretty Easy To Buy Gum

It only takes one look at your newsfeed to see that we’ve got a long way to go as a society. Despite all of the progress we’ve made, we still struggle with many of the same problems that have plagued and divided humanity for centuries. And yet, despite all of our shortcomings, you have to admit, we’ve made it pretty easy to buy gum.

As the powerful continue to exert its control over the powerless, it’s easy to conclude that society is failing its most vulnerable members. Still, we must remember that we are lucky enough to live in a society where gum is more abundant than ever. No other generation has enjoyed the variety of flavors that we enjoy today, with such widespread availability. As important as it is to close the gap between the rich and the poor, it’s pretty undeniable that society has really threaded the needle when it comes to selling gum.

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A resurrection from 8 years ago today.

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Someone isn’t pulling their weight around here.

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trial and error

oldschoolfrp:

Scouts and transports expand trade networks across the galaxy.  (David Deitrick cover for Trailblazer, Microgame 20 by Greg Costikyan, Metagaming, 1981)  Mint copies of Trailblazer have been appearing at used book stores in the US, along with Dragons of Underearth and some of the MicroHistory titles.

Beat it, Mike.

What do you do when your daughter wants one of those Princess/Barbie dress cakes for her birthday, only with Rey from Star Wars? (AFTER high-fiving her for having awesome taste, I mean.)

Well, you bring in the Rey doll and ask your baker to give her a big poofy cake skirt, that's what. You know, kind of like this:

(By Whitney Wickham)

Only more cakey.

So that's exactly what Julie S. did. She brought in the plastic figurine, asked for a dress cake, and got...

[drum roll, please]

 

This:

[WOMP WOMP]

I'll give you a moment to really absorb all the majesty.

 

Got it all absorbed?

Good.

Now check out the side view:

From this way it looks like she's being swallowed by a giant sand worm, right? See, this is why you always walk without rhythm in the desert, Rey.

 

Thanks to Julie S. for letting me cross the streams. Let's just hope it was spice cake.

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vintageeveryday:

The last days of East Germany – 40 fascinating photographs that capture everyday life in Berlin in the late 1980s.

sandandglass:

Nish Kumar, NZ International Comedy Gala 2016

4gifs:

“OMG guys look a bird!” -dog. [video]

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Did you know I have another comic????????? WOW

atomic-chronoscaph:

Star Bird (1979)

Kids, there was once a time when toys were just toys, and not licensed from any movie or TV show.

It may be less than two weeks ago since I blogged a build by Maksymilian Majchrzak ( [MAKS] ), but it seems he very much likes the same sort of things I do and he builds them well. Case in point: his latest crane.

For those of you who are crane geeks, this is a Liebherr LTM 1350-6.1 in the colours of Mammoet (Mammoth) — a famous company from the Netherlands that specialises in heavy lifting and heavy haulage. This behemoth is built to my favourite scale of 1/22, which makes it roughly 100 studs long in road-going configuration.

The model is very detailed and has numerous working features such as steering, a telescopic boom that can be raised and lowered (which does involve inserting an extra part to lengthen the hydraulic ram), side supports that extend and retract, and he has included a brick-built figure. If there were a checklist of things I like, he has ticked almost all of the boxes.

catsnorfle:

Photos of Patrick Stewart doing things.

(All photos: @SirPatStew)

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theonion:

Gay Conversion Therapists Claim Most Patients Fully Straight By The Time They Commit Suicide 

Sometimes the Onion writers wake up in the morning and decide they will not be fucking around with anything that day

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Rosenberg Loses It On Police Officer Over Alton Sterling Killing #BlackLivesMatter #AltonSterling

Show this to all your “#NotAllCops” friends.

sciencefictionworld:

“Obsidian Reverie: City Block” by Brad Wright.

U.S. Army soldiers take up a position during a patrol in Baghdad in 2007. The U.S. has been waging war nonstop for 15 years since the Sept. 11 attacks.


Mary McHugh mourns her slain fiance, Sgt. James Regan, at Arlington National Cemetery in 2007.


Northern Alliance soldiers, aligned with the U.S., watch as American warplanes drop bombs on the Taliban on Nov. 19, 2001, around the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan.

npr:

In the quarter-century from the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s until Sept. 11, 2001, the United States rarely went to war, and when it did, the conflicts were so brief they were measured in days. The Gulf War in 1991 lasted 43 days. Airstrikes in the former Yugoslavia in 1995 went on for 22 days, followed by another round in 1999, that time for 78 days.

But since the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States has been fighting every single day for 15 straight years, the longest unbroken period in American history. The U.S. has carried out airstrikes, sent in ground forces, or both, in seven countries stretching from Pakistan in the east to Libya in the west. None of these conflicts has been resolved, and all signs point to years of strife ahead.

Sept. 11 has reshaped the U.S. in countless ways, but perhaps the most profound has been the transformation from a country where peacetime was the norm into one seemingly locked into a permanent state of war. Yet strangely, the country doesn’t feel much like it’s at war.

“Like the war on drugs or the war on poverty, the war for the greater Middle East has become a permanent fixture in American life and is accepted as such,” writes Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army colonel and professor at Boston University.

Sept. 11 Legacy: One Endless War Against Many Radical Enemies

Photos: Joe Raedle/Getty Images, John Moore/Getty Images, Sion Touhig/Getty Images

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Kim’s Crazy Idea

Everytable sells healthful food in low-income neighborhoods like South Los Angeles at prices competitive with fast food.


Everytable's meals are prepared in a central kitchen, then packaged in to-go containers.

npr:

A restaurant chain that charges twice as much for a meal in one location as it does in another? You would think that’s a recipe for angry customers.

But Everytable in Los Angeles is betting that this will prove a successful business model — while also serving up a hefty side of social mission.

Here’s the concept behind the new chain: Customers walk in and grab a to-go container of premade, healthful meals prepared by chefs who’ve previously worked in some of the finest restaurants in LA and New York. They can heat the meals up in microwaves at the restaurant, or take them home to enjoy. And everything is priced affordably — though the price changes, depending on the neighborhood. The goal is to make nutritious food more available to everyone.

The first location opened earlier this summer in South Los Angeles, a low-income area. The next one will soon open in a well-off neighborhood of downtown LA, and there are plans for outlets in other parts of the city. Each location will have the same exact menus and décor, but with different price plans.

One Restaurant’s Recipe For Social Good: Same Meals, Different Prices

Photos: Courtesy of Everytable

Forty-eight million years ago, a snake ate a lizard with a bug in its belly, and all three fossilized... That fossil, recently described in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, is only the second of its kind ever found, revealing three levels of an ancient food chain nested one inside the other in paleontology’s version of Russian nesting dolls—or its culinary equivalent, a turducken.

Details (and explanation of the image) at National Geographic.

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Beautiful red shirts for sale. Almost new condition, only worn once.

This month’s raffle winner is Alan from Wisconsin. Congrats, Alan – you win a signed print of your choice.

Have you considered becoming a Patron of Jesus & Mo? Click the image below to see what it’s about. Rewards abound!

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Macaws are stunning birds, and smart to boot. I’ve heard plenty of great stories from those who get the chance to interact with them regularly. AnActionfigure has posted this beautiful sculpture that captures the bird perfectly.

The curve of the beak is spot on, and the face sculpting is excellent.

One of my favorite LEGO Architecture sets of the last few years have been the city skyline series, including 21028 New York City. LEGO architect Spencer_R specializes in 1/650 scale models of landmarks, including numerous skyscrapers. Spencer says he’d already built several of the buildings in the set, so he built the Flatiron building and Statue of Liberty, and then put all of them on a large black base. This much larger scale enables Spencer to include much more detail than the minuscule buildings in the official set, and the higher-resolution photo on Flickr — as well as Spencer’s photostream as a whole — is well worth a closer look.