So my friends and I tried to go to the beach today but we ended up pulling a cat out of a car engine instead
Her name is Muffler
UM SO??? UPDATE ON MUFFLER????
I woke up this morning to feed her and take her to the Humane Society and I Could Not Find Her. She was in my bathroom last anyone saw and then she suddenly just wasn’t. So we spend all day looking for her, putting bowls of catfood out, leaving out her blankies, to no avail. All day I heard whispers of her - the jingle of her collar, tiny mews, etc., but no Muffler.
It got to the point that I dragged @punkoz two hrs across the state to come help me find her and while she was on her way I fucking heard her in the bathroom.
In. The. Wall.
THIS FUCKER
CRAWLED THROUGH A TINY HOLE FOR THE DRAIN
INTO A CRAWLSPACE UNDER THE SINK
HOW MANY GODDAMN TIMES AM I GOING TO HAVE TO PRY THIS CAT FROM A TINY SPACE
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45’s administration published a database with the personal information of abuse victims.
An activist probing Ivanka’s shoe-making factories in China is arrested.
Add this to the list of fascist regulations 45 would like to make in America.
Can't tell whether Trump has less credibility claiming to be outraged by online hostility or claiming he's spoken to his two youngest kids. https://t.co/6z3LyGjOlz
Here’s something that’s not a link, just a plea from me: Please don’t pay attention to 45’s latest typo on Twitter. Laughing at him doesn’t accomplish anything. Making fun of him doesn’t change anything. This isn’t resistance. If you want to laugh, find something funny to laugh at.
Once a month? [counts on fingers *and* toes] I'm gonna live forever!!!
A new study from Denmark gives you another excuse to indulge in chocolate: It's been linked to a lower risk of atrial fibrillation, which is when your heartbeat is irregular. The study, published in the journal BMJ Heart, adds to a wealth of research that touts the sweet confection as a heart-healthy treat since it's been linked to preventing heart disease and stroke.
The Denmark study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at 55,000 Danish subjects between the ages of 50 and 64, their chocolate consumption, and heart health. Those who reported eating chocolate (of all kinds) once a month have atrial fibrillation rates that were 10 to 20 percent less than those who were less regular in their chocolate intake.
According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legs—vertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder
So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
Before the 1960′s, when the TV series Flipper became popular, trained sea creatures such as dolphins were a very rare occurrence. Richard “Ric” O’Barry was a dolphin trainer at Miami Seaquarium and helped to capture five wild dolphins that would be trained to star in Flipper. He carried this on for 10 years until Kathy, who was the main dolphin to star in Flipper, died in his arms; he strongly believes she committed suicide when she didn’t resurface for air. It was this one event that completely changed his stance on what he was doing. He suddenly realised that imprisoning and training these beautiful and intelligent creatures for human entertainment was abhorrent. On Earth Day of 1970, Ric founded The Dolphin Project which is an organisation dedicated to educating people about the plight of dolphins in captivity. This organisation rescues and rehabilitates dolphins and releases them back to the wild. As well as this, Ric leads an international effort to stop the hunting of dolphins and the trafficking of dolphins to theme parks such as Sea World. He has written two books: Behind the Dolphin Smile and To Free a Dolphin, and also appeared in the documentary, The Cove.
Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source
This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.
Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.
This is legit, guys. And I’m excited about it.
Someone needs to draw a tarantula person with a tiny pet housefrog now. Please let this be a thing.
How is this?
This entire post is magic. And that is so cool how the Tarantula will protect the frog. :3
I always either solved them in my sleep or in the shower...
Think back to the last time you had that really tough programming problem you couldn’t crack.
If you’re like me, you may have spent a few hours trying to brute force a solution. Then, in despair and frustration, eventually you gave up for the night.
And then the next morning, you wake up and the solution is clear as day in your head. You face palm yourself, rush to your computer, implement it in 15 minutes, and all is well in the world again.
Or this — I work a problem all morning to no avail. Lunch time hits, so I take my dog for a 30 minute walk. And somewhere along that walk I’ve figured out the solution. I get back home and fly through it the rest of the afternoon.
George has the right idea, but this doesn’t count as real sleep. 😆
Look, I realize I’m not saying anything particularly new or profound here. But it absolutely bears repeating because I often forget this too:
Sleeping and walking are some of the best techniques to improve your work as a programmer.
(Pro tip: don’t take your phone to bed or on your walks. Your brain needs to be fully disconnected.)
I’m no scientist or expert on how the brain works, but there is plenty of science to back it. The basic premise is that free association and fixation forgetting (letting go of what you’re banging your head on) is crucial to problem solving. Your brain can put together solutions more effectively when it’s allowed to wander.
So the next time something isn’t clicking, leave it. Forget about it. Take a walk and go grab a donut. Get 8 hours of sleep. Your brain will do the heavy lifting and tell you when it’s ready to solve that problem.
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(Tweet from @nycsouthpaw) Kris Kobach should learn to use folders and cover sheets.
[image] Department of Homeland Security Kobach Strategic Plan for first 365 Days.
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Can someone caption this when you get a chance? I’m on mobile.
[Transcript for those who are having trouble reading]
1. Bar the Entry of Potential Terrorists -I. Update and reintroduce the NSEERS screening and tracking system (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) that was in place from 2002-2005. All aliens from high risk areas are tracked. -II. Add extreme vetting system for high risk aliens. Question them regarding support for Sharia law, jihad, equality of men and women, the United States Constitution. -III. Reduce intake of Syrian refugees to zero using authority under the 1980 Refugee Act.
2. [Unreadable] Record Number of Criminal Aliens in the First Year -[unreadable] 193,000 criminal removal cases dropped by the Obama Administration. -[unreadable] ICE guidance memorands(?) adopted by the Obama Administration, issue new guidance [unreadable] “criminal alien” as any alien arrested for any crime, and any gang member. -[remainder is mostly unreadable; discusses enlisting local and state goverments to aid in the decrease of “criminal aliens”]
3. [Mostly unreadable, discusses PLANS FOR THE WALL] -[unreadable] in addition to the 319 miles of existing [unreadable] covering the entire 1,989 miles planned for rapid build. [unreadable] the PATRIOT Act to prevent illegal aliens [unreadable]
[Most of the rest is unreadable]
5. [unreadable] -[mostly unreadable, the ending sentence contains the phrase “Draft amendments to National Voter…”]
That’s all I could make out. If anyone else wants to add what they can see, feel free to do so.
This is a serious breach of classified information handling. I hope he gets fired for this! Better people have been fired for less (and lost an election)
This is particularly sweet because that wolf almost undoubtedly didn’t have a pack. He was lonely. And then he wasn’t lonely: he had all the weird little squished stunted-development wolves and their weird bipedal not-wolves!
i am ugly crying like snot just avalanched out of my face i love dogs
date a boy who hates coleslaw
date a boy who never lets coleslaw near you
date a boy who will chuck a bowl of coleslaw across the room if someone puts it near you
