Ben PlowmanNebraska. Up your fucking grain elevator game.
World’s Largest Museum of Modern African Art To be Open in Cape Town
African contemporary art and its vibrancy portray Africa’s socio-economic realities, political challenges, rich traditions, and diverse beauty through stunning visuals. And Heatherwick Studio’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) has opened in Cape Town, which is now the world’s largest museum dedicated to enthusiasts of African contemporary art and its diaspora.
Ben PlowmanThis is dumb. Using copyright as a weapon against assholes is a threat to fair use for everyone else.
“It’s a pretty big deal,” Kjellberg said. “If I get more than three of them, my channel will shut down.”
According to Google’s policy, if Kjellberg were to receive three copyright strikes, his account will be terminated. All videos uploaded to his account will be removed and he won’t be able to create new accounts. Essentially, every video he has ever uploaded to YouTube will be erased.
here’s to fucking hoping m8
Ben Plowmanhaha, this is a genre I have never encountered before. Fake optical illusions?
Ben PlowmanWhere tf is my Nebraska Mandalay if there are so many Burmese immigrants?
Ben PlowmanI feel like at some point we used the word "brain bank" or "braink" as a joke pitch to Fiserv. Am I imagining this?
Ben PlowmanThis is a mischaracterization. The cemetery he went to had ~2k regular German troops and ~30 members of the SS. I would argue regular Germans drafted into the war were victims of the Nazis as well. It's clear they didn't realize in advance that there were SS buried there and didn't want to appear weak by changing their plans after realizing their mistake.
The interesting part of the article though is that it's clear the Reagan presidency is very similar to Trump's. He kind of bumbles around and makes constant mistakes, while everyone becomes outraged. Reagan is literally a hero though to the right, and not widely hated on the left. Important takeaway here: we have to keep the memes alive after Trump leaves office or people will forget in 10 years what he was.
Ronald Reagan visited the concentration camp Bergen-Belsin, and then shortly after went to Bitburg to place a wreath on the graves of Nazi SS. After he came back to America there was obvious outrage and he said, “They [SS troops] were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” What a great guy comparing Holocaust victims to the men who massacred them.
Yup. That really happened
Just a reminder that Ronald Reagan was horrible
Ben PlowmanTelling you. West Virginia Every Time.
Kentucky for Vice President.
Drug Poisoning Deaths Rates by County: CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, 2000-2015.
Ben PlowmanWould be better if the dad got really good at the game and beat his son directly, but still a great story.
Ben PlowmanThe ones that are dark in every photo are interesting. Slovakia is like the West Virginia of Europe, it seems.
EU: Would you feel comfortable if your child was in a relationship with ___?.
Ben PlowmanThe real secret to having great schools.
Ben Plowmanmost unsettling thing you've posted in a long time. teeth on the...
Ben Plowmanhaha, exactly. if those footprints were fossilized there's a good chance some serious bad shit was in the middle of happening.
Ben PlowmanAlways makes me smile that Spain is the only place in the last 500 years where there was a high concentration of Spaniards that doesn't speak Spanish today.
Ben Plowmanjeez sounds like one of those workmans comp scams.
Ben PlowmanThis whole subreddit is excellent: https://www.reddit.com/r/ambien/top/?sort=top&t=all
For example: http://imgur.com/01mfkag
Ben PlowmanIt's pretty excellent, as far as service is concerned. On the Metro itself I never waited more than like 45 seconds for a train to arrive. The complicated part is just that there are maybe 6 different organizations that run these trains, including two distinct "Tokyo Metro" orgs. And tickets don't transfer between orgs. Anyway, TL;DR is there's maybe a clipper card but I couldn't figure out how to buy one.
Ben PlowmanI want to see the heat map for "fourthmeal".
Uses of the words Dinner and Supper in the United States : What do you call the last meal of the day?
Ben Plowmanhaha, the kind of hero we can all believe in.
60 year old historian Martin Bühler (who identified himself to the press, I do not identify activists without consent) appears to ‘photobomb’ a lot of media images of the G20 in Hamburg. In reality he is a long time observer documenting police brutality. In Hamburg he chose to cultivate the most non-activist ‘white bystander in a suit with a bike’ look he could manage and casually walked in front of police. As police slowed down or interrupted attacks and waited for the ‘bystander’ to get out of the way (being caught on camera trashing what look like bystanders is bad press after all), activists had time to regroup or retreat.
Ben PlowmanLulz at "Just doin my job, ma'am". I've thought quite a lot about how non-warfare uniforms would work. Such conversation starting possibilities. Like "Oh, you have stayed up for 48 playing civ as well? Let's be friends."
Ben Plowmanhehe, Turkish version of #resist. I once asked non-Sena Turkishbro if they named Turkey after this dude and he was like noooo man this dude was so cool they renamed the dude after Turkey.
Ben PlowmanI love every one of these IRL Skyrim memes sooooo much.
People are replicating the feeling of a Bethesda game IRL so well that I’m scared someone’s going to get caught clipped through the floor
Ben PlowmanGod bless the EFF.
McMansion Hell & EFF respond to Zillow!
Ben Plowmanhehehe, excellent show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzvz1j3h4Xk
Ben PlowmanThis is the worst kind of tweet. He gets to feel like he cares about homeless people without actually helping them. Like there's some epic startup vs. poor people battle going on and he's on The Good Side.
It is possible to be heartbroken about homeless people while also understanding that some of them can ruin the bus for everyone else. Lyft is not the cause of homelessness, nor will it be the solution. If you actually give a shit, you should go advocate to your government.
Ben PlowmanHi my name is Ben and I'll eat the ding dang banana poop you think a blemish is gonna stop me?
Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment. By one government tally, about 60m tonnes of produce worth about $160bn (£119bn), is wasted by retailers and consumers every year - one third of all foodstuffs.
But that is just a “downstream” measure. In more than two dozen interviews, farmers, packers, wholesalers, truckers, food academics and campaigners described the waste that occurs “upstream”: scarred vegetables regularly abandoned in the field to save the expense and labour involved in harvest. Or left to rot in a warehouse because of minor blemishes that do not necessarily affect freshness or quality.
When added to the retail waste, it takes the amount of food lost close to half of all produce grown, experts say.
Retail giants argue that they are operating in consumers’ best interests, according to food experts. “A lot of the waste is happening further up the food chain and often on behalf of consumers, based on the perception of what those consumers want,” said Roni Neff, the director of the food system environmental sustainability and public health programme at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future in Baltimore.
“Fruit and vegetables are often culled out because they think nobody would buy them,” she said.
But Roger Gordon, who founded the Food Cowboy startup to rescue and re-route rejected produce, believes that the waste is built into the economics of food production. Fresh produce accounts for 15% of supermarket profits, he argued.
“If you and I reduced fresh produce waste by 50% like [the US agriculture secretary] Vilsack wants us to do, then supermarkets would go from [a] 1.5% profit margin to 0.7%,” he said. “And if we were to lose 50% of consumer waste, then we would lose about $250bn in economic activity that would go away.”
The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture’s dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants. They also asked that their names not be used.
“I can tell you for a fact that I have delivered products to supermarkets that was [sic] absolutely gorgeous and because their sales were slow, the last two days they didn’t take my product and they sent it back to me,” said the owner of a mid-size east coast trucking company.
“They will dig through 50 cases to find one bad head of lettuce and say: ‘I am not taking your lettuce when that lettuce would pass a USDA inspection.’ But as the farmer told you, there is nothing you can do, because if you use the Paca [Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930] on them, they are never going to buy from you again. “Are you going to jeopardise $5m in sales over an $8,000 load?”
Massive food waste is based into capitalist agriculture. If the vast majority of the food produced in America’s farms was brought to market, it would drive prices down rapidly, threatening the profits of retailers. Less than 1% of this surplus food ever reaches the mouths of the hungry.
