ā¦..does this mean cat people hurl cats at the ground?
you just kind ofā¦ open ur arms and they sort themselves out. if you try and place them down they get mad and wiggle and make everything worse
some friends of mine have the most un-cat-ish cat i have ever met
my quintessential example of this:
i was holding him in my arms petting him while we were picking out what games to play that night. when weād decided on a few, i needed to put the cat down in order to, you know, carry boxes. so i started letting him down, expecting that heād eventually do the cat hop thingā¦ but he never did.
i ended up lowering him all the way to the floor. and even then he never got his feet under him. i just sort ofā¦ plopped him down on his side as he stared up at me like a betrayed sack of flour.
I saw this so clearly in my mind and Iām never going to stop laughing at betrayed sack of flour.
one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire thatās in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights:Ā
-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies
-the parts that would do A Thing if they wernāt physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them
-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial oozeĀ
-the dna thatās in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason
-rnaā¦.bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seatĀ
-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth
-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!
dna is earthās biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking areĀ
I am feeling physically very unstable after reading this.Ā
Iām a genetics professor and everything here is true.
Thereās a fern that has 1,260 chromosomes. Thatās 630 pairs of chromosomes. No, we donāt know why.
Oh, and everyone should know that the person who first presented evidence for endosymbiosis (the official name for cells eating each other and then turning into mitochondria or chloroplasts instead of being digested) was this woman, Lynn Margulis, in 1967:Ā
Ā Her paper where she presented the theory was rejected 15 times before it got published. Over the next decade, her work was mocked and ignored. Now every biologist knows that she was right.
The bits of DNA that move around (ājumping genesā) were discovered by this woman, Barbara McClintock, in the 1940ā²s:Ā
Her work on them was ignored and derided for about two decades before some people started to take it seriously. In 1983 she won a Nobel Prize for it.
Something of a derail, but I feel strongly about talking about the contributions of these two women.
itās never not the time to learn about cool women in science
how can anyone look at this and thinkĀ āthis is okay. this is normalā?
In case anyone wants more info, this has been a thing pretty much always. Children without the right to legal representation has been documented since 2004 (although itās almost definitely gone on longer.) However, the average number of unaccompanied minors in court from 2004-2017 was LESS THAN HALF than the number in 2018. Both the Bush and Obama administrations did not prosecute families, and so they did not have to go to court. The only times unaccompanied minors appeared in immigration court pre-2018 was in cases of drug trafficking, which is why the numbers are substantially less.
In the US, non-citizens do NOT have the right to an attorney if they cannot afford one, and that includes children. There was a class action lawsuit in 2016 attempting to gain this right for minors, but it was rejected. There are non profit groups who provide pro bono lawyers in cases like this, but they were already overextended in 2017 when the number of immigrant minors in court was less than half what it is this year.
In conclusion, Trump SUCKS and America is not much better.
I did the math.Ā If I do a load of laundry every week (I technically have to do two, as my undershirts are washed at a different temperature and air dried), so its $6 a week.Ā Thatās $312 per year.Ā There are six units in my building, assuming they are spending the same on average (but probably more), thatās $1872 per year that my landlord pulls in.Ā I can FRIGGIN GUARANTEE YOU that the collective building *DOES NOT* spend $1872 per year in water and power to run the washer and dryer.Ā I also pay $1200 per month in rent, which is $14,400 per year.Ā Between 6 units thatās $86,400, plus the laundry fees lets call that $88k that the building pulls in per year.Ā I can FUCKING GUARANTEE YOU this building does *NOT* use that much in water and property taxes, and every unit pays for its own electricity.
My landlord owns 10 buildings, all of the same design.Ā The entire lot of 10 buildings has one superintendent.Ā The buildings do not have AC, their appliances have not been replaced in a minimum of 20+ years, and the washer and dryer areā¦well theyāre ancient.
I feel *ZERO* sympathy if I can make this work in the laundry room.
and letās take a moment to appreciate the fact that michelangelo had probably never seen a girl naked and when he want to sculpt or paint them his mentality seems to be āwow, everyone likes womenā¦.they must be likeā¦..buff dudes. i love buff dudes. women are buff dudes but with little chest lumps and no wienerā
ānailed it.ā
And my personal favorite, Adam and Eve
he literally painted adam and steve
I am in the absolute SHITTIEST mood right now, but this actually made me laugh out loud.Ā
The NYC Met museum had an exhibition where a projection of the Sistine chapel was paired with a bunch of Michelangeloās sketches.
My friendsā¦ EVERYONE KNEW HE WAS GAY. He wasnāt even trying to hide it.
He drew portraits of and for his crushes and boyfriends. He had KNOWN lovers and he definitely had a thing for young brawny men.
Historians: āoh, Iām such a genius, this man is referenced as his favourite. His love must have been a lecherous secret. Dirty, perverted, secretive.ā
you ever notice how to bureaucrats trans people are whatever gender is most expedient for them? transgender woman gets denied a change of gender, she goes outside topless and gets arrested on public indecency charges that only affects women. not woman enough to change her gender, but woman enough to go to jail. this trans woman veteran from ww2 got married after changing her gender on her birth certificate, and after her husband died she was denied widowās benefits because social security said gay marriage wasnāt legal in the state they were married in. didnāt matter that legally she was a woman and he was a man. she fought that decision and won, but she still was woman enough for her state but not woman enough for the feds
being trans isnāt always about people deliberately misgendering you, sometimes itās about them deciding what gender would fuck you over the most at any given time. youāre not a woman until itās expedient for them, youāre a woman until theyād have to actually give you benefits. itās a bitch and a half
this is why adding a third gender option to birth certificates and driverās licenses and passports is pointless; regardless of what letter it is, m, f, or n, youāre going to be treated by whatever authority figure sees you however they decide. itās far better to simply remove gender from documents like those
As it turns out, this is more like a halfway house. Prisoners usually begin their term in a prison more like one weād typically recognize – bars on the windows, locked in their cells. But the emphasis there is on successful reintegration into society.Ā
As their sentence progresses, with good behavior, they can move into a facility more like this, where their freedoms are still restricted, but they can do things like network with people outside of prison, search for employment, cook and clean and look after themselves, and begin making plans for their reintegration into society.Ā
As a result, Norway has one of the lowest rates of recidisvism. 20% as opposed to Americaās 76%.Ā
It seems like a shocking idea to us because of where and how we live, but apparently, Norwegians are addressing the real problem. When you take people who canāt function well in society, and thenā¦help them do that?ā¦theyā¦.do. Without the crime-ing.Ā
Turns out treating people like human beings makes them more likely to act like human beingsā¦.
But wonāt that incentivize some people to go back there since they get treated so well and get a nice room versus the streets?
If you read the post above, it says Norwayās recidivism rate – that is, the rate of released criminals who go on to be arrested again – is 20% versus 76% in the United States, so for the most part, no.
Isnāt that white-lined black cross on a red field flag a Nazi flag? Are we going to talk about how wonderful it is a Nazi gets a nice halfway house?
This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but itās 100% official real Flintstones.
Clarification: I donāt hate this book, I love it, itās amazing. Itās just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the lineĀ āWe participated in a genocide, Barney.ā
ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue iām
can we have some context to this, perhaps?
Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.
Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against theĀ ātree peopleā. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.
Thatās what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.
(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)
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