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Hey guys. As of today - 10th September - I need exactly $273 for medication, food, transport, and what rent I haven’t been able to earn yet.
I am a 19 year old student who was kicked out of home for attempting suicide. I suffer from several severe mental illnesses, the most debilitating of which are agoraphobia and Borderline Personality Disorder.
I have been applying for jobs, doing odd chores around the neighbourhood, tutoring, proofreading, and selling my clothes for months to keep myself afloat. I have been doing this while dealing with long periods of going unmedicated and untreated, as well as studying part time.
Cop takes money from hot dog vendor’s wallet outside football game.
Martin Flores, a Los Angeles resident and Berkeley alum, filmed and uploaded three cellphone videos of the incident to his Facebook page Saturday evening, writing, “The sadness to observe UC Berkeley Police give a hotdog vendor a ticket and his hard earned money taken away.”
Juan was the only vendor cited amid the crackdown.
Also, I’m sorry, but in what fucking universe is it legal for a cop to rob a man’s wallet? Where’s the proof that the man had zero dollars before arriving? You can’t just take a person’s wallet and take the money out of it, that makes no goddamn sense at all. Citation, okay fine (though it was obviously racially motivated and the cop is an asshole who should be hit by a truck asap), but stealing the guy’s money? That’s total bullshit.
so a long time ago humans were trying to figure out edible plant matter, right
and because they didn’t have fucking microscopes or anything they were like “okay we have to divide them in some way that is easy for us to figure out”
so they COULD have divided them up by like, color or some shit
like all the red things are called noogles and all the orange ones are called fuckips and all the yellow ones are called snarglebutts or whatever
but they didn’t
they divided them by taste, which makes sense if you’re trying to sort edible plant matter, the whole point is eating them so why not sort them by the most likely reason you need to know the difference between them
so all the sweet tasting things are called fruits and all the not sweet tasting things are called vegetables
except like other than that there’s no rhyme or reason to it at all??
like potatoes are roots and broccoli is a flower and pumpkins are fruits and celery are stocks
but we’re putting them together because they don’t taste sweet
and lemons are juicy and wet but not sweet but they’re fruit for some reason but tomatoes aren’t even though they’re also juicy but not sweet and carrots aren’t even though carrots can be sweet
meanwhile apples are genetically more closely related to fucking roses than they are to shit like blueberries but because they both taste good in pie we put apples and blueberries in the same group and roses are a different thing
like, there’s a good reason why we sort plants this way, and that reason is “it’s easier to make food if you know vaguely what it tastes like beforehand,” and sorting plants by genetic family also makes sense if your reasoning is “i want to know what plants are related,” but they’re both sorting groups that humans made up and we could just as easily sort by color or shape if we decided that was an important thing we needed to know and that’s why it’s a social construct
I LIVE for “how is X a social construct argle bargle!!1!!!1????” takedowns.
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