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My girlfriend just found him outside sleeping like this
pure
Whoever sent me messages. I think it was @hxans? I’m sorry but the fucking messenger is refusing to load. I’m going to keep trying. Just didn’t want you to think I’m ignoring you.
Fucking tumblr mobile.
“I’m astounded that anyone who has been paying any attention to our toxic partisan politics in the last decade would think that the Republican attacks would be somehow less vehement for one candidate over the other. Eight years ago, I remember how Obama partisans would point out how “divisive” and “polarizing” Hillary Clinton would be as POTUS. Even then, the perpetual rage machine from right-wing talk radio and Fox News was completely disconnected from facts and logic, and I predicted pretty much what happened: If Obama was elected, the narrative and outrage from the right would be just as vigorous.
So, from their perspective, we’ve already had a Marxist/Leninist/Maoist/Islamic/Fascist Kenyan in the White House these last 7 years. Sanders breaks no new ground there. Besides which, I have found many Republicans who actually like him. The rage machine will blare, but I suspect many people will like this FDR, old school Americana candidate.
And far from being in a bubble, Sanders supporters (and nervous sympathizers) are a very big swath of the public whose economic conditions have diminished steadily over the last 10-20 years, with no hope in sight. I live in Aurora, Illinois, I was canvassing in Clinton, Iowa for Sanders. Both are cities devastated by neo-liberal trade deals and tax policies championed by both Clintons over the years, and whose largely blue-collar workforce have responded to the FDR type rhetoric that Sanders has the guts to promote - and a sense of his basic honesty.
Sanders will fight this campaign straight to the convention… his defiance of the echo-chamber punditry and conventional political wisdom, and his expected success, comes from a deep desire to change the system. Clinton just wants to be president. It’s the “We” of the Sanders’ campaign vs. the “I” of the Clinton campaign that is the heart of this phenomenon.”
Josh Marshall has been (in my opinion) unreasonably dismissive of Bernie Sanders, in a sort of David Broder way, that disappoints me. I’ve read TPM since its inception, and I always thought Josh was outside the bubble, but this last 18 months or so, it seems like he’s been swallowed up by it.
Anyway, today, he’s been sharing reader emails about the Sanders/Clinton Primary, and they’ve been interesting from both camp’s supporters. This one, though, I could have written myself.
You see, when organic matter such leaves breaks down, it produces a whole variety of primary and secondary products. Some of those products are innocuous, but quite a number of them are very volatile. And as we all know, volatility is what would make a pile of leaves burst aflame like that.
In the case of leaves and wood, when it decays, two of the biggest primary components are formed as water is separated – gaseous oxygen, and gaseous hydrogen. There’s a number of catalyst processes that cause it to occur (heating is amongst the biggest), which can be harnessed to our advantage —or as demonstrated here— disadvantage.
Hydrogen has an energy density of close to 4 times that of jet fuel (Jet A, 141.86MJ/kg vs. 42.8MJ/kg), and as such, is incredibly volatile. Add a spark and some oxygen, and well…
I wonder if this was ever used as an ancient war tactic?
Added to the tactical lexicon of my planned fantasy epic.
Learn something new every 5 minutes on tumblr. Fuck a school book.
pro tip for bad body image days: look at yourself the way you’d look at a cat. average-sized cat? awww. itty bitty cat? so cute. big fat cat? mcfreakin’ adorable. cat with chubby cheeks? AMAZING. cat with a big soft belly? LOVE IT. cat with scars? MY CHILD. so go out there and strut your stuff like the cool cat you are !!
For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.
why are 90% of urls attached to popular text posts deactivated? is someone picking them off, assassin style, or have these users won their freedom from this website, gladiator style
