Naturally Erupted Elephant Rock in Heimaey in Iceland
I’ve often seen pictures of the elephant’s head, and have been amazed by it every time. But I’d never seen the picture from above, showing the whole body/tail and trunk. It’s incredible from this angle, and am convinced it is a real ancient mega elephant turned to stone by a dark or benevolent force long forgotten.
im sure there’s a self-own in here somewhere but i’m gonna leave this one up to sarcastic teens on the internet
Fixed it
I’ll just leave this here
this is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen. Like. What’s your point, dude? That teenagers die anyway so we shouldn’t worry about them being murdered? That just because sometimes kids–kids who are at the most reckless, ‘I think I’m invincible!’ stage of their lives–do stupid things that get them killed, they deserve to be mocked for wanting to not get shot in school?
This is the worst kind of false equivalency and the most maliciously evil kind of argument. How fucking dare you mock the kids who made a mistake and got in a wreck just because they’re young and kids make mistakes? And how fucking dare you try to say that because some kids make mistakes, the rest of them deserve to be mocked for not wanting to be murdered in school?
The artist of this cartoon deserves to be punched in the balls immediately. Repeatedly. No fucking joke.
FUCKING ALSO–
When kids started dying because they were texting and driving, we fucking did something about it! Laws were passed. Education increased about the dangers of texting and driving. WE FUCKING TOOK STEPS SO KIDS WOULD STOP DYING.
THAT’S LITERALLY ALL THEY’RE ASKING US TO DO. TAKE STEPS TO HELP THEM NOT DIE. WE’RE THE FUCKING ADULTS HERE. KIDS ARE SCARED. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU MOCK THEM WITH SOMETHING ELSE THEY’RE SCARED OF.
“girl this duck black as hell” is my favorite comment ever
This is from the show ‘Alfred J Kwak’. The girl is called Winnie (named after Winnie Mandela) and in the show she’s an immigrant from ‘Homeland’ where black ducks are violently oppressed by colonist white geese. When she’s introduced her and her family are refugees trying to find asylum in ‘Great Waterland’, but face opposition from the racist government.
Bass Reeves was so dedicated to the law, he even arrested his own son Bennie for the murder of his wife. Bennie was sentenced to life in prison. With over 3000 arrests, 14 kills, went his entire 32 year career in law enforcement without being shot once.
He was assigned to bring in the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr. Once she got wind who was after her she turned herself into the federal court.
Reeves was one of a few Marshalls who would venture into Indian territory *oklahoma*. After the age of 67 he retired in 1907. He enjoyed his short lived retirement as a police officer in Muskogee Oklahoma, his assigned beat had 0 crime reported until he died at the age of 71 of Bright’s disease.
He was one of the true gun slingers of the west.
I would expect nothing less from a man with such a magnificent mustache
I love the story of Bass Reeves!
One of his famous tactics was, if he was captured or in danger by a criminal he was hunting down, he would ask them to read a letter from his wife before they killed him. He used their distraction to free himself and get the upper hand.
He was also a freed slave. George Reeves, his owner and reason for his surname, took Bass with him to fight in the Civil War. However, George became violently angry after Bass beat him at a card game, and Bass was forced to fight him (or kill, on some accounts) in self defense.
After running away and entering Native American territory, Bass learned how to speak the languages of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole). This part of his life is where he mastered marksmanship. He got married and had a family after the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, and then later became a Marshal, going on the adventures listed above (and many more… Another famous criminal that Bass captured was Bob Dozier.)
He was the very first black US Marshal. May we never forget him, as history would suffer to lose such an outstanding figure.
even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao
Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons
TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around
Hey I wanna talk about this.
I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.
I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:
– I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps
– See above RE: toilet paper
– I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food
– The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)
– I had to make rent
– My sister had to make rent
– My son had to make rent
– I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die
– I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health
But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.
So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.
This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.
When will you forfeit your job in a futile attempt to stop something from happening?
When will you straight up put your life on the line to stop something from happening?
Doing these things will NOT stop these things from happening. All that will happen is you’ll end up unemployed or killed and maybe as a footnote on the news. If you REALLY hold to your beliefs strongly enough that you’ll throw away your entire life for them, then do be it, but be realistic about the consequences for your action.
