you will not believe the date i just had
I miss this meme
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“Unfortunately the bulk of American homeless are voluntarily so. “
I guess, if by “voluntarily” you mean “the streets are actually better than this crappy shelter”. If you think the vast majority of homeless, drug-addicted or not, wouldn’t choose a tiny private apartment with climate control and a door they can fucking lock from the inside over sleeping on the streets in a hot second, you’re severely mistaken.
The most horrid filthy secret of human interactions throughout history is that practically anything will be “voluntary” if you can make the alternatives worse enough.
This is the updated version of “Some people would rather die than go to the poor house.”
I once donated to a drive that pledged to give €500 to each homeless person they helped. They filmed the ones who gave permission.
Do you know what each single one did upon receiving that? Get up and get themselves a private room for at least the night. They also all talked to the social worker who handed out the money, but everyone agreed that their immediate concern was a room, a shower and a couple of square meals of their own choosing.
Three Dutch reporters who went onto the streets for three weeks also said they often felt less safe in shelters than outside. People need some basic safety and affordable housing, but those responsible for housing prefer to build ‘upmarket’…
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Art school critiques 🥴
This sent me back in time so hard I think it took 3 years off my life.
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I know the Geneva convention don’t exist in like the faerie realm or whatever, but sometimes I’ll look at the actions of “good guys” in a fantasy book and go like ok so this is definitely a war crime
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The reason the heroes are always so easily able to infiltrate the bad guy’s secret base isn’t because evil minions are stupid. I mean, they may well be, but that’s not why.
Rather, it’s because effective operational security depends on establishing and enforcing norms. No behaviour is suspicious in the abstract; that judgment can only be made with reference to some accepted code of conduct.
And if you’re a minion? You basically have no point of reference, because working for an evil overlord is, scientifically speaking, weird as hell.
You had to fight a giant squid as part of your orientation. You’re pretty sure Alice over in engineering is a version of you from a parallel universe, but neither of you have ever had the guts to bring it up. Your supervisor wears a horned helmet in the goddamn break room.
So when you’re confronted with that “new hire” who’s really, really obviously three raccoons in a trenchcoat, you’ve gotta ask yourself: is this… normal? Should I be reporting this to someone?
More importantly, do I want to make this my problem?
And for those who make it as minions, the answer very quickly becomes no, no I do not.
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TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.
Imagine being one of only twelve guys ever to have the honour of walking on the moon and then when you get there you’re allergic to it.
NASA scientist: you’re back early
Jack Schmidt: moon’s an allergen
NASA scientist: …what?
Jack Schmidt, loading an epipen and climbing back into the shuttle: moon’s an allergen
if one in twelve humans who have been on the moon was allergic to moon dust, that’s either a one-in-a-million chance or a VERY common allergy
The fact that it’s such a statistically useless sample is DEFINITELY driving a handful of very specialized scientists absolutely crazy
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Love people who have interests or hyperfixations in morbid or depressing or scary fields because they’re trying so hard to balance “ho boy am I excited to talk about all this information I know” and “I recognize that this is very bad and I’m trying to be a little somber about it.”
Watching a documentary about poisonings during the Victorian era and this historian clearly knows so much about arsenic and is trying really hard to be chill.
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