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what really gets me about the argument that “americans are so selfish they can’t even care about others enough to stop the virus” is that we fucking did. the vast majority of americans, at great personal and financial cost to ourselves, went inside and distanced and took precautions and isolated and changed our lives to slow the spread and keep our loved ones and strangers safe. we did that for months, even when the government offered piss poor assistance and unemployment skyrocketed and food bank lines lengthened and the death counts climbed and parents with young children reached a breaking point, we still did it. the polling still shows that the vast majority of americans are more worried about easing restrictions too soon even if it hurts the economy. americans give a shit. we care. we made the sacrifices to give our government the time to figure out and implement a plan — to find a way to keep us safe and as healthy as possible and to use the power of the federal government to protect small businesses and feed our children and put a roof over our heads and create education campaigns to get people to socially distance and wear a mask for fucks sake. we did that, and at the end of months of sacrifice they decided that it wasn’t worth the trouble and have left us at the whims of our governors and local officials, left us at the mercy of our employers, left us to die.

Also, don’t mistake the minority of stupid and careless Americans for the majority just because they’re yelling really loudly.  Because they prop up the narrative of the minority-rule government, they get more air time and more exposure than the rest of us.  Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting for BLM across America and the news is cutting back coverage, but when these assholes went out protesting for haircuts?  It was EVERYWHERE.

Ppl think the scale goes like this

It’s Day #2 of home-from-work, so I made this.

How much does a box of paper weigh?

I love how all these reblogs from ableds are like “boxes of paper are 20 pounds GOTCHA” as if every single person in a 60-person workplace needs to be able to lift a box of paper.

how do hexes work?

Now that the Terror Bill has been signed into law and will take effect in 15 days, a little reminder for my PH mutuals:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but

It's already like this in Denmark! You get roughly $800 a month (after taxes) for as long as you're studying, up to 6 years, which is the average length for a bachelor's degree (3 years) and a candidate degree (2 years), plus an extra year in case you fall behind.

Hello, my two cents that nobody wants: it's like this in motherfucking ARGENTINA too! At least before the pandemic, college students could apply to a government program that would pay them monthly (not sure how much though) for as long as they study and kept certain grades.

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

yes!