The Weird Sort

friendly mei walls you in spawn just as the match starts so the rest of the team forms a circle of condemnation around her and spams ‘no’

sleep-darting a charging rein and saying ‘no’ basically equates to saying ‘nope not today’

run screaming through a symmetra hell room spamming ‘no’ to warn your team not to follow you

actual 

figure

skaters

watching

yuri

on

ice

(just… look at this dork. no 1 yoi fan)

Climate Change is acting much faster than many have expected. Global sea ice is in a free fall compared to all other years on record.

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Which means that sources like the Washington Post are doing a terrible job of explaining what this actually means. Which is probably a huge part of why people are generally not very concerned about climate change, especially not compared to how bad the situation actually is.

The graph above shows that every single year on record, the amount of ice in the sea has grown and melted at about the same times and in the same amounts. Except this year, when suddenly, instead of a bunch of ice forming in fucking winter, it’s… Not. It’s remaining at summer levels, basically.

This is not just part of global warming, it IS global warming. This is the core of the whole thing. The amazing amounts of carbon dioxide that we’ve been dumping into the atmosphere at an increasing rate for the past 100 years have been trapping more and more heat inside the atmosphere.

This has finally reached the point of Horrible Vicious Cycle. Because when it gets too warm, the polar ice caps melt.

When they melt, the oceans become much warmer and more acidic and can’t sustain life well.

When the oceans get warmer, they stop helping cool the atmosphere. Having large bodies of cold water lying around is GOOD if you want an area to be cooler. Having large bodies of warm water lying around does fuck all for cooling anybody down.

The less the oceans help cool things, the more our carbon emissions affect the atmosphere. Because they’re no longer partly being counteracted by the oceans.

Which means global warming accelerates.

Which means ice melting accelerates.

Which means the oceans get even more fucked up.

Which means global warming accelerates even more.

The temperature value is real. The danger is real. That chart is wrong.

Here’s the real chart, from NASA:

And the Antarctic sea ice:

And here’s the same data from the National Snow & Ice Data Center’s interactive graph here:

As you can see, it’s bad, but it’s not as imminently apocalyptically bad as the upper chart, which was made by a single poster on the Arctic Sea Ice Forums and doesn’t line up with the graphs displayed by the site as the most accurate.

I want to live in a world that punishes these childish adults as you punish a toddler throwing a tantrum. No candy for you, Jimmy; you’re going home to bed if you can’t mind yourself in public.

Throw a hissy fit because your cashier isn’t moving as fast as you’d like? Find yourself gently escorted from the store until you can show some basic compassion and patience.

Hurl a pen across the table at your signing agent? You’ve just forfeited your right to refinance your mortgage this week. Try again when your temper is managed.

Scream obscenities at the Taco Bell rep because you know it’ll earn you a free soft shell? Here’s your money back; please feel free to play again when you’ve realized fast food is not worth more than the price of human dignity.

I am so sick of accepting–and, in truth, rewarding–these callous behavior patterns in customer service industries. The fact is, the customer is not always right. The customer is often just testing to see what he can get away with. Stop pandering to spoiled children, and show your employees they have more value than their red polo, or how much abuse they can withstand in a 40-hour week.

We are here to provide a service and to make a living.

My favourite scene * _ *

My adorable grandfather, a pilot, an engineer during WW2 who built one of the earliest radiation detectors, radiowave expert, and all around mechanical genius, figures out how selfies work.

When you get to the Thrifty Megamart, you’ll get a coupon from one of the guys around the store which gives you (i assume? i never bought anything else) a 50% discount. You can use it for one trip to the store, so you can buy things from multiple cashiers/separate purchases from the same cashier so long as you don’t go outside.