Unstructured Meanderings of an Insatiable Mind

Oooh, I’m liking the look of this little lady.

the preponderance of movies with cops as the main characters where their bosses turn out to be corrupt and then get arrested by the Good Guy Cops who are the REAL cops isn’t a fuckin accident tbh its straight up propaganda distracting from the very real fact that the problem is not “bad cops”, the problem is cops in general and as an institution

Are you saying that an institution meant to prevent/protect against criminals is a bad thing? I understand that it can be corrupt/that power can be abused but I don’t see the idea of police as bad. Or am I misunderstanding you?

Most european police forces came out of state suppresion of industrial disputes.

And the majority of private eyes were used as strikebreakers

I mean, not only were Pinkertons strikebreakers, they formed the basis for the FBI afterwards. So domestic intelligence is in the same boat.

The New Jersey state police (among others) in the early 1900s modeled their uniform on the uniforms of police forces in Europe specifically to invoke fear in European immigrants, who at the time were heavily targeted by police for their associations with radical labor and communism.

Sure, keep this “Cops are bad mentality” when you are being attacked or robbed by someone. I wonder how that will end for you.

Because it’s a great sign of admiration when someone who is supposed to serve and protect will blatantly leave you to die because you posted some anti police shit on Tumblr. Way to completely prove our point.

Additionally, “calling the cops” when someone is attacking you or has robbed you is statistically very unlikely to do anything.  The vast majority of robbery cases go unsolved and unpunished, and if someone attacks you calling the police doesn’t stop or undo that, it just means they may face legal punishment and you may have someone to make a civil case against if your injuries are severe.  Assuming the cops can successfully find the attacker, when they usually can’t.  The vast majority of these cases go unsolved.  Police departments are wildly inefficient at everything except for crowd control, and are actually less efficient at solving most crimes than the small localized sheriff’s departments they replaced.  They have been for years, and the money we spend on them would prevent a lot more crime if it were instead spent on social programs and welfare programs. It’s almost as if the point of the police *isn’t to protect people* and is instead *to keep people in their place.*

It’s no mistake that the major city police forces in America started to appear as labor disputes became more and more frequent.

The police union isn’t a real union, it’s a cartel. Police aren’t worker’s they’re the guards of the largest prison on Earth, the Public.

Zelda looks like she’s into it. <.< Now I have this whole new perspective of Zelda manipulating horrible creatures into kidnapping her for funsies, and actually Zelda is the super evil they wish they could be.

I live for this interaction, it’s hilarious!!

I love Tormund and his clear interest in Brienne, and her clearly being like “WTF is this men do not look at me this way.”

Or at worst make them delete the work because I know that’s what I’d do

This is bad behavior, please, authors, just delete comments like these.  As a reader I’m thrilled for updates but not at the cost of making you uncomfortable.

I need to watch this show.

Wiggling Poles of the Wasteland Harvest Electricity For Power Hungry Humans

These also look like they would cause fewer problems for birds and bats.

This is really cool.

They leave off the important note that when the wind rises, each pole makes a sound like a hundred vuvuzelas roaring at once. In the post-apocalyptic world of the future, villagers will speak in hushed tones about the Roaring Plains, and caution adventurous travelers to stay well away. 

I appreciate how they essentially invented very useful yet alien-looking screaming pillars. Science continues to make some suspiciously sci-fi shit.

At least you won’t have to go outside to know how windy it is… You’ll hear it.

absolutely freaking amazing

Reblogging again because i love the phrase “metaphors for racism that involve only white people are boring”

Everyone always remarks on the color of Harry’s eyes.  But between the messy, cowlicky dark hair and the scar and the glasses… that’s pretty much what we know about how he looks. This is an interesting take. I like it.