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So I was going through the Overwatch Wiki page and I noticed that while Hanzo’s official height is listed as 5′8″ (173cm), there’s no stats for Genji. I don’t know where the 5′8″ height came from (examining in game models, perhaps?), but it got me thinking about Genji’s height and what it might be. So I’m going to hypothesize based on the info that can be gathered from the below picture.

This is taken from the picture Winston has hanging up in his base in ‘Recall’, and it works very nicely because Genji and McCree are standing right next to each other. The Overwatch Wiki lists McCree’s official height at 6′1″ (approx. 185cm). Again, I don’t know where that came from, but looking at McCree it seems about right. I’m guessing any height between 6′ and 6′3″ is a pretty accurate estimate for him; so between 71″ and 75″ (180cm to 190.5cm).

Now, assuming McCree follows the standard classical male proportions of 8 heads high (a common tool by artists for getting good proportions, and I’m guessing also a common standard for a lot of video game character designs), that means his head is about 9 inches. Since we can clearly see from the picture above that Genji comes up to somewhere between McCree’s shoulders and chin (I’m gonna say chin because McCree’s right shoulder is raised), that means Genji is about one full head shorter than McCree. So, subtract 9 inches from 71″ to 75″, and we can assume Genji’s height at anywhere between 62″ to 66″, or 5′3″ to 5′6″ (approx. 158cm to 165cm for metric users, you lucky dogs). Which brings me to my main point.

*grabs both your hands in gesture of sincerity*

Don't let this die. Taylor Swift is the Pollution Queen now. We need meme edits with her photoshopped onto backgrounds of wildfire-ravaged landscapes and oil refineries chugging out black smoke.

Photo of smudgy black eye shadow? That's THE Taylor Swift-inspired look now, it represents fossil fuels.

We need parodies of Taylor Swift songs about pollution and killing polar bears.

Give her representatives a full-time job for the rest of their lives defending her from the phrase "Pollution Queen." Make this meme a the figurehead of an entire fleet of other celebrity-terrorizing memes.

"But this doesn't dismantle the system that—" Shut. Don't care. Isn't it great that such a huge portion of environmental damage is being done by human individuals with egos, whose feelings can be hurt when people are mean?

Doesn't matter if you can't take away the real concrete power of the rich and powerful. They're humans. They're still running Human Psyche 1.0. They wanna be liked and feel good about themselves, and they've probably got egos the size of Texas. They're all people that haven't been told "no" since 1996.

You still have the power to deny reverence to those who demand it. J*ff B*zos could be God-King of the Planet and have you executed by firing squad, and you could still call him "Nasty Fart Man" with your dying breath.

In cultures across the planet, the Trickster is an archetype endowed with some form of divinity. It is a reality of the universe: things that humans endow with meaning, are dependent on humans to make them meaningful. Tricksters turn gender, class, and other forms of social hierarchy upside down. They use the vices of the powerful against them. They make the cunning get caught in their own traps. The Trickster is my favorite archetype. It contains a crucial ingredient of hope.

The more perfect and intricate the gears that grind us down, the worse they respond to a thrown wrench. Governments are bloated, flailing piles of red tape and evil paper, as stupid as they are corrupt. Bullets are real, and every once in a while, they miss. You understand now that we are in the belly of a horrible system. Now, ask an engineer about the machine we are raging against.

Do you think the lawns of the mansions occupied by the most powerful men on earth are, at this moment, entirely free of dandelions?

Despair, despair, despair everywhere, because so many people have understood the reality of a system that runs on inequality enforced by coercive power. Capitalism is a god, with the crucial flaw of a god: it can damn you, but it can't make you worship.

Nah, that's exactly the same actually

Totalitarian and authoritarian governments are really big on Respect, frequently with some ritualistic/symbolic elements, because violence and coercive power isn't enough and they KNOW it.

The worst and most coercive dictatorships are the same ones that throw you in prison for calling their dictator the Pee Pee Poo Poo Man. This doesn't make sense for a regime that ACTUALLY has absolute power. It's a powerful testimony to just how fragile that power is.

In my Intro to Cultural Anthropology class, we did a chapter on types of power and how they work in human society. There is "strong" power and there is "weak" power.

"Strong" power is the power to coerce and kill.

"Weak" power is the power to shame, to convince, to gain favor, to give or withhold respect.

You may think that "strong" power is the be-all-end-all, the thing that ultimately matters. Who cares if you shame a billionaire? They have the "real" power.

But the thing is...

When people get angry enough, or scared enough, or feel trapped enough, desperate enough...suddenly, you can't coerce them anymore, because they aren't scared of what you can do to them anymore.

Well, i guess its more of a medic-bots in general hc.

You know how ambulance sirens are designed in such a way that you hear them from far, far away (so one has time to clear out the way)

WHAT IF

Ratchet's (and again, all medics) voice has the same effect, its not a matter of volume, but frequency.

Without raising his voice Ratchet can still be perfectly heard from a couple of rooms away, a security measure put in medical bots to assure they can give clear instructions to their staff when needed. (I know comms are a thing, but its a safety measure, i dont care how modern your elevators are you HAVE to put stairs in your building)

So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

i made him a tube room

im going to sleep, chicken nugget is snoozin and ill check up on him as soon as i wake up

hope he doesnt party too hard 

there he goes he’s free and im so proud and a little sad

this was an incredible experience

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.