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I really like that this is the direction pro wrestlers are going with their pr, as opposed to classic pro wrestling from the 80s whose whole personas were like macho xenophobic whackness

I’m confused

It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. They’re just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.

my granddad just called me to tell me how big his cauliflowers are growing and it was so cute theyre “TWICE as big as the ones you get in the shop”

i told my granddad this post has 3,500 notes and he said ‘who are they? do i know them?’ he wanted me to list everyone and see if he knew anyone

If you don’t reblog cauliflower granddad, then you’re just a mean person.

Okay Carrie Fisher officially wins the holder of the biggest Dick Energy, because the woman is so extra she found a way to squeeze her way into Episode 9 even from beyond the grave.

I don’t understand why y’all still feel the need to use the R-word in 2018, especially when our language has evolved to the point where we have much more accurate and concise words for what you’re attempting to express. Stop being lazy and disrespectful and phase that shit out of your vocabulary. It’s really not that hard.

[video: a seal emerges from a hole in the ice to breathe. It yells “Ah! Woo!” then sinks back down]

Have you ever read an article about the study that found that teaching the parents to cope with autistic kids yields better results than other therapies? Because this is exactly what they were talking about.

this is an oddly specific post are you ok

this may be the first time he’s understood something that’s happened in the world

lmao

There are now more than 90 people dead. You can bitch and whine that’s it’s hotter where you are, but you have to understand that it’s the elderly, homeless and small children who don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to health problems. How fucking despicable can you be to just laugh at people dying because temperatures are hotter where you are. Our infrastructure was built to withstand -30 C°, not the heat. It’s not about how Canadians are “weak”, it’s literally just shitty circumstances.

Not to mention that people who are accustomed to cold climates have a physically more difficult time coping with temperatures that their bodies aren’t used to. Also a lot of people who have never had to cope with hotter temperatures aren’t as familiar with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, don’t know how to manage the heat safely , etc!

It didn’t rain in Helsinki, Finland, for 6 weeks. We have had 27-32C/81-90F temperatures ongoingly since May. That’s 3 months. Our houses have double windows and thick insulations and like all Nordic country houses, they are built to keep heat in. I can walk around naked in my house when it’s -30C/-22F outside. THAT’S how warm and well insulated these houses are. Nothing’s designed or built here for hotter than 20C/68F and we have heat warnings starting from 25C/77F. All because we have NO WAYS to protect ourselves from the heat or cool down. Fans were sold out pretty much the whole country and still are. I’m lucky the nearby supermarket had managed to order fans from Germany and I managed to get one before they are sold out again. Cost me like hell but this is the first time in 3 months I can get some help for a sauna like apartment. This summer it’s been +32C/90F above Arctic Circle. ABOVE ARCTIC CIRCLE. And over 20C/68F AT THE SHORES OF ARCTIC OCEAN. What do you think, how the houses and infrastructure of the cities is build up there? To what temperatures people are accustomed? To hot or cold? This is exactly the same as when New York hit -9C/16F and whole city was in chaos and people died because it was so cold. People weren’t used to that. Houses or infrastructure is not built or designed for that. While here, in Finland, such temperature is mild and we can take it and we have ways to keep ourselves warm. No one dies here in that temperature, because it is normal. People walk outside with a light clothing on, because it’s still warm. Abnormal temperatures, high or below normal, always kill people. Always.

I would never EVER mock anyone for being hot or for complaining when it’s hot. I’m in Indiana we had a head wave of 105 heat index and 15 elderly people in our town died. Becuase the ac in the retirement centers couldn’t keep up.

PASTRY - your God is dead, the god of gluten and madness is risen, abandon all hope ye who enter here

well that’s fairly accurate

The Texan Revolution formed from the anger of these white settlers in Texas, which was still part of Mexico at this time. They had moved from slave-owning southern part of the US and they became upset because the president of Mexico, Vicente Guerrero, abolished slavery. Mexico actually attempted to restrict American immigration into Mexico-owned Texas! The leaders of the Mexican centralist forces that defeated the Texan revolutionary forces at the Alamo were against slavery. If you ever hear a Texan say “Remember the Alamo!” just remember that the Texan settlers that died there had a vested interest in maintaining control of Texas territory so they could continue to use slave labor. 

forget the alamo.

Fuck the alamo

Not only does the alamo suck as a historical monument, but fuck the people who fought there

Remember The Alamo, NOT as a brave battle, but as an important step in maintaining  slavery.  That may also help understand why the 14th Amendment, did NOT end slavery, it only transferred ownership from private hands to Government ownership.