OO,GIRL! Shock me like an electric eel

A LION KILLS ANY CHILDREN THAT AREN’T HIS OWN OR THE OFFSPRING OF HIS COALITION MEMBERS. EVEN THE BABY ONES.

A LONE LION CAN HOLD HIS GROUND AGAINST 20 HYENAS BECAUSE HE’S A LOT BIGGER THEN THEM AND THEY’RE RISK AVERSE LIKE MOST PREDATORS

A LION HUNTS IN SILENCE. HE IS AN AMBUSH PREDATOR SO IT WOULD CAUSE PROBLEMS IF HE WAS LOUD.

NO ONE MESSES WITH THE KING OF THE JONGLE. EXCEPT FOR ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS AND HIPPOPOTAMUSES AND CAPE BUFFALO, WHICH CAN AND WILL BODY HIM BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE IT.

HYENAS MOVE IN PACKS, WHILE THE LION WALKS ALONE IF HE IS A NOMADIC MALE WHO CAN’T HOLD DOWN A TERRITORY BECAUSE HE HAS NO COALITION AND/OR IS TOO IMMATURE AND/OR HE JUST KIND OF SUCKS IN GENERAL.

SCAVENGERS WAIT FOR BIGGER, STRONGER PREDATORS TO DO THE WORK FOR THEM. LIONS HUNT FOR THEMSELVES, UNLESS IT’S EASIER TO CHASE CHEETAHS OR LEOPARDS OR HYENAS OR WILD DOGS OFF OF THEIR KILLS, OR THEY JUST FIND A DEAD ANIMAL LYING AROUND.

A LION DOESN’T LOSE SLEEP OVER THE OPINIONS OF SHEEP. HE PROBABLY DOESN’T HAVE THEORY OF MIND OR AT LEAST THE TYPE OF SOCIAL COGNITION TO CONCEPTUALIZE OTHER ENTITIES HAVING A NEGATIVE PERSONAL OPINION OF HIM, MUCH LESS THE ABILITY TO WORRY ABOUT IT.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.

Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldn’t be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldn’t last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).

me: the weather must have been great, you're looking so tanned!

irish coworker: *stares down at his arms, which are a shade of eggshell white i associate with tasteful wedding table settings* i suppose i am!

welsh coworker: *enters room* wow, youre looking so tanned!

Sometimes, those photos need to be taken underneath vehicles. This is difficult as underneath a vehicle is very dark, but metal is very reflective, which makes using a flashlight both necessary and an issue.

Now, my favorite manager once said of me, "look at her. she burns if she looks at the forecast for too long" which is the meanest and truest thing ever said about my complexion.

Did I, partially as a joke, try to diffuse the flashlight beam off the underside of my forearm in order to get pictures underneath a truck once? Yes. Did it work? Also yes.

When I explained how I got the photos to my (different) manager, he looked at me and said very tiredly, "that is the saddest thing I've ever heard."

"oh no it's even worse than that," I assured him, and proceeded to remove my watch to show him my tan lines.