9025 pts ยท October 22, 2011
There's very frequently not enough time (and not enough personnel) to get to every animal immediately after they're brought in, especially in busy areas. People from fosters and rescues sometimes see a shelter animal in a bad state before they've even made it through triage, or after checkup but before treatment has been arranged. Then they'll take the animal home immediately to help reduce the burden on the shelter and get other animals moved through checkups and treatment faster.
Evangelical Christians often DO have a lot of problems, but the problem of "must save everyone's soul so our god doesn't torture them eternally" is a so much BIGGER problem that it is, ironically, a source of comfort to them. Because their problems simply pale in comparison to such a vast atrocity. If you ignore all your own problems because Jesus has made you responsible for literally saving everyone you meet from His Wrath, everything will work out on its own somehow! :D
Probably dictated by the physics of the situation. You wanna move fast (because there's a lotta cheese to move), but too much up-and-down motion would jostle the cheese off the cheese-sled, so you've gotta basically powerwalk.
And of course, cryptocurrency can easily obfuscate a lot of transactions. You can convert your real money into cryptocurrency, use the crypto to buy stolen gift cards and debit cards on the massive markets that exist for such things, and then use those, in cases where you can't just use the crypto directly. While many popular cryptos are quite traceable, every extra added step makes it more difficult to justify pursuing the investigation.
So while you might be able to follow the money to find the people responsible, are you gonna have the budget to do that if you don't even KNOW what crime they'd be charged with? Will you be granted the relevant warrants and subpoenas without having a clear and firm justification? And then once you find them, can you actually *do* anything with that information?
It's also a matter of "what crime are you even investigating here?" Like, in many places, pushing someone to hurt or kill themselves isn't explicitly *illegal* in a way that makes it easy to justify an investigation-- especially if the perpetrator is a group that shares responsibility and/or is in a different country. It takes a long time to gather enough information on that kind of group to be able to pin something on them; just following the money isn't enough to show a crime itself.
A lot of popular games are based in countries where North Americans can't easily subpoena them. It's also very difficult at a local level to get cops to even *understand* how to investigate cybercrime; this is a common problem with things like CSAM cases where crypto transactions can be traced, but local cops or prosecutors don't understand the concepts enough to even be able to bring a legal case, and have to be hand-held by specialized federal investigators through the whole process.
Walk into any random grocery store in the US and there *will* be people in that building who believe exactly this. They haven't *thought* about it much, but it's part of their cultural background and their reasoning and they would generally agree that they believe it. It's everywhere; you cannot avoid it. So it's kinda bonkers that more people don't know about it.
Like, to be completely clear, *most Christians* in the US believe this. When the Left Behind books came out, there were not armies of pastors saying "now well hold on a minute-- that's not right." The books were INSANELY popular, and there was a frankly shocking level of agreement that "yeah, this is a correct and accurate representation of our faith." It's not *at all* a fringe belief.
The disconnect is that conservative Christians write, record, film, etc. an *astonishing* amount of media about exactly these beliefs, and spread them widely, and repeat them endlessly, and make it generally VERY obvious what they believe. But because they have so successfully divorced religious life from secular life, nobody outside their very large, dominant community actually notices this extremely widespread, absurdly popular and widely-accepted thing.
#37 fun fact about the inflatable tanks: They were used for misdirecting the enemy, but not in the way you'd think! They weren't really used much out in the field, but instead were photographed and information about them was spread via media. Like the "carrots boost eyesight" myth, this was intentionally spread to make the Axis think that the Allies were using a wide variety of weird tactics, to cover up the Allies' *actual* advantages, such as cracking the Enigma machine and many double agents.
#15 the Bane of Pantyhose. #27 I sometimes do this with the tea kettle (I have one that clicks off when it heats up and then keeps itself warm, instead of whistling). I know that tea would help soothe the depression but get too depressed to get up to brew the tea. #40 This is how to discover mid-scrolling-through-dump if you need to pee.
Also, young kids are rarely gonna be reading books themselves anyways-- any text is likely still to be read to them by adults. Those adults may be sighted, so they may as well have something nice to look at too. (It's unclear if there is accompanying text to read, or whether it's printed in ink or in Braille, but regardless, it's nice for caretakers to be able to share activities with kids.)
Not at all. Total blindness is actually fairly rare compared to partial blindness. Note how the colors are extremely bright, in large, well-defined color blocks. That's common for children's books, but it's also particularly useful in this case for kids who might have partial vision loss. That way, a kid with partial blindness can combine the tactile experience with the visual information they *can* intake, and that visual information is presented clearly and boldly.
The article doesn't say, but it's possible to desalinate seawater using evaporation if you have a clear sheet of plastic. Put a bucket of salt water under the plastic and put it in the sun. The salt water evaporates (leaving the salt behind), then the vapor hits the plastic and condenses, and it can then be collected. You can also use a plastic tarp to collect dew or buckets/barrels to collect rainwater.
Tbf it is one of the sports I can most easily picture growing *incrementally* over a long time. Like, people probably just jumped a little farther each time.
Fun fact about Danse Macabre: the violin soloist tunes their E string down a half step so they can play a tritone (known as "the Devil's interval" for its dissonance) on open strings, giving it an extra-harsh sound. The soloist represents Death playing a fiddle for dancing skeletons on Halloween. There are also parts of the piece where the strings use the wood of the bow to play, which is meant to sound like skeletons drumming on bones.
"Anger and resentment will only take me away from being the father and dad I always wanted to be." Don't forget to give yourself SOME safe space to feel all your feelings, even those ones if they happen to crop up. Even if you may not be able to indulge them, you can still acknowledge even the least productive and most harmful feelings, accept them as yours, give them a hug, and set them aside gently. Push it down for too long and it'll come back up in an unpleasant way under pressure later.
That's kind of how the British housing market works, except that one hermit crab partway through the chain will inevitably decide they don't actually want a new shell, thank you very much, and then the whole chain falls apart and NOBODY gets to move into their new shell or get rid of their old shell, and everyone has to go back to looking.
Japanese taiko drumming uses vocables as well. Don tsuku don don don kara kakka.
I still remember some of the vocables from taking African Drumming Ensemble in college. Pri pa tapa ta! (Budubudubudu)
Silk starts out as a kind of goo that is forced into a shape by the silk glands, so I guess it makes sense that it can be dissolved back into that state. Interestingly, there are now apparently companies making cultured spider silk with genetically modified yeasts, which is vegan. Without spinnerets, it can't be spun into strands, but it can be used in cosmetics. I don't know if anyone has done the same for silkworm silk though.
Sex toys were even sold by mail-order catalogue in Victorian times! Although they were sold as health products, because it was thought that women's sexual fluids were poisonous and it was thus necessary to purge them every once in a while in order to prevent hysteria.
I assume they were referring to getting permission to close down the road.
If you want to discourage Great White American Hero-isms, then listen to the Native people talking about the problems happening on their own lands, rather than the white people who decide if it's enough of a problem to put it on their official scientific list!
It's not endangered; it's *poached.* A plant can be taken illegally and harmfully without being officially classified as endangered, and organisms can be in peril for a long time without ending up on official lists of endangered species for a whole variety of reasons. If people can do whatever they want, then why can I not do what I want, which is to amplify the voices of the *actual people suffering the problem*? If we're so free to make choices, why DISCOURAGE choosing wisely and kindly?
I love the level of both how kind and how well-armed Sikh folks are. Love a religion that encourages "we don't start fights, but we DO finish them."
They treat autism as a horrible blight that happens to an autistic person's family. Like literally their focus is on "parents of autistic children, we understand that it is TERRIBLE to suffer your children's existence." No advocacy for autistic people, CERTAINLY no willingness to LISTEN to autistic people, and a general attitude that autism destroys families rather than focusing on the *people* who have it.
As you said, "anybody can practice anything that they want in witchcraft." So why choose a harmful thing, when you have so many other options that DON'T hurt humans and nature alike?
I can't smudge by burning things anyways because of asthma, and it's never impaired my practice at all, nor have I had issues when practicing with others-- people have plenty of alternatives to smudging. It's just not a difficult change to make, and using a frequently-poached plant is not at all a requirement for anything unless it is *specifically* part of your cultural practices. So why do it if it's not necessary? Why not just do something less harmful that's equally easy and useful?
There's very frequently not enough time (and not enough personnel) to get to every animal immediately after they're brought in, especially in busy areas. People from fosters and rescues sometimes see a shelter animal in a bad state before they've even made it through triage, or after checkup but before treatment has been arranged. Then they'll take the animal home immediately to help reduce the burden on the shelter and get other animals moved through checkups and treatment faster.
Evangelical Christians often DO have a lot of problems, but the problem of "must save everyone's soul so our god doesn't torture them eternally" is a so much BIGGER problem that it is, ironically, a source of comfort to them. Because their problems simply pale in comparison to such a vast atrocity. If you ignore all your own problems because Jesus has made you responsible for literally saving everyone you meet from His Wrath, everything will work out on its own somehow! :D
Probably dictated by the physics of the situation. You wanna move fast (because there's a lotta cheese to move), but too much up-and-down motion would jostle the cheese off the cheese-sled, so you've gotta basically powerwalk.
And of course, cryptocurrency can easily obfuscate a lot of transactions. You can convert your real money into cryptocurrency, use the crypto to buy stolen gift cards and debit cards on the massive markets that exist for such things, and then use those, in cases where you can't just use the crypto directly. While many popular cryptos are quite traceable, every extra added step makes it more difficult to justify pursuing the investigation.
So while you might be able to follow the money to find the people responsible, are you gonna have the budget to do that if you don't even KNOW what crime they'd be charged with? Will you be granted the relevant warrants and subpoenas without having a clear and firm justification? And then once you find them, can you actually *do* anything with that information?
It's also a matter of "what crime are you even investigating here?" Like, in many places, pushing someone to hurt or kill themselves isn't explicitly *illegal* in a way that makes it easy to justify an investigation-- especially if the perpetrator is a group that shares responsibility and/or is in a different country. It takes a long time to gather enough information on that kind of group to be able to pin something on them; just following the money isn't enough to show a crime itself.
A lot of popular games are based in countries where North Americans can't easily subpoena them. It's also very difficult at a local level to get cops to even *understand* how to investigate cybercrime; this is a common problem with things like CSAM cases where crypto transactions can be traced, but local cops or prosecutors don't understand the concepts enough to even be able to bring a legal case, and have to be hand-held by specialized federal investigators through the whole process.
Walk into any random grocery store in the US and there *will* be people in that building who believe exactly this. They haven't *thought* about it much, but it's part of their cultural background and their reasoning and they would generally agree that they believe it. It's everywhere; you cannot avoid it. So it's kinda bonkers that more people don't know about it.
Like, to be completely clear, *most Christians* in the US believe this. When the Left Behind books came out, there were not armies of pastors saying "now well hold on a minute-- that's not right." The books were INSANELY popular, and there was a frankly shocking level of agreement that "yeah, this is a correct and accurate representation of our faith." It's not *at all* a fringe belief.
The disconnect is that conservative Christians write, record, film, etc. an *astonishing* amount of media about exactly these beliefs, and spread them widely, and repeat them endlessly, and make it generally VERY obvious what they believe. But because they have so successfully divorced religious life from secular life, nobody outside their very large, dominant community actually notices this extremely widespread, absurdly popular and widely-accepted thing.
#37 fun fact about the inflatable tanks: They were used for misdirecting the enemy, but not in the way you'd think! They weren't really used much out in the field, but instead were photographed and information about them was spread via media. Like the "carrots boost eyesight" myth, this was intentionally spread to make the Axis think that the Allies were using a wide variety of weird tactics, to cover up the Allies' *actual* advantages, such as cracking the Enigma machine and many double agents.
#15 the Bane of Pantyhose. #27 I sometimes do this with the tea kettle (I have one that clicks off when it heats up and then keeps itself warm, instead of whistling). I know that tea would help soothe the depression but get too depressed to get up to brew the tea. #40 This is how to discover mid-scrolling-through-dump if you need to pee.
Also, young kids are rarely gonna be reading books themselves anyways-- any text is likely still to be read to them by adults. Those adults may be sighted, so they may as well have something nice to look at too. (It's unclear if there is accompanying text to read, or whether it's printed in ink or in Braille, but regardless, it's nice for caretakers to be able to share activities with kids.)
Not at all. Total blindness is actually fairly rare compared to partial blindness. Note how the colors are extremely bright, in large, well-defined color blocks. That's common for children's books, but it's also particularly useful in this case for kids who might have partial vision loss. That way, a kid with partial blindness can combine the tactile experience with the visual information they *can* intake, and that visual information is presented clearly and boldly.
The article doesn't say, but it's possible to desalinate seawater using evaporation if you have a clear sheet of plastic. Put a bucket of salt water under the plastic and put it in the sun. The salt water evaporates (leaving the salt behind), then the vapor hits the plastic and condenses, and it can then be collected. You can also use a plastic tarp to collect dew or buckets/barrels to collect rainwater.
Tbf it is one of the sports I can most easily picture growing *incrementally* over a long time. Like, people probably just jumped a little farther each time.
Fun fact about Danse Macabre: the violin soloist tunes their E string down a half step so they can play a tritone (known as "the Devil's interval" for its dissonance) on open strings, giving it an extra-harsh sound. The soloist represents Death playing a fiddle for dancing skeletons on Halloween. There are also parts of the piece where the strings use the wood of the bow to play, which is meant to sound like skeletons drumming on bones.
"Anger and resentment will only take me away from being the father and dad I always wanted to be." Don't forget to give yourself SOME safe space to feel all your feelings, even those ones if they happen to crop up. Even if you may not be able to indulge them, you can still acknowledge even the least productive and most harmful feelings, accept them as yours, give them a hug, and set them aside gently. Push it down for too long and it'll come back up in an unpleasant way under pressure later.
That's kind of how the British housing market works, except that one hermit crab partway through the chain will inevitably decide they don't actually want a new shell, thank you very much, and then the whole chain falls apart and NOBODY gets to move into their new shell or get rid of their old shell, and everyone has to go back to looking.
Japanese taiko drumming uses vocables as well. Don tsuku don don don kara kakka.
I still remember some of the vocables from taking African Drumming Ensemble in college. Pri pa tapa ta! (Budubudubudu)
Silk starts out as a kind of goo that is forced into a shape by the silk glands, so I guess it makes sense that it can be dissolved back into that state. Interestingly, there are now apparently companies making cultured spider silk with genetically modified yeasts, which is vegan. Without spinnerets, it can't be spun into strands, but it can be used in cosmetics. I don't know if anyone has done the same for silkworm silk though.
Sex toys were even sold by mail-order catalogue in Victorian times! Although they were sold as health products, because it was thought that women's sexual fluids were poisonous and it was thus necessary to purge them every once in a while in order to prevent hysteria.
I assume they were referring to getting permission to close down the road.
If you want to discourage Great White American Hero-isms, then listen to the Native people talking about the problems happening on their own lands, rather than the white people who decide if it's enough of a problem to put it on their official scientific list!
It's not endangered; it's *poached.* A plant can be taken illegally and harmfully without being officially classified as endangered, and organisms can be in peril for a long time without ending up on official lists of endangered species for a whole variety of reasons. If people can do whatever they want, then why can I not do what I want, which is to amplify the voices of the *actual people suffering the problem*? If we're so free to make choices, why DISCOURAGE choosing wisely and kindly?
I love the level of both how kind and how well-armed Sikh folks are. Love a religion that encourages "we don't start fights, but we DO finish them."
They treat autism as a horrible blight that happens to an autistic person's family. Like literally their focus is on "parents of autistic children, we understand that it is TERRIBLE to suffer your children's existence." No advocacy for autistic people, CERTAINLY no willingness to LISTEN to autistic people, and a general attitude that autism destroys families rather than focusing on the *people* who have it.
As you said, "anybody can practice anything that they want in witchcraft." So why choose a harmful thing, when you have so many other options that DON'T hurt humans and nature alike?
I can't smudge by burning things anyways because of asthma, and it's never impaired my practice at all, nor have I had issues when practicing with others-- people have plenty of alternatives to smudging. It's just not a difficult change to make, and using a frequently-poached plant is not at all a requirement for anything unless it is *specifically* part of your cultural practices. So why do it if it's not necessary? Why not just do something less harmful that's equally easy and useful?