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ALL THE THIS.
Last week, I spent more than half an hour standing outside a teacher’s office because I couldn’t bring myself to ask her some simple questions about an extra credit project. I ended up following her to class, waiting until everyone else had gone when class was done, and just catching her before she went to her next lesson.
I also keep missing her class because I messed up my schedule, and I can’t manage to ask her for the right one.
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A question for people who know and/or own Great Danes:
I would love to own a Great Dane someday (we’re talking distant future, when I have enough time and space—right now, being broke and living in a small urban apartment, I most definitely do not). However, I’ve heard they only tend to live for 5 or 6 years due to heart problems! D: I don’t think I can set myself up for something like that. Just how accurate is this?
Great Danes can live up to 10 or (I have heard) 12 years, but their average optimal lifespan is 8-10 years. I have never heard of a Dane living only 5 years and dying of heart conditions, but I suppose that it’s possible (I mean, if it can happen to humans…). Great Danes have two major problems (apart from all the drool): hip and heart. The first is generally dealt with by making sure the puppy gets plenty of calcium when he’s growing (chicken necks are good for this); the second mostly means that you don’t over-exercise the dog, and don’t let him cool down too quickly when he’s been running around. Naturally, I’d advise you to speak to the breeder, who should be happy to give you all the information you could want.
On an added note, my grandfather got his first Dane when he was living in a third floor flat in Berlin. They don’t need a lot of space, particularly if you don’t mind sharing the bed. :)
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The Westboro Baptist Church and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell are discussed and defamed on the Australian television show Good News Week. Also, the word “cocktopus” is mentioned.
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I am laughing so hard I’m crying.
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I don’t know how many Bad Romance videos are out there, but this is the first Suffragette one I’ve seen. While we’re on it, look at this penny defaced by Suffragettes from the British Museum. Pretty clever no?
This made me grin so hard that my face hurt for about five minutes.
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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.
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The soliloquy considered best and most famous in cinematic history is probably the one at the end of Blade Runner. If you haven’t seen it, stop reading here and go watch it. Then come back and read this, because I’m important. I don’t feel bad about spoilers because this…
This is beautiful. I may have teared up slightly.
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Do it, I dare you. Abortion is WRONG. Pass it on pro-lifers.
SPOILER ALERT
Here’s what comes up in the first frame of Google Images:
- Several political cartoons (both pro-and anti-choice)
- This infographic about the dangers of unsafe abortion in countries where it is illegal
- This BAMF
- 2 images that could possibly be of an actual first trimester abortion (90% of all abortions).
- 6 images that are of late-term abortions (>2% of all abortions), which are only legal in cases to preserve the woman’s life/health or in cases of severe fetal abnormality.
I’m still pro-choice.
Now it’s your turn. Google for “back alley abortion.” But don’t click on images this time- I want you to form an informed opinion based on facts.
Click the first link. Read about all of the women who died pre-Roe and all of the women and girls dying now because of restrictions on safe and legal abortion.
Click the second link. It’s an article that cites a peer-reviewed source, confirming what you just read on Wikipedia.
Click the third link. It’s the recollection of a woman who had a pre-Roe back-alley abortion. It’s horrific, and she was one of the lucky ones.
Are you satisfied, or did you bother reading at all? Ok, go ahead and click images. That second picture is of Geraldine Santoro’s lifeless body. (Trigger warning for images in that article). She died when she attempted to induce abortion in the fear that her estranged husband would murder her for being pregnant with another man. She hemorrhaged to death, alone in a seedy motel room. She left behind two daughters to be raised by their abusive father.
So what about now? Are you pro-choice, or are you still clinging to the idealogical dogma of sacrificing real, breathing, feeling women for unconscious, unfeeling fetuses? Which of us is truly “anti-life?”
Google Images is such a terrifying thing, I know.
I’ve watched so many videos of abortions. STILL PRO-CHOICE BECAUSE AN ACTUAL PERSONS LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT OF AN UNWANTED, NON-AUTONOMOUS PARASITE-LIKE ENTITY THAT IS GROWING AGAINST THEIR WILL INSIDE THEIR BODY, DRAINING THEIR RESOURCES AND USING THEIR ORGANS TO SURVIVE. SOZ.
Fun Fact: Simplistic, childish arguments do little to convince anyone of their worth. Evidence - such as the statistics for deaths during pregnancy before and after the legalisation of abortion - is far more compelling.
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Catalina de Erauso, also known as the nun lieutenant (la monja alférez in Spanish). She fougth as a Spanish soldier in the New World, without anybody suspecting she was a woman (her male name was “Francisco de Loyola”). And even when she was discovered she was granted a special dispensation by the Pope himself to wear men’s clothing. She was badass by definition.
In grade nine, I named her when we were asked to name a woman we admired. Should have seen the looks I got.
Another bit of yarn bombing, I’ve always loved spotting this one in passing. It’s just this little bit of sweetness on the morning commute.
OH MY GOD. I- I must make it! I must! I have no idea how, but I have to try!
