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This is an older picture, but it does fit with the meme
It's reblogged from jamiek and originally posted by jamiek
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The article says “human” when it means “humane,” but my issue is larger. Once the rat is in there, you then have a beautiful vase containing an angry, scared rat. Just the kind of decoration every home needs!
A few things
- That’s a mouse, not a rat.
- Both rats and mice would probably be out of that thing in a few minutes and you’d likely be left with a shattered porcelain rat trap.
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Truth in advertising
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It's reblogged from yhf and originally posted by moegreeb-deactivated20100812-de
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Someone needs to develop an Android Tumblr app…
yhf:
One that let’s me fucking reply to people or answer fricken questions!
Screenshots would be nice as well…
I haven’t fooled around with the development aspects of Tumblr like I kept swearing I was going to, but I think the limitation is that the “iPhone”/mobile view of the dashboard doesn’t have that mechanism in place, and that’s what most applications depend on for display.
For a little while I was looking at their dashboard API in the hopes of making something useful, but what it came right down to is that there didn’t seem (to my amateur eyes, anyway) to be a way to say something like “Give me all of the posts since this one” or “give me all of the posts after this one”, so there wasn’t any easy (and non resource intensive) way to paginate.
To be sure, tumblr actually has these functions. That’s why the next and previous links on the (non-infinite scrolling version of) dashboard have those long numbers in them and that’s how the little red “new post” number comes up at the top, it’s just that they aren’t exposed in the API.
Maybe I’m missing something - it certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
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It’s hot today
Like record breaking hot. The record is 104 set in 1987, and the current temperature is 101, with lots of heat left to go.
But that’s not why I’m posting. I’m posting because the weather service identifier for the Little Rock Airport is KLIT. And because I’m 10.
It's reblogged from indefensible and originally posted by indefensible
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Towards a somewhat logical defence of compulsory voting.
This is not the only way to defend compulsory voting, but it’s one of the simplest.
If we assert the right to live in a democracy, then we make it imperative that there are people who vote. The right to live in a democracy is therefore purchased by the responsibility to vote. If we were to allow that everyone had the right not to vote, then in what way could we deliver to anybody the right to live in a democracy?
Simply put: if nobody voted, then there would be no democracy in which we could assert our right to live. If you claim the right to live in a democracy then it is incumbent on you to do your part to create that democracy.
I think that my personal argument against compulsory voting stems from the idea self-knowledge and informed choices. First, in a democracy everyone has the right to vote. The nature of democracy means that no one’s right can be abridged, whether because of who they are (sex, race, sexual orientation, etc.) or what they know (level of education, knowledge of the candidates, etc.).
That said, I think that if an individual is not engaged or informed about the potential choices or if they are unaffected by the purpose or outcome of the vote (for example, a vote to increase property tax millage to fund schools for a voter who is a renter and childless), then they should be able to make a responsible decision not to vote, because they either lack the information to make a choice or simply aren’t influenced by the results. You can’t bar someone else from voting because they lack that information, but I certainly think that it could be seen as a responsible choice to abstain from voting for yourself if you so choose.
If the ballot had an abstain option (which no ballot I’ve ever seen does) then I could see making the act of getting the ballot and marking “abstain” compulsory, and there may well be benefit to that, but as it stands today I think that it can be the correct choice for some people to simply not vote in certain situations.
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OK, this is the popular news in LA (stumbled across after this post)? I haven’t seen more unremittingly bleak stories in a very long time.
It's reblogged from kurafire and originally posted by friendlyatheist
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I bet you can do similar ones with all the other religions threatening each other in some form of violent way.
Then you clearly don’t know much about the other religions, save for Christianity.
Not to belabor the point, but you really can do this with just about all of the other religions, not just Islam and Christianity. A few examples:
- Jewish Settlers attack Palestinians
- Buddhist violence in Sri Lanka
- Hindu violence against Muslims
- Sikhs, a typically very non-violent religious tradition, are hardly immune
I’m not taking a position on whether or not “all religions” are violent inherently or any such generalization. My point is simply that all religions have violent elements and members, if only because they are human endeavors and humans are (or at least can be) violent.
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Clancy Brothers - MacAlpine’s Fusillers
As a kind of coda to my set of posts Friday, here’s another, and one very appropriate for a Monday morning.
