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the end of The Big Short isn’t fucking around
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Good time to have this on people’s dashes again
As relevant as it ever was, unfortunately.
I think one of the reasons why tree law is so popular and people are so enthusiastic about it is because a big, old tree being killed feels so awful. You've got something that took years or decades to get that big, that provides so many benefits, and then it's just...gone and irreplaceable. Of course people are like oh boy, you didn't think that thing was valuable and now the law is gonna come for you and you're gonna regret it.
And it feels like one of the few cases where the rich (not the mega rich, but the regular rich) actually get held to account for their crimes, because the punishment is designed to match the actual damage they do. You cut down a bunch of your neighbor's trees to make your property more valuable? The punishment is basically the cost of your property.
would anyone be able to help me out with bills <3 I’ve had not many hours lately bc my boss keeps hiring more people 😭 paypal / ca$happ $RiverDeRosa 🩷
Hi not to be annoying but 😭 I cannot afford my bills + food I’ve been having coffee for days 💀 if anyone could spare anything I’d be so grateful 🙏💋
Gwen receiving so much criticism over her character arc in ATSV is wild cuz that's literally the plot of the movie, that's what the movie is all about and that's what made it this good. That's what's intended to happen, she's repeating the mistake with a friend, and going for a redemption. Her first lines are literally "I hurt him and he wasn't the only one". You immediately know something bad will happen between her and Miles and that it will be, if not entirely, then mostly, her fault, which she is aware of when she's telling the story. The movie doesn't portray her as the best character and definitely not as the worst one, it gives her character development, just like her dad wasn't there for her at first and by the end of the film he was. No one's saying that she was entirely right, but that just like her dad, she saw that she wasn't there for a loved one and decided to try to fix the problem before It's too late - which is so much more than what a lot of characters usually do. Literally everyone makes mistakes, it's how she handled it that's great and as long as she doesn't repeat it (same for her dad too).
not to mention mirroring Miles. Gwen doesn't have a support system and is at the mercy of Sociaty and ends up doing things she regrets. Whereas Miles has a support system, and it's that support system that helps him be self-confident and say go to hell with the canon idea.
It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
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Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.
The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.
If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.
At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.
At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.
This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.
Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.
Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.
Oh okay so it's good then
Even going outside the context of the barbie movie, it is truly incredible that they could write that last part and try to frame it as a bad thing
it really is so hard to parody this because this article is actually framing "Living your life and being comfortable with how you present yourself" as a negative political agenda
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Mutant Mayhem (2023): Putting The TEEN in TMNT
Anonymous asked:
Fran drescher opposes vaccine mandates just fyi
[ID: A tweet reading "You know, the last SAG president to oversee a strike was Ronald Reagan. All I'm saying is...she's got style, she's got flair...could she be there in the Oval Office?" with a picture of Fran Drescher. A quote-retweet reads "It's only a matter of hours before people find some of Drescher's opinions on other subjects. We are not prepared for the discourse." A tumblr tag reads "You can support her union leadership without endorsing all her views on every subject. The bosses will do everything to make this about her personally and then tear her to shreds, don't let them. If you like everyone in your coalition, your coalition isn't big enough." /End ID]
The United Auto Workers are also negotiating new contracts with the big three US car manufacturers and have announced that they're prepared to strike if they can't get a fair deal.
Ok, but this illustrates perfectly how school is designed to teach us how to work.
^^^ yes. Children shouldn’t have to live like this either. It fucking sucks.
When people graffiti on buildings: Yes! Ha ha! Fuck yes!
When people graffiti on rockfaces and cliffsides on hiking trails: What the absolute fuck.
lots of times if I tell my boyfriend that I am proud of him for dealing with a situation, or that I'm sorry he's having to deal with a situation, he will say "no it's my own fault." meaning that he feels like he doesn't deserve praise or comfort for dealing with a situation that is his fault. (for example a financial problem caused or exacerbated by him having been too anxious or absentminded to deal with the situation sooner.) and I tell him this and I will tell y'all this, that I don't believe that. I think you are even braver and stronger for taking steps to deal with a mess that is of or partly of your own creation, because you have to cope with guilt and shame on top of the thing itself, and because you're fighting against the same ingrained dysfunction in yourself that caused the mess. that's like the bravest and most constructive thing you can do and you should be proud and I am proud of you.
also, mistakes don't mean you deserve to suffer
fertility-matters
No, a woman’s fertility does not peak in her teens
Nothing sparked this, but as I am continually researching more into midwifery and women’s health, this is something I wanted to put out there for those debating the “right time” to have a kid. Any legal age from 18 to menopause is perfectly doable for women, but there are some misconceptions that people spread about teen and young adult fertility/pregnancy that I want to correct:
- Before the age of 25, the major bones of the two hipbones (illium) of a woman’s pelvis is bonded together by cartilage. They do not fuse into bone until the midtwenties. In pregnancy for those under that age, mothers will need proper chiropractic care or other support, or face a lot of pain otherwise. This can be an obstacle if the mother has no health insurance, needs to work a lot on her feet, etc. We can help by advocating for better work environments, but sometimes this can not be avoided.
- The woman’s menstrual cycle (and thus her fertility health) does not fully mature until 12 years after her first period. 5-7 years are for regulating estrogen (to ovulate regularly), and the last few years allow for progesterone production to optimize (the hormone produced after ovulation, that causes many health problems if not at proper levels). So if a girl has her period at, say, 8 years old, she will not have a mature hormonal cycle until she is 20 years old. Even then, starting your period that young is considered abnormal (12-14 is the normal average), and premature menstruation is a societal health concern that can increase a girl’s risk of breast cancer and other problems.
- A woman’s fertility truly “peaks” around her late twenties. Even then, her fertility declines afterwards but very slowly so. It does not up and vanish after some arbitrary due date. Assuming a woman has no underlying conditions such as PCOS or endo (or is receiving helpful treatment for it if she does), and also assuming that she is living a healthy lifestyle and diet, she can still become pregnant even into her early forties. Each woman’s fertility and health is a unique case, and should be treated as such by her family and care provider when discussing family planning.
- Much of the “infertility” crisis that “older” women are facing can be prevented and addressed through sufficient fertility awareness education, as well as targeting reproductive health issues when the woman is still a teen or young woman. If a woman in her thirties has endometriosis that her doctors never diagnosed until she began to try for a baby, it was her untreated endo that caused infertility, not her “selfish” motive to have a career first and delay childbearing. Women need better healthcare, not undue pressure to have kids when they are not ready. Obviously infertility is real and some women will need higher tech involvement to combat it, but I am merely saying that much of that use can be avoided (and save people MUCH money and emotional turmoil) with proper sex education and support.
- Teen mothers are more likely to experience complications. Part of this is due to mistreatment and bias in the medical system, so addressing and remedying that through proper social awareness and support, such as hiring a doula, can help lower those complications; but it doesn’t help when you have a shitty OBGYN when your body is clearly struggling, and they refuse to give you an epidural, or to take your postpartum depression seriously. Teen mothers deserve our full support to keep themselves and their babies healthy, but we also have a duty to not mislead girls about their health and spread falsehoods about teen pregnancy.
- It’s true that “no one is ever ready for parenthood”, but that doesn’t mean you jump into it without proper discernment and preparation. There are parenting classes, support groups, and even books that can help a person decide when and how to have kids, rather than force them to jump into it blindly and irresponsibly. Childrearing – from conception through pregnancy to birth throughout childhood – is a full time job, and one that needs to be respected as such. Women and men alike have a right to discern whether they should have children, and to be open to research and common sense knowledge about when the time is “right” for them. Pushing people to have kids when they are not fully mature or educated is unhelpful, and in some cases, can even be dangerous.
- If someone is 18-24 years of age, they have every right to plan a family as a legal adult, I am not saying that no one in that age group should avoid having kids. But these people should do so with the full knowledge of the risks and drawbacks of doing so, and be prepared to handle them if they come up as a problem. I happily had my first pregnancy at 19 and do not regret it, but I do regret not knowing the things I know now. Had I known, my pregnancy and health experience would have been MUCH better, and prevented unneeded medical trauma that had occurred. The issues I faced were “normal” for a very young parent, but could have been lessened greatly has I simply been informed about it and knew about my options. This is something that the “teens are at their most fertile ever!!!” crowds do not ever talk about.
- With all that said, people need to stop glamorizing teen fertility and pregnancy (the pre-18 kind). Not only is it setting these girls up to be vulnerable to toxic creeps/relationships, but giving false information about their health can prevent them from fully advocating for their options when pregnancy does occur (planned or unplanned). Teens CAN have a safe pregnancy, but only when they and their support team are fully informed of the facts; even then, the pregnancy should not occur in the first place, and I only share this tidbit here to make sure that I don’t demonize teen pregnancy when trying to prevent it’s romanticization.
Pregnancy and fertility should be respected as biological norms, as well as noble responsibilities, for women and girls, men and boys, instead of something that is hated and feared – and we can only do that once we share factual truth, instead of pedo-induced, psuedoscientific fantasy. Knowledge is Power, and it can help women safely plan their families at any age, or to take care of themselves properly should it happen too soon.
References for further reading:
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
babycenter.org
factsaboutfertility.org
naturalwomanhood.org
americanpregnancy.org
larabriden.com
midwiferytoday.com
Don’t let yourself be scaremongered into having children before you’re fully ready, physically and emotionally. If you want to give birth before you’re 25, that’s your choice as an adult, but be informed and prepared that you’re more likely to have risks and complications that young.
Waiting until at least your mid to late 20′s when your hips are fully formed is the safest and healthiest option for both the mother and baby.
OP doesn’t mention it, but complications during pregnancy and childbirth is globally the number one cause of death for teenage girls age 15-19. This is because most teenage girl’s bodies are just not developed enough to be prepared for the stress and pressure pregnancy and childbirth puts on their bodies. These girls shouldn’t be demonized for their pregnancy because if a pregnancy happens that young it’s because of a failure of her education system’s sex ed programs (or complete lack thereof), lack of access to contraceptives or lack of access to abortion, or because she was pressured or coerced into unprotected sex by her partner who didn’t care about her safety and wellbeing, or sexual assault. But to reiterate OP, even though these girls shouldn’t be blamed or demonized for their teenage pregnancy and they should instead be given support and resources, those pregnancies should not be happening in the first place. I’m tired of grown ass men trying to justify being creeps to teenage girls as ‘biology because teenage girls are at their most fertile’ when that’s just dead wrong because most teenage girls are not ready physically or emotionally to reproduce, and reproducing at that age is often deadly.
It’s a general pattern that the more developed a country is, the later women have their first birth. That’s because delaying childbirth when possible has a lot of advantages for both the parents and the child, but especially for the mother. Women are still expected to do the hyper majority of childcare (hopefully that can change and someday childcare will be equally shared between parents, but right now women are still expected to do most or all of the work) so having children early is also more likely to disrupt a woman’s chances at education or starting a career if she’s suffering from having less time and energy because of having to take care of a baby. Maybe this is exactly why under patriarchy women are pressured and scaremongered into having kids young before they’re fully ready physically or emotionally. This is why being allowed to delay childbirth until education is finished and a career is successfully established is an important gender equality issue. Women are more likely to rise to high paying careers and positions of power when they’re able to delay childbirth.
Not only that but women losing fertility or having a higher risk of birth defects in their 30′s is also a scaremongering exaggeration. It’s true that your risk of birth defects rises in your late 30′s and early 40′s, but it rises from 0.8% in your 20′s to about 1.8% in your late 30′s and 40′s, meaning chances of birth defects are still pretty slim even in your late 30s and into your 40′s. But you still hear it everywhere that your chances of birth defects double because they’re trying to scaremonger you into having kids young, while it’s true that your chances double, what they’re conveniently leaving out is that they double from a tiny and marginal fraction of a chance, to a slightly less tiny but still marginal fraction of a chance. Giving birth in your late 30′s and into your 40′s is still perfectly safe and healthy.
However, it’s really important to mention that women are actually technically considered ‘of childbearing age’ into their mid 50′s. I will say that after your mid 40′s it probably does get riskier and harder because you have a higher chance of miscarriage at that age, but the average healthy cis woman is classified as ‘of child bearing age’ until her mid 50′s. This is because you actually can get pregnant all the way up until the end of menopause. A lot of women think they lose their fertility as soon as menopause starts, but they actually can still get pregnant during menopause and until menopause finishes. This is one of the reasons why the rate of abortions for middle aged women is so high, because they assume their fertility just up and vanishes as soon as they hit their 40′s or as soon as they had the first sign of menopause, and that’s often not the case. So as a heads up, you should still be using contraceptives until you are completely finished with menopause.
That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.
Miles Morales in SPIDERMAN: INTO THE SPIDER VERSE (2018) and SPIDERMAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER VERSE (2023)