hey bro let’s do our secret handshake [kisses you right on the lips]
there needs to be a law that says job rejections have to be sent by a person.
they can still copy and paste a template, but the email has to be from someone in the company's HR department so i know a human being was involved in the process at some point.
i'm so tired of submitting job apps, hearing absolutely nothing from anyone about anything, and then getting an email two months later from noreply @ lolyourefucked.com saying lol and letting me know i am, in fact, fucked.com.
fucked.com has porn on it.
rip my eight mutuals who thought i could hold a conversation 😔
Lizards may be protecting people from Lyme disease in the southeastern U.S.
The reptiles make poor hosts for transmitting the infection.
Lyme disease is one of the most devastating tick-borne infections in the United States, affecting more than 300,000 people each year. It's also one of the most mysterious: The creature that spreads it—the black-legged tick—lives throughout the country. Yet the northeastern United States is home to far more cases than anywhere else. Now, researchers have identified an unexpected reason: lizards. Black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), also known as deer ticks, carry corkscrew-shaped bacteria that cause Lyme disease. The ticks pick up the pathogens—spirochetes that belong to the genus Borrelia—when they suck the blood of animals like mice, deer, and lizards. In the next stage of their life cycle, the ticks may latch onto an unlucky human. But every host transmits the microbes differently. Reptiles are worse transmitters than mammals, so ticks that have lived on reptiles are less likely to make people sick. The north-south divide in Lyme cases is a fairly sharp line right along the border of Virginia and North Carolina. Researchers have hypothesized that disparity in cases stems from ticks feeding on different hosts in the two regions...
Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/lizards-may-be-protecting-people-lyme-disease-southeastern-united-states
she let me hit it cause her whole existence is flawed
i get her closer to god 😏
this is so funny
listen to Nine Inch Nails dude. it'll blow your cottagecore-ass mind
i hope this person falls down a fucking well
One of the interchangeable ghouls running in 2024 is talking up his plan to tie voting rights to passing a civics test & it's amazing watching people discuss this in neutral terms
A lot of the response to this is "oh, that's great, next let's restore civics education in schools", but the entire point is that they're not going to improve civics education. The age range gives a hint: this is a ploy to disenfranchise young voters, by, presumably, demanding they pass a test the state won't train them for in order to get rights granted by the states. It's like saying "oh, yes, literacy tests for voting makes sense, it'll really inspire the South to educate black people". It uh. Didn't. And I think many of the people agreeing know that and support it bc it's disenfranchising, but some seem to just agree bc it's "COMMON SENSE" and they're not digging any deeper?
This would be a civics test authored by a far right administration, to be clear. The tests we give immigrants are already propagandistic nonsense, imagine that in the hands of the "slavery taught people valuable skills" crowd
Also, his amendment would allow young people who can't pass the test to vote if they join the military. This is a "service guarantees citizenship" amendment
This is just literacy tests again!
One thing that gets overlooked in conversations about these kinds of tests is that the government isn't required to design a good test. That might seem like a small thing, but during the days of the literacy test governments would go out of their way to write up ambiguous or deceptively worded questions to drive down the pass rate.
Here's a literacy test that was used in Louisiana in 1964. I want you to seriously try taking this test, and remember that you have to answer every question correctly in 10 minutes to vote.
Number 30 is the most egregious to my mind. Draw five circles that do what with one common inter-locking part? What's an interlocking part anyhow? Some of these have multiple possible answers. Is the answer to number 25 "Paris in the the spring" or "what you read in the triangle below"? Number 9 is a particular bit of fuckery, because the right answer is to draw a single curved line that intersects Z and Y.
The government cheats. The worse part is, you can't bloody well vote them out of office for cheating, because they've already taken away your right to vote.
"Well I'll just wait until I'm 25 and vote them out of office then!" What's keeping these people from increasing that age to 35 or 45, or just getting rid of the age requirement altogether? You can't fucking vote against them raising the age limit, can you?
"Well they can't ban everyone from voting." They don't have to. Here's a fun bit of etymological trivia: the term "grandfather clause" comes from exceptions built into the literacy test system that stated you don't have to take the test if your grandpa could vote. These exceptions were put in place soon after black people were first given the right to vote, so most white people were exempt but most black people had to take the test.
Don't think they'll put in an exception that lets their voters keep voting while preventing you from voting? They're already doing it. The average soldier is more likely to vote conservative than the average person of the same age bracket. That's why soldiers get the exception! No way they'd give the same exception to members of the Peace Corp, despite a Peace Corp member doing a hell of a lot more to fulfill their civic duty than a soldier, because those people are bloody liberals.
A more present day firsthand comparison for people: states banning abortion didn’t lead to those states also providing services to the women they force to give birth. The whole point of those states banning abortion isn’t actually to “protect life,” it’s to ruin the lives of women.
This is the same concept with young voters. If a “civics education” even actually did happen, you can bet it would be full of disinformation that’s supposed to force people to accept Republican bullshit or else not get to vote.
Voter ID is also a modern case of this - they framed it as a way to fight voter fraud, and in a vacuum, it sounds neutral...but that ignores how Republicans simultaneously made it more difficult to get IDs, and that voter fraud as they frame it basically doesn't happen (since, well, their side are the only ones trying to do organized voter fraud)
I can't imagine what a nightmare a civics test written by the far-right would be. Imagine having to answer that Biden stole the election in 2020 or that the Civil War was about "state's rights" to vote
Swagless and dripless . Just an average normal guy . Looks like you can move his white ass with the arrow keys. Nothing wrong with him
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White man wearing a tee he got at the sporting goods store.
I keep thinking about this at work and making myself sick trying not to laugh
Anonymous asked:
Does avgn have a large following in Japan or something?
I'd say large enough.
