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OMFG.

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“Babel” by Cildo Meireles (2001)

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baby capybara named Tupi via san antonio zoo

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Just wait for the Tennants 😅😂

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Hon hon hon I see I is tatort time

Godspeed freunde hope it’s awesome 🫡

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not now. mommys making a 0 note post

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Donald Trump has just signed an Executive Order that officially suspends US military aid to Ukraine.

The order is effective immediately.

There is no denying that Donald Trump is Putin’s pawn.

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So, now the government has removed videos and banned teaching Air Force recruits about women who were pilots during WW2 as well as Tuskegee Airmen aka America's first black aviators. They're erasing history just to repeat the same mistakes.

Hopefully, this is a wake-up call because in case you weren't taught in school or you just forgot about it, this is a step by step nazi propaganda of the 1930s that gave Hitler and Mussolini power.

I'd like to add that there are protests happening GLOBALLY about this and many Americans have said that their algorithms are getting filtered and that they have no idea.

You're not alone. The entire world stands together to show nazis what our ancestors used to do to them in public squares.

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o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

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You're telling me a ginger bred this man?

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I'm not, generally speaking, a fan of punishment as a solution to social problems. Punishment is often overly harsh, ineffective as a deterrent, and doesn't solve the actual problem. The punitive mentality is more focused on making sure the "bad guys" "don't get away with it" than on actually solving the problem.

But I get a lot more worried when people talk about "alternatives to punishment", or when they support their proposed solutions because "it's not punishment."

Because what that means, in practice, is "I'm conceptualizing this form of coercive control as 'not punishment,' and therefore not subjecting it to the rigor, due process, or evidentiary standards of punishment."

The U.S. loves punishment. It's one of our favorite national pastimes. But we do have, both legally and culturally, some limitations on punishment, at least in theory. Punishment isn't supposed to be "cruel and unusual." It's not supposed to be inflicted without "due process of law." You're supposed to be convicted by a jury of your peers.

But if you call it "not punishment," none of that matters!

You can force people to register under a law that didn't exist when they committed their crimes, because it's "administrative," not punitive.

You can subject disabled people to shocks similar to a cattle prod -- which would surely be cruel and unusual punishment -- but it's okay, because it's not "punishment," it's a "treatment" called an "aversive" (that's therapist for "punishment").

You can have people locked up and forcibly drugged solely because they can't afford housing, but it's okay, because it's "help," not "punishment."

Police can kill people in cold blood -- judge, jury, and executioner -- and it's fine, because it's "self-defense," not "punishment," even if they argue after the fact that the victim "deserved it."

It's also a matter of cultural attitudes. If you said "The punishment for trespassing should be life in prison," or "The punishment for loitering should be permanent loss of the right to control one's body, money, or living space," or "The punishment for turnstile-jumping should be lifelong forced ingestion of drugs that numb basic cognitive functions," most people would think this was horrific, much too harsh a punishment for a relatively minor crime.

But if you change it to "Instead of jailing and punishing unhoused people with mental health issues, we should respond to their minor crimes by Getting Them Help, like institutionalization, conservatorship, or outpatient commitment," people now think this is completely reasonable.

Even being the victim of a crime can get someone not-punished far more severely than the perpetrators are "punished." People might serve jail time for financial fraud, but not usually a life sentence. Being the victim of financial fraud, however, can lead to a life sentence of institutionalization -- which fraud investigators have cited as a barrier to getting victims to report fraud. I personally know of multiple disabled young adults who were afraid to report being the victim of sexual assault or other kinds of assault because they knew that if they reported it, the perpetrator might or might not face some kind of punishment, but they would definitely face some type of "not-punishment" coercive control, like forced therapy, forced drugging, supervision, or having to leave school.

You want a society with less punishment? Me too. But only if you acknowledge that "punishment" includes all forms of coercive control. If you do something to someone against their will, if you restrict someone from their right to live as they choose, that's a punishment, regardless of whether you call it that.

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“Do it scared” “do it alone” what am I a survival horror protagonist gtfo

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Follow us @scienceisdope for more amazing science and facts.

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The ‘Blood falls’ in Antarctica. Caused by a subterranean lake high in salt and oxidised iron. When the water comes into contact with the air, it rusts, giving it its amazing red colour.

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and the funny thing is walter really WAS white

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he should've been at the club