me on days when i’m in the lab doing gruesome medical experiments on human subjects
Today is the only day you can reblog this.
Nothing quite like seeing this on my dash on both April 10th and October 4th
Ah, the signs to remind everyone who gets cheaper train tickets this November
accuracy of horror movie titles
Scream: 10/10
they sure did
Get Out: 10/10
he sure did
A Quiet Place: 10/10
it sure is
The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.
how dare you say we piss on the poor
My "favorite" parts from the article:
They're really just saying the quiet part out loud now, huh. No more couching in it other language they're just straight up arguing that black people don't count as citizens and women are too stupid to be allowed to vote. They are openly admitting they know they can't win just by being liked, they absolutely have to deny anyone who isn't a straight cis rich white man the right to vote and try to get opposing candidates' natural-born citizenship revoked. Incredible.
So, a comparatively high amount of states are voting on the fate of ranked choice voting this year. Missouri is voting on whether or not to kill it, Alaska is voting on whether or not to keep it, and most importantly, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho are voting on whether or not to adopt ranked choice voting, with maybe Colorado to follow.
And if you live in these states, even if you don't want to vote at the top of the ticket, I urge you to get out there and vote in favor of ranked choice voting on all of them.
Like, the two-party monopoly is a big part of the reason why politics in this country is so shit, and a big part of that is our "first past the post" system making it basically mathematically impossible for candidates outside of them to win anything beyond a local or state level.
So, if you want to try and break the cycle of voting for the lesser evil, of bipartisan cruelty towards the Global South and the country's own citizens alike, we need to change this and we need to vote on it where we can.
I'd like to add what "ranked choice voting" means here, in case anyone reading this doesn't already know.
It means that instead of choosing one candidate to vote for when you fill out your ballot, you rank them in order of preference.
For a simplified example, say that Joe, John, and Dana are the candidates for a particular office. Maybe Joe really sucks, Dana is kinda ok but not great, but John is the candidate you think is the best.
With the current system, if Dana and Joe are the major-party candidates, it's hard to justify voting for John because you know he's not gonna win, right? So you end up voting for Dana because the alternative is Joe wins and he really, really sucks! But you're also cranky because you would have preferred to vote for John.
With ranked choice voting, you can vote for John AND vote against Joe at the same time. You simply fill out your ballot like:
and then turn it in.
When the votes are counted, first they look at all the first-choice votes, so your vote is counted for John.
If one candidate has more than 50% of the total votes, they're declared the winner. If not, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated, and the people who picked them first have their second-choice votes counted. In this example with only three candidates that can only go one round before someone has to have over 50%, but it could iterate as many times as necessary for however many candidates there are.
So if, say, John only got 30% of the first-choice votes while Dana got 32% and Joe got 38%, Joe is not the winner by default because he got the biggest share of the one round of votes. He's in the lead, but your second-choice, along with everyone else's who picked John as their first choice, will be counted next. So your vote goes to Dana now, because you prefer her over Joe and your favorite guy got eliminated.
If enough people who liked John the best liked Dana the second best, she can still win the election. And then, because the stats on how the first choices went will be publicly visible, she can see that it might be a good idea for her to shift some of her stances to align more with John's -- and those stats will more accurately reflect people's true preferences, because no one felt like they had to vote for her under duress because otherwise Joe might win and he's the actual worst, instead of the stats on who prefers John over Dana being skewed by practicality decisions the way they would be with our current system.
I have this picture of sasuke on my phone that chase and I call “safe for work sasuke” and it’s because it’s the tallest picture in my camera roll so whenever he sends me any nsfw stuff when I’m in public I just send sfw sasuke and he takes up the whole screen
january 30, 2016
Safe for Work Sasuke and Loadbearing Silver the Hedgehog are our protectors
Here’s the thing, the name is now Jeffrey. I run science shows for kids, and at the start I get them to name a prop character. 80% of the time, they name it Jeffery. I have no clue why. My co-workers have observed the same phenomenon.
I now carry around a laminated sign that says Jeffrey, and pull it out when a kid says it. And thinking I’m some kind of psychic, they loose their shit.
once when i was in middle school we had a substitute teacher one day and one of the kids in my class decided to convince the sub that his name was bob. "why does it say this other thing on the attendance sheet" "i don't know it's messed up but my name is bob" "class is this true" "yes literally everyone calls him bob"
now, this was a fairly long-term sub, you have to understand. i think he was there for two weeks?
when our teacher finally came back, he had us all reading something quietly while he looks through the sub's notes. after a few minutes we hear a sudden shuffling of papers and a bewildered "who the fuck is bob?"
is this anything
the pipeline of fixating over some thingy
not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community.
you can reblog this 😔
Non cooking spray stick
Non spray stick cooking
Non cooking stick spray
I’m “Tax Fraud” and I’m “a threat to national security” and we’re
unoriginal joke
gravity falls is so funny through robbie's pov
>be me, 15 year old emo in a bumfucknowhere town
>lives in a funeral home. my parents embalm bodies twenty feet and an entire wall away from where we cook dinner
>have a friend i want to be my girlfriend
>she starts hanging out with her boss' (???) twin niece and nephew outside of work hours even though they're like in elementary school
>friend becomes your girlfriend
>weird shit happens around these twins. conscience store ghosts, a weirdly pixelated adult man beating you up, your dirt bike gets stolen, your girlfriend's boss and his nephew make your gf break up with you???
>gets memories erased at some point
>suddenly in love with only other female friend, like instantly in love and it's like this came out of nowhere but she's so perfect and you loooooove her it's so great don't question why there's a part of you that doesn't remember ever actually falling in love with her. also those fucking twins had something to do with this again.
>apocalypse happens
>mfw im apparently part of a secret key of people that can save the world by holding hands but it gets fucked up last minute by your ex's boss fighting with his twin over grammar (did he always have a twin?? why are there so many twins??)
>the ritual you were a part of failed. you were supposed to be a special person and part of saving the world but nope. that failed.
>get turned into a statue
>apocalypse ends and you have no clue how or why
>things like immediately go back to normal
>still with girl you don't remember falling in love with
>the twins just fucking. leave the town. and now there's two of your ex girlfriend's bosses around. no one ever explains how or why any of this has happened. you still live in a funeral home.
