Racing Turtles

Oh this hit all my red flags, I've torn down 3 already just walking Malaya to the park

If you see shit like this Especially outside your local highschools rip it down there's a 80% chance this is a trafficking scam

Thankfully seems I'm not the only one in town who feels this way

This is totally ok to rb by the way

Scam signs:

If it is NOT a trafficking scam (still likely it is) then it is a Multi-Level Marketing/Pyramid Scheme. There are a lot of them that try to scam either teens or college students with “same day cash pay! Win prizes! Work your own hours!” etc. 

Avoid anything to do with these signs and if they mention Vector Marketing, Cutco, Aerogrow, Ambit, Xoom etc its a Multi-Level Marketing scam. 

Neither option is good so avoid it either way, warn others. They are especially prevalent on college campuses or around college housing!

It's not a fucking trafficking scam, they're not out here advertising GET KIDNAPPED INTO SEX SLAVERY on telephone poles. Y'all sound like QAnon believers.

Everything mentioned in the "sex trafficking red flags" list is a multi-level-marketing red flag.

I promise you sex traffickers are not operating in the open snatching dozens of teenagers daily, this is not a thing.

50,000 people go missing in the US and are not found each year. Each. Year.

So I can't find a source for that statistic anywhere, but I did find a 2012 NPR interview with the comms director for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. https://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/182000622/majority-of-missing-persons-cases-are-resolved

Emphasis mine. If you have sources that contradict this, by all means provide them.

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They really did though. There's so much.

Helping a friend in need without worrying about if they can pay you back before your next paycheck. Short-notice travel in emergencies. Replacing things when they break instead of either trying to tape them back together for 50% function or going without. Heck, being able to buy better-quality things that don't break within the year. Taking a day off without destroying your budget (though if you're making better money you probably have paid time off, don't get me started). Getting out of slumlord rentals. Hobbies!! (Seems small until you don't have time or money or energy just for playing and having fun.)

There's a point at which additional money stops buying more happiness, which is where rich people are at, so I think it's our responsibility as a society to relieve them of that oppressive extra wealth and redistribute it to people who would be made happy.

I said this before but people are really getting the wrong message about koalas. When we who like animal science say that koalas are wretched and horrible we mean that they are fascinating and wonderful. It is brilliant that a mammal evolved into this idiot teddy bear that eats poison all day and screams and falls asleep. Can’t we talk about an animal being wretched and degenerate without everyone saying “so they’re useless and can all die, then?” That’s not the point. An animal doesn’t need to be smart, or nice, or even in any way pleasant to be in the presence of to be amazing and special and worthy of existence. Who would ever want the planet to stop having hairy tree goblins that just hang off a tree branch spewing diarrhea while a laughable pea brain rolls around behind their asshole baby face.

What is not to love about a thing so soft and so small yet so terribly terribly vulgar

creatures like the koala and the ocean sunfish are scientifically important because they help us understand just how badly a living organism can function and still survive

”[Denmark] is the only case we know of in which the Nazis met with open native resistance, [and] the result seems to have been that those exposed to it changed their minds. They themselves apparently no longer looked upon the extermination of a whole people as a matter of course. They had met resistance based on principle, and their ‘toughness’ had melted like butter in the sun; they had even been able to show a few timid beginnings of genuine courage.

That the ideal of ‘toughness’…was nothing but a myth of self-deception, concealing a ruthless desire for conformity at any price, was clearly revealed at the Nuremberg Trials, where the defendants accused and betrayed each other and assured the world that they ‘had always been against it’–or claimed, as Eichmann was to do, that their best qualities had been ‘abused’ by their superiors. (In Jerusalem, he accused ‘those in power’ of having abused his ‘obedience.’) …The atmosphere had changed, and although most of them must have known that they were doomed, not a single one of them had the guts to defend the Nazi ideology.”

I want everyone to go read that link about Danish resistance, please, because it’s a very good example of what to emphasize:

The countries most successful at protecting their Jewish populations from German extermination were not those with the strongest military (USSR) or most successful violent resistance (Yugoslavia, Greece). In fact, the regions of greatest violence quite naturally suffered the greatest death toll.

It was in Denmark and Bulgaria, where communities refused point-blank to collaborate in the Holocaust, that Jewish citizens were most successfully protected.

Even the Nazis, even at the height of total war, had trouble dealing with principled nonviolent resistance by a large community.

Well, the Danish and Bulgarians were able to focus on rescuing Jewish people because the Nazis were ruling with an extremely light hand in those countries. Nazi rhetoric viewed Danes as racially pure, and Germany wanted to win Denmark over. Bulgaria, in the meantime, had joined the Axis of its own free will, and was thus similarly well-treated. Non-Jewish people had enough freedom, and governments had enough autonomy, to take action on behalf of Jewish people.

Many countries weren’t given an option of whether or not to collaborate in the Holocaust. Poland is the best example; the Polish resistance was violent because the Nazi occupation was bent on murdering as many people as possible – Jews, Gentiles, they didn’t really care. The mission was to eliminate Poland. This being the case, non-Jewish Polish resisters had very little time to focus on helping the Jews, because they were fighting for their own lives. Had they attempted nonviolent resistance, they would have been slaughtered in even greater numbers.

Whether violent or nonviolent resistance is more appropriate seems, to me, to depend on what the oppressor is bringing. If they come under a pretense of compromise, offering collaboration, nonviolent resistance will work – not that violent resistance won’t also work, but there’s opportunity for a wider range of tactics. If they come with violence, they must be met with violence.

Back during the time when it was popular to bash Twilight for both legitimate reasons (Edward being borderline abusive to Bella, the whole child grooming plot point in Breaking Dawn, etc.) and not (REAL VAMPIRES DON’T SPARKLE THATS GAY), I saw this meme on Facebook where it was Louis and Lestat from Interview With The Vampire commenting on Edward’s sparkling and making fun of him for being gay. Like… Buddy My Guy. My Fair Dude. My Dear Sweet Homophobic Idiot. Not only are the Vampires in IWTV super duper gay, you’re lying to yourself if you think Lestat wouldn’t slam dunk his entire body into a tub of glitter on any given occasion. You Fool. You Imbecile.

@wicked-felina

Lestat: WHY DON’T WE GLITTER I WAS ROBBED

Louis: Does he ask our pity? He can walk in the sunlight, whereas we, foul creatures of darkness as we are, are forever barred from God’s kindly li –

Lestat, upending a pound of iridescent craft glitter on his head: SHUT UP LOUIS

Guillermo del Toro: So I wanna do a movie thats a Cold War era “dark take” on The Little Mermaid, but gender-swapped

Doug Jones, putting on a latex suit: Say no more

Guillermo del Toro: This is my Liz Sherman/Abe Sapien Cold War AU fic

Doug Jones, pulling mask over his face: I was born ready

cumaeansibyl:

#god i fucken love it when this post comes round #luke skywalker is an honourable kind and thoughtful kid who #as much as he complained about the farm #would never ever EVER just leave if owen and beru needed him #i mean think of why he ACTUALLY left #like… he was gonna drop obi-wan off at anchorhead and only ended up going because HIS FAMILY WAS MURDERED #(again) #and there LITERALLY WAS NO REASON FOR HIM TO STAY #his friends were all gone #his family was dead #the farm had been destroyed #the only thing he had left were the droids and obi-wan so ofc he went with them #star wars #god almight i love luke skywalker with every fibre of my not-impressive being