1926: Miracle on 99th Street: Fanny, Sandy, and Peggy, the Dogs Who Saved the Winter Refugees of New York. (via Strange Company)
Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers.
A Few Photos To Remind You That Life Is Beautiful. (Thanks, WTM!)
We Just Fixed The Ending Of Revenge of the Sith.
The Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons. Also nuclear wessels. (via Strange Company)
For the First Time, a Spacecraft has Touched the Sun. (via Metafilter)
30 Stories of Wedding Objections. They range from horrific to adorable.
Kentucky Shelter Cats Airlifted to Massachusetts After Tornados. (via Fark)
A blast from the past (2014): How Cats Do Christmas.
5 comments:
Winter is here. I see people wearing
coats and hats. What a bunch of losers!
I did my own research and found that
only 1,500 people die of hypothermia
per year in the U.S. That's only
0.0005% of the population. They live
in fear of something that 99.9995%
of people won't die from.
But wait, there's more! A lot of people
who died of hypothermia were wearing
coats and hats and they still died!
Coats and hats don't work.
The "Life Is Beautiful" link sure brought on the feels... Merry Christmas, Miss C!
Kolo Jezdec: definitely a reference to Star Trek. Autocorrect tried to change it to "vessels" twice.
Can't be late ?
I opted out from overt commercialism some years ago, my children may have been traumatised by my doing so, but the amount of money in my wallet shrunk less quickly and stress at Christmas almost evaporated.
I see documentaries about Walmart and Amazon, and about how those companies abuse the rights of people, and I wonder if the power is ever really in the hands of the people, and that maybe people, in general, are too concerned about themselves to do much to change the status quo.
I avoid buying foods made in foreign countries when at the supermarket, no matter how much cheaper they are, because that cheap price reflects not only inferior worker conditions but also perhaps inferior quality control, the power of the people is in my hands, albeit a very weak power.
If most people stopped buying from Amazon or Walmart et cetera, those comapnies would eventually close up ... you won't be able to take their billions away from them but you could stop them making more, off the backs of their modern day slaves (slaves of old were provided basic living requirements, shelter, food, clothing, water, slaves today can afford no more).
Hard call to up your spending, but it would be better for the country, imagine if the products we were buying were made in the country we live in, even better if even more local.
My spending a little more on buying domestic grown food, domestic made products costs me a little more, but I am sure of the quality and if enough others do the same, we will create more jobs here at home, rather than feeding some fatcat abusing workers rights overseas, or in the case of the USA, some fatcat abusing the rights of American workers.
Sigh ... words are easy.
Amazon pays people in yards and inches! I am outraged!
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