PSA: never put stickers on your helmets (unless you have checked with the manufacturer) because the adhesive can weaken the structure!
One day my health teacher in middle school just like … didn’t show up for class. And so of course we were all “oh if he doesn’t show up in fifteen minutes we’re legally allowed to leave”, giggling about it and all the bullshit. He did eventually show up, ten minutes into the class time. He looked haggard as fuck, sweating all over, hair messed up, beaten to hell and back. We stared at him and were about to ask what in the world happened to him when he stopped in front of his desk and smacked his bicycle helmet down on it.
His helmet had this odd discolored patch on it. Like, white against white, but … weird? It’s then that I realized his helmet didn’t have a discolored patch, it had a patch missing. A big chunk of his helmet had just been shaved away, the curve of the helmet gone and sanded flat by whatever it had been scraped against. And running through that patch, from one side of the helmet to the other, was this big crack, like the whole helmet had split like an eggshell.
Our teacher took a couple deep panting breaths and then told our class: “And this,” he took another deep breath, “is why you always wear your helmet”.
And that’s the story of how an entire class of middle school students took helmet-wearing very seriously for the rest of their lives.
Anti-vaxxers literally get people killed and yet they’ve successfully branded themselves as a bunch of “concerned mums who just want to not be judged for their ~alternative parenting choices~.” Whoever took the charge on anti-vaxxer propaganda and marketing was really effective in lying to people that being anti-vaxxer isn’t somehow child abuse and reckless endangerment of lives. Like grade A+ class bullshitting right there. Someone engineered a scenario where preventable deaths went way up with just a few poorly written blogs and anti-science facebook memes. In old movies villains would have ingenious master plans with elaborate executions while they cackle but in reality true evil is just a bunch of misinformed people sharing a blog filled with fear mongering and unfounded panic.
When you vote a straight democrat party it changes Beto to Cruz on some machines. If you’re in Texas and voting please RECHECK your answers. If your machine does this, notify someone working at the polling site.
The issue is with specific machines that let you push one button to vote straight-ticket, which is a “feature” that is configured by the people running the machines.
Essentially they build a small script that tells the machine which checkboxes to check when somebody selects “straight ticket”. When used correctly it’s a nice time-saving feature.
However.
An unethical person might “incorrectly” program the feature to select whomever they want, thus hijacking votes. Of course, when caught, it’s just “a programming error” and nobody goes to jail for tampering.
The workaround is NEVER use the “straight ticket” feature if offered.
Instead, hand-select each vote then verify the results before you submit. It’s seriously not very tedious and has a much higher chance of not being messed with.
for those wondering, i mean ‘spam with walnuts’ as in spamming someone’s inbox/notifications with the phrases ‘walnut’, ‘absolute walnut’, ‘you absolute fucking walnut’, etc.
it’s something i’ve encouraged my followers to do in the past, the idea being to harmlessly troll assholes without engaging in useless or destructive discourse. similar to the kung pow penis meme (but better)
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