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My 2-cents on SOPA/PIPA
Much has been said, and by many people who say things better than I, about SOPA and PIPA and piracy, internet censorship and more, but I use the internet, so I feel like I should say something. I find the argument of stopping piracy will protect jobs, a pretty crumby one.
When I went college (as well as in high school) I may, or may not, have pirated large amounts of music and movies. Now I am older, and I don’t (not that I ever did) pirate anything anymore, and the amount of music I purchase, and movies I attend, has not increased. In fact, I attend fewer movies, and purchase fewer movies, now then I did in college, where I had access to a very large selection of pirated movies, thanks to Strange Search.
Although all of this evidence is purely anecdotal, I think Hollywood blaming all of their woes on internet piracy, and refusing to accept any of the blame for poorly running their business, is bad enough. But to try to push through legislation which, at it’s core, is so deeply un-American, is just shameful.
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tonight, two of the sweetest people i have ever met, (and certainly the sweetest boys i have every met) got married. they moved to iowa specifically because they loved each other and knew they needed to be together forever and our wonderful state agreed. that is just the most adorable fucking thing i have ever known.
i have never been so proud to be an iowan, as cheesy as that sounds. in a country that will let kim kardashian enjoy the “sanctity of marriage” for 72 days, i’m glad that these wonderful boys also get to enjoy those same privileges. on the night that many iowans were caucusing on behalf of hate and close mindedness, we were the happiest group around.
Incredibly well said.
Source: claireattheblog
This is the house PCI moved in order to build their acres of parking lots, and new office building. I assume they moved the house instead of demolishing it because they didn’t want to garner more wrath from the local citizenry which was already pissed off due to PCI insisting the need to close a major roadway through Cedar Rapids to build their medical mall.
Now the house sits, hovering above it’s new foundation, with a hole in it’s roof. I assume PCI is trying the tactic of demolition through dilapidation, where they don’t maintain the building they wanted to tear down, until it can be demolished due to structural deficiencies, and not because it got in the way of construction of their parking lots.
If you know differently, please let me know.
Correction: It has been brought to my attention PCI does not own this building, Green Development does. However, that doesn’t change the fact that this house was moved because it got in the way of PCI’s acres of parking lots.
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My understanding of national anthems.
O Canada - Out country is great and we love it.
God Save the Queen - We hope our queen will live for a long time and God will favor her.
Star-Spangled Banner - We have a flag, it has stars and stripes.
I feel like I’m on a soapbox, but really these things are just falling into my lap.
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Wear helmets folks →
I’m not one to tell others how to raise their children (at least not in recorded form,) however this is one of those issues. Make sure your kids always wear helmets whenever they’re on a bike. Even if you have the best behaved kids who will never leave the sidewalk in front of your house, make sure they are always wearing a helmet. Head injuries are serious business, even when they’re not caused by cars running over one’s head, and helmets are a very easy way to reduce the risk of head injuries.
Even if it doesn’t save their life in the case of a freak accident like this story, it will lead your children to wear helmets without thinking later in life, and helmets are like seat belts, you should wear them all of the time because you never know when you’re actually going to need them, and by the time you do know, it’s too late.
And for those followers who don’t have kids (and those of you who do), wear a helmet every time you ride a bike.
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GPOABHOIASTT (Gratuitous picture of a bat hanging out in a stair tower Thursday):
As cute and fuzzy as bats are, I think I prefer the stair towers be occupied by the homeless, I have to worry less about homeless people dropping from the ceiling onto me.
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Just sayin’.
Still. Cheaper than Whole Foods, I guess.
Iowans are totally OK with minimal in-store shucking. And if you can’t trust Iowans on corn etiquette, who can you?
If you don’t let people move the husk to look at the corn, what are you hiding? Also, for 79¢, I hope this is the best corn ever, or this photo was taken in the middle of winter.
Source: merlin
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But wait, you told me they sent those dogs to a bigger farm, where they had even more room to run around and play with friends…
Source: literallyunbelievable
A pretty cool usage of images from the Cassini mission. (previously seen on my mlkshk)
Source: kottke.org
Iceland’s dirty ash hole.
And you thought Uranus jokes were funny.
Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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Former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito commissioned sculptures in the 1960s and 70s to mark sites of WWII battles and concentration camps. Although these sites stopped being maintained due to the fall of the Soviet Union, piles of steel and concrete don’t just disappear, in fact the state of their disrepair could be argued to add to the bizarre and striking appearance of them.
(via Slate Political Gabfest)
One little favor for me
I was hoping everyone could do me a solid favor.
- Click on “customize” on the bar to the right, or follow this link.
- Go to the “Advanced” menu
- Scroll down until you see “Open links in new window”
- Make sure the box next to that is checked
- Click the “Save + Close” button
- Be happy in knowing links your tumblog will now operate like everyone expects every link to work everywhere.
I don’t know why Tumblr hasn’t made this option default to being selected, but it’s one of the few major complaints I have (with Tumblr, I have many complaints with many things.)
As of today, the Old River Control Structure is above 100% it’s project design capacity, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you don’t know how the Army Corps of Engineers has been battling with nature on the Mississippi delta for the last 70 years.
Sadly there can only be one outcome when you battle with nature, and that is the entity that has been around for billions of years will eventually win, hopefully that victory doesn’t come just yet.
Source: mvn.usace.army.mil
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