kalinara:

fandomsandfeminism:

mythsandpolitics:

fierceawakening:

hazeldomain:

fandomsandfeminism:

Fun fact: anytime you hear a story that boils down to “and then some ABSOLUTE FOOL sued this totally innocent megacorporation for assloads of money AND WON! Can you believe it? Ridiculous. Some people, right?” 99 times out of 100, the corporation super fucked up, the plaintiff 100% deserved that money,.and you’ve just been fed corporate propaganda.

“Hot Coffee Lady” had to get skin grafts and was at least the 11th customer to be hospitalized. The coffee served to her was in violation of a court order requiring McDonald’s to sell their coffee at a safe temperature.

The “warning: contents hot” label is a passive-aggressive move by McDonalds because they implemented it at the same time that they finally complied with legal requirements to serve safe beverages.

Every time you see “warning contents hot” and roll your eyes because of course it’s hot, you’re assuming that you and McDonald’s agree on the definition of “hot.”

What’s more, you assume you’ve always agreed, which is the baseline for assuming that the lady who sued had unrealistic expectations.

Yeah. I don’t remember the corporate policy for McDonalds coffee temperature at the time, but i do remember that it was *near boiling.*

Your Starbucks? Not near boiling. Not likely to make you need massive reconstructive surgery on your hoo hah if you spill it in your lap.

Also, please remember exactly how much BS someone would have to go through to get that verdict. Generally speaking, someone has been seriously injured or killed. They have to prove that the company was negligent or knowingly refused to fix an issue. This isn’t like airing something on Fox News - there are actual standards of proof that have to be met. Even so, most consumer lawsuits against corporations do not achieve large awards. When they do, consider how severe the damage must have been. The MCD lady only wanted them to pay her damn medical bills (think about how much medical care costs in the U.S.); McDonalds refused. Toyota eventually had to pay a massive settlement (after being sued multiple times) for issues with the gas pedal causing sudden massive acceleration. Do you honestly believe they would have just fixed it on their own? Toyota lied to regulators and blamed it on “driver error” - because sometimes you just hit the gas really hard when you meant to hit the brake… (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/toyota-reaches-12-billion-settlement-to-end-criminal-probe/2014/03/19/5738a3c4-af69-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ab92a7e6b655)

Don’t let them fool you into thinking that people are getting hurt by a company’s product just because they’re stupid.

Corporations have no qualms about lying and defaming people they have hurt to avoid being held accountable.

Think about how much money McDonalds (and other corporations) have.  Think of how easily they can pay for anything to go away.  Think about the teams of high powered lawyers they can pay.

If a regular joe manages to take them to court and actually WIN?  There’s a fucking reason for that.

swimthroughthefires:

Arguably one of my favorite lines of the ENTIRE SERIES.

(Source: chinuplittlepup)

a-little-bi-furious:

natashiyaa:

shatteredchrystal:

runaon:

a-little-bi-furious:

asherehsa:

samjoonyuh:

Perspective. 

“Looting? I thought these were supposed to be nonviolent protests”

I know it’s incredible! People are literally coming out of the woodwork to comment on this photoset to focus on the looting headline with “well yes it is nice they were helping people hit with the tear gas, but stealing is still wrong uwu” as if they’re back to kindergarten morality.

Like everyone who’s gone to boot camp I’ve been tear gassed. They put about 50+ of you in a gas chamber and toss it in. You have to stay there until your rank is allowed to exit. Before that though, you have to say your name, rank, and social security number. You then exit and file into ranks (again) outside and are not allowed at any point to rinse your face or eyes for the entire day.

That right there? Easily the worst part of boot camp. My eyes were literally swollen shut. I was blinded for a good 30 minutes and my chest hurt for days.

I have zero problem and not and ounce of judgement for people raiding a mcdonalds that can easily afford to repair damage for ANYTHING to help ease the shittiness that is being tear gassed. Esp because every one of us in boot were medically sound to deal with tear gas. Children, asthmatics, people prone to panic and anxiety attacks, the elderly as sooo many more are NOT going to handle tear gas well at ALL.

Or that smoke the police use either.

It’s easy to sit there and judge someone from the safety of your home and say things like “it’s just tear gas” or “it can’t be that bad”.

Fuck you. As someone who HAS been gassed, you need to stfu.

I remember all the preparation they did to get us ready for the gas chamber in boot camp. We were taught how to handle ourselves, how to control our breathing, not to touch anything, how to avoid the worst of the gas. But it still didn’t matter. I remember taking in that first breath and feeling like I had just been kicked in the chest. I remember a few guys in my platoon falling down and vomiting. We knew the gas wasn’t as bad on the floor but we were the fifth platoon through and the vomit kept us from bending over more than absolutely necessary. I remember a few guys, guys in peak health training to be infantrymen, breaking ranks and running for the door only to be dragged back in kicking and screaming until they said name, rank and serial. They were expecting it, trained for it, bragging about how it wouldn’t bother them.
I remember standing there with all of the mucus from my nasal cavity on the front of my ACUs and thinking to myself “This is the nonviolent option?”
Covered head to toe and my skin still itching I looked down at the silver wedding band hanging next to my dog tags and realized that the gas had eaten little pits into its surface.
I stood there and thought of all the news reports I had seen over the years. The uprisings and revolutionaries being gassed, the crowds running from men in masks.
That’s the moment I got it, staring at my ruined wedding band, that’s the moment I realized terrorism isn’t about bombs or who is using them. It’s about controlling people through fear. It’s about removing their ability to act reasonably, to make them seem like the monsters. Terrorism is about triggering people to fight or flight then blaming them for not being rational. It’s about power. Remove someone’s power to act with reason, and you remove their humanity.

Oh fuck

My god this commentary is perfect. Also a reminder that it turned out this “looting” was not that at all, the police bust that window with a bullet and the staff were gracious enough to hand milk out it seems, the protestors did not break in but even if they did just look at what they were trying to do with that milk, look at what they went through. The immense endurance that’s been shown by the people of Ferguson in the face of all this is incredible.

rosegoldtommorow:

frogs wearing crowns looks so natural and right for a reason

warriormale:

venomlynx:

warriormale:

This is EXACTLY what happens when Men fight for the first time!

EXACTLY!

The Man Switch gets turned from OFF to ON.

So, for all you Men out there……

Turn on your Man Switch!

Visit a fight gym and take a free class!

Fight!

It will change you FOREVER!

Train and fight!

Always seek Manliness!

WarriorMale

I can’t believe @warriormale can find fighting analogies in something so adorable, and yet it be true.

Does my dude have a built in fight-detector that picks up anything that can be related to combat so he can rush to the scene and cheer them on?

Absolutely!

When the Man Switch is turned ON, this “fight-detector” starts to function!’

When Men fight, they want more Manliness.

So when they see a guy that looks like a fighter, they want to fight him!

Fighting produces and nurtures Manliness.

Self Control kicks in but that desire to fight is always there when that Switch is turned ON.

Fighters LOVE Manliness!

WarriorMale

(Source: injuries-in-dust)

bvcknsteve:

unclefather:

@netflix, new idea. you can make a show called “your life” and when i click on it i can watch all the footage that the government has taken of me through my webcam and cellphone. i fucking know. i fucking

they killed her before she could finish

(Source: unclefather)

starsabovethegreywaterfalls:

king-emare:

lividlovers:

blogthegreatrouge:

catchymemes:

Hospital notes

2.5D anime

Yo..

Originally posted by abasketofgifs

Imagine setting up this whole thing

(Source: catchymemes)

peteseeger:

mmmmmmmmmmmm, Glasgow

qwocodile:

cryoverkiltmilk:

sindri42:

rockhardgeologist:

A prodigy

You missed the best part. They weren’t even their sheep. This good pupper gathered up a bunch of random sheep it found somewhere on the countryside and brought them home for its human.

*whispers* the countryside is full of free sheep

mellenabrave:

lilobears:

Originally posted by realitytvgifs

For context: This guy is a ex cop who is there to expose the fact that police heavily manipulate these statistics to cover up the truth. He aint a bad person who is lying, he is a good person who is pointing out that the police is lying.

(Source: sandandglass)

shadybitchcraft:

heir-to-the-diamond-throne:

heir-to-the-diamond-throne:

heir-to-the-diamond-throne:

Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*

Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!

Me: ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

Me: ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

Book: saliva also contains a painkiller that is stronger than morphine, but we don’t produce a lot of it otherwise we’d be constantly high

Me: ʕʘ Д ʘʔ

Opiorphin is 6x stronger than morphine and actually contains an anti-depressant compound which is why some doctors believe it’s linked to comfort eating

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20610867/

Everyone spit on me so I won’t be depressed

caden:

e-seal:

zvaigzdelasas:

It be like that

I know he ate a seal

(Source: Flickr / squiver)

autisticwolfesbrainisautistic:

justsomeantifas:

anyuonoy:

burnitalldownism:

justsomeantifas:

so let me get this straight

the wall we’re building is not only racist, and useless, it wont even work. 

So we’re wasting billions of dollars on something … that is literally just an idol of white supremacy. 

with no other purpose than to strike animosity in the the hearts of people.

Lmao…well I mean deal with a scam artist and you get what you pay for 🤷‍♂️

hopefully mexico will make use of this very convenient opportunity to extract very large amounts of steel for little to no cost. white fascism works in mysterious ways

😉😉😉😉😉it’s free metal. yall know what to do.

An article I read today quoted DHS and CBP people ignoring this by saying stuff along the lines of, “well, it was designed to slow people down so we can catch ‘em, it’s not meant to be impenetrable.” Because the author was a good journalist, they juxtaposed this with Trump’s quote about the wall being “beautiful, impregnable, and impenetrable” or whatever. ‘Cause it’s all about moving those goalposts.

hundondestiny:

jackmeatington:

how do you perform in the pussycat dolls and be a republican

mitski-miyawakis:

beachdeath:

• jeff bezos didn’t sign a pre-nup
  
• and cheated on his wife of 25 years with a married woman
• and washington state is a community property state, meaning that all assets acquired during a marriage are divided equally upon divorce
• meaning that jeff bezos has to give his wife half of his net worth
• and he is presently worth $137 billion
• and half of $137 billion is roughly
• $69 billion