time-travel-toke-up:

no-passaran:

archaeo-geek:

someplanetelse:

dailymanners:

dailymanners:

If you smoke, don’t leave your butts on the ground. Dispose of them properly. The same applies if you use nicotine pouches, don’t spit them out on the ground and leave them there, dispose of them properly.

While littering in general is usually a bad idea because the littered trash can be hazardous to wildlife or even people (and let’s face it, just makes a place look uglier) littering nicotine products is especially harmful to wildlife and humans alike. In urban areas tap water often has nicotine in it due to all the littered nicotine products such as cigarette butts and nictotine pouches, due to rain runoff carrying nicotine into water sources used by both humans and wildlife. You’re free to take up whatever habits you like so long as they do not infringe on others, but littering your nicotine products taints water supplies which unfairly forces nicotine on others who don’t get a say in the matter.

Now, I have heard some people try to reason this away with “but tossing a still warm cigarette butt into the trash can cause a trash fire so if there isn’t a cigarette disposal box around smokers have no choice but to stomp it out on the ground and leave it there!” However, there is something that exists called a pocket ash tray which does allow smokers to safely store away their cigarette butts until they’re cool enough to properly dispose of.

If you stomped it out on the ground it is definitely cold enough to be put in the trash can. You can pick it up. You just don’t want to.

Pocket ash trays can also be super cheap and easy to find and carry. We sometimes keep them in our field kits in case we are working with someone who smokes and doesn’t have one, to help prevent forest fires as well as reduce litter. It’s such a tiny amount of effort; please use them!!

• A single cigarette butt takes up to 10 or 12 years to completely decompose.
• A single cigarette butt can pollute 50 litres of potable water. This is because the cigarette butt is the most polluting part of the cigarette, because most of the nicotine and pitch are located in the cigarette filter.
• Lit cigarette butts are one of the main causes of forest fires in many countries.
• Besides nicotine and pitch, the cigarette butt also has lead, mercury, ammonia, and others. Since the cigarette butt is small, it often can’t be caught by the water treatment plants and ends up in rivers and seas, where it pollutes fish and birds.
• And studies say 2 out of every 3 cigarettes end up on the floor, not properly disposed!

Sources: Dr. Darío Fernández in El Cierre Digital, Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica.

Former smoker who had an EXTREMELY unreasonable habit-

I was considered weird and shaded for making sure I picked up my butts and threw them away/took them with me til I had a trash can.

You CAN pick it up. You just don’t want to.

And if someone who was a chain smoking chimney with 5 butts to worry about after stepping out for 15 mins could be accountable for not leaving toxic litter in the park or all over the sidewalk,

I HEAVILY side eye people who smoke less than I did acting like it’s an arduous task to properly dispose of the waste their addictive habit produces.

alleecatblues:

manlethotline:

To anyone wondering if it’s worth it to tear down fascist posters or whatever. I spent a few months last year engaged in silent battle with another student at my school who was putting anti trans stickers up everywhere. I had it down to a system where every night I would walk the five block radius they went up in, and tear down all the ones I could reach, and use a stick to put duct tape over the others. Like, within hours of the stickers going up, I would have already purged the whole zone. I knew the basic schedule of whoever put them up based on when and where the stickers appeared. I probably could have found them in person if I’d wanted to. And I told all my classmates and friends what the stickers looked like and got them to rip them down too. And after a few months of this, the stickers slowed, and then stopped forever.

My point is, a lot of this fashy or right wing stuff is one local weirdo. And if you pay attention, and do a little light organizing with your friends, you can basically make their efforts into a giant sisyphisean exercise in misery. You control your streets!

Remember: It costs money to keep printing those stickers, but ripping them down is free.

eravioli:

I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man I did not realize how dire the AI/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:

• I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded “Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us”
• One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions “in case it takes over some day.”
• I asked one of my TAs in a math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went “I don’t know, ask chatGPT”
• A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When I asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He still insisted he was right when I pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.
• A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the “computational” version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong “less often”. He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can’t figure out why he’s struggling on exams.

There’s a lot more, but it’s really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you’re just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you’re asked to think??

ottisbuns:

caats:

Post that also work from the perspective of the cat.

cornistasiathecoblinking:

cipheramnesia:

ethereal-bumble-bee:

furryfeet:

ALT

my soul leaving my body when the bread pops out of the toaster

Blanket coming off on a very cold morning.

When you’re walking around in your socks and step in a wet spot

discoursethot:

discoursethot:

I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

this same idiot: what kind of animal is the pink panther

me, already taking off my clothes: benjamin you’re so fucking stupid

kandoros:

voltaspistol:

They didn’t introduce a bill to just repeal the $35 cap on insulin.

They introduced a bill to repeal the entire Inflation Reduction Act.

Which, among other things, means they want to get rid of:

• the $35 insulin cap.
• And a yearly cap of $2,000 for medications in Medicare Part D.
• And allowing Medicare to negotiate for drug prices.
• And requiring pharma companies to issue refunds to Medicare if the costs of their drugs rises faster than inflation
• And an elimination of copays in Medicare Part D for vaccines like tetanus and rabies
• And an expansion of eligibility for low-income subsidies for Medicare

Saying they want to eliminate just the insulin cap is understating their desire to fuck people over.

saywhat-politics:

Help for SoCal wildfire victims: Where to find food and other care resources 

For SoCal fire victims, we know how critical access to food, water, shelter and mental health support is right now.

ABC7 is keeping an updated list of resources to help impacted communities. Submit tips to ABC7 Community Engagement.

Residents can also call 211 for shelter, social and health service information.

Give back: Here’s how to help those impacted by the SoCal fires

Food Assistance

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is working with its network of more than 600 partner agencies to assess needs during the SoCal wildfire emergency.

liberalsarecool:

Never ever forget how Trump and MAGA lied, invaded the Capitol, and killed people.

Entire Right Wing believed the lie, knew it was a lie, and then used terror/violence to advance the lie.

The real evil in this country is not just the insurrectionists and their allies in Congress, but the media amnesia that nurtured a submissive Republican electorate.