Archive for the ‘sad’ Category
today’s google searches
the referees a dupe
paua
where did caucasian people come from
bacon cheeseburger offend religion
why is there no hair on the back of my leg
hairless calves
hairless calves diabetes
what does jesus say about gambling
get off my lawn
Millenials apparently don’t like eating cereal in the morning. The NY Times published a survey that tells why.
It’s too much work to clean up afterwards. You have to wash a bowl. AND a spoon.
iggy on bowie’s death
Mr. Bowie made a point of visiting Mr. Pop’s parents in Detroit, where they were living in a trailer. “He came to my parents’ trailer, and the neighbors were so frightened of the car and the bodyguard they called the police,” Mr. Pop said. “My father’s a very wonderful man, and he said, ‘Thank you for what you’re doing for my son.’ I thought: Shut up, Dad. You’re making me look uncool.”
that’s all folks
This weekend was the first time since the dawn of the TV era that there were no cartoons on broadcast television on Saturday morning.
–link
nixon
Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on another world. He did so during Richard Nixon’s first term in office. Eugene Cernan was the 12th and last man to set foot on another world. He did so during Richard Nixon’s first term in office.
appalachia
“If the people here weren’t 98.5 percent white, we’d call it a reservation.”
–link
the raft
That’s why I bought a boat. A 12′ inflatable raft, really. I row it out to the middle of the lake, toss a minnow out on a line with a bell, lay down on the soft, air mattress-like bottom, and watch the clouds. I’ve got until the bell rings to sort out anything I need to get sorted out. When the bell rings, I reel in the fish, row back home, and have grilled fish for dinner to celebrate my new-found insight.
I’ve been doing this for about two months now, and I’ve got to say, my life has turned to shit since then…
— freehunter on a Reddit post about Sad Keanu.
an interesting map…
…of all the countries that have made it to the moon.
Here’s one of all the countries that currently have the capability to put people in space.
A difference of opinion
Amid the deafening roar of abortion rights supporters, Texas Republicans huddled around the Senate podium to pass new abortion restrictions, but whether the vote was cast before or after midnight is in dispute.
Hundreds of protesters cheered, clapped and shouted for the last 15 minutes of the special legislative session in an attempt to run out the clock before senators could vote on the bill that is expected to close almost every abortion clinic in the nation’s second most populous state.
While Democrats as well as assembled reporters watched clocks on their mobile phones tick past midnight, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said the voting began just before.
–AP
can you play vinyl records in space?
No. No, you can’t play vinyl records in space.
fukushima
According to the Canadian Medical Association, the Japanese response to Fukushima was worse than the Soviet response to Chernobyl:
International authorities have urged Japan to expand the exclusion zone around the plant to 80 kilometres but the government has instead opted to “define the problem out of existence” by raising the permissible level of radiation exposure for members of the public to 20 millisieverts per year, considerably higher than the international standard of one millisievert per year, Gould adds.
This “arbitrary increase” in the maximum permissible dose of radiation is an “unconscionable” failure of government, contends Ruff. “Subject a class of 30 children to 20 millisieverts of radiation for five years and you’re talking an increased risk of cancer to the order of about 1 in 30, which is completely unacceptable. I’m not aware of any other government in recent decades that’s been willing to accept such a high level of radiation-related risk for its population.”
Following the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, “clear targets were set so that anybody anticipated to receive more than five millisieverts in a year were evacuated, no question,” Ruff explains. In areas with levels between one and five millisieverts, measures were taken to mitigate the risk of ingesting radioactive materials, including bans on local food consumption, and residents were offered the option of relocating. Exposures below one millisievert were still considered worth monitoring.
One study claims that fallout from Fukushima killed 14,000 Americans.
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