According to a Congressional study, $6,000 is the average amount taxpayers are being dinged per employee. Walmart’s wages and benefits are so low, it forces workers to go on Medicaid and receive housing assistance, childcare subsidies, food stamps, and more.

That Cheap Stuff You Just Bought At Walmart? Turns Out It Cost $6,000 More Than You Thought. (via robot-heart-politics)

That doesn’t sound like a low price guarantee…

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HEY, THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME AT ALL AND I WILL SAVE THIS FOR WHEN I COMPLAIN AND ARGUE AGAINST WALMART. 

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lokilordofdickery:

incineraptor:

lexxerduglas:

clorinspats:

shade-rartblog:

thewingedshadow:

elliotexplicit:

cineraria:

How to Fold a Shirt in Under 2 Seconds - YouTube
伊東家の食卓

I just did this. Legit.

the fuck

Clearly this is black magic at work here

been folding my shirts like this for so long that it feels weird to do it any other way

WHAT THE SHIT

i did this just now completely skeptical and when it worked i just fell over onto my bed and sobbed into my blanket

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

This is how I fold my shirts.

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the-science-llama:

The Root Cause of Diabetes Has Been Identified

A quote from the article

Fiorina and his team studied hundreds of pathways in animals with diabetes. They eventually isolated one, known as ATP/P2X7R, which triggers the T-cell attacks on the pancreas, rendering it unable to produce insulin.

“By identifying the ATP/P2X7R pathway as the early mechanism in the body that fires up an alloimmune response, we found the root cause of diabetes,” says Fiorina. “With the cause identified, we can now focus on treatment options. Everything from drug therapies to transplants that require less immunosuppression is being explored.”

Cool! But the article title is a little misleading: it looks like it’s for type I diabetes, not all diabetes. 

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drakonlily:

lorentztransformation:

timetravelingspacerobots:

Sometimes I just want Will Graham to wear a note pinned to his jacket that says:

Hi,

I’m Special Agent Will Graham of the FBI.

If found please send back to Doctor Hannibal Lecter’s office in Baltimore, Maryland.

Thank you

PS. If found without pants, please provide some.

Provide pants, eh?

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No one wants him wearing pants, shush

Don’t lie. Everyone loves dramatic irony pants. 

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timetravelingspacerobots:

Sometimes I just want Will Graham to wear a note pinned to his jacket that says:

Hi,

I’m Special Agent Will Graham of the FBI.

If found please send back to Doctor Hannibal Lecter’s office in Baltimore, Maryland.

Thank you

PS. If found without pants, please provide some.

Provide pants, eh?

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BRACE YOURSELF FOR HANNIBAL SEASON ONE FINALE!

purempathy:

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I’M ONE EPISODE BEHIND. 

SCYLAS. SCYLAS, YOU MOTHER FUCKER, WE NEED TO WATCH.

(Reblogged from handsomehannibal)

natellite:

lorentztransformation:

natellite:

I think part of it might be the cost and the fact that it’s a huge franchise! IDK. (I dunno about the tea, but starbucks coffee tastes burnt to me and I only drink it so I can use the sitting area or bc of drivethroughs to limit human interaction)

listen: i get it! a lot of starbucks coffee - especially the darker roasts like French or Gold Coast - is really really dark. i think my perspective is different because, as my store’s trainer, i do coffee tastings all across the roast spectrum literally three or four times a week.

and here’s my secret: with the exception of a few roasts (most notably Kenya), i drink my coffee with a shitload of half and half. black coffee is great when you’re doing a tasting but if i want coffee i want to be able to drink it.

I usually do condensed milk or heavy cream or a mix of both when I have it at home, so trust me, I’m totally doing the cream thing when I get coffee out!

oh me too :3 i really like heavy cream in my coffee (mostly because half-and-half has some carbs, and heavy cream is just all fat)

Yeah, that’s part of the reason I’ve switched over. My dad’s side is black and native (read: haha, I am metabolically fucked with a “western” diet) and my nana and my auntie both already have diabetes (and my dad’s gluc levels were a bit too high for a while). My mom’s side is white, but her mom died from complications due to diabetes, so while fat’s still not all that great, I’ll be better off taking my chances with it. 

That, and I’m a cheap bastard and I will literally drink less fucking heavy cream because “Jesus Christ this shit is expensive best to make it last.”

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natellite:

golben:

why the fuck is whipped cream default on coffee nowadays. it adds nothing but gross sugar

golby. i want you to know that i’m totally with you. i get you. but a venti frappuccino has more calories than a big mac. if you want something other than gross sugar, the frappuccino is not the drink for you

Not only are the calories high, but, since it’s a drink, your brain won’t really process it as “food” and you’ll most likely end up overeating at some point. 

Unless you’re like me and coffee tends to kill your hunger so you end up forgetting to eat and then you’re shaky and angry and you can hear the howls of your ancestors in your head saying things like “I did not survive the mother fucking Bearing Strait for your dumb ass to forget food due to modern candy drinks”.

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natellite:

I think part of it might be the cost and the fact that it’s a huge franchise! IDK. (I dunno about the tea, but starbucks coffee tastes burnt to me and I only drink it so I can use the sitting area or bc of drivethroughs to limit human interaction)

listen: i get it! a lot of starbucks coffee - especially the darker roasts like French or Gold Coast - is really really dark. i think my perspective is different because, as my store’s trainer, i do coffee tastings all across the roast spectrum literally three or four times a week.

and here’s my secret: with the exception of a few roasts (most notably Kenya), i drink my coffee with a shitload of half and half. black coffee is great when you’re doing a tasting but if i want coffee i want to be able to drink it.

I usually do condensed milk or heavy cream or a mix of both when I have it at home, so trust me, I’m totally doing the cream thing when I get coffee out!

(Reblogged from natellite)

rabbivole:

my body responds to like 80% of stimuli with nausea, granted, but

when im really tired i get nauseous

im really tired

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

I also get super nauseated when tired. Well. Not exactly tired. When I have to get up after not enough sleep, I’m nauseous. 

(of course, I usually say “sick” because spelling the word “nauseous” requires a herculean effort from me because my brain just can’t read all those vowels at once so I have no idea what order they go in)

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grassfire:

it’s not so much that people want every character in dragon age or mass effect or whatever to be romanceable, it’s more that people would like some options in their space magic kissing games that aren’t the usual conventionally attractive+[unsubtle character trait] combo.

If you put your games out there as being inclusive and responsive to player choice in terms of having relationship development between the player character and your party/NPCs, then you should probably expect that your audience might feel somewhat upset that when it turns out that that you’ve only made a couple of stock-standard options available before implying that anyone else who expresses the faintest wish for something/someone different is greedy or weird or slutty or whatever it is.

I dunno. I rarely take romance options in my wizard machine space dragon soap operas because that’s not what I’m personally into/that’s not the right thing for ~*~my role playing game characters~*~, but I fully understand why people feel left out when the message has been OPTIONS CHOICES VARIETY INCLUSIVENESS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE and it turns out that all they’ve got to pick from is a variation on The Buff But Not Threatening Nice Guy, The Brooding Guy, The Hyper Sexy Lady and The Uncomfortably Childlike Predator Bait.

(or, considering this is dragon age we’re talking about, the token cross dressing prostitute)

You can’t get mad when all along you’ve promised people variety and choice, and then scold them because they express mild disappointment that their choice never seems to be available.

YOU SHOULD LIKE WHATEVER THEY GIVE YOU BECAUSE THAT’S THE STORY AND THE STORY IS ~PERFECT~ AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD FOR EVER WANTING ANYTHING ELSE. 

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tsotchke:

dgaider:

minoukatze:

dgaider:

dragonageconfessions:

CONFESSION: I was so disappointed once I found out Varric and Aveline were not romanceable

I sometimes think my confession would be:

“I find an odd characteristic of any fandom (whether it be games or TV shows or what have you) to be the belief that the only worthwhile relationship between any two characters is romance. Two characters can’t have a deep friendship without it secretly being romantic. Two characters can’t hate each other without harboring lust. A follower that you have a great relationship with is disappointing if it also can’t lead to love.

Is romance great? Yes. Are people who like romance awesome? Why not. I just don’t get why everything has to lead to romance. It’s almost as if we couldn’t reveal a mailbox these days without someone demanding to know if they can have a romance with it.


—signed, anonymous curmudgeon”

I get that…however, I agree with the confessor. It’s not that people want EVERYTHING to lead to romance, just that it would be nice to have Aveline and Varric as options (frankly, the most stable ones in the group). Not everyone has the same taste! My character would have happily had those satisfying supportive friendships with Fenris and Anders, while choosing to instead to be involved with Varric.

You’re presuming that everyone is entitled to a romance with a character of their choosing, or even a romance that they like.

I think you’re also assuming that a romance arc with Varric and/or Aveline would have been exactly the relationship you remember, but with a kissing scene added. It wouldn’t. Varric would have been someone else. Instead of Aveline talking about her Dad, you would have had sex with her. Is that better? Is the friendship you formed with Varric so unworthwhile that you would have traded it in for something else which may not even be what you imagine? He is the way he is because that’s what he was written to be.

Yes, I know everyone wants more. More, more, more. I’m just not sure why everyone would so readily discard what they already have, assuming that they wouldn’t change it in the act of transforming it into something else. In my opinion, not every fictional relationship is made more appealing by adding romance to it.

Why not add death? Man, even a romance cupcake would start to taste a bit samey after a while, wouldn’t it? Bah.

What the hell? This reaction is super uncalled for. It’s pretty insulting that you can only imagine any given player who wished for a romance with an unromanceable character wanting it on a totally shallow level.

You’re really arguing against things that no one has proposed or bought up here, this isn’t Bioware forums okay? cool your jets

That’s just kinda what happens with him. And most of the notes will be “man, you are so awesome” and you will want to shove your alarm clock into your face because, hey, if you wanted something blunt and annoying causing you pain, you might as well do it to yourself, eh?

(Reblogged from tsotchke)

awesomephilia:

what the fuck (via)

I have no way to describe the sort of ugly sound that I’m making right. 

Because, like, yeah. I know cops are assholes and shit who kill kids and support fucked up racial systems but there’s also literal kitten-killing cops.

Like. Literally.

Christ.

(Reblogged from awesomephilia)

sonic-hip-attack:

nothingbutthedreams:

professor-sweetpea:

laughterkey:

Today in things that make my day: Colin Firth and Ben Barnes act out the scene from Eddie Izzard’s bit about British film on the set of a movie (I believe Easy Virtue). 

If you’re an Izzard fan this is a must-watch. 

“I’m always in here. Moving books slightly to the left.”

Just brilliant!

‘What is it Sebastian? I’m arranging matches.’

Just beautiful.

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

YES.

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