Went running for the second time. I’m quite amazed.
It went slightly better this time, since I didn’t start by running uphill. It should be common sense, really (in this neighbourhood there’s no such thing as plain terrain). Ended up crossing the bridge and then back again, and as always the view is breathtaking. The only downside is that there are always too many tourists there.
EDIT: the view from the bridge, in case someone was wondering.
Going to Israel in 10 days. I am so fucking anxious.
You will love it.
That’s what everyone in my boyfriend’s family keeps telling me. They are more…
Thank you :) When did you first go?
First and only trip was in 2008. I LOVED IT! It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Are you going by yourself, with family, on a program? I went with family and had an incredible experience.
I’m going with my university for study abroad for about 3 weeks.
Israel was fucking awesome. The weather was great. The food was delicious. The clubs were so much fun. The historical sites were daunting. You’ll have a great time! (apologies for butting in)
Haha no need to apologize. I’m just loving how everyone is so excited for me and keeps telling me how great it is there. It’s getting me even more excited to go.
I was stationed in Israel and worked with the IDF (not against Palestine, in case tumblr decides to jump down my throat) and also went back for this birthright trip because my mother converted to Judaism and I kept getting the emails through my synagogue (that I only attended like.. twice…)… and so I decided to go.
I have to say… that Israelis have to be some of the most innovative people of the modern age. The Arabs on the Arabian Peninsula have a lot to learn from them when it comes to cultivation/agriculture/farming in general. Israel in the process of terraforming the desert lands and they’re doing a damned good job. And, of course, their human rights department (for the State) are fantastic from what I saw.
Adding “agricultural innovation in Israel” to pile of things to research.
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So, is this close to the truth now, do you think?
Yep.
The irony, of course, is that the same people who think this way tend to want women to be good only for sex. There’s no winning.
Y’know, I never thought I’d reblog a comic by Tom Preston of all people, but this comic and its commentary are pretty much accurate.
Damn, America. You cray.
Most principled conservatives, and any libertarian does not want to pay for your birth control because it is an assault on liberty to be paying for your personal decisions. I don’t care why you take birth control, and personally I think it does many great things (as well as some bad ones) it’s simply wrong for my taxes to be going towards funding you because I don’t have a say in the matter and it is far outside the scope of proper government. They don’t want to pay for someone else’s birth control; they don’t want to pay for someone else’s viagra; they don’t wan’t to pay for any of someone else’s lifestyle choices. It has nothing to do with sex or hating sluts or women. It’s simply just wrong to force someone to fund your life.
I don’t want to pay for war. We’re gonna end up paying for things we don’t want to. That’s inevitable. Might as well make it for the good of civilians and not Congress. Besides, a woman should not be punished for having a womb.
You don’t justify using force in more areas because force is already being used in others. That’s extremely unprincipled and wrong. You realize you just justified having to pay for unjust wars…
And having to pay 10$ a month for birth control because you choose to take it is not punishing you for having a womb… Am I punishing a man for having a penis because he has to pay for his own low T medication? That’s nonsense. No one is entitled to birth control, and no one has the natural right to force someone else to pay for it.
Taxes are a necessity. If you want to run a country and pay for things in this country to be done, you tax a population. Any time you have a currency and a leader, you will need taxes. I’d rather pay taxes for a woman to get what she needs (since condoms are given out like candy) so she doesn’t have to be punished for her organs. If we can add birth control to things covered by universal health care (which is not Obamacare - his is social, which does make a difference)… and I think it is… then that’s what matters.
Your argument is not sound because at the moment, Americans who are sick and have no health insurance often need medicines that cost $150-$900 a bottle. Neurontin, for example, which is big for those who have sciatica, neuropathy, and diabetes. If we’re going to cover Americans, we’re going to cover Americans. Instead of paying to go to war in countries that hate us, instead of continuing the hate and war and donating aid to countries who spit in our faces, we need to take care of our own.
And that’s that. That’s what a government does. It takes care of its people and keeps a country running by ensuring that people can pursue life, liberty and happiness.
A ‘cloud tsunami’ rolls over Panama City beach
“Meteorologist Dan Satterfield explains this occurrence on his blog:
Cool air offshore was very nearly at the saturation point, with a temperature near 20ºC and a dew point of about 19.5ºC. The air at this temperature can only hold a certain amount of water vapor, and how much it can hold depends heavily on the temperature. If you add more water into the air, a cloud will form, but you can also get a cloud to form by cooling the air. Drop the temperature, and it can no long hold as much water vapor, so some of it will condense out and a cloud will form.”
(via lights-of-antarctica)
kids don’t wanna be fuckin inside ALL DAY EVERY DAY SITTING AT A DESK we are a sick fucking society, they should be outside exploring and shit, THAT’S how they are designed to learn, if you have to feed them pills to make them how YOU want them to be, you’re a sick fuck.
Agree 100%
(Source: dtl-green, via theidealisticcynic)
A group of volunteers have given up their time over the last few years to answer the question, once and for all, as to whether the “science is settled”.People will generally defer to the judgment of experts, and they trust climate scientists on the subject of global warming.To resolve this question once and for all, we reviewed the abstracts (paragraph-long summaries) of over 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers published between 1991 and 2011 with the keywords “global warming” and “global climate change.” Our team was comprised of a citizen science team of two dozen volunteers from around the world. Team members’ home countries included Australia, USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Germany, Finland, and Italy.
Most of the ratings were done by a dozen team members, who each read more than a thousand abstracts in their spare time over the span of several months. Analysing the data and writing the paper took close to another year after that. We didn’t receive any funding or compensation for our efforts; it was entirely a voluntary effort driven by the desire to settle the issue of scientific climate consensus once and for all.
Great article and good comments section, but there are some idiots in the latter who clearly don’t know the meaning of science, logic, reason, statistics, facts, research, or intelligence.
(via climate-changing)
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Uchinem and I have two friends who are getting married in a month. They’re the first of our friends to do so, therefore this will also be the first time we attend a wedding that is not of family or parents’ friends.
First: I dislike weddings. It’s not only the huge gathering of people that puts me off, but also each and every tradition since most are so silly I just feel like banging my head on the wall.
Second: it’s going to be a religious wedding. Going to church is not only going to be extremely awkward for me, but I’m pretty sure someone will notice me standing there not saying or doing anything. Usually I skip that part, but, you know, friends. At least it’s not a funeral, in which I might be accused of not caring about the soul of the deceased.
Third: they expect us to be part of the silliness. Which I’m sure is normal and all, but I’m sure I’ll forget to record that video of us saying what we think of the bride and groom (not that we don’t like them, but I might offend some sensibilities), and Uchinem is trying to find loopholes so that he won’t have to write and read a text about love and the likes. At church. Of course, he’s considering just copying something from a game and see how many get it, so he might actually get some enjoyment out of it.
Fourth: the groom is Uchinem’s childhood friend and he knows all his family, who are actually quite nice people. So I’ll have to behave. That includes not speaking my mind when the inevitable question of when we’re getting married ourselves comes (and make no mistake, they mean by the church).
So, a bit of a social minefield for me. Should be fun.
Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent.
oh my gosh
they look like runway model foxes
(via opus-pocus)
Madagascar:
Beautiful Magadascan women: c. 1898
(the beauty and power of these women made me cry)
Felt the same way as I was scrolling through these photographs of these incredibly beautiful women. Their elaborate hairstyles and equally as immaculate clothing just blows me away.
(via 4thsignserene)
Cleopatra’s Underwater Palace, Egypt
I still don’t get why no one is LOSING THEIR FUCKING SHIT OVER THIS FIND
iT SURVIVED THE EARTHQUAKE THAT LEVELED THE REST OF THE CITY IN 365 A.D.
CLEOPATRA’S FUCKING PALACE
WITH INTACT FUCKING STATUARY
NOT TO MENTION THE REST OF THE FUCKING ENTIRE GODDAMN ISLAND OF ANTIRRHODOS INCLUDING THE ANCIENT PORT OF ALEXANDRIA
AND THEY’RE GONNA BUILD A MOTHERFUCKING UNDERWATER MUSEUM
UNDERWATER. MUSEUM.
can I be a mermaid tour guide there or some shit, you don’t even have to pay me i will just live there forever oh my fucking god
(via constellation-lyra)
