Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
Reblog to actually save a life
To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it
as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion
Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER!
I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.
“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”
Hi the way people raise boy and girl children differently is DISGUSTING, I just learned that my mtf friend has never been bought a stuffed animal ONCE in her entire life???? this princess has NEVER had a teddy bear in her bed???
Long story short it is 9pm and I am furiously driving to fucking Target bc the first store didnt have any that were good enough I am
SO MAD RN
she’s letting me take her to build a bear and I am so excited
8tracks finally realized that no one was going to treat it like spotify 2.0, and you can listen again for free (with ads, of course) which of course means We’re Back On Character Playlist Content 2018 folks
hey zoe i just need you to know that it’s 2018 and i drew an 8tracks cover art for a ‘massacre route’ playlist i finally remember how it feels like to be alive
Character playlists are the only valid past time on this bitch of a planet, thank you for reviving a lost art. Make sure you have adblock/ghostery so you can listen to your jams ad-free + sequentially
hey so maybe we should talk about why there are 2 Koreas in the first place
yeah, and then afterward, basically this is already how it went down:
The Koreas wanted peace, and they got a peace talk scheduled in front of China and the European council or whatever, and we were pretty sure the Chinese were both: A backing the N. Koreans and B terrible evil Commies plotting against us, so the U.S. basically showed up to the peace talks and shouted “I DON’T LIKE IT” every time the N or S Koreans opened their mouth to say anything until the meeting time was over, causing even the Europeans (you know, the people who colonized and subjugated three fourths of the globe right before this) to be all, “whoah, those Americans sure are pushy, that was certainly uncalled for” and they made everyone sign a contract, like, on their way out the door, that promised no one would do any building up of armed forces and especially no presence of nuclear weapons in either N or S Korea
And everybody including probably the N Koreans was abiding by the contract until after a couple years the U.S. got twitchy and decided maybe the N Koreans might be starting to think about taking the first steps to developing nuclear weapons kinda, we just had this feeling, so we broke the contract we signed and build up a bunch of military in S Korea and then we armed them with tactical nukes. Gosh, I wonder why things are so tense over there?
We’ve made a LOT of power plays like that in the last hundred year or so, and honestly, China has been very tolerant. Like a huge and powerful patient giant. A hundred years is not a long time, as the Chinese reckon. If you watched a time lapse of it all and pretended it was a game of Risk, you’d see exactly what was going on. Here’s a map with U.S. military personnel in SE Asia
We’ve, y’know, totally coincidentally completely encircled them. No reason. Nothing to do with China. Coincidental.
Meanwhile, the hotspots in the Middle East MUCH OF WHICH BTW used to be very socio-economically progressive until the U.S. armed extremists to destabilize the region to wield politico-military power. And “our” “opponents” over there magically turn out to have Chinese or Russian made weaponry, just like the people they shoot them at magically have made in the U.S.A. tanks and rocket launchers. Meanwhile the infrastructure of those countries is destroyed, and the populations of those countries suffer more casualties than China, Russia, or the U.S.; all of us are too fucking civilized to do something as crass as host our wars in our own countries, my word no.
It’s a game Russia, China, and the Greeks and Romans have all played using the tribes and smaller nations between them, and probably stretches back to before the Babylonian Empire, even prior to the city states of Summer and Ur, before the time of Dagon.
Rome lost that game to the European tribes, who picked it up easily and played it particularly fast paced and vicious until their own colonies turned the tables on them, at which point, having made a great deal of profit plundering the world, the European nations like, suddenly wanted to retire and promote world peace. Their rebellious colonies (the U.S. of course) were super busy for a while what with the enormous continent to divest of wealth and full of people to murder plus whole other countries worth of people we imported as slaves to subjugate, and of course we also all hated each other a lot, but eventually we got that sorted out juuuust enough to yell “OUR TURN” and go out on an armed forces rampage through the world – South America that had barely stabilized after their own subjugation and subsequent revolt as European colonies (you’d think we had too much in common to go viking on them, but here we are; personally I think it’s because those countries have more mostly-indigenous people making up their existing communities) and also Africa and the Middle East (where sometimes, we swore we were helping, and like, the best way to help of course is to install some military bases and religious infrastructure, everybody knows that.)
And then y’know, we industrialized warfare for WW2 and fucking brought the gun to a knife fight with Japan and suddenly we were over in a South East Asian room full of swordsman, with our giant fucking guns drawn, looking around, while to their north Russia kept frantically scrambling to get their own big ass gun built while screaming “SEE THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING” at their old frenemy China.
Anyway, yes, we are the reason there is no peace in Korea, because we’re disagreeing with China by having our Korean allies keep guns pointed at their Korean allies. It’s horrible and disgusting and absolutely how the world has worked so far. We’ve come a long way in setting things up to be different, mostly by controlling our ability to communicate and organize at the socio economic levels that unwillingly support the war mongers and power barons that orchestrate all of that for their own benefit.
Oh, and in the middle east we allied with wealth and greed instead of peace and civilization, the Arab nations we allied with are the places in the Middle East that have more of what americans perceive as BAD MIDDLE EASTERN realities; that is where the people in power still stone people to death and chop off hands for stealing and shit, living by the ancient religious laws that define women as personal property and such. Honestly, look up a comparison between The Revised Laws of Hammurabi and current Arab socio-political legal system. Those are our allies, against populations in countries like Iran and Pakistan, where women have been the Prime Minister of the country.
Seriously, do you think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or do you think somebody over there threatened the interests of our Arab allies and then The very people we armed to accomplish our goals over there tried to those same weapons to make us leave their own country, and we sure as shit weren’t going to let THAT happen. And, you know, coincidentally, our huge military efforts over there created wealth for both us and our Arab investment relationships.
IT’s all really bad, basically, and our only hope is to continue to connect the common populations of the world into a brotherhood of co-survival and human decency and pull the rug out from under the rich and powerful.
When you delete things off of a mobile device (like a phone or digital camera), the file goes to your phone’s recycle bin (just like on a desktop computer or laptop), typically an invisible folder named .trashes or .trash. There, it continues to take up the same amount of memory storage as it did before you ‘deleted’ it. To empty your mobile device’s recycling bin, plug your phone into your desktop or laptop via USB as a memory device, right click on your desktop/laptop’s recycling bin/trash, and tell it to empty your recycling bin/empty trash. Your computer will empty all .trash/.trashes folders, including the one on your phone, actually deleting the files permanently this time, freeing up your phone/camera’s memory space. Reblog to save a life.
(I know this works on MAC with my Andriod, it’s not too far a stretch to do the same on Windows and/or with other phones as well. In fact, it should be easier to do on Windows since Windows Explorer is more conducive to finding hidden folders.)
FINDING THIS RANDOM POST ON MY DASHBOARD GAVE ME THE BEST ANSWER TO SHIT I’VE BEEN GOOGLING ABOUT FOR MONTHS!!!
Reminder not to support the Salvation Army who are a bunch of bigots
It’s ironic that they think being pro LGBTQIA is a “Threat to their fundraising efforts” when the fact is I would NEVER donate a single penny of my money to any group, person or organisation that wasn’t 100% pro LGBTQIA and supportive of the rights and freedoms of LGBTQIA people
The Salvation Army’s bullshit makes certain that I will NEVER waste my money donating to their shitty little organisation because I am not going to give my money to worthless filth like them
Also sick, Apparently the Valparaiso, IN Salvation Army had Aryan Brotherhood members (in full attire) bellringing for them on Black Friday.
Here’s your annual reminder not to give to the Salvation Army, and before a single one of you says “but they do good work” here is ALSO your reminder that THOUSANDS OF OTHER CHARITIES THAT DON’T THINK GAY PEOPLE SHOULD DIE would also gladly accept your donations, often dozens or hundreds in your local region alone. Your options are never “bigots or nothing”.
the fucked up thing about the salvation army is that theyre arguably the most visible and prominent hate group in america, but you cant hastle them or even protest them because to everyone else it would look like youre curb stomping santa clsuse
my life has been incredibly shit. im a trans woman living in rural utah who doesnt have a job anymore, im living with my parents and attempting to move to canada with my friend ven. i have around $1,200 saved right now, but making that stretch six months while paying for my broken doorway (the doorway was broken by my sister during a panic attack) as well as my hrt will leave me with very little money for rent, food, etc. i have to pay someone to repair the doorway, pay for my hrt, and pay for a cab because my parents wont take me and i do not have a car. the rest is living costs for while im in canada with ven. i really hope you all will help me cover this. the images of the door are the bottom and middle hinges, the entire doorway will have to be replaced. i made a post when it happened but got about $10 in donations. it will probably be $200-$300 but when it is appraised i will update.
Eve’s gofundme had to be refunded due to a deadname/real name problem so please donate and reblog this post instead of the old one!
Please help Eve out, and if you can’t please reblog this post. Even if you only donate one dollar there’s like almost 2000 of you (I’m sure more than 100 are dead blogs or bots so maybe it’s more like 1800 lol) following me and if you could please reblog this when you see it (I’ll be reblogging it periodically at different times of the day over the next little while to get more eyes on it from different time zones) I would appreciate it so much, even if you can’t spare a dollar. If Eve miraculously got $1800+ from a buncha 1 dollar donations tho I’d be pretty pumped about that and I know she would be too, so consider donating even one dollar if you can.
Here’s some payment options for Eve (she’s not on tumblr at the moment btw but if you need to get in touch with her I can relay messages):
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