i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don’t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is
Then Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure
society is a horrific parody of itself
No wonder this game makes me aggressive
Her name was Elizabeth Magie and her game was stolen by Charles Darrow.
Darrow went bankrupt after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, so when he saw his neighbors playing the game, he copied down the instructions, and published his own version of the game.
Then he sold it to the Parker Brothers who popularized the game. Darrow became a millionare within the year. Despite this, Hasboro currently lists him as the sole creator on their website.
Magie was amazing, and not just for her game. She liked to mock societal standards of the time through theater and even made national headlines mocking the institution of marriage. She supported herself until her mid 40s, proving that marriage was not the only option for women, before tying the knot herself.
Elizabeth Magie is attributed with this, “Girls have minds, desires, hopes, and ambitons.” Dont forget her name.
This is the saddest and most representative of the United States thing ever.
Magie actually had a second set of rules for a more fair game to show how the system could be improved. The game was meant to be unfair to illustrate the unfairness of runaway capitalism at first, and then switch to a new set of rules, which provide a much more even playing field (and a much more fun game). Darrow scrapped this second ruleset when he stole it, eliminating the teaching purpose and also all the fun. Here’s the original rules, with the second ruleset included
It’s super cute - but the guy is actually risking his life there! Don’t ever pet a wild bat, they can carry rabies. Especially if they seem dead or asleep, don’t touch them because when bats do have active rabies, it is more likely the paralytic form of the disease, but they can still bite. Bats are wonderful, but they are wild animals and should be respected as such.
I also love bats, they are adorable, but you should neverever touch one, especially if it’s doing things bats don’t normally do: out during the day, approaching people, letting you touch it. These are signs of a sick bat.
It is important to note that you donot have to be bitten to contract rabies; contact with saliva from a sick animal can be enough. The virus doesn’t live long outside the host, but it can last up to two hours in saliva on an animals fur, so if you have any sort of damage to your skin and pet a bat, or rub your eyes or nose afterwards, you could get it.
There is notest for rabies until it has reached an advanced stage. There is nocure for rabies once symptoms show up. Rabies is almostalwaysfatal.
Please let wild animals be wild and appreciate them from a distance.
(P.S. If you find a bat inside your home, especially if it is captured easily or could have had contact with people, the CDC recommends that you contact your local animal control and have it submitted for testing.)
(P.P.S If nothing else, this bat is clearlydistressed by being touched!)
hey this article makes its points against the border wall using 100% nothing but conservative information sources, all links provided at the end, if you want to be able to shut down their bullshit claims in a way they can never argue is “liberally biased.”
Points include, and again all these points were discovered and reported by republicans themselves:
Most contraband and “crime” entering the U.S. is smuggled via plane or ship.
The wall would actually cost over 30 billion dollars and several more billion a year to maintain and patrol, astronomically higher than the supposed cost of all illegal immigration combined, though even Trump’s ridiculous 5 billion request is more than it could ever “make up for.”
The wall would harm legal seasonal labor that the farming industry depends on
Even steel walls are easily destroyed by floods and other natural hazards and it would be no time at all before the thing was in shambles
There are thousands of properties that would have to be seized illegally for it to happen.
Border walls in other countries have made no noticeable difference because they’re that easy to circumvent
Most illegal immigrants are “overstayers” who were legal when they entered by the intended process. The #1 argument conservatives try to deny is confirmed in their very own writing.
Not only do I run into people who think insects and other arthropods don’t qualify as animals, I run into people who know that they’re “technically” animals but they’re of the “opinion” they shouldn’t be.
What are people actually judging by here, though? Intelligence? Because there are definitely vertebrates like us with barely more brainpower than a cockroach, and then there are invertebrates like octopuses, as genetically distant from us as a cockroach but intelligent enough to learn people’s faces and solve puzzles. Are they going by anatomy? That an arthropod is supposedly just “too different” physically to be lumped with us as animals?
Let me show those folks something:
Here’s the animal kingdom. The giant pale blue is all the arthropods, the insects and spiders and crabs and things.
The pale green sliver is the chordata, which contains just three groups. One of those three groups is the vertebrata, literally every single animal with a skeleton: humans, horses, eels, owls, snakes, frogs, all the things people apparently think are “real” animals.
One of the other three types of chordata, your closest possible cousins, are these things, the lancelets:
Just like you, they have a notochord, which during embryonic development becomes your spinal column.
The third kind of chordate, and actually even closer to you genetically than a lancelet, is a tunicate, and here’s an example of one kind of tunicate:
This is a colony of several thousand little bags with mouths and anuses and virtually no other organs. As larvae, they resemble tadpoles and also have a notochord like you once did in the womb, but then they absorb it as they mature. These are our nearest cousins on the planet.
Now unlike the mature tunicate, an insect is a creature with a clearly defined head, jaws, legs, feet, eyes, a complete brain, practically anthropomorphic compared to those bags of filter-feeding jelly, yet it’s the bags of filter feeding jelly that share an immediate ancestor with you. If “bugs” are too weird to be animals then what the hell are we?
Basically if you’re going to say an insect shouldn’t be considered an animal, you may as well say a cactus shouldn’t be considered a plant because it looks funny.
To expand on the intelligence comment too, I’m currently studying my masters degree on neuroethology and entomology, or in more simple terms I study how smart honeybees are.
The assumption that insects aren’t as intelligent as mammals or even vertebrates in general, is wrong and outdated! Neruobiologists no longer think brain size = level of cognitive ability, nor do we think number of neurons = higher cognitive ability. We now think the types of neurons may be an indication of cognitive capabilities but hey that could be found to not be true either!
What we do know is that insects are smart! Surprisingly so. Insects like honeybees are capable of cognitive functions we assumed they shouldn’t be; including basic cognitive functions such as classical and operant learning as well as higher intelligent learning such as associative learning, contextual learning, reversal learning, and spatial navigation, just to name a few.
Insects are intelligent! More so then we even know currently or we used to assume! They make up the vast majority of animal life on earth, are ecologically significant and (like it or not) are incredible, amazing animals! (though I’m probably bias as an entomologist).
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