learning that most trees do not derive from a single lineage but actually only look and function superficially similarly due to convergent evolution is one of the most fucked up things i’ve ever learned and i will never be the same person as i was before i learned that
Oak trees are quite a bit more closely related to roses than they are to pine trees.
Anonymous said: Arming teachers: the stupidest and most naïve idea i've ever heard. Do you know what fucking psychos most teachers are? Do you really want them to carry guns? But hey, when I feel scared by my teacher I guess the solution is for students to carry guns as well, right? Because the only thing that stops a bad psychp teacher with a gun is a good student with a gun. See u on the other side of the rabbit hole.
You know I’ve asked this question before and I never seem to get an answer, and it’s really got two parts
1) if so many teachers are “psychos”, why don’t more of them sneak guns into schools and kill kids?
2) What’s currently stopping psycho teachers from doing it now? Why’re you comfortable with your kids being supervised by them for 8 hours a day?
What’s naïve is watching the same places get targeted again and again because of a total lack of security and the ability of victims to fight back, and saying “if we make it even more illegal, it’ll solve the problem!”
So let’s hear it, brainiac; why’re you comfortable with sending kids to school with lots and lots of “psychos” in the first place, but you’re wildly uncomfortable with giving trained, liscensed teachers the ability to protect kids from them? If they’re all “psychos” who could snap and shoot a bunch of children at the slightest provocation, why’re you trusting them to take care of your kids?
Sounds fucking stupid, buddy.
It all stems from the “guns kill people” narrative. See these teachers don’t have guns now, but through the “Government gun giveaway” program (that not one person has purposed) the teacher will suddenly be sent down the inevitable path of “NRA baby killer”, once the evil cursed piece of metal is in hand. From psycho teacher, to Trump supporting NRA baby killer, in just one easy step.
They also seem to think there’s a substantial risk of a teacher getting mad and just hauling off and shooting a student.
Which, again, begs the question of “what keeps them from doing that now?” It wouldn’t even have to be with a gun, they could just hit them or use scissors. Heck, a teacher once slapped me after I deliberately screwed up to try and get her to fix the problem for me (she did).
these anti-gun kids have the wildest imaginations
Bold of you to assume they come up with this nonsense on their own.
I love how teachers get turned from suffering saints to murderers waiting to happen any time this comes up.
It’s a glock, not the One Ring. Having a gun doesn’t make a normal person suddenly crave blood and look for any tiny reason to unload on the nearest person.
The One Ring actually took time. Guns are apparently worse.
There’s something deeply unsettling about these people who posit that teachers with guns would just whip them out at any point that their temper got a bit high and blow a child away. It says a whole lot about how they live life. It’s like they’re projecting their own psychotic bloodlust and disregard for human life the second they’re inconvenienced. It’s creepy as fuck.
How many times have we seen an anti gunner say “I know if I had a gun I would have killed people by now” as justification for gun bans?
“When I get mad, the only thing stopping me from murdering someone is the fact that I’m a limp-wristed, glass-jaw bitch who would get my ass soundly handed to me before my thumb-behind-fingers fist even connected. Now imagine me with a gun. Say yes to gun control.”
I’m a teacher and yesterday I outright yelled at some fourth-graders because they were acting completely terrible, but even in my extreme anger at their behavior I never once so much as cursed at them much less laid a hand on them or had any notion of harming them in any way. Probably because I’m not a fucking psychopath.
I’ve even seen teachers make the argument “lulz I’m soooooo clumsy please don’t give me a gun!” Look morons, not even Trump is proposing just handing guns out in gift baskets to every single teacher or making them carry one. The idea was a simple as allowing licensed and trained teachers to carry on campus if they so chose. I don’t know how it got so twisted. Well I mean of course I know but still.
Finnish soldier gets separated from the rest of his unit but he’s the only one carrying the emergency amphetamines for the unit, takes too many and goes on a one man rampage for like 2 weeks straight giving the opposing Soviet soldiers nightmares for decades. Oh and he did it all on skis.
Did he survive?
Yes, during his methed up 2-3 week rampage he got injured by a land mine, travelled 400km on skis, and only ate pine buds and a Siberian Jay that he caught which he ate raw. When he made it back to Finnish lines he was taken to a hospital where it was found his heart rate was nearly 200 beats per minute and his weight had dropped to 43kg (94.7lbs).
His name was Aimo Koivunen if you want to look him up
Those are the eyes of a man who has seen god and laughed
My longhouse is perfectly constructed. Every morning when I wake up in bed at the far end of my longhouse, I say my syllable. Then I spend all day sitting in bed. By sunset my syllable has traveled to the other end of my longhouse and back, and as it smacks me in the head, I fall asleep. My longhouse is perfectly constructed.
The Wallace Collection has this catalogued as a shield. My best guess is that the hand is inserted I to the solid bit at the bottom, so the opposite blade aligns with the forearm.
Indian, blades ca. 18th century, grip ca. late 19th century.
My guess is that India loves making oddly shaped blades.
