You Had Me At : "Do It."
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I know, this is old, but I’d like to re-open some discussion about this:
This is a news report about a video on youtube of 3 girls attacking an 11 year-old boy and holding him down and stripping him naked in public. What I want to talk about are three things:
1) At the beginning of the video you can clearly hear a girl laughing as she says, “Dude, we’re like raping him.” So here we have a girl, thinking it’s funny and confessing to it on camera that she is partaking in a sexual assault.
2) They boy is really screaming and crying and freaking out, and the girls are really having a hard time holding him down, so it’s not like this was all in fun, this was malicious from the get-go. Why then is it called, “A PRANK THAT SOME SAY WENT TO FAR”?! Really, cause if that happened to a girl, that would be sexual assault. Not a prank.
3) WHY IS THE MOM NOT PRESSING CHARGES, AND WHY IS THE PUBLIC OKAY WITH HER NOT PRESSING CHARGES? This woman is fucking stupid and unfit to parent. This is not funny, a prank, a joke, or kids being kids. This is horrible, malicious and humiliating. I wouldn’t be surprised if this kid ends up either killing himself, or having some serious trauma for the rest of his life.
This is rape culture. This is the public tolerating sexual abuse on boys at the hands of girls, this is the public calling sexual assault “a prank”. This is a mother thinking no punishment is necessary for the girls who sexually assaulted her boy.
Well, his mother may not think there should be punishment for these three girls: BUT WE DO. I want to see these girls punished for their actions. I want to see them stand before a court and answer for their behavior. I want to see them re-watch that video and listen to their rape jokes and then try to explain how it was, “just a joke.”
This is unacceptable, no matter who it’s done by or who it’s done to. Society should not tolerate this bullshit.
-Liv and Morgan
When I was a kid, whenever other kids did stuff like this the response was usually “I’m sure they didn’t mean it”, “I’m sure you just misunderstood”, “I’m sure that’s not true” in that patronising tone. Nothing felt worse than having that thrown in your face by your friends, family and the people whose job it is to stop that kind of thing, downplaying it or outright accusing you of lying, even when they do believe you they they don’t think anything of it, that is what messes you up. Just one person actually bothered to try and do something about it, even coming to the school, shouting at the teachers and making me show them my injuries which had gone septic, he even threatened the school governor, his own friend. Mother was usually one of the “I’m sure“s. Nothing changed, I still was in and out of hospital every other week from various injuries the teachers often witnessed and tried to have me expelled for, but just having that one person treat it seriously and even just attempt to do something stopped me from giving up.
By the looks of it this boy doesn’t even have that. Even just having one person on your side is enough. I really hope he has that.
I REALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY want to punch something right now. This is no doubt one of the most disgusting things I’ve watched. Much of the disgust from the fricken mom. She is definitely not fit to raise a child. Don’t let the girls’ parents punish them, what is that bull shit? They’ll have their iphones taken away and learn nothing. I don’t want them to be beaten by vigilantes or anything, but put in jail, or for christ sake at least in juvenile detention. What the hell is this shit that three people can beat up someone, hold him down, psychologically and physically terrorize him, and get away with it. That’s what will make the kid suicidal, the fact that they were never brought to justice. They left him lying naked in broad daylight, crying and screaming, and THEY DON”T EVEN GET A SLAP ON THE WRIST FROM THE FRICKEN SCHOOL. I hope they’re socially shunned by their peers, but the reality is they won’t be because they’re probably the “cool kids” that I have a repressed childhood hatred for.
And now, a reminder that they are seriously trying to close women’s prisons in my country!
ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL! HOW IS THIS EVEN FUCKING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW I’M SERIOUSLY FUCKING UPSET!
-Liv
what tHE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ?!!?!WHAT
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I just came across this phrase in the book I’m reading for class:
“Kate Mulgrew as the captain of Voyager in Deep Space Nine.”
DEEP SPACE NINE
DEEP SPACE NINE
“May the force be with you Quark,” said Data on last week’s episode of Star Wars Enterprise
“You’re a wizard Wesley”
when a fanfiction you love ends but then you find out it has a sequel
yes!
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the bible says adam and eve so if ur name’s not one of those u can’t be in a relationship sorry it’s a sin
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| (Watching Star Trek; Voyager with my brother) | |
| Me: | Seven of Nine's boobs are out of control. |
| My brother: | She can't help it. |
| Me: | Yeah, she was Borg'd this way. |
Let us never forget that Jeremy Renner used to be a makeup artist.
And a ski-instructor. And house renovator.
Can Jeremy Renner be a strong female character in every movie?
Jeremy Renner is a strong, independent woman, who don’t need no man.
I don’t think the Hawkeye Initiative was planned with this in mind, but it just works so perfectly.
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‘There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.’
— Captain Kathryn Janeway, USS Voyager, Stardate 52619.2
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REBLOG IF I CAN WRITE TO YOU AND SIMPLY START A FRENDSHIP
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Space
There is still so little known about outer space by modern science, but of that little we do know, there are some extraordinarily amazing things. This is a list of the top 10 cool facts about Space.
10. Lightweight
Fact: If you put Saturn in water it would float
The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float. The actual density of Saturn is 0.687 g/cm3 while the density of water is 0.998 g/cm3. At the equator Saturn has a radius of 60,268 ± 4 km – which means you would need an extremely large glass of water to test this out.
9. Constantly Moving
Fact: We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second
Our Galaxy – the Milky Way is spinning at a rate of 225 kilometers per second. In addition, the galaxy is travelling through space at the rate of 305 kilometers per second. This means that we are traveling at a total speed of 530 kilometers (330 miles) per second. That means that in one minute you are about 19 thousand kilometers away from where you were. Scientists do not all agree on the speed with which the Milky Way is travelling – estimates range from 130 – 1,000 km/s. It should be said that Einstein’s theory of relativity, the velocity of any object through space is not meaningful.
8. Farewell old friend!
Fact: The moon is drifting away from Earth
Every year the moon moves about 3.8cm further away from the Earth. This is caused by tidal effects. Consequently, the earth is slowing in rotation by about 0.002 seconds per day per century. Scientists do not know how the moon was created, but the generally accepted theory suggests that a large Mars sized object hit the earth causing the Moon to splinter off.
7. Ancient Light
Fact: The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old
The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! The temperature at the core of the sun is 13,600,000 kelvins. All of the energy produced by fusion in the core must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight or kinetic energy of particles.
6. Solar Diet
Fact: The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds
Solar winds are charged particles that are ejected from the upper surface of the sun due to the high temperature of the corona and the high kinetic energy particles gain through a process that is not well understood at this time. Also, did you know that 1 pinhead of the sun’s energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers? [Sourced from Planet Science]
5. The Big Dipper is not a constellation
Fact: The Big Dipper is not a constellation, it is an asterism
Many people consider the big dipper to be a constellation but, in fact, it is an asterism. An asterism is a pattern of stars in the sky which is not one of the official 88 constellations; they are also composed of stars which are not physically related to each other and can be vast distances apart. An asterism can be composed of stars from one or more constellations – in the case of the Big Dipper, it is composed entirely of the seven brightest stars in the Ursa Major (Great Bear) constellation.
4. George’s Star
Fact: Uranus was originally called George’s Star
When Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he was given the honor of naming it. He chose to name it Georgium Sidus (George’s Star) after his new patron, King George III (Mad King George). This is what he said:
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method and call it Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration of any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology: if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found Planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, ‘In the reign of King George the Third.’
Uranus was also the first planet to be discovered with the use of a telescope.
3. Extra Moons
Fact: Earth has at least 4 moons
Okay – that is not actually true – but it is very close. In 1986, Duncan Waldron discovered a asteroid (5km across) that is in an elliptic orbit around the sun with a period of revolution virtually identical to that of Earth. For this reason the planetoid and earth appear to be following each other. The periodic planetoid is named Cruithne (pronounced krin-yə) after an ancient group of Scottish people (also known as the Picts). Because of its unusual relationship with Earth, it is sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon. Cruithne, is fainter than Pluto and would require at least a 12.5 inch reflecting telescope to attempt to be seen. Since its discovery, at least three other similar asteroids have been discovered. These types of objects are also found in similar relationships to other planets in our Solar System. In the image above (courtesy of Paul Wiegert), the earth is the blue circle with a cross in it, and Cruithne’s orbit is shown in yellow.
2. Sunspot Music
Fact: Sunspot activity may be the primary reason for the beautiful sound of Stradivarius violins
Antonio Stradivari is considered to be the greatest violin maker ever. He lived in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Scientists have been unable to work out what it is about his violins that makes them so incredible, but they do know that the timber used to make them is a very important contributing factor. From the 1500s to 1800s, the earth underwent a little ice age mostly due to increased volcanic activity and decreased solar activity (this is called the Maunder Minimum). As a result of this cooling, the types of trees that Stradivari used for his violins were particularly hard (due to slow growth). Hard timber is especially good when making violins. It is very probable that had Stradivari lived in a different age, his violins would not be prized as they are today. This picture above is made of three overlapping photos. It shows the rings in the spruce tree used to make the most famous Stradivarius violin, the “Messiah.” The first row of numbers gives the width of each ring in millimeters (one mm is about the thickness of a fingernail). The bottom row gives the years in which each ring grew.
1. Cold Welding
Fact: If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together
This may sound unbelievable, but it is true. Two pieces of metal without any coating on them will form in to one piece in the vacuum of space. This doesn’t happen on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidized material between the surfaces. This might seem like it would be a big problem on the space station but as most tools used there have come from earth, they are already coated with material. In fact, the only evidence of this seen so far has been in experiments designed to provoke the reaction. This process is called cold welding. For those who still don’t believe it, here is the Wikipedia article on Cold Welding.
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