please get on this! Protect Black Girls! We as community have to look after each other.
She said that she was at a hotel in LA. People on Twitter were able to track her IP address and later found out that she was/is in Mountain View, CA. She has not responded/posted on Snapchat in a couple of hours. She said there’s two guys there, one who goes by the name of Tank. They’re black, taller than her (like 6 foot or something) and wearing white and gray. This is a picture of one of the men She sent it to someone who messaged her.
Omg. BOOOOST
BOOST BOOST BOOST
Please find her and get her home safe!
PROTECT OUR GIRLS!!!!
So I added her this morning (6:55am) March 10, and replied to her story. I wrote “oh wow you have a popsocket on your phone! I have one too!” And she replied “popsockers”. Then I said “I heard you say you’re in LA! I grew up here; how long are you here for?” And she hasn’t messaged back since. It’s now 7:24am. This story is making me uneasy
Case Type: Disability (Autistic)
DOB: Nov 28, 2000
Missing Date: Mar 08, 2017
Age Now: 16
Missing City: Baltimore
Missing State: MD
Case Number: 5170303296
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Complexion: Light
Height: 5-7
Weight: 120
Hair Color: Black
Hair Length: Long
Eye Color: Brown
Wear Glasses or Contacts: Yes
Location Last Seen: Kennedi was last seen leaving Western High School.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown.
Last Seen Wearing: Blk pants, blk low cut Ugg boots, white shirt.
Herd immunity is the idea that if enough people get immunized against a disease, they’ll create protection for even those who aren’t vaccinated. This is important to protect those who can’t get vaccinated, like immunocompromised children.
You can see in the image how low levels of vaccination lead to everyone getting infected. Medium levels slow down the progression of the illness, but they don’t offer robust protection to the unvaccinated. But once you read a high enough level of vaccination, the disease gets effectively road-blocked. It can’t spread fast enough because it encounters too many vaccinated individuals, and so the majority of the population (even the unvaccinated people) are protected.
I’ve heard some irresponsible parents be like “Eh…. I don’t have to, there’s this thing called herd immunity that will protect *my* kid if I don’t vaccinate them.” This graphic is super useful in showing that (when it comes to measles) even small dips in vaccination rates can leave a child unprotected.
And second… some kids can’t get vaccines. They have complex health problems, or they have legitimate reactions to vaccinations and have to have their vaccinations spread out. And some kids are unintentionally left unprotected for a little while, maybe they missed doses because of a chaotic home life, or fluctuation in health care coverage. These people are a small part of the population, but that alone probably hovers at 2-3%… so small changes in vaccine rates can put a whole “herd” below that 95% coverage pretty easily.
That’s for measles of course, other diseases are usually less infectious, but there’s a tipping point for every disease (known as the R0).
Also, some people who are vaccinated, still can get the disease (known as breakthrough disease). This is common in influenza & chicken pox… however those vaccinated individuals are usually less likely to infect others than unvaccinated individuals who have the disease.
I have ALWAYS wanted to know how a sewing machine worked!!!!
This is and excellent illustration of why thread tension is a big deal for sewing machines.
Yep. If you see little dots of your bobbin thread on the top, your top tension is too tight. If you see dots your top thread on the bottom, your top tension is too loose. If you get a mess of your top thread on the bottom, you probably need to rethread the needle and/or wind a new bobbin.
(You can also adjust the bobbin tension, but that’s usually not necessary for anything but free-motion quilting. It also requires much finer adjustments than the top tension.)
This is really helpful in helping me figure out why my machine is so angry at me!
Newer users may not realise that Dropbox once included a “Public” folder for shared links. Everything in that folder got a unique url which could be copied and given to any other individual(s) as a direct link to that content, or which could be embedded into another forum post so that – for example – an image would appear.
Dropbox ended support for a Public folder for new users some years ago, but existing users were assured they could continue to use theirs. There are now millions of links on the internet which are from Dropbox users’ Public folders.
Now Dropbox are discontinuing the Public folder for ALL users. If this wasn’t bad enough (after the promises which were made), Dropbox are refusing to ‘grandfather’ (i.e. preserve) the links that are already out there, even after they end support for all Public folders. All such links will, overnight, become ‘dead’, wherever they are on the internet.
Dropbox refuse to explain WHY they will not preserve existing links, refuse to enter into discussion about this, and refuse even to explain WHY they won’t discuss it. They’ve also been heavily censoring any discussion of this on their own forums: deleting threads to make it look like there’s less of an organized outcry, editing other user’s posts without their permission to say completely different things than they originally did, deleting posts altogether. They only stopped doing this once it was pointed out that people with e-mail subscriptions to the topic (such as myself), could see and had evidence of what they were doing.
Dropbox is a shady company that continues to lie to its users, won’t offer any recompense to the PAYING CUSTOMERS who use this feature that they were PROMISED, and is destroying tens of thousands of people’s real work, from college professors to small businesses.
Fun fact: There is no scarcity of food, water, or housing. It’s just distributed excessively to certain people.
I beg to differ but okay…
Nah, it’s true. Just off some quick research, rich countries waste 222 million tons of food per year, which is nearly equal to the amount Sub-Saharan Africa produces in a year. (Source)
In 2009 everyday in the United States, leaking pipes lost an estimated 7 billion gallons of drinking water. (Source)
And in also in the United States, in February of last year, there were about 3.5 million homeless people, yet 18.6 million vacant homes. (Source)
You can “differ” all you want But facts are facts
GET EM
Fuck, people
Most of this isn’t them being distributed to the wrong people, it’s being distributed in the wrong places.
The reason there’s not much water in the desert but a lot of it in (real) lakes isn’t because capitalism’s bad, man. It’s because the wrong things are in the wrong places at the wrong times.
That wasted food? It’s food going stale because it couldn’t make it to consumers. The water leaking out the pipes? That’s because moving water is actually difficult and not because some Greed Gremlin is licking all the extra water off the pipes. The homeless people who aren’t in the vacant homes? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that most of the homeless people are in cities and most of the abandoned housing is in small towns.
Logistics is important.
Logistics. Is. Important.
Logistics 👏 Is 👏 Important
If there’s one thing I could teach everyone in the world, I think “moving things around is actually hard” might be that thing. Hard on a scale you can’t imagine until you try to do it.
There are millions of trucks on the road around the world trying to make things function and the complexity of their work, all rolled together, is staggering. If they couldn’t all find a way to be in the right place at the right time in under 30 minutes or your money back – well, tbh, people would start dying.
And they don’t do it for the love or the honour or the heroism. They keep us from starving cuz they want that dolla dolla bill, yo. People figure out ways to move corn from one side of the globe to the other because they’re greedy. These people are doing an important job and we want them to do it better and better over time. Until, eventually, the spice flows everywhere.
Which is why I get pissed off every time people forget that this is an actual job. That this is a problem people try to solve. When they say the problem is just that some people have too much.
Because you know what happens when we stop working on the problem of moving things around so we can instead point fingers at the people who are eating too much?
I still think one of the most simultaneously unintentionally hilarious and horrifyng things I’ve heard someone say was when in a chamber debate a ( thought to be somewhat talented) member said of the motion on socialism (to which she subscribed) that she believed much of economics and finance had been deliberately arranged so as to be so needlessly complex as to obscure the workings of capitalism and stifle criticism, that she couldn’t see why it wasn’t as simple as “we’ve this much food, and this many mouths to feed, let’s just divide it up”.
It suddenly became crystal clear for the first time to many in the chamber how famines start.
A Middleground 