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After A Year, Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Hasn’t Raised Retail Prices

bastlynn:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

Shocking News Update: giving workers a living wage that actually allows them to afford basic necessities while being able to save to treat themself to something nice sometimes has not lead to the destruction of the economy and the downfall of civilisation as we know it

Republicans everywhere left baffled

*GASP*

It’s almost like this is… consistent with 70 years of documented impact of minimum wage increases…

http://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-wage-effect-on-jobs-2016-5

Full report: http://www.nelp.org/publication/raise-wages-kill-jobs-no-correlation-minimum-wage-increases-employment-levels/

After A Year, Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Hasn’t Raised Retail Prices

Reasons why American Ninja Warrior is 100% Good and Pure

madlori:

  • Awesome outfits
  • No fighting involved, despite the name
  • Everybody cheers for everybody
  • Men and women compete on the same course on equal footing
  • Even the best competitors fail, and take it in stride
  • “Akbar Gbaja-Biamila” rolls off the tongue in a pleasant way
  • You’re only competing against the course and yourself
  • SUPER FUN OBSTACLES
  • Holy shit how are these people doing any of this
  • The way Matt Iseman says “A-MER-i-can NINjaaaa WAAAAARrior.”
  • When you wipe out the worst that happens is you get wet
  • Adorable parents, kids and SOs in matching t-shirts on the sidelines, cheering
  • Many ripped and bare-chested men
  • Many ripped and goddess-like women
  • Badass competitors with day jobs like weatherman, flight attendant, and FedEx delivery driver
  • All the other athletes are SUPER PSYCHED when someone does awesomely
  • Kids with sparkly signs in the bleachers
  • The hosts shouting semi-incoherently when someone’s Killing It on the course
  • Successful competitors using their notoriety to start up foundations and help kids
  • So many long-haired hippie rock climbing types
  • Akbar’s infinite well of Dad Jokes
  • People who DIY up Ninja obstacle courses in their backyards or gyms
  • Only one sponsor, and they just want you to drink some pomegranate juice

10oclockdot:

My contribution to the internet’s go-for-broke project of converting all philosophy into Trolley Problem Memes.

(BTW, the official Facebook page is in the process of posting some of these: here’s Ship of Theseus, Buridan’s Ass, Sorites, China Brain, plus more to come…)

(Extra info on what I was going for in the Newcomb, Simone Weil (click “Didn’t Get the Joke?”), “Innocent Murder”, and Smullyan problems. The rest can be easily Googled.)

Source: 10oclockdot

altgf:

andrewbelami:

oraclesofnorway:

Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”

Look at her STRUT!!! She is dragging that endorphin for filth and using that filament as her runway, bitch.

6 inch heels…..she walked in the club like nobody’s business…..godam…..she murdered everybody and i was her witness

Source: oraclesofnorway

hectocotyli-everywhere:

recoil-operated:

themysticdreambouquet:

entethedragonduck:

cerastes:

When you hit your elbow against something, but that specific point of your elbow

it’s…called your funny bone…

that gif tho 

It’s not a bone actually- it’s a nerve that is exposed, specifically the ulnar nerve. The reason it feels so weird to hit it is that it’s not designed to deliver pain signals, so when you hit it it just wiggs out and sends Garbage signals to the brain, and the brain is just like “uh, dude- Ulnar, what the hell is this garbage?? You’re supposed to curl a finger and a half, and move some muscles in the forearm, why are you sending me this crap? How am I supposed to make this into sensory output?”
And the Ulnar nerve is just like “dude dude dude, brain- what the hell is going on?!?”
And the brain goes- “idiot. Fine. You’re on fire, freezing and being electrocuted. Happy?”
And the Ulnar goes “holy crap brain!! I’m on fire, freezing and being electrocuted! What am I going to do!!??!”
And the brain says “you’re an idiot ulnar. A damn idiot.”

This is how human anatomy should be taught

tilthat:

TIL of Centralia, PA: A town mostly abandoned since an underground mine fire started in 1962 and still burns to this day. In 2002 the town had its zip code revoked after the graves started burning. The EPA warns: “Walking and/or driving in the immediate area could result in serious injury or death.”

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