On this, the anniversary of the lunar landing, let us also celebrate the greatest post-mission achievement by a crewman.
I refer, of course, to the time Buzz Aldrin (age 72 at the time) cold-cocked a moon landing conspiracy theorist straight in his smug face after being accused of being a coward, liar, and thief.
Yes, someone was indeed dumb enough to tell a man so unafraid of death that he was willing to go into the void on a fragile explosive rocket, a coward.
Said dumbass was filming this confrontation as some sort of proof of moon fraud, but has instead captured this glorious moment of near-cosmic justice for us to loop for all time.
Aldrin was not charged with any crime. He should have been given another medal for public service.
A heifer is a female bovine that hasn’t had a calf yet. A calf is born a heifer and becomes a cow when she calves for the first time.
A cow is a mature female animal that has had a calf. Some people say “first calf/lactation heifer” until she has her second calf (I am in this camp)
A bull is an intact male bovine
A steer is a castrated male bovine. Also called a bullock outside the US
An ox is any bovine that has been trained to do draft work. It’s a job title like racehorse or sled dog.
A freemartin is an intersex sterile heifer that was born twin to a bull (or even gestated for a time in the same womb as a bull that didn’t make it to term). This happens because the twins share the same blood circulation and male hormones end up in the heifer, stopping her reproductive parts from developing correctly.
A “stag” is a bull that wasn’t correctly castrated and one of the testicles remains functional, and I’ve also seen it used for cryptorchids. A “gomer” is a vasectomized bull used for heat detection.
There’s some other weird other-country terms but those are what I can think of for now
Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn’t already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent’s days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream
Unions. UNIONS. U.N.I.O.N.S. They had pensions because they had unions and the unions fought for pensions in their contracts. I have a pension at my work. I have a pension at my work because we have a union that fought for it in the contracts.
“Why do people keep having kids when the world is burning?? They are being selfish!” In a world that is burning, is it better to wallow in your own misery or continue to live another day? Why sit and wait to die when you could live until your last breath?
plus it’s not even burning. not sure when this mythical era in history was when nothing bad was happening so it was ok to have kids. and furthermore. i’m allowed to consume resources and reproduce it’s not selfish, god said so.
People like to act like modern day problems are so much worse than historical ones. But people never stopped having kids. Maybe small groups, sure, but the human race has never stopped. Under threat of genocide, nuclear war, famine, sickness, people still have children. And that’s how it should be. If we are the last generations, we have no reason to create a better world.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”
all goofing aside I genuinely don’t understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene™ is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you’re willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I’m not even saying you can’t enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?
yes that is indeed why she’s on the list of famous women who like women
why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed “um actually most of these people are bi or pan” did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I’m going to kill you.
POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension
btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of “yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all’s only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???”
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Republican attorney general to stand down and allow an initiative petition to legalize abortion in the state to move forward.
Supreme Court judges unanimously affirmed a lower court’s decision that Attorney General Andrew Bailey must approve the cost estimate provided by the auditor, despite Bailey’s insistence that the cost to taxpayers of restoring abortion rights could be as much as a million times higher than what the auditor found.
Because Bailey refused to approve Republican Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick’s cost estimate, the secretary of state has not been able to give the amendment his stamp of approval that is needed for supporters to begin gathering voter signatures to put it on the ballot in 2024.
In Thursday's Supreme Court order, judges found that Bailey’s stonewalling meant plaintiff Anna Fitz-James, who was represented by the ACLU of Missouri, lost out on nearly 100 days she could have been collecting signatures.
“Until the official ballot title is certified – a critical step being held up solely by the Attorney General’s unjustified refusal to act – Fitz-James cannot challenge that title in circuit court or circulate her petitions,” judges wrote. “Fitz-James’s constitutional right of initiative petition is being obstructed, and the deadline for submitting signed petitions draws nearer every day.”
A construction worker in Texas, initially accused of being on drugs before he died, actually died of heatstroke while working in the sun in June 2022, according to a lawsuit filed last month.
Gabriel Infante, 24, was installing fiber optic cables in San Antonio for his employer, B Comm Constructors LLC, on June 23, 2022, when he started showing signs of heat stress. He eventually succumbed to heatstroke hours later at a hospital, the lawsuit states.
His mother, Velma Infante, filed the lawsuit against the construction company on the first anniversary of the incident, claiming it neglected to protect her son from “the known hazards associated with extreme heat conditions" while on the job.
The recent wave of worker strikes have ushered in a new era: the “summer of strikes,” also known as hot strike summer.
Employees at UPS, Amazon, Starbucks and entertainment companies across Hollywood have walked off the job or threatened to do so over the last few months in an effort to pressure their bosses to improve conditions and pay them more.
More than 200 strikes have occurred across the U.S. so far in 2023, involving more than 320,000 workers, compared with 116 strikes and 27,000 workers over the same period in 2021, according to data by the Cornell ILR School Labor Action Tracker.
“Workers have more bargaining power given the strength of the economy,” said Harry Katz, a professor at Cornell University.
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