#population problem

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

#The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine #Ilan Pappé #Palestine #Israel #Free Palestine #Free Gaza #ethnic cleansing #zionism #nsnv #colonialism #atypicalreads #politics #history #state of israel #ideology #nonfiction #Ilan Pappe #population problem #demographic problem #jewish israelis #arabs #crusaders #south africa #apartheid #jewish majority #zionist project #unfounded fears

[arkcacorporate]

With the growing climate change becoming a threat to existentialism due to excessive hazardous waste, solid waste, plastic waste, battery, tyre and e-waste on the environment, some of the developing Southeast Asian continents are inclining towards sustainable development.

Singapore is one of those countries that’s planning to combat the growing pollution unleashed by rapid urbanization. The Singapore Green Plan 2030 is one of those. Keep Reading...

#Singapore #population #population problem

[jewreallythinkthat]

Something I really don't understand is this obsession the anti-Israel crowd (in the West) have with death and martyrdom. All they care about is dying, and often killing for their cause; I see nothing about building a better future that isn't based on the murder of 9 million Israelis.

It's easy to die for a cause. The challenge is living to make a better tomorrow.

#jumblr #antisemitism #i/p #killing yourself and others does nothing to promote peace. frankly killing others is just terrorism in this scenario #if you want peace then you should be workng with jews and israelis #deal with antisemitism islamophobia and the rot in the knesset to move towards a two state solution #anything other than a two state solution is discrimination and death #dying for your cause is not cute or progressive. its lazy because you didnt want to put in the effort to do real work moving forwards #jews are 0.2 of the worlds population. if you refuse to engage with them you are the problem #majority voice doesnt mean correct. it just means loud #if your voice is leading to people killing themselves then you need to take a long hard look in a mirror

[botanyshitposts]

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

#super sad piece fellas like this shit guts me i cant even stress it enough #stories about nepenthes poaching hit different #there are hundreds of species #some are really common and widespread all over indonesia/china/japan/oceania #and some are like. super hyperadapted to one specific ridge on one specific mountain #theyre still being recorded and stuff because theyve speciated so much #so youll have a plant that has like. a max of 15 adults in the population at any given time. literally a nightmare scenario #AND theyre diaceous (there are male plants and female plants). doesnt seem like a problem until you think about the population dynamics #there not only has to be two plants but the plants have to be a male and a female #and people living there have reason to take them. like the poacher interviewed in this article does it to supplement his income #from working at a horrifying rubber production ordeal to feed his wife and kids #and he says everyone in his village does the same for the same reasons #nightmare!! nightmare!! nightmare horrible nightmare world!!! horrible fucking nightmare!!!! #nepenethes #carnivorous plants #poaching #conservation

[slutdge]

listen, i understand the sentiment behind yall saying "someone who doesnt want help cant be helped" i really do but i think yall are missing the big point when i talk about these things that suicide and drug addiction are structural issues that could be solved by providing peoples basic needs, they are not a personal failing, the majority of suicidal people and addicts do want to be helped, its just that their environment doesnt permit it. you can want help all you want, but it wont stop you from being crushed by the endless meat grinder of capitalism and abuse.

#the issue is not people dont want help. the issue is that this society causes a large population of suicidal people and addicts #thats the actual problem like #please lets not lose sight of that #addiction #🔗

[uncanny-tranny]

The thing that gets me the most about intersexism is the fact that... it doesn't matter how many intersex people there are - no matter if they are as common as redheadheaded people or anybody else - when the intersexist sees human bodies and their states as a inherently a political battle, an agenda to be "won," the intersex body will always be an "anomaly," something crude and unnatural, regardless of how oxymoronic the "unnatural natural body" is.

#intersex #intersexism #intersexism tw #that's why the venn diagram between the transphobe and the intersexist is only ever a few degrees away from being just a circle #was watching how people treated an intersex woman indistinguishably with just... unparalleled misogyny and intersexism #because they see ALL bodies as a political battlefield for which their viewpoint must win. and it won't matter how many people it destroys. #...if you are destroyed by them - in the eyes of the intersexist - you deserved it. survival of the fittest right? #it reminds me of the salem with trials - if you drowned well you were a normal woman. it's better that you died though... #...your other option wasn't any better - truth is... the game was rigged from the start #this is why the argument that intersex people don't exist and are common isn't effective... #...it's like telling a sexist that half the population are women.... that's their problem! that's exactly their issue!!! #the issue is often not because they are common or not common but that they EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE #it wouldn't matter if intersex people were twenty times as rare as they are now so long as they exist to the intersexist

[imjulia-andilikecats]

THROWBACK: When The Calore Brothers' IQ Momentarily Drop in Some Scenes:

The Red Queen Fandom:

#red queen #glass sword #king's cage #war storm #mare barrow #cal calore #maven calore #old meme #random #tiberias vii calore #marecal #mareven #i love these two idiots so much #image being raised to govern a large population and has a hard timw doing math problems #also i might give cal a pass since he was in a dazed with the sun shooting #maven on the other hand...👀 #when the math aint mathing #and the cunning aint cunning

[b0bthebuilder35]

Too often, people believe homelessness is due to some type of character flaw. In reality, that’s not even close. The top causes being…

1. A lack of affordable housing

2. Unemployment

3. Poverty

4. Low wages

#homlessness #homeless #unhoused population #unhoused #affordable housing #lack of affordable housing #unemployment #poverty #low wages #living wage #raise the wage #raise the minimum wage #poverty wages #employment #lack of employment #character flaw #systemic issues #systemic problems #capitalist system #reality #addiction #addicted #cause and effect #cause #causes #current reality #in reality #data shows #data #statistics

[autistic-katara]

how to tell ur beloved tumblr mutual this is the second time they’ve reblogged something heavily based in neonazi propaganda in the name of pro palestine stuff and u know they’re not being malicious but it’s really exhausting but also w/o being mean abt it bcz u do rlly like them

#at least this time it was softcore “the jews killed jesus” and erasing jewish history instead of straight up #“(((they))) are brainwashing the tv-owning population into believing antisemitism is a problem” #yk AT LEAST #antisemitism #ryan shut the fuck up

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

#The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine #Ilan Pappé #Palestine #Israel #Free Palestine #Free Gaza #ethnic cleansing #zionism #nsnv #colonialism #atypicalreads #politics #history #state of israel #ideology #nonfiction #Ilan Pappe #population problem #demographic problem #theodor herzl #1895 #ben gurion #1947 #december 1947 #jewish state #binyamin netanyahu #benjamin netanyahu #2003

[furiousgoldfish]

every time I ask myself 'what would my parents do' i know exactly what. they would find a service worker to be rude to. it works for every situation.

#shitpost #joke #i don't ask myself this very often lol #however i believe my conclusion is completely true #they would also put pressure on every person in their midst to resolve whatever problem they have for them #and they themselves would just look for other ways to suck out energy and life out of human population #gross parasites

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Quick i need you to assign mbti-types to your favourite romans

(Myers-Briggs Type Indicator/MBTI)

Pompey: Took an online MBTI quiz five times until it gave him the result he wanted.

Caesar: Can't take an MBTI test because he figured out how to cheese the questions.

Crassus: Sells people MBTI tests.

Cato the Younger: Rants about MBTI being a sign of everything wrong with modern society.

Bibulus: Has never taken an MBTI test but is sure he's an INTJ.

Caelius: Assigns everyone he knows to MBTI types based on vibes. Uses this to judge whether they're "compatible."

Marcus Agrippa: Tells people MBTI is not evidence-based, perpetuates false ideas about how cognition works, and is used as a cover for employment discrimination, thus making it no better than astrology.

Maecenas: Tells Agrippa to lighten up, it's just a silly personality test.

Octavian: Fervently believes in MBTI AND astrology.

Mark Antony: Thinks MBTI must be the initials for some Marcus B_____ Tiberius he's never met.

Cicero: Hired a psychologist for a real personality test and discovered too late he'd signed up for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory which takes about five hours plus interviews and debriefing. Left the building with an accidental diagnosis, pamphlet for local support groups, and existential crisis.

#problems with the MBTI: 3/4 of its scales don't reflect objectively measurable traits in populations #(only the introversion/extroversion trait is clearly attested) #the 16 possible results are then based on treating these 4 scales as dichotomies #but they're actually spectrums and most people score in the middle #so two folks could answer similarly but get classified very differently based on just a couple minor questions! #sorry for the rant haha. this comes up at my job often so i have strong opinions #if you want an evidence-based fun personality test check out the 'Big Five' test at openpsychometrics.org! #mbti #roman politicians in strange places #just roman memes #just roman asks

[gayhectocotyli]

in addition to the "dehumanisation" thing can we stop it with the misanthropy on the alterhuman tags. not only do humans Exist in the alterhuman community but 9 times out of 10 it just leads to eco-fascist drivel of "humans are so bad cuz they destroy the environment." you do not get to say this when colonised peoples all over the world got our land stolen by settlers and desecrated, including our& own island of Puerto Rico which is still a colony (or "commonwealth" :::/) to this day, for the profit of capitalists. ecological devastation is a consequence of this colonialism and very much like it if you did not try to claim it is a product of "humans at large" to justify your misplaced misanthropy, or better yet stop hating humans in the first place. your misanthropy towards all humans is a misanthropy to us as well.

#see previous reblog for context on dehumanisation #k #alterhuman #alterhumanity #misanthropy #i know other people talked about this problem before but to me whos land is still a fucking colony and half of its population are diaspora #its a grave insult and im tired of it #im not letting this be a discourse thing i dont do that shit i just block

[deer-with-a-stick]

if netflix makes Luo Ji non-chinese I'm going to throw myself off a fucking cliff

#*incoherent screaming* #if i have to see another “but netflix has to make the characters appeal to the bigger audience” comment im going to fucking lose it #i have a bar of deviation for adaptations. examples: #lotr: its all fine and dandy i love it #the hobbit: getting a little close to dangerous territory but i'll take it #dune: perfection #foundation: no wtf #rop: DO NOT FUCKING SPEAK TO ME OF THIS SHOW #i will still watch 3bd when it comes out #but I will be fucking PISSED if what i'm seeing about the characters is real #“give them personalities” ok yeah sure im fine with that #“the plot affects the entire population of the earth” ok sure but why are 75% of the cast non asian now. #“we need diversity! plus you need the audience to appeal to the audience” im going to fucking bite you. fuck off. #no hate to the actors i'm sure they did a great job its not their fault anyway #but seriously if they made luo ji non-chinese im actually going to fucking lose it #3 body problem #three body problem #remembrance of earth's past #netflix #actually if they made zhang beihai non-chinese as well then i'm just going to- *internal screaming*

[spiribia]

something i wish more games with predator / prey animal behaviors would put in is hunger values for the predator animals where if they just ate they will be full and stop hunting for a while. in a lot of games predatory creatures will just undiscerningly raze through a herd of prey animals within a span of seconds upon encountering it and then just move on and leave all their meat loot strewn around everywhere untouched. this could create a cool effect if you wanted to portray a very capricious and deadly beast but isn't really the kind of thing i'd prefer for like every single regular guy that eats meat out there. plus they should start eating an animal after they hunt it instead of just killing it and wandering off and leaving it out in the open for a player to collect.

#talks #i kept free-range slimes in slime rancher where the chicken population outpaced the speed at which the slimes would eat them #the only problem is you can never 100% properly do this because there are no free-range ranch areas that are #completely closed off the way pens are where a slime is guaranteed not to like... launch itself out into the sea and die.

[uncanny-tranny]

Honestly, the craziest part of accessibility is that there aren't many abled people (and disabled people who aren't disabled in Every Way Possible) who wouldn't benefit from any of the accessibility options out there

ALT text has made it so much better to navigate image-based pages! I'm not visually-impared, but tumblr is terrible at loading images, and I'm not always connected to WiFi. People who add ALT text make it easy to satiate my curiosity when images don't load! This, coupled with actually learning how blind and visually-impared people navigate the online world, has inspired me to do my best to emulate the things I find helpful, even if the way it helps me is very different than theirs. Having a sense of scale in how it helps me versus how it actually makes the internet usable to the blind and visually-impared is something I do try to keep in mind.

Navigating a world with accessible options is primarily going to help the disabled, and it's imperative to keep this in mind. I do think, though, that illustrating just how much accessibility impacts even abled people's lives can help inspire people to think, "wow, I can't imagine a world without [accessibility option] and I don't need it, but it makes life so much easier." The more I interact with accessibility options I don't need, I still find it so helpful. I can't even imagine how amazing it is when you do need that accessibility and it's actually provided to you.

I don't think that abled people should only be in it for themselves. Again, accessibility should put disabled needs first and foremost. But I can't help but wonder how many people you can get to understand this by first saying how it impacts them, too.

#disability #accessibility #long post #ALT text is a perfect example of accessibility for not only the visually-impared but for a vast array of sighted people too #i don't want people to construe this as 'oh so only abled people matter in accessibility huh' because that isn't what i am saying #basically... it can be hard at times to viscerally experience a disability you don't have and to be accommodated for it #i learned a lot about how the blind and visually-impared internet population navigate the internet... #...and seeing how ALT text for instance has even helped *me* has me realize how important i found it... #...so i couldn't imagine just how important it is if you cannot see an image the way a sighted person would #it's things like that that can help teach abled people about how they even benefit from disability advocacy and don't even know it #ily accessibility (which is why i love to talk about it) #yet another post i composed while pausing skyrim (this is Actually a problem (lighthearted))