
Well, one can dream. Le sigh. 
“Improve” is an action, not an event.
It doesn’t just happen over time. You must actively do it.
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Random critique I was too lazy to type.
Distance & Size
*I meant top of the cliff, by the way.
(Source: fav.me)
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Quiz 2 Critique
It would be best that you take notes. You’re expected to demonstrate remembering the concepts covered from one week to the next.
Go on to part 2.
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Letter (8.5x11)

Ledger (11x17)

(Let me know if anyone needs other (non-US) paper sizes. I will provide.)
If you can get 11x17 paper, great! If you can’t, just make make the grid larger by putting two sheets together.
1. Carefully cut the long edge of the letter size at the first set of “X” of two sheets.
2. Line then up and tape the edges.
3. Tape where there are no lines, so it stays together if you move the page.
4. Turn it over and tape the entire length of where they meet.
Try to print in color, but in greyscale the lines will be light and you’ll be using a dark pencil anyway.
Print more anytime you need to. (If you have access to a copy machine or a duplex printing printer, I suggest making it double sided to save on paper.)
(Source: incompetech.com)
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keikishei:
inday-en-en:
No. You had sex with a girl when you were a child. It ended in pregnancy. You are attacking the morality of a 14 year old girl who terminated a pregnancy that would have resulted in a child that neither you or her had the capacity to care for. A girl that preserved your and her own youth, and stopped a child being raised in circumstances that are not fit for any child. You really should be assessing your own morality. What kind of 14 year old boy fucks a 14 year old girl, without protection, gets her pregnant and then runs an online smear campaign against her for doing what was best for her, her family and you? What? You think you had the capacity to raise a child at age 14/15? How would you feed it or look after it? You wouldn’t. You were going to dump it on her or your own parents, live like the carefree little shit you are and occasionally play with the child when you could be bothered and think “Wow, what a good, brave young father I am.” You made the mistake, she went through the trauma of saving your youth for you. You owe her so much better than this. You absolutely disgust me. Less than forward-slash three, you’re real fucking remorseful. That’s poetry that is. You’re breaking my heart kid. That girl should have every right to decide what she wants to do to her body. The idea that you should take responsibility and give birth implies that you are responsible to this fetus and you owe it something. A pregnant person does not owe a fetus anything any more than they owe you an apology for being alive. Try again, pro lifers. Pro-Choice.
^ this persons comments = perfection
I wish more people would consider the big picture instead of focusing on their “moral” self satisfaction. Bravo.
(via omegasama)
The words we use and that which we label things holds a lot of power.
Pro-Life
No matter what spin you put on it, the issue is always about the legal right to make a decision concerning one’s own reproduction. Is it coincidence that it tries to imply that any other opinion is Anti-Life? We all like life, right? We all like having the right to make the choices that affect the rest of our lives. Having the right won’t suddenly make women who choose to have a child line up for abortions, but who would join the Anti-Choice bandwagon?
Segregation
All that “separate but equal” mess was bullshit and the people who put it into law knew it was bullshit. Resources can never and will never be split equally when one group is seen as more deserving than the other. Just the need to keep the “other” away says that the one group sees the other as inferior. It’s discrimination. Period.
This brings me the issue of “gay marriage”. While people think it’s just well and fine to call it that, we have to remember that social ills are always termed to put a positive or negative spin, to the benefit of the group that thinks themselves superior.
The issue is MARRIAGE EQUALITY. It’s not just about getting married. It’s about the right to create and maintain a family unit, with the same legal rights and protections, as well as the same social significance for all families.
Let’s call civil unions what they are. Family Segregation. Religion aside (whatever happened to separation of church and state), marriage is a contract that holds a specific social significance and specific rights. A civil union is a contract that does not hold same social significance or the same rights.
Notice that marriage is an uncountable noun*, while “civil union” is not. It’s a thing, no more significant than a pen or a mousepad, while marriage is a concept. Concepts are higher forms of noun than things. You’d think America would have already learned that “separate, but equal” never works. (Then again, how often does this country learn from it’s past mistakes or make any attempt to correct them unless compensation is involved).
Just as we no longer throw gender or race in front of occupations that are “those people” aren’t “supposed” to do (male nurse, woman doctor), we need to stop putting sexual grouping in front of family situations. It silently endorses ranking the situations, just as male nurse ranks the nurse as inferior to the other kind of nurse that are supposed to be a nurse. Gay adoption. Gay marriage. The separatist language needs to stop and if, as someone who supports marriage equality, you can’t recognize and remove their spin from your your mouth, you have no right to bitch whenever you see another “ban” of “gay marriage”.
tl;dr:
It’s easy as hell to make gay marriage a social ill to be protected from. Kind of hard to get people (who aren’t bigots) to agree that banning marriage equality is the just or moral thing to do.
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