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lemoniceforever:

A collaborative project, nearly a year and a half in the making, has finally appeared online courtesy of my inability to finish what I start, but also of the fact that I impulsively bought a Red Bull at Rite Aid last night at like 8 PM. An explanation, courtesy of my Red Bull haze:

For those of us who prefer to spend our days enjoying things, it is a fact of life: Lots of disagreeable people like things that might otherwise be pretty cool. In early 2012, Tag, David, and I, using nothing but a Google doc and our combined grade-school knowledge of mathematics, attempted to quantify the ways in which these madding crowds might be messing up our lives.

It’s strange that we let others drag down our appreciation for something as great as Chappelle’s Show, but also funny how Sublime’s fans manage to make Sublime even worse. We live in a complicated world.

Feel free to disagree with any of our conclusions. Recommended: sort by Level of Tragedy in order to get the clearest picture of what greatnesses have been sunk by their accompanying fandoms. 

This is so amazing.

So amazing.

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intheflowersss:

When you take a moment to reflect on the history of product development at Monsanto, what do you find? Here are twelve products that Monsanto has brought to market. See if you can spot the pattern……

THIS IS INSANE

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liberalsarecool:

Inconsistent rhetoric is the foundation of Tea Party.

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buzzfeed:

Anyone else notice that Lindsay Bluth-Fünke looked a little… different in the fourth season of Arrested Development?

It makes me super sad she felt the need to have this work done. STUPID SOCIETY! HATE YOU!

good:

Seedbombing is better with friends!

ucresearch:

Seed bombing in Silverlake

A few weeks ago we met up with our friend Alessandra over at Good Magazine where we threw seed bombs at empty lots in LA.  This was part of Good’s “Neighbor Day” celebration as a way to get to know your community by doing activities together.  

Judi Gerber talks a little bit about what exactly seed bombing is and why people do it.  She too works with communities as a UC Master Gardener by helping them find better ways to build community gardens and tips on what crops to grow in the various California climates.  Here’s what she had to say:

“Guerrilla gardening is a growing movement of green enthusiasts who transform abandoned patches of land in cities by planting in neglected public spaces and vacant lots. The targets for their seed bombs are usually abandoned lots, sidewalk cracks, and parkways/parking medians. And, they usually “bomb” an area anonymously.”

“A seed bomb is made from clay, compost and seeds and they can transform barren and neglected urban areas into lush green and colorful spaces; all they need is sunlight and water since everything else is already packed into the bomb. For example, in Los Angeles, a typical seed bomb consists of a native wildflower mix of white yarrow, California poppy, lupine, and blue flax.”

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I WANT TO DO THIS SO BAD!!!

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goodetogo:

the american taliban.

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“Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke”

liberalsarecool:

“[Assistant Attorney General] Lanny Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who’s ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a “record” financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank.

The banks’ laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC’s Mexican branches and “deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows.”

This bears repeating: in order to more efficiently move as much illegal money as possible into the “legitimate” banking institution HSBC, drug dealers specifically designed boxes to fit through the bank’s teller windows. Tony Montana’s henchmen marching dufflebags of cash into the fictional “American City Bank” in Miami was actually more subtle than what the cartels were doing when they washed their cash through one of Britain’s most storied financial institutions.”

- Matt Taibi

More banks than HSBC have laundered drug money. in 2010, Wells Fargo and Wachovia ADMITTED to laundering $378,400,000,000 (billions!) of Mexican cartel money. They paid a 160 million dollar fine. Apparently, HSBC didn’t have the political juice that Wells had.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

(Source: Rolling Stone)

Frog 1: Bored now [turns away]

Frog 2: I BET THIS WILL EXCITE YOU!!!

Frog 1: Can I fucking help y-?

Frog 2: EXCITEMENT!!!

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1st gif: Her eyebrows raise in surprise whenever he mentions “lord” and takes a deep breath. I know this thought process well.

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