Month: June 2021

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Times When People Were Camouflaged and Didn’t Even Realize It

According to Wikipedia, camouflage first came about in the 18th century when rifle units started wearing these types of outfits to blend in with forest surroundings.

But according to me, it first came about when some fish got born looking like a rock and didn’t get eaten so he made a bunch of other rock-lookin’ fish.

Follow me for more insightful history/biology facts.

However it happened, it’s kind of everywhere now, including places nobody even needed it to be. It happens by accident. Here, look at these memes, you’ll see what I mean. (or WILL you?)

15. When your scarf is a floor

Let’s not lose our heads over this.

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14. When your skirt is some rocks

Just don’t go skipping yourself on the water.

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13. When your socks are a carpet

I don’t know why this looks so cozy but it does.

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12. When your shirt is your bed

He doesn’t know what’s happening but he’s happy about it.

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11. When your top is your phone

Surely you saw this one coming, Jessica.

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10. When your dress is a curtain

Ta da!

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9. When your pants are a bed

Get a leg up on your day.

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8. When your shirt is flowers

Just plant me here, I’ll bloom.

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7. When your shirt is bowl

Am I crazy or does it look like this dude poured milk in his mac and cheese?

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6. When your outfit is tissues

What are ya gonna, cry about it?

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5. When your shoes are stairs

Don’t trip.

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4. When your clothes is chair

Have a seat, why don’t ya.

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3. When your knit is floor

Is she in love?

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2. When your shirt is drink

Do I spy choccy milk?

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1. When your vibe is beer

That describes all of us.

Via: The Chive

Say hidden, stay safe.

How do you best blend in?

Tell us in the comments.

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These Entitled People Will Ignite Your Righteous Anger

There are a lot of good things about the way the internet connects us, both with people we know and love and with complete strangers all around the globe.

There are downsides, too, like realizes just how many people in this world are completely clueless, or who expect things from others that they have no reason to dole out for free – actual items, but also expertise and the like.

If things like that burn your britches, these 18 people’s begging is going to light your booty on fire.

18. He just kept digging himself deeper and deeper.

And it’s like he didn’t even realize it.

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17. There are a bizarre number of people who expect strangers to care about their kid’s Christmas.

I mean, I like kids but it’s really not my problem.

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16. People will always surprise you.

And not in the best way.

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15. An honor you say?

Take that mess and stuff it in a sack, sir.

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14. Here’s hoping he saw this post.

Imagine having the gall to crab about getting a nice gift.

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13. I guess I don’t have any real “mates” either.

Those are tough to come by, I would think.

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12. Maybe they…forgot?

This does not seem like the start of a beautiful friendship.

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11. Do they imagine people want to be in weddings?

I need to know whether they had a wedding party at all.

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10. Well, he got his hopes up.

Kind of hard to blame him on that one.

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9. We all have to draw the line somewhere.

I guess for some people, that boundary is mayonnaise.

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8. Someone needs lessons on negotiations.

And also not begging strangers for expensive things.

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7. It’s not worth trying to talk sense with some people.

Apparently she didn’t really want to get there.

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6. Her poor dad.

I hope he had her when he was young and still has a strong back.

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5. Well ok then bye bro.

This is like a rude slap in the face at exactly the wrong time.

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4. Someone’s time was wasted, that’s for sure.

Not ours, though. I don’t think.

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3. I wouldn’t even know how to respond to that.

Fork over the $2, ma’am.

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2. Demanding AND rude.

He seems nice.

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1. Sounds like they have a good thing going.

I’m just saying, I’d pay way more to see the mullet guy go flying.

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I have no idea what’s wrong with people, y’all.

Tell us your best (worst) choosing beggar stories in the comments!

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Stockton, California Gave Residents $500 a Month. Here’s How It’s Going.

There are a lot of conversations happening in politics these days about how we can better take care of everyone in our society. What can we afford, how can we re-allocate funds, who deserves what, and what history says about supporting people with a safety net when times are hard.

Michael Tubbs, though, the young mayor of Stockton, CA, is done talking – in 2020, he decided to start doing, instead. He and the city council approved a budget measure that would give 125 randomly selected residents with a median household income below $50k a year an extra $500 a month.

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There were no strings attached. No drug tests, no requirements to work or be actively looking for a job. Very little monitoring was done at all.

Tubbs is heavily invested in Stockton, having grown up there below that median income line himself, and was so dismayed in 2012 to hear Forbes call it one of “America’s Most Miserable Cities” that he ran for mayor. He was elected at the age of 26, making him one of the youngest mayors in the country – but also perhaps, one of the most forward-thinking ones in the crowd.

He founded the Stockton Empowerment Distribution (SEED) in 2019. The funding comes from philanthropic donations, and when a team of independent researchers heard about the initiative, they couldn’t get there to conduct a parallel experiment fast enough.

Researchers Stacia West of the University of Tennessee, and Amy Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania, worked together to collect data from those who received the money, and also established a control group of people who were not selected.

What they found was that, instead of “squandering” the cash – a worry of some who thought there should be some requirements and stipulations placed on it – what the extra month did was reduce people’s income volatility compared to those in the control group.

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Basically, unexpected expenses up to $400 in a month would be able to be handled instead of causing an issue that could take months to straighten out, which also improved people’s mental health.

One recipient said that she “had regular panic attacks and anxiety. I was at the point where I had to take a pill for it” but after the checks, “I haven’t even touched the pills in a while. I used to carry them on me all the time.”

The study found that families typically spent the money on essential items like food, home goods, utilities, and gas, and that instead of encouraging people to stay home, the extra cash did the opposite – after one year, the percentage of recipients who were employed full time grew from 28% to 40%, more than twice the rate for the control group.

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Baker believes that having something of a safety net makes it easier to not only imagine a different job or future, but also to take the risks that are often associated with interviewing for new jobs.

“People were able to apply for jobs they knew they were eligible for but just literally could not take a shift off work to do so.”

She adds that people who don’t have enough money almost always don’t have enough time, either.

“When you live in constant scarcity your entire day is taken up with battling poverty and trying to make ends meet.

You literally don’t have the capacity, or the time to even breathe and reset and think about what a different goal might be.”

Extra money, according to the study and also this participant, made a huge difference in that area.

“I was able to finally take time off work to study and complete my real estate license and even pursue an associate degree.

I have more time and net worth to study…to achieve my goals.”

This experiment joins many others that are seeking ways to alleviate poverty around the world, and the idea of a universal basic income is gaining some traction. We’re seeing the needle move in the States with the stimulus checks and also the recent changes to the child tax credit, both of which were given to people without any strings attached as to how they would spend it.

The full analysis from this study will be available in 2022, and in the next few years, researchers agree that there will be a good knowledge base across diverse populations that can be used to make an assessment.

We’ll just have to keep our fingers’ crossed that good policy follows.

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This is How You Can Delete Yourself From Google Searches

There are many great things about living in the age of the Internet, but not everyone likes the idea of random people being able to learn things about their family and lives with a simple Google search.

It can make a person uncomfortable even if they don’t have something to hide, but that said, there are plenty of people out there with extremely legitimate reasons for needing to stay as anonymous as possible.

Whether you just like your privacy or safety is a major concern, everyone should know how to delete themselves from a Google search if they want to, and we’re about to hand over that knowledge right now.

If you’ve got a common name, this process might not be worth your time and effort, but only you know whether or not it’s important enough to you – and if it is, these steps will help you erase around 99% of your digital footprint.

#1. Do a search yourself.

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Google yourself first and see what actually comes up.

Open an incognito window using the Chrome browser menu, type your name into the search box surrounded by quotes – your whole name, including your middle name and then without your middle name – and make a list fo what comes up.

If there are things that seem problematic, focus on removing those results first.

#2. Realize there are downsides.

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Google searches aren’t the way that corporations store your information, so if you’re concerned about data sharing, you’re going to have to take a hard look at your social media usage and online shopping habits instead.

There will still be plenty of information floating around for data mining; deleting yourself from Google searches will only help thwart future employers, potential stalkers, nosy neighbors, and the like from being able to find you in real life by using the internet.

#3. If you still want to, take the first step.

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The first thing you’re going to have to do is to delete your social media accounts, or at the very least, use a fake name online.

You’ll want to make sure you delete even accounts you haven’t used in some time, like MySpace or Reddit, but your self-Google should make it easy to jog your memory.

If you don’t want to delete, keep the apps that allow you to set them to “private,” which at least prevents google from showing your pictures in the search results.

#4. Contact some data collection sites directly.

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Data collection and data broker results will look like “click here to get the arrest records for” or “we’ve found the address and phone number for” in your search results.

Those sites allow people to pay to access a person’s phone number, address, court history, etc, and unfortunately, there’s no easy way to get the sites to remove you without contacting them directly.

You can pay services like DeleteMe to do it for you, if you have the cash, and it will save you a ton of time.

#5. Delete comments you’ve made.

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If you’ve made comments on website articles, those can come up in a Google search. If you can, just log on to the site and delete your comment.

If you can’t, you’ll have to contact the owner(s) of the site and ask them to remove it for you.

If you can’t find the contact information for the site’s owner, you can use WhoIs.com to find it, but know that the owners aren’t required to delete your comments and may not.

Shoot your shot, though! There are still some people out there who aren’t complete jerks just because they can be.

#6. Remove photos or article mentions.

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If there are photos of you posted by someone else, or articles that mention your name, you will once again be relying on the kindness of the person who put them up to take them down.

Google might be willing to help – you can contact them and request the information be removed on their end, and if the mention or image is inappropriate, you can try using the Report Inappropriate Content Tool to speed up the process.

#7. Hide your home on Google Maps.

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If people know your address (or pay to get it) they’ll be able to see your home on Google Maps (or even street view), but Google makes it fairly simple to request that your house be blurred out through this service.

Go to Google Maps, search your address, and click on your home’s photo.

A black box should appear with your address, and there’s a menu that includes Report a Problem.

Fill out the form and submit, but know that you can’t undo this action.

#8. Hide anything you can’t get removed.

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If Google and/or site owners aren’t willing to help you remove something you’d rather not be easily found, you can force those embarrassing results onto a second page.

Update your information on as many sites as you can, join new ones, start a personal blog or webpage, etc – more recent information should show up first, which would push the things you don’t want found down lower on the list of results.

There you have it, my friends. Not simple, exactly, but doable if you’re committed.

If you decide to disappear from the internet, well, it was nice knowing you – be safe out there!

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People Confess the Things They Know They Should Understand, But They Don’t

I think every adult in the world has those things they know they should get by now, but since they don’t, they’re too embarrassed to ask because they feel like it’s too late.

Well, folks, listen up – it’s never too late. All you have to do is fine the courage to ask, like these 18 people did, and someone on the internet will be happy to explain it to you.

And since we’re online, you don’t even have to see them roll their eyes first.

18. How were you not prepared?

After waiting in a long line to check out, why is it that people don’t have their money ready?

They get to the register and have to search for a credit card or look for coupons. (All that time in line they could have had it organized and ready to go.)

17. You’re never going to stop thinking about it, now.

Why does the word “fridge” have the letter “d” in it, while “refrigerator” does not?

I only know it because I’ve typed “refridgerator” and gotten the squiggly red line about a million times lol

16. It really is baffling.

How these dogs that have these dense bangs hanging over their eyes can see a single goddamn thing.

I work with dogs, and there’s a family with two Maltese. One they keep very trim with no bangs around the eyes. The other one they keep with very long, dense bangs.

It took me awhile to realize that the one with bangs had no eyes. They keep the bangs long because it’s “less alarming” and people don’t ask as many questions lmao

15. We really can’t wrap our minds around it.

Space, it makes my brain hurt trying to figure out things like stars and black holes etc.

The size and distances with space are hard to fathom. The time it takes to get anywhere is depressing.

The sizes and distances of it all is absolutely mind-boggling. It’s so massive and far that it has to be measured in the amount of distance that light can travel in a year. And light travels 186,000 miles per second. I feel so insignificant just thinking about it.

But it can also be kind of comforting in a way, because that means that all my problems are also insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

14. Human brains are not the kindest.

Why do I trust myself to fail so much and like myself so little? Why do I hate “positive attitude” advice from people?

I hated almost everything about myself until a little over a year ago, now I mostly feel neutral about those things.

I realized that I know every weird quirk and flaw about me and that’s why I can’t see myself as beautiful or pleasant.

I decided to stop overthinking and just accept all my flaws and quirks as what they are. As long as it doesn’t hurt anyone and I’m comfortable, it shouldn’t matter.

13. You’ll never be able to find yourself.

That no concept of an absolute position in space exists.

If it helps, we have lots of guide posts. Pulsars spin VERY consistently and we have documented and mapped out a lot of them. We can use these as place markers to orient ourselves if we ever become a galaxy faring species (big ‘if’ there)

12. I honestly haven’t even tried.

Cryptocurrency.

I’ve it explained to me numerous times but it still goes right over my head.

11. I think it’s complicated.

Why do people who seem miserable as parents decide to have more kids…?

I’d like to direct this question towards the parents I currently nanny for. The father clearly doesn’t like his kids, has said before he never even wanted kids, and yet they have three.

Three children that are quite honestly some of the worst behaved kids I’ve ever worked with, and I’ve been working with kids in and out of a school setting going on 15 years now.

Why didn’t you stop after the first one???

10. Being more aware doesn’t usually lead to happiness.

Existence and self aware, the more you think the more the concept of “I” is creepy

My consciousness was ripped from the void and shoved into this body. Does it go back when I die? Is it nothingness, or something more?

9. Does anyone really get it, though?

Quantum physics.

But mostly how there could ever be a smallest thing. Like everything is made up of something else. Zooming down how could there be something that’s not made up of smaller parts?

Like string theory right, smallest thing is supposed to be vibrating strings of energy? Like what is that energy made of? I don’t get it.

8. But I mean…does it matter?

Where we are, all of us, right now.

Like, where are we?

What is this..?

You know?

7. Science isn’t for everyone. To understand, at least.

Chemistry. I only passed because my professor curved every F to a C.

My best friend has her PhD in organic chemistry and she gave me her dissertation in a bound book. Made the mistake of opening it once and was like, what the heck, this is all gibberish.

6. Not so simple.

How to socialize.

How the heck do I start and keep a conversation going? Or talk to people that I don’t know?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and have slightly improved imo, but still can’t figure it out lol. I feel like at some point I just run out of things to talk about. I guess that can be attributed to the fact that I only have a few hobbies though.

Hanging around my friends who are around their friends that I don’t know just makes me feel like a third wheel because they’re all pretty different from me, and talking to people I don’t know is just uncomfortable.

5. Money is confusing.

The stock market.

My understanding of it is it works because everyone says it does. In fact, all money works that way.

4. Mind over matter?

Why I continue to procrastinate and self sabotage.

I started noticing this happened during job applications and university study.

The common denominator? Perfectionism. I wanted my resume to be perfect before submitting it to a potential employer and I wanted my assignments to be perfect before submitting them for grading.

As a result the process for both was extremely stressful and I would go out of my way to avoid that stress.

3. Don’t strain yourself trying to figure it out.

How light is both a particle and a wave.

Or maybe it’s neither. It’s something that we don’t have a word for and that doesn’t exist in a way that we can sense directly. But this unnamed thing happens to act in a way similar to a wave in some situations and like a particle in others.

A cylinder will roll like a sphere in one direction but not roll like a cube in the other. That doesn’t make it a sphere and a cube at the same time. It makes it something different.

2. Do we really need to understand it, though?

Computers, even though I own one I literally don’t know how to build one or fix one when needed.

1. Can they really not see it?

People that treat everybody around them terribly then complain that nobody likes them.

Honestly I vastly prefer when people wave red flags in your face like that. Saves me a lot of time, energy, and hurt.

I’ll go ahead and admit that I’ve just learned a thing or two, how about you?

Tell us in the comments what question you’ve been too afraid to ask, and maybe we can get it answered!

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A 4,000-Year-Old Dolmen of Guadalperal Stone Henge Emerged from the Depths of a Canal in Spain

Any fan of Outlander can tell you about the value of a good stone circle or megalith.

They are an incredible feat of engineering that evokes imagery of giants and druids and ancient gods and ancient humans overcoming extraordinary limitations (and doing math!) in the service of those gods.

There is something magical about such places, and even more magical when one emerges before our eyes like Atlantis.

 

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The Dolmen of Guadalperal is believed to be about 4,000 years old, built around 2,000 BCE.

Think “Stonehenge’s little sister.”

According to My Modern Met:

The Dolmen of Guadalperal is a collection of 150 large granite stones arranged in a circular structure with what appears to be an entranceway guarded by a menhir (standing stone) carved with snake and cup motifs.

Incredibly, this Spanish structure was first discovered by a German archaeologist named Hugo Obermaier in the 1920s.

In case you were wondering what the difference between a henge and dolmen and a stone circle are, My Modern Met explains:

The term dolmen is typically used to describe an ancient structure where standing stones support a large capstone to create a chamber–a structure often used for early Neolithic tombs.

Whereas a henge is defined as a prehistoric monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights.

A henge may or may not include the topping capstone, and can be used for many ceremonies and purposes, as opposed to being a burial chamber.

(For extra nerdy readers, a megalith is one single large stone of several composing a henge or dolmen.)

Proving that modern humans are all pretty much alike, the historic structure was not protected for posterity, and in the 1960s, the Spanish government deliberately flooded the area in order to create the Valdecañas Reservoir.

This left the majority of the stones almost entirely submerged, with only a handful of the talest points visible above the water.

 

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Like much of the world, 2019 was a hot dry year for Europe, and Spain found itself in a deep drought.

By the spring of 2021, that drought had persisted enough that even NASA satellites could see the waters of the Valdecañas Reservoir had receded, and the magnificent stones had finally reemerged after decades.

Understandably, the years under water have not been kind to the structure.

Granite is porous, meaning water was able to infiltrate the stones’ interiors.

Those snake carvings which once decorated the megaliths have largely eroded.

But they are still a sight to behold.

 

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Many local residents are now calling to protect the stones, even if that means moving all 150 of them to higher ground and reconstructing the existing structure, so that once the drought is over, the site can be preserved for tourists and researchers.

Moving the stones wouldn’t be quite the same, but it’s better than nothing, and I really hope they can do it.

I’m a sucker for stone circles myself, having visited both Stonehenge in England and the Standing Stones of Stenness on Orkney, and I’d love the chance to see these old stones in person.

What do you think? Planning a trip to Spain to check them out and attempt to travel through time?

Tell us in the comments!

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#WhyImSingle Hashtag Might Make You Feel Better About Your Own Life…Maybe

I’ve been single for quite a while now, and I’m okay with that.

I know I have my quirks and I also know that it’s gonna take a very special someone for me to give up my independence.

And knowing is half the battle, right?

These brave souls were nice enough to get real about why they’re single. Let’s dive in.

1. That wasn’t a compliment.

In case you didn’t know.

2. That’s your best?

If you say so…

3. Never give up hope!

That call might come tomorrow.

4. Now it’s over.

Time to move on.

5. You’re lying!

That was a test.

6. That could be a problem.

Just letting you know.

7. I’m right about this!

People and their laundry…sheesh.

8. Not the one.

Not by a longshot.

9. Father always knows best.

And here’s one more example.

10. Can I clone myself?

And sleep in a cave?

11. Find your happiness.

Focus on yourself!

12. Darn right!

You nailed it!

Are you single?

If so, why?

Talk to us in the comments and spill your guts!

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