kontextmaschine

mapsontheweb:

European Russia, 1916.

several people have been like “show me the helmet! be badass!”

that’s the exact opposite of the point!

this is the bike and the helmet after the crash.

the helmet looks scratched, but the foam inside probably compressed and lost its resilience, that’s the point, it’s sacrificial.

the fork’s wrecked but the frame looks fine, took it to my mechanic he pointed out how gentle frame curves had tiny paint flaking suggested they’d flexed and borne impact and that’s the point!

this is exactly what this shit’s for!

germanpostwarmodern:

Versöhnungskirche (1966-67) in Rösrath, Germany, by Horst Welsch

mapsontheweb:

Ship traffic in Mediterranean.

argumate:

kontextmaschine:

several people have been like “show me the helmet! be badass!”

that’s the exact opposite of the point!

this is the bike and the helmet after the crash.

the helmet looks scratched, but the foam inside probably compressed and lost its resilience, that’s the point, it’s sacrificial.

the fork’s wrecked but the frame looks fine, took it to my mechanic he pointed out how gentle frame curves had tiny paint flaking suggested they’d flexed and borne impact and that’s the point!

this is exactly what this shit’s for!

stay safe out there kids

thing just broke her leg and had to be put down

for economics’ sake

she was a beautiful innocent creature

argumate:

cosmicwarden:

I know it’s ridiculous, but the “person carrying an absurd and improbable number of weapons must remove them all (to the bewilderment of those around them)” trope is still one of the best tropes of all time.

You: drop your memes!

Me: what, all of them?

unavidamoderna:

Vista del patio, Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro, calle Francisco I. Madero entre Ignacio Allende y Nicolás Bravo, Centro, Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán, México 1968

Arq. Carlos Mijares

Foto. Carlos González Lobo

View of the court yard, Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, calle Francisco I Madero between Ignacio Allende and Nicolas Bravo, Centro, Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacan, Mexico 1968

I don’t think having one holiday about soldiers who died in a war and another holiday about soldiers who didn’t really works, it all blends together into one “military” theme.

The truth is Memorial Day started out as a holiday to celebrate the Civil War, while Veterans’ Day started out (as “Armstice Day”) as a holiday to celebrate WWI and then later got patched to incorporate WWII and Korea (displacing attempts to sanctify V-E, V-J, or Pearl Harbor Day).

Meanwhile Independence Day started as a celebration of the Revolutionary War, Patriot Day is I guess a celebration of the War on Terror. Armed Forces Day is a celebration of bureaucratic reorganization.

chipers:

sumerianlanguage:

rsbenedict:

This week’s Sumerian Sunday is kaš3, urine.

Cuneiform from the ePSD.

This is a homophone of the Sumerian word kash meaning “beer” — and therefore the source of some of the oldest jokes in the world!

germanpostwarmodern:

Apartment Building “Italia” (1964-66) in Antwerp, Belgium, by Marc Remaut & Johannes De Groelard

quoms:

obviously a lot of the homophobic rhetoric here borrows from the same thing going on in russia and casts the gays as like NATO spies but i think it is telling that a whole chunk of the critique seems to boil down to ‘why aren’t you nationalist enough to have kids’

quoms:

this armenian guy i know speaks english with a lisp and posts flagrant (i mean flagrant) bear pics on facebook and i think this country is so homophobic that it just loops around and the whole thing goes completely over everyone’s heads. i don’t think anyone is aware

or it might be that he’s married with kids and people straight up don’t care what you get up to as long as you fulfill your god-given responsibility to Propagate The Nation

fyeahcopyright:

From the Mount Vernon website: 

On May 31, 1790, President Washington signed the Copyright Act of 1790 into law. Formally titled, “An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,” the legislation was the first law protecting copyright in the United States. The act explained that it intended to protect “the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already printed within these United States,” and that authors would “have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending such map, chart, book or books.” Copies of the law bearing Washington’s signature were re-printed in newspapers throughout the country.

The term of copyright in 1790 was fourteen years but it could be renewed for an additional fourteen years upon request/fee payment. 

Can you imagine a world where everything created, filmed, written and drawn before 1988 was in the public domain? 

It’s almost unimaginable - but someone could try to write a story about it. ;)

Ah well, at least we have fair use. 

owls-n-elderberries:

I Love Irlande! by Oxutka

argumate:

mugasofer:

We have the ability to level terrorist camps? Revolutionary.

the real trick would be to figure out how to stop making new ones, amirite??

Said this before but railguns don’t do much existing cannons don’t impact-wise, the angle is that the “Nuclear Navy” can use their reactors for ammunition and cut out a big wartime supply/basing constraint.

To hear the right’s triumphalism of recent years, you’d think that only smug Democrats were appalled by Reagan while Republicans quickly recognized that their party, decimated by Richard Nixon and Watergate, had found its savior.

The Republican elites of Reagan’s day were as blindsided by him as their counterparts have been by Trump.

A typical liberal-Establishment take on Reagan could be found in Harper’s, which called him Ronald Duck, “the Candidate from Disneyland.” That he had come to be deemed “a serious candidate for president,” the magazine intoned, was “a shame and embarrassment for the country.”

A strategic memo by Carter’s pollster, Patrick Caddell, laid out the campaign against Reagan’s obvious vulnerabilities with bullet points: “Is Reagan Safe? … Shoots From the Hip … Over His Head … What Are His Solutions?” But it was the strategy of Caddell’s counterpart in the Reagan camp, the pollster Richard Wirthlin, that carried the day with the electorate. Voters wanted to “follow some authority figure,” he theorized — a “leader who can take charge with authority; return a sense of discipline to our government; and, manifest the willpower needed to get this country back on track.”

(yep)

loves-of-a-blonde:

Hell’s Angels (1930)