not only are these pics real, the second one in particular was taken within 10 minutes of my childhood home and is an area ive driven through >1000 times
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I live in Texas. This is a real thing. It’s real. We do this here.
I call these “Spaghetti Highways” because of how difficult it can be to navigate them. One wrong merge, and you’ve shifted dimensions and have lost 20 minutes of travel progress.
But they aren’t just in Texas. Here’s a google maps view of some highway spaghetti near DC, where the road to the airport crosses the beltway around the capital:
This is the kind of road I need to turn the music down so I make sure I take the right turns. GPS is both your greatest ally, and also a useless little bitch that doesn’t know which lane you’re in, or what elevation you’re at. When you enter this, not even God knows where you are or where you’ll end up, until you come out.
And here’s another one three miles down the road.
And another in eight more miles:
These are all in a row, on the same ring around the city. These are some particularly nasty examples, and not every city has it this bad, but I’m sure somebody could easily find worse if they know where to look.
However, I did decide to go have a peek at Texas to see what’s going on over there and. Um. Guys what the fuck.
Your spaghetti highway is reaching out like a hungry amoeba, trying to eat the next intersection over.
At least DC has the decency to contain their bullshit roads. Texas lets theirs sprawl out and spill over into neighboring intersections. Don’t do that. Give your drivers a break in between mind bending traffic jams.
i don’t usually make posts like this, but this is a truly upsetting topic to me as a lifelong cat owner, so i feel i have a duty to share my knowledge with others.
there is a type of automatic litterbox for cats being sold that is EXTREMELY dangerous and has killed numerous cats through blunt force trauma, suffocation, etc. this litterbox is being sold under different brand names and logos, so i will include the picture of the model and two links to informational videos with more evidence and eloquence than i am able to provide.
please consider not having this type of litterbox in your home for your furry friends. me and my 16 year old tortie, puddy, want the best for all your kitty friends
image of litterbox below:
here are my two video links that provide proof and testimonials of this harmful product:
Okay so yes we need to put more money into education in the US but y’all this SPECIFIC line of thinking has much less to do with public education and everything to do with the evangelical war on science. This exact “earth age” rhetoric isn’t the result of dumb people, its being taught in Christian schools and touted in evangelical churches. Evangelical lobbies help pass laws that force states to teach creationism alongside evolution. Millions are spent every year by evangelical institutions to convince partitions that science is lying to them, to force them to belive the only place they can find truth is the church. Creationism is just another facet of that and acting like it just “Americans are dumb” rather than a pointed, purposeful campaign to keep people in a what amounts to a cult, is not oy disingenuous, its dangerous
Thank you, Uni.
Yeah as someone who was taught the earth was 6000 years old and believed it until I was like, 22: its a cultish weird thing you get shoved into your hea from a VERY young age. We had sunday school classes about how evolution was wrong when I was growing up; and about how feminism and even egaltarianism was wrong as well. Brainwashing doesn’t skip over you based on whether or not you are “smart”.
Brainwashing doesn’t skip over you based on whether or not you are “smart.”
That’s so weird cause in Catholic church we’re told the earth is thousands of centuries old
Speaking as someone who was raised evangelical, yeah this is just what’s in our schoolbooks. We had dedicated children’s radio programs (Jonathan Park, Adventures in Odyssey, etc, etc) made to teach us creationism and quite literally demonize evolution. I have science books at home that teach creationism. The very SUGGESTION that evolution could have some merit will make you pariah in many evangelical churches. This isn’t stupidity, this is a cult mentality which is so incredibly prevalent in the United States that I find it insane some people Don’t Know about it. Have some compassion for the huge amount of the population that has been raised in a religion which goes to extreme lengths to teach them that evolution is wrong not only factually, but morally.
