SG's Misanthropic Liberal

maybethings:

fenrislorsrai:

river-boy:

kitsunebaba:

g00kie-m0nster:

peacefulvibes:

stonefreedreamer:

This had nothing to do with smoking weed or getting high. This is about our earth. This is about our future. This is about the future of our race as humans.

I am all for hemp. Hemp is the cure for so many things wrong in this world. Hemp can make such a difference!

kitsunebaba, look what appeared on my dash :D

IT USES 5 TIMES LESS WATER THAN COTTON

AND PRODUCES LIKE 10 TIMES MORE

AND IT HAS TWO SEASONS IN ONE YEAR AND IT IS STRONGER

WHEN YOU MAKE IT INTO PAPER IT DOESN’T YELLOW

YOU CAN MAKE FREAKING CONCRETE OUT OF IT THAT GETS HARDER OVER TIME AND BREATHES SO IT DOESN’T CRACK

THE OIL IS SUPER GOOD FOR YOU

IT WAS THE ORIGINAL FUEL FOR CARS

YOU CANNOT GET HIGH FROM IT!!!!

THEY USED TO MAKE SAILS OUT OF IT

YOU CAN USE 80% OF IT FOR PAPER RATHER THEN 20-30% FOR TREES

IT WAS ONLY BOYCOTTED BECAUSE THE COTTON INDUSTRY WAS GOING DOWNHILL

I used to be so confused by the difference between marijuana and hemp because they’re both cannabis. Apparently, they are different species of the same plant genus, but hemp is bred for its industrial use and is grown in tall stalks to produce more fiber. Hemp has so little THC that you would have to smoke at least ten hemp cigarettes in a row to feel anything, and hemp also contains CBD which blocks the effects of THC. Marijuana is bred for its high THC content, obviously, and is allowed to grow bushy to produce more leaves and flowers.

It’s just like corn. To the layperson, corn is well CORN. But you have many different cultivars that look superficially similar, but have very different requirements for how to grow them and very different end uses. You wouldn’t use popcorn to make chicha or cornmeal! and if you’re growing it for silage, you’ll plant it and harvest it in a different way than you would if you were growing sweet corn for sale as whole ears.

So to layperson it seems like all cannabis cultivars will get you high because its the only one laypeople know anything about. Plus with the restrictions, the overall number of cultivars has been greatly reduced so the THC ones are the only common ones. If hemp was grown as a regular crop, you’d have loads and load of different cultivars, all bred and planted, to optimize different aspects. and all the fiber focused ones would be VERY different because they’d be bred for longest fibers. the majority of smokable marijuana is actually a DWARF variety of the plant! This is why the argument “well if people grew hemp, they’d hide marijuana in it” is silly. If the two cultivars hybridize, they totally ruin each other’s primary use! You’d get weak, shitty smokable variety AND an inferior, unsalable fiber crop.

anyway, to the other uses. One of its really AWESOME other uses is that it will take up HEAVY METALS from soil, including radioactive elements. Normally that’s a really tedious process involving scraping all the topsoil off an area (which can make radioactive dust airborne…) and then burning it to try and extract the heavy metals. Plant hemp, it uptakes it and stores it in the fiber. You do have to do multiple crops, but you never actually strip the topsoil. (plus hemp is a nitrogen fixing crop, so it’s like applying fertilizer!)

well then what the hell do you do with radioactive fibers? Conveniently mixing hemp fiber into concrete with make it stronger and earthquake resistant. You can also make it up to 1/3 lighter than you would with just concrete and rebar.

How do you normally shield radioactive items? entombing it in concrete. Make the core with radioactive hemp fiber, apply an outer sheathing with non-radioactive fiber to prevent direct contact or fragmenting into dust or coming into contact with ground water. (only a few inches is needed as a shield) Use it in something like skyscraper foundations or subway tunnels where it won’t be directly contacted by people very often.

So you can clean up many old industrial sites that are NOT currently safe AND use it to build infrastructure that’s extra strong and earthquake resistant. Or use it to extract radioactive waste from radioactive water.

It IS in use for that purpose within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. And remember that earthquake resistant part? I can think of a country that has to remove a lot of radioactive waste from soil and water AND rebuild structures ravaged by an earthquake.

It does a LOT of cool things, but the possibilities with bioremediation are probably the absolutely coolest because there aren’t many other options in that area that are as efficient and cost effective.

I’mma learn today.

It sometimes boggles my mind that any one crop can be THIS useful. But fuck yeah hemp!

Mind. Blown.

mizhallelujah: zombikki: norsegays: astrolope: People being...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:05:59 +0800

mizhallelujah:

zombikki:

norsegays:

astrolope:

People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.

I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.

A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?

It is a big deal because i’m a transman.

It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.

Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.

At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.

At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.

TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.

this is so brilliant holy shit

A+ target you will always have my business

awww yiss. when I’m in america i will buy everything i need from target! inclusivity ftw

Target: Doing It Right.

1/125: Masks, Stress, and Selves

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:37:17 +0800

1/125: Masks, Stress, and Selves:

one125:

Unequally Yoked recently posted a well-phrased take on a theme relevant to my interests:

In C.S. Lewis’s Of Other Worlds, most of the selections in the book are critical essays, but there a few pieces of fiction included, one of which is a never completed novel that C.S. Lewis meant to write…

harrytheahlizard: zacheser: And this is why Nine is my...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:33:44 +0800

harrytheahlizard:

zacheser:

And this is why Nine is my Doctor.

Suddenly I understand what one of my huge issues has been with the latest Doctor Who episodes

The Doctor has been reacting with horror rather than wonder, and running rather than communicating

Thanks 9 you’ve helped me come to a point of clarity

This is why I prefer Eccleston’s and Tennant’s Doctors to Matt Smith’s. I remember “The Girl In The Fireplace” where the 10th Doctor removed the mask off a robot and exclaimed “Oh you are BEAUTIFUL!”

All instincts would’ve been RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, but not his.

That did it for me. Ten is my Doctor. Followed very closely by Nine.

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:09:04 +0800

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

- Joseph Chilton Pearce (via cosmofilius)

"You can emulate excellence, but you cannot emulate genius."

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:43:10 +0800

“You can emulate excellence, but you cannot emulate genius.”

- Mike Johnston (via five-foot-way)

mizhallelujah: callmekitto: jacklullaby: jacklullaby: unfollower: men should take advantage of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:34:40 +0800

mizhallelujah:

callmekitto:

jacklullaby:

jacklullaby:

unfollower:

men should take advantage of the lack of dress code rules set for guys and wear mini skirts and tank tops to school every day

OH MY GOD LAST YEAR THE DUDES ON MY CLASS HAVE DONE IT

AND THEY GOT ALL CALLED IN THE PRINCIPAL’S ROOM

BUT THEY DIDNT GOT IN TROUBLE BECAUSE

THEY SAID EXACTLY IT “BUT THOSE RULES ARE ONLY FOR GIRLS”

I’M NOT EVEN JOKING

omg

Now THIS is subversive. And says a lot.

clientsfromhell: Rules for Freelancers

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:25:43 +0800

clientsfromhell:

Rules for Freelancers