Ohhh. Well the big parts that grab stuff are mandibles. They aren’t legs but they originate, evolutinarily speaking, from legs. Same with antennae! The parts closer to the head do the eating but sometimes mandibles help with that.
For venomous arthropods sometimes it’s the mandibles that have the venom (like spiders, where they are called Chelicerae), for some it’s saliva and they use various mouthparts (the water bug uses a proboscus), for some it’s their tail end (like ants), etc etc.
The lower left is a toe biter water bug with one of the most painful venoms on the planet
Harris has more or less the same solutions for black America, as this article lays out. Both parties offer false promises while supporting the material bases of oppression. Both parties are the parties of mass incarceration, criminal injustice, gentrification, school defunding, and ultimately, widespread material deprivation of the working class, the poor, the unhoused. We’ve had a Trump presidency. It was, despite liberals’ panic at rude statements, more or less, the typical status quo right up until the pandemic hit.
This is not because Trump was good, it was because he did the same basic things as his predecessors and successor. Liberals temporarily cared about kids in cages under Trump and suddenly lost all interest under Biden, now pretending that it simply stopped because they aren’t hearing about it even as the Biden admin has ramped up imprisonment and deportations. Very little changed, materially. The same applies to the lives of black people. If anything, conditions have gotten worse under Biden through policies increasing unemployment, the normalization of the pandemic and ending of economic support during it, and the massive funds for cops, increasing criminalization of poverty, and decreases in universal funding, leaving communities subjected to the legacies of red lining and discrimination to self-fund. Fewer jobs, worse pay, less support, more observation and racially discriminatory criminalization.
Expect this to continue until we actually organize to build real leverage and address the actual root causes of these issues and why neither party identifies them.
First, don’t vote for genociders. I think if that isn’t the limit, you don’t have one and might as well admit to being a supporter of genocide.
Cool headline, but ultimately just another call to have people throw their votes to a third-party candidate in protest
Those who organize to vote third party do a better job at building leverage for their interests than sheepdogs that try to convince people to Vite Blue No Matter Who. Which one is throwing a vote away? You don’t even register on Dems’ radar as anything other than a “likely Dem voter” to maybe send a volunteer out to remind you to vote.
…which could just lead to Trump’s victory, which the article itself acknowledges would be the worst possible outcome.
The article does not say that. It is very clear on its line that neither party is the one to fight for black people. I have to assume you simply didn’t read it.
The time to fight the Democratic leadership is unfortunately past
The time to fight oppressive genociders never passes. Please stop telling other people to give up their fight for justice. I’m getting white moderate vibes from your comment.
PS Harris has never won a single state in a Democratic primary. What in earth do you think was the right time and right method of opposition and building if leverage? The party just dictated all of this at you and now you carry water for it.
and the only way forward to being able to win going forward is to vote for Harris.
To win what? The thesis of this article is that black people don’t win regardless of which party has the presidency. Who are you talking to and do they understand what you mean by “win”?
Voting for Trump (or casting a third-party candidate, essentially the same thing) is guaranteed to make things much worse.
Voting for a third party is not the same as voting for Trump. Get that nonsense out if here.
lmao the Harris campaign is so incompetent. Imagine feeling the need to make up or selectively edit things to attack Trump with. Imagine doing this so much that you make your own BS the story instead.
You’re probably fine so long as it doesn’t have moisture!
If you want my help outside of work hours I expect a huge on-call pay bump
Is it a “best by” date or a real “expires on” date?
Powders like this only go bad after being exposed to moisture. If properly sealed they will last decades.
OWS was not well-organized. Palestinian solidarity groups are doing better. The key difference is in being able to coherently make informed decisions as a group and then act on them as one.
Every OWS encampment was basically 5-30 orgs all doing their own thing and then fighting about horizontalism and being naive about how the cops and City Hall would treat them. We need to be able to act like 1-3 orgs (even if there are more), politically educate so we can avoid mistakes, and create good structure as early as possible so that expectations are set and time isn’t wasted and bad decisions are avoided.
The US left is basically slowly relearning the basics of organizing. Get involved and make it go faster!
Ohh sorry. Like the model was trained on bad inputs
Would you like the opportunity to explain why African American English is “shit” and comparable to racism?
Mostly the latter, as the two capitalist parties jealously guard their duopoly.
On this particular topic the two parties basically just throw lawyers at the system they created for themselves in order to fight each other. For example, they made networks take down some reruns of Trump’s shows during the last election. As if that would matter when the networks give him infinite free coverage, lol.
Third parties have little recourse both because they don’t have the cash to throw around and because the two major parties just constantly put up barriers to entry, usually needing to exceed an arbitrary percentage of votes in the last election (an arbitrary percentage that the two parties increase whenever a third party gets close).
This country is basically just 100 capitalists in a trenchcoat making us all fight them and each other and people overseas over all the problems caused by the system that keeps them in power.
The spirit of the law doesn’t mean anything. The law itself barely even means anything given how it’s enforced. I’m not exactly seeing equal access for third party candidates. This is just the ruling class negotiating via the two parties.
How can you threaten something that doesn’t exist here?
Imagine getting paid to write articles like “right wing TV network hosts content favorable to right wing party candidates and not content unfavorable to them”.
And then discovering that masses of people are both surprised and engaged.
No. The Equal Time Rule is about stations providing equal airtime access to candidates.
The main ways you’re exposed to microplastics is through ingestion and breathing it in.
To limit ingestion, yes the main thing to do is to avoid food and drink that comes in plastic containers. Reducing your consumption of processed foods will help with this. Eating mostly produce is a simpler way to approach this. Even though produce may often be transported in plastic, if you wash it before consumption you’ll have done pretty well. Ideally you would also have a reverse osmosis filter at home, as your water probably has microplastics as well (but less than bottled water!).
To limit breathing it in, yes avoid frequent exposure to busy roads. They are often full of tire dust that is getting kicked up. This is cumulative, though. Walking by a busy street once is no big deal. Walking along one twice a day may add up.
Overall, however, to address microplastics we will have to control the production of plastics and the use of plastics in the first place. For example, there would be a lot less tire dust if we used more rail to get around. And there would be less need for bottled water if water fountains were ubiquitous and so were standardized stainless steel water bottles. In addition, we could use biodegradable plastics for more packaging so that they don’t accumulate in bodies or the environment.
But this last point, despite being the only real solution, will literally require the overthrow of capitalism. I’m for this and am happy to talk about it more, but it is a lot.
They made her wear a unique low-cut purple spandex suit for the first half of the series.
Lifesavers because they are some sick Os