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Okay now that I’ve finally quit Denny’s let me tell you guys about the bizarre fucking otherworld it is
- The music and the room temperature are controlled by corporate. Corporate plays a lot of pop covers of Disney princess songs I’ve never heard before. I now have a dance routine to the K-Pop sounding version of Let it Go.
- Our sign flickered fast and red and demonically for a week and the repairman said he couldn’t find anything wrong with it.
- People did drug deals in, like, broad daylight in the middle of the parking lot multiple times a week.
- It’s open 24/7. We had a backup generator none of us knew about until there was a massive storm one night and we looked out to see a tree knocked over and our lights the only thing on for miles. You could weather the apocalypse with no idea the apocalypse was even happening.
- Regular customers included:
- A man convinced the chemtrails are real who gave me six separate pieces of literature on the subject
- A little person named Kevin who told me “sometimes I call myself a dwarf when I’m feeling whimsical”
- An actual group of Neo-Nazis
- An actual Earth, Wind, and Fire cover band (they played for us)
- Twins who came in separately on the same day and I thought they were one woman changing outfits rapidly for the longest time
- A Scottish landscaper who told us we “couldn’t prove he doesn’t know Simon Pegg”
- I have more these are just off the top of my head
I can’t believe I forgot
- two line cooks got into a really heated argument about whether Vin Diesel is bisexual or not
- I asked an elderly man if he wanted to use the AARP discount and he said “No, I’m not a socialist”.
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shout out to all the mentally ill asian kids
- who can’t pull up the strength to do their homework or study
- who get low grades because of their mental illness
- who are constantly under pressure to do well in school by their parents
- who have parents that think depression or anxiety is just an excuse for being “lazy”
- who have parents that tell them that they had it harder when they were young
- who, because of the stereotype that all asians are smart, constantly doubt themselves and their abilities
- who suffer because of the stigma around mental illness in asian cultures
your grades, your abilities, and your parent’s perception of you do not make up your worth. you’re doing your best, and i’m endlessly proud of you.
why did you have to label it on asian kids, it applies to everyone.
asian kids face extreme pressure from their families to perform well in academia. its engrained in our cultures and asian kids with mental illnesses who can’t perform to the expectations of their parents face crippling self doubt and hatred. because of the mental illness stigma in the asian community no one speaks up to support these struggling students. they need to know that they still matter and that their grades don’t define them, because no one else will tell them that in real life. so stop being an asshole, and let the asian kids have their post.
“so stop being an asshole, and let the asian kids have their post.”
and the worst part is that all our hard work gets erased by whites because “oh you don’t have to try at anything, you’re asian”
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Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.
10/10 post, dude.Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
or
2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
“bee populations are facing ecological issues” yes that’s true of native species, which, European Honey Bees, are not. :( u tried
Actually your wrong :( you tried.
My study species for my masters degree is honeybees (Apis mellifera) with my supervisor being one of the leading scientific experts into honeybees, so I think I have some actual knowledge on this instead of the typical tumblr misinformation.
Honeybees are important when it comes to agriculture processes and are actually facing ecological issues in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the places they originated from. With their population in decline thanks to a range of issues such as:
- use of pesticides
- pests species such as varroa mites, tropilaelaps mite and tracheal mites
- other invasive species
- poor food and floral quality
- diseases such as (depending where you are in the world like the US for example): CCD, AFB, EFB, chalkbrood, sacbrood
- Change in climate and weather
Honeybees are extremely important for growing crops, with 1/3′s (around 35%) of all crops in Australia replying on honeybee pollination, with 75% of our crops having a benefit from pollination by bees. However crops are pollinated by many different types of pollinating insects and animal species. So while the myth of “if honeybees die out we’ll have no crops!” isn’t true, the decline in honeybees will see crops producing lower quality and smaller yield, especially true for fruit and nuts, and will have a dramatic affect on the viability and diversity in the agricultural industry. But it likely won’t have massive effects on the production of stable food products such as flour, wheat, grains, cereal, ect. (as those are pollinated via wind).
So while the honeybee is great in terms of agriculture due to being a important generalist pollinator that are easy for humans to handle and work with, we also need to acknowledge that other pollinators such as native bees, flies, wasps and beetles are also important in addition to the honeybee.
In short! Honeybees are important and they are declining in certain parts of the world which is an issue for agricultural processes, but we can care about honeybees and also care about other native species of insects at the same time. It isn’t a one or none situation here.
Some more reading for those interested:
- Owen Gaffney, Bees in decline: IPBES releases global pollinators assessment, Future Earth, February 26, 2016
- CSIRO, Not Just Bees Buzz Vital Insect Helpers, 27 January, 2016
- Mark Goodwin, Pollination of Crops in Australia and New Zealand, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No. 12/059, 2012
- Dr Boris Baer and Dr Denis Anderson, Getting the buzz on the value of bees, Australian Academy of Science
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