Make sure you’ve got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don’t want fried in case of a power surge.
Don’t tape your windows, it doesn’t help and you’ll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that’s not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don’t go in your attic. You’ll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can’t hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
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Ngl, “tropical storm in death valley” was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don’t attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don’t attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you’re in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you’ve got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
Tax is a utility bill that we pay to use the infrastructure of a functioning society. Corporations and the ultra-rich get more benefit from society (more use of roads for deliveries, more networking opportunities connecting them with customers and investors, more profit from employees who are already educated, more needs and wants that they don’t have to fulfill by themselves by hand), so their bill should be higher to reflect increased use, in the same way that your power bill is higher if you run the air conditioning all day.
[ ID: post by RaggedTP: “Your Mum waits 40 hours for an ambulance so BP don’t have to pay tax. Your kids can’t afford university so Amazon don’t have to pay tax. Your sister can’t get housing so Google don’t have to pay tax. Your Gran’s on a 5 year hospital waiting list so Vodaphone don’t have to pay tax.” /ID ]
Yeah! It’s a super interesting paper on ethnocentrism and an argument against the idea of “universal values”.
Essentially what happened is an anthropologist went to spend time writing an ethnography on a rural tribe in the Indian Bush called the Tiv. During her stay she told them the story of Hamlet, and in doing so it made clear the very glaring differences in the culture of the tribe vs the culture of Europe through their interpretations of events.
I’m sure you’ve heard of Translators vs. Localizers right? A translator tells you what is said, and a localizer takes the information and changes it to fit a different culture.
We can see that kind of early on in the article when a member of the Tiv begins changing nouns to fit how they understand the world.
Later on it greatly affects not only the tangible aspects of the story, but also the thematic meaning behind the actions each character takes.
And it culminates in the thesis statement: most people around the world, no matter where they’re from, are predisposed to seeing their perspective as universal.
It’s a super cool essay.
If you’d like to read it, it’s called “Shakespeare in the Bush: Diversity or Universality?”
Oh my god! My dad is Tiv! I’ve never ever seen anyone talk about Tiv people without actively searching it out before! This is fantastic :D
ppl trying to make some of these ships all cute n domestic dont seem to understand these characters are insane. they would have sex by standing on opposite sides of the room fully clothed playing mind games
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