20/20 ran an interesting experiment in how the general public in different towns in America tolerated (or didn’t) male/male public displays of affection. They then compared those reactions to ones secretly filmed with two women being publicly affectionate.
Of special interest is the hidden camera interview with a cute but hateful and clueless dude in a cab. Sad to say, but I think in general, life for glbt folk will be substantially better in twenty years or so, once the current older generation, the ones with the highest proportion of homo hate, is busy pushing up daisies.
Love the comment from the woman at the end too. . .there is some hope.
So on good ole’ JoeMyGod there is a story about a device sold by Kids Be Gone that emits irritating noises only kids, teens, and early 20s folk can hear. It is used as an anti-loitering device.
Those sneaky kids, god bless ‘em, use the tones as the ringers on their phones so they can get calls in class since their elderly teacher who is, you know, in his or her 30s, can’t hear the phone go off. Go here. Scroll down and find out where on the kHz scale you lose the tone. I’m so close to deaf I may need a freakin’ ear trumpet soon.
It can be so way too depressing to find some fun nugget on YouTube, only to then read all the hater comments below it. Whatever. Fuck’em. Keep your eyes above the fold. I so wanna be at this house party.
On first read, I was thinking “Oh well maybe it will strike Southern California and dump some of the conservative fucks into the ocean.” Then I realized that by 2037, I’ll likely be dead, and probably not from anything nearly as exciting as an earthquake.
California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast.
New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97 percent versus 93 percent.
The last time a jolt this size rattled California was the 1994 Northridge disaster, which killed 72 people, injured more than 9,000 and caused $25 billion in damage.
“It basically guarantees it’s going to happen,” said Ned Field, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena and lead author of the report.
