I finally finished school this morning, so that’s pretty awesome. I finally have time to do nothing.
A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful hiking trails into a 10 meter-deep lake, for half the year.Located at the foot of the Hochschwab Mountains, in Tragoess, Styria, Green Lake is one of the most bizarre natural phenomena in the world. During the cold winter months, this place is almost completely dry, and used as a country park where hikers love to come and spend some time away from urban chaos. But as soon as temperatures rise, the snow and ice covering the mountaintops begin to melt, and the water pours down, filling the basin below with crystal-clear water.
Water levels go from one-two meters at most, to over 10 meters, in the early summer. The waters of Green Lake are highest in June, when this extraordinary place is invaded by divers, curious to see what a mountain park looks like underwater. Fish swimming over wooden benches, a grass-covered bottom, trees, roads, roads and even bridges create a surreal setting that feels like it belongs on dry ground. That’s because for half of the year, that’s exactly where it’s at.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. How about “Believes in Liberty and Freedom, for all Americans, and sees you as an American, not a Woman-American, a Minority-American, a Gay-American, or a Poor-American.”
Also, will not take advantage of your sexual orientation’s lack of rights in order to win votes. Also, poor? Since when does Ron Paul not give a shit about poor people? The only candidate to propose lowering the presidential salary to $39,336, the median salary of the American worker? As opposed to Mitt “Corporations are People” Romney, and the Obamas going on half a million dollar vacations with tax payer’s money while also accumulating an insane amount of debt just to make sure that your children are infinitely more fucked than you are today. Women? Is this about leaving abortion up to the states? Right, I forgot the part of the constitution in which the founding fathers granted authority over abortions to the federal government. And really, if you defend the rights of unborn babies who do not wish to be torn limb from limb, you’re depriving women of their rights? And that’s beside the point. His personal views on abortion do not affect his political views on abortion whatsoever. His political position is the only politically justifiable one, the constitution! Go read his book, he even mentions how completely banning abortion would just lead to dangerous, illegal abortions. Gay people? He’s supported keeping the federal government out of marriage for as long as he’s been in politics. He has constantly said he does not wish to nor see it fit to impose his views on marriage upon any other couple.
(Source: livealifethatscompletelyfree)
Hey, Millennials (AKA 95% of the people on Tumblr) is this you? -BdM
Who are the Millennials? Aside from being born in the 1980s and 1990s, they comprise a generation that continues to elude a neat definition. With the popularity of HBO’s Girls, in which Lena Dunham’s character thinks she’s the voice of this new generation (“Or at least a voice. Of a generation.”), Millennials have come under renewed focus in the media, among the literati, and in the boardrooms of marketers trying to pinpoint what this demographic wants.
A few ways Millennials are being described:
1. They’re spendthrifts…
Studies show that Millennials are more likely than their elders to spend big, “especially on new technologies,” says Julie Halpert at The Fiscal Times. These studies say Millennials are addicted to instant gratification, and view new gadgets as needs, not wants. Millennials are also “the fastest-growing demographic of those who purchase luxury goods,” says Rachel Krause at The Frisky.2. …And they’re broke
A new survey shows that 25 percent of Millennials “reported not having enough money to cover their basic needs,” a much higher percentage than older generations, says Corilyn Shropshire at Business Insider. Millennials have been hit hard by the recession, and are weighed down by ever-growing mountains of student debt. “The lack of financial savvy among Millennials could have a trickle-down effect with detrimental consequences for society,” says Hadley Malcom at USA Today.3. They’re natural entrepreneurs
Call it “Generation Sell” — Millennials are less inclined to join a commune or a movement, and would rather start a small business, says William Deresiewicz at The New York Times. Brought up in the “heroic age of dot-com entrepreneurship” that defined the 1990s, and distrustful of “large organizations, including government,” the Millennial views small business as “the idealized social form of our time.”4. They’re socialists
Looks like the “right-wing cries of ‘socialist takeover!’ may be based in more than paranoia,” says Nona Willis Aronowitz at Good. Polls show that 49 percent of Millennials “view socialism in a favorable light,” compared with 43 percent who view it unfavorably. Millennials are also the generation of Occupy Wall Street, the anti-corporate movement, and “it’s not hard to figure out why our generation isn’t so gung-ho about capitalism — it has disappointed and, in some cases, straight-up failed us.”Narcissistic, broke, and 6 other ways to describe the Millennial generation
Broke due to excessive and unrealistic spending? YOU DON’T SAY! Socialist entrepreneurs? OXYMORON! Someone shove an economics book down one of these 95%’s throats IMMEDIATELY
^What she said.
(Source: theweek.com)
