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Burger King has completely embarrassed themselves when their UK branch tweeted “Women belong in the kitchen” in honor of International Women’s Day. Later on, they clarified that they were referring to the lack of female chefs in the food industry but seriously, how ignorant of female stereotypes do you have to be to think this was a good idea.

RIP big guy, you might’ve been a teensy bit racist but you were also born in the 1920s sooo??? Honestly I can’t fathom the people who are actively *mourning* this death, I mean he did live to a ripe old age and have a pretty monumental life, it’s not one of those passings that you end up thinking ‘god, what a waste’ about… Anyways, the UK has already gone into hysteria, I reckon half the country wouldn’t care half as much as they do right now if the media weren’t blasting the news 24/7 in every direction.. 

QuarryMan said
RIP big guy, you might’ve been a teensy bit racist but you were also born in the 1920s sooo??? Honestly I can’t fathom the people who are actively *mourning* this death, I mean he did live to a ripe old age and have a pretty monumental life, it’s not one of those passings that you end up thinking ‘god, what a waste’ about… Anyways, the UK has already gone into hysteria, I reckon half the country wouldn’t care half as much as they do right now if the media weren’t blasting the news 24/7 in every direction..

Agreed, it’s hard to feel sad about someone who lived a full life (and then some) before finally biting the dust a few months shy of his 100th birthday.

In other news, Bill Gates wants to dim the sun by releasing chalk into the atmosphere in an attempt to curb climate change. While Bill likely has good intents, this is playing god and if his plans backfire, i’m worried it could have horrific effects.

To add another layer of irony, electric cars aren’t really any better for the environment than gas guzzlers since all you’re doing is switching from a gas pump to a power plant and it takes a lot of rare earth metals to make those batteries.

Dark Overlord said
To add another layer of irony, electric cars aren’t really any better for the environment than gas guzzlers since all you’re doing is switching from a gas pump to a power plant and it takes a lot of rare earth metals to make those batteries.

While I’m personally not a huge fan of cars in general and would love to see the world remodel our infrastructure more along the lines of public transit wherever it’s viable, I don’t think it’s necessarily true that electric cars aren’t any better for the environment than those that use petrol – they produce much less air and noise pollution, they produce around 30% less in carbon emissions, and the problem of the batteries is becoming less significant as battery technology improves.

On the whole, though, I’m in agreement that the idea that we can save the environment by all just switching to electric cars is silly – a transition needs to be accompanied by the pedestrianisation of urban spaces, construction of larger rail networks with high speed capacity, and properly funded public transport easily accessible to the vast majority of the population. In the long run such a system would take up much less space, and use fewer resources and less energy, illustrated by this picture of a hundred people in cars, in a bus or on bikes.