I love maps! For a while now I thought there should be a pixel art map of the world, the kind with landmarks stacked shoulder to shoulder as can often be found in poster shops.
The gargantuan piece measures 1325×851 pixels, three times the already huge Venezuela map. Just like the previous two, it’s also full of tiny, cute animations.
Head on over to the original blog post to explore everything from Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon on the West Coast to the Statue of Liberty and the White House on the East.
Maybe one day, we’ll get to see the whole world in pixels!
a minimum of 40-60 girls were dress coded at my school this morning, but not even ONE male was. a percentage of those girls weren’t able to have a change of clothes delivered to them by a parent and were forced to miss a number of final exams. no one at our school has ever been particularly fond of the dress code, however this is taking it too far. if you’ve successfully fought/know someone who successfully fought against dress code please help us by informing us on how to go about ridding our school of this sexist code. honestly, calling a student a skank???? NOT OKAY. we live in Southern California, and right now our weather averages about 100°F (roughly 38°C) and girls are expected to wear long pants. girls were FORCED to miss FINAL EXAMS just because what they were wearing was deemed “distracting”. a large portion of these girls proved they were not breaking dress code (no shorter than four inches above the knee) by measuring with a ruler, but were not released. please help spread this and let us know if there’s any way to fight this without causing us more trouble!
Juul – now a subsidiary of the company that owns Marlboro – attained
its $12.8B valuation by growing faster than any other vaping company,
thanks in large part to the children who bought its products, reversing decades of progress in getting teens off nicotine products while simultaneously monopolizing the market for vaping products
Juul’s other secret to success was to steadily ramp up the levels of
deadly, highly addictive nicotine in its products, being the first to
leap from 1-2% nicotine refills to 5% refills – a move that touched off
an arms-race with other manufacturers, leading to the status quo where
nearly all refills are 5-7% nicotine.
One of Juul’s key innovations was a patented “nicotine salt” that offset
the bitter flavor of nicotine, allowing users to consume much higher
levels of nicotine without having to endure a bad taste.
Ramping up nicotine levels didn’t just make Juul’s products more
addictive, it made being a nicotine addict more affordable: the major
costs of a vape refill are not the liquid, but the pod, its manufacture
and distribution.
Americans get more toxic versions of Juul’s products. The tighted
regulatory environment in countries like the UK and Israel have limited
Juul to the sale of 1.7% refills.
The vaping industry now sells liquid in non-childproof bottles that contain enough nicotine to “kill an entire preschool class.”
“‘No’?” echoed the space emperor. “‘No’?! No one. Ever. Tells me. ‘No’.”
He advanced, close enough that the threads on his rich robes could be counted by the naked eye. After a furtive glance over his shoulder, he dropped his voice to a desperate whisper and said, “Could you… could you do it again? Please?”
“No.”
The space emperor’s eyes shone like embers as he leaned forward, clasping his hands in front of his face. “So this… this ‘democracy’ you speak of. You’re telling me that people might… disobey me? They wouldn’t have to do everything I tell them to?”
“Not if they disagree with you.”
“They can do that?!” He licked his lips, trembling with excitement. “And voting! You say I… you say I could lose?!”
“Yeah, uh. And you probably would.”
“Incredible,” he breathed. “Why, I could kiss you!” With a surprised laugh, he stopped himself mid-step. “But—you wouldn’t like that! Right? You’d have an ‘opinion’? Gosh… do you think other people have those?!”
