If you don’t have to deal with this kind of cold normally you might be tempted to use what you have for heat, but you might not know what’s safe. This is non-exhaustive and I’ll link as many resources as I can, but the bottom line is you gotta be extremely careful when burning anything for heat because even with ventilation carbon monoxide can easily build up and that shit can kill you fast if you don’t notice.
-Never idle a car in an enclosed space. If your garage is attached to your house, never warm up the car in your garage even with the door open. If your garage is detached, you can warm up the car in the garage as long as the garage door is wide open.
-Don’t sleep in an idling car, especially during a snowstorm. A few reasons: First, if it runs out of gas during the night you’re stuck with no heat AND no fuel to get anywhere. If it snows overnight it could block your exhaust pipe and allow CO to flood the cabin. And this last one is rarer but even with a perfectly clear exhaust pipe, there could be a leak in your exhaust system that allows CO to build up.
If the car is the only warmth available, idle it for brief periods to warm up and then turn it off and set an alarm to idle it later. Open the windows every once in a while to vent the air.
-Never pile up snow around your car. Either you got snowed in, or you’re stranded off the side of the road. You’d think that snow will insulate the car and let you stay warm longer- DO NOT. Snow makes it harder for rescuers to find you. It gets your car even more stuck and it’s really easy to damage your car in the process of digging it back out. Finally if you block the exhaust system too much then CO will quickly build up in the cabin.
-Never start a car when the tailpipe is blocked by snow. Even in the short time it takes to dig out the car, CO can reach deadly levels. Dig the car out first, THEN start it.
-Never use propane or charcoal (like a grill) for heat indoors. I get it, it’s available, but it’s incredibly dangerous. People have already been hospitalized in Houston this week from using their grills for heat. These grills are made to be used outside, where there’s no way for dangerous gases to build up. Also, it’s a huge fire risk.
-Never use an oven or gas range for heat. Same reasons as propane.
-If your house has a fireplace and chimney, don’t use it unless you know it’s been inspected and deemed safe. Just like a blocked exhaust pipe on your car, a blocked chimney won’t vent CO properly and it can build up in your home. Also, if it hasn’t been inspected in a long time, it may be structurally unsound or full of stuff like twigs or squirrel nests that are a serious fire risk.
-If you have a gas generator, make sure it’s far enough away from your house. Never run it inside, or in a basement or garage.
i just walked past the apartment beneath mine and through an open window i could hear my downstairs neighbor crying faintly while the song jolene played in the background and im just like… bitch are you okay…?
I actually ended up going back downstairs to check on her and brought some leftover cookies I baked this afternoon. she’s very sweet and going through a Breakup Mood™️ after being cheated on. she’s coming over to my gf and I’s annual bad movie night on Friday and she even let me pet her cat named Clarence
my gf thinks it’s funny but very fitting that our downstairs neighbor was able to summon a concerned lesbian just by playing jolene while crying about being done dirty by a man
reblog to summon a concerned lesbian in your hour of need
whenever I see those posts going around Tumblr about spotting neo-nazis, all focusing on the “if he has this sort of tattoo poking out of his manky cutoff denim jacket” level stuff, I’m like… yeah it is good to know the difference between An Iron Cross and some other aesthetic tattoo cross, but one of the most “insidious yet blatant” neo-nazis I’ve ever spoken to started off by just telling me all about her woes with her (white Swedish) boyfriend, feeling out what kind of reaction I would have, and the moment she got me committing to saying “hey, you don’t have to put up with anything like that, you deserve to feel safe and respected in your own house!” she switched seamlessly to talking points like “the government doesn’t care about the terrible helplessness of being a white woman in Sweden, now that they’ve let in all those unstoppably rapacious male ‘refugees’… don’t you wish you could do something about that?”
I feel more and more with every passing day that this lady, with her cute straight-cut fringe and knit sweater and nerdy girl interests, would be doing absolute numbers on here, while her fans continued to frantically warn each other the whole time about those nasty skinheads and how to spot them
the neo-Nazi dogwhistles I see on tumblr come from the cottagecore & dark academia aesthetic boards. tradwifes are the point of recruitment now.
I think this is a really good observation, and thank you for adding it! it’s important to keep up with broad trends like this. however, I will say that tumblr being tumblr, statements like this do imo run the risk of people taking it as “it’s not X aesthetic choices that are The One Big Current Dogwhistle, it’s actually Y aesthetic choices!” which just leads to the exact same problem of fascists just moving on to a different aesthetic with “safe” coding and different buzzwords.
the whole point is that the dangerous stuff always takes the form of people who seem superficially friend-shaped, literally no matter who that is or how generally left-wing people with your aesthetic lean - right-wingers absolutely aren’t above trying to pull people further right with bizarre hooks like “as an asexual, don’t you feel alienated by this degenerate modern obsession with hookups?” or “autism is a trait most common in northern Europe, it’s the free anti-modern-society spirit of our Viking ancestors, don’t you think it might be true that lower races’ standards controlling society is why you suffer under its rules?”, like it really does not matter if their ultimate goal is incompatible with your existence, as you see quite clearly with many white women who like having a job and rights but still get pulled in by the “women’s rights angle” of keeping ~scary~ brown men away from them.
you have to keep looking at the actual content, always, not just veer away from whatever the problematic aesthetic du jour is.
I’d buy the “yeet pray love” shirt if it came in black tbh
“Pick up your sword bruh”
There are two possible explanations for this. Either no one involved in this project has spoken firsthand to a teenager in over twelve years and their only sources are op-eds written by other baby boomers. Or they did consult actual teenagers, who succeeded in trolling the living hell out of them.
six of one, half dozen of the other
so, I looked into this, because as an ex-church-kid, this delights me to no end. and, my friends? we have only just begun to pull the thread on this sweater!
this book was originally published on August 14th 2020. as you can see above, Matt Walsh’s tweets were from August 21st - but he wasn’t the only one to notice this garbage, and he wasn’t even the first.
by August 20th, multiple Christian news websites had already taken issue with the book, as you can tell by these hilarious headlines:
so, both companies apologized, assured people that they weren’t trying to translate the whole bible into this “Gen-Z lingo” (gross), and said that people could still buy the book if they wanted to.
but here’s the deal. the book they’re selling? it’s not the original book.
Exhibit A:
^ that’s the original cover of the book. “The Word According to Gen Z - A 30-Day Devo Challenge.”
but the book they’re selling now? well, see for yourself. Exhibit B:
“The Word According to Gen Z - A 30-Day Devo Challenge Using a Made-Up Language for a Real Generation.”
“Using a Made-Up Language for a Real Generation”
these nerds don’t want to admit that they actually thought Gen Z talked like that! what a lack of commitment. they disappoint me.
and the free sample pdf on their website is edited as well! no longer does it say “Cap G” (short for Capital G, by the way - like how Christians spell “God” with a capital G) and “Big J” - now, it just says “God” and “Jesus.”
…good thing I’m a veritable internet detective, because I found the original sample pdf, which is just as cringey as it looked! I recommend skimming it if you want, because it’s a disaster.
but, now that we know that they edited the book, how will we find out what the rest of the verses were? how ever can we know just how bad it truly was before Christian news sites yelled “blasphemy!” and Lifeway had a collective panic attack?
well, guess what! this devo book came with video lesson tie-ins, and they left their whole website up, for anyone to stumble across!
here are a few of the other “translations,” next to the original verses, so that you can compare:
Isaiah 40:8, NIV Bible:
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”
The “Gen-Z” version:
“Moo moo food goes bye bye, and pedal pads take an L, but Cap G’s scripts are perm.“
what the fuck? what the actual fuck? here, have another:
Matthew 4:4, NIV Bible:
“Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
The “Gen-Z” version:
“Dudes can’t make it on sammie blanks alone, gotta feast on that real talk from Cap G.”
“sammie blanks”?? sammie blanks?
Ephesians 6:17, NIV Bible:
“Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
The “Gen-Z” version:
“Take that noggin guard of savies and that big ol’ knife of Cap G’s wordz.”
ah, of course. that big ol’ knife.
one last one, and then I’m done with this.
Galatians 6:2, NIV Bible:
“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
The “Gen-Z” version:
“Forklift your fam’s saddies so Cap G’s sched is maxed out and relaxing all cool.”
I…I’ve got nothing. this broke me. I give up!
final notes:
1. don’t go following Matt Walsh on twitter. like, I’m glad he brought this to our attention, but he’s marked red on shinigami eyes, and from his tweets, he looks like a shitty person.
2. all of these translations are actually blasphemy, and I’m pretty sure a few of them count as straight-up heresy. so, there’s a fun thought!
3. I’m pretty sure this is also racist? like, some of these verses seem like mangled AAVE, and that’s not okay! that’s fucking terrible!
4. when you click on any of the video tie-ins, you’ll find out that the guy in the devo videos looks like this:
yes, he’s wearing sunglasses in a dimly-lit room. and yes, he’s wearing a shirt with a picture of praying hands and the word “Yeet” on it. and on that note…
5. what the fuck do they think “yeet” means? I mean, that “yeet pray love” shirt is a work of art, but this begs the question…what do they actually think it means?
what are we supposed to be yeeting?
anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.
This whole thing is hilarious.
i’m assuming this is some sort of list for dicey twitter people with terms inspired by death note but in the context of this post it just reads as another attempt at translating something otherwise normal into ludicrous Gen Z terms
