Hello! My hometown, Philippines is experiencing hazardous eruption from ‘Taal Volcano’ and is currently in Alert#4. Ash are raining around the area, people are covered by it and street looks like deserted island. safety materials like “face mask” are being hoard and not everybody can afford to be safe anymore. residences are evacuating with lack of basic safety materials and necessities and are badly panicking. there are barely rescuer, some people and animals are being left behind out of trauma and fear. The Philippine Government is asking for private donations but our president won’t provide any statement and even have the guts to give out funds ($900+) for marines
personnel who are celebrating their birthday this month,and tells them to give it to their wives and families. BUT victims of fishers and farmers of the eruption gained a loan of $494+ when they barely even make a living plus he even had the audacity to take a selfie while using private jet plane back home while other planes are being cancelled and his people are dying anyway I’m asking all your help through donating from the given below or I’d appreciate it by simply sharing this post.
zoos help rehabilitate animals who otherwise would not survive in the wild
zoos help protect animals that would otherwise be hunted down
and zoos give them care to keep them healthy
seaworld and circuses (involving animals)
those are the ones that are bad
Are aquariums still considered good? Cuz ours has a bunch of sea animals that were brought in due to injuries, and that seems like a good thing to help them out until they can go back in the ocean.
Aquariums function like aquatic zoos IF they are non-profit and accredited. For instance the National Aquarium does have dolphins BUT last year they stopped doing shows and literally just let the dolphins do what they want. People can come in to watch the dolphins and trainers still are there but now are less “trainers” and more “human toys.” Breeding efforts have stopped and they announced they’re going to care for their existing pod and play as the POD wants for the rest of their life and after that, no dolphins.
Almost all their fish are nearly 20 years old (or less depending on natural life cycle, or MORE… there are a few close to 50) and they also have rehabilitation and release programs for injured animals. Since they are non-profit every bit of money goes to constant improvements in their tanks, research, and conservation efforts.
Sea World, despite all their advertising and talk, is a for profit organization that is more concerned with the paychecks than with animal welfare. Baltimore aquarium got a lot of people in with their dolphin shows but they stopped when learning it wasn’t best for their animals. Sea World has no such concern.
Learn before you burn
Keep the zoos and aquariums. Fuck sea world and circuses.
*googles ‘how to nominate reporter for Peabody Award’* x
I literally just got dehydrated from all the salt in that one paragraph
I want to know who the 3 presidents are that are ranked lower than Trump
1. Nixon (asshole)
2. Reagan (super asshole)
3. Zachary Taylor (died after one and a half years of presidency like a bitch)
Trump is ranked lower than William Henry Harrison, who died after just 31 days in office. He ranked lower than a man whose presidential legacy is that his inauguration speech was so damn long he gave himself pneumonia because of it and…died.
we need to be taught disability history in school because it is 2019, i am 20 years old, and i am only now learning that the National Association of the Deaf had to take Netflix to court in 2012 in order for closed captioning to be required on streaming sites (source). any amount of accessibility in our lives has been fought for, and those stories need to be told.
Hulu was just taken to court in 2018 in order for audio descriptions to be included in their services for blind users (source)
access is a constant battle, and is nowhere near universal
Art does not have an inherent responsibility to teach you ANYTHING unless its what the artist wants. If we suddenly force all art to be only nice and soft and pretty well that’s fucking garbo.
Let art exist as art without using it as a tool
“Rock and roll is the devil’s music!”
“Dungeons & Dragons is the Devils game!”
“FICTION IS REALITY!”
“Video games cause violence/sexism/racism!”
I mean……. Fiction absolutely influences reality. The jaws effect is Right There
The point is that artists are not responsible for teaching the viewer morality. Spielberg was not obligated to teach people not to go out and kill sharks, Phoenix is not obligated to teach people not to worship the Joker. If you are the kind of audience member who needs to learn morality from art, that’s not the artists fault, that’s some failure in your upbringing.
True story tho. Pulp Fiction and A Clockwork Orange never make me into a gang member or a rapist. So yeah, I love this.
