Bringing this guy back for contrast with my last post. I vote we revel for a moment in the sheer vastness of the spectrum of amazing music.
Once upon a time I played a tabletop miniatures game called Warhammer 40k (the 40k refers to the year the sci-fi themed game takes place in). There was a strange unit in 40k that I always thought was particularly cool: the noise marine. Noise marines are evil mofos who kill their enemies with music.
I always wondered what the music sounded like to its victims, or perhaps more interestingly, to the noise marines themselves. The first answer that comes to mind is that they just played a souped up version of the most terrible metal you’ve ever heard, so bad that people would rather die than continue to hear the noise. However, I always preferred to think of the noise marines as exceptionally potent musicians - possessing such mastery of their instruments that they could use them as weapons.
The reason I bring this up is I’ve just encountered a band called Animals As Leaders and their music sounds a lot like what I imagine the music of a noise marine sounds like. I’ll post a video of theirs in case you’re curious.
There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
That’s it. I’m moving to Canada when I get pregnant.
I need some help with this one. It makes perfect sense to me that there should be unpaid maternity leave. During the leave the employee maintains benefits and cannot be fired, but I’m having trouble seeing how paid maternity leave makes any sense. From the linked article:
“Women are forced to put their careers and financial future at risk simply because they want to have children.”
I wouldn’t categorize the desire to have children as a “simply”; I’d put that soundly under “kind of a big deal and you should really be financially prepared for it”.
There’s my misogynist opinion tumblr - freshly blooded and ready for the wolves. Have at it.
