Daily Archives: August 4, 2015

environment, Fail!, Just strange, planetkillers, Profiteering

Dubai (ROTFLOL) to build world’s largest indoor ski resort as part of Meydan City project | World news | The Guardian

Dubai to build world's largest indoor ski resort as part of Meydan City project | World news | The Guardian

(The added cost of your gasoline this summer is paying for this!) Dubai, the Gulf emirate known for extravagant projects and scorching temperatures, has announced it will build the world’s largest indoor ski resort, with a 1.2-kilometre run.

Dubai’s current indoor ski resort, opened in 2005 in the Mall of the Emirates, remains the largest in the world, according to the Guinness World Records website, boasting a 400-metre slope.

The slope runs year-round despite summer temperatures in Dubai that can top 45C (113F).

The new covered ski resort comes as part of a scheme dubbed Meydan One, also to include the world’s tallest residential tower at 711metres (2,333ft), a dancing fountain sweeping up to 420m (1,378ft), a vast shopping centre, 350-room hotel and marina, according to a government statement.

via Dubai to build world’s largest indoor ski resort as part of Meydan City project | World news | The Guardian.

Fail!, Feminism

Planned Parenthood Leader Defends Group as Senate Blocks Bill to End Its Funding

Democrats resisted backlash against the organization, set off by videos about fees for tissue from fetuses. Cecile Richards, the group’s president, said the videos proved that employees did nothing wrong.

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via Planned Parenthood Leader Defends Group as Senate Blocks Bill to End Its Funding.

Feminism, human rights, Viva!

“I’m studying overseas at a small college in Minnesota. I’m just…

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“I’m studying overseas at a small college in Minnesota. I’m just home for the summer. There’s definitely more outward freedom in the states to wear what I want and do what I want. But I never feel completely at ease because there are only three Pakistanis at my school, and I feel that everything I do reflects on my family, my religion, and my country. I feel pressured to always be exceedingly polite and well behaved, even when I don’t feel like it. But in Pakistan I can relax more, even though the electricity sometimes goes out and I’ve already been mugged twice since I’ve been back. Because here I feel like my actions only reflect on me.”

(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

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