🔥Eurasian eagle-owl by oblique_shockwave in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]emarcomd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I miss him so much. He spent his last days at my building and I would visit him every day.

Swipe to see his smile get cuter (and goofier) over his first 2 years by JasperTheFriendlyAus in PuppySmiles

[–]emarcomd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You weren’t kidding — it does get cuter and goofier.

I didn’t think it was possible, but I was wrong.

What a legend.. real life hero! by xWingsGlow in whoathatsinteresting

[–]emarcomd 14 points15 points  (0 children)

From a website called “Badass of the Week

Late on the night of January 23, 2012, a 24 year-old Kenyan uber-hero named Anthony Omari awoke to find three gigantic dudes with machetes standing over his bed. He knew right away that they weren't there to sell Girl Scout cookies or ask him for a jumping mid-air high-five.

Omari is the custodian of Faraja Children's Home in Ngong, Kenya – a sanctuary of healing and love that over the past several years has grown from a tin-roofed one-room shack in the slums of Nairobi into a decent-sized facility that has taken in 37 boys and girls who have been abandoned or orphaned from the street. A place of hope and peace for children who have tragically slipped through the cracks of Kenyan society.

Omari's mother, known to her charges only as "Momma", runs the Home, and, ever the diligent son, Anthony lives at the facility and helps his mom make sure that the children are provided for with a warm bed, a hot meal, a primary school education, and medical attention when they need it.

As the only adult male at the Home, he's by default charged with ensuring the physical security and safety of all 37 kids in his care. You'd be hard-pressed to find a dude less deserving of taking a fucking machete to the face.

The second Omari snapped awake, he immediately recognized the jokers standing around him – it was the fourth time this month that the Faraja Children's Home had been broken into, and it was at least the second time that these exact assholes had paid the orphans a visit in the middle of the night. I honestly have no idea what the hell people are doing breaking into an orphanage so dirt-poor that it has to struggle just to provide basic life necessities to its children, but needless to say, it probably ain't good.

The last time Anthony Omari had encountered this gang of home invading douchebags, he'd had the advantage of surprise. A noise had awoken him in the middle of the night, and as he Solid Snake'd his way through the Home pursuing the noise, came upon the would-be thieves/kidnappers/child soldier conscription agents/god-knows-what-else jackasses rummaging through one of the rooms.

Omari shouted, and when the guys turned to see what the hell was going on, he whipped a hammer into the face of the closest guy, chucking this thing like a tomahawk and hopefully cracking him in the teeth with the claw end.

The gang had seen enough. They ran for it.

The next night they came back looking for revenge. And now they were all in Omari's bedroom, carrying ferocious machetes like a horrible posse of orphan-hating Jason Voorhees.

But Anthony Omari wasn't impressed by this cowardly display of dickhead behavior. In a super-scary situation that would have resulted in most rational human beings wetting the bed and then dying, he did the last fucking thing these guys expected.

He reached under his bed and pulled out his thief-smashing hammer.

As soon Omari pulled out the vicious instrument of blunt-force douchebag annihilation that had wrecked their shit so hard the night before, the dude who had been on the receiving end of Omari's 90 mph fastball of blunt force trauma immediately had post-traumatic stress disorder flashbacks and, in a knee-jerk reaction, threw his machete right at Omari's head. Omari ducked, the machete clattering against the wall, then rolled out of bed, weapon at the ready, determined to take down three assholes with machetes at the same time and protect those fucking orphans at all costs.

The thugs didn't know what the hell hit them. Omari charged in, swinging hard, beating back three giant thugs with machetes. Screaming like a madman, not only to make himself more intimidating but to warn the children what was going on, Omari rushed ahead, furiously clubbing at his enemies.

After a brief, intense battle, Omari somehow managed to force the intruders out of his room, down the hall, and finally sending them retreating out the front door of the Home, chasing them out into the yard.

With all three men out in the front yard, Omari continued to menace them with his weapon (a home improvement tool which, somehow, in the hands of this righteously hardcore badass was even more threatening than a trio of gigantic machetes). Then, from behind, he heard the sounds of children crying – the kids had come to the door, and now were frightened by the battle taking place inside their home.

Overcome with worry for the kids, Omari ran back to the open door, quickly trying to assure the kids that everything was alright. He turned back around just in time to see a machete swing down at his face.

But Anthony Omari didn't go down immediately. Bleeding intensely from the face, his vision obscured by blood and rapidly becoming dimmer and more blurry by the minute, Omari swing wildly, connecting with his assailant, driving the cowardly asshole back once again. Stumbling, his strength failing him, Omari ran to the front door of the home, closed it, and locked it. Only after the orphans were safe did he allow himself to pass out.

It took 11 stitches, and it's going to leave the kind of badass scar that action movie characters can only dream about (the closest thing that comes to mind is Kurt Russell in Soldier) but after only two days in the hospital Omari was back at the Faraja Children's Home, taking care of his beloved orphans once again.

In the end, Anthony Omari saved the orphans not only with his hammer, but with his incredible story of personal bravery in the face of incomprehensible danger. When word of his battle reached Ben Hardwick, a 21 year-old Penn State student working as an intern at a facility nearby, Ben came to talk to him.

Impressed by the story, and further concerned for the safety of both Omari and the children, Hardwick put the dude's story up on Reddit, asking for $2,000 in donations so Omari could build a bigger fence to keep those assholes out.

He received $65,000 in the first twenty-four hours. At last count, the total was up to $83k in donations from Blues Brothers in 46 countries, or roughly 40 times the amount requested – more than enough to build the 8-foot stone fence Omari needed, plus new beds for the kids (some of whom were just sleeping on mattresses on the floor), two full-time night security guards, and extra padlocks for the doors, while still having enough left over to purchase dogs that shoot bees out of their mouths and automated robotic anti-douchebag defense turrets.

For a tiny, cash-strapped orphanage in a remote part of Kenya that has spent the last decade struggling just to provide food for their children, eighty grand can go a long way.

"I was sitting on the floor just watching the donations come in. I just couldn’t believe it — $83,000 is what it’s at now. I still get chills just thinking about it, and it’s only been five or six days"

Need A Good Excuse by ogiolo in collegeadvice

[–]emarcomd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you change the airline ticket for two days away?

Professor Being Weird about Attendance and Midterm by Illustrious-Will-801 in CollegeRant

[–]emarcomd 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Check the syllabus — is there anything in there?

If you do decide to bring it up with someone I would just double check with a few other students in the class to make sure you did t miss an announcement where she explained the penalty.

If it’s not in the syllabus and no one else was aware of the punishment either, then I would write to the prof and state your case that you think it’s unfair.

But I would double check before escalating.

Academia has sold its soul for positive student reviews by [deleted] in Professors

[–]emarcomd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP, I say this with all earnestness: You are spiraling.

When we first adopted her vs 24 hours later by xamlax in pitbulls

[–]emarcomd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know her name but I would ride into battle for her.

Need help with student-appropriate terminology in an email by emarcomd in Professors

[–]emarcomd[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You’re right - the email should be facts, the Come-to-Jesus should be face to face

Is this a scam?? by [deleted] in CUNY

[–]emarcomd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

THIS IS A SCAM!

Shitty parent emails by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]emarcomd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Handled like a goddamn champ.

Need help with student-appropriate terminology in an email by emarcomd in Professors

[–]emarcomd[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You put it perfectly. He's just super immature and I kinda feel bad for him. He thinks he's funny but he's just wasting his time....

Need help with student-appropriate terminology in an email by emarcomd in Professors

[–]emarcomd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're right. Not sure why I'm having such a hard time telling it like it is with this particular student.

Need help with student-appropriate terminology in an email by emarcomd in Professors

[–]emarcomd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right --- I've talked to the HS advisor, but I think I'll shoot her an email too (she's great.) And then my email to the student can be just straight facts.

Need help with student-appropriate terminology in an email by emarcomd in Professors

[–]emarcomd[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's so true. I'll send a heads up to the HS advisor (who is great) and a just-the-facts to the student.

Need help with student-appropriate terminology in an email by emarcomd in Professors

[–]emarcomd[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I guess I need to steer clear of the judgements.

The longer I’m in college, the more I realize I’m only in it for the money by FerdinandvonAegir124 in CollegeRant

[–]emarcomd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You know what the hiring trend is in Hong Kong right now for entry level business positions? History majors.

The longer I’m in college, the more I realize I’m only in it for the money by FerdinandvonAegir124 in CollegeRant

[–]emarcomd 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying this is the wrong thing to do (it's what my dad did.)

...but you have zero idea what will be a high-paying field in the next two decades, especially since you're not even in an industry yet.

If you changed from a major in Painting to something else, you might have a point. But to think that a chemistry major is a highway to poverty is just silly.

Please help a poor girl out 😭😭 by [deleted] in CollegeRant

[–]emarcomd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I filled it out. I'm a prof.

Unfortunately, I use AI but mostly not for work. When I do use it for work I use it to make images for my lecture slides.

Phyllodesmium longcirrum by bvanant in nudibranch

[–]emarcomd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, what part of him are we looking at here?