There’s an eight minute video with more but this is 100% the best bit: harp with a whammy bar
Ok so I got super curious and I found the whole video and honestly the whole thing is rad as hell
Its obvious to me when people who post about canaries in mines have never met a canary. Like yeah the miners had a special device to revive the canary because canaries are one of the most adorable creatures on the planet and they make adorable little chirping sounds and honestly probably loved the sounds of machinery and people talking so it was probably loud and friendly with the workers. Whatever though maybe meet a canary sometime and youd understand
If you see this animal every day at work, and it sings to you during your hardest bouts of labor, you will be distraught if it dies. Even if you know this creature is meant to die in lieu of you, you still hear it when the labor is at its hardest and your muscles are struggling against the weight of your work. It is so small, smaller than your soot-stained hands and louder than the death that follows you. You dont want it to die. The same as a woman does not want her candle to run out ; she knows that is the point, its flame is meant to burn the wick and melt the wax ; but she is not indifferent to its wasting away. She may even save her favorite candle as not to burn it too quickly. Now imagine you are that woman, and there is a way to rebuild your favorite candle that you love the smell of and the way it flickers. Would she rather throw her candle out? Or would she rebuild it? That is a canary to these miners. Would you allow an animal to just die when it has been singing for you? It reminds you that it is alive, and you are too. Its stop of song signifies the lethal danger you are in. Why abandon it? Is the miners' love for a little bird really that surprising?
Why does this read as though written by a coal miner of the era in which a canary was needed.
Because time is an illusion and love is infinite
everyone calling reddit social media is wrong
it's a forum and message board platform not social media it doesn't work like twitter or instagram or tiktok
and I think this is why everyone on tumblr is more accepting of their refugees and not twitters (besides the twitter refugees bringing old discourse back)
because tumblr is also not social media it's a blogging platform. both tumblr and reddit are similar in that they both reflect the internet of old, when forums and blogs and personal websites were more popular, a time when you didn't post about every little thing in your life, when you could be anonymous
and no matter how hard the ceos or the staff of either websites may try they can never fully transform into the next twitter or whatever without fundamentally changing what these websites are. which would be a death sentence
people aren't coming to these websites for social media, they're coming for the community, for the uniqueness, for the long discussions they can have without a character limit, for information, for anonymity. to browse the internet without feeling pressured into posting perfectly fake photos and stories about your life in a desperate attempt for likes and attention
June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.
Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters
In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.
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I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”
- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
“ First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels”
this is how hobbits can have two breakfasts
“permanent jet lag” sounds about right. No idea how to fix this.
If the Capitalists had there way, no one would sleep at all.
One of the reasons why teens tend to be so grouchy is because they are frequently denied the ability to get adequate sleep in favor of putting their schooling and employment above personal health. I remember during my brothers graduation, the school openly praised a single student for getting only 2-4 hours of sleep each night.
Capitalism has convinced massive amounts of people that the mere concept of sleep is actually a flaw that can and should be overcome.
Imagine leaving the house to go pick up your meds…then be told you’re faking illness. Damn.
and the waste of money: cruelty is the point
Isn't this technically practicing medicine without a license?
The companies are making a medical judgement about the fitness of people to return to work or be working; they are doing things then to effect the medical health of the people which amounts to either treatment or denial of treatment. This then effects the health of the people so treated or denied treatment.
Pretty sure on average that HR isn't going to be qualified to make those judgements.
Imagine leaving the house to go pick up your meds…then be told you’re faking illness. Damn.
and the waste of money: cruelty is the point
twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman
tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses
discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform
youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification
reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support
facebook: my mom is on there
bloop
It was already bad! It started as a Mormon-owned company that probably used your data to sell you Jesus ads and posthumously baptize your heathen family. This is just a turd on a turd
For those of you who use Reddit.
You may have noticed your favorite sub set to private today. Especially if you weren't logged in. This is not a glitch, this is not a hack, this is a protest.
In a nutshell Reddit wants money so they're cutting off 3rd party apps that refuse to pay up or can't from the API. This is going to destroy communities that have to moderate with the help of bots. Take a guess how many communities that includes. Some of the same applications affected are also used by those with disabilities in order to use Reddit.
Reddit doesn't care. They haven't implemented the needed accessibility features these apps provide and more than likely won't. The apps have been given a month and then if they didn't or couldn't pay they're gone. Another one of the main concerns related to losing bot moderation on Reddit is without the ability to use the bots illegal material will have an easier way to spread. Moderating a massive subreddit 24/7 is not a job that's reasonably doable by a small group of people who in all likelyhood also have a job offline, lives outside of the Internet, etc. A lot of mods moderate for free. Without the bots some subs will most likely have to shut down.
The goal of the protest is to go dark on the entire site until better terms have been negotiated. Which is why your favorite sub may have "gone dark" today. (Privated)
You can participate if you wish by spreading the news outside of Reddit and staying off of Reddit.
this is why you should care about the reddit strike
This is a big concern for the moderators internally too. We've checked our own subs in archive.org to see what is available and will be making steps to make materials available independently of reddit. Archival organizations are working overtime on Reddit right now because they know it might fucking implode soon.
ID: A tweet by Freyja Katra Valentine @FreyaErlings posted at 2:06 PM June 12, 2023. The text says: Watching everyone slowly realize in real time that reddit being down means a major source of practical knowledge and advice that is searchable on the general internet is gone, and so is everything that reddit had replace. End ID
Not gonna put this one on blast but buddy I think if you're assigning "privilege" to any trans people in any way, shape or form you're just having the wrong conversation
This is a real thing tho... you can't ignore the way different peoples' situations affect them. Would you say the same thing if this was about white vs non-white trans people? There are obviously issues that trans people of color face that White trans people don't; I'd definitely consider that privilege in a sense
this is crazy this is the only time i've seen an online boycott actually work. and the entire fucking reddit website is broken rn
here is where you can see the status of the boycott btw
it might be broken bc reddit is broken rn
it's also the fact that so many different communities with wildly differing userbases have come together for this that's wild to me. like you have r/gaming fighting side by side with r/legaladvice and r/furry 😭
Any plan for combating CSA is going to have to reckon with the fact that teenagers are often horny and feel a desire to explore and express their sexuality and if they don't have a safe avenue for that which doesn't involve interacting with adult predators they will find an unsafe one which does
This is not a hypothetical this is not a piece of rhetoric I was a horny teenager who had safe avenues for expressing my sexuality without the involvement of adult predators closed off to me and so I found the unsafe ones
+ if your conception of why CSA is wrong is in any way based on a notion of childhood innocence your actions and rhetoric are contributing to CSA, not fighting it.
The harm that is done to a child when they are sexually abused comes from the fact that they are being placed in a vulnerable situation with a pernicious power dynamic, not from the destruction of some illusory victorian notion of purity
Like idk it's really fucked that for some people the rhetoric of "that 15 year old seduced me, I wasn't the aggressor, I'm not in the wrong" is only wrong because they think 15 year olds are like constitutionally incapable of wanting to seduce someone when that's just like categorically incorrect, when I was 15 I very much actively desired to seduce people and even made attempts at doing it. The reason "that 15 year old seduced me, I wasn't the aggressor, I'm not in the wrong" is wrong is because you as an adult have power over that 15 year old regardless of what they are or aren't trying to do and as such if they are trying to seduce you it is your responsibility to not take actions you know to be wrong. It's not wrong because it's describing some kind of impossible desire that a 15 year old would never have, it's wrong because it's seeking to invert the power dynamics of the situation and place all the contextual agency on the minor while rhetorically disempowering the adult to project an image of innocence. It's just garden variety DARVO, not some kind of Metaphysically Incoherent Assertion.
Like idk I feel like it should be pretty easy to point out what's wrong with the logic of "the child told me to commit rape so I did" without inventing a rationale about how children are constitutionally incapable of formulating the idea of telling someone to commit rape
This absurd notion of childhood innocence serves only to put minors in more danger by denying the basic facts of how they experience and interact with the world while simultaneously functioning as a justification for depriving them of useful and necessary information that they could use to protect themselves from predators if they were allowed to have it. When you deny children information about how the world works with regards to sexuality, and deny yourself information about how children work with regards to sexuality, you are putting both yourself and children in a position of having to build a plan on faulty information and you shouldn't be surprised when the house you build this way crumbles under a stiff breeze.
The whole “no one experiences sexual desire until they turn 18″ thing also just seems completely out of touch with how 90% of the world seems to think about teenagers, i.e. that they (and especially guys) are pretty much the horniest beings in existence. I lost count of the number of times I got told that factoid about teenage boys thinking about sex every seven seconds back when I was one. (I don’t think either of the extremes on this point is precisely correct, but probably the popular conception is closer.)
It’s doubly frustrating because, as OP says, it seems reliant on the idea that to really not consent to sex you have to have absolutely no desire for it, even for sex as a thing in the abstract and not with this particular person. I know that a lot of people opposite me in this debate have heard that an erection doesn’t mean consent and that “she was asking for it by dressing slutty and lightly flirting with me” is a bad argument, and claim to believe them, but in discussions like these it doesn’t feel like they’ve really internalized those points.
I wanted to add into this with my experiences of sex with older men as a minor, but I couldn't find a way of doing so while considering my encounters as rape. It felt dehumanising then how my choices---even mistakes---were dismissed and deemed uninformed or weightless. I gave explicit consent to these men and participated with them, considering it rape made me feel like I was making the word more meaningless and abstract. I wanted to use the word to describe sex without consent, including my experiences into it made my own will seem illegitimate. I wanted to meet these men, I've received consequences but I despised the idea of painting myself as a victim. I was aware of the power they had over me too, how small my options were and how all of them involved me outing myself and how I was vulnerable in every direction. I knew all these things and reminded myself of the danger, banality and lacklustre, and dread of sex, but when I snuck out of school to meet a twice my age guy I felt ecstatic that I could choose to do all of this, that all of the restrictions of my youth were illusory and I had the power to make this mistake and be invisible during a time when everyone saw me and had hurt me in a different way, a way I saw was worse and more enduring than being alone in an unfamiliar place with a guy I've never met with intentions I do not know.
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When we communicate to children and teenagers that “body autonomy” (A) is something only adults can have, and (B) automatically entails “consent to sex with adults,” we are functionally communicating that they must escape childhood as fast as possible if they want to be free autonomous persons instead of objects upon whose body any authorized adult may freely exercise power, and that they will only be able to obtain body autonomy at the price of sex with adults. That, we are telling them, is what it means to be an adult (and therefore to have the body autonomy denied to them as children): to be sexually available to adults. It amounts to a kind of default societal coercion: you have to be willing to have sex with us adults if you want to access the right to say “no” to us (including “no” to sex with us).
Are we surprised when they are basically trained to see an adult man who calls them “mature” and pretends to love them as the only person who “truly” understands them and sees them as an autonomous human worthy of respect? Our social norms of denying body autonomy to children do half the grooming for him.
Tl;dr respecting children and young people’s body autonomy does not in any way diminish the ethical obligations of adults, autonomy means many things but one of the primary things is “freedom from coercion,” which includes freedom [from] manipulation, grooming, and sexual exploitation.
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Anonymous asked:
I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!
Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.
There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.
Check out these articles:
Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:
1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.
2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.
3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.
4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.
5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.
6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.
Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.
there's also the slight detail that intentional weight loss is impossible in the long term in 95% of cases
Cops also like to poison the supply of drugs then use the fact that everyone is getting sick or freaking out on their poisoned drugs as justification to crack down on drugs and take more control over the supply.
The poisoning of things like cannabis by the way is not unrelated to problems with the drug for HRT (at least in some places in the US). If you don't think cops would poison the HRT or birth control supply given then chance then you don't know cops.