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Comedy
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Tragedy
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Fadel and his family need our help. As he's been trying to survive in Palestine, Fadel has had to live with shrapnel in his body for around 300 days now. His family's tent was exposed to gunfire just yesterday. He sent me audio from the gunfire, which you'll hear in the following video
Please my friends, I am in dire need of your help. I don’t know if I will survive in the coming hours or not. I am in dire need of your help. Don’t ignore me and leave me alone. Please I need your donations and help, please!!
Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.
what
no seriously
what?
PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY
this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)
for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:
hey look, additional info!
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spin the wheel and assign an animal to prev
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other people can post stolen explicit porn on here and it's fine but if you dare to be fat or black or trans or god forbid any intersection of the three then the freaks who run this circus will kick you out in no time
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"are you dead you haven't posted in 24 hours" employment :/ job :/ sorry but as an apology i'll let you take one vance free from my vance reserve
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my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo
me: mama what the hell does that mean
my mom: so muscular
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I’m making it a habit to say “drac u later” when I leave a room and “I’m backula” when I enter a room
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New stickers on my shop!!!!!!!!
a few bunches a few singles and a few sticker sheets! its been a while since I've last added things to my shop, i hope you all enjoy them :))
I've changed the way i produce the stickers by the way. I've noticed the old way is nice at first but eventually it makes the stickers warp and i didn't like that so it doesn't have the outer layer anymore.
I've been experimenting with a new waterproof sticker page too but the paper is pretty expensive so i dont know if i wanna put something so needlessly pricy on my page. But lmk what yall want, would waterproof be something you want?
I also want to make more DDBA stickers, i think i want to put up some polls to find out which set of 3 you guys would want next on my shop.
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Repost from AJ+
“When our grandchildren ask what we did during the genocide in Gaza, I’ll say I refused.”
"Ella Keidar Greenberg is in jail for refusing to serve in the Israeli army, a decision she announced publicly outside the military recruitment center. She’s currently being held in solitary confinement, according to Mesarvot, an organization that supports conscientious objectors. AJ+ spoke to her before her detention."
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I came across a xiaohongshu post that showed pictures of an abandoned traditional village in a mountainous region of China with very little surrounding greenery that had the captions: “so sad how traditional villages like these are empty and abandoned”
But the top comment was: “I am so happy for the villagers who finally made it out of the mountains and into new homes in prosperous cities. It often takes multiple generations of hard work to get the entire family out. Every family in this village achieved this. What you are looking at is the evidence of their success!”
And the second highest liked comment was: “You can tell this area has poor agricultural resources. The ancestors of the villagers were likely forced to settle here because more powerful villages have occupied the attractive fertile lands. Who knows how long they had been trapped here? I’m glad they finally made it out!”
Another comment with high likes: “My grandparents’ village was like this. Poor air quality from burning coal in poorly ventilated buildings. Bitterly cold in the winter. Dry and hot in the summer. Short growing seasons. And there was always a shortage of water. My parents got factory jobs in the city and after working and saving for years, they finally got all of us out.”
And it occurred to me how when we romanticize old fashioned villages and mourn the loss of the type of community they provided, we sometimes downplay and overlook the extraordinary liberation and agency that industrialization brought and brings to people who in previous generations had no option but to remain where they were born for most of their lives.
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"lolcow" is ultimately a colloquial term describing a phenomena that actually precedes the internet (and well, most of history too) but I can't think of another shorthand with implications that are tacitly understood the same way when gesturing to the spectacle that the world makes around acceptable targets. you go on reddit and someone has crossposted a Courtroom Freakout video like that's some shit anyone should want to derive entertainment from. your mom's cohort watches Dumb Criminal Fail youtube compilations and nod their heads as the perpetrator of a failed robbery bleeds out on floor of a kfc like that's some shit anyone should want to see. your peers are heavily invested in the Worthless E-Drama Industrial Complex, where thousands of people are made collateral of all kinds of violence in the name of forwarding the narrative of the spectacle. and you can't ask any of these people why any of this behavior is normal to them unless you want to be accused of condoning immoral tendencies, compulsion to punish The Other already metastasized in their minds. it sucks how easy it is to kill your own interest in this shit but not anyone else's.
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According to this 1909 pamphlet from the American Medical Association: if one of your friends talks to you about masturbation, you should beat the crap out of him.
~ The Boy's Venereal Peril, American Medical Association, 1909
Like vintage advice? Check out Solitary Virtue which is a treasure trove of bad vintage advice about masturbation.
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the phrases "same-day and next-day MAiD" "influence of caregiver burnout" (after preferred request for hospice and palliative care were denied) … truly some of the most evil statements imaginable
In the same-day or next-day MAiD report, Mrs. B, in her 80s, after complications from surgery, opted for palliative care, leading to discharge home. She later requested a MAiD assessment, but her assessor noted she preferred palliative care based on personal and religious values. The next day, her spouse, struggling with caregiver burnout, took her to the emergency department, but she was discharged home. When a request for hospice palliative care was denied, her spouse contacted the provincial MAiD coordination service for an urgent assessment. A new assessor deemed her eligible for MAiD, despite concerns from the first practitioner, who questioned the new assessor on the urgency, the sudden shift in patient perspective, and the influence of caregiver burnout. The initial assessor requested an opportunity for re-evaluation, but this was denied, with the second assessor deeming it urgent. That evening, a third MAiD practitioner was brought in, and Mrs. B underwent MAiD that night.
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In the waiver of final consent report, Mr. B, a man with Alzheimer’s, had been approved for MAiD with such a waiver. However, by the scheduled provision date, his spouse reported increased confusion. Upon arrival, the MAiD provider noted that Mr. B no longer recognized them and so chose not to engage him in discussion at all. Without any verbal interaction to determine his current wishes or understanding, Mr. B’s life was ended.
In the same-day or next-day MAiD report, Mr. C, diagnosed with metastatic cancer, initially expressed interest in MAiD but then experienced cognitive decline and became delirious. He was sedated for pain management. Despite the treating team confirming that capacity was no longer present, a MAiD practitioner arrived and withheld sedation, attempting to rouse him. It was documented that the patient mouthed “yes” and nodded and blinked in response to questions. Based on this interaction, the MAiD provider deemed the patient to have capacity. The MAiD practitioner then facilitated a virtual second assessment, and MAiD was administered.
man with alzheimer's no longer recognized them so the practitioner simply chose not to engage at all… another maid practitioner arrived and withheld sedation to deem a patient to have capacity based on nods and blinks… horrific
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a white man of heteroerotic inclination who sports an immaculately trimmed salon mullet and a tiktok mustache can speak only lies and whatever truths he attempts to reveal have already been offered to the world much better by the ill-informed infographic on the instagram story of a socialist-tinged music review meme page he skimmed on his way over
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[guy who talks like elvis when hes overstimulated] woogh mama imma gettin ovahstimulated.. —HUUH