kind of lame that graffiti is considered vandalism, while advertisements being forcefully beamed into my eyes via every inch of visible wall, road, and social media feed isn’t
(ID: tweet from user @uhhmmily you want me to make a phone call. the thing that killed drew barrymore in scream. end ID)
Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death.
"Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.”
Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS.
"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault," she said.
May 11th, 2022!
if youre "career driven" fucking grow up. im hanging out driven. im goofin off driven. im grabbin a bite driven
since polygraphs aren’t admissible in court because they’re nonsense junk science, a primary purpose they serve in interrogations is essentially using them as a prop to ramp up the pressure on a suspect. it’s all a big performance and no one should ever submit to one if they have the option not to
Also since cops can lie to you during interrogations about anything that isn’t directly about the law (never agree to interrogation without a lawyer) a fun thing they often do is administer a polygraph and then proceed to inform the suspect that the test says they are being deceptive even when the machine says otherwise. So yeah their function is entirely as an intimidation tactic
So you know NONE of this is common knowledge among Americans, right? We’re pretty much led to believe that they ARE reliable and ARE admissible in court.
And while some of us know they’re not reliable, most people think, this being the fucking US and all, that they are admissible regardless.
This is going to be news to a lot of people, and good news at that.
as if it’s going to stop the fucking cops. sorry for being a downer on your post but it really seems like they can just do whatever they want and i’m sick of it
my job in the leftist commune is to reset the microwave clock after the power goes out :)
If I could somehow find everyone who ever bullied me and ask them why they targeted me, not a single one would say it was because I was autistic. None of them even knew I was.
Instead they’d say it was because I liked Pokemon too much after it stopped being cool, or my clothes looked ridiculous and I wore the same pair of jeans 3 days a week, or that I was just weird/nerdy/unpopular. In many, many cases, that is what neurodiversity looks like. Not someone with an obvious disability, but someone who’s just weird.
I see so many allistics and neurotypicals on here that claim to be anti-ableism but turn around and make jokes at the expense of people who are eccentric but harmless.
If you’re an allistic that claims to support autistic people, but then you turn around and make fun of the woman wearing a bizarre outfit or the guy who speaks in a monotone or the teenager who carries a teddy bear everywhere, you are hurting autistic people who do those same things.
this is also why even non-diagnosed autistics are punished and abused by society, the bullying isn’t about being explicitly autistic, but rather that society has decided that the traits autistic people exibhit are “abnormal” and therefore worthy of punishment.
Wakey wakey... 🡹🡹🡹🡹🡹
Image: A twitter thread from October 2020 by Ashley Stevens (@the_acumen) reading:
Too many of you are confused about your class status. If you can’t afford to miss a paycheck, you’re the working poor, and part of the 80% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. If you HAVE to work to survive, you’re working class.
The middle class is basically gone, and y’all are being used as a tool against working class and poor people. Most of y’all are one major emergency away from poverty. Get some class solidarity and stop protecting the rich, we should eat them instead.
End of description.
The thread is longer on twitter, by the way, with additional reading and citations.
The opposite of “only vaginal intercourse is sex” isn’t “all sexual contact is sex.”
It’s “sex is what you and your partner want it to be.”
The opposite of “sex is a huge commitment” isn’t “sex is meaningless.”
It’s “what does sex mean to you?”
The opposite of “sex exists to make babies and keep husbands” isn’t “sex exists to give pleasure.”
It’s “sex exists for the purpose you use it for.”
The opposite of “you should be ashamed of sex” isn’t “you should be shameless about sex.”
It’s “sex is a thing people do.”
officially diagnosed with bed too cozy disease
Gender politics was a fucking mistake. Ppl will really be like "men don't have the capacity to have authentic, normal human emotions like women do" and act like that's peak feminism and not an utterly fucking deranged thing to say about another person
I'm gonna say it here too. Allow me to be crystal fucking clear.
- It is not cowardly to stay in the closet. Full stop. You do not owe anyone any part of yourself you aren't ready to share
- If you unable to come out because you fear for your safety or well-being or because you know it will cause you substantial discomfort, that is not a defect in you. It's a failure of the society in which you live and the community surrounding you.
- If you just don't want to share that part of yourself, that is valid and I support you
furthermore i truly believe you should eat a meal before making any big choices, confrontations, vents, etc. i promise 100% of the time you will feel better and more balanced with food in your stomach. you should never do anything that will have consequences on anything less than a full stomach
i want to kiss you on the lips for 1) saying orc instead of hobbit and 2) being like the only person out of 6k people to gender me correctly
(ID: screenshot of tags #orc logic #she’s right btw. end ID)
I’m sooo strong and masculine my arm doesn’t even shake when I’m holding a pot over the sink while I fill it up with water (lying)
During the 2019 flu season in Canada, 46k people were diagnosed with influenza. That's not people who "felt sick", that's people who went to their doctor or emergency, had a test done, and were told "yup, that's the flu".
Of those 46k, 2000 had symptoms severe enough to be hospitalized so they could be monitored.
Of those 2000, 600 ended up in ICU, connected to machines to breath for them.
Of those 600, 200 died.
2019 had a fairly average flu season.
During the 2020 flu season, that was 69. Total. Zero hospitalization. Zero ICU. Zero deaths.
The 2021 flu season is almost over and since people were "more comfortable" this year not wearing masks where they should have been the numbers are higher, but still only in the hundreds of cases, with zero deaths to date.
If anyone tries to tell you masks don't work, there are statistically at least 400 people who did not die of the flu who prove otherwise.
WE PROBABLY ELIMINATED TWO STRAINS OF INFLUENZA IN HUMANS. WE CUT TRANSMISSION SO MUCH THE STRAIN DIED OUT BECAUSE IT COULDN’T SPREAD TO PEOPLE.
WEAR THE GOD DAMNED MASKS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/02/children-flu-deaths/
https://www.livescience.com/flu-virus-types-extinct-covid-19.html
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I will forever be salty that masking dramatically reduced flu season for two years running and the message is still somehow that saving people from deadly/disabling disease just isn’t worth not seeing peoples’ mouths.
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