Hi hi, I’m an older genderqueer person who’s working hard to unlearn a bunch of awful mindsets and behaviors and become a better person. This is my personal blog: a sprinkling of art, science, cartoons, cute animals, and other random things I like. There is no theme other than “I like it” and will occasionally spam reblog 💕
Just like how we “can’t afford” high speed rail or walkable urbanism, but can pour hundreds of billions of tax dollars into subsidizing the car and oil industries and building/maintaining all car infrastructure. They pave over paradise to build parking lots and we foot the bill.
Literally every industry is like this btw. The nation-state exists to extract further wealth from workers and funnel it to capitalists, while legitimizing harsh violence against any resistance to this exploitation.
Just fyi for everyone the new strain DOES have the capability to do breakthrough infections (meaning if you’ve had your shots or COVID within the last two or three months you can get it again - only 2 confirmed cases in the US as of this morning though), no we don’t know if the new vaccine coming in September will be protective enough, and yes a lot of our overarching medical bodies are letting us doctors know that those who are elderly and/or are immunocompromised should be wearing a mask.
actually none of you should have ever stopped wearing masks in the first place, hope this helps 💖
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Ran into another masked person at work yesterday. I told her it was nice to see someone else masking up, and she cheerfully told me that she hadn’t gotten sick since she started wearing masks to work and she had absolutely no intention of getting a cold again this season. I think we would have high fived if we hadn’t been politely staying 6 ft apart
[ID: a watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil illustration of an alligator-like creature with blue, purple, and reddish-pink scales. It has a pointed tail tip. It is holding a large star/sun in its parted jaws. It is surrounded by swamp tupelo leaves, fireflies, ferns, and waterlily leaves. The background is black.]
Ban Private Equity from any financial transactions related to homes and residential real estate. They’re ruining the market for home buyers (and sellers) and keeping rents artificially high nationwide in the USA.
Keep Hedge funds and Wall St out of housing. Or tax the fcuk out of them.
almost worse than someone putting a single snide comment in a salient post you otherwise agree with: a post with good medical advice you know to be true where it slowly becomes clear that op also practises homeopathy or something
no I was criticising homeopathy
literally all homeopathy is pseudoscience what are the tags trying to say .
If anybody doesn’t fully understand what homeopathy means, it’s the idea that diseases can be treated by smaller doses of anything that causes similar symptoms. In other words to treat a virus that causes a fever, homeopathy would hold that any fever-inducing plant poison, in a small enough dose to not cause fever, is somehow going to combat a virus.
Obviously sometimes a medicine may have side effects resembling the very thing it’s treating. Homeopathy holds that this is WHY the medicine works, and that is 100% fantasy.
An intestinal infection isn’t going to die because it saw a leaf give its host diarrhea. Maybe it’s going to die because the same toxin that caused the diarrhea poisoned the bacteria to death before it poisoned the patient to death, but the homeopathy industry will pretend that’s not the reason at all and that their potentially deadly pants shitting herb just has some kind of ambiguous Goodness Vitamins they can sell without any screening or regulation.
Also I need to add that the above description, while correct, will not prepare you for just how much worse and dumber it gets the more you learn.
Also notable is that, even if these compounds did have curative powers, they’ve also generally been diluted in water over and over again to the extent that any given pill of a homeopathic remedy is unlikely to even contain a single molecule of this curative agent. Which, okay, sounds kind of useless. But it gets so much dumber than that. Because homeopaths claim that every such dilution actually *increases* the potency of the cure. How? Water memory! See, the water you use to dilute the substance *remembers* having the substance in it! Or, depending on how many dilutions you use, remembers having water in it that remembers having the curative agent in it. And this nostalgic water that once, several dilutions ago, contained material that causes symptoms similar to the ones you’re suffering from is vastly better than actually having this material in your system, because…reasons!
If that doesn’t sound snake oil or cult-y enough, this was A REAL COMMERCIAL THAT AIRED ON US TELEVISION IN THE 90s
Disabled people get in free. He offers a free wheelchair valet so ppl who can’t get their own wheelchair wet can still play in the water park.
The entire park is accessible, including the carousel which is designed for wheelchair users. There’s a sensory village and playground as well.
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First Image. A fact trivia image made by unbelievable-facts.com.
A father and daughter, and a theme park entrance.
The text on the image say:
“When Gordon Hartman could not find an amusement park that would accommodate his daughter with special needs, he sold his successful homebuilding business to open a 25-acre non-profit accessible theme park in Texas.
He named it Morgan’s Wonderland after his daughter, and this completely wheelchair accessible park is the first and only theme park of its kind in the world.”
Second Image Set.
Several photos are shown of “Morgan’s Wonderland” amusement park.
In the photos there are several wheelchair users and other disabled people of different ages, at the amusement park.
The park attractions at “Morgan’s Wonderland”, include but are not limited to:
Water park with a pool and water hole
Horse-themed Carousels
Swing sets and wheelchair swing sets
Zip-lines
Wide See-saws
Bumper boat rides
Ferris wheels
Theme park “Express” trains for transporting people around the lake
Each attraction at Morgans Wonderland theme park has an accommodation shown for different physical and mental disabilities.
Accommodations include - securing wheelchairs, waterproofing disability aids, having wheelchair ramps, providing assistant carers, additional handle bars, and wider spaces.
There are more than one version of each accommodation.
i love the pedestrian-to-car staredown when you see them go from a rolling stop to a full stop. like that’s what the fuck i thought. vehicularly manslaughter me about it
