I have so many feelings about this, but they boil down to the same frustrated rage I’ve had for a year or more.
you need to read this article
No, really. You need to read this.
TLDR (though you REALLY SHOULD READ) Lindsey Marr, an Aerosol scientist and infectious disease researcher, attempted for years to explain that the CDC’s guidelines saying that there is no transmission of airborne viruses/bacterium that are greater than 5-micron in size was incorrect. With basically no funding, she and her fellows contacted a graduate student of medical history named Katie Randall to figure out where the CDC even got this information from since it wasn’t cited in any literature they could find.
Randall refocused her dissertation on this topic and discovered that after the death of a Harvard engineer named William Firth Wells, the CDC misquoted his research which said that any particle 100-micron in size should be considered viable as an airborne illness, and instead said only 5-micron was the correct amount. This was based on one test that Wells had done, rather than the crux of his work.
After their research went public, despite almost no journals publishing any of Marr or her colleagues’ previous data and research on the topic from as early as 2001, they were quickly asked to write articles on the topic. Because of these women’s work and interest, and especially the research of a graduate student, the CDC has quietly changed their position on whether Covid is airborne. They’ve been updating their guidelines and website/literature since.
So i’m just watching youtube, trying to chill out and whenever, when I get a Lego Movie 2 Ad for a video I was watching
do you see that timestamp at the bottom? Yeah, this is apparently 5 hours long.
And at first I was wondering, well is it the entire movie? No…this entire ad is for their newest “everything is awesome” type song. It is called “this song is gonna get stuck inside your head” and I am pretty goddamn sure it is going to repeat that one line over and over until my brain melts
So I am going to see if they really are playing it for 5 hours
10 minutes in. No breaks from looping yet
about half an hour in. I have been staring at what appears to be the child of Jack Frost and Edward Cullen wondering just how is he able to move in the cold if his body is dead
It is only 40 minutes in, and I can’t tell if I am immune to the music, or if my brain has stuck it as background noise
made it one hour and I swear I can hear them say the same line in two different ways
1) This song’s gonna get stuck inside your
2) This song’s going get stuck inside Joe
hour and 15 minutes
I have now found that even if I mute it I can still hear the song on point to the video
I have made a mistake. I paused the music for like one second. So the music that I hear now is clashing with the pace of the music I heard before
“THIS SONG’S BURN AGAIN STUCK INSIDE JOE”
almost 2 hours of watching a lego blob’s deep shoulder action. how does she do it? I will never know
I keep forgetting that I clicked on a different video to begin with. Like every minute I remember that this was an ad, then I just forget again
Is it possible for your ears to feel numb?
I can’t think anymore it took me 10 minutes to figure out that this was the half way point of 5 hours
it’s true. Hell is a skrillex concert with no bass drop
I’m losing track over what thread to use. I need to talk out loud to write or I would be writing the song
I can time my blinks so every time I open my eyes I see the same scene over and over and over and over and over and over and over and
i need to FEED
this is how the CIA tortures people i hope you know this
Everything I know is a goddamn lie. This movie this hellsite everything why do I even exist
I am almost done with this nightmare. God I am so afriad I can’t remember what silence sounds like
I am going to find the man that greenlit this piece of shit and shove legos down their throat
I hate this movie so much
IM SO FUCKIN CLOSE I,M SO FUCKING CLOSE
IT HAS A FUCKING END CARD
MY FUCKING GOD
…….i need a nap I need to just be absorbed into the void and hope that I can succumb to the darkness and not dream of legos
OP did not put themself through this for 342 notes
OP has my ultimate respect holy shit
I got this ad once, it took me like 5 minutes to realize it was looping and also a 5 hour ad
So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.
But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations.
None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.
It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.
The detail in these shows is amazing.
You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.
And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.
it’s also a detail from the second ever episode
aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations
this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:
[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]
why do i bring this up?
because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph
I love how Aang isn’t the only one in the group to learn from the others. They all kinda pick up a little bit from each other and it styles their bending. That’s part of why they are, because they learn and adapt their bending styles and people don’t know how to handle that
Dont forget the flourish that bumi does after tunneling underground is an airbender move
Okay. This seems pretty insane if you don’t know what the existing state of terminally ill patients’ options is. So let’s go over that.
Terminally ill patients can sign up to be part of pre FDA approval trials for treatments which might potentially cure them. As these treatments are experimental, untested, not guaranteed to get results, and intended to provide profit to the medical provider in the long run, patients cannot be charged for these experimental treatments. As it should be. It’d be pretty unethical to get people to pay you to be your guinea pig for treatments which may not even help them.
This “right to try” law changes that. It makes it legal for terminally ill patients to be charged for experimental treatments. Furthermore, it removes FDA testing restrictions from the process. Currently a company which tries an ‘experimental’ treatment they know won’t work will get the hammer dropped on them by the FDA. But under this new process, medical providers would be legally allowed to provide ‘treatments’ they know won’t work, without oversight. This would legalize medical predation on terminally ill patients.
Labeling this bill ‘right to try’ makes it seem like terminally ill patients aren’t allowed to seek out experimental treatments right now. But they are! All this bill does is make a terminally ill patients more financially burdened and more vulnerable to predation.
That’s why the Democrats blocked it.
Thank you for explaining it
Reblogging for EXPLANATION
Yeah… let’s NOT let companies make terminally ill patients pay for “experimental treatments” they already know don’t work…
Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon
It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right
There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that
not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”
We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.
another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference
and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less
de beers campaigned hard to spread propaganda to make people think that lab grown diamonds were lesser than natural diamons so that they wouldnt lose the money they get by selling their natural diamonds mined by slaves. basically they built their company on making society overvalue diamonds and now that diamonds are cheap as fuck theyre trying to find any way to make theirs maintain their overvalued nature.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
