one of the funniest things about the “kids are exposed to too much violence nowadays” arguments
is that people literally used to be executed in the town square and entire families would go out to watch these people be killed and it was a huge event and people thought it was great fun
they’d literally bring handkerchiefs in hopes of soaking up the blood as a souvenir
darth vader, lightsaber in hand, cape billowing in the vaccuum of space: where are you going young lady
leia organa, aboard the tantive IV with the death star plans in her hands: OUT
npr:
Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.
But something else happened.
Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.
“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.
Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine
Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty ImagesUsing computer models, they found that the number of measles cases in these countries predicted the number of deaths from other infections two to three years later.
“We found measles predisposes children to all other infectious diseases for up to a few years,” Mina says.
And the virus seems to do it in a sneaky way.
Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.
VACCINATE. YOUR. DAMN. KIDS.
@professor-maple-artYou ever see someone with a really embarrassing blog and you’re like “well whatever most people act cringy when they are 15” but then you look at their description and they are 36
it’s youI’m gonna kick your ass
The rich get richer, the poor get sicker, and die.
Call your reps and senators today and please share!!! #SaveACA
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Once the operator answers, ask to be connected to whomever you are trying to reach. They will send you to your senator’s or representative’s office line, and a legislative assistant will answer the phone.
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Source: CivilRights.org
As I’ve dug into this more, it sounds somewhat more complicated than protections for people with pre-existing conditions and young adults being directly voted down. Non-binding amendments promising to protect these things were voted down. Part of this is because if there were any amendments attached, the whole thing would have needed 60 votes to get through. Obviously the Republicans didn’t want this. Because this is just budgetary at this point, the pre-existing condition protection can’t be removed by it, if I’m understanding correctly. (However, it’s not practically feasible to keep it either, without the other portions of the ACA.)
Still absolutely terrifying, but not quite as “all hope is lost RIGHT NOW” as I was fearing for most of the day.
One of my friends asked me the other day if I would suck one thousand dicks for a billion dollars, and I love questions like that because not only are they so demonstrative of the no-homo society we live in, but they also show a fundamental lack of understanding that some people have for the value of money. Like, do you realize just how much money one billion dollars is? Do you realize I could live my life in the lap of luxury buying literally everything I could ever want and still have a fortune to leave to my children?? For sucking some dicks?? We are talking 1 million dollars per dick sucked!! That’s just economical like come on man.
1 billion dollars and all you’d have to do is suck a dick every day for the next 2.7 years. That’s it. Plenty of people already do that. You could quit your job and literally suck dick for a living. You could suck two dicks a day and only have to suck dick for 1.4 years. You could suck 5 dicks a day for about 6 months. 5 DICKS A DAY FOR 6 MONTHS FOR A BILLION DOLLARS, OF COURSE I’LL FUCKIN DO THAT. THAT’S THE DREAM, THAT’S FUCKIN HEAVEN.
and here i was thinking about sucking dick for free
The question is do you get the money per dick sucked or do you get the money once you’ve sucked all the dick?
