im weirdly knowlagable in the history of soda i dont even drink soda why do i know so much about it
coke and pepsi taste different because coke was invent before refrigeration so it was designed to be drunk warm, while pepsi was designed after refrigeration was invented so it was designed to be drunk cold. as a result the tastes are different but if you drink pepsi cold and coke warm theyll taste the same.
Why the fuck do you know this
i honestly have no idea
coke’s recipe was originally green but the designers made it brown so it looked more like tea
Had they never seen green tea?
i dont even know if green tea was invented in 1886 but they wanted to make the public more open to eating the fizzy drink
i will trade u information abt bees and carrier pigeons for information abt the history of soda
no one knows where the origin of the name ‘7up’ started but it did have a mood stabilizer in the original recipe found in present day anti-depressants
i want facts about bees and carrier pigeons now
Carrier pigeons come from a species of Wild Rock pigeon, and their flights could be as long as 1800 km and were used as early as 3000 years ago.
You know in old cartoons where a character throws a beehive at someone, and you think ‘lol, but that wouldn’t work in real life’. Turns out it would, and did. People used to lob beehives at the approximate location of the enemy forces to expose them.
this is amazing thank you
Threads like this are pretty much the reason I come to Tumblr
I’m sorry, WHAT WAS THE MOOD STABILIZER IN 7-UP???
It apparently started out as “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, and kept the lithium until 1948.
(So not an antidepressant per se, but it was pushed as medicinal early on.)
Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues
this sounds oddly plausible
a good doctor will pester the insurance company on your behalf. a couple times in my Back Pain Odyssey my insurance noped out on a procedure, and my doctor called them up and was like “no, really” and they gave in.
so if your insurance is in the habit of going “you don’t actually need TWO months of physical therapy, just walk it off,” tell the doctor who ordered it, and they may very well volunteer to, or agree to, call up the insurance people and go “simon says pay for the fucking therapy.”
For all my peeps out there fighting the good fight against Big Pharma Bureaucratic Bullshit.
idk if this is true but im keeping it for later just in case
I used to work for a place that did this approving/disapproving. it’s what’s called Prior Authorization, which is basically, your doctor’s office calls in, tells us what they’d like to do to you, we fill out a form and then compare the clinical information the doctor gave us (meaning their office notes, test results, etc) to a series of guidelines. if the clinical info ticks enough boxes on the guidelines, we approve the procedure as “medically necessary,” and life proceeds. your insurance can still decide not to pay for any one of a billion other reasons, but it’s much more likely that they will pay if something’s approved.
now, where I worked, it was actual bona fide nurses who looked at your clinical info, grunts like me just filled out the initial forms, but if you’ve had something denied, I would STRONGLY SUGGEST having your doctor call them, as soon as possible. there’s often a deadline for these things (as in, a couple of days), after which you have to jump through a lot more hoops to “appeal” something, and it gets to be a pain, especially if it’s a time sensitive procedure. the nurses who reviewed the clinical info at my company weren’t necessarily specialists (although we did require them to have office experience, and we tried to funnel cases to people w appropriate experience, but the work load didn’t always allow for that, and I got the feeling we were unusual w in the industry for doing this), but if the doctor calls and asks for what’s called a Peer-to-peer (or at least that’s what we called it), your doctor will talk to another actual doctor, often a specialist, (in smaller organizations that might not be possible, they just don’t have the capital to hire multiple doctors, but at least it’ll be a doctor) and they can argue back and forth in person. or at least, on the phone.
this doesn’t always work, the guidelines aren’t always as flexible as they should be, especially for expensive things like spinal surgery or bariatric stuff, but at least an actual doctor has to tell your actual doctor to his face (or, his ear) why your insurance company won’t be paying for your procedure.
im still miffed over the idea that fat people are to blame for both their weight and a society that is designed to exclude us, because for starters:
I was fat before I was even in my mid teens. My diet was 100% reliant on whatever my parents provided. even if being fat were a negative, I had no control over my weight gain caused by diet.
I have PCOS. I can gain weight easily and fast, sometimes for no apparent reason.
I have multiple illnesses that lead to diet problems and exercise problems, both of which undo the two main fatphobic arguments.
The first being “diet controls weight gain,” which is clearly untrue because my diet is very near vegan due to my stomach problems, with a lot of rice and vegetables and small portions of chicken if I have meat, (though not fresh or organic due to being poor and in a food desert.) I am not fond of sweets and rarely have anything with sugar. I have no money for junk foods, eating out, or alcohol more than rarely. I drink only water or natural grapefruit juice. I can’t eat dairy or eggs without pain. I still do not lose weight.
The second being “weight gain is your fault and there is always something you can do to lose weight,” because clearly my diet doesn’t do anything, and I am physically incapable of any strenuous exercise due to multiple factors, the least of which is terrible joint pains and complications that can render me immobile for weeks after just one day of overuse (once I walked too long at a theme park and my ankle was in so much pain I was on crutches for two weeks.)
with both diet accounted for and me doing my maximum in the exercise department, what exactly is my fault and how am I supposed to be doing anything differently?
regardless of factors, I am a person, and every argument I see seems reliant on insisting that fat people somehow don’t deserve basic equal treatment bc we’re fat (such as equal access to clothing, representation, or the right to call out jokes that stigmatize and mock us.) There is also rejection/denial of statistics that show medical bias against us that result in systematic oppression and more death at the hands of other people based on prejudice over weight. Fat people are not to blame for our dehumanization and lack of decent treatment, whether being fat is “our fault” or in our control or not. No human being deserves it, fat or not. But every single argument insists we either lose weight or just shut up and deal with this treatment, meaning they do not see fat people as equal humans.
but even in the proposed (despicable) idea that fat people deserve lesser treatment as punishment for being fat, I do not meet the criteria of it being “my fault” or “in my control.” And yet I still get silenced, mocked, and subjected to the same dehumanizing treatment. Meaning those are red herrings even in the grossest excuse of a reason for fatphobia, that boils down to literally just “I hate fat people with absolutely no reason.” There is no health trolling, there is no blaming that could happen to me to justify the treatment I get by their own standards other than “people hate fat people.”
If you are fat and incapable of exercise, you can achieve weight loss solely through dietary means. Just because you are vegan does not mean you arent eating excessively.
You’re being illogical if you actually believe “the diet component is covered” because exercise is not necessary in weight loss which means the only inherent issue relevant to you is diet.
You’re clearly exaggerating or conveniently hiding underlying issues (walking causing significant pain????). Yet you’re using these excuses to justify a lack of mobility. There is clearly more to the picture if what you say is true, and in selectively not addressing it the validity of the claims you’re making is diminished.
If you’re fat you’re eating too much relative to the amount of exercise you do. It may be harder for some people, but no one is an exception to that reality.
I barely eat these days because my stomach issues have gotten so bad, and even my mother has remarked how small my appetite has become, and she used to think suggested portion sizes were “too much” when I was a kid because of how easily I gained weight.
Big shocker, but some people can simply be sick and their weight doesn’t have to fit your narrative of a sick person’s.
But I find is hilarious that you would rather call me a liar than do some basic research on how PCOS works, or make the logical conclusion that by being fat and unable to exercise properly, eating better (or actually eating very poorly, because I’m not eating enough or consistently, but I am eating more healthy foods,) you can simply….stay the same weight.
like, exercise is necessary to lose weight. There is no magical diet besides literal starvation that just drops all your weight when you’re fat. google is a friend, it’ll keep you from looking like an ignorant tool so much.
doctors should be given terrible but ‘controversial’ illnesses and sent to other doctors incognito to be offered antidepressants and told they need to lose weight and exercise more
If you require kids to go to school by law, they shouldn’t have to pay for anything at all to be able to go there. They shouldn’t need to pay for food, books, a laptop, anything that the school gives you. If a child has to pay in any way to attend school, it’s a failure of our government to provide proper funding
This also includes transportation to and from school.
This should also include accessibility, aids and assistance for disabled children!
The worst part: You just know some deeply unpleasant person is reading this and concluding that the solution is to stop requiring kids go to school.
i mean that would be great, considering our current school system is an abusive hellscape designed to train docile workers, but we don’t have an alternative in place yet
I remember people used to tell me when I became a grownup I would no longer think the schools were terrible.
I am almost 30, “state of public schooling” is actually fairly close to the top of my “reasons there is no way in hell I will have a kid” because like fuck am I personally subjecting a child to that.
So “fuck it. Get rid of it”, instead of “we need to stop failing the future of this country?”
Because the way this current administration is talking, the alternative is putting them to work, probably because there really isn’t a more docile person than a child that’s too uneducated to know any better.
I’m not saying get rid of school, just that it is fucked there are basically no alternatives to public school for most people. Like I was basically forced to drop out of school because the standard practice is apparently intentionally try to dissuade people from looking into if their kid has a learning disability then calling the kid lazy when they struggle. I am very lucky I had a parent to help with the remaining couple years of school so I could get a GED.
I am not entirely sure what the solution is honestly, but under the current administration I imagine the accuracy of what is being taught will only get worse and the environment will only get more sould crushing and I feel so bad for kids going through that now. There must be a way to add other backup options for when the main one fails.
Also a lot of the bullshit is stuff like the fact teenagers are not good at absorbing stuff before like 10am, the fact they cut recess, the fact including homework it’s like 10hrs of school that consists largely of busywork.
Idk it just seems really fucked up to me because I stopped learning well from school around 6th grade and school just became a miserable obligation I had to do but no longer had any real benefit to me. I don’t know what the solution is. Maybe offering online classes for free on certain stuff. Maybe making a way that you can switch classes and schools around easily when you can’t learn from the way they are teaching you. Allow people to apply for money to homeschool their kid as long as said kid can pass standardized tests. More options, not less.
Two trees in a fancy neighbourhood in Bristol, UK have had strips of
anti-bird spikes nailed to their branches, rendering them “literally
uninhabitable” by local wildlife, according to local Green Party
councillor Paula O’Rourke.
I am still laughing about how a friend’s social media outrage about these two SPECIFIC trees has gone viral and RUN AROUND THE WORLD
The funniest part is that you can’t park in Bristol, because the rich jackoffs who own single-family houses in the higher parts of Clifton (the “fancy neighborhood”) wanted to be able to park their cars on the street in front of their houses. They can park there but now nobody else can park anywhere. There USED to be free on-street parking throughout most of the city. It was first-come first-served, but you could always find somewhere to leave your vehicle. But obviously that was terrible.
When we lived in a rented flat in Clifton, we frequently had to park the car – please restrain your gasps – ON THE NEXT STREET,
Like, I want you to really pause and savor the indignity of this problem, SOMETIMES, we COULD NOT PARK IN FRONT OF OUR OWN FRONT DOOR –
WE HAD TO PARK ALMOST A BLOCK AWAY SOMETIMES, LIKE HEATHENS, AND WALK,
BECAUSE THERE WERE OTHER CARS ON THE STREET,
like, that was an outrage, obviously, that was shocking. Parking at the other end of a street! Or sometimes even a block away! In a city! For free! Have you ever HEARD of such hideous living circumstances? Leaving your car, for free, somewhere convenient in a city, and having to walk A CERTAIN LENGTH to your final destination.
(And if you were disabled and planned to live somewhere for a while then the council would come and paint you a Specific Parking Spot in front of the place you lived. but everyone else had to walk sometimes, and didn’t always get the exact parking spot they wanted, which was an outrage, because the DISABLED PEOPLE WERE GETTING THINGS AGAIN.)
And if you want to go shopping in Bristol then sometimes!! it’s!!! easier!! to walk!! than to drive, in this perfectly-sized city, bursting at the seams with everything you could possibly want, with free parking, so that sometimes – SOMETIMES –
YOU! WOULD! LEAVE! YOUR CAR! IN FRONT OF SOMEONE ELSE’S HOUSE! Sometimes in front of a Rich Person’s house.
OR! you might go to work somewhere! And you might park near your work! In a space that was free because NOBODY WAS USING IT AT THE TIME, which is obviously stealing, because a Rich Person might want that space at any moment.
anyway, this state of affairs was CLEARLY impossible for the Rich Folk, who were nearly perishing under the strain of parking only slightly-adjacent to their own homes, in the heart of a desirable city.
“There’s too many cars here!” they wailed, and begged their Mayor, Mayor Red Trousers, to do something. “We can’t park exactly in front of our own houses at any time of day we wish, because sometimes a PLEB is parked there. For free! Paying nothing! They have no right! We ought to own the street in front of our houses!”
So they abolished free on-street parking across the entire goddamn city. Bristol is now Residents-Only. You can ONLY park your car in the neighborhood where you LIVE. You are not supposed to drive to another neighborhood to work and leave your car there. You are not supposed to commute from outside the city by car. Like, at all.
When people said “But Mayor Red Trousers, this city is a place where a lot of our jobs are, and many of us cannot afford to live IN it anymore, so we uhhhh, we drive to work, what are we supposed to do with the car?”
Mayor Red Trousers replied, magnificently, “Take the buses.”
“Have you met the buses in and around Bristol,” the people asked carefully.
“If more normal working people took the buses,” Mayor Red Trousers said with apparent seriousness, “Then the buses would be better.”
“The buses operate on a different time schedule to the rest of civilization, make us improbably late for work, and somehow cost all of our lunch money,” the people said. “We cannot use them.”
“That’s because you don’t use them enough,” said Red Trousers; he literally said this in writing, on the Bristol website. “You see, you must outcompete the poors who usually take them,” he added, but he didn’t write that part down.
“Hey,” the people said, reading the fine print, “This says you can only have, like, two cars for every house? Like, only two cars for every individual address?”
“If you want to buy a third car for your teenager, you can buy another permit, but it’ll cost you money,” Red Trousers said with a generous chuckle.
“Okay but do you realize,” said the people, “You’re picturing that only two adults live in each house. But normal people in Bristol live in houses that are subdivided into a flat for every floor. That means that about five households live in every separate house. Sometimes a flat is shared by multiple roommates, many of whom have their own cars. There is actually an average of, like, ten adults for every address.”
“That sounds like poor people talk?” said Red Trousers, bibbling a finger along his lips. “Two cars per house. I’m sorry, friends, but if you can afford to buy a BMW for your kid, you can afford to pay £1000 a year for another car permit.”
“What we’re trying to tell you is that our houses have about five cars each,” the people yelled, “Because we live in flats WITHIN the houses, and this address has THIRTEEN ADULTS living here, not two. Can you rewrite this to, say, two cars per HOUSEHOLD?”
“You don’t need THIRTEEN BMWs,” Red Trousers chuckled.
Eventually it was worked out that you can park in front of your house, probably, if you’re not poor, as long as you don’t take the car to go somewhere else. And you have to display a special permit that Keeps the Plebs in their Places, and if a car from Bedminster or Montpelier is spotted in Clifton it will be vaporized ON THE SPOT
In a city renowned for social justice and rioting with the least provocation, the people took all of this fairly well, because most of the rioters don’t own cars, and thought this was Great and Green and would make everything Much Less Problematic. “This will improve our Green City,” they told each other, because they’re pig-ignorant fuckos, bless them;
Mayor Red Trousers said “This will be green! eco! Greeny greeeny green green. the greenest” and the social justice scene went “but will it be vegan?” and he was like “it’ll be SO vegan, DOUBLE vegan” and they went “Massive!” and didn’t riot at all.
And now you can only leave your car anywhere in Bristol if you’re rich, or lucky.
So after changing the ENTIRE landscape and economy of a city in order to park in front of their own houses with no competition, the rich people then put pigeon spikes ON TREES to prevent the pigeons from shitting down onto their cars,
those self-same cars; to protect those parking spaces so ferociously fought for and won, in the public street outside their homes, those exact same BMWs and Audis that they casually threw over an entire city’s infrastructure to enshrine in front of their houses,
Jesus FUCKING Christ,
Thus causing Friend Jennifer to go “ARGHLEBLARHGLHE” on social media for a bit, because she likes birds, (like, she REALLY likes birds, she’s an official Friend to Birds, the birds gave her a medal about it)
Causing the ENTIRE WORLD to flip the fuck out,
That is the socioeconomic context with which you should hate these pigeon spikes.
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