In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.
Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.
Wow. This really hit me hard.
EAT
Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.
Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.
hey before you call something wheelchair accessible just go ahead and invite a wheelchair user or two over because I almost guarantee you that an able-bodied person is not capable of guessing what is accessible without having ever used a wheelchair solo before
some but not all cool things nobody ever thinks of:
put hand sanitizer or a sink in the accessible bathroom stall, or alcohol wipes outside of it. people who cannot use their legs have to use unwashed hands to roll to the sink, and people who can use their legs are afraid to walk out of stalls because they get harassed and even assaulted.
enough space for wheelchair in doorway…AND ARMS. HOW DO YOU THINK THE WHEELCHAIR MOVES! if I cannot roll through it without scraping my arms it is not accessible
brick paths suck the end
gravel paths suck. make it smooth
a ramp is not accessible if it is too steep. not every wheelchair user is ripped enough or capable of using muscles enough to propel themselves up a steep angle safely. some wheelchair users have heart issues. you want heart attacks? this is how you get them
perfect 90 degree turns suck and are often impossible to turn through
some wheelchairs have foot rests. account for them
wheelchair accessible means wheelchair accessible while alone. if you expect someone to have to be helped out to use your facility, that is not acceptable or accessible
yeah
also pay them. this is called an “accessibility audit.” it’s work and they deserve to be paid for it
Rising Star Variation quilt by Elsey A. Halstead (1830–1850). New York State.
This extraordinary Rising Star Variation quilt, recently gifted to the museum by a descendant of the quilt maker, was discovered during the museum’s New York Quilt Project, an ambitious statewide quilt documentation effort initiated in 1985. Over a period of twenty-one months, more than six thousand quilts were examined and recorded in counties around the state.
Stars, in all their variety, were among the most prevalent patterns seen. The field of spinning compass stars on this example alternates with Lemoyne Stars, and is surrounded by a border of appliquéd trees. Such border motifs have a strong association with New York State textiles, particularly the blue-and-white fancy jacquard-woven coverlets from the 1820s and 1830s that feature borders of weeping willows and other trees. The quiltmaker, Elsey Halstead, meticulously cross-stitched her name, the location, and the date on the quilt. Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum digital archives.
So between the white woman who called the cops on a black family having a BBQ in a park, the white man threatening to call ICE in nyc on Latina women for speaking Spanish, and a white woman literally yelling for the cops while screaming “gun!” on a black man for making a u turn in their neighborhood should educate us all that white people are realizing that institutional racism is real but they are using it for their own white supremacist social benefit.
They are calling for the authorities knowing that the cops will take their side and will either arrest or murder people of color for simply being seen or heard.
I agree with what you’re saying. This isn’t new, though. White people have been using institutions to reinforce constructed racial hierarchies for centuries. Calling the cops on POC isn’t something that white people are just now “realizing” is possible. It’s just being reported on and discussed more broadly now. It’s important to note that this is a continuation of systemic racism that has been building since the foundation of our country and that racism is a fundamental function of policing in the US, not a newfound error as a result of contemporary politics.
Exactly. This isn’t new, just as disproportionate levels of police brutality against people of color isn’t and has never been new. We just have better tools and a stronger voice now than we did a decade or more ago to broadcast our experiences.
The tone and the absolute Nihilism of this video terrifies me beyond reason
he did that!
concept: the god of nature in your next made-up pantheon, instead of being another green-wearing, fertile, nurturing, maternal figure, is this mad bastard
This is the voice of a man who has seen the face of god, and was disappointed.
Holy gods this man is going to be the next god of nature in my next DnD setting
I cried because I was laughing so hard. Every time he lifted the lid and I saw their naked roots with no clothes on, and “The ph of this tap water is: I didn’t check”
Photo of the Day – The Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) group has a population of roughly 1 million pairs. Of that population, two-thirds breed on the Falkland Islands and other islands off Argentina and southern Chile.
This photo was taken by Rich Lindie in South Georgia
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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