Day: June 21, 2018

jumpingjacktrash:

roachpatrol:

end0skeletal:

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Taya Iv

this is an SCP

The Kitten Hole

can produce an infinite number of kittens

if you reach an arm in there you feel fur and nibbly tiny teeth all around

they tried putting a camera down but something grabbed it and carried it off, and all they could get off the card when they finally reeled it back off was a lot of clattering and meeping and blurry rolling around

there was a proposal to widen the hole so a person could go in but this was nixed because what if it hurts the kitties

protocol is now to drop treats and catnip mice in twice daily

Source: end0skeletal

I will say this, learn to fight. Not just for self defense but to carve out your space in the world. We are the more violent gender/sex, yet there has never been an example of advancement without competition.

1nsomnizac:

roachpatrol:

this advice is weirdly condescending and essentialist, and also, i already know how to fight. i learned how when i was a woman.

PS the attitude that men MUST NECESSARILY fight in order to succeed as men is pretty much central to why so many men are so goddamn unpleasant. you really think mr rogers was out there kicking ass? bill nye suceeded on the strength of his sick kung fu moves? please.

tbh this ask conjured up the image of mr. rogers going at it like yoda in episode ii

pervocracy:

lowoncliches:

bankuei:

meagan-hood:

kyidyl:

why-bless-your-heart:

HOSPITALS. ARE. ALREADY. REQUIRED. UNDER. LAW. TO. PROVIDE. LIFE. SAVING. EMERGENCY. CARE. REGARDLESS. OF. ABILITY. TO. PAY. OR. EVEN. CITIZENSHIP.

Stop acting like Americans have no access to emergency healthcare unless we socialize medicine.

IF. YOU. GO. AND. CAN’T. PAY. YOU’RE. STILL. THOUSANDS. IN. DEBT. THIS. IS. NOT. ACCESS.

This hospital in my city just threw out a homeless man

The hospital which took me in after I collapsed from the fist sized tumor over my heart, released me after refusing to diagnose it as cancer, which would have forced them to give me some kind of treatment. The doctor at the county hospital which took me in looked at their tests and said, “this is CLEARLY cancer, why didn’t they diagnose it? We can’t let you leave.”

Hospitals find ways when they want to, to avoid helping people when they want to.

“Oh that’s illegal, you should sue” “ with what money and how will I get the time and energy when I’m busy recovering from chemo?”

People who can’t afford treatment also can’t afford to protect their rights.

Absolutely this: “People who can’t afford treatment also can’t afford to protect their rights.”

All, this, but also: having the ER be people’s only point of access is horribly financially irresponsible.  It means that people have to go to the ER for every problem if it’s the only place that won’t turn them away, so they go there for an ear infection or a sprained ankle and rack up a bill that’s ten times higher than if they’d been able to go to an urgent care clinic or a regular doctor’s office.

That’s a huge waste of money and resources.  And when people can’t pay that giant bill, it drives up everyone’s healthcare costs.  Even if you don’t care about human beings at all, you should still care about this completely irrational situation where we’re losing large amounts of money because we refuse to offer people more affordable access to care.

Also, there are things the ER simply can’t do (or does very poorly and expensively), including:

– Preventative care like vaccinations, cancer screening, or prenatal care.

– Rehabilitative care like PT after an injury.

– Long-term care for people who aren’t able to take care of their own daily needs.

– Care for any chronic condition that isn’t a crisis at this moment.

So yeah, not only is “you can just to go the ER” not a real solution for healthcare, but it’s more expensive than universal access to regular doctors would be.  The US government spends more on healthcare than countries that have universal healthcare!  We’re not saving money with our system, we’re actually wasting money to inflict deprivation on people.

That’s about the size of it.

From when this was going around earlier:

One interesting piece: American healthcare was already socialized by Reagan, we’re just fighting about how to pay for it

I hadn’t thought about it that way , but he offers some good points.

So of course that’s proving to be one hell of a fight, with a distressing number of casualties. 😐

For a lot of reasons already discussed here.

slashmarks:

Treating people as collectively responsible for things some people similar to them do by virtue of group membership – ethnic identity, citizenship, gender, whatever – is a bad idea because it blurs who is guilty and who isn’t.

You can’t treat people as individually responsible for what they specifically do if you assume that everyone is nebulously guilty for it. The group lessens the blame for specific actions.

A lot of people are complicit in bigotry but not everyone personally commits crimes against humanity. Treating everyone as equally responsible for both bigotry and crimes against humanity leads to situations where confessing to, say, locking civilians in a house and burning it down is treated as functionally equivalent to confessing to having had racist thoughts – and lauded as a heroic act of self-responsibility. (That’s a real example.)

It leads to despair, because it lends an illusion of consensus to extremists – if everyone like them is culpable for what they do, then everyone must agree with them. That makes winnable battles seem impossible, and that makes people give up and stop fighting.

It can lead to overconfidence, too, because people who accurately perceive that eg. Trump is massively unpopular may assume that unpopular positions can’t be enacted, if what they’ve been taught about historical atrocities is that the entire population was equally responsible and supportive of them.

It also removes all incentives to behave ethically. I’m not saying that social reward should be a requirement for people to do that, but people are a hell of a lot more likely to behave ethically with it. Social rewards within small settings also can serve to counteract the toll exacted by mainstream society for behaving ethically in ways that are against mainstream society.

lesbianshepard:

lesbianshepard:

in theory its super bad when straight dudes go “hey ur a lesbian? we both like girls we’re the same!” but in reality this has happened twice and most recently was today when a guy i was training in the frame shop went “oh you’re gay?” “yea” “that’s cool. it’s cool that you told me. we both like girls and star wars so it’s nice that we have a shift together :)” like god damn it brett you’re so respectful and thoughtful with your goddamned words

the posts that are like “straight men can never love a woman like a lesbian” are cool jokes and stuff but u gotta really appreciate dudes who have no idea what its like to be gay but try their best to try and relate. “we both like hot ladies” you know what, ryan? that’s close enough. i appreciate that.