hey check out how hard i can cry

the universe is a series of waves

[gowns]

this is my favorite reddit relationships post ❤️

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

I remember seeing a different post pointing out that Native Americans are basically already living a post-apocalyptic world.

[moniquill]

The apocalypse happened here in 1620.

[bimenace]

There’s a really well done graphic novel anthology by Indigenous Canadian writers and artists that is based off this concept.

[laughterkey]

Looks like you can buy it direct here

[black--lamb-blog]

I know it’s illegal but whenever I get antibiotics from the doctor I save a few and give them to friends or coworkers who don’t have insurance so that when cold season comes they might be able to shorten their illness

[knightfrog1248-blog-deactivated]

That is not good- that’s not quite how antibiotics work.

Antibiotics kill some bacteria, but don’t manage to kill other bacteria. Just like when you get a particular sickness (or a vaccination), your body can protect you from future infections, any bacteria that came into contact with the antibiotic is protected from future doses of that antibiotic. Bacteria are very virulent breeders, so they spawn more resistant bacteria.

If you take the full dose of antibiotics, your natural antibodies can deal with the cells that are resistant while the medicine kills off the bacteria that isn’t resistant. If you don’t take the full course of antibiotics, then your body has to deal with both the resistant and the non-resistant strains of bacteria, and it can become overwhelming. Also, most bacteria are able to pass on genes between still-living cells, so that previously non-resistant strains become resistant, and you have inadvertently cultivated a stronger strain of bacteria.

Furthermore, colds and the flu are viral infections, so antibiotics don’t work against them anyway. The best protection against viral infections are vaccinations, as there are not many viruses that we have developed anti-viral medication against, once you already have the disease. If there are anti-viral medications, it is even more important that you take the full dose of the medication, because anti-viral medication is even harsher against the body than antibacterial medication is.

How antibiotics work

How antiviral medication works

[quasi-normalcy]

Spread this around; antibiotics are not candy

[homoluigi]

To put it shortly: antibiotics don’t do shit for the cold. You need to take the entire bottle that is prescribed to you. People not doing that is how antibiotic resistant infections crop up. People like OP are literally why diseases like MRSA exist.

[queenshulamit-deactivated201602]

OP shouldn’t feel bad about good intentions but this is really dangerous. There’s also the risk that your friends are allergic to the specific type of antibiotics you give them.

[lemonsharks]

things that a better-off person can do for their sick less-well-off friends that don’t involve breeding superbacteria through misue of antibiotics:

Buy them cold medicine 

Buy them cough drops

Buy them fancy tissues with lotion

Make them too much soup to eat in one go and freeze half for later

Find them a low-cost clinic and accompany them there

Tell them you are giving them their day’s wages and they are staying home Friday/Monday and then do.

Go to their house. Wash the dishes, take out the garbage, walk the dog, scoop the cat or just plain change the whole litter box, clean the bathtub and mom voice them until they take a hot shower or steam their head.

if they have asthma or bronchitis and are out of inhaler but you have a half-full one, that is a thing you can sanitize and share.

ditto palliative prescription medication like “I have half a bottle of lidocaine gargle, you want it?” “I am bringing you the rest of my Robitussin with codeine” “here harvest some ibuprofen from my giant bottle of 1,000 ibuprofen”

[stromesquad-deactivated20221111]

I feel like some of this should have been covered in high school health class. It would do a lot to combat misuse of antibiotics. Superbacteria is really dangerous for everyone but is particularly bad for people with multiple antibiotic allergies and will lead to hospital stays for IV antibiotics of kinds they can take.

[lynati]

Agreed. High school health class curricula simply haven’t been set up to take into account a future in which the middle class has dissolved and a huge chunk of Americans can’t afford to go to a doctor if they get a cold. - _ -

[hanji-mama-deactivated20230209]

Last year, I had caught a bad case of strep throat. I usually get it a couple of times a year because my tonsils suck, but this time it was BAD. I was taking amoxicillin like I had been before, but nothing was happening. I was still sick 2 weeks later. I told my doctor and he gave me a different antibiotic and it cleared up.

I was telling one of my friends about all of it, and he says “Oh do you need some amoxicillin? I never finished my bottle when I got strep because it went away after like 3 days”.

Like a week before I got sick, that same friend and I were out having dinner, and we shared a bit of food. This asshat gave me an amoxicillin-resistant strain of strep throat because he didn’t finish his antibiotics. I couldn’t eat anything solid and could barely drink for 2 weeks because someone thought he was “feeling better and didn’t need medicine”.

Finish your god damn antibiotics people!!!!

[sonicrainbooms]

Yeah, i was taught this in year 3. This is just another thing you americans can add to your “why our our educational system is crap” list and its really scary how this isnt common knowledge there

[petermorwood]

Not finishing the course of antibiotics is VACCINATING THE BACTERIA.

[planet--anime]

[tsunderrated]

me and the gang playing dnd

[surprisebitch]

me trying to sound intelligent when asked about math

[memeseverdie]

Let me guess, this is a hentai.

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

This is yu gi oh

[big-pizza]

[drtanner]

And don’t forget to ask twice. As someone who’s had severe depression for most of his life, I can tell you that if someone asks how I’m doing or if I’m alright, my first answer will be to tell them that I am “fine” or even “good!” and lie through my teeth 100% of the time.

Ask twice.

[barry-edit-this-out]

Please don’t think your friends are less interested in you, or that they’re being rude, or that they don’t want to be friends anymore. This is more than “drifting apart.” They’re going through something, maybe something harder than you think. Please please please stick by their side.

[horrorofthebeast]

[the-prolefeed]

How old is this and why is it on my dash

[horrorofthebeast]

i made this in 2018

[the-prolefeed]

I admire your dedication to period accurate historical recreation

[optimizedblur]

The “Hot Chocolate”

[fuks]

not to be dramatic but i would die for this cat

[boowoomuu]

UNMUTE THIS, I BEG YOU

[lacefuneral]

[Transcript:]

Cat: Arr-rar! (weird chirp noise)

Cat: [weird mechanical-sounding hiss]

Cat, while licking finger, in a very gravelly voice: Ah mlem-a-mlem-a-mlem-mlem-a-mlem-a-mlem… mrowr rowrrr…

Person holding camera: I love you.

Cat: [hisses]

[antifainternational]

This month, for Antifa International’s anniversary, every day we will share some of our favorite gifs. Let’s start off with a classic!

[notyourmoderate]

Because of this punch, Richard Spencer stopped giving public speeches, public appearances, public interviews and stopped making his recruiting meetings open to the public. At the time that he got btfo in this gif, his organization was one of the largest white-supremacist alt-right organizations in America, and was recruiting faster than any other. Because this one guy spotted him, recognized him, and took ten seconds worth of action, Richard Spencer’s Identitarian movement was crippled, stifled, and sidetracked. Spencer was punched out one more time after this, which caused him to stop giving public appearances entirely and now he lives a very private life and refuses to give speeches or work in recruitment anymore. Punching. Nazis. Works.

[sexhaver]

I broke up with my last girlfriend because she didn’t brush her tongue.

i love the internet i wish people would tell me this kind of shit unprompted on the street irl

[fandomsandfeminism]

“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness. 

[artifactoftoday-deactivated2018]

but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg

but he’s still able to move and do things perfectly

[fandomsandfeminism]

He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled

[ladyloveandjustice]

It should also be noted that Ed:

-had to undergo very painful surgery to get automail

-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of. 

-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)

-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working

-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned

-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail

- it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.

-it requires regular maintenance or it will break down, as shown when he forgets to do that and it…breaks down

-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).

-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)

So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with!  And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm). 

Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.

[cruisinforarubberman]

I’m kinda sad these two might not count.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Why wouldn’t they? Hiccup is missing a leg

[cruisinforarubberman]

But he doesn’t struggle.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Disability isn’t defined by” struggle” or suffering. Having a useful prosthetic doesn’t make them not disabled. Get the fuck out of here with that. 

[ultravioletcrumble]

DISABILITY ISN’T DEFINED BY SUFFERING OR STRUGGLE

[lovethemfiercely]

I will also point out (quietly, because that last point was SO important) that choosing not to show it on screen does not necessarily indicate a lack of either adaptation or difficulty.  It might simply be none of our business.

[saturninefeline-deactivated2019]

Reblogging for that last comment…it’s really creepy how voyeuristic people act about it sometimes. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean they’re not struggling…and their apparent struggle or lack thereof isn’t what “grants” them disabled status. It’s the fact of having a disability.

[barlowstreet]

Also that’s just… not true. Hiccup DOES struggle sometimes and there’s a couple instances of them showing it. The Christmas special Gift of the Night Fury (which I am not even kidding, is canon, they reference it in the third movie) shows him having trouble on ice (you know, metal leg) and the movies do occasionally show him having a little trouble getting around.

A struggle because of a disability doesn’t have to be the most extreme thing. It can be a little extra annoyance that just makes things a little harder, or makes someone not able to do things like others would. Like a movie not having captions so a Dead/HoH person can’t watch it.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

“But they have functional prosthetics so are they really disabled?”

Do you know the definition of the word disabled. Have you ever looked up what a disability is.

What the fuck is even happening here.

[birger-wuvs-elsa]

Also, Toothless very much does count as a disabled character as well, since he legitimately cannot fly without a prosthetic fin on his tail.

Plus, in HTTYD 2, Valka proceeds to introduce her son to several dragons who became disabled as a result of injuries from traps: one with a torn wing, one with a missing foot, and another that’s entirely blind. Plus, there’s Gobber, who’s missing two whole limbs! He has a gangling walk from his peg leg, and has to deliberately switch “hands” with his other and cannot always be properly equipped. We need not get into Drago, but the point remains that Hiccup, Gobber, and these dragons very much are disabled characters.

One could easily call Sol Regem of The Dragon Prince disabled as well, since the burns on his face completely and utterly ruined his sight. He can go by smell and hearing only, which was the saving grace of two beings that he normally would’ve been able to kill within moments. Plus, there’s the ever lovely General Amaya…who is deaf and communicates predominantly by sign and lip reading.

Plus, there’s the ever famous Toph, who while she greatly improved her life when she mastered vibration sight, it’s still imperfect. She still would rely on her friends when she couldn’t properly see (read, during the airship fight during the finale, or when they were putting up Appa’s Lost posters). Plenty of other disabled characters were also shown there.

But nothing else I can say can better enunciate the point than: Disability isn’t defined by” struggle” or suffering.

[latent-thoughts]

Bless this post…

[aliceliddellsmirror]

anyone who says a disabled person doesn’t struggle, doesn’t know the fucking meaning of struggling. We hide more from the world than you could ever imagine. 

[the-real-eye-to-see]

But they value our lives even less

[fonzworthcutlass]

Ok but look:

[donzo1234]

I’m really screaming

[lebritanyamor-deactivated202601]

he was planning on eating the baby 😭

[gyarados-rider]

Ok, as a biology major, y’all need to chill. Snakes this big are incredibly docile. They have been bred this way. Furthermore, the person taking care of this animal could not properly take care of them if they did not feed them regularly and well. This child is in no more danger than if she was sitting next to a big dog. 

Oh, and on snake yawning, the person above is wrong (SOURCE 1; SOURCE 2)

[constable-nugget]

Please don’t demonize snakes people they’re amazing creatures and clearly this one means no harm

[furbearingbrick]

“but the age of consent in other countries is…”

[rannulfr]

As a history major I also want add to the beautiful comments on this post that things weren’t “different back then” either.

The average medieval woman was married in her early or mid twenties.

Arranged marriages might have rarely been performed at a younger age, but it was absolutely not normal for them to be consummated, and the punishment for pedophilia when it could be proved was usually far worse than it is today.

Stop using medieval inspired fantasy as an escape for your sick bullshit.

[rosslynpaladin]

Medievalist piping in to add yes he’s right. Child marriages were looked on with disdain and disgust in the Middle Ages. Arranged marriages might be performed as a rite and to secure land but it was kind of obvious to everyone involved that it was a legality thing and that the pair of children or child involved would not actually be involved in anything until they were an adult. Because that’s never been acceptable.

[binary-suunset]

And before anyone says “but Ancient Greece!”…. no.

It is true that pedastery was practiced in Ancient Athens, modelling themselves on Minoan Crete, and that the younger partner in such a relationship could be as young as 15.

What they don’t tell you is that the age of majority in Ancient Athens was… also 15. These young men were old enough to vote, marry, and own land. You know, what we’d call in the modern era “a legal adult.” And even then, the sexual aspects of pedastery were frowned upon until the younger partner could grow out a full beard. These relationships were mainly used as a gateway into Athenian elite circles and to teach all the complex social customs practices therein, not as an excuse to bone underage boys (though I’m sure some unscrupulous individuals used it that way. It wasn’t the norm, though).

And many of the older partners werent that much older, usually in their early to late 20’s.

So yeah, the Athenians would look at you leering at that 14-year-old and also want to vom. An adult thirsting after someone below the age of majority has (surprise!) always been considered super taboo!

It’s almost like we created the age of majority to decide the age at which most people are mature enough to make important, adult decisions like marriage. And sure, in our modern era, that age is no longer 15 (and for good reason!), but when we analyse these sorts of practices, they require more historical context than just “the Greeks were paedophiles.”

[furbearingbrick]

historyblr is absolutely tearing apart MAP apologists in this thread and I’m all for it

[inuzukahana-deactivated20210106]

Blonde hair is so romanticized and sought after and brown hair is considered plain but consider: we’ve actually got eyebrows.

[inuzukahana-deactivated20210106]

[eruphadriel]

[tredlocity]

[gaptoothsupremacy-deactivated20]

I love when I’m in the middle of speaking and suddenly I’m like wait I literally don’t agree with what I’m saying

[statsdead-deactivated20200602]

This was my instagram bio in 7th grade

[yallive-deactivated20260426]

this is literally the funniest thing ive ever read. your 7th grade self was a genius