"If I look back I am lost"

☼ Sofia. ‘98. Italian. Passionate about equality. ☼

[mariacallous]

[cardassiangoodreads]

I've said this before and will say it again: I think we need fundamental shifts in our media, if we're even allowed to have them now, and one of those is that reporters need to start fucking challenging people who say dumb shit. If the big thing is "groceries too expensive" then fucking point out that Trump's tariffs plan would make them more expensive! Harris campaign could've done more of this, but media desperately needed to do more. Challenge the people who want to sit out or vote third party or fucking vote for Trump on Gaza by informing them how much worse he wants to make it and that Netanyahu was putting his thumb on the scales for Trump. We need to get over this idea that every voter's concerns are sacred. The media is supposed to inform people. Fucking inform them. Correct them when they say dumb shit. My experience has been that as much as everyone is in these media bubbles, people do start to think things through when they're made to look bad for it in public. Really stupid that journalism never takes advantage of this.

[myspace]

Simple Plan recording the What’s New Scooby-Doo? theme song

[ruinedchildhood]

[spale-vosver]

[homeboygirl]

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

[charlesoberonn]

[sukimas]

my career advice isn't "do what you love" it's "do what will give you the most money without making you want to kill yourself"

[sukimas]

yes.

[charlesoberonn]

Andrew Tate 🤝 This Parrot

Trans Inclusive Radical Misogyny

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

I think about this interaction a lot. The grimes reply became a meme out of context and it's never funnier than the original exchange

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

Me being happy that one of the firefighters on the firefighter show is finally canonically Bi despite never watching a single episode:

[whitepeopletwitter]

[strawbebbynya]

Gonna scream oh my Gd

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

corporations after adding "plant based" and "gluten free" on packages of literal vegetables

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

nah you're missing out on meat based packaging

[roycohn]

once again thinking about this banger

[thatsthat24]

A Handy Way to Check! 🔄

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

For those still struggling with the sentence, let me rephrase it:

The sliding of home prices in Beijing increases the alarm of the Chinese property sector

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[blondekidwithgatoradebottle]

Oh my god I have it in my 1946 Lily Wallace New American Cookbook too I’m screaming

[mybabymylatte]

This is it! This is the white culture we’ve been looking for!

[professorsparklepants]

I’m sorry are we just not gonna mention “Beef Tea” “Raw Beef Tea” and “Cooked Raw Beef Tea” one after the other

[fluffmugger]

#WHY

Because the majority of human existence has not been to the knowledge and supply level we are at now.  You can’t just give someone electrolytes in the 19th century, you have no idea what the fuck they are. Someone is sick, and can only keep weak liquids down, but you know enough at this point to realise that man cannot live on water alone.   So you work out really weird ways to infuse foodstuffs into liquids they can handle to try and keep food into them. A lot of these also come from a way to stretch nutrient sources in times of poverty and scarcity. 

[tuulikki]

Thank you for this addition. People are curiously comfortable assuming everyone in the past was stupid and illogical, and it’s always struck me as showing a sad lack of empathy for fellow human beings. It’s like people in the past aren’t seen as, you know, people

[aylwyyn228]

Your local 19th century PhD researcher popping in here to add to this. Toast water is 100% a drink for treating illness. It turns up listed in several household medicine guides in the 19th century, and is listed as for treating people with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, who can’t keep anything down. It’s essentially oral rehydration therapy. 

It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).

And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK. 

It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients. 

Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.

People in the past were just people. And in this particular case, they were trying to keep their loved ones from dying of cholera. 

[actuallynotautomated]

And here is a link to possibly my fave ever book, with some modern recipes to do the same job , including the water you cooked rice in with the water you cooked rice in plus half a teaspoon of salt - so really toast water was pretty smart - https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Dehydration#Rehydration_drinks

[hogtown-gdc]

[gothicourse]

[crotanga]