MintyWhale99

🇱🇻♾️Scribble when have time♾️🇱🇻

[mintywhale99]

Decided to make an oc named Adhemar. No one canceled a possibility to write their own book of beauty and the beast 📝😭

[mintywhale99]

Excuse me, but telephats who don't know more then 1 language will not get good jobs in spy organizations.

I speak 3 languages and the spy will not understand the heck I'm thinking because I jump from one language to another and throw in random meme screams in my head...

[mintywhale99]

I just love the sculption by Sebastian Lochmann of the beast.

[mintywhale99]

Self portrait.... Would there be commissions for this kinda thing? 🤔

[mintywhale99]

❤️🐎❤️

[mintywhale99]

Had some time at work to doodle horses

[mintywhale99]

Did a doodle based on @Artwod from #tiktok. I learned quite a lot :D

[mintywhale99]

I saw so many of his redesigns by talented people, and thought that the beast would look something like this.

[mintywhale99]

My fav YOUTUBER uwu

[mintywhale99]

I have tik tok... I swear I'm not dead🌚👌

[mintywhale99]

I'm trying, but every time he changes slightly 🥲👍. Plotting a fan story

[mintywhale99]

Thought about submitting a request to TLC about "90 day fiance" with my fiance... Ya know... Me Latvia him USA/ Ireland.... But after reading the papers it was a definite no no.... I don't need green pas to live there... I'm staying home 🌝

[mintywhale99]

Just a small art peace inspired by arcana.... Altho i can't draw in that gorgeous style lol.... Would you ever believe me if I said you can find your love on a phone game called pimd?..... Because I just in October celebrated 1 year anniversary with my fiance 🌝.... World is weird

[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. 

[white-throated-packrat]

The beef tea recipes below the toast water recipe are the same thing – stuff you make when you’re trying to get nutrition into people too sick to eat. Beef tea will give you proteins, salt, and electrolytes, and maybe some fat, all of which you will need if you’re too sick to eat

[fremedon]

And intravenous saline was also not a thing yet. People had had the idea, but

they didn’t know what <em>sort</em> of fluids they should be trying to push. The obvious answer for “what can be healthily introduced directly into the bloodstream?” is “more blood,” but

they didn’t know about blood types yet, so early experiments with blood transfusions sometimes worked a treat and sometimes…didn’t. Really didn’t. Which didn’t keep them from trying additional fluids! But,

they also didn’t have germ theory, which meant they didn’t know needles needed to not just be visibly clean but actually sterile, or how to get them that way. So jamming a needle directly into a sick person’s vein was often just a recipe for infection. 

Dehydration kills you fast. Levels of vomiting and diarrhea that could easily have been fatal 200 years ago–or even 100; replacing nutrition, not just water, intravenously didn’t really get worked out until the 1960s–no longer seem dangerous to us, in a world where you can buy electrolyte drinks at any corner store and IV fluids can be administered in any medical facility including an ambulance. But in the 1830s they were no joke, and any recipe that would get fluids into a sick person was worth trying.

(Additionally, between flu shots and better food safety, people today don’t have a lot of experience with being literally too sick to keep water down, but that is a thing that happens. When I was 10 my state was hit with an influenza epidemic–just that year’s flu, but it was a bad one–that had half the school out sick for weeks at a time. Flu shots existed, but they weren’t yet being offered to everyone every year; they were just for the medically fragile. (This was in the mid-eighties; yes, I’m that old.)

I was out for five weeks–mostly recovering from week one. In which I lost 15% of my body weight because the <em>only</em> fluid I could keep down was Welch’s Sparkling Strawberry Soda. It took us days of experimentation with every sugary drink in the store to find something I could keep in my stomach. (Why wasn’t I on IV fluids after day 3? Because I still wasn’t sick enough to get a hospital bed anywhere in three counties, because everyone else was sick at the same time.)

But there was an entire supermarket aisle of sodas and sports drinks and juices for us to try–and my parents brought home ALL of them to try to get some sort of liquid into me. Recipes like this are the historical equivalent– “What can we put into water to make it stay down? INFUSE ALL THE THINGS!”)

[mintywhale99]

The kvass - soft naturally fermented, non-alcoholic drink from Slavic and Baltic region, that's made from rye bread-sits in the corner silently

[visual-infinity]

Underwater Motion of Seagrass and Kelp

[abstractbabble]

@lemonadesoda

[mintywhale99]

Beautiful, like it has its own mind

[rocktheholygrail]

The Good Place (2016-2020)

[eric-coldfire]

A vaccine wouldn’t have saved you if you died from an infected cut on the hand, that’s more you being filthy.

[notagiraffe]

Are you sure

[eric-coldfire]

Bacterial infection.

Vaccine.

Has no cure.

Pick one.

[fission-mailure]

… You realise that:

a) Vaccines aren’t cures, which are therapeutic, they’re vaccines, which are prophylactic. That’s why we don’t call them cures.

b) You can actually vaccinate against a bacterial infection, a vaccine is just something which trains your immune system. In fact, a new vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria was just approved for use earlier this year, and we’ve had vaccines against bacterial diseases like anthrax and tuberculosis for years now. The reason we talk so much about vaccines against viral diseases is that, unlike bacterial diseases, it’s a lot more difficult to treat a virus once you’ve caught it.

This is … like, I’m not trying to make you feel bad here, but this is stuff you should have learned when you were kid. This is literally the most basic stuff.

[mintywhale99]

I mean, in schools they really brush off the meaning of a vaccine. After studying almost 4 years in safety engineering and seeing what happened in 2020 and the... Ya know... The tuberculosis flash in usa 2020 because of antivaxers.... So yeah.... Sometimes alot of people don't know about the vaccines essential work and parents don't know... And teachers don't know... It's just usually brushed off... You can see it with the... You know what movement

[thedaddycomplex]

This morning, our boys realized 7th grade doesn’t have recess and now they’re pissed.

[rabbitindisguise]

Seriously this whole time highschoolers have had recess somewhere I’m

[mad-dyspunktional]

Are you fucking kidding me? They have recess in high school in other countries? God I fucking hate this country.

[iravaid]

There’s no recess in the UK and Ireland at secondary school level, but I think Europe/parts of it might have it something similar

[robotslenderman]

When I went to the US on exchange they did not have recess. Class started at 7.30AM and went straight on until lunch without stopping.

[nightingaletrash]

UK person here, I can’t speak for every secondary school but mine definitely had a break between the start of the day and lunch. You have two lessons, break time, third lesson, lunch, then the last two lessons before the end of the day.

[me-and-my-gaster]

How any of you are still sane? In Poland we have break EVERY 45 MIN CLASS???? EVERY SINGLE ONE????

[mintywhale99]

Latvian person here, there's no difference, except special schools maybe. 15 min break between every class and 2 brakes of 30 min for 2 lunch times, one for younger classes and 2nd for others. My school had great lunches made by our lovely lunch ladies from farm products, maybe not all of them, but veggies for sure, and the price was 0.74 euros per 2 meals... That was still a theme 2 years ago from little brothers Intel.... I miss the food :(