like, yeah i get it, from the perspective of the lazy bitch who loves convenience that i am, high-speed rail everywhere would be neat but like.
that's not everything, y'know? the earth breathes in time with every living thing, and i think it'd actually be mega-cool to Not dig into her, poisoning everything around the wound to extract metals, continuing to poison everything to refine snd shape the metals, all for the end purpose of carving scars into her mountains and through her forests to make room for laying down chains to bind her in some misguided belief that humans are the pinnacle of life on earth and everything else exists to be mastered by us and bent to our service, rather than humans being one necessary but not superior part of iwigara, the shared breath that connects all living things with the earth, their mother
A review of seven yearsâ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense
Near the end of 2017, the United States Navy filed a notice of intent to begin purchasing human cadavers from the University of Southern California. The purpose: Use dead bodies in trauma surgery training for the Israeli Defense Forces.
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While the three contracts in question make up less than 1% of USCâs 367 contracts with the Navy, Annenberg Media was unable to locate any other U.S. university that had similar contracts involving the IDF.
Medical professionals are also raising questions about whether families of the dead have any idea that their loved ones might be used to train soldiers. USC says it operates the programs in accordance with regulations.
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Navy and IDF medics rotate through the Fresh Tissue Dissection Lab, jointly funded by Los Angeles County and USC, for âhands-on training on non-perfused and perfused cadaver bodiesâ to simulate battlefield injuries, according to an inactive 2023 contract. Perfused bodies are pumped with artificial blood to mimic âreal-lifeâ patients, which can only be done with fresh tissue.
According to a 2020 medical paper co-authored by Keck and Navy trauma surgeons, the âcombat trauma surgery skills courseâ attended by IDF medical personnel used âfresh human cadavers.â These cadavers were provided by the L.A. County Office of Decedent Affairs, which manages cremation and burial for the countyâs unclaimed bodies. Relatives might not claim a body for any number of reasons, including the cost of burial.
âEven though theyâre deceased, they still deserve a level of respect and dignity and proper treatment that we would normally give to the living,â Thomas Champney, an anatomy professor at the University of Miami who researches the ethical use of body donors, said in a March interview.
okay for real this time, we're leaving tumblr for mastodon. yes we had to retreat after the collapse of cohost, but this is the one, this time's gonna stick. transphobia get lost, centralisation get stuffed, police get killed, we are outta here
Feed it to an LLM, pirate it, draw conclusions I didnât intend from it, make backups in case I ever decide to delete it off the internet, write fanfiction, sell it for money Iâll never see, get really mentally ill and introject my characters, all these outcomes are better than honoring my idea of what your response should be
get hopelessly horny for characters that may or may not be based off of me or my friends, roleplay as them publicly, upload my songs to platforms I don't wanna bother with & get paid, make fuckignn nightcore remixes, if I care then I'm no longer the same person and I need to reassess
Every order is founded on a crime against the preceding orderâthe crime that dissolved it. Afterwards, the new order comes to be perceived as legitimate, as people begin to take it for granted. The founding crime of the United States of America was the rebellion against the authority of the king of England. The founding crime of the society to come, if we manage to survive this one, will do away with the laws and institutions of today.
The category of crime holds everything that exceeds the limits of a societyâits worst and its best. Every system is haunted by all that it cannot incorporate or control. Every order contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Nothing lasts forever; that goes for empires and civilizations too. But what could supersede this one? Can we imagine an order not premised on the division of life into legitimate and illegitimate, legality and criminality, rulers and ruled? What could be the last crime?
"This is what democracy looks like" may be my least favorite chant. I have to say it's accurate tho. Symbolically signaling dissent while making no real change - yep, that's what democracy looks like!
Anarchism has historically been ambivalent about democracy. There have always been anarchists who regarded it as an extreme form of democracy. There have also always been anarchists who regarded democracy as necessarily a form of government, and therefore opposed by anarchists. I think it's clear at any rate that in the 21st century it's no longer possible to be both for democracy and against capitalism.
sometimes i keep getting the intrusive thought to write about how pronouns in bio and preferred pronouns are just a reflection to how english doesn't really have a way to gender yourself linguistically so you have to gender yourself by proxy of others; watashi think that we should just have neutral 3rd person pronouns but have Thailike open-class first persons
I guess a more general version of the point is that in the last 50-ish years, everyday language has borrowed more and more of both the terminology and structural features of technical language. This happens for a lot of reasons. But I think it's mostly not a good thing. For one, being abstract and technical is not actually very useful in the messy real world, where concepts are fuzzy and vague and most things of importance are not quantifiable. For another, if natural language borrows too much of the authority of science and the law, it might find that there's not enough left afterwards for science and the law to do what we need them to do.
Why are you saying 'they're a narcissist' when you mean 'they're being mean to me'?
Why are you saying 'hyperfixation' when you mean 'interest'?
Why are you saying 'gaslighting' when you mean 'lying'?
Why are you saying 'plagiarism' when you mean 'rip-off'?
Why are you saying 'war crime' when you mean 'immoral act'?
Are you so afraid of your own judgement that you need to borrow authority from a more objective domain? Does using a word from a technical language actually make what you're saying more objective? Or is it just a way of hiding behind the ever-diminishing authority of academia? Why are you too afraid to speak in your own voice?
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to useâthese two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch.
â Edward Hallett Carr, "The Historian and His Facts," in What is History?
there was a festival/parade this weekend and my friends won the trophy for Best Float, for a giant pirate ship, but not a single picture of it wound up on any news anywhere bc they also had palestine flags.
just so many quiet perpetual ways people do this shit
um armed agents of the state just broke into my home and kidnapped my entire family THANKFULLY i will be peacefully protesting with my ukulele tomorrow once i get the proper PERMIT and in four years from now i'm going to get out and VOTE
A while back a post was going around saying, to paraphrase very, very simply that subsistence farming mustâve been shitty because so few people do it now. My initial thought was to simply reply that if that had commonly been the case then enclosure probably wouldnât have needed the threat of state violence to accomplish. I let it go at the time but it mustâve still been kicking around in my head because yesterday while I was thinking about âgeneral strike farmsâ it floated to the surface again.
I think so many people have an entirely misinformed view of what âsubsistence farmingâ looked like historically because the term makes them think of the settler âsodbusterâ dragging the plow his wife is driving because they canât afford a work animal yet. American pioneer farming was an historical anomaly and the result of people lacking the support of an existing community and infrastructure. Commons were once commonplace and weâre expected to forget that.
the other thing is pointing to small farmers living in poverty in third world countries, or perhaps to the past of âthe dark agesâ⊠just completely ignoring that the whole concept of poverty really only becomes applicable when theyâre being pushed into The Market, so that they can make enough money to afford the extortion taxes and such that governments demand.
if a king comes along and demands a subsistence farmer pays council tax, in the king's currency no less, the subsistence farmer, assuming they don't have vast stores of unneeded wealth, must stop farming and go and bet a job. most likely in a city. some cannot do this, and die impoverished and emmiserated. others manage to make ends meet by sweating for pennies given to them by a stranger. and then the king turns around and claims he 'lifted these people out of poverty' because they now have more of his currency than they did before
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