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[crimsolyn]

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

[quelquechosemonde]

[reidosexo]

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[stevenfoster]

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[vita-bona-est5]

Reading is sexy. #843

[bebs-art-gallery]

Still Life with Oranges (1863)

— by Rafael Romero Barros

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[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

[gean-grey-blog]

One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go.

I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried

And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated.

"She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair"

I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of"

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people.

[theconcealedweapon]

This is one of the many reasons why authoritarian parenting doesn’t work.

The father here is clearly not authoritarian. He acknowledges that children deserve explanations for why their actions are wrong. He acknowledges that it's wrong to use your size against someone. And I'm going to guess that he leads by example. He was able to enforce a rule by explaining the reason for it instead of by demanding subservience to him.

But for authoritarian parents, they regularly use their size and their authority against their children. It's impossible to teach your child that it's wrong to do something when it's exactly how you treat them.

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