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Fat and thin people with kidney failure experience similar benefits to health and longevity when they receive a live donor kidney transplant.

Yet fat patients are routinely denied kidney transplants until they lose weight, a delay that can increase the risk of serious complications like graft loss by as much as 68%.

bigfatscience

“It’s not fat phobia! Fat people have higher rates of complications from surgery!! Doctors are just being prudent!”

People with diabetes and hepatitis C are not routinely denied kidney transplants, even though their conditions dramatically increase the risk of complication and death.

Also, when they are on dialysis, fat people have a survival advantage over thin people. Does this mean we should deny thin people dialysis until they can gain weight? Wouldn’t that be prudent?

“If you give a fat person a kidney, you’re throwing away an organ that could save someone’s life!”

Providing kidney transplants to fat people saves lives. Fat people who receive a kidney transplant experience a 48 - 66% reduction in the risk of death in the year following the transplant, compared to fat people who do not receive a transplant.

“Fat people have higher rates of complications sweaty, that’s why they are denied transplants <3″

Fat people have an approximately 20% to 40% greater risk of death in the eight years following a kidney transplant compared to thin people (although we cannot know if that increased risk was caused by a delay in treatment, weight regain post transplantation among patients required to lose weight, or another confounding factor). But that risk is far outweighed by the survival benefits of transplantation, leading researchers to conclude that “obesity should not be a contraindication for transplantation.”

bigfatscience

But honestly, this entire conversation is despicable. Inhuman. Soulless. People are actually conducting research to determine whether fat people should be offered life-saving medical care. Our world hates fat people so much, that this question seems reasonable to ask.

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heyatleastitsnotcancer

The SSI Restoration Act of 2021 is currently proposed to congress. SSI is a type of disability payment for disabled Americans. The bill will increase the SSI payment to the poverty level (right now the maximum payment is 9528$ a year). It will allow disabled people on SSI to marry and not lose their income. It will increase the asset and income caps for SSI among other improvements.

Friends and I made a website that has all of this info plus a REALLY easy way to send an email to your state reps. If you click the link below and click send email, you can send a letter of support for the SSI Restoration Act to your state reps. It's already written and takes only a few minutes. Seriously it is ridiculously easy. These emails have more pull to reps than resistbot so please fill out if you can!

We also have a Facebook page called "Campaign to Fix SSI" that has this information and regular updates. Here's the link for that.

See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

Please do this and boost! It could change the lives of millions of disabled Americans.

heyatleastitsnotcancer

This got a big boost in reblogs/likes the last day or two. We are up to over 500 letters sent! Please keep boosting and if you are in the US and able to, actually do the letter campaign. We got 3 new cosponsors on the bill this week alone and will only get more if you contact your representatives.

heyatleastitsnotcancer

We are up to 900 signatures! The post is losing a bit of traction that it's had the last week (which has been amazing) so please keep boosting and send those letters! (and call your members of congress if you are able to. That holds the greatest weight but I understand it's challenging for many)

direhuman

me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

theinsidiousdice

(via @itsbenedict)

itsbenedict

eternalfarnham replied to your post

you’re in the pocket of Big Ball, I see

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market.

sm FUCKING h at y’all granola-crunching conspiracy theorists. you probably also believe Super Potions cause autism.

justisdevan

Ok, but it is a shame that artisanal balls are basically off the market now. Like, you have to ride the monorail and hike through a half dozen routes just to find someone willing to sell you a Fast Ball. Believe me, when your boss at the power plant needs five Electrodes by Tuesday you are not going to want to make the trip to Alola; you’re going to head on down to the Mart and get some Ultra Balls, which will do the trick but aren’t well tailored to the job.

I’m with you that modern catching techniques are better, not to mention more humane, but there genuinely is a loss from more niche balls becoming harder to find. Maybe someday the long slowpoketail of consumer demand will be met, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Shellder.

cetaceanhandiwork

look y’all are missing the point. mass production of silph balls crowding out traditional apricorn craftsmanship is, if anything, more a side effect of the real problem: that capture artifacts are too easy to get your hands on these days. $2 basic balls are a problem. before modern ball tech you had to go to an artisan, yes, but part of their job was to care about who had the power to recruit pokémon from the wild, as a backstop against another Knight of Veilstone coming along. there was a time when you’d never lay a hand on a ball yourself until it was clear you respected pokémon, whether tame or in the wild. but now, a “pokémon journey” is open to practically every teenager, even if they’ve got not interest in treating their team with trust and love.

the worldwide rise in the last century of organized crime and apocalyptic cults who use pokémon as their muscle is a direct result of capture artifacts becoming a mass produced market commodity rather than a mechanism for preserving the sacred trust between humans and the wilderness. it’s a miracle that the powder keg hasn’t already gone off by now.

eternalfarnham

Oh that is rank historical revisionism - what, do you think artisans’ definitions of “respect” were constructed in a vacuum? We already had rhetoric as far back as the warring states period in Ransei about how only the soldierly classes, overwhelmingly descendants of nobility and taught from birth, had the intangible qualities necessary to “bond” with Pokémon. And when we start seeing apricorn balls develop in Johto, which borders Kanto - Kanto, where we know there’s been extensive cultural cross-contamination with Auroran and Dragnoran expeditions - surprise, suddenly only a small population has the intangible qualities necessary to use them, too.

That notion was, and remains, a tool to limit general access to Pokémon in the interest of maintaining class disparities. I mean, have we already forgotten the Aether Foundation’s pseudo-conservationist nonsense? Their attempt to manipulate natural resources and establish a power base in Alola, while they were modernizing and taking their place on the world stage, was founded on this exact rhetoric of “rescuing” Pokémon from local disenfranchised populations, as if taking Pokémon away from places like Po Town would improve things instead of increasing competition between trainers and decreasing safety.

Do you want more disillusioned kids joining gangs? Because that’s how you get Teams!

sindri42

Artisanal balls and anyone who supports them are tools of the aristocracy to suppress the common folk. In the days when a ball could only be made by hand by an expert, only the wealthiest could afford pokemon, and as a result anyone not born into the “elites” was forced to be subservient to their “betters” for protection.

The release of the $2 pokeball meant that the balance of power shifted to the common citizens. If any child can wield the power of a god, the military and the government and the wealthiest businessmen have no power over them.

More than that, instead of power being determined by the wealth to acquire pokemon, power comes exclusively from the dedication, effort, and empathy required to train them to high levels and to maintain their loyalty. If a person simply buys their pokemon, then those pokemon will either stay at low levels forever, or refuse to obey the human because there is no respect between them; the most powerful people in the world are those who caught a critter at level 2-5 and then devoted their life to raising it into a world power.

And as a beautiful side benefit of this, standard of living has increased across the board. Since every household has at least one minor pokemon in the family and there are increasing numbers of professional, working pokemon joining cities and other civilized areas and working to improve them, every aspect of economy and industry has been enhanced by their supernatural capabilities. Electricity is generated cleanly and in abundance for everybody. Pollution is cleaned up almost completely and instantly. The production of farms, mines, and workshops is multiplied, even as safety standards improve. Yes, every few years another potential apocalypse comes about and needs to be prevented by a couple of brave teenagers, but outside of those incidents the world is damn close to utopia.

6qubed

…that was all fascinating to read and I would like to see more like it, please

for instance; what the hell is in lemonade that makes it a more powerful healing alternative to regular potions

suinicide

Opium

lemondorp

See, unlike in the real world, the Pokémon world has yet to ban cocaine in drinks.

antique-scarecrow

this website is INCREDIBLE

nevertheless-moving

arborealgargoyle

I made the absolutely fucktacular mistake of giving my dog buttons that I recorded words on to talk with and she keeps waking me up in the thrice damned wee hours o the night to tell me and doubtless she could not pOSSIBLY wait until morning to say that she wants to eat the cat’s food

arborealgargoyle

apparently when my sleep cycle is disrupted at a very precise interval my view of the universe fractures and alters because I may have not been religious before but now I believe deeply that god with a capital G denied Dogs with a lowercase d the ability to speak for a Reason and we should respect Her infinite wisdom on this matter

arborealgargoyle

I have soared too close to the sun, in my arrogance I have built a tower too high unto the sky- it is made of cheap plastic recordable buttons and it is about to topple and take human language, as my dog knows it, down with it

arborealgargoyle

Me: *is awoken to the sound of my own voice echoing in the dark passages of the night*

Me: How could I have laughed at Victor, how could I have scorned his anguish in the sight of his glorious but unnatural creation??? Only now do I understand, only now-

My dog in the background who has taken my voice as her own: dinner dinner dinner

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ebonyheartnet

I would like a cooking show where chefs have to convince a picky toddler to like a vegetable

There is a 90% chance your plate will get thrown at you at some point, and you only win if you, the adult, don’t yell, and no one cries before dessert

adorkable-twins-of-cybertron

I have the palate and food preferences of a child. Can I play on this show?

I dare someone to try to make a vegetable other than pizza that I will happily shove in my face hole.

ebonyheartnet

You seem to have full command of at least one language, so you’d be the appetizer round

Also, maybe try cooked turnips w/ a little salt; maybe a honey glaze. They’re actually really sweet if you get the smaller ones (big = Bitter), nutrient dense, and not hard at all to cook.

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philosoverted-deactivated202006

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

systlin

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

gallusrostromegalus

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

filthyprotozoan

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

hubris-i

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

fridge246

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc.

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

jemthecrystalgem

Sorry it’s what to elves

dvandom

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth). But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven. To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk. So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

moomoobooboo-deactivated2020102

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

endreal

Legolas said fuck the horizon

spockgirl

aziraphale and castiel could NOT hang out bc aziraphale is a snob and cas knows fucking nothing about high culture spends all his time with two guys who definitely made him watch south park and has never been to a nicer restaurant than MAYBE ruby tuesday’s. working class angel hero. sorry about this post

lazarusemma

#aziraphale: ah don't you remember seeing this opera when it was new? #castiel who literally spent three hours researching neopets bc of one reference dean made: is opera singing #crowley keeps inviting cas over because he finds it fucking hilarious how mad aziraphale gets #'how can he NOT know michelangelo personally?! darling how can he not ?!' #castiel: they wouldn't let me out of heaven for a while idk what to tell you. can we go to applebee's. #crowley: SURE. LET'S TAKE AN ANGEL OF THE LORD TO APPLEBEE'S. AZIRAPHALE THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE @lovelyirony

crownlessam

really just thinking about how traumatically beautiful it was that cas essentially said. i know how to love because you taught me. because you loved so fiercely without compromise. i was an ancient being who was not meant to have emotion, but you are so good and true, i learned how to be human because of you. and i am standing before you bearing my self-made heart to you, the man i have chosen to be devoted, to love, to choose over everything including god himself. i choose you, and i have chosen you ever since i held your soul in my hands, and i am choosing now to share this small yet monumental moment of absolute love before i leave you forever. this may be good bye, but love is more powerful than god, and i want you to know that i love you. i love you so much that it doesn’t matter that we may never be together. being with you as a part of your life was enough. you were always enough.

oldmaker-plane

the way this show wrote dean as “he will make sexist and homophobic jokes but beat the shit out of homophobes and sexists” and not realize that they just wrote the epitomal archetype of a closeted queer character

oldmaker-plane

just thinking. dean makes questionable gay jokes in the bunker regularly enough for sam to notice. one day, finishing up a hunt, a hunter they’re teamed with calls the monster a slur. dean clocks the hunter in the face — “I don’t care who’s side you’re on, you have no right to say that.” in the car on the ride home sam’s thinking. “so why are YOU allowed to use that word?“ dean slams on the brakes and sam, who did not buckle up, smashes his face into the dash. they never talk about it again

elgreytea

thinking about how jensen likely took the video of the 15x18 confession scene because he had a bad feeling it would get cut. he needed the proof for himself and for us and especially for dean, so he recorded it.....mr. ackles we will do anything to unbind you from your chains just tell us what you need and we'll do it—

boopimgone

@rambleoncas i am super curious as to where people are getting info that Ackles has a video of the alternate ending? Not trying to argue in just genuinely curious and can't find anything on it outside of tumblr :/

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sunforgrace

okay you know what I take back everything I ever said clowns STAY winning y’all were right!!! I was burned before and couldn’t trust but heavy is the head who wears the clown wig and y’all kept your heads raised fucking high!!!

exeggcute

the general state of media recommendation on tumblr makes a lot more sense once you conceptualize it as people going “which series has the best characters I can use as semi-blank slates to project fanon content onto.” like I suddenly understand why certain mediocre movies and shows will blow up for no apparent reason but really solid and like thematically aerodynamic stuff gets maybe five minutes in the limelight before fading into oblivion

exeggcute

and imo this goes double as soon as any amount of Gay Representation is involved because people love to hype up shows with characters that are shippable (i.e. reasonably generic enough to be molded into a thousand different scenarios) but otherwise not that engaging or realistic versus like, narratives that are super refined and speak to very specific experiences but don’t leave much room for imaginative interpretation. like “fantasy show that has some gay people in it I guess” tends to get more traction than like, idk, a really poignant movie about complex and imperfect people navigating through their own microcosm of the world. but then just by nature how much momentum can you sustain for something where the only real room for iterative fan content is like, critical essays and analysis and maybe a couple gifsets instead of those “incorrect-[thing]-quotes” blogs that can churn out posts until the sun goes supernova

whencartoonsruletheworld

i think we should have a guardians of ga’hoole renaissance like we have with warrior cats. listen warrior cats is great but ga’hoole was just as fucking wild. there were barn owl fascists and magic wolves that got their own spinoff and moon hypnotism and bloody war and cannibalism and

paragonrobits

anyway one important aspect to remember about Princess Bubblegum and Marceline’s contrasts in character is that they care about things in different ways.

PB cares intensely, ferociously. It defines her character and a lot of her actions, for better or for worse.

Here’s the thing about that though: PB is cold. She is calculating. She is ruthless and methodical, and tends to look at people in the abstract, as numbers and resources. She often makes cruel decisions for the greater good, and while she doesn’t do it lightly, she does it without ever changing expression or seeming to feel anything one way or another.

PB cares about structure and organizations: she wants to build a kingdom that lasts, to prevent further destruction across the world. And she is willing to do extremely morally ambiguous things to make that happen. Individuals? …She is not good when it comes to caring for people, or even seeing them as individuals; just numbers to be dealt with, one way or another. Some people, she cares about them, but she is willing to toss them aside without a moment’s hesitation if the need seems pressing.

Marceline, conversely, does not care about the structure. Marceline cannot care. And why would she?

She saw humanity burn itself down. The Lich didn’t exist then, and it didn’t need to: humanity was capable enough of seeing to its own doom that way. And she’s seen every other society since then die too; nothing lasts forever, and nothing remains.

So Marceline doesn’t really give a damn about the world as a whole; she refuses to get involved in world ending situations or apocalyptic events because she hasn’t cared enough in a very long time. From her perspective, why bother? Everything ends anyway. Trying to save a kingdom from a monster when it’ll collapse on its own is a waste of her energy.

But people? That’s another matter.

Marceline puts all that energy into loving other people; sincerely, genuinely, and its pretty likely that when they die inevitably, its the reason she leaves the land only to eventually come back, again and again. Their loss wounds her, but she does it, over and over again.

PB and Marceline care a lot, in their own way. But PB pushes people aside, and even her most genuine love is very clinical and detached. Marceline cares so much that she keeps removing herself, because she hates being hurt so much, but she will do so anyway, over and over.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

am convinced that dragons eat gold……they stockpile it bc they hibernate for centuries at a time, and occasionally need to wake up and eat a snack…..this changes everything…..if you woke up and found a small invasive animal trying to steal from your grain pile, what would you do? it’s probably riddled w/ diseases….you have to exterminate the pests so you don’t get an infestation. nothing to do with greed just common sense….

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f1rstperson

If you’re gonna write straight characters you need to have a reason for it, it has to be relevant to the plot :/

you cant just have straight characters for the sake of having straight characters :/

like it’s just bad to try to force straight characters into a story for no reason :/

skodasforge

White Villain: Today, on the way home from massacring an entire village, I saw a puppy and I…. didn’t kick it…. I wanted to…. but for some reason…. I didn’t.

Fandom: THERE’S STILL GOOD IN HIM!!!! REDEMPTION ARC HERE WE COME!

Hero of color: Today, I saw a puppy that had been hit by a car, poor thing. I know first aid, so I felt obligated to help. It’s leg was broken so I fashioned a splint out of some old boards and the shirt of my back before I took him to a Vet clinic for further care.

Fandom: …..So what you’re saying is that A VETERINARIAN WASN’T THERE WHEN YOU PERFORMED THE SPLINT? Don’t you know that if you do a splint wrong the bone might heal wrong if you don’t have a Vet check it at the earliest possible time? I know that’s what you did but imagine if you hadn’t! What a fucking idiot. How can anyone like this character?

otherbully1

There are probably people reading this post thinking it’s describing a hypothetical situation in an attempt to demonstrate how fandom works but…

It’s real

I was there

This is a thing that actually happened

solvola

who can forget that one time when Teen Wolf fandom’s most renowned meta writing group tried to convince us that Scott McCall saving that poor dog was irresponsible and unacceptable, and that he put the dog’s life at risk just to show off and play hero, and that it was a mark of true Evil™ in the making

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