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Iâll have to do more digging (I specifically remember someone who was Ashkenazi with the name mizrahi) but hereâs a romaniote jew and a Sephardi/Ashkenazi jew
What's the meaning behind this? Is this evidence that someone's ancestor moved from one part of the world to another, so they were the only Ashkenazi/Mizrahi/Sephardi person in the town? What's the history of these names?
Thatâs exactly it! Itâs the same way Anglophone people end up with surnames like âNewmanâ: once upon a time, some distant ancestor was the new guy in town. Several centuries of intermarriage with the local community later, the surname remains.
The Arizal is another example! An Ashkenazi dad and Sephardi mom nets him the name Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria.
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one of the smaller more subtle things about video games that i absolutely love is when your footsteps sound different depending where youâre walking like hell yeah
i might have already talked about this before but itâs actually crazy that jogging gets treated as a default âgetting into shape for the first timeâ exercise ESPECIALLY if someoneâs goal involves weight loss. people who are more than ~200lbs often need special gear and running techniques to avoid shin splints etc *even if all that weight is solid muscle*, and the likelihood of injury only goes up as strength to weight ratio decreases. someone whoâs both heavy AND untrained is just going to be miserable for however long it takes their bones and connective tissue to adapt to the sudden increase in demand. usually this takes months, but it can take even longer under adverse conditions like, say, suddenly eating way less than normal. and all this for an activity that literally isnât even fun unless you are a specific type of insane. there are so many low impact and actually enjoyable forms of cardio why are we slapshotting biomechanically disadvantaged novices into the david goggins torment dimension
I agree with this hard! As someone who is not considered overweight, 130-140 lb, depending on time of year, running is misery and painful. It's absolutely wild how that's the exercise people are like, you should just take up!
Much rather go for a nice walk, do some squats, jumping, and body weight exercises.
So, movement nudge! Pick one or a few of the above mentioned things and go do them! Anything is better than nothing!
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i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it
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So this seems dumbâŚand it isâŚbut itâs dumb with a purpose. I can almost guarantee you the exact line of reasoning that gets NASA engineers to 100.
Ok, first of all assume the worst and assume she needs the max amount of tampons possible for all days. Now lets count it up.
7 days? Better be safe and make it 10.
3 tampons a day at worst? Better be safe and make it 5.
So that gives us 50 tampons. Ok. Double it.
And thatâs how you get 100.
Itâs ridiculous, but NASA has a culture of âoverengineer absolutely everything to do with human safety, and then design around itâ which is actually pretty cool.
Listen, I know this gets made fun of so much, but like
I am a woman who has periods and I have absolutely no idea how many tampons a woman requires in a week. I use primarily pads. But these men, at the least, ASKED her instead of making unfounded assumptions.
Also have you ever packed for a long trip and thought âIâm only going for seven days but I need to pack 15 pairs of underwearâŚ.just in caseâ. Imagine that but youâre going to SPACE
So I had a small rant on bsky but thought it was important so Iâm crossposting.
Since my book came out I get a LOT of scam emails. Theyâre using AI to target me specifically, they usually regurgitate the plot of my book and the opinions of goodreads reviews in order to make it seem like theyâre some kind of industry professional who loves my book.
This is not unique to me, I imagine this is shared by most authors.
The usual scam is either that they want me on their podcast, for a nominal fee, or they want me to jump agencies or publisher, or sometimes Iâm not entirely sure what they want cos itâs garbled AI nonsense, but they want me to respond so they can hook me further.
The insidious thing is they are using the names of real agents, real podcasters and real companies, so if you were to do a quick google youâd think âoh this is legitâ.
The email address is usually â[email protected]â to try to mask that itâs not real.
So A PSA for newer creators, if you get an email that seems to be a legit offer for agency rep, or a podcast appearance, or a publisher for your work (or other fantastic sounding offer), you are totally within your right to protect yourself, to go to the agency/podcast/publisherâs real site, and email them directly from the address you find on their website, âhey i just got an offer from you? Is this real?â And they will answer yes or no. (I know itâs disappointing to find out if itâs not real⌠but at least youâre not scammed!!!) The agencies are aware of these scams and are just as disheartened, I imagine. It canât be helping anyone in publishing right now.
(Please also do your research for legit offers too⌠signing yourself to an agency or publisher is a big deal, donât sign your stuff away lightly! But thatâs not the main point of this postâŚ)
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The Nation of Islam has spent 30+ years pushing the claim that Jews ran the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Historians debunked it so completely that the American Historical Association passed a formal resolution against it in 1995.
Whatâs telling is what the Nation of Islam leaves out. The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade ran roughly 1,300 years â about 1,000 years longer than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
The Arab region still has the highest per-capita rate of modern slaves on earth: roughly 1.7 million people, largely under the Kafala system. If the concern was truly African enslavement, that would be the story.
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I've been meaning to make a post talking about my stroke because y'all got bits and pieces of the recovery but I never actually told the story of HOW it went down and the thing is the type of stroke I had is usually the type young people have and since having mine i've now heard multiple stories of people under 40 having very similar strokes and the scary thing is, is that they didn't get help right away. Because you're young and healthy and sure you feel weird but it'll pass right? but it doesn't, and it gets worse, and by the time you get to the hospital (some people literally take days to go) the deficits are worse and recovery is harder.
so here's a super long post about strokes in general, and mine in particular/what I went through.
So for strokes the signs are abbreviated BE FAST. Balance loss, Eyesight changes, Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, -> Time to call 911.
Had I known those MAYBE I would have figured it out but my symptoms were a little mixed. I was reading (fanfic!) in bed because it was a sunday morning and i had nothing pressing to do and suddenly got dizzy. I put my laptop aside because my eyes were blurring (Eyesight changes - symptom #1), and laid down, thinking it would pass, it didn't, it's a little vague how it progressed because I'd been having headaches and neckpain for about 3 weeks leading up to it so I was like 'idk is this a migraine?' (headaches can be a stroke symptom so symptom #2) but i got nauseous and eventually got up and to my utmost surprise I immediately fell over as if I was the drunkest of frat bros. The room literally spun before my eyes as I fell to the floor (Balance loss - symptom #3). I have had some Nights and I had never been that unsteady before. I crawled my way to the bathroom, threw up (nausea - not a common stroke symptom) , took 800mg of ibuprofen, and crawled back to bed.
if you know anything about ibuprofen you might know it's a mild blood thinner and that's a high dose. I may have inadvertently helped myself with that one. I was just feeling like shit and thinking 'idk this might help'
At this point I still thought we were still in Normal Land. Sure, it was a weird morning, but Surely There Was A Reason. (Yes There Was) Anyway, as I'm lying there willing my body to stop suffering I realize my arm is going numb (stroke symptom #4) and I switch positions, because weird, but it doesn't go away, and I gave it a good little while. I'm on a medication that can make my limbs tingle but it usually just does it to my fingers and it dissipates quickly but this wasn't dissipating, and then I realized one of my legs was also going numb. Then one side of my face is going numb.
(at the time I did not look in the mirror but I had a drooping eyelid - symptom #5)
Those all seem bad. I grab my computer and google 'when to go to the hospital for dizzyness' as that felt like the worst of my problems. and indeed the list I found highlighted that if you are also experiencing loss of balance, blurred vision, nausea, and limb numbness, you should see a doctor. That seems like far too many symptoms to be having all to be listed. I grab my phone (thankfully plugged in and by my bed), and start layering on more clothing because it's about 10 degrees out and i'm in a pajama dress. The very nice man at 911 talks with me and sends an ambulance, I tell him I don't think I can get out the front door of my building on my own and he asks if I can get to MY apartment door to which I say yes and he assures me that's fine they will have keys to my building.
(I have been since informed they love to chop down doors but no, I could get that far)
I wait by my door laying down on the ground and they arrive pretty quickly. They see to me in the hallway, which is more of a lobby in my building and the only place with room for me to lie down (I cannot stand unassisted at this point) they ask me a bunch of questions, take vitals, and ask me where I would like to be taken. Me, having never had to go to the fucking hospital in an emergency before, simply go 'wherever is close' because I again, I am having a stroke and do not have the wherewithal to think through these things.
A big firefighter helps me down the stairs (it's only a half flight and I still almost did not make it) and we get underway.
At the hospital they wheel me into triage and I mostly lie there gratefully and answer some questions and respond to some tests (grip strength, following a pen with my eyes, that sort of thing) and then I hear what is great when you've been at urgent care for two hours but what is Very Bad when you just arrived in an ambulance and that's 'She's next'. I jumped the line for a CT scan and an MRI. I was there less than ten minutes before I was actively being scanned. honestly closer to five.
my active symptoms seem to have been worse than some of the stories I've heard, not being able to walk AT ALL in particular, although some other are pretty equal (Footless Jo on youtube had a stroke around the same time I did of the same type and has discussed hers, she delayed going in despite the severity for a variety of reasons and it sounds like her recovery has been difficult) My recovery was pretty easy because i was actively being cared for and on blood thinners right away. I was pretty out of it in the beginning, but I was only in the hospital for 6 days and then in a rehab for another 4 to relearn how to walk and balance, then i was released unto the world and just spent time going to physical therapy and recovering for awhile. I was out of work for about 8 weeks total. I basically had the best outcome for a stroke. I recovered almost fully back to 100% (I'm about 2% less sure footed than I used to be, but it's rarely noticeable), my face still feels a little weird but has markedly improved so I live in hope it will eventually get back to normal. It massively sucked. But strokes can fuck you up for life and I came out a weird medical story to tell and have to take some extra medication now/precautions to take (i cannot do certain types of yoga, no weightlifting, no push ups, no going on rollercoasters.... things that could strain my neck essentially) but overall I escaped very lucky.
For anyone who has ever had covid before, please be sure you are aware of stroke symptoms. Each successive infection raises the risk in a pretty major way, and a lot of people are dying young due to not knowing these signs or being afraid to act on them. Please take care of yourselves.
Worth mentioning that a very good reason to take Paxlovid if you get covid isn't just to stay out of the hospital short-term, but to reduce the covid-induced massive jump in your cardiac event risk for the next two years - this is honestly the main reason I would rec younger folks take Paxlovid if they get covid.
Repeating those stroke signs so folks don't miss them behind the cut:
Balance loss,
Eyesight changes,
Face drooping,
Arm weakness,
Speech difficulty, ->
Time to call 911.
The thing about âfolk medicine that worksâ is that, when it works, it⌠inevitably gets folded into? Regular Medicine? Thatâs where Regular Medicine⌠comes from? Like.
Tree Bark Tea that cures your headache? Yea we extracted the active ingredient and put it in a capsule because it tastes like ass. Call that Aspirin now.
Healing Salve from the succulent leaves of a strange plant that grows in desolate wastelands? Yea, we have Aloe Vera gel in pretty much every burn unit now. The leaves can be dirty which isnât great for a fresh wound yâknow so we extract it and purify it and shelf-stabilize it.
Antibiotics? Generally come from Fungi. They deal in rot yâknow they gotta know how to deal. But Iâd rather swallow a penicillin capsule than huff Rye Mold yâknow.
Painkillers? Youâd be surprised where they come from. Beautiful montane flowers. Beautiful tropical snails. White latex sap and invertebrate stinging glands. Nature, once again.
âBut theyâre evil chemicals that come from labs!â Look. A Lab is just a Very Clean Room. Folks make medicine in labs because if you wanna do chemistry and the room isnât clean enough you end up with something other than what youâre trying to make. There is no location inside Reality that is not a part of Nature. Metal and porcelain and glass are all made of stardust and earth. We can make medicine in a cauldron in a cabin in the woods if you want itâs just gonna be full of living things and spores and shit and. Like. not work.
Nature isnât your Mom. Nature regards you as little more than a Tree Propagation Engine. Nature is very disappointed in your choices; such as the choice to not go forage for large tree seeds and then shit out those seeds in shallow pits you dig. The choice to care about your Education and your Art and your Politics and your Entertainment are not choices Nature would have given you. Humans gave you those choices, by holding back the natural forces that are actively trying to check our population growth.
Nature sends gifts such as Influenza and Coronavirus to help us be more in balance.
Do you understand
The Humans in lab coats are not your enemy.
The Nature that wants to use you for fertilizer is.
Also, medicine helps you get a dose that won't KILL you. B/c there is fine line between between 'this will help you' and 'this will kill you' and you can't always find that line when you're getting it right from the source.
Oh, this purple flowering plant will mess with your heart by making it go crazy when you eat it? Well if we extract those specific compounds from it, we can make heart medicine in a dose to help regulate your heart rate.
We call it Digitalis. It comes from the Foxglove plant.
Like, if you try to just chow down on the plant, you're gonna have a bad time. But scientists are/were able to extract the necessary compounds so that doctors could give controlled doses and turn it into life saving heart medicine!
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