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An Art Nouveau enamel and glass pendant modelled as a spray of raspberries

1902

René Lalique

An Art Nouveau enamel and glass pendant modelled as a spray of raspberries

1902

René Lalique

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Our daughter started having health issues last year, after months of fundraising we paid for a surgery she needed to keep basic bodily functions but recently she started having pain and bleeding again, turns out the last doctors fucked up something and now she can't pee without pain and bleeding. Everyday for the past 2 or so months.

We need $3,200 to afford the surgery with a trans friendly urologist.

Both my partner and I are chronically ill with disabling chronic pain, we're unemployed and take care of our kids and his elderly parents with deteriorating chronic conditions and sister after they lost everything to a house fire, including his grandma.

We find temporary jigs sporadically but we mostly survive off of mutual aid online.

We've been living in a house full of black mold and rust, without water supply for the past 2 weeks**.

I just came back from another urgent care visit from my gallbladder/liver failure so I'd appreciate if we could move forward on getting my daughter the surgery she needs and maybe affording to pay the bills we have due on august 4th.

Our friend and mutual is offering commissions to help us!!

If you can't donate but can get us something from our wishlist please consider getting the baby food cans, the air purifier or just anything you can.

$700/$3,800

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Added a new one to our throne, found one a bit more resistant.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

This was something we read about in my undergrad teacher prep program because it is such a prevalent myth, and it encourages people to think of people as having these psychologically and biologically essentialist, immutable traits-- that everyone can be sorted and categorized, that those categories tell you something about them (and it's therefore safe or even a good practice to make certain assumptions about them), and that those categories are predetermined and inflexible.

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She does, however, work even smaller.