I think people over seventy years old should have unrestricted access to prescription painkillers. Not to take home or anything (they might get sold or stolen, although frankly I think pain meds should be less regulated in general and the fact that such a market exists for that is a sign that they're over-restricted in the first place) but like, they should be able to show up at the hospital and flash their ID and be like "morphine please" and have a nurse shoot them up then and there. Yes this is about my stepfather who had every health problem and finally became a tolerable human being after he was put on constant pain management medication but also if you're over 70 you know how your own body works and what pain feels like and frankly if you throw away your life to a painkiller addiction at that age (way less rare than the media would have you think, most "abusers" of painkillers are self-medicating *to manage their pain that they're not being prescribed enough medication for*) then all the more power to you.
When you're over 70 you should be allowed to indulge in any hedonism you want (that doesn't endanger others) with no restrictions. 70 year olds should be allowed crack.
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As someone who once had the existence you describe, but is now, in old age, attempting to exist on what "Teh Gubbermint" thinks you can ($1,200/mo + $298/mo): Can (rather bitterly) fucking confirm.
Absolute banger policy. The SNP want to introduce a sort of ābaby boxā equivalent for children starting school.
The school bag would be filled with essential school items - stationary, books, a water bottle and information for parents to help with literacy and numeracy skills at home.
#I'm pro every child getting every thing they might need from the state#Like I think we should be ready to feed every kid until they are 18. Yeah in summer too. And have summer activities for them at schools#Because no child picks their parents. And there are some shits out there (@greenycrimson)
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She ignores reason because this is her preferred outcome, and she will fight for it against her own rational mind. Liff isnāt dead. She got there in time. Somehow itās going to be okay. - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory
This is literally me as a kid.Ā Dad used to have the responsibility of giving out the well reports that came in on the friday night to anyone who phoned for the rest of the weekend.Ā The problem was, on saturday mornings, he was doing the food shopping, so I was given a list of approved callers and heād leave the well report figures by the phone.
Theoretically I was just supposed to list off the numbers.Ā Except. Very early I started parsing the figures and give my own analysis.Ā Apparently engineers and geophysicists got a bit freaked out by a ten year old goingĀ āItās not that good, the flowās really slow compared to last week, and thereās gas pockets really screwing up the flow in the east pipe judging by the pressure report.ā
Dad still got that yelled at him at conferences:Ā āThis is the fucker who used child labour to do well analysis!ā
(mob boss voice) What's the matter? Ain't you never seen a skald before? This here guy composes verse to record our, like, magnificent deeds an' shit. (LOUDER) Ey Bragi! Gimme one of those fuckin eddas again!
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Then youāre gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.
Working at Harvard in the late 1800ās and early 1900ās as a āComputerā, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.
This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.
Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldnāt be bested until the 1990ās with automated digital sky surveys.
Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (OāBāAāFāGāKāM), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.
It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the HertzsprungāRussell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.
The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.
This is probably a little too much nuance, but whenever I see a "all borders are violence" post (a political position I generally agree with!) I always add a little asterisk that says "*but the border checks that keep you from bringing homegrown produce into big agricultural areas to avoid the transmission of parasites and invasive species are actually fine and if we were more vigilant about that kind of thing maybe we wouldn't have spotted lanternflies in the states."
Customs management (you do not want people importing a bunch of stuff that doesn't meet your country's safety standards, for example)
Things like that one lake in Europe where three national borders coincide and they built an island specifically so you can run between countries for fun
Really wish we'd, on the left, stop laughing and assuming this is ACTUALLY about strippers. I'd be willing to bet this ISN'T about some one with the actual job of stripper being somehow hired and sent to a school, that indeed DOESN'T happen - instead it will be used to target any female teacher who, like, wears a bikini on social media one time. She'll be called a "danger" to children and fired, as a cover for the fact that she's pro-queer or too far left or doesn't support ICE enough on that same social media. The bikini pic will just be the legal tool used to ruin her life
A friend helped me out by looking up the actual bill and YUP, it's to target queer people and sex education. NOT. STRIPPERS. STOP MAKING IT ABOUT THE FUCKING "STRIPPERS".
Anyone who thinks ladyshinga might be off track, here's the breakdown.
Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.
Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".
How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"
Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".
Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.
Actual result: Illegal to mention the existence of trans people or admit to being trans in a classroom under threat of being prosecuted as a child sex offender.
let me tell you about having unrestricted internet access as a teenager and becoming ātumblr famousā and not mentioning it to your mom simply because it didnāt seem important until a stranger asks for a photo in public in front of your mom. like oh yeah sorry mom by the way iām really big among other insane teenagers holding on by a thread.
my mom didnāt care but she started telling random adults i was āfamous on the internetā and i never knew how to stand when she said that so i always struck a gay little pose
next theyād ask for my āwebsiteā so they could check it out and my mom was like (with genuine support) āmy understanding is we wouldnāt like it ā„ļøā
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Sorry everyone, I'm really going crazy tonight because we finally got rid of our 16 years long fascist oppressors in a democratic way. This is huge. Hungary won, the EU won, the global far right lost. š„³š„³š„³
While we the viewer have been cognitive to the fact that Robby is suicidal since Season 1, I firmly believe that it's not something Robby actually realizes about himself until Season 2--and much further into Season 2 than most people think because I don't think he walked in with a plan to die.
We see him in the start with his insistence that he'll be back before Donnie's daughter is sleeping through the night. How Baran is just there until he gets back. How as long as he's there, he's the boss and that it is HIS ED. The man that walked in was going on a three-month sabbatical and then coming back... better.
However, we also see the change. We see the return of the way Robby's increasing stress leads him to a dark places and how that "I will be back" turns into "If I come back". But it's not until episode 10 does Robby, himself, seem to realize what it is he wants and how much that scares him.
And it's all down to Micah's mom, Brenda.
There's something about this moment between this mother and child. She is not his mom, but she's like her. With her own kid lying helpless and hurting, she's willing to walk away forever, abandoning him without her son ever understanding why. Much like how Robby isn't her son, but he's still just a boy who wants to ride his bike rather than help despite what it leads to.
Because this is a conversation between a regretful mother and a hurt child.
"I tried to get him to help me in the garden," is the first thing she says at the start of the scene. And from the outset, she's not looking at Baran. In fact, she doesn't at all from what we can tell until much later.
Instead, she shifts from staring into the middle distance as if she can see the moment playing out in front of her to Robby. Not at the woman she's had by her side and who stopped her from her choice, but this man standing in the corner like a scared boy.
His hands are shoved into his pockets. His shoulders are a little raised at the outset because you can see the fall slightly. And even out of focus, you see him take her saying, "But he just wanted to ride his trike ," so much different than Baran. She's empathetic, but there's something to Robby's face that just makes him seem more like a frightened kid than a middle aged doctor.
It's only when Brenda says, "So I let him," does she finally look at Baran. She's telling a doctor that she let her son ride his bike just out of her sight. But then she's back to looking at Robby before the sentence is even fully out because she's not letting this child out of her sights again.
"Every time I looked over, he was just--"
"Riding around."
When she says that, you see the moment Robby seems to realize something. It exists in the pause between 'just' and 'riding', that little eyebrow twitch. The way the anticipation solidifies into something dark and unpleasant in his mind before the camera cuts back to her. His face darkens in this visible way from his yearning to hear her out that's hard to put into words. But I don't think it's about her, exactly. Rather, it feels like the he's starting to realize he's as much her as he is that scared child.
In either case, it leads into Brenda looking away from Robby as if she, too, saw that look and lost her son all over again. Because she stops trying to find an answer or salvation in this man.
Instead her gaze drifts lower, not looking at anything. Not even a memory. Just this absence of even a hint of her son as she says, "And then he wasn't."
And others have already talked about the fact that you hear Baran ask "Have you ever thought about hurting yourself?" when the camera is focused on Robby, but look at him. Look at the way he looks away as he considers the question and comes to an answer that I don't think Robby has before.
Not because he hasn't had those thoughts. We watched season one. We know he has. But this isn't something Robby has ever had to question before because the person who catches him feels this way too. It's normalized in his friendship with Jack to the point of being a joke. Never mind how he he explains away his own issues as unimportant, especially in a place where he feels that his life isn't allowed to get to him.
But in that room, being questioned by proxy, he has to admit these things to himself for once. Because he gets it. Robby understands Brenda's thought process because a child's death is the worst thing to go through and we see that in Season 1 because Robby is there for so many of them in that one day. He knows how the pain of loss can push a person to making reckless choices because he nearly did after Leah and Jake and Adamson's Anniversary. He's been to the breaking point before.
It's just that his resolve isn't changed. It's given a name that scares him since Robby doesn't want to die. He just can't live with himself any more than Brenda feels she can live with herself for not protecting her son. Only difference is, sine the questioning is by proxy, Robby still gets to walk out of that room.
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