Quality things

According to my mom and sister the very first thing i did upon waking up was BOLT upright and proceed to try and shove my ENTIRE fist in my mouth as fast as possible.

I had to be physically stopped, and i proceeded to sob my eyes out for the next 20 minutes. Somehow, i didnt damage anything 🤣

sorry that imagery is so vivid i just..

Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, Militant Mary

You ask him, as a hypothetical question. He says he doesn't know what that word means, but you said "women" so now he's interested. No, the other word. He doesn't know what "hypothetical" means. He interrupts your explanation to let you know that sounds boring, he doesn't want to know what "hypothetical" means. What was that other word, you said "women".

You try to explain as simply as you can, being frequently interrupted by reminders that he is uninterested in abstract concepts and unfamiliar terminology. He doesn't know what a chromosome is. He doesn't want to know what a chromosome is. He is unsure how any of this subject is related to the ladies but he's optimistic about it.

After about half an hour, he finishes with asking "ok but what's the difference". After a while of unfruitful back and forth, you understand what he's asking what is the difference to him, how does this distinction affect him and his immediate surroundings. You have no idea how to word this in a way that would be understandable to a gerbil with A1 level english skills.

"If... If trans women are women, there's... More women?"

"More women. Nice. Then let's go with that one."

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

Please listen to this baby tapir CHEEP and maybe all your sorrows will go away for a precious moment 🩷🩷🩷

Olga Orly took the stand again, where she revealed she wasn't truly an innocent waitress working that night, but was a pro dealer hired by Shadi Smith to finally defeat Phoenix Wright in poker.

The two's plan was to plant a card in Wright's pocket, and then call him out and search him once the hands were revealed at the end. But the planted card disappeared, and she testified further.

She claimed she planted the card, Wright lost, and Smith searched him. The card was missing, and Wright retaliated, hitting Smith with the bottle. The planted card, the five of hearts, was slipped into Wright's pocket while he was having dinner. The plan was to make it look like he switched it with the Ace. They searched him thoroughly, but found no trace of the card. And right after that was when he hit Smith.

Justice kept pressing her on that last claim of her testimony, pointing out that whenever she recalled it, she rubbed the back of her neck in what looked to him like pain. He kept pressing her about what happened after the crime, and she said she kept Wright in her sight until the cops got there, where he sat at a daze at the table until they arrived. Justice Objected, presenting Wright's cellphone as evidence that she let him go upstairs to call the police. She caved, and admitted that Smith hit her with the bottle, and she fell unconscious, and didn't witness the crime take place.

Kristoph Gavin accused her of possibly being the killer in that case, and Wright retorted with his theory from earlier, that there was a fourth person altogether. Wright brought back up the two hands from earlier, and how a card of a different colour was swapped into the victim's hand, something a outsider would do without knowing.

Wright revealed his plan was to bring this case to court all along, to catch this fourth person, someone who told the court they were using blue cards during the game all before the coloured photo was shown. That someone, Justice remembered, was Gavin.

Winston Payne claims it's impossible for Gavin & Smith to have even met each other, and Justice requests for Wright to testify, but not before Gavin interrupts him, trying to implicate Orly for the crime.

Phoenix testifies that he and Kristoph had dinner together at the Borscht Bowl Club that night, with Smith walking in to talk to him 5 minutes after Kristoph left. And after Orly and Smith were unable to catch him cheating, Smith hit Orly, and he stayed in the basement when Wright went upstairs to call the police. When he got back downstairs Smith was dead, with blood streaming down his forehead. And so he went back upstairs to call Gavin, to request his firm defend him.

The cross-examination then began. Wright testified he and Gavin dine often, and that Gavin and Smith could have crossed paths when he left. The plan was foiled early, since Wright found the card in his pocket, and placed it in the bottle of grape juice he had been drinking, which happened to be the murder weapon. Justice examined the bottle, only to find nothing inside it. He also brought up that Smith was wearing his hat in the first crime scene photo, which Wright refuted by saying it was the only piece of evidence he touched, putting it back on his head since he wore it all evening.

Wright then told the court that he did all those things for a reason, and requested the defense play the phone call between him and Gavin for the court. One quote from Gavin struck out to everyone; "You mean someone cracked that flawless bone china pate? It... wasn't you, was it?" Wright clarified a pate is a type of smooth, shiny porcelain, which brought to mind Smith's bald head. Wright began to suspect Gavin the moment he said that.

And when he got back downstairs, Smith was dead, his hat fallen to the floor. He put it back on, intending to keep the secret until it came to light in court.

New Release: LilithHouse 【-Phantom Knight-】 Series

There Is Only One Shen Yuan Ever And He Wife-beams All the Binghes.

Shen Yuan: I have 37 husbands and they're all the same man!

*a portal opens and a Binghe falls out. "Shizun!" He cries, looking heartbroken*

Shen Yuan: 38! *He goes to pat the new Binghe on the head*

Cut to a private interview with SVSSS Binghe.

SVSSS Binghe: At first I wasn't thrilled with sharing my husband but there's some benefits to having 37 brother husbands.

*cut to assorted Binghes doing all the chores around Qing Jing Peak, in the distance we see Liu Qingge swordfighting another Binghe*

SVSSS Binghe: The chore wheel is very complex. One of the An Ding Binghes made it.

SVSSS Binghe: Also, just throwing it out there, I'm definitely Shizun's favorite Binghe.

Interviewer: How can you tell?

SVSSS Binghe: I've never once been sent to the Bad Binghe Box.

*Cut to a shaded pavilion with padded benches in the bamboo forest, there's food and drinks and blankets and a sign on the pavilion that says "Time out zone"*

Bingge: Yeah the Binghe that's really good at math made a chart, I'm far and away the Worst Binghe! *smirks proudly*

Bingge: I spend most of my time here, it's actually pretty nice, definitely not the worst place I've slept. It's even climate controlled so it doesn't get too hot or cold!

Interviewer: What are you in for?

Bingge: Trying to kidnap Shizun and take him back to my home dimension. I just think he'd like it there more ok?

Interviewer: What keeps you in the pavilion while you're on time out? Is there an array or-

Bingge: Oh no, it's honor system. But if you leave before your time is up Shizun doubles your remaining time and scolds you.

Interviewer: How long are you in for?

Bingge: 46 years.

*cut to interview with Liu Qingge, he is drinking tea as the interviewer speaks*

Interviewer: How are you adapting to the sudden influx of Luo Binghes?

@velvetdemon I'm doing a full reply because I want to give this question the time and space it deserves, and I really do appreciate your curiosity about this.

The short answer: It is deeply unethical. There are nowhere near enough willing patients in the world to be able to do this, and it would be criminal to put them through this.

The long answer: The one side of the equation you're focusing on is: how much of a drug is too much, to the point where it will cause negative side effects or even death? And this is crucial to know. But it's not just a matter of finding out the lethal dosage of a heart cholesterol medication, you need to know that it can actually lower the cholesterol of any living thing. There is no way to know this without giving it first to...a living thing.

But beyond this, I need to emphasize: The goal of a drug trial is to effectively cure people who are already suffering from disease, who are living on limited time.

Drug trials don't just happen on any member of the public, they need to happen specifically on people affected by the disease you're trying to treat. There is at any time a very limited and very marginalized population of the world affected by early onset, familial Parkinson's disease. Because you cannot ethically induce disease in a human being, you are working with, speaking with, and helping patients and their families who are hopeful and desperate for a cure.

If you were to jump straight to human trials from petri dishes, not knowing absolutely anything about how the drug functions in a living, breathing animal body, it would look like this:

We didn't know that minute quantities of the drug interact lethally with x, y, z medication that people are commonly also taking. X number of patients have died as a result.

We didn't know that the drug is fatal to people with [common variant] in their genetics. X more patients have died.

We didn't know the drug exacerbates x, y, z chronic illnesses. X number of people have acquired permanent, lifelong disabilities.

We didn't know the best way to deliver the drug, so we tried multiple ways: the people who received it intravenously are now suffering from a painful, costly, and debilitating condition that did not happen with the ingested form.

I could go on, and on, and on.

The vast majority of these problems can be nearly or almost entirely averted by testing other animals first.

These are all people who possibly could have waited for the normal progression from animal testing to human testing and thus received better outcomes. Some people will pass away in the time it takes to get to that point, and that's heartbreaking, and we all wish science could be faster.

animal research is not the mad scientist wild west that PETA wants you to think it is. there are extremely strict federal laws in place to protect the well being of these animals. animal welfare organizations like AAALAC ensure that lab animals are treated with dignity & respect and are given enough specialized care & enrichment to be happy and content in captivity, just like AZA accreditation with zoos.

not a single animal from a zebrafish to a mouse to a dog to a macaque goes unaccounted for. if an animal gets moved to a new cage, paired for breeding, has a procedure performed on it, gives birth, gets sick or injured, dies, etc. it is legally required that this information is recorded and kept on file for the US federal government to access. failing to record & retain this information is very much punishable by US federal law.

let me tell you - if you abuse or kill an animal, even a mouse - you are almost certainly getting both fired & blacklisted from the industry. if you abuse or kill a more ‘advanced’ animal, such as a dog or monkey, you will likely face criminal charges. killing a monkey is as serious and disastrous as a nuclear meltdown. you are expected to reasonably explain every illness, injury, or death of an animal under your care. you must record all of this information. animals that are clearly suffering with low QOL are required to be euthanized according to AVMA guidelines.

research animals are highly expensive. yes, even the "lesser" animals like mice. the cheapest mice will run you a few hundred $ per individual, with some of the most expensive mice i've cared for being $25,000 per individual. in research we have the "three Rs" - reduction (reduce amount of necessary animals to a minimum), refinement (refine processes to ensure research is accurate and animals feel no pain or distress), and replacement (replace animals with non-living research models as they become available). i can assure you no proper research team is wasting animals (*do not* say "b-b-but elon musk--" his research team is actively being investigated for animal abuse by the government).

research methods that do not require live animals are currently being looked into & efforts spearheaded by - you guessed it - the animal research industry itself (notice how the animal rights people are strangely silent & unhelpful when it comes to this?) but current technology is rudimentary and does not compare to live animal models.

some research animal fun facts (US edition):

all species of animals are only allowed to have one single major surgery performed on them in their entire lifetime.

institutions with nonhuman primates must have a behavior program in place (run by knowledgeable primate specialists) to ensure that they are happy and receiving enough daily enrichment and social interaction.

institutions with dogs are required to have physical exercise programs in place. this means every individual dog gets a substantial amount of leashed AND free-roaming exercise daily, including playgroups with other dogs.

a majority of nonhuman primates get to retire to sanctuaries like peaceable primate sanctuary, and almost all dogs get retired and adopted out by organizations like homes for animal heroes. some institutions will also adopt out unneeded young rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, etc.

some strains of mice glow neon green (or orange or blue) under UV light. this is not harmful to them and is commonly seen in cancer research.

We placed a lab on probation for not following their approved plan during an inspection. The animals weren't even in danger or being harmed, but the researchers were being careless and that's a problem. Another lab got reprimanded for having drugs on hand that had passed their expiration date had passed by less than a month. It wasn't even being used in the current protocol, to give you an idea of how seriously every detail is taken. Everyone in a given lab had to be prepared to answer our questions on procedures and protocols or the lab would get a warning/required improvement plan for insufficiently training their people. At one point we had to suspend a protocol because the vendor the lab was using kept sending unhealthy animals who did not even live long enough for research to begin. Another time the water to an aquatic facility had slightly higher than normal pH levels and the vets had to move a lab of animals while the university facilities manager got an entire building's plumbing replaced.