Wayyyy off topic but I want to share this very informative thread I found on Twitter for all my US peeps and any others affected by the E Coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce since this is “my lane”
We are verging on dangerous territory here folks. Rollbacks on regulations within organizations like the FDA are only going to cause more outbreaks and other public health disasters as time goes on. There’s a reason we don’t normally see these “drop everything” warnings from the CDC, and it’s because these outbreaks usually aren’t that bad. And they aren’t that bad because as a developed nation we have protocols in place to prevent this from happening. But I want y’all to understand how much of a big deal this is. We’re loosing effective antibiotics at an alarming rate. And until politicians start listening to us scientists out here who are literally screaming to do SOMETHING, nothing is going to change. I see many people chastising the CDC for “banning romaine lettuce but not guns”. And yes while I agree gun violence is a major public health crisis in this country, it’s not the CDC’s fault they can’t do any research on the issue. All their funding comes from the government, and while the NRA and other pro gun lobbiests have their hands up the asses of our politicians, the CDC is never going to get the funding needed to research gun violence. The CDC and the FDA are not the bad guys here. They are trying to help us, and our president and his administration is hell bent on destroying all of that. To anyone who thinks politics doesn’t matter, that their vote is meaningless, that ignore the happenings in politics because typical political issues don’t affect them, I can guarantee you, your apathy will eventually come back and bite you in the ass. It may even get you infected with E. Coli.
The thing they don’t tell you about ADHD is the emotions. The regulation of emotions. There is no, ‘I am happy’ or ‘I am sad.’ Nearly everything is to an extreme. You’re sad? You probably want to go hug a friend and cry or ball your eyes out in the shower- there is no ‘I’m feeling a little down today,’ you’re on the floor and don’t have the mental strength to get yourself back up. And God forbid you get angry or exited. It’s like flipping a light switch, you either feel an extreme positive or an extreme negative, either hopping up and down flapping your hands or hiding in your bedroom under a pile of blankets, but the scary thing, the thing no one warns you about, is that this switch can be balanced in the middle. The emotion of ‘absolutely nothing.’ Where you feel absolutely nothing at all.
*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free
invasive species encroach on lesbian territory
This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.
you know what actually pisses me off? when I finally start to feel a smidge of confidence in my writing ability and then some JERK POSTS A SINGLE LINE FROM A TERRY PRATCHETT NOVEL AND IT’S BETTER THAN ANYTHING I WILL EVER WRITE NO MATTER HOW MANY MILLENNIA I SPEND TRYING!
Terry was a professional writer from the age of 17. He worked as a journalist which meant that he had to learn to research, write and edit his own work very quickly or else he’d lose his job.
He was 23 when his first novel was published. After six years of writing professionally every single day. The Carpet People was a lovely novel, from a lovely writer, but almost all of Terry’s iconic truth bomb lines come from Discworld.
The Colour of Magic, the first ever Discworld novel was published in 1983. Terry was 35 years old. He had been writing professionally for 18 years. His career was old enough to vote, get married and drink. We now know that at 35 he was, tragically, over half way through his life. And do you know what us devoted, adoring Discworld fans say about The Colour of Magic? “Don’t start with Colour of Magic.”
It is the only reading order rule we ever give people. Because it’s not that great. Don’t get me wrong, very good book, although I’ll be honest I’ve never been able to finish it, but it’s nowhere near his later stuff. Compare it to Guards Guards, The Fifth Elephant, the utterly iconic Nightwatch and it pales in comparison because even after nearly 20 years of writing, half a lifetime of loving books and storytelling Terry was still learning.
He was a man with a wonderful natural talent, yes. But more importantly he worked and worked and worked to be a better writer. He was writing up until days before he died. He spent 49 years learning and growing as a writer, taking so much joy in storytelling that not even Alzheimer’s could steal it from him. He wouldn’t want that joy stolen from you too.
Terry was a wonderful, kind, compassionate, genius of a writer. And all of this was in spite of many many people telling him he wasn’t good enough. At the age of five his headmaster told him that he would never amount to anything. He died a knight of the realm and one of the most beloved writers ever to have lived in a country with a vast and rich literary tradition. He wouldn’t let anyone tell him that he wasn’t good enough. And he wouldn’t want you to think you aren’t good enough. He especially wouldn’t want to be the reason why you think you aren’t good enough.
frodo took the ring to mordor out of the sheer need for it to be done, he didn’t have to do it or suffer so much but he did because he wanted to save his home and a world full of people he had never known, he was brave and strong in the face of a temptation that brought down kings and dealt with its poisoning, even if it drove him away from people he loved and brought hell on his body, and he took it as gracefully as he could manage, he did that for middle earth, there’s not a selfish or contemptible bone in his goddamn body and you need to fucking respect him
I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH, IT’S BEAUTIFUL AND CLEVER AND AMAZING AND I AM GOING TO WRITE ABOUT THESE CHARACTERS BECAUSE THERE IS JUST SO MUCH TO EXPLORE AND APPRECIATE
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