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Moths? Yes please!

Prions? No, not today, thanks.

happy pride moth

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Number 6, another pediatrician praising vaccines.

Number 7, didn't answer

Number 8, a pediatric nurse, also telling the new committee that they are political clowns.

Number 9, another pediatrician telling us about the joys of doing spinal taps on infants and cheering for the HiB vaccine.

Number 10, classic antivaxxer. "Vaccines must be abolished immediately."

Oh! Here's number 7. Also outraged by the ACIP purge.

All 10 seem to be women. Not sure what the significance of that is, if anything.

So, 8 normal people, 2 anti-vaxxers.

Now, on to a vote?

Listening to the ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) meeting. We've reached the most exciting part, the Public Comments. The first one was a gold-star antivaxxer and leader of Children's Health Defense, but numbers 2, 3, and 4 are all normal human beings absolutely outraged by the political purge of the panel.

Here's number 5, a pediatrician here to remind us that Disease is Bad, Actually.

Damn, she is hitting HARD. She just said to the faces of the new committee that her patients' parents are afraid and it's their fault.

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Listening to the ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) meeting. We've reached the most exciting part, the Public Comments. The first one was a gold-star antivaxxer and leader of Children's Health Defense, but numbers 2, 3, and 4 are all normal human beings absolutely outraged by the political purge of the panel.

Here's number 5, a pediatrician here to remind us that Disease is Bad, Actually.

Damn, she is hitting HARD. She just said to the faces of the new committee that her patients' parents are afraid and it's their fault.

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i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

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If you as a leftist can understand that

the Trump administration is using the concept of violence against women to oppress transgender people and strip back civil rights

AND violence against women is a real societal issue that needs to be taken seriously, especially when women's safety and autonomy is directly attacked by the same right wing politicians claiming to care about it to further their agenda

Then you can also understand that

the Trump administration is using the concept of antisemitism to perpetuate oppress activists and strip back freedom of speech

AND antisemitism is a real societal issue that needs to be taken seriously, especially when Jewish safety is directly attacked by the same right wing politicians claiming to care about it to further their agenda

Right? ...Right??

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semi-related i really wish people would disentangle "bad" & "unethical" & "illegal" & "inadvisable" & "annoying" & "ugly" & "harmful" etc. like we're going to get nowhere by presuming a 1:1 equivalency of these things across the board lmao

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Also? Some jobs shouldn't exist. Scammer telemarketer, for example. There should be far fewer landscapers. In the USA, the healthcare sector should have far fewer clerical jobs.

screaaaammm somebody just called me a bootlicker for being annoyed that my coworker is so bad at her job thats its making everyone elses jobs way fucking harder i can never ever ever ever turn anon off

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Depends whether we're talking fashion or practicality. Sometimes, the outfit looks great and fits great on that size 6 model, but the size 18 version of the same garment is just scaled up in a too-simple way and doesn't actually fit well on anyone. Like skirts where they make the waistband bigger, but don't make it longer, and it ends up too short.

here's a more low stakes opinion: idk what the difference is between those "fat people CAN'T WEAR THESE CLOTHES!!!" articles in tabloid magazines circa the early 2000s and the tiktoks being made now that go "is it a good outfit or is the model just skinny?" it feels like they're pushing the same message tbh ("certain styles are only attractive on skinny people") but the latter example is framed as progressive somehow. is it because fat people are the ones making the videos??

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okay now I'm curious and I dunno if this is really such an archaic foreign thing to young people today or if I'm just out of touch

Please reblog, I'd love to see a lot of responses!

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The asset limit specifically applies to Medicaid long-term care. The initial thinking behind it was, "We don't want people to put their grandma in a nursing home and have the government pay while they get to inherit her $1 million retirement fund."

Except that now, middle-class retirees can dodge the asset limit entirely with various trusts and tricks, and the limit hasn't been raised in decades and is now so absurdly low that you can't, like, put down a deposit on a used car, or fix your water heater.

ABLE accounts are one workaround, and people should look into it. Also campaign for Medicaid reform which, if it doesn't eliminate the asset cap entirely, at least raises it to something saner.

The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.

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Silence is complicity when something happens literally right in front of you. If you hear your neighbor scream for help, you have a moral obligation to do something, call the police at least. If you're walking down the street and you see a person who appears to be unconscious, don't keep walking. On the lower-stakes end, if someone makes a bigoted comment or "joke" in front of you, say something.

If there's a war happening in another part of the world, (which there always is) going on with your life does not, in fact, make you a bad person. Importantly, talking about it with the Right Opinions doesn't make you a good person.

what gives the lie to “silence is complicity” or its cousin “silence is violence” is that people are silent about tens, hundreds, thousands of atrocities happening right at this moment because they do not know they are happening/there is simply not enough time in the day to condemn all the evil in the world.

do you think the people saying “silence is complicity” really believe what they are saying, which implicates them too, or do they feel entitled to a stranger’s take? is it a way to build coalition or bully people? is it, at best, a poorly thought out phrase (and there are many such cases!) or is it lying through teeth?

does anyone really believe that saying the right words absolves you? that that’s all there is to it and nothing more?

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I don’t know how you can pretend to be a student of revolution without acknowledging that there is no scenario for the sudden collapse of the United States without mass ethnic violence

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giant redwood trees really are so cool, they just have something incredibly special going on. it's hard to describe if you haven't seen them

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Fucking as in expletive or fucking as in "studying their breeding cycles?"

Or both?

the entire budget of the US military should be reallocated to insect research

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Fair warning: When you get a stomach bug, it usually moves out quick, but it can take as long as a week or two to heal the damage and get your gut working correctly again. Go easy on it.

usually when you have a stomach bug your body is like yes sir we'll get this punk out of here, 48 hours tops. then you get a cold and your body is like I dunno ... between a few hours and eleven months ... maybe a week minimum .... you gotta understand we're short staffed

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"eyes blazing like Ben-Gurion in a hoodie."

Yeah, I think I know that guy. He lives in New Jersey, and his kid is in my son's Hebrew School class. Last year he raised a rather impressive amount of money and then traveled to Israel to visit all the border posts and cook chicken there.

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When I was younger, I was horrified by eyeglass styles that made the shape of my nose more obvious. High bridges? Nope! Low bridges only, to cover the top of that hook.

I simply saw my nose as ugly. Only after I realized it was a Jewish trait, and that my disdain for it was imposed by my outside culture, did I learn to accept it.

It's not ugly, it's a part of me. It's a part of my father, and my grandmother, and I refuse to be ashamed of it.

I always find it weird when goyim try to deny that jews features exist. Like I'm supposed to what, look at a white person and go "yep I look like them"

When I tell you I fucked weeped when I saw Tuna (israeli artist) for the first time. That was the first time I saw my nose, my nose!!!! on someone who was not my family.

I look at photos of jews and I see my eyes, my lips. My features reflected back.

As someone who is surrounded by white people, it wasn't till I looked at fellow jews, that I saw people I looked like. How does that work if jewish features aren't real?