He railed against the âsheltered princessâ next to him and noted that animals were treated better than he was growing up. All Palm could manage to say was âIâm sorry.â
I have spent literally my entire life trying to push back against this exact kind of misogyny around me, when Iâm not busy being a victim of it, and not once has it helped anyone change or grow to my knowledge. The burnout is real. Still: This just says it all doesnât it though? I see this so much.
Itâs literally why I just deleted yet another social media account withing 72 hours of creating it.
What a deep read though.
itâs a video about making video essays
There prisons were black dicks!!! LOL! Zach Snyder is fucking weird.
Itâs why I stay away from most humans. I could very easily cry âVICTIM!â very convincingly because of what I went through growing up. (Itâs all here, scattered around different threads, lol!) But I donât. Because even though some it was definitely being victimized, thatâs not what truly defines me. It made me part of who I am, being a constantly changing & evolving (I hope!) life form, but I am so much more than that.
At least, thatâs how I see things. I just know enough to know I donât know all that much.
Donât forget, thereâs also a Not Feminism 101 thread, if youâd like to take this further in that direction. Iâve been here I donât know how long, and I still donât know how to do move discussions from thread to thread, or else itâs because I donât have the power to do it, which is fine because the less responsibility I have for things that deal with others, the better it is for everyone, lol!
If you go to the main page, youâll see a button at the top right of the page that says + new topic. Just click on that, and it will give you a dialogue box for starting a new thread on whatever youâd like!
Thuban isnât a particularly bright star, but it holds a special place in the hearts of stargazers. Thatâs because Thuban â a relatively inconspicuous star in the constellation Draco the Dragon â was the Pole Star some 5,000 years ago, when the Egyptians were building the pyramids.
And thereâs evidence that Thuban helped guide the ancient pyramid-builders. Some features inside the pyramids do align with the stars.
But while the pyramids appear to us as an enduring monument of ancient Egypt. ⌠the sky slowly changes. And, because Earthâs axis wobbles slowly over 26,000 years, the identity of our Pole Star changes. So Thuban is no longer our Pole Star.
But itâll be the Pole Star again some 20,000 years from now. What will humanity be doing then?
Among the many mysteries surrounding Egyptâs pyramids are the so-called âair shaftsâ in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Originally, experts believed these narrow passageways were for ventilation while building the pyramids. In the 1960s, though, we realized the air shafts aligned with stars or areas of sky as the sky appeared for the pyramidsâ builders 5,000 years ago.
One of the âair shaftsâ follows a crooked course through the Great Pyramid, so you couldnât have sighted stars through it. To this day, the purpose of these passageways inside the Great Pyramid isnât clear, although they might have been connected to rituals associated with the kingâs ascension to the heavens. Whatever their purpose, the Great Pyramid of Giza reveals that its builders knew the starry skies intimately.
They surely knew Thuban was their Pole Star, the point around which the heavens appeared to turn. âŚ
The worldâs first giant slides.
Darn, I totally forgot about that, and thus started a new thread yesterday.
If you donât see a little wrench at the bottom of the thread next to the post count or a pencil next to the thread title, you canât move posts. I do not have that power here, but I do at the other place.
âŚbefore the fine, smooth, white Tura limestone casing blocks were stolen!
Buen VivirâŚ
[ETA] A longer article on this topic:
But rarely does an intervention come along with as big a potential impact on mortality as the latest one: In a news release yesterday, the maker of the diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide (branded as Wegovy and Ozempic) said the drug reduced the risk of serious cardiovascular events, including death, heart attack, and stroke, by 20 percent.
â
But in the meantime, whatâs most exciting about the trial is who it studied: adults who were overweight or obese (with a body mass index, or BMI, of 27 or higher), age 45 or over, and with âestablished cardiovascular diseaseâ (which includes people whoâve had chest pain due to blockage of a blood vessel in the heart, or have other evidence of blood vessel blockages).
This is an interesting approach to reduce costs for patients taking this medication:
Adding to the cost and the potential upside for the industry: To keep weight off, patients may have to take the drugs indefinitely.
The woman Iâm a caregiver for is diabetic and has been taking Rybelsus, the oral version of Ozempic, for a bit over a year now. She hasnât lost a lot of weight, but her A1C has come down significantly. She is not poor, and she still couldnât afford the medicine once she hit the Medicare donut hole. She was, however, able to qualify for the manufacturerâs patient assistance program, so they sent her the medicine for free. I donât know how many people are aware of that, but most pharma companies have similar programs for their newer, super-expensive drugs. Sometimes you have to do a bit of digging around on their websites to find it, and then there are forms to fill out, and your doctor has to fill out a form, and itâs kind of a pain in the ass, but itâs a hell of a lot better than paying $750 for a 3-month supply of life-extending and improving medicine.
And after only two years! 