Tried to make romantic breakfast bed for my gf who had a bad week but I burned some pancakes and now she feels even worse. Iβm like joker
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Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx's best-known texts are the "The Communist Manifesto" and the three-volume "Das Kapital", in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx's political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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Anyone have experience consolidating defaulted student loans? I'm having an issue with the application and being pingponged to different phone numbers, all of which have long ass waits and annoying phone trees. I just want to not get my shit garnished.
Like everything I've read says I can consolidate defaulted ones in a IDR plan, but none of them are appearing in the consolidation application. When I called the default resolution group, they said they couldn't do anything with consolidation and sent me to a different number, which was also the wrong number, so I tried calling the student aid number but they are only open on weekdays? This shit is fucked.
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I work/study/do research in healthcare and I've been recently thinking about how much of modern medicine/healthcare is based on the guarantee of antibiotics working properly. On the other hand, there are more and more resistant bacteria floating around the communities, ie. outside the ICU where they usually come from.
Antibiotic resistance and development is yet another barrier that capitalism fundamentally cannot overcome, regardless of how many reforms you make. Research for new drugs take a long time and is very expensive. Along with this, the correct way of using antibiotics is avoiding overuse or just reducing the use in general, specially of new drugs that bacteria can't resist yet. That means that companies can't expect to make a profit out of any new drug that they develop, since trying to use them as little as possible is the rational way.
In other words, the profit motive is unable to create new antibiotics in the manner that the world needs right now, let alone in the much worse future. If we lose antibiotics, modern medicine mostly comes to a halt. For example, say goodbye to surgeries and also to your little niece that got an ear infection that every kid gets at least once. Tooth extractions becomes a very high risk procedure, too.
People died of tooth issues a lot in the past. Its shocking. Today its non-trival.
Antifungals are starting to get resisted by fungus too. It's actually a really serious issue, and we don't really have anything like Vancomycin or antibiotics of last resort for antifungals.
The Soviets had a loooong research program into bacteriophages that we're more or less rediscovering. It's one of those things, in Math you often have to name stuff after the 2nd person to discover it and in Biology apparently you're the second group to discover it after some soviet scientists lol. Phage therapy could work as bacteria get more resistant to antibiotics - its also not energetically free for them to produce beta-lactamases, they stop eventually even if they retain the plasmid or genes for it.
But you're absolutely right that this is a contradiction in healthcare under a profit motive. If research and production is for profit instead of for need - then we're hooped unless they get some miracle, which is what this late stage of capitalism seems to be pinning it's hopes on
beta-lactamases
are these the compounds that enable anti-biotic resistance?
One of them, yes! As an analogy, it's as if a tree secreted a substance that breaks apart the chain of the chainsaw
Yeah they cut at the active compound in most antibiotics (antibiotics usually inhibit cell wall formation in bacteria, they can't handle the osmotic pressure without a cell wall and more or less explode π€)
We've had a MDR fungus in one of the ICUs I work at 
Poor dude had to get half his face removed due to it, then it started growing on the other half, too. The only risk factor he had was diabetes, btw
Is any Kamen Rider any good as an adult? I'm in the mood for something light media-wise so I am curious about this series
Vape pen but instead of weed juice I fill it with pickle juice so I can get my fix any time anywhere
I've more thoughts like these I keep to myself since the world isn't ready for them
I actually want more chemicals in the water that make more frogs more gay
NSFW: DIY woodworking, frank BDSM and rough sex talk, and Christian blasphemy.
Last sunday I made an accessory to bondage play, with a sacrilege twist. It's since been stress-tested and it's holding together extremely well even for a prototype.
It started with an idea I got from a friend who's into succubus-fantasy play. She said she'd had a fantasy of playing a succubus who seduces a humble priest. I asked what if the priest turns it around, and "exorcises" the succubus by forcing them to wear a huge cross while the priest dominates them?
I had some spare good-quality 25mm hardwood dowel and various metal attachment hardware kicking around. This was the concept, and once I laid them on the floor I knew instantly that I hit on a fun idea.
Assembly was very simple. A bit of work with my new favourite tool, wood glue and dowel pins, lots of rounds of sanding and staining with a body-safe stain, and fitting the metal hardware and it was done. Super easy.
At first I was planning to do solid black, but as I did the multiple rounds of sanding and staining, I found I really liked the weathered look.
Of course I wanted the design to be symmetrical, so that the cross could either be right-side-up or upside-down depending on the play mood. It's roughly 30cm long excluding the metal hardware.
Iβll believe the ceasefire when I see it
A small child on the bus is super impressed by an expensive Audi... because the numbers on its number plate are a palindrome.
I guess my gf is out getting a tattoo and i hope she doesn't pick the dumb looking one (Sam Lake drew some spiral with an arrow pointing to the middle going "you are here" and i think it's a terrible, terrible tattoo idea because it looks like a child or a dementia patient attempting to draw a clock drew it, just this thin spiral drawn by a clearly unsteady hand) but i guess we'll see!
We finally got the capitol at my job consolidated. Or in other words, I don't have to drive from place to place anymore and I can bike to work again.
It's been wonderful.
Going back and watching Rogue One after Andor, it's so weird. Much more star war than andor
Had a dream Nintendo Switch released an emulator for a console I never heard of. And on this console was some kinda' Ranger X-like game 2D run 'n gun thing where you had a bunch of different characters and pods you could choose between and customize and you and the pod could combine or partially combine, for different weapon configurations and stuff, it was awesome. It also had like Ace Attorney-like cutscenes between stages.
I thought, "the people must know of this game" and was showing it off at some get together. My sister and a woman who was like Amy Ryan but with brown hair and short and tan came up and I was showing her too. I gave her the Switch and she kept bending it without breaking the screen to "get a better grip" and she gave me vibes like she wasn't super stable or wanting to hear someone tell her what to do so I tried being chill about it but I also didn't want her breaking my Switch. My sister got mad at me for some reason and took a fee steps away and wouldn't talk, neither would the Amy Ryan-lookalike, though she was still playing the game extremely suboptimally. She wasn't even using the transformation mechanic.
And during it a puffy stray cat came by and sat on my shoulder. We were sitting on an old, sunken-in couch until they left with just me with the Switch and the cat on my shoulder. I called out to them but they wouldn't come back from the crowd of people, asking what I did wrong.
Then I woke up.
The last bootleg feed I knew of for Trueanon (jumble.top I believe) seems to be down. A sad day when I can't get podcast slop for free but there's no world in which I am paying $5 a month for Trueanon, a podcast. Easy come easy go.
I am never giving Brace Belden money. I do not trust him with it.
Good luck not paying taxes in what's coming.
I'm at my city's annual hanami event and for some fucking reason for a good while there was just what sounded like generic movie trailer music blaring from the festival ground, who booked this shit
Edit: there is now Japanese music, sanity has been restored
I spend too much time on this damn app
life is unfair
Jesus Christ I just got jump scared by my neighbor irl lmao. In my kitchen there is a window that faces there house and they also have a window at there kitchen so I accidently made eye contact with one of them at fucking 1 am and I really hope I didn;t scare them as badly as they scared me lmao
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Is anyone else familiar with the experience of having people around you who love to hear you talk but don't actually give a shit about what you're saying?
It's the most infantilising thing. They'll go through the active listening motions but I can tell from their tone that they've checked out. Why the fuck did you ask me about the book I'm reading, or ask me for my take on world events, if you're just going to mhmm your way through the conversation and start folding laundry or whatever? Sometimes I just trail off midsentence and they don't even notice - they just respond with an, "...interesting!" a second later.
I put a lot of work into a tech political project recently, and in the early stages I had scraped a pile of politician's speeches in order to do some word analysis. I described it to a political friend who also works in tech and was met with, "I don't really get the point but it's really cool to see you so excited about something!"
Sometimes I find talking to strangers so much more validating because they have nothing to respond to except what I say.
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A lot of people just love small talk for some reason. I think they like the protocol of it more than the content. Do they go around telling people the same new story about something? The people in my life like that do that too, where they get a nee topic/event/story and repeat it to everyone.
Eh doesn't quite feel like that, as it's only people close to me who do this, and they rarely do any talking themselves. It really feels like they're just trying to show me love or be close to me in an abstract way, and not realizing that their disinterest in the subjects I care about is invalidating that.
It would be fine but it wastes my time and it's a big emotional letdown if I don't clue in soon enough and let myself get excited about something.
I know measles is spreading in the USA (sth like 11 states and 1k cases) but where is birdflu at rn?
Question for the people that are actually not afraid of talking to others. How should I ask people if they want to hang out? I haven't seen some friends in almost 7 months and I want to see them again. Should I just ask them if they want to get lunch or dinner somewhere? Thats what I think I might do tomorrow if I don't get so scared of talking
Just be aware that there are plenty of reasons to be unavailable so the chance of attendence is like 40-70%. It's not personal at all and if it was there'd be signs. The yes and no have little to do with how you present the idea so I'd just be clear with date, time, location, and purpose in the invitation
If they're friends you can just ask if they want to do something, yeah.
How about just telling them that you'll be somewhere, and letting them know they're invited if they want to join you?
How about, when we colonize Mars, instead of making factories and Martian corporations, instead of all that we could just have a little rave. Earth could be for animals and crops, the moon for mining, and a non-stop dance party on Mars.
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Did they fire the "hey have a plan before escalating shit" guy in usaid/cia it seems every other day an asshole in power decide to just crashout/go postal sloppily.