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    Today I Learned

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    TIL I can't drink a whole bloody mary because the ones Sport Corner makes are loaded with celery, a pickle, an olive, a shrimp, and a cheese cube and it's too filling.

    The first three sips are like "oh this is cool," and then after that it's like "nah this is just peppery alcoholic tomato juice." 7 dollars wasted :(

    Ranting ahead.

    in General Discussion

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    Of all people to piss me off with the whole "vaccinations are bad for you," I never thought one of them would be my former middle school science teacher.

    If the first thing that the source says is "the CDC pushes vaccines because the flu can be fatal, but that's not true" I'd advise you to re-evaluate the source. First of all, it was from some trashy tabloid/largely unknown news source. Which is the number one flag. Second of all, there have been a ton of false reports that claim to be backed up by Johns Hopkins University, but many and most of them are false. Just check snopes. This website doesn't even cite any papers or credible sources, other than an "exclusive interview with a professional."

    Unless it was published in a peer reviewed journal and the results have been replicated by other studies, you can't assume it's the definite answer to the question. One of the major reasons behind vaccinations is to prevent the spread of disease by susceptible people to others that have compromised immune systems. You know, the people that can't be vaccinated. And that thing about it not possibly being fatal is not true. The way most people know the flu today, they think of it as something that just comes and goes without much harm, but we live in a country with more developed health care. There can be complications that arise from it that can make chronic illnesses worse or actually be life threatening themselves, but since we live in a developed country with better health care than lesser developed countries, it's not something the public ever notices.

    I hope she doesn't have similar feelings on the MMR vaccines for children. Seriously, people make me sick with this stuff. We give children the MMR vaccine for a reason, and it's horrible enough that anti-vaccine parents that choose to not give it to them put their child's life at risk. It's a highly studied topic, and not a single study could repeat the results of the paper claiming that vaccines cause autism-- a paper that was retracted, by the way, for falsifying information, having too small of a sample size, and performing a study on children already showing signs of the autism spectrum. UGH so much damage done at the hands of a few influential people.

    What are you reading?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I finished The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke last week, so I started its sequel, The Pirate's Wish, the day before yesterday. Last night I stayed up too late just because I didn't want to put it down. ._.;

    Next up is Freedom by Daniel Suarez because I imagine I'll be done with The Pirate's Wish soon. Though I think she has another book called The Automaton's Treasure that I might check out.

    Songs Against Humanity

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    Yay!!!

    Um... Hm... I'm in the mood for... concert band/orchestral music but that may seem a bit open ended so...

    EPIC INSTRUMENTAL/CHORAL SOUNDTRACK MUSIC.

    That means it can be instrumental or choral or both, it doesn't matter.

    I also have high expectations for this

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