i googled this on a whim and the first thing i get is nyt race science
just as an FYI for those who don't know - the NYT publishes things that are lowkey eugenics and phrenology and race science CONSTANTLY. it flies under the radar except for journalism twitter calling them out but the NYT SUCKS. it is very hard to encourage people to find reliable sources online when the "reliable sources" like papers of record do shit like this, and the NYT is one of the WORST offenders.
The symptoms to look out for are fever, rash, headache, body aches, swollen lymph nodes, general GI symptoms and a crusty nasty looking area around the bite. Not all of these symptoms may be present but if you were bitten by a chigger in North Carolina and you don’t feel well, go to the doctor. Antibiotics can clear it right up but if left untreated, the fatality rate can be 40% for some strains.
Here’s a map of the places tested and the places where chiggers were found to be infected:
(Also, because I saw this in the notes, typhoid and typhus are radically different diseases. Typhoid is caused by salmonella and usually transferred through contaminated food and water while typhus is caused by several different bacteria and typically transferred by insect bite.)
Ice delivery man in Houston, TX circa 1920 Check this blog!
why did he eat this
#the hip pop… the cigarettes in the hat…#how many kids from pre-electric refrigeration look suspiciously like this guy I wonder…#POV: You are a bored housewife whose husband is constantly away on business trips and barely looks at you when he gets home#and this guy is rolling up to your house on like a weekly basis with a block of ice and his WWI thousand yard stare
Historian finishing a dissertation on the ice industry here. For once, I am not here to take away your joy!
“Oh no, the ice man is too sexy and he’s going to fuck my wife while I’m not home” was a legit moral panic for DECADES. So much so that if you were fancy, you could get an icebox built into your wall so the dirty, sexy ice man didn’t have to come inside your house with your delicate, impressionable wife.
This pic is going in the diss if I can chase down the correct citation for it.
i would not have any qualms about the ice man penetrating my wife because I am a feminist
after inputting some complex algorithms into my super computer i’ve determined what tumblr will look like in the year 2020
i love how this comes back after every shitty update staff makes
Sharecropping.
FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.
the like to reblog ratio being almost the same is so funny, people are NOT happy with at this update lmao
women should lift weights because it prevents osteoporosis in old age and makes you a more capable person in everyday life please shut up about butts and waists and hourglasses i'm going to fucking kill
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genuine question from someone who would rather chew their arm off than go to a public gym, and also doesnt have a lot of money: how do you safely get into strength training? are there youtube channels, apps (android), etc anyone recommends that makes it approachable and don't lean into diet culture / body shaming?
also the biggest thing that keeps me from working out is that I already have joint and spinal issues and moving the wrong way can fuck up a knee or a shoulder or my spine for days. I really don't want to injure myself, and have unwittingly done so before. resources that are extremely clear on exactly how to move and offer gentler / alternative ways to move for people with limited range are vital.
Okay, so this may not technically be strength training, but muscles are dumber than bricks and cannot tell the difference between your own bodyweight and actual weights.
So, may I recommend:
He runs a YouTube channel where he goes over how to work your way up to more complex exercises (for instance, his pull-ups videos start with using a door jamb and moving your weight back and forth) so it's good for easing yourself into things.
You also don't have to fork out for expensive weights and such if you don't want to/can't. Substitute with stuff you either already have at home or can get from the supermarket and build up the weight you can exercise with. 500 gram cans of butter beans then 750 gram bottles of pasta sauce. 1 litre drink bottle then your 1.5 litre milk bottle. 3 litre bulk-buy bottle of laundry detergent. Etc. One of my dogs weighs 13 kilos and I pick her up on the regular (to her delight). One weighs 16 kg and I pick him up too (to his consternation and mild disapproval). You don't have to fit out some fancy home gym before you can start strength training.
I second Hybrid Calisthenics, that's the program I use. It's run by one guy who's taken it upon himself to make exercising more accessible and it's completely free! Each exercise has different variations based on your ability and each variation is further divided into different levels of difficulty so you can work up to where you want to be. If you can't do a single push up for example then this program will help you work up to the point where you can, and if you're a master of push ups then there are more advanced body weight exercises you can tackle so you can keep moving forward in your training without stagnating. The routine offers a full body workout with absolutely no equipment required for the beginning levels. The only reason you would need to buy anything is if you want to work up to a full pull up, at which point you would need actual pull up rings
Here's his actual website which I feel is easier to navigate than the YouTube channel on its own and organizes things in a way that's easy to understand. He explains everything you need to know about the routine and each individual exercise has both a text description and a video tutorial
Okay, this is going to blow some of your minds, but I'm going to introduce you to a concept that's going to save you so much time in arguing with strangers on the internet: Sometimes "the same thing" is not the same thing. Yeah, on a first glance that sounds like it doesn't make any sense at all, but let me explain:
When people say things that are worded as universal general statements, and you know that the thing they said is not always correct, stop yourself for a moment before you correct them and ask yourself a few questions: Is the example you know of statistically more common than the example currently being discussed? How likely is it that the person you are correcting does not know that your example existed? Sometimes when people aren't aware that something exists, they don't do that on purpose, and aren't claiming that the thing you know exists doesn't exist at all.
You don't even need to scan for every single possible situation to evaluate whether someone's claim is valid, just consider whether it's true or false in the specific incident being discussed. Are there factors present in this specific situation that would make this claim true or false? Because sometimes there are elements present in the conversation that aren't explicitly stated, but the speaker assumes everyone else present understands to be present without explicitly stating them, and those elements can make something that would otherwise be the same thing not be the same thing. This is called "context", and it's very useful in conversations with humans.
If you hear someone saying "letting children that age get tattoos is so irresponsible" and want to correct them, pause and consider: Does this person know that there are indigenous cultures in which being tattooed with traditional cultural symbols, wards against evil, or marks of the tribe is a common and honoured practice? How likely is it that they are simply unaware of these people, and did not specifically intend to imply that these entire cultures of people are irresponsible parents? Do you need to argue whether the act of giving a child a tattoo is always the same thing, or is there context present that would make this particular situation not be the same thing?
Because sometimes, someone casually saying that letting a 10-year-old get a tattoo is not deliberately dismissing the entire existence of indigenous cultures around the world. They are still talking about the white woman who let her 10-year-old daughter get a playboy bunny logo on her chest at the back of a trailer in rural Arkansas.
