This isn’t even aged like milk. This is after the atrocities of WWI.
yay! a chance to highlight the historical depravity of the American military! here’s the full ad:
Brigadier General Amos Fries, Chief of the US Army Chemical Warfare Service, was the leading advocate for the post-war promotion of deadly chemical compounds as having utility in medical treatments. in the years following WW1, Fries and his military colleagues came up with the big brained idea of repurposing chemical weapons technology for civilian application with the purpose of preserving the department and growing public support for its continued existence. one of their insane claims was that chlorine gas, a deadly weapon used just years prior in battle, could actually be used as a cure for colds, coughs, and other respiratory illnesses.
Fries claimed that controlled exposure to chlorine gas provided immediate relief for respiratory patients and boasted that 65-80% of those treated stopped coughing right away. the campaign gained steam within the US government, which lead to experimental treatment sessions where patients, including then-president Calvin Coolidge, were exposed to chlorine gas in enclosed chambers. this is today believed to have partly contributed to his death.
the New York Times and other publications reported on the experiments, but they were often presenting overly optimistic assessments of their efficacy. the medical community remained skeptical, and doctors outright opposed the treatments as reckless and unproven.
predictably, research results failed to support Fries’ claims. a 1924 study conducted in New York found the treatment was mostly ineffective, with only 6.5% of patients reporting improvement. moreover, the study raised concerns about long-term harm, since chlorine gas is a known lung irritant and had caused horrific injuries in veterans on both sides of the conflict. by the end of 1925, the New York health department declared the treatment an “unqualified failure” which basically put the nail in the coffin of that idea. but not before managing to shorten the president’s lifespan.
the hype for chlorine gas as a medical remedy was pretty obviously more about justifying the Chemical Warfare Service’s existence in post-war America (it still exists today) than about scientific discovery or whatever. Fries and the military framed their efforts as a contribution to public health, but had quite literally no empirical support to back it up. the media at the time ran with it anyway.
Fries’ legacy is also intact, btw. he was the first US military personnel inducted into the “ordnance hall of fame” and despite the his lies and pushing fucking chlorine gas as a medicinal treatment, he is still seen as a prolific figure in US military circles for advancing the prevalence of American chemical warfare (????)
These images were taken in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, likely shortly before the start of the Philippine-American War, in 1898-99. They are part of an album that documents the experiences of Frank Freeman Atkinson, Sergeant in Battery D, US Army.
The Philippine-American War broke out when the United States annexed the Philippines after the Spanish–American War, which began when the Philippines revolted against Spanish rule, rather than acknowledging the Philippines’ declaration of independence. The war resulted in over 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly due to disease and famine. Some estimates go as high as one million civilian deaths. After several delays, the United States eventually granted full Philippine independence in 1946 through the Treaty of Manila.
This GFM is fraudulent, as it claims to be raising funds for the Beneficiary with statements such as: “legal defense fund pays attorney fees and court costs” and “mounting medical bills” yet his employer, the Federal Government, will cover his legal defense and offers him and his family full medical coverage. The GFM Organizer has also admitted to having no affiliation with the Beneficiary and has not been in contact with him. This breaks the GFM terms of service 8.2: “Fundraisers that are fraudulent, misleading, inaccurate, dishonest or impossible.” Additionally, this GFM breaks terms of service: “8.10. the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes or crimes against minors.” These funds are fraudulent and a celebration of murder and a great risk to GFM’s reputation that must be stopped.
between this fundraiser and another one on "givesendgive” around $600,000 has been raised. Please help prevent this man from getting a half-million dollar prize for shooting Renee Nicole Good in the head.
Op made the post unrebloggable lol but I want to add that this is actually a very good way to learn any languages. Hell, I do this with my own mother tongue too
You should turn all those words into flash cards. I recommend using Anki to do so.
i’m reading a book about seventh century northumbria and you’ve heard of the tiffany problem but let me tell you there is nothing quite like reading through 350 pages calibrating for names like Oswiu and Æthelfrith and Paeda and Ecgfrith and Eanflæd and then getting smacked in the face with the fucking Bishop Chad
Chad and Tiffany, just as big a deal in the 1980s as they were in the 980s
“You could get up early and do it before work” I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let’s focus on things that happen in the real world
Hey guys I made a pride flag for when your gender is nobody else’s fucking business! Check it out!
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I wanna formally thank @theunsubtleknife for the ID, because I spent a good thirty seconds waiting for this to load before sulkily scrolling on, thinking I would have to refresh my feed.
I actually think the real advantage tumblr has over other websites is the ability of “reblogging” to create posts with contributions from multiple users. This allows people to build on others’ posts, whether that’s derailing them with a terrible joke, drawing the scenario proposed as a comic, answering the question posed originally in lively essay format, or rewriting the previous interaction as a scene in Shakespearean iambic pentameter.
This is also why Tumblr is hard to make profitable. Individual users have relatively little power to create good content. It’s interactions between users that actually creates the good content, and therefore, no one involved in the good stuff on Tumblr can really claim to “own” it or be the “creator.”
Posts have to navigate through Tumblr to pick up the people that can add to them in a constructive way, and then when users interact, the whole interaction can spread across the website as a new evolution of the content. There’s no way to simplify this process.
Theres a whole ecosystem running here. It’s not as simple as Creators and Consumers, and you can’t simplify it to that. That’s not how ART works, let alone posts. There’s symbiosis. The users that do the nitrogen fixation aren’t the ones photosynthesizing. The detritivores can’t also be the predators. The “rappers doing normal shit blog” has a different niche than the person that asks why Lil Wayne has socks on in the jacuzzi, who has a different niche than the person who says “those are his hooves, you bitch!”
It’s like bioavailability, you see. The user that responds “Those are his hooves, you bitch” is like a predator on a high trophic level, unable to directly feed on producers, needing primary consumers to convert the post into a form that makes a punch line possible.
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Enter THE HOTEL OF THE MINDSCAPE.
HOTEL I think the sole advantage of this place, This hellish, warping, twisted tumbler, Lies buried in collaborative art. When sings again the song, another may The words repeat, and add upon their tale. To make a jest, or illustrate the piece, To answer, mock, or Shakespearificate.
This, too, is why ‘tis hard to draw out gold: Thou cannot draw a pail from show'ring rain, Thou cannot catch the desert in a net, And, similar, thou cannot find the source Of so-called “content” when 'tis all around.
When written first, a song begins its life, But not the whole of art it has within – To breathe the air of life and light and wit It must be shared, improved, attached upon, And then, at last, the multi-headed beast Can reach its full potential in its song.
This place is like a forest, ground to leaf, With bears and fish and bees and trees and worms. 'Tis not the simple “made, and then consumed”, For, truly, art 'tis never simply that. There’s symbiosis in these darkened woods, There’s ebb and flow, the predator and prey: When songs are written of the Little Wayne, And of his hot tub stocking hooves most fine, The gentles here who say “they’re hooves, you bitch” Are just as vital as the author’s song. Each word in verse is sung by someone new, And in this way, the poem comes to fruit.
For though the wolf who stalks across the heath Takes diff'rent station than the grass beneath, Still, both are needed in this wood we carve, For with no grass for sheep, the wolves would starve.
Enter FALSE PUCHIKO, the CLOWN.
CLOWN 'Tis well and truly said, Madame Hotel, But please consider this riposte: a cock.
This is a old post and I have never seen this addition. Brilliant.
it’s crucial that you untie “special interest” from “expertise”. “it’s true just trust me bro” doesn’t have any extra weight when you add “I know because it’s my special interest”. you are not immune from falling for misinformation, and you are not immune from sharing misinformation. not to mention the fact that “amount of knowledge” isn’t even a requirement for something being classified as a special interest lol!
Curating knowledge does not mean you know how to evaluate it. Period.
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory
