Columbia has DUMPED student belongings in a FUCKING. ALLEYWAY. pic.twitter.com/AlTsYH03nz

— *tired screaming* 🇵🇸 (@Ruth_Mensch) April 18, 2024

Part 1.

https://twitter.com/cybersebb/status/1781009396073419045

Wonder how many people I’m gonna piss off with this post… 😂 pic.twitter.com/61ofX4Yshe

— Tiffany Gomas (@Tiffany_Gomas) April 17, 2024

Feet slightly hidden

yes i posted this for our resident !coomers

(love that reddit has become a generic trademark for unfunny)

(TIL souls in the two lower heavens in Mormonism lose their genitals)

Here's what they're talking about:

It's not even "body type" anymore, you're just a weird enby blob no matter what you do

I'm trans and these new avatars are literally what I look like IRL 😭 I wanna escape reality with this game, not be faced with the hard truth that my body is a deformed mess 😔

i honestly feel this exact same way, i loved my character actually looking fem, not a weird mad body with a chest 😭😭😭

Non-binary transmasc and I'm not even having a good time with it, my poor avatar is all lumpy, squat, and chesty now, idk how to make him like before :(

Also not cis, transmasc. I don't know what it is but the fact that I can't make it look like “me” is REALLY bothering me. None of the clothes look the way I want them too, and I feel like half the outfits just make it… obvious that I'm female? If that makes sense??? It's hard to explain. It literally drags all my insecurities front and center

this fr. they took everything I enjoyed presenting femininely, along with forcing awful proportions. managing to go from affirming to disturbing is something else.

Will this finally make devs stop uglifying your avatar options? Will the boob slider come back? !g*mers !chuds

Very strange out of left-field update to make everyone suddenly a blob for no reason.

https://twitter.com/grummz/status/1780966754996629881

The @PokemonGoApp removed gender from all Pokemon Go! players yesterday

Thank God, finally we can just pick style, like it's written in the bible Can anyone confirm? I don't really trust Mark Kern for an even handed take, but…

https://twitter.com/grummz/status/1780987222835232771

GaymerX

The main GO subreddit is angry. Of all places, I expected reddit to be happy everyone is trans.

Please roll back this atrocious update.

Luckily, someone discovered the reason for this update:

So what was the reasoning for this update?

https://twitter.com/MxKestrel https://mxkestrel.com/inclusivity-diversity

HAHAAHAHAHA

Looks like they made people fat, too, which is something I saw people saying on /v/, but who knows. All that matters is they need you to see a theyfab crotch.

Pro tip: leaving small pokemon to defend gyms while wearing a skirt allows you to show off your crack

It's Beaver Time

Is this NSFW? Who knows, all that matters is it gives you vicarious gender euphoria

The entire GO subreddit is pooping on or making fun of the game, there's too much to post it all. From people posting how they're suddenly big chungus to becoming transwomen. You can even be Tyler1.

There is a largish thread on the main Pokemon sub, but most of them don't care and would rather post about making something with legos or whatever.

I feel like they made male models, and then said, well if we add boobs this will work for women too.

It's awful. There are no masculine faces in the game. And the “buff” physiques just give you boobs

What soy protein does to a MF.

God forbid a woman has shape […]

(OP)This!! I'm fine with adding more body types but don't take away this one!

Yes, I'm taking this out of context to mislead because it's funnier that way.

Let's take a look at the game's twitter…

Had to vote to see the tallies, so I stayed sigma centrist and said “mid.”

https://twitter.com/pokemongohubnet/status/1780727610160402621

The replies with people posting their abominations are great.

There's even more replies to their first announcement, so enjoy.

https://twitter.com/pokemongohubnet/status/1780703672743407854

Admittedly, she is one my favourite feminists and scholars so I do have a soft spot for her even I don't agree with all her arguments. Catharine is a feminist law professor whose work has focused on civil rights. Her most influential work has been in the field of sexual harassment and has had a considerable impact on laws regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and in education. Consequently, her book titled Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of S*x Discrimination, published in 1978, is one of the most academically cited American legal texts.

Before we begin, I should provide a few definitions beforehand. Erotica is a broad term that covers a host of erotic art including nude photography, erotic literature and many other mediums each with their own conventions and degrees of explicitness. MacKinnon defines pornography as a subcategory of erotica which serves to subordinate women. To explain it more clearly, here is MacKinnon speaking for herself.

For her, pornography is an enactment of male sexual dominance over women. What should be noted about her definition, as Encyclopaedia Britannica points out, is that “The distinction between pornography (illicit and condemned material) and erotica (which is broadly tolerated) is largely subjective and reflects changing community standards”

Typically, anti-pornography stances are based on religious objections and moral disgust at sexual behaviour individuals find personally offensive. However, MacKinnon takes a much different route, one I consider worthy of consideration even if I don't entirely agree with it. One of the biggest influences of MacKinnon's views has to do with her experiences she's had legally representing women who have been harmed while working in the porn industry. One of the most famous examples of this is Susan Boreman who in 1972, starred in the pornographic film Deep Throat under the pseudonym Linda Lovelace. The film became one of the highest grossing x-rated films at the time. However, years later Susan Boreman came forward with allegations that the director, Chuck Traynor, has abused her during filming. Furthermore, she claimed that she was forced to do several scenes against her will, with Chuck standing with an M16 rifle pointed at her just off camera. Furthermore, she claims that in the film, bruises from her abuse could be seen. Such cases have caused MacKinnon to state that pornography differs from other sources of media in that what is depicted may be fantasy, but it requires actual women to be subjected to the acts being seen. In other words, porn is done to women. As MacKinnon writes: “with pornography, men masturbate to women being exposed, humiliated, violated, degraded, mutilated, dismembered, bound, gagged, tortured, and killed. In the visual materials, they experience this being done by watching it being done.” She continues by writing “As an initial matter, it should be observed that it is the pornography industry, not the ideas in the materials, that forces, threatens, blackmails, pressures, tricks, and cajoles women into s*x for pictures. In pornography, women are gang r*ped so they can be filmed. They are not gang r*ped by the idea of a gang r*pe. It is for pornography, and not by the ideas in it, that women are hurt and penetrated, tied and gagged, undressed and genitally spread and sprayed with lacquer and water so s*x pictures can be made.” MacKinnon also makes that claim, without providing a source, that “all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on s*x, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children”.

Although pornography is a subcategory of prostitution, the kind of widespread research Farley provides from prostitution isn't available for pornography. Thus, we cannot be sure that MacKinnon is talking about token cases, or whether she is describing what the majority of what the industry does. Consequently, one can find numerous cases of women within the industry speaking both positively and negatively about pornography. For the sake of fair representation, I shall display two camps from within the industry talking about their industry.

On the negative side, a porn actress has recently accused a popular porn production company of sexual assault and abuse during one of her shoots. She claims she was choked, slapped and thrown against a wall until she bled. In 2015, several porn actresses came forth with numerous claims that James Deen had r*ped and sexually assaulted them during filming. There are also testimonials from ex pornstars who document several cases of humiliation and abuse on porn sets. However, for every negative story, there are several positive cases of women who claim they feel empowered by porn and find it to be a fun occupation. It is for these reasons that I hesitate to agree with MacKinnon summaries of the entire industry. There simply needs to be more research. If one is interested in the topic, I would strongly suggest the documentary ‘Hot Girls Wanted' produced by Rashida Jones which offers a relatively objective and neutral look into the porn industry.

So, what I do wish to focus on with regards to her anti-porn arguments lie with her discussions of pornography as free-speech. According to MacKinnon, pornography, at least in the United States is protected as free speech. Because of this, there is a belief that all free speech should be protected lest we fall victim to tyranny. She sums up the argument as such:

“The evil to be avoided is government restricting ideas because it disagrees with the content of their political point of view. The terrain of struggle is the mind; the dynamic at work is intellectual persuasion; the risk is that marginal, powerless, and relatively voiceless dissenters, with ideas we will never hear, will be crushed by governmental power. This has become the "speech you hate" test: the more you disagree with content, the more important it becomes to protect it. You can tell you are being principled by the degree to which you abhor what you allow. The worse the speech protected, the more principled the result. There is a faith that truth will prevail if left alone, often expressed in an openly competitive laissez-faire model taken from bourgeois economics and applied to the expressive marketplace: the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor. The marketplace becomes the battlefield when we are assured that truth will prevail”

MacKinnon problematizes this by arguing that although free speech exists, not everyone has equal amounts of free speech. Furthermore, the privileged have louder free speech or ‘more' free speech. Thus, in the case of pornography, subordinated women's bodies become the free-speech of porn producers (almost always male of course). Secondly, she questions why some forms of speech are banned when they target marginalized groups yet pornography does the same thing. In other words, hanging a noose in front of black person's lawn or burning a cross are all forms of free speech which conveys ideas. So is sticking a ‘whites only' sign in front of a store. However, these are regarded as prohibited forms of speech using a kind of rationale that isn't extended to pornography. MacKinnon argues that the free speech of pornography sends the message that women are to be subordinated. She writes “at stake in constructing pornography as "speech" is gaining constitutional protection for doing what pornography does: subordinating women through s*x.” MacKinnon argues that pornography, if it is speech, is a kind of speech (much like racism) that is harmful to society. She writes “Social inequality is substantially created and enforced-that is, done-through words and images.” Thus, by displaying women in subordinated positions, pornography conveys the message in society that women are second-class citizens that exist for the sexual pleasure of men. Now, for this claim, MacKinnon may in fact have evidence on her side. A study by Maree Crabbe which looked at the most popular porn found that 88% of it depicted physical aggression. Of this 88%, 94% of physical aggression was directed towards women. So what message does such ‘free speech' convey? According to MacKinnon, “the message of these materials, and there is one, as there is to all conscious activity, is ‘get her,'”.

The second aspect of MacKinnon's arguments which I wish to discuss concern the effects of pornography on society. MacKinnon claims “Pornography makes the world a pornographic place through its making and use, establishing what women are said to exist as, are seen as, are treated as, constructing the social reality of what a woman is and can be in terms of what can be done to her, and what a man is in terms of doing it.”

Now, there is an interesting phenomenon I want to discuss. When the influences of media on society are brought up, there is often a pushback. The argument is typically as such: ‘I know how to separate fantasy from reality, thus it is ridiculous to claim that media makes people do things'. On the surface, the argument is true. In most cases, adults can distinguish fiction from real life and it is also true that one cannot hold media accountable for the actions that they commit. However, within this there is an often overlooked fact that media doesn't outright control so much as it surreptitiously influences and, furthermore, individuals who believe that they are immune to this are often most at risk. It is often claimed that video games, movies etc don't contribute to violence. However, when one does even the most cursory research, we find that the complete opposite is true. There is in fact an almost unanimous agreement among experts that what we consume affects our beliefs and actions. If this were not the case, a multi-billion dollar advertising industry would not exist and propaganda would not be the dangerous weapon it is. In an article by Craig Anderson et al we learn that:

“Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behaviour in both immediate and long-term contexts

This isn't limited to violence. Another study by Todd Heatherton et al found that:

• Compared to adolescents with low exposure to smoking in movies, those with high exposure are about three times as likely to try smoking or become smokers.

Yet many laymen still believe that media doesn't influence people. To explain this phenomenon in the face of an unquestionable scientific consensus, Brad Bushman et al posits that

• One reason is people think the media have a much stronger effect on others than on themselves—called the third person effect (Davison, 1983)

In other words, everyone thinks that they are the exception. More than just media having an impact on society, there is evidence that pornography itself has permeated society. According to Maree Crabbe, among “13–16 year olds in Australian schools, 93 per cent of males and 62 per cent of females had seen pornography online”. For many of these young children, porn will serve as one of the only sources of s*x-ed, which is a frightening thought. Maree writes, “porn has become a central mediator of young people's sexual understandings and experiences. Young people are exposed to porn at unprecedented rates. Many young people discover porn before they've encountered s*x. They are seeing it more frequently, through more media, and what they are seeing is harder and more aggressive. Young people are living in an era of new sexual expectations, acceptance and practices […] There is evidence that many young people are enacting porn scripts.”. Part of the issue is that porn catalogues women according to their race and body parts – in other words, this is peak objectification where women are merely the sum of their parts. This is problematic because, as MacKinnon points out “Sexual objectification is the primary process of the subjection of women”. She also adds that this objectification is far from different to the worker alienation described within Marxist theory.

Now if porn does create a misogynistic society, an opposition to pornography becomes a little more of a reasonable idea. For instance, oppositions to confederate statues in USA are often based on the grounds that the existence of these statues contribute to creating a society where African Americans are degraded every time they are forced to walk past them. In fact, similar arguments are made in South Africa regarding colonial statues. In other words, what these statues say is conducive to a white supremacist society. Could those same arguments be transferred to pornography? Does the proliferation of pornography create a male supremacist society? This is a very difficult question and, of the four horsewomen, I'd argue that MacKinnon poses some of the most troublesome ideas to wrap our heads around.

One criticism of MacKinnon and her theory is that it falsely categorizes r*pe as s*x. In other words, porn depicts s*x and thus could have nothing to do with r*pe. This is a rehashing of the “r*pe is about power” mantra. MacKinnon outlines these criticisms by writing that “some feminists have encouraged and participated in this type of analysis by conceiving r*pe as violence not s*x”. The problem with this, as MacKinnon points out, is that it fails to account for the fact that for some men, the force and violence in r*pe is arousing and sexually satisfying. Sexual sadists do exist. A huge deal of criticism towards MacKinnon has also come from Judith Butler. Summing up MacKinnon's views, in Excitable Speech, Butler writes: “In Only Words (1993) pornography ought to be construed as a kind of ‘wound' according to MacKinnon, because it proclaims and effects the subordinated status of women.” Butler's problem with this is that by insisting that pornography is subordinating, it limits the ability to rearticulate the hate speech as something that isn't subordinating. As Moya Lloyd summarises, “Dworkin, MacKinnon and Helms are, for Butler, actively and somewhat ironically engaged in rearticulating and reinvigorating the very discourses they seek to repudiate” (114-5). Thus, Butler argues that “keeping such terms unsaid and unsayable can also work to lock them in place, preserving their power to injure”. If one is familiar with Butler's work, it becomes clear that Butler very much favours rearticulation, that is, disrupting the relationship between signifiers and signifieds. Now, broadly speaking, I agree with Butler's theory. However, I feel as though examples of successful rearticulation of hate speech are few and far between. Language and symbols change over time, but hate speech seems to be very resistant to change. Hate speech such as BIPOC and queer are said to be rearticulated and have been used in different contexts, yet it's plainly obvious that after all these years they still carry their injurious power. In terms of pornography, there have been attempts to rearticulate it. Some feminists have championed feminist pornography which features female directors, sets to depict genuine female sexual pleasure and seeks to subverts the harmful tropes of traditional pornography. Furthermore, with the proliferation of webcams, amateur pornography which is not dependent on large corporations has been allowed to flourish, enabling a variety of pornography which strays from heteronormative and subordinating depictions of women.

So, in closing, I'd like to ask the rest of you: In light of everything I've said, considering the fact that 84% of pornography depicts physical aggression (the vast majority of it directed towards women) does pornography create a pornified society? Is pornography, as it exists today, the proliferation of hate speech? Can pornography be rehabilitated to promote a healthier kind of sexuality?

For further reading, I would suggest MacKinnon's text Only Words as well as her excellent article titled “Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State” which, for me at least, has offered one of the most definitive outlinings of the purpose of feminism and what its methodology for action should be. It also brings up my discomfort regarding the relationship between capitalism and feminism.

!g*mers !chuds

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As long as every item gets scanned, what's the problem? Dude is way out of line and this needs to go up the chain. But... I just gotta say .. buying that many cases that often is wild to me. It's your money to spend how you please, but you leave other collectors (casual or super into it) empty handed. Then you sell the pieces for inflated prices on Mercari... All because someone couldn't make it to the cases faster than you? You're selling the yellow bellied slider turtle for $80 ?!?! Just yuck. All those cases and all those sets sitting in your house (~1200 Mercari listings) collecting dust could have been enjoyed by so many different people in your area. But nope. You're reselling for insane price gouging amounts and justifying it because you bought them for Instagram content? (90)

I run a shop and make YouTube videos. I'm not just buying them for fun.And i went to 48 stores to find TWO turtles. It took me sixteen weeks traveling five states with my hubby for work. I'm sorry you don't like it, but I'm not scalping. If i even charged to cover the GAS i spent- to say NOTHING of the time .. they would be over $400. But i did it because my customers were begging me to find a handful of series 1 WAY after they all retired. You don't have to agree; but i didn't just sit on a bunch of older things until they became rare.... I physically went out there and worked my butt off to find just a couple of them well after they had retired literally all across the country. I don't think it's even remotely unfair to be charging what I am considering the amount of work that both my husband and I put in to going to every Dollar general, Walmart, Target, Five Below, Walgreens, and a handful of other stores- just to find the few that we found. We found two outside of DC- and 11 bal... (-27)

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Yeah... I'm really sympathetic because absolutely no one should be treated like this, but I'm so bummed hearing this is kind of the standard collector/reseller practices. Someone has been cleaning out all the targets in my area like this, buying everything new by the case, which means casual collectors with not a lot of money like me just don't even get a chance at the new stuff. (36)

I love people spreading rumors like I'm not the one that was sharing the weights with everyone MONTHS before anyone knew about the pinholes.And the only way I GOT those weights was by getting cases - weufhing them and sharing my results- for FREE on non monetized social media for MONTHS ON END.I LOVE people calling me a scalper when i sold THIRTY TWO turtles and 46 goldfish - all for under $21-$23 (back when Mercari fees cost me $14.70 to sell every $9.99 own).No one that was BEGGING me to find them all the balls they wanted had no problem paying $14-16 for the ones the wanted with no chance of doubles, but yeah, I'm really a monster.Why? Because after SIX MONTHS i tracked down FIFTEEN total wave 1 lifestyles by going from store to store to store over a FIVE STATE RADIUS (From South Jersey, md, nj, pa, ny, de and ct are all within 2-4 hours)- and i personally (despite being disabled) ran in and out of store after store with a baby strapped to my chest that i was pumping for...But ye... (-31)

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Dang, I looked through their Mercari, and they sold the goldfish one for $120 (but still have another for $145) and the promo espresso (the one on the box) without resin for $13. I don't think ANYONE should lay hands on anyone, but are these toys really bringing out this kind of behavior from employees and OP? Absolutely no one looks good here. (34)

Actually, i fill the espresso resin with my own- AND send every one of my customers freebies with every single order. Take a look at my feedback and tell me what a shitty person i am. (-22)

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Lmao... You're so unhinged. Maybe sell it at a normal price? Donate it? Run a free craft pop up using your ~1200 listings for kids in your community? Maybe try not to be such a massive over consumer buying entire cases? I couldn't even "do the work" if I wanted to because you bought all the darn product 🤣🤣You're trying to get sympathy posting this everywhere you can... And I hope that in each place, your shady habits get called out or people point them to these comments (20)

Right. DONATE the item i drove around looking for for three months, instead of charging a reasonable amount to compensate for the time and gas i spent to find and buy it.I hate to break it to you... But Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Party City, Dollar General and literally EVERY store on the planet charges a markup on EVERY SINGLE item they sell - because they make it "convenient' for people to buy shit all in one place.But a disabled mother of two does the EXACT same thing - on a SINGLE product after charging nearly no makeup on thousands of items for two years... But I'm "s a vile selfish scalper."When the customer that bought a bunch of items backed out of the last purchase - y'all told me that i should have "donated" it. Instead of posting that SINGLE ITEM that i looked for, for months - for sale so someone could buy it and complete thier collection.... I should have DONATED IT.The fact that I "donate" nearly $60k a year to kids and families in need by running ProjectChristmasNJ e... (1)

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OP, do you regularly act like this when you're told no? This is unhinged and could be such a non-issue if you just accepted the fact that they said no the first time you asked. Regardless of corporate policy, I can think of multiple reasons this store might not allow customers to take the display boxes off the top of my head. You also mentioned that this has escalated to employees taking the boxes out of your cart before. It sounds like you continue to ignore this rule and attempt to take it anyways? If you're still taking the boxes after being told you cannot, that IS theft. To be clear, you're not buying a case. You are buying individual Miniverse balls. They do not sell them by the case. You have zero entitlement to the box it comes in, regardless of what other stores allow. It's nobody's fault but your own if you didn't bring your own bags or box for this. You also said you were assaulted by Julian, am I missing something?? I tried listening to the entire video but it's really l... (20)

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.... You do realize when they first come out that you don't know what's in the case until you've bought a full one right...?And to actually get a good average on the weights that I gave out for free for years to help people avoid buying doubles who don't have the money to spend on a ton of collectibles.... That I often bought at least two or three cases so that I could be sure that my weights were accurate.... But... Yeah, I totally see how that's super selfish...It's not like everything I'm saying is completely provable by going back and looking at years of my history on Instagram... (-15)

Remember to breathe here lady I get your point but you are starting to just sound angry at everyone regardless of what they are saying and it's not helping your case. Just bc a lot of these people sound harsh and kinda rude ( but I see their point too up to a certain extent) doesn't mean you need to too. I was always told you catch more flies with honey then you do with vinegar— meaning if you need or want people on your side or whatever then you need to be as polite as possible. And getting mad isn't helping. I'm sorry just saying what I'm seeing. But I don't see most of the prices you listed were that terribly bad. (6)

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Yeah maybe don’t be a rape apologist while working for child safety pic.twitter.com/pJB1Hxgj6Y

— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee) April 18, 2024

I've come to the conclusion that your semen is your soul.

When you're drained of it, your personality shrinks, you have nothing interesting to contribute, you have no passion for anything, you have no direction, you're waiting for days to pass.

When you're full of it, you're creative, interesting, excited, witty, and ready to conquer the world.

It is obvious to me now that we are bodies with souls trapped inside. Our semen is the life of that soul. When we procreate, we pass part of our soul on into the future. When we retain, the strength of our soul grows.

https://instagram.com/reel/C4GuBsIrZWL/

This one is even more hilarious

But the concept is that when people get in troubles that start believing in magic in hope to find hope so charlatan like him can milk people dry like for example those kind of people were everywhere in 90ties Japan (after bubble crisis), ex Soviet Union countries in 90ties and etc

https://instagram.com/reel/C5HHvIvrtNv/

Legit such sad laugh

Imagine giving money to this fat frick in skinny jeans

Alert

Crazy autist twoxer making 30 plus comments on SRD in the last hour

https://old.reddit.com/user/Medium_Sense4354/

She continues

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1c6y1hh/comment/l05gp3a/?context=8&sort=controversial

Admits being a femcel and finds a friend

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1c6y1hh/comment/l062w45/?context=8&sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/user/DarkestofFlames/

I'm looking forward to the vaccine deniers taking a stand on this one, considering the high mortality rate. A thinning-the-herd event in the making.

Lmfao nothing with a mortality rate above 50% is spreading worth a darn. Besides, as with the coof blue collar working !chuds will be healthy enough to withstand the illness where as "doubled my body weight in college and never lost a pound since" office worker nonchuds will die in scores.

The Covid vaccine doesn't do squat except give people unwanted side effects. I developed eye floaters and tinnitus from the 2 shots.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-vaccine-side-effects-tinnitus-may-linked-inflammation-rcna80675

A week after my mother took the jab her foot started to swell up for about 2 weeks. It happened after each booster as well. She hasn't taken the jab for 1 1/2 years and hasn't since had the issue.

I got chest pains and passed out during a preworkout a few days after my shot. Never got another.

Yeahhhhh imma ignore this panic bs

As based as he is downvoted. After covid I'm never taking another plague seriously ever again, not giving those c*nts in power the chance to lock us down again.

Alot of people did that at the start of covid. :]

And they were right too and should've kept doing it.

As someone who keeps chickens for pets, this terrifies me. I'm worried if this develops into something bad, the county/city/state could make people euthanize their birds. Someone please tell me I'm being irrational.

Just don't. I never registered my flock for exactly this reason

Not another COVID plz

Oh don't worry. Our corporate overlords didn't like having to commission and roll out "we're all in this together" marketing, there's no way they're letting that happen again. No, we'll just all be told to go to work sick so everyone can get it and those who happen to die, die.

!nooticers notice how they state the objectively best course of action as if it's bad?

It seems it may become much worse. Of course 900 is a very small sample size but 52% mortality rate can be apocalyptic.

No. At that rate it would burn it's self out pretty fast.

!nooticers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68831061

The true scale of the number of medical trials using infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s has been revealed by documents seen by BBC News.

They reveal a secret world of unsafe clinical testing involving children in the UK, as doctors placed research goals ahead of patients' needs.

They continued for more than 15 years, involved hundreds of people, and infected most with hepatitis C and HIV.

One surviving patient told the BBC he was treated like a "guinea pig".

The trials involved children with blood clotting disorders, when families had often not consented to them taking part. The majority of the children who enrolled are now dead.

Documents also show that doctors in haemophilia centres across the country used blood products, even though they were widely known as likely to be contaminated.

A shortage of blood products in the UK in the 1970s and 80s meant they were imported from the US. High-risk donors such as prisoners and drug addicts provided the plasma for the treatments that were infected with potentially fatal viruses including hepatitis C - which attacks the liver resulting in cirrhosis and cancer - and HIV.

One blood product, known as Factor VIII, was seen to be highly effective for stopping bleeding but also widely known to be contaminated with viruses.

A public inquiry is under way into the scandal. The final report is due in May.

'Guinea pig'

Luke O'Shea-Phillips, 42, has mild haemophilia - a blood clotting disorder that means he bruises and bleeds more easily than most.

He caught the potentially lethal viral infection hepatitis C while being treated at the Middlesex Hospital, in central London, which was administered because of a small cut to his mouth, aged three, in 1985.

Documents seen by the BBC suggest he was deliberately given the blood product - which his doctor knew might have been infected - so he could be enrolled in a clinical trial.

The doctor wanted to find out how likely patients were to catch diseases from a new version of heat-treated Factor VIII. Though he had never been treated for his condition before, Luke was given heat-treated Factor VIII to stop his mouth bleeding.

A letter from Luke's doctor, Samuel Machin, to another expert in haemophilia, was submitted in evidence to the public inquiry into the infected blood scandal.

Writing to Peter Kernoff, at London's Royal Free Hospital, Dr Machin detailed the treatment of Luke and another boy, asking: "I hope they will be suitable for your heat-treated trial."

Months earlier, Dr Kernoff had called on fellow doctors in the field to identify patients suitable for clinical trials. Specifically, he said, they had to be "previously untreated patients", known as "PUPs" in the medical community.

They were also nicknamed "virgin haemophiliacs" - a term written on Luke's medical record by Dr Machin.

"I was a guinea pig in clinical trials that could have killed me," Luke told the BBC. "There is no other way to explain it - my treatment was changed so I could be enrolled in clinical trials. This change in medication gave me a fatal disease - hepatitis C - yet my mother was never even told."

"To the scientific world, it was an incredible benefit being a virgin haemophiliac," he added. "To be a clean petri dish to understand science through, I was without question a part of that."

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The letter from Dr Machin reveals the trial Luke was part of

In the following years, as the medical trial reached its conclusions, Luke had many blood tests. Doctors said they were monitoring him and, at the time, his mother, Shelagh O'Shea, was grateful.

In their findings, published in 1987, Dr Kernoff and Dr Machin concluded heat treatment had "little or no effect" in reducing the risk of of hepatitis C.

Both Dr Kernoff and Dr Machin are now dead.

Before he died, Dr Machin gave evidence to the public inquiry, when he confirmed that Luke had been recruited to Dr Kernoff's study.

He denied this had been done without Luke's mother's knowledge. "This would have been discussed with his mother, although I acknowledge that standards of consent in the 1980's was quite different to what it is now," Dr Machin said.

However, Mrs O'Shea told the inquiry she as "absolutely not" told about the trial. "With an innocent child of three and a half I would not have considered such an action. I would never ever have allowed my child to be part of a trial - never," she added.

Documents reveal doctors knew Luke had contracted hepatitis C as early as 1993, but he was not told until 1997. One medical record states a positive test result and says: "Have not discussed with patient or family."

Luke is now clear of the infection after successful treatment.

'Laboratory rats'

However, evidence of the clinical trials have raised wider concerns.

"A patient should always be given the best possible treatment and they should always have given informed consent - if those two factors haven't been achieved then a trial would be seen as very problematic," says Professor Emma Cave, Professor of Healthcare Law at Durham University.

Professor Edward Tuddenham, who was a haemophilia doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in the 1980's, confirmed these fears. When asked if he thought ethical standards had been met during clinical trials in the 1980s, he simply answered: "No."

The BBC's investigation has revealed that Dr Machin and Dr Kernoff were among a community of doctors with similar research ambitions.

A specialist school near Alton, in Hampshire, was attended by a large cohort of haemophiliac boys. The school for disabled children had an NHS haemophilia unit on site, so boys who had bleeds could be treated quickly and then return to lessons.

Their doctor, Dr Anthony Aronstam - who has also since died - used his "unique" cohort of boys for extensive clinical trials. One series of experiments considered whether using three to four times more Factor VIII than normally required by a child would help to reduce the number of bleeds he had.

This was preventative treatment, know as prophylaxis, and involved repeated injections with infected Factor VIII products and follow-up blood tests. The high concentrations of infected blood products were administered to the boys without their - or their parents' - consent.

Of the122 pupils attending Treloar's College between 1974-1987, 75 have so far died of HIV and hepatitis C infections.

"Despite knowing the product was riddled with hepatitis, they started a trial that required us to have way more of it than we needed," says Gary Webster, who was unknowingly enrolled.

Ade Goodyear, a pupil at Treloar's from 1980 to 1989, added: "We were treated like lab rats. There was a plethora of studies that we were all enrolled on for the decade we were at the school."

The school where dozens died in NHS blood scandal

Lee Stay Treloar's College in the late 1980sLee Stay

Lord Mayor Treloar College in Holybourne, Hampshire in the late 1980s

Controversially, another trial involved placebo treatments. This meant that some boys, who thought they had been given Factor VIII to prevent bleeds, had in fact been given a saline solution.

"When you think you've been given a treatment, this changes your behaviour," Gary said. "You run more, you play more rough in football. For a haemophiliac, you feel a bit invincible for a short window after a jab. But with a placebo you are just risking your life by changing your behaviour."

He told the BBC he was punished at school if he missed injections. "It would have meant their trials would have been flawed and so we, us kids, were made to toe the line."

Dr Kernoff's pursuit of clinical advancement through research was rigorous, as was his hunt for suitable subjects for trials - PUPs and virgin haemophiliacs - which let to those involved getting young and younger. A four-month-old baby was involved in a trial.

Among his studies was one that compared the infectiousness of another blood plasma product - Cryoprecipitate (Cryo) - to Factor VIII concentrates.

Cryo was used for treating mild blood clotting conditions. It contained the Factor VIII protein, but at lower concentrations and from fewer donors and was therefore thought to be less risky.

Dr Kernoff's search for suitable subjects led him to Mark Stewart, his brother, and his father, who all had very mild cases of von Willebrand's disease - another type of blood clotting disorder. Their usual treatment was cryo.

Mark Stewart Mark and Angus StewartMark Stewart

Mark Stewart (left) believes he will die as a result of the trial he unknowingly took part in, like his brother Angus (right)

As part of his test, Dr Kernoff gave them all Factor VIII concentrates instead.

"Until we were given concentrates it would be once a month you'd have a little nose bleed, and you'd go up and have cryo and that was that." All three contracted hepatitis C.

Mark's brother and father have both died of liver cancer after the infection attacked the organ. Neither were told they had contracted the disease until it was too late for treatment.

"Angry is an understatement," Mark said. "Your dad is in the front carriage, your brother is in the second carriage and you are in the third carriage - so you know what is coming. It won't veer off that track. This is how hep C works. It will get you."

A statement from Treloar's said: "We await the publication of the infected blood inquiry, which we hope will provide our former pupils with the answers they have been waiting for."

The inquiry into the wider infected blood scandal will conclude on 20 May.

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“You'll be alright. Just stop squirming honey, lay still,” Orpah said.

Samson lay on his back on the hot rocks beside the rugged rock path of Sonder Mountain. The sun was flaming intensely, laying a blanket of heavy heat over them. His leg was bent awkwardly, unnaturally, so much so that a lick of the white of his bone could be seen through his shin.

“Calm down honey,” Orpah soothed him, leaning the water flask into his mouth.

The yelling had stopped. Samson had screamed and yelled in pain until his vocal cords were bloody. It was obvious that there was no one else on the path, and with nighttime fast approaching, unlikely it was that the situation would flip. Orpah took off her top, leaving her in just her skimpy white vest, before soaking it in water and laying it over Samson's forehead. The sky was a deep shade of orange. It would have been quite beautiful to look at if the situation was different, less dire perhaps. Orpah knew she would be able to find help at the bottom of Sonder Mountain. But that was easily a three-hour hike, and with night looming over them, she couldn't risk leaving Samson at the mercy of the coyotes. Not while his leg dripped blood and he dipped in out of consciousness, driven hysterical from pain. So she remained at his side, lovingly combing her fingers through his long hair as she tended to his needs.

“They'll notice we aren't there at dinner and come out looking for us. I'll start a small fire to make us a tad more visible,” Orpah said.

Samson gritted some form of acknowledgment through his gritted teeth. His face was almost as pale as his knuckles. Pain like this, it was nothing he ever felt before. It had him contemplating death, wondering whether a life with this amount of agony was one worth cherishing, worth fighting for. Was death not void of all such suffering? But he held on to life, if only for Orpah and her beautiful face, the love she evoked within him, and the tenderness of her touch.

“Go… find… help,” Samson managed to utter without opening his jaw.

Orpah looked up at him.

“Light the fire… and go find help… it'll keep the… coyotes away,” Samson explained.

“Are you sure?” Orpah asked.

Samson nodded. His leg had gone numb from the pain. The feeling of being stabbed over and over again was so consistent it had become a non-factor, like when noise is so ceaseless it becomes soothing or when you wear your glasses for so long you forget they're on. The first few stars twinkled in the sky which was slowly turning from orange to black. Orpah reached into her backpack and pulled out a box of long matchsticks. The trail was mostly stones and sand, but Orpah managed to gather enough sticks to start a sizeable flame. She cordoned it off with a few rocks, kissed Samson on the forehead, and headed down the trail.

“I'll be back as fast as I can,” Orpah said.

The smoke from the flame was serpent-like, the wisps slithering sinisterly. Every moment remaining in consciousness was a conscientious effort. He was glad for the flame. The air had suddenly gone from sweltering to chilly which only made the pain worse. Suddenly he felt the ground shake. He wasn't sure at first; it was as subtle as can be. But it grew and grew until it was an undeniable tremor, as if a giant was walking in the vicinity. Samson didn't have to wonder too much before the source made itself known. A kangaroo hopped out from behind a rock. It was purple and had a flame on the tip of its tail.

“What the everloving frick are you?” Samson said aloud in fear, “what in the frick is that?”

The kangaroo looked at him, tilted its head, and smiled. About twenty crabs crawled out its pouch and scattered all over. The kangaroo stretched in relief. Samson tried to crawl away but failed. The kangaroo was still towering over him.

“I done carried them from Jupiter. Nasty lil buggers, those claws are nothing to be ignorin',” the kangaroo said in a raspy voice.

“What the actual frick is going on?” was all Samson could manage.

“S'pose now is a good a time as any for an explanation. My name is, well I aint got a name. No need for those on the dimensional plane I'm from. I've taken this form because your puny mind would never understand my true form,” it continued raspily.

Samson blinked hard twice. He was convinced this was some kind of hallucination, his mind playing tricks on him, insanity brought on by dehydration and deliria.

“I am the bringer of the gift of death. You can do nothing to earn it, nothing to lose it but like any other gift, you may decline it,” the kangaroo continued, but this time in a different voice like a lady.

“How do I know you're real?” Samson managed to ask.

The kangaroo paused for a while, thought, and then answered.

“On the sixteenth of December your wife Orpah was asleep and you wanted a sandwich. You were too lazy to make it yourself so you opened a jar of Nutella and ate directly from it, you ate it all Samson, all. You got sick the next day and denied eating it. You told Orpah that from the bottom of your heart you didn't do it. But you did,” the kangaroo said in a different voice yet again.

It was as though the kangaroo was having great fun altering its voice each time. Perhaps more out of embarrassment than anything else Samson admitted to himself that indeed the kangaroo was not a figment of his imagination. The entire situation fell into the category of ‘too strange to be fiction'.

“So… am I dead?” Samson asked tentatively.

“Only if you want to be,” the kangaroo replied casually.

Samson lowered his eyebrow, his forehead creased. He was flummoxed.

“Death is a gift, as I have said. You can accept it or reject it,” the kangaroo explained.

He held his long tail in his hand, swinging it around casually.

“And, uhm, if I choose death? What would happen, I'm not saying that's what I want, but if I did choose death, what would happen next?” Samson asked, making very sure to emphasise that he wasn't asking for death.

“I don't know. I've never died. I'm only the collector of souls. I can tell what will happen if you choose life though,” the kangaroo said.

Samson shrugged.

“Oh c'mon, the same old,” said the kangaroo, “pain, misery, discontent, disappointment. Amidst it all a few moments of love and happiness. I've seen a lot of lives in my job. No matter where you are, how you live, it's always the same. Just a different variety of it.”

Samson paused for a while. He had forgotten about his broken leg, something that tends to happen when you have a kangaroo from the realm of death before you. A sly thought crept in his mind.

“You said that death is a gift, right?” Samson queried.

“Indeed.”

“Then, like any other gift, I could pass it on, couldn't I?”

“I s'pose.”

“Then I give my gift to Orpah,” Samson said resolutely.

The kangaroo looked at him, vexed.

“Your own wife? Well that's certainly a new one,” the kangaroo said.

“If death truly is a gift, I would not want my last action to be something as selfish as running away from the strife of the world. If my wife takes it, I will know she loved death more than I. If she rejects the gift, then this will be a life worth living. I don't know, it makes sense in my head,” explained Samson.

“Very well then.”

And the kangaroo stuck its purple hands out, waved them and uttered a magical spell. The sky lit up in a million colours. And then the kangaroo was gone. Samson lay there in the darkness of the night with only the flickering of the flames as his company. No one came until morning when the mountain ranger came around for his morning route. In a state of semi-consciousness, all Samson remembered was being lifted up and put into the back of a pickup truck. He swung in and out of consciousness and found himself on a soft bed, his leg raised in a cast in some sort of log cabin. The ranger and Orpah stood over him.

“He almost died,” he heard the ranger say.

“Oh my poor honey,” Orpah said, “I'm so grateful you saved him. How can I ever show my gratitude?”

“Well there is one way,” he heard the ranger say smugly.

A bit of whispering and a bit of giggling and Samson heard the sound of something oddly similar to the clank of a metal belt buckle hitting the ground. They left the room.

Samson wanted his gift back.

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