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1 year agoThere’s nothing more gay than having a 21 year heterosexual marriage that produced two children. I don’t think I need to explain.
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3·1 year agoA nearby US Forest Service district is 650k acres. Multiple critical watersheds, protected ecosystems, major agricultural areas, and at least $2.5B in tourism value directly tied to those forests. They have two full-time rangers patrolling that entire area. They can’t afford to hire seasonal workers this coming year, despite the fire season only getting worse. They already rely extensively on volunteer labour from groups that are mostly staffed by retirees. The forestry work is outsourced to shady contractors paid by the acre and Americorps loggers paid below minimum wage, with rushed prescriptions that end up cutting down trees old enough to survive fire and concentrating beetle-infested wood in places that will further undermine the health of the forest.
The American West burning down is such a self-fulfilling prophesy.
3·1 year agoWith one of the colours censored by a bar reading “I will follow the law.”
Liberals scared to admit how evil they are, but also too scared to wear a MAGA hat and be accurately perceived.
5·1 year agoUnlimited jihad on thinking machines and the demons who build them.
41·1 year agoSomeone translated the antiquated diagnoses: https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/r0g9fs/causes_of_death_in_london_in_1632/
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Bear in mind that there was neither modern medicine, diagnostics or autopsies in the 1600s, so diseases we would treat separately would be lumped together.
Abortive and stillborn – mostly natural miscarriages and stillbirths, but there was always someone who knew how to induce a miscarriage with either herbs or physical interventions.
Affrighted – it’s not really possible to die of fright, but if you died for no reason, or had a stroke or heart attack which left your face twisted in an expression of fear or pain…
Ague – the alternating fevers and chills associated with malaria
Apoplex and megrom – strokes and other catastrophic brain damage, such as burst aneurysms (megrom is migraine, migraines don’t kill you but it’s a sudden, excruciating pain in the head, some of which are a symptom of something fatal).
Bit with a mad dog – rabies, or, just a dog bite in a bad place such as by an artery or one that got infected.
Bleeding – any number of causes, just like today.
Bloody flux, scowring and flux – various ways of shitting yourself inside out.
Bruised, issues, sores and ulcers – self-explanatory. Sores and ulcers that got infected would almost certainly kill you. Severe bruises could be indicative of some sort of haemorrhagic fever.
Burnt and scalded – homes were heated by and food was cooked on open fires. Only five deaths from burns and scalds in a year is a miracle.
Burst and rupture – could be appendix, but unlikely as that would almost certainly require autopsy to diagnose. More likely hernia.
Cancer, and wolf – discussed in other comments but the same thing, essentially. Wolf was particularly aggressive tumours that ate someone alive from the inside.
Canker – ulceration of mouth and lips from herpes. Secondary infection was what probably finished you off, but a mouth full of sores will make it difficult to eat.
Childbed – women would make their will shortly before they were due to give birth, because it could go so wrong in so many, many ways.
Chrisomes and infants – Chrisomes were babies who died within the first month of life, around the time they were baptised, the chrisome is the cloth used during the baptism.
Cold and cough – wrap up warm or you’ll catch your death.
Colick, stone and strangury – all sorts of pains in your intestines, hernias, colic, bowel obstructions, appendicitis, difficulty urinating.
Consumption – probably tuberculosis, but possibly other lung diseases such as lung cancer etc.
Convulsions – epilepsy or other fits, possibly febrile convulsions in infants.
Cut of the stone – death during or after surgical removal of kidney or bladder stones. This is the 17th century. No anaesthesia, no aseptic surgery, imagine how desperate you would have to be from pain to let some butcher in his bloody apron anywhere near you.
Dead in the street and starved – homeless and froze to death.
Dropsie and swelling – symptom of heart disease and early stage failure.
Drowned – fairly self- explanatory. Could be accidental or deliberate.
Executed and prest to death – executed is obvious. Pressing was a form of torture used if a prisoner refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, they would have heavier and heavier weights placed on their chests until they either gave in and entered a plea or died under the weight.
Falling sickness – epilepsy
Fever – could be anything involving a high temperature
Fistula – almost certainly obstetric fistula. Women who labour long and hard can incur all sorts of physical injury, a fistula is caused when the pressure of a baby that can’t get through causes necrosis as the blood supply to the genitals is cut off. In extreme cases, the bowel, vagina and bladder become one big hole through which urine and faeces pass uncontrollably. Fistula has other causes, if you want to horrify yourself you can read the wikipedia page.
Flocks and smallpox – flocks is a euphemism for syphilis, smallpox is smallpox, hurrah for vaccines, we don’t have this one any more.
French pox – syphilis
Gangrene – infected wounds
Gout – err, gout.
Grief – how many times has one of a couple died and the other one followed them shortly after?
Jaundice – liver disease.
Jawsaln – lockjaw, also known as tetanus. Get your shots, especially if you fertilise your garden using horse manure.
Impostume – abscesses in various places. These can cause septicaemia
Kil’d by several accidents – this just means “several people died by various accidents” it doesn’t mean some poor unfortunate soul fell off the roof and was hit by a cart and then fell in the Thames.
King’s evil – scrofula, a tuberculosis infection of the bones and glands in the neck. It was believed the king or queen could cure it by touching the affected place.
Lethargie – presumably some sort of chronic fatigue
Livergrown – swollen liver, could be caused by various diseases.
Lunatique – insanity of one sort or another.
Made away themselves – suicide
Measles – measles
Murthered – there’s been a murder! It’s of course almost certain that some of the other deaths were murders, especially those of babies, the accidents, and drownings.
Overlaid and starved at nurse - Overlaid is either what we these days would call smothering, usually caused by an adult sleeping in the same bed as the baby and either rolling on top of them in their sleep or trapping the baby under the blankets, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Or, of course, deliberately stopping a child breathing.
Starved at nurse could be what used to be called “failure to thrive” or issues with the mother or wet-nurse’s milk supply. In the case of wet nurses, they would often take on too many babies and couldn’t produce enough milk for all of them.
Palsie – paralysis or uncontrolled tremor of muscles. Some cases were probably Parkinson’s.
Piles – these can cause septicaemia
Plague – febrile disease carried by the fleas that normally live on rats or other rodents.
Planet - afflicted by the astrological influence of a planet. People believed that the planets had a significant influence on people’s moods, behaviour and health. Could be applied to any sudden death such as a heart attack or aneurysm.
Pleurisie and spleen – pleurisy is a chest infection, I’m not sure why spleen is grouped here, I’ve had pleurisy and I definitely knew my spleen wasn’t involved.
Purples and spotted fever – typhus or any other disease which causes subcutaneous haemorrhage. Severe bruising. Broken blood vessels caused by underlying disease.
Quinsie – a complication of tonsillitis, an abscess in the back of the throat.
Rising of the lights – the coughing and choking as your lungs fill up with fluid as your organs fail. Sometimes asthma, croup, pneumonia, anything characterised by a feeling of choking.
Sciatica – sciatica. This can be crippling if not treated.
Scurvey and itch – scurvy can cause death. It stops wounds healing and it also reopens old wounds and death results from either bleeding or infection.
Suddenly – heart attacks, strokes or aneurysms.
Surfeit – an excess of something. Either eating too much of something which is toxic in excess (Henry I and his lampreys), or untreated diabetes, or drinking too much.
Swine pox – swine pox isn’t transmissible to humans, this is a euphemism for syphilis.
Teeth – either babies who died as their teeth were coming in, or deaths from abscesses.
Thrush and sore mouth – sores make it hard to eat. Could be a bad case of mouth ulcers, herpes, a number of things.
Tympany – a swollen abdomen that sounds hollow when tapped. Fatal if caused by kidney disease.
Tissick – the wheezing and coughing associated with asthma or TB
Vomiting – long-term vomiting can prove fatal.
Worms – a thoroughgoing worm infestation can fuck you up good and proper. If it’s really bad, you can hear them, rustling inside you. Rustle rustle rustle.
2·1 year agoGolf clapping is bourgeois. I believe in the communal patriotic 10 minute standing ovation with everybody clapping at the exact same speed.
Colorado is home to 56 data centers, all located along the Front Range. The vast majority of the facilities are in metro Denver, including a massive 177-megawatt hyperscale facility under construction by QTS Realty Trust in Aurora - https://www.govtech.com/policy/proposed-data-center-tax-break-sparks-debate-in-denver
My water bill is increasing 30% this year and we met our snowpack targets last winter. This city’s population can only increase by around 50k more people before there’s a hard limit on our water infrastructure and every booming town near those data centres- 80% of the state’s population- has to compete for that water along with the large landowners. Those rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers supplying some of the most productive farmland along the way.
All for bazinga machines. That classic apocalypse scenario of the paper clip machine turning everything into paper clips at least results in all the matter in the universe being converted to something useful, but we’re doing that so that eugenicist vampires can make shitty chat bot and dog money-themed pyramid schemes. We can’t declare jihad on thinking machines soon enough.
It’s so weird to me that people use them on dating platforms. Those apps are already so alienating and full of scams, but now you can be datamined on a purely social level by a catfish mass-compiling detailed records of everyone that bot messages.
Laughing is bourgeois. I believe in the communal sensible chuckle.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/hous-qst/ch03b.htm
On the other hand, it is completely utopian to want, like Proudhon, to transform present-day bourgeois society while maintaining the peasant as such. Only as uniform a distribution as possible of the population over the whole country, only an integral connection between industrial and agricultural production together with the thereby necessary extension of the means of communication — presupposing the abolition of the capitalist mode of production — would be able to save the rural population from the isolation and stupor in which it has vegetated almost unchanged for thousands of years. It is not utopian to declare that the emancipation of humanity from the chains which its historic past has forged will only be complete when the antithesis between town and country has been abolished; the utopia begins when one undertakes “from existing conditions” to prescribe the form in which this or any other of the antitheses of present-day society is to be solved.
It’s why I’m Team Degrowth and a big believer in art nouveau. We need simplified, localised, non-commodified production and consumption. Craftsmanship and home economy, alternative agriculture systems which support individual families and immediate communities, mutual aid networks, severe regulation of resource extraction and pollution, centralised state control of those industries with a focus on becoming an ecological civilisation, and funding rural communities more to encourage a more even population distribution that’s still in line with the carrying capacity of the land. China has been pretty good about tackling a lot of these problems in recent years but I think a real solution is a more radical reorganisation of supply-side economics and infrastructure to make the countryside more evenly developed at a lower scale than industrial society.
edit: John Bellamy Foster’s work is invaluable if these problems interest you. It centres around this idea and the underlying idea of the metabolic rift.
It’s similar to colonialism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01c.htm
One of Marx’s first big ecological ideas was observing how sheep were transforming England. The growth of textile mills in cities meant that the cities became the economic, social, and cultural hubs. That’s the primary tax base and population centre so that’s where the money from the factories goes and where an individual has opportunities/infrastructure. Meanwhile to feed those mills and their growth you need a larger source of raw materials. That’s cotton from slave plantations and wool from English shepherds. The countryside was transformed as small farmers were displaced and nature was degraded to make more room for sheep, just as the American south became dominated by large slave plantations. The wool sells for a lower price than the shirt so they have less direct revenue coming in, the lower population density and alienation from opportunity/infrastructure both negatively impact its tax benefits, and to top it off they’re poisoned by the work of extraction and the pollution of the cities they build. Cities and markets have to grow to compete with each other, and that growth sucks the life out of rural and natural systems.
Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities at the cost of underdeveloping those rural communities, further alienating them and driving them to reactionary politics. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy.
love 2 separate town and country with no consequences
In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary. One cattle town, Greeley, even attempted to secede from the state over the barest COVID restrictions. Raw milk is a big culture war thing for them and the hippies who flocked to the most densely populated areas of the state. Luckily we live in the 21st century though and it’s illegal for a commercial dairy to sell unpasteurised milk.
So anyways the dairies are owned by reactionaries who love selling raw milk to other reactionaries. Since it’s legal to drink the raw milk of your family cow, the dairies circumvent food safety laws by selling a “share” of a “cow”. That entitles you to X amount of raw milk per week. The cow is one of hundreds in an industrial dairy being fed chicken shit. The first human case from this current epidemic was a prisoner being used as slave labour to bury all the chickens at an infected farm.
It’s so much filthier than any of the racist shit hogs said about Chinese wet markets. This is a wholly manmade horror perfectly within our comprehension purely being driven for profit. I hope it ends with crucifixions.
2·1 year agoI think we’re each only getting half the internet.
Huh, weird. For me on firefox it automatically opens up this website: https://i.imgur.com/xYSi6dk.png . As far as I know I don’t have any viruses or extensions that would cause it.
I think this link is broken. It redirects me to a shady online pharmacy selling dick pills which did not exist in 1565.
It’s awesome that the effect persists even without active stimulation. The body seems to relearn those neural pathways.