Wayyyy off topic but I want to share this very informative thread I found on Twitter for all my US peeps and any others affected by the E Coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce since this is “my lane”
We are verging on dangerous territory here folks. Rollbacks on regulations within organizations like the FDA are only going to cause more outbreaks and other public health disasters as time goes on. There’s a reason we don’t normally see these “drop everything” warnings from the CDC, and it’s because these outbreaks usually aren’t that bad. And they aren’t that bad because as a developed nation we have protocols in place to prevent this from happening. But I want y’all to understand how much of a big deal this is. We’re loosing effective antibiotics at an alarming rate. And until politicians start listening to us scientists out here who are literally screaming to do SOMETHING, nothing is going to change. I see many people chastising the CDC for “banning romaine lettuce but not guns”. And yes while I agree gun violence is a major public health crisis in this country, it’s not the CDC’s fault they can’t do any research on the issue. All their funding comes from the government, and while the NRA and other pro gun lobbiests have their hands up the asses of our politicians, the CDC is never going to get the funding needed to research gun violence. The CDC and the FDA are not the bad guys here. They are trying to help us, and our president and his administration is hell bent on destroying all of that. To anyone who thinks politics doesn’t matter, that their vote is meaningless, that ignore the happenings in politics because typical political issues don’t affect them, I can guarantee you, your apathy will eventually come back and bite you in the ass. It may even get you infected with E. Coli.
whats wrong with you? you got some sort of……..some sorta syndrome? you got a syndrome or something? youre tryna tell me youve got like, a syndrome
[goes to doctor]: whats wrong with me doc. tell me the ‘prognosis’ doctor: well, its looking as if you have some kind of syndrome [thinking] hmm.. thats not good
i diagnose you with symptoms syndrome
sorry to say but it seems you’ve got problems disorder
not knowing how to respond to messages and forgetting about them for so long that it becomes impossible to respond to them without it being weird is the bane of my socially awkward existence
you know what’s more freeing than killing yourself? running away to a small town and getting a job as a waitress. buying a cheap car and sticking a bed in the back and driving southwest. adopting a cat. learning a new instrument. moving apartments. visiting a friend in another city. chopping all your hair off.
you can kill your current life without dying. you can kill this version of you and make a new one.
maybe I’m just a bipolar sucker for rebirth but sometimes that thought is all that keeps me alive
pulling a wholesome gone girl > actually killing yourself
Fun fact: “thee” and “thou” are the informal of “you” or it was until it was stopped being used
This is correct!
But originally, ‘thou’ was the singular second person pronoun, and ‘you’ was for a group of people, i.e. ‘you all’. ‘Thou’ came to be the informal version of ‘you’, that was used for talking to intimate acquaintances, those that are lower than you in rank, and those you look down on.
Love/intimacy: ‘all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay, / and follow thee, my lord, throughout the world’ (Romeo and Juliet 2.1.190-191)
To a social inferior: ‘Kent, on thy life, no more.’ (King Lear 1.1.155) Lear reasserting his rank.
So you can start a fight by thouing someone too much. Thus Sir Toby tells Sir Andrew to write a rude letter in which ‘if thou ‘thou’st’ him some thrice, it shall not be amiss’ (Twelfth Night III.ii.41-2).
Here’s a useful table I made:
Consequently, the reason ‘thou’ is used for God is because God is meant to be close to one’s heart/ It’s a sign of intimacy rather than casualness or inferiority.
In some rural areas of North England there are places that use a form of ‘thou’ 😉
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