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stop going to doctors that call you a liar. nearly all physically chronically ill patients get called liars or told it is all in their head at some point, and doctors are a huge part of that. your doctor calling you a liar does not mean you do not have your symptoms, it means your doctor just fucking sucks. doctors are not obligated to believe you, and you are also not obligated to go to doctors who do not believe you. stop paying them money to humiliate you. stop going to doctors who do not believe you.

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Just found out that the dietary calorie is still measured by burning food in a "bomb calorimeter" and then measuring the heat produced. There's no solid evidence that this method is at all equivalent to how our bodies process food (an entirely different chemical process from combustion), the accuracy of this system has been disputed for as long as it's existed, and there are no available alternatives

There are 4800 calories in a kilogram of dry sawdust even though wood is completely indigestible to humans, because calories don't measure nutritional value, just how well something burns

Nutritional "science" is pure bullshit

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Take action for the planet 🌏

"Weird" weather is sweeping the country this week. Millions of Americans had to flee their homes last year due to extreme weather.

What will you do to help the planet today?

🌏 Donate to Green Peace

🚲 Ride your bike to work

🥦 Eat more veg

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had someone ask me like “why are you guys unionizing? just cuz?” and it threw me so bad i didnt even know how to answer

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me everyday

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may your coffee be hot and your bookshelf a divine mess and your outfit good

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It’s almost as if “reform” was never enough

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So the latest shitty JKR transphobia news is that she donated to fight Scottish independence over trans rights.

and the overwhelming 99% reaction that I’ve seen on Tumblr isn’t to inform each other how to fight for trans rights in Scotland, or how to fight terfs, or to doxx JKR and the main people who get rich selling her products, or to share a terf block list, or a list of trans causes in Scotland to donate to, or to call publishers to pressure them to drop her books and games, or just to tell trans people that they are loved and to offer a space to listen to their pain.

nope, 99% is about very angrily telling people not to buy or pirate that game.

And while I sort of agree with the general sentiment of that advice if it were part of a broader politics… at present this is a parody of activism. Responses to JKR’s bullshit have turned so completely inwards, so entirely focused on policing the behavior of our own community, that it has reached the point of ridiculousness, passivity and self-destruction.

We have to do better. Trans people deserve better.

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real one

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7 January 2023

Preparing for next week's math test. The workload is a bit daunting but I got this! ✨

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Another manufactured crisis? I’m shocked! /s

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happy annoy squidward day

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Arizona’s schools are speeding toward a fiscal cliff. Arizona’s water picture looks grimmer by the day. The number of Arizonans living on the streets has grown by 23% in just two years.

So naturally, first up on the agenda at the Arizona Legislature:

A hefty tax cut for corporations, one that’ll drain $1.8 billion from the state treasury over the next four years.

No, really.

“Cutting the corporate rate continues the state’s commitment to creating a low tax environment,” Rep. David Livingston, R-Peoria, said, in a press release touting his bill.

It is, apparently, not enough that 71% of the state’s corporations pay just $50 a year, thanks to tax credits that have reduced their tax burden to zero. (They pay just the annual $50 filing fee, according to the state Department of Revenue.)

Or that Arizona has one of the lowest corporate income tax rates in the nation. (Just seven other of the 44 states that levy a corporate tax have a lower rate, according to the Tax Foundation.)

It, apparently, isn’t a concern that Arizona has major new expenses ahead as we scramble to shore up our dwindling water supply. Or that the state’s new universal school voucher program that was supposed to cost us $33 million this year is already north of $300 million and rising.

Arizona hasn’t had a tax cut in, oh, the last 10 minutes.

OK, I’m kidding. It’s actually been nearly four months since Arizona’s last cut in taxes took effect, a $1.9 billion flat tax that mostly benefits the state’s wealthiest residents.So now comes a cut designed for some of the state’s largest corporations – the 29% that actually pay corporate taxes.

House Bill 2003 is the not just the first bill to get a hearing this year in the House. It’s actually on the fast track, having been approved by partyline votes Wednesday in both the Ways and Means and Appropriations committees.

The bill would gradually cut the state’s 4.9% corporate tax rate to 2.5% over the next four years, to match the state’s new flat income tax for individuals and small businesses.

Cost to the state: $223 million in the first year, according to legislative budget analysts. By year four, the annual tab would reach $668 million.

That’s a drop of $1.8 billion in four years.

Republicans paint it as a way to grow the economy and attract high paying jobs to the state. But Livingston acknowledged that no lobbyist or business asked for the tax cut.

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But it’s telling to get a gander at the Republican Legislature’s first priority.

No, not waiving the aggregate spending limit so that schools aren’t faced with devastating budget cuts on April 1.

No, not taking swift action to stop the wholesale suck on Arizona’s dwindling rural water supply or to explore what the state will do now that we know there isn’t enough water available to support planned development in the West Valley … or likely, elsewhere.

Nope, it’s tax cuts.

Always tax cuts.

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