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Manbagi: Avoid negative people. Isagi: Avoid positive people. Komi: Avoid people. Nakanaka: a void...
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dreamly · 6 months
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i agree with a lot of music fans and journalists/critics/artists that “lockdown”/“pandemic”/“quarantine” albums usually aren’t great and also don’t do very well, but i do think there is one truly incredible (at least in quality i haven’t looked at numbers and tbh i don’t really care) and maybe not the most obvious exception (well maybe it is obvious but i don’t see this album talked about a lot since like the month it came out and i don’t think i’ve seen it talked about in the conversations about art inspired by covid-19/lockdowns). anyway can we play a little game where you guys guess what album it is (this might help me find more good music or at least music you think i’d like as well as be [hopefully] fun!)
#i would also exclude folklore/evermore and unreal unearth from that statement not just bc i think they’re great but mostly bc i wouldn’t#call them ‘pandemic’ albums#like obviously folklore and evermore were made during that time but only two songs on folklore reference the pandemic/lockdown/isolation and#it’s sort of referenced in the sound in that both of those albums are generally quieter for taylor and that might reflect the actual#emotions of isolation and loneliness but i don’t think the sound necessarily reflects/refers to the actual material conditions of#lockdown or covid-19#rather folklore/evermore contain just a few lyrical and sonic references to the emotions caused by that situation but again. not as many as#there were initially perceived to be#side note i think actually the most ‘lockdown’ song on folklore or evermore is mirrorball#and i think the reason mirrorball works so well is that despite the fact that both the overall concept of the song and the lyrical content#seem to directly reference covid-19 lockdowns and closures#it (mirrorball) is still extremely relatable#and i think what’s absolutely true about the album i’m referring to in the actual text of the post#is that it is at least mostly very relatable for most people (although probably for women in particular)#and actually i would say that the album im talking about has very similar themes and concepts to mirrorball but translates and expands upon#them into the form of an entire album#ok very long side note over. in terms of unreal unearth not being a lockdown album it’s true that andrew has literally said it’s not one#but also there aren’t even any small lyrical sonic or conceptual references to the pandemic like i mentioned there are a few on folklore#and evermore.#i did watch an interview where andrew says there /might/ be one lyrical reference but i can’t find it (message me if you know what he meant)#i would call unreal unearth something that i think andrew is understandably hesitant to refer to it as#and that is a breakup album#and i think the reasons he’s hesitant to call it that is that sometimes when people say a piece of media is about a breakup they use that to#reduce both the emotions and experiences covered in the work and the quality of the work#but i also think that in music specifically breakup albums are often (not always. often) a seminal important and iconic moment in a career#and are in many cases considered by many to be the best or at least the most iconic albums by an artist#examples of that include Rumours and even Red#congrats if you read all these tags you’re a real champ#i have so much to say about this topic and topics related to it sorry!#love ya and please take a guess
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magical-bees · 9 months
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When COVID hit I started making and just never see stoped I guess. Freshman through Junior year, I'm starting my senior year in less the 3 weeks and I'm wondering if I should keep masking, the bulk of the pandemic has stopped and I'm can't help but feel akward having one on when no one else does, especially since it makes people have trouble understanding me. On the other hand I feel more comfortable I guess having it on, not because I'm scared of getting sick but like Im more anonymous and people can't like judge be as much I guess. I feel likes it's become almost a safety blanket for me, a way to feel protected and hide what I feel (the amount of times I've started silent crying at school but it was hidden by my mask and glasses is embarrassing). I live in Arizona so it gets hot and wearing masks can be a bit much and cause breakouts but it's nice in winter, but being in Arizona also means the mask has resulted in some... rude comments. I don't know what to do and so Tumblr if you have any advice please vote on this to help be decide or put something in the notes. I know this is stupid but I'm kinda stuck on what to do
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suncaptor · 7 months
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no there really was something about riding back from the volta region to accra in africa and like having hundreds of white-winged flying bugs flocking to the headlights of the van and shedding wings across the ground in the flickering dark and reflective rain. by the time we got back to accra the rain had lifted and there's a part up the hill where you can see the city sitting on rocks in front of you and how it stretches. it was beautiful.
#incoherents#i dont think i could feel a thing then or now i am always so scared. i spent that night. it was easter. at the hospital.#i landed badly paragliding and was hypothermic in high high heat. i was my wound cleaned i was scared I'd die#for no reason. i was having ocd issues. kept imagine getting infected. it was kind of nonsense#but i couldn't get any creams and i had to shower#(had to shower so methodically. in sevens. make sure no part of me could have covid covid covid)#i must have seemed insane. i didnt eat anything but a tiny bit of jollof and my friend helped me get some plantain chips but the night#market was nearly closed#its funny. how me now me then me at 19 how everything is a different lense#I'm through so much glass#i can't imagine being who i was a year ago I'm all hollowed out I'm dead I'm not real#there's a perspective shift. there's things if only i could not drown and be real that i could make so much out of#i want to exist in this world so badly. i want to feel it. i want to be real. but there's too much horror and grief and it consumes me#the beat of their wings was so empty whit#the best psychiatrist i ever had was the boss of the guy i saw that week cause i was scaring myself. but who referred me to him got me so#scared bc he thought i was manic and i freaked out and started crying and asked everyone including half a dozen professionals#if they thought i was because i was scared I'd end up paralysed (again. ocd.)#they took me to the hospital because they were afraid#god i was so much better then yet#and the surgeon guy was not appropriate enough but he liked me. he knew i wasn't a risk. it was all so useless. but you know.#another person to say I'm not manic. god i was so neurotic. well.#okay I'm rambling. it's just. nothing feels real nothing ever feels real#i want to exist have i really not existed this whole time?#i feel like there's so much i missed i grieve everything but not as much as i.#i got better on this med but maybe it wasnt the med. i was . talking to her more again wrapped up#and#hhhhh#nothing is real. i love her
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defiantcatlady · 1 year
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people are stupid selfish and short-sighted and I want to throttle someone daily, but I actually blame the government most of all for how unwilling everyone is to just fucking wear a mask to avoid catching and spreading a potentially lethal or disabling disease we barely understand.
it's been 3 whole years of "masks are useless wait no actually wear a mask everywhere wait actually just wear it indoors wait actually just wear it on the bus wait actually it's fine the pandemic is over uh wait actually maybe wear it on the bus wait actually you need to wear it indoors". even the most reasonable person would get tired of that nonsense, and most people are not reasonable.
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frameacloud · 1 year
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Bad News is a short free online game that teaches you to recognize when people are posting misinformation. A study published in a peer-reviewed journal found that playing this game makes you less susceptible-- though never immune-- to this type of propaganda when you encounter it on social media.
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opalsiren · 2 years
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it's so wild to me that the government advice for close contacts is literally 'fuck around and find out.' no advice around restricting movements whatsoever. they are literally looking elderly, disabled, and immunocompromised people in the eye and saying 'die.'
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i've seena lot of idiots in xitter say that there's sv40 in covid vaxx
posting this here for my own reference but im too lazy to drop it under every rat's ass comment
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stillmasking · 9 months
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(published August 29, 2022)
A summary of the five steps:
Source Control: To limit the amount of SARS-CoV-2 particles in the air, you could mandate that people wear high-quality masks / stay home if they're sick.
Ventilation: To dilute the concentration of particles in the air, improve ventilation by opening a window or setting your HVAC system to set the maximum fresh air intake (provided that the outdoor air quality is safe). Ideally, you should have at least 6 air changes per hour. You may measure how well-ventilated a space is with a CO2 monitor, since we exhale CO2 into the air. A well-ventilated space will have less than ~800 ppm.
Filtration: This involves removing particles/pollutants from the air. Most indoor settings should have filters with at least MERV 13, which you can install successfully in most HVAC systems. You may also buy a portable air cleaner (expensive) or create a Corsi-Rosenthal box (much cheaper, DIY).
Air Disinfection: This is mostly suitable for hospitals/schools/etc, but it involves inactivating viruses using UV light, using a wavelength that is safer for people (UVC).
Invest in better air: In March 2022, the Biden administration urged building managers to improve indoor air quality. (At the time, federal funding supported these
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rubythecrimsonwriter · 11 months
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resident-ghost · 1 year
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Me: *gets COVID*
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markettrend24 · 1 year
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stil-lindigo · 4 months
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I can't properly put into words the amount of disgust that I feel seeing someone who looks like she could be my cousin fight for a genocidal occupational force like Israel but I will say this.
If you are Chinese, Korean, Japanese or any one of these Asian ethnicities that the West deem "acceptable" and you align yourselves with western-backed racial supremacy, you are making fools of yourselves. You have fallen prey to the myth of the "model minority" and you are suckers for it.
The premise of racial supremacy is based on exclusivity. And here's a dose of reality - the myth of the "model minority" is nothing but a tactic to placate you. To sow divide in the ranks of people of colour. To artificially manufacture another realm of racial supremacy in minorities so that you're distracted from how we all suffer under colonialism.
Did we all forget about the skyrocketing of sinophobia in the wake of the first COVID outbreak? The transformation of Chinese people into fiends with barbaric eating customs, poor hygiene, and mass conspiracy to infect the world with biological weapons?
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What about the hate-crimes? The attacks in the street against anyone visibly asian? The rampant discrimination and ostracisation from society?
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In 2020, Donald Trump referred to COVID-19 as "The Chinese Virus", "Kung-flu" at a campaign rally to raucous applause, a chilling echo of the times where fears of the "Yellow Peril" had the western world in a stranglehold.
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For all that Chinese people have been lauded as "prodigies" and "well-mannered workers", the moment our existence was incovenient, were were nothing more than another target. And although Chinese suffering then wasn't close to the scale of suffering that Palestinians now endure, we all received a reminder on what it was like to be in the world's crosshairs.
Now, in 2023, Biden dismisses death tolls as unreliable and remains proudly Zionist even after Netanyahu described the genocide Israel is inflicting upon Palestine as the "struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle." At the same time, Palestinians are being compared to fleeing rats in a gesture of dehumanisation that mirrors how the Nazis portrayed Jews during the Holocaust.
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And let's not think Abigail's Jewishness will save her, not when it's been proven that Israel has administered contraceptives to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants without their consent. Racial supremacy is an exclusive club that never stops getting smaller, and there is nothing that you, as a minority, will ever be able to do to fit in. One day, you too will be a target and there'll be nothing you can do but blame yourself. After all - it's already happened.
So shame on Abigail. Truly. With the memory of knowing what it's like to be targeted for factors out of your control fresh in her mind, she happily fights to do the same to others. And that says more about her than I ever will be able to.
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foysalblogs · 2 years
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How Coca- Cola turned the epidemic into an occasion
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#ATLANTA – The COVID- 19 epidemic disintegrated businesses and requests around the world#but at least one food and libation company saw an occasion to use the dislocation to its advantage. The Coca- ColaCo. used the need to stre#Tab#Zico and others.#Still#demand of on- shelf SKUs( stock- keeping units) shrunk dramatically across the world for reference#” said James Robert B#“ If you go back to April 2020. Quincey#president and principal administrative officer#during aDec. 1 donation at the virtual Redburn CEO Conference. “ So#we stopped producing a number of these lower brands SKUs because that was too complicated to the force chain in the extremity. So#therein is the perfect moment to actually take a top-down decision rather than trying to go one by one over time.#“ There were openings actually to seize the moment and bring forward conduct that demanded to be taken and get them done in a bit of the ti#we just went for it. ”#Quincey said the corridor of the Coca- Cola portfolio that were pared represented 2 of company deals#but he compared not lacing out brands to high cholesterol situations. Over time they will clog highways.#“ Every bottle needs the same quantum of space on a shelf#” he said. “ And if you aren't constantly pruning it#you start to fur up the system with effects that do n’t rotate and move through the force chain and through the retailers as presto as the#eventually#you end up dealing lower( and) you have reduced optimization. ”#Without the epidemic#organizational indolence may have braked the process.#“ The time you get relieve of them#someone has lost deals#”Mr. Quincey said. “ Some brand directors lost deals#some country directors lost deals#the bottlers marketable director says#‘ yes#but they vend
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afeelgoodblog · 5 months
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The Best News of Last Week
🌍🌡️ - Climate Prophecy: The Forecast Is 100% Chance of 'Cool'
1. No cases of cancer caused by HPV in Norwegian 25-year olds, the first cohort to be mass vaccinated for HPV
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Last year there were zero cases of cervical cancer in the population that was vaccinated in 2009 against the HPV virus, which can cause the cancer in women. The HPV virus is extremely common, basically everyone comes into contact with one version or another of the virus in their lifetime.
The vaccine was given to girls only out of an abundance of caution, they were the most likely to contract cancer from the viruses, and because there was limited supply.
2. ‘Every square inch is covered in life’: the ageing oil rigs that became marine oases
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Built decades ago, California’s offshore oil platforms are home to a huge diversity of marine life. According to a 2014 study, the rigs were some of the most “productive” ocean habitats in the world, a term that refers to biomass – or number of fish and other creatures and how much space they take up – per unit area.
3. Vaccinations may have prevented almost 20 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide
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Vaccinations estimated to have averted 19.8 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide in their first year, according to the latest Imperial modelling study.
In the first year of the vaccination programme, 19.8 million out of a potential 31.4 million COVID-19 deaths were prevented worldwide according to estimates based on excess deaths from 185 countries and territories.
4. Global climate policy forecast predicts ‘well below 2°C’ Paris Agreement climate goals will be met
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They report only a 10% probability we exceed 2°C by 2050. Temperatures are expected to peak between 1.7°C and 1.8°C, which is consistent with the “well below 2°C” objective of the Paris Agreement in Art. 2.1c.
5. Young driver fatality rates have fallen sharply in the US, helped by education, technology
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Crash and fatality rates among drivers under 21 have fallen dramatically in the U.S. during the past 20 years.
Using data from 2002-2021, the report says that fatal crashes involving a young driver fell by 38%, while deaths of young drivers dropped even more, by about 45%.
6. A Virginia woman was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat.
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7. Remote workers report saving $5,000 to $10,000 a year
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What value would American workers place on the privilege to work from home?
In a 2022 survey by FlexJobs, 45% of remote workers reported saving at least $5,000 a year. One in 5 reported saving $10,000 a year. The savings average out to about $6,000 a year. The poll reached 4,000 workers in July and August of last year.
Three years into the remote-work revolution, research increasingly suggests that telework is a commodity, a job descriptor worth thousands of dollars in potential savings and improved quality of life.
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