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Patrick Wolf - The City [Enya Version!] (22 Mar 2013, Belfast)

go home patrick you’re drunk

dailycroon: 15.05.13: Szabó Benedek - galaxisok

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:19:03 -0400

dailycroon:

15.05.13: Szabó Benedek - galaxisok

sunshineuncertaintyprinciple: cakeandrevolution: bootyregrit: captain-ray-assbutt: Dear people...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:31:36 -0400

sunshineuncertaintyprinciple:

cakeandrevolution:

bootyregrit:

captain-ray-assbutt:

Dear people who claim that vaccines cause autism, therefore people shouldn’t vaccinate their kids,

vaccines exist to prevent deadly illnesses. You are literally saying that endangering your child’s life is preferable to them being autistic. Never mind whether they actually do cause it or not, you’re saying that death is preferable to autism.

Congrats, you’re a piece of shit and the autistic person/people in your life deserve better.

actually vaccines exist for the profit of the pharmaceutical corporations.

vaccination and immunisation are two different things. bet ya didn’t know that because you don’t know your ass from a hole in the fucking ground.

every disease ‘cured’ by vaccination was, in reality, controlled by better living conditions, better nutrition and better hygiene. Tell me how you think we got rid of scurvy, scarlet fever and reduced the incidences of typhus in the first world without vaccines? But how is whitey gonna spin a massive profit from that mundane shit?

well done on being a talking monkey with zero research skills, fucknuts.

It’s really rich for you to talk about not knowing your ass from a hole in the ground when you’re comparing Scurvy (a vitamin deficiency), Scarlet Fever (a bacterial infection that actually does still exist, one of my friends niece and nephew got it this year, it’s just an advanced form of Strep), and Typhus (another bacterial infection), with the VIRUSES that vaccinations are intended to prevent.

Before I start, your comparison is kinda like saying “we can treat cuts with bandaids so I don’t know why you insist on setting that broken bone”.

Let’s get a little more detailed, so you can see just how fucking wrong you are and how ignorant your little screed was.

A condition like scurvy is simply the symptoms that manifest when the human body has a deficiency in one of more nutrients, in the case of scurvy it’s vitamin C, but Vitamin A deficiency can lead to blindness and there are various other vitamins that either too much of or too little of can have deleterious effects. The treatments for these are simple, either change diet to address the imbalance or in sever cases take a supplement to treat. Also, how fucking classist of you to think that we’ve gotten rid of it when Scurvy still effects the very poor and Vitamin A deficiency still claims the lives of 670k children under 5 annually.

Bacteria are single celled organisms capable of reproducing on their own. The human immune system can deal with bacteria through white blood cells consuming and destroying the bacteria or through the immune system generating anti-bodies that bind with the receptor sites that the bacteria uses to bond with cells. We also have nifty antibiotics which can directly kill off bacteria once in the human body.

Some bacterial infections, like pertussis and tuberculosis are VERY difficult to treat through standard antibacterial therapies and without detection within days of infection can still be lethal or life altering in the damage they cause. As it takes the body about 2 weeks to generate an antibody for an infection that it hasn’t encountered before we have largely relied on vaccination (and quite successfully at that) to prevent serious cases of these bacterial infections from being able to take hold as the secondary anamnestic response time (read, production of anti-bodies that the immune system remembers from previous encounters) peaks in 1-3 days. The difference between a pertussis infection with a primary antibody generation response and that with a secondary anamnestic response can quite literally be the difference between life or death.

Once a virus is in the body though the only way to treat them is to manage the symptoms and try and boos the immune systems response. There are a handful of anti-viral cocktails but they have limited efficacy and only work on a handful of viruses. Unlike bacteria viruses depend on taking over host cells and using them to reproduce, once the virus has stripped all it can from the host cell it bursts open spreading more viruses to infect other cells repeating the process. Many viruses also directly target the immune system rendering an effective immune response impossible which is why many of the viruses which we are vaccinated against are still lethal if contracted even in medically advanced countries (Other than vaccination, treatment of smallpox is primarily supportive, such as wound care and infection control, fluid therapy, and possible ventilator assistance.). Therefore we have to rely on vaccination to give our immune systems that antibody memory that I discussed above.

Viruses reproduce at a logarithmic rate, compared to the doubling rate of bacteria, With each new generation of a bacteria the number of new bacteria is at most double the number of the previous generation, however take a virus that can produce 50 copies for each infected cell. Say you initially get infected with 5 active copies of the virus (and these numbers are small for ease of comprehension, typical infection numbers are much higher). Those 5 viruses infect 5 cells and produce 250 new viruses, those 250 viruses turn into 12,500, which turns into 625,000, so you went from 5 to over a half million in 3 generations, (5 bacteria would yield 40 bacteria in 3 generations for comparison). This is why we can’t rely on primary immune responses for viral infections, they simply aren’t fast enough. In the two weeks it takes for antibodies to form for the kind of lethal viruses that we vaccinate against the human immune system has likely already been overwhelmed. However, if we provide the immune system with the memory of the anti-bodies needed it can provide an immune response much more efficiently and deal with the virus before it becomes a major threat. By keeping people vaccinated for these viruses it also prevents them from establishing a foothold in communities and spreading, it also protects those who can’t be vaccinated (due to compromised immune systems among other reasons) from infection through herd immunity, reducing the chances that those they come into contact with could be infected reduces the chances that the immuno-compromised will come into contact with those viruses.

tl,dr: You don’t know fuck all about viruses, bacteria, nutritional deficiencies, immunology, or vaccines, and your comment showed nothing but a massive amount of haughty ignorance. How about you actually learn something about biology before you try and act like I’m the one who needs to do research.

he.

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:29:22 -0400

he.

You missed with 1.028 km which gave 6393 points.

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:12:00 -0400

Első GeoGuessr-fordulóm, a festői San Felice Circeo városában.

lottóznom kéne stb.

"Kirobbanóan energikus, bámulatosan virtuóz játékukat hallva egy vakteszt alkalmával aligha..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:18:07 -0400

“Kirobbanóan energikus, bámulatosan virtuóz játékukat hallva egy vakteszt alkalmával aligha tippelnénk, hogy a gyengébbik nem képviselői játszanak.”

- Amikor a külföldi interneten ezekről a gender dolgokról meg szexista zeneiparról olvasok, mindig arra gondolok, hogy hé, örökké nyavalygó nyugati feministák, körülnéznétek egyszer Magyarországon! Egy heti sajtóanyagot átböngészve az előkerülő nők jelentős részénél ott szerepel, hogy gyönyörű vagy bűbájos vagy elbűvölő stb, kivéve, ha bűnranda vagy valami; és ilyen szépségeket is lehet találni, mint a fenti. Ennek ráadásul külön pikantériát kölcsönöz hogy egy kifejezetten nőket összegyűjtő jazzfesztivál egyik ajánlószövege a legjelentősebb magyar kultúrintézet, a Müpa honlapján. “Ahhoz képest hogy nők, tudnak zenélni, döbbenet, ezt meg kell néznetek!” Férfiaknál ellenben ezerből egyszer van odaírva bármi a külsejére nézve, ennek is csak kis része az, hogy “jó pasi”, ha már, akkor inkább metálosok/hardcore-osok tetkóiról vagy a műfajnak megfelelően fenyegető külsejéről esik szó.

Hozzátenném, a külföldi, örökké nyavalygó feministáknak tök igaza van, és eléggé szomorú, hogy itthon ezt még azok sem értik, akik azt gondolják, hogy lépést tartanak a nyugati kultúrával, legalábbis a zenében.

(via unheimlich)

applepickerproductions: Mac DeMarco - The Stars Keep on Calling...

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:39:45 -0400

applepickerproductions:

Mac DeMarco - The Stars Keep on Calling My Name @ King Georg

Mac DeMarco tegnap egy fél Rohamnyi helyen játszott Kölnben. Kúl volt!

Külön király volt a Terry Porter (Portland Trailblazers) kommemoratív pólót viselő gitáros srác!

mondhatnám, hogy annyira belezúgtam hétfőn Sean Nicholas Savage-be, hogy emiatt muszáj volt a rajnai kiruccanáson is elmenni

de nem, ez csak simán jó, és pont így jött ki

applepickerproductions: CHVRCHES - Night Sky live @ Gebäude...

Mon, 13 May 2013 06:41:03 -0400

applepickerproductions:

CHVRCHES - Night Sky live @ Gebäude 9 Köln

~~i’m a nice guy~~

thingsthatarenormal: do you ever just listen to godrevy pointand sob every time

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:14:18 -0400

thingsthatarenormal:

do you ever just listen to godrevy point
and sob

every time

<33333

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:12:47 -0400

<33333

Mac DeMarco - Still Together @ Kuplung Budapest, 6 May 2013

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:29:03 -0400

Mac DeMarco - Still Together @ Kuplung Budapest, 6 May 2013

megers67: Ok not so much informative as an excuse for me to...

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:20:36 -0400

megers67:

Ok not so much informative as an excuse for me to post a bunch of pictures of my favorite animal, the pangolin.

Mac DeMarco - Ode To Viceroy @ Kuplung Budapest, 6 May 2013

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:19:10 -0400

Mac DeMarco - Ode To Viceroy @ Kuplung Budapest, 6 May 2013

Photo

Mon, 06 May 2013 08:45:00 -0400

Patrick Wolf - The Sun is Often Out at the London Palladium, 15...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:12:00 -0400

Patrick Wolf - The Sun is Often Out at the London Palladium, 15 November 2009

i shall continue to cry about this concert every day for the rest of eternity okay thank you

"Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:08:19 -0400

“Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s appearance matter a lot. Not all men buy into this, of course, but many do. Some seem incapable of entertaining the notion that not everything women do with their appearance is for men to look at. This is why men’s response to women discussing stifling beauty norms is so often something like “But I actually like small boobs!” and “But I actually like my women on the heavier side, if you know what I mean!” They don’t realize that their individual opinion on women’s appearance doesn’t matter in this context, and that while it might be reassuring for some women to know that there are indeed men who find them fuckable, that’s not the point of the discussion.

Women, too, have been socialized to believe that the ultimate arbiters of their appearance are men, that anything they do with their appearance is or should be “for men.” That’s why women’s magazines trip over themselves to offer up advice on “what he wants to see you wearing” and “what men think of these current fashion trends” and “wow him with these new hairstyles.” While women can and do judge each other’s appearance harshly, many of us grew up being told by mothers, sisters, and female strangers that we’ll never “get a man” or “keep a man” unless we do X or lose some fat from Y, unless we moisturize//trim/shave/push up/hide/show/”flatter”/paint/dye/exfoliate/pierce/surgically alter this or that.

That’s also why when a woman wears revealing clothes, it’s okay, in our society, to assume that she’s “looking for attention” or that she’s a slut and wants to sleep with a bunch of guys. Because why else would a woman wear revealing clothes if not for the benefit of men and to communicate her sexual availability to them, right? It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that it’s hot out or it’s more comfortable or she likes how she looks in it or everything else is in the laundry or she wants to get a tan or maybe she likes women and wants attention from them, not from men?

The result of all this is that many men, even kind and well-meaning men, believe, however subconsciously, that women’s bodies are for them. They are for them to look at, for them to pass judgment on, for them to bless with a compliment if they deign to do so. They are not for women to enjoy, take pride in, love, accept, explore, show off, or hide as they please. They are for men and their pleasure.”

- Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via albinwonderland)

heavysky: tardis-thesexysnogbox: booksandwildthings: satanmori...

Sat, 04 May 2013 05:34:08 -0400

heavysky:

tardis-thesexysnogbox:

booksandwildthings:

satanmoriarty:

dizpotter:

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?

I mean, can we just talk about how this parallels the actual education system? Where they’re so concerned about teaching us things like logarithms and graphing that we don’t know shit about what’s actually out there in the adult world, like doing taxes or writing checks or anything? I mean, “It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.” School children are often under the impression that getting A’s in all their classes ensures a successful future, but really, it’s so ignorant because the real world isn’t just one big question-and-answer paper. There is so much more to the world than being able to give back information like some kind of super-computer, and brainwashing children into thinking that theory is key is just going to lead to a bunch of children falling flat on their faces when they’re pushed into the adult world and feel as if everything new they try to do is wrong because it wasn’t taught to them step-by-step. I just really love Harry’s line, “And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what’s out there?” because I feel as if sometimes we just learn things for the sake of knowing them, despite whether it is actually useful. Yes, school is important, and getting bad grades isn’t a good way to start your future, but it’s so much more than that, you see.

this sounds a lot like something Hermione would say

I think that’s the reason why everyone has such strong negative feelings toward Umbridge (as a person, not a character). I can’t tell you how many times I heard people say that they wanted Umbridge to die more than Voldemort. And I must say that I feel the same.

Voldemort is a racist dictator. While these have existed, and still do, the majority of us don’t live under such a tyrant. We’ve heard about them in history books and on the news- but they’re already dead or on the other side of the world. While we can be horrified at the terror such a person can spread and how, well, evil they can be, a character of this archetype doesn’t strike a personal chord with most of us.

But Umbridge does. As stated before, she represents everything that we hate about the public school system. Most of us know or have a teacher, professor, principal, or school administrator who, to probably a lesser degree, personifies what Umbridge is saying. They teach only to the test, or tell teachers to do so, they insist on including useless things in their curriculums, they PASS LAWS SO THAT SUCH A SCHOOL SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE. This is something that affects nearly every public school in the US, (and I’m guessing the UK as well). Nearly every student has to go through school learning things that they will never use in real life and that in no way prepare them for the real world, just so the various boards of education can use the higher test scores as ‘proof’ that we’re ‘smarter’ than other states, countries, etc., and therefore deserve more funding.

We hate Umbridge so much (again, as a person, not a character) because she represents a villain we all have in our own lives. Possibly every single person who has read this book can connect with the frustration Harry and the other students feel.

We hate Umbridge so much because everything she is, everything she represents, is very real and very personal to every single one of us.

I love this fandom, always have, always will

as a person who always had the best grades but is on the way to accomplish nothing at all in her life, i think this is brilliant commentary.

This is especially poignant because I live opposite a high school and currently I’m having to listen to their graduation ceremony at full volume. Simpering speeches about how “we don’t yet know what awaits us, although many of us have already heard stories from friends who have already accomplished their final exams… we should all be grateful to everyone here because they did so much for us and ultimately, in a few years’ time, we’ll only recall the good things”
NO NO NO

First, goddamn this “now now, let’s not be critical” attitude when there is so much to be critical of.

Second, I really fucking loathe the way people (and high school teachers are the main culprits here) treat the final exams as a BIG DEAL. They’re not. But at some point around 11th grade, they become the pivotal point of all education. Not only is there a lot of stuff that is useless but the point of all learning becomes that final exam so that even some vital and interesting knowledge is smeared in that fucking shit and can no longer be appreciated for its own sake. History qua history isn’t important enough on its own; it’s important because this and this topic might come up as an essay question.

Also, back then I totally bought into it. I was always the best student, hot knife through butter, and it was so easy to think this is how it works that up to a point I was honestly expecting to just carry on, keep scoring those straight As until someone said, “Congratulations, you’re so smart, here’s your prize: a nice life!”

haha.

And yeah, JKR can be called out for a lot of shit and the fifth book is strange in many people’s eyes but I was so totally with Harry on all that explosive rage and frustration right there.

awkwardsituationist: high tide and low tide in great britain....

Sat, 04 May 2013 03:09:12 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten

unheimlich: Enya és a Disintegration Loops egyetlen...

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:17:00 -0400

unheimlich:

Enya és a Disintegration Loops egyetlen stripben!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!

enyarajongó comingout, életem, stb

applepickerproductions: Közben kijött az új Animal Collective!

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:34:34 -0400

applepickerproductions:

Közben kijött az új Animal Collective!