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The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil
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Donât mind me. Just cleaning your dash
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i was thinking about this today so how long has YOUR JOB existed- not how long your industry has existed, but how long someone has been doing the work you do as a trade notwithstanding changes in terminology and technology. no unemployed option cuz i cant add more answers sorry... tell me about it in the tags
#mmm it depends#we know forestry texts from the 1200s (germany)#but on the other hand#the subsection i'm in in particular#probably since the early 1900s#like my actual job job#still#i'm in the field of forestry so i'd still say medieval europe#lioness reblogs#There For Queue
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I am jewish and curious :3
#we always went to france for christmas#so we put up a tree once we got there#and chirstmas holidays start around the 20th so like#the day after the christmas holidays start#polls#lioness reblogs
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Green Silk Promenade Dress, ca. 1888, French.
Designed by Emile Pingat.
Met Museum.
#oh LOVE the way they do the 18th century aesthetic#that dress#YES#clothing#art#lioness reblogs#There For Queue
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playing science telephone
Hi folks. Let's play a fun game today called "unravelling bad science communication back to its source."
Journey with me.
Saw a comment going around on a tumblr thread that "sometimes the life expectancy of autism is cited in the 30s"
That number seemed..... strange. The commenter DID go on to say that that was "situational on people being awful and not⊠anything autism actually does", but you know what? Still a strange number. I feel compelled to fact check.
Quick Google "autism life expectancy" pulls up quite a few websites bandying around the number 39. Which is ~technically~ within the 30s, but already higher than the tumblr factoid would suggest. But, guess what. This number still sounds strange to me.
Most of the websites presenting this factoid present themselves as official autism resources and organizations (for parents, etc), and most of them vaguely wave towards "studies."
Ex: "Above And Beyond Therapy" has a whole article on "Does Autism Affect Life Expectancy" and states:
The link implies that it will take you to the "research studies" being referenced, but it in fact takes you to another random autism resource group called.... Songbird Care?
And on that website we find the factoid again:
Ooh, look. Now they've added the word "some". The average lifespan for SOME autistic people. Which the next group erased from the fact. The message shifts further.
And we have slightly more information about the study! (Which has also shifted from "studies" to a singular "study"). And we have another link!
Wonderfully, this link actually takes us to the actual peer-reviewed 2020 study being discussed. [x]
And here, just by reading the abstract, we find the most important information of all.
This study followed a cohort of adolescent and adult autistic people across a 20 year time period. Within that time period, 6.4% of the cohort died. Within that 6.4%, the average age of death was 39 years.
So this number is VERY MUCH not the average age of death for autistic people, or even the average age of death for the cohort of autistic people in that study. It is the average age of death IF you died young and within the 20 year period of the study (n=26), and also we don't even know the average starting age of participants without digging into earlier papers, except that it was 10 or older. (If you're curious, the researchers in the study suggested reduced self-sufficiency to be among the biggest risk factors for the early mortality group.)
But the number in the study has been removed from it's context, gradually modified and spread around the web, and modified some more, until it is pretty much a nonsense number that everyone is citing from everyone else.
There ARE two other numbers that pop up semi-frequently:
One cites the life expectancy at 58. I will leave finding the context for that number as an exercise for the audience, since none of the places I saw it gave a direct citation for where they were getting it.
And then, probably the best and most relevant number floating around out there (and the least frequently cited) draws from a 2023 study of over 17,000 UK people with an autism diagnosis, across 30 years. [x] This study estimated life expectancies between 70 and 77 years, varying with sex and presence/absence of a learning disability. (As compared to the UK 80-83 average for the population as a whole.)
This is a set of numbers that makes way more sense and is backed by way better data, but isn't quite as snappy a soundbite to pass around the internet. I'm gonna pass it around anyway, because I feel bad about how many scared internet people I stumbled across while doing this search.
People on quora like "I'm autistic, can I live past 38"-- honey, YES. omg.
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tl;dr, when someone gives you a number out of context, consider that the context is probably important
also, make an amateur fact checker's life easier and CITE YOUR SOURCES
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affirmation #86
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#my eyes are shit (-6 and -8)#don't wear my glasses#why would i even?#like#the moment they get wet i can't see anyway#and i don't actually need to see to shower anyway#heck i've even occasionally showered in the dark because light was Too Much#polls#lioness reblogs
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In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actionsâ here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.
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> The college I attended was small and very LGBT friendly. One day someone came to visit and used the word âgayâ as a pejorative, as was common in the early 2000s. A current student looked at the visitor and flatly said, âwe donât do that here.â The guest started getting defensive and explaining that they werenât homophobic and didnât mean anything by it. The student replied, âIâm sure thatâs true, but all you need to know is we donât do that here.â The interaction ended at that point, and everyone moved on to different topics. âWe donât do that hereâ was a polite but firm way to educate the newcomer about our culture. [âŠ]
> It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I donât think it should be, but I donât get to make the rules. When Iâm able Iâd much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I donât always have the time and energy to do that. And sometimes, even if I did have the time, the person involved doesnât want to be educated.
> This is when I pull out âwe donât do that here.â It is a conversation ender. If you are the newcomer and someone who has been around a long time says âwe donât do that hereâ, it is hard to argue. This sentence doesnât push my morality on anyone. If they want to do whatever it is elsewhere, Iâm not telling them not to. Iâm just cluing them into the local culture and values. If I deliver this sentence well it carries no more emotional weight than saying, âin Japan, people drive on the left.â âWe donât do that hereâ should be a statement of fact and nothing more. It clearly and concisely sets a boundary, and also makes it easy to disengage with any possible rebuttals.
> Me: âYou are standing in that personâs personal space. We donât do that here.â > Them: âBut I was trying to be nice.â > Me: âAwesome, but we donât stand so close to people here.â
> Them: Tells an off-color joke. > Me: âWe donât do that here.â > Them: âBut I was trying to be funny.â > Me (shrugging): âThat isnât relevant. We donât do that here.â
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Thousands of premature infants were saved from certain death by being part of a Coney Island entertainment sideshow.
At the time premature babies were considered genetically inferior, and were simply left to fend for themselves and ultimately die.
Dr Martin Couney offered desperate parents a pioneering solution that was as expensive as it was experimental - and came up with a very unusual way of covering the costs.
It was Coney Island in the early 1900âs. Beyond the Four-Legged Woman, the sword swallowers, and âLionel the Lion-Faced Man,â was an entirely different exhibit: rows of tiny, premature human babies living in glass incubators.
The brainchild of this exhibit was Dr. Martin Couney, an enigmatic figure in the history of medicine. Couney created and ran incubator-baby exhibits on the island from 1903 to the early 1940s.
Behind the gaudy facade, premature babies were fighting for their lives, attended by a team of medical professionals.To see them, punters paid 25 cents.The public funding paid for the expensive care, which cost about $15 a day in 1903 (the equivalent of $405 today) per incubator.
Couney was in the lifesaving business, and he took it seriously. The exhibit was immaculate. When new children arrived, dropped off by panicked parents who knew Couney could help them where hospitals could not, they were immediately bathed, rubbed with alcohol and swaddled tight, then âplaced in an incubator kept at 96 or so degrees, depending on the patient. Every two hours, those who could suckle were carried upstairs on a tiny elevator and fed by breast by wet nurses who lived in the building. The rest [were fed by] a funneled spoon. The smallest baby Couney handled is reported to have weighed a pound and a half.
His nurses all wore starched white uniforms and the facility was always spotlessly clean.
An early advocate of breast feeding, if he caught his wet nurses smoking or drinking they were sacked on the spot. He even employed a cook to make healthy meals for them.
The incubators themselves were a medical miracle, 40 years ahead of what was being developed in America at that time.
Each incubator was made of steel and glass and stood on legs, about 5ft tall. A water boiler on the outside supplied hot water to a pipe running underneath a bed of mesh, upon which the baby slept.
Race, economic class, and social status were never factors in his decision to treat and Couney never charged the parents for the babies care.The names were always kept anonymous, and in later years the doctor would stage reunions of his âgraduates.
According to historian Jeffrey Baker, Couneyâs exhibits âoffered a standard of technological care not matched in any hospital of the time.â
Throughout his decades of saving babies, Couney understood there were better options. He tried to sell, or even donate, his incubators to hospitals, but they didnât want them. He even offered all his incubators to the city of New York in 1940, but was turned down.
In a career spanning nearly half a century he claimed to have saved nearly 6,500 babies with a success rate of 85 per cent, according to the Coney Island History
In 1943, Cornell New York Hospital opened the cityâs first dedicated premature infant station. As more hospitals began to adopt incubators and his techniques, Couney closed the show at Coney Island. He said his work was done.
Today, one in 10 babies born in the United States is premature, but their chance of survival is vastly improvedâthanks to Couney and the carnival babies.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage/
Book: The strange case of Dr. Couney
New York Post Photograph: Beth Allen
Original FB post by Liz Watkins Barton
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Fibre broadband via the water pipes is some cool engineering.
#okay that is super cool#clever problem solving#and an excellent solution#(also community-owned water system? amazing)#lioness reblogs#There For Queue
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if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until thereâs nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?
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