[quote] “it doesn’t Matter that chilchuck is a grown man in his 30s, that he’s middle aged by half-foot standards, that he has adult aged children, that he’s a divorced alcoholic that runs a union, that he dresses and acts like a grown adult, Or that dungeon meshi explicitly addresses the infantilization that smaller fantasy races receive despite being fully autonomous adults in the writing (that chilchuck is specifically a Commentary on a very common fantasy trope).
chilchuck is Short and his eyes and ears are Big so if you’re attracted to him then that’s basically the same as being attracted to a child. having a fantasy race where the grown adults are tiny and have big eyes and big ears is just another version of the 1000 year old loli excuse.” [unquote]
In the name of scientific advancement, clinical education and fiscal expediency, the bodies of the destitute in the Dallas-Fort Worth region have been routinely collected from hospital beds, nursing homes and homeless encampments and used for training or research without their consent — and often without the approval of any survivors, an NBC News investigation found.
Before its sudden shuttering last week, the Health Science Center’s body business flourished.
On paper, the arrangements with Dallas and Tarrant counties offered a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem: Local medical examiners and coroners nationwide bear the considerable costs of burying or cremating tens of thousands of unclaimed bodies each year. Disproportionately Black, male, mentally ill and homeless, these are individuals whose family members often cannot be easily reached, or whose relatives cannot or will not pay for cremation or burial.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center used some of these bodies to teach medical students. Others, like Honey’s, were parceled out to for-profit medical training and technology companies — including industry giants like Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific and Medtronic — that rely on human remains to develop products and teach doctors how to use them. The Health Science Center advertised the bodies as being of “the highest quality found anywhere in the U.S.”
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A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in recent years, though, and some states, including Hawaii, Minnesota and Vermont, have flatly prohibited it — part of an evolution of medical ethics that has called on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center charged in the opposite direction.
Through public records requests, NBC News obtained thousands of pages of government records and data documenting the acquisition, dissection and distribution of unclaimed bodies by the center over a five-year period.
An analysis of the material reveals repeated failures by death investigators in Dallas and Tarrant counties — and by the center — to contact family members who were reachable before declaring a body unclaimed. Reporters examined dozens of cases and identified 12 in which families learned weeks, months or years later that a relative had been provided to the medical school, leaving many survivors angry and traumatized.
Five of those families found out what happened from NBC News. Reporters used public records databases, ancestry websites and social media searches to locate and reach them within just a few days, even though county and center officials said they had been unable to find any survivors.
In one case, a man learned of his stepmother’s death and transfer to the center after a real estate agent called about selling her house. In another, Dallas County marked a man’s body as unclaimed and gave it to the Health Science Center, even as his loved ones filed a missing person report and actively searched for him.
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“What they’re doing is uncomfortably close to grave-robbing,” [Bioethicist Eli Shupe] said.
Shupe was alluding to the dark history, long before voluntary body-donation programs, when U.S. medical schools turned to “resurrectionists,” or “body snatchers,” who dug up the graves of poor and formerly enslaved people. To curb this ghastly 19th-century practice, states adopted laws giving schools authority to use unclaimed bodies for student training and experiments.
Many of those laws remain on the books, but the medical community has largely moved beyond them. Last year, the American Association for Anatomy released guidelines for human body donation stating that “programs should not accept unclaimed or unidentified individuals into their programs as a matter of justice.”
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After publishing a newspaper essay criticizing the practice, she brought her concerns directly to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court at a meeting last year, asking officials to consider the message being sent to marginalized residents and people of color.
“How does it look,” she said, “when a Black body is dissected with nobody’s permission at all, simply because they died poor?”
“who were reachable before declaring a body unclaimed”
they didn’t even fucking GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO CLAIM THEIR DEAD
It is absolutely equivalent to grave robbing. As bad as grave robbing. Just without the “middleman” bit of burying them first, because they want to dodge the expense, that’s the point.
It’s especially disgusting because these people would overwhelmingly have been disadvantaged in terms of getting health care while they were alive. To then be used as a teaching aid and have the very effects of that lack of care turned into an educational opportunity for a profession that, itself, is rife with discrimination against the poor, POC, the unhoused, the unhealthy, the disabled, the mentally ill, those with substance use problems, perpetuating the cycle that might have failed the person in the first place and contributed to their demise…. Yeah. Also, a lot of people are victims of medical abuse and probably would be upset, like me, at the idea of this happening to them. I’m already a walking crime scene, ffs, don’t make that worse.
Also, this? If I wanted to donate my body for education or research (I don’t and my paperwork reflects this) this would make me reluctant because even though I might be willing, I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with a place that does this, even if I were dead. I literally would not be caught dead supporting them.
And while *I* know how the organ donation process works for transplants and am not worried about coming to harm because I am a donor (please please learn about it and become a donor, please), a lot of people don’t trust the process and are misinformed, and you can’t tell me this sort of shit is not going to affect those fears. It’s the same sort of callousness.
It also gives HUGE motive for those same companies to lobby *against* social assistance programs.
If it’s more expensive to ethically source voluntarily donated remains than it is to buy a congressman who can shut down mental health access and homeless shelters so they can scoop up society’s most vulnerable as they fall by the wayside, I don’t think we’d be surprised to see things go that way.
Protectibe the sanctity of human bodies isn’t *just* a matter of practicality and efficiency. It’s also a foundational step in ensuring the sanctity of the *living*.
A friend once told me that when they are struggling with getting laundry done, she pretends it is her sworn duty to smuggle the young prince out of the castle to safety, disguised in a laundry hamper.
Now, when I am struggling with hygiene, I pretend I am part of a village with an annual festival, and I get one day a year to spend luxuriously at a bathhouse in preparation.
What my friend imparted on me was the skill of turning mundane tasks into fantastical adventures to make them more compelling and bearable.
So next time you need to go on a mental health walk, maybe consider doing reconnaissance for a secret underground organisation.
Next time cooking is too much of a chore, consider you ability to turn space station rations into a feast to the delight of your crewmates.
Originally i had leshy undergo the same thought process as kallamar and heket but cmon. Come on. Look at that guy. do you really think anything goes on in his head other than dancing fruits and cocomelon
Also Bonus! Lamb doesn’t know how to read any of their minds in the same room
Originally i had leshy undergo the same thought process as kallamar and heket but cmon. Come on. Look at that guy. do you really think anything goes on in his head other than dancing fruits and cocomelon
Also Bonus! Lamb doesn’t know how to read any of their minds in the same room
>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on
Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.
Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.
i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.
If you don’t have a 3D printer, check the website of your local library to see if they do! If you’re in college, your university’s libraries could have one too! They’ll likely have info on how to submit a print to their services and how/where you could find them.
hey can we. can we rewind to the part where tumblr has a regular problem with bone stealing scandals
look, if you didn’t already know about the Bone Stealing Witch claiming that any skeletons unearthed when a cemetery flooded were free game, I can’t exactly blame you, but man I wish I could be in your position.
i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.
If you don’t have a 3D printer, check the website of your local library to see if they do! If you’re in college, your university’s libraries could have one too! They’ll likely have info on how to submit a print to their services and how/where you could find them.
hey can we. can we rewind to the part where tumblr has a regular problem with bone stealing scandals
look, if you didn’t already know about the Bone Stealing Witch claiming that any skeletons unearthed when a cemetery flooded were free game, I can’t exactly blame you, but man I wish I could be in your position.
i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.
If you don’t have a 3D printer, check the website of your local library to see if they do! If you’re in college, your university’s libraries could have one too! They’ll likely have info on how to submit a print to their services and how/where you could find them.
hey can we. can we rewind to the part where tumblr has a regular problem with bone stealing scandals
look, if you didn’t already know about the Bone Stealing Witch claiming that any skeletons unearthed when a cemetery flooded were free game, I can’t exactly blame you, but man I wish I could be in your position.
basically a speaker disperses the music in a fine mist throughout an entire room, much like a humidifier. and earbuds bring the .usic directly to your ears and spray it in them like a hose. but when you listen to music through your phone speaker it just pools there on the table or whereever. not good!
And I know a lot of social media’s response to this will be to call women stupid bitch Karens for being married to Trump voters in the first place, because the internet hates women, but think about how misogynistic Republican men are, and how violent/threatening they are. Think of the Republican men who went to 1/6, and the ones who show up to rallies with rifles. Think of how many Republicans are cops, and the amount of cops who are domestic abusers. Do you really think Republican men are not dangerous to the women and children in their lives?
It should go without saying, but if you’re afraid of your partner finding out who you voted for, you need to get out of that relationship. That’s easier said than done, though, so in the meantime, know that who you actually vote for is not public information. Your voter registration information is public, meaning the fact that you’re registered, what party you’re affiliated with, and that you voted. But no one knows who you voted for in a given election, and you do not need to vote for the party you’re affiliated with in a general election. It’s possible to be a registered Republican and vote for Democrats.
Webtoon’s new age rating standards say that a comic can’t be rated All Ages if it includes “Fully censored profanity (e.g., #$%^) in a few episodes”. Literally more restrictive than 1950s newspaper funnies!
The Berestain Bears would not be an all-ages series under Webtoon’s rating system:
Sensitive themes and topics
2 - Sensitive themes or topics such as self-harm, bullying, or abuse are mildly explored in some story arcs
Look- Yes I do still watch game grumps. And yes I willl always vote blue. but I just don’t see how you could say my 5’9 solid gold statue of markiplier is a, “sign of class”
While we spent the last week watching horrors unfold in Lebanon, Israeli newspapers are shamelessly publishing articles claiming parts of Lebanese territory. If you think their only aim is to fight “terrorism” you are a bloody fool.
Zionists suddenly deciding they’re ‘Indigenous’ to Lebanon. Die painfully please.
Was thinking about trod Narinder being secretly in love with Lamb the whole time and the fact that Narinder most definitely has trust issue and fears of being mortal now
So with those two trains of thought combined, I wanted to explore… other hidden feelings he might have towards the lamb… 👀💧
ilove when someone posts about an issue that’s supposedly plaguing society and it’s painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok
ilove when someone posts about an issue that’s supposedly plaguing society and it’s painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok
I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day
DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.
DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.
NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES. IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.
VOTE.
YOU CAN GET YOUR PHONE OUT IN THE POLLS
YOU CAN’T TAKE PICTURES
BUT YOU CAN LOOK UP WHATEVER YOU WANT
LOOK PEOPLE AND POSITIONS UP IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY STAND FOR, OR WHAT THE POSITION IS
VOTE ALL THE WAY DOWN THE BALLOT
LOCAL ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT TOO
I’m not even American but still shitting bricks hoping ya’ll don’t got full fash out of apathy
I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day
[ID: a tweet from south yorkshire police saying “do you know someone who lives a lavish lifestyle but doesn’t have a job? your intelligence is vital in helping us put away those who think they’re ‘untouchable’ befo…” and a blue poster about economic crime.
someone replied to this with “here he is” and a photo of king charles, sitting in an ornate gold and red seat. he is in an ostentatious red military uniform with a chestful of medals. end ID]
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