I gotta naysay here. Seatbelts do a LOT of harm. Not everyone can wear one and not everyone wants to risk it. Just among my own friends and people I know in general; 4 females had a breast cut completely or partially off due to a seat belt. 6 people had their throats cut, to an obviously non-lethal degree. 2 had their stomach’s cut open to a horrifying degree that I won’t elaborate on.
Not even counting the uncomfortably awkward belt locations for particularly large, small, fat, skinny people. Females with large breasts get the joy of holding the belt in place or adjusting it every couple seconds.
They’re awkward, uncomfortable, painful, and can often cause the injuries in an accident. Sometimes it’s just better to forgo the belt.
Those injuries caused by seat belts more than very likely would have been deadly had they not been wearing them. To have enough force to cut skin or cut off a breast in an accident is far more than enough to cause someone to go flying through the windshield of a car, to slam them into the steering column, or through a window resulting in deadly injuries or causing an even bigger accident for other drivers now that your body is in the road along with your crashed car. Are you really going to risk being a smear of ground meat on the pavement because your seat belt was a little uncomfortable or it might cut you? Then I got good news for you, there’s a wide variety of devices made specifically to make seat belts more comfortable and reduce that risk.
These make it so that your seat belt won’t cut your neck, a simple sleeve of padded fabric that velcros around it, meaning you can put it anywhere on the belt.
This one does something similar, by readjusting the positioning of the seat belt to move it farther away from your neck and hey, helps a bit with having boobs in the way.
They even make ones for children too.
Boobs still in the way? While it’s pretty silly looking, this helps keep the seat belt in place so you don’t have to keep adjusting it.
And if you’re overweight, they make seat belt extenders so you can still be safe.
But maybe you’re still unsure, then listen to the CDC and all of their sources.
“More than half of the people killed in car crashes were not restrained at the time of the crash.1 Wearing a seat belt is the most effective way to prevent death and serious injury in a crash.Seat belt use is on the rise. Laws, education, and technology have increased seat belt use from 11% in 19812 to nearly 85% in 20103, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. “
“Most drivers and passengers killed in crashes are unrestrained. 53% of drivers and passengers killed in car crashes in 2009 were not wearing restraints.1Seat belts dramatically reduce risk of death and serious injury. Among drivers and front-seat passengers, seat belts reduce the risk of death by 45%, and cut the risk of serious injury by 50%.4Seat belts prevent drivers and passengers from being ejected during a crash. People not wearing a seat belt are 30 times more likely to be ejected from a vehicle during a crash. More than 3 out of 4 people who are ejected during a fatal crash die from their injuries.5Seat belts save thousands of lives each year, and increasing use would save thousands more. Seat belts saved almost 13,000 lives in 2009. If all drivers and passengers had worn seat belts that year, almost 4,000 more people would be alive today”
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The number of those who escaped injury [by wearing a seat belt] increased by 40% and those with mild and moderate injuries decreased by 35% after seatbelt legislation. There was a significant reduction in soft tissue injuries to the head. Only whiplash injuries to the neck showed a significant increase.”
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Fifty-five percent of those killed in passenger vehicle occupant crashes in 2008 were not wearing a seat belt…”
“Wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury by almost 50%. For children, the risk of fatal injury is reduced by 71% with the use of child safety seats.“
“Of those thrown completely out of a vehicle in a car crash, 75% died. Only one percent of people totally ejected from their cars had on a seat belt during the crash. Over 30% were not wearing seat belts.“
Conclusion? Wear your fucking seat belt. Tell your kids to wear their fucking seat belt. Tell your friends and family to wear their fucking seat belts. Time and time again it’s been proven that you are significantly more likely to survive a crash if you’re wearing one. Most people think they’re uncomfortable, but when you’re in a crash it can save your life. I’d rather be mildly injured than dead.
Wear your seat belt.
2017 and people are still trying to spread the myth that you don’t need to wear a seatbelt.
People really don’t wear a seatbelt????
This reminds me of a story from WW1
When they first introduced Helmets to the troops fighting in trenches the number of head injuries suddenly skyrocketed and people wanted to take the helmets away again.
Until they realized that the reason for this was the fact that most of these head injuries would have been fatal if it wasn’t for the Helmets.
You always need to look at the bigger picture.
Do not forget about survivorship bias. The only reason those people are here to complain about seatbelts is because those seatbelts kept them alive in the first place. Always, ALWAYS wear your seatbelt.
WEAR YOUR DAMNED SEATBELT
It drives me nuts, personally, that all of the adults who insisted that I wear a seatbelt as a child Now as adults refuse to wear seatbelts themselves. Now I have to sit there and play the grown up to people 30 plus years older than me insisting they put their seatbelt on every time I’m the driver. I just took a road trip with my parents, and literally it was every single time we got in the car I had to tell them (My mom in particular, who kept randomly just taking her seatbelt off while we were zooming down I-95 and made a big face every time I told her to put it back on - you’d think after a while she’d figure out that she could not do it secretly, because I have a newer car and the moment a passenger takes their seat belt off while the car is moving it starts screaming at you until the person puts their seatbelt back on).
Why are people like this? Le sigh.
Why do people think they’re tough for doing things stupidly wrong for no reason?
You’re not charging into gunfire on the battlefield, you’re driving 85 miles per hour commuting to work on the freeway.
You’re about to scatter your limited brain matter all over the pavement because you were too busy looking tough on the internet to use a free safety device.
love when im watching a documentary and im like “yep thats an egyptologist alright”
oh my god?
*hisses in Egyptologist*
So for those of you who don’t know yet, this is Colleen Darnell, also known as The Vintage Egyptologist on Instagram where she goes full colonialist in 1920s/1930s clothing complete with pith helmets and using Egyptians both living and dead as props. (Not kidding: she takes Aesthetique™ photos in tombs.) She’s married to John Darnell, who was formerly her professor and PhD supervisor at Yale, and it’s quite a well-known scandal in Egyptological circles that the two were having an affair before and at the time of her working on that PhD. John, who was married during that affair, eventually divorced his wife and then married Colleen.
In the field, they’re considered bad scholars. Beyond the Yale scandal, beyond the fact they’re being ridiculously colonialist in the way they present themselves and their “vintage fashion” choices, which they will extend to wearing on actual digs in Egypt itself, their condescending attitudes bleed through in their scholarship. A scholarship that’s mediocre at best to begin with. However, because they (especially Colleen) have such a strong social media presence, they keep getting asked for docus or to serve as consultants for popular media (e.g. Jodi Picoult heavily consulted them for her novel The Book of Two Ways and whoof it shows), and most people won’t question their fashion choices because “ohh aesthetic”.
However, by far most Egyptologists despise them for their academic dishonesty and refusal to acknowledge the loaded history behind their chosen mode of dress.
forgive me father for i have sexualized an older man
dude in the other side of the confessional, smoothing back his more salt than pepper hair, tugging at his collar, breaking into a slight nervous sweat that highlights his crows feet and laugh lines: Is that so?
What does your oc think of death? How do they react to it? Are they at peace with it, or afraid? Do they have their own beliefs or religious views about it?
Chuck Tingle: good evening, my good chums King: oh excellent! it’s chuck tingle! King: he’s great, he’s always so funny Tingle: actually, chums, this is serious horror King: what
King: what? you’re not doing funny erotica anymore? Tingle: i never did funny erotica, chum King: i King: what? Tingle: that was serious erotica King: i King: what? Barker: boy, was it!
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, i call this the tale of camp Damascus Stephen King: oh good i could use a good laugh! Tingle: it’s not a comedy, my good chum Tingle: it’s actually a harrowing tale of conversion camp torment torn straight from the headlines King: i’m laughing already! Poe: steve King: no wait sorry King: sorry that really came out wrong
Tingle: Rose is a typical teenage girl Tingle: loving jesus Tingle: obsessively cataloging obscure minutiae Tingle: sounds always escaping her throat
Tingle: “luke, i’m being haunted by demons that dress like target employees” ejaculates rose Tingle: “maybe you should pray on that” extrapolates rose’s father luke King: wait she calls her dad by his first name? Tingle: why yes my good chum, just a normal teenage thing that teenagers do Joe Hill: yeah steve get with the program
Tingle: rose sees these demons whose gums have receded to provide an unnatural length King: an unnatural length? Tingle: that’s correct, my good chum Tingle: an unnatural length Barker: ok look Barker: i’m just gonna ask the question everyone’s thinking Barker: are you chris pine?
Tingle: why would you think i was chris pine, my good chum? Tingle: certainly i would consider that to be an absurd premise Tingle: the very idea that i and Hollywood heartthrob chris pine would be the same person Tingle: how mirthful! Tingle: the very idea fills me with mirth!
Poe: clive, don’t harass chuck Barker: hey, i’m just asking questions Poe: you’re being very rude Poe: besides everyone knows chuck is actually will wheaton
Koontz: guys if you want to know chuck tingle’s real identity Koontz: you should ask a detective Poe: Barker: Barker: wow from the mouths of babes, huh?
Barker: so nobody knows his real identity but i’m pretty sure he’s chris pine Barker: what do you think? Arthur Conan Doyle: can he touch cold iron without pain? Barker: Barker: edgar i’m gonna let you answer this one
Poe: uh well i haven’t actually directly observed chuck handling any cold iron Poe: but i’m pretty sure he could do it Doyle: i’m not convinced Doyle: i have reason to believe that this chuck tingle may actually be one of the fae folk Poe: Barker: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: King: of course! King: it all makes sense!
Doyle: now this chuck tingle Doyle: would you describe him as puckish? Doyle: possibly impish? Poe: oh no not anymore Barker: he’s serious now Doyle: damnit! Doyle: there goes that theory
still so funny to me that gross has another meaning besides icky and is used seriously all the time. your gross annual income. your disgusting nasty amount of money you earn the whole year. pathetic
will personally never understand how tboys became the "always transmisogynistic" demographic when cis women are RIGHT THERE and way fucking worse in my experience. thats not to say they're all like that because biological essentialism is bad and ofc they arent but like. theyve got shit going on they dont even realize is transmisogyny
I think part of the reason a lot of cis women are transmisogynistic has to do with the fact that radical feminism has been absorbed so much into mainstream culture, it’s becoming more and more common for it to be considered baseline feminism for a lot of cis women. And cis women who have never even met or talked to a trans woman, decide that trans women don’t fit into their very narrow view of what a woman is. As a result they not only end up being transmisogynistic but generally misogynistic by reducing womanhood to a rigid, bio-essentialist or gender essentialist definition.
On the flip side, radical feminism is also the cause of the assumption that trans men are predisposed to misogyny because radical feminism defines men as an oppressor class across the board, and assumes that anyone with a man brain will absorb misogynistic mindsets and act misogynistically by virtue of being a man. Which completely falls apart when you think about marginalized men, cultural gender identities and multigendered. people for more than two seconds.
will personally never understand how tboys became the "always transmisogynistic" demographic when cis women are RIGHT THERE and way fucking worse in my experience. thats not to say they're all like that because biological essentialism is bad and ofc they arent but like. theyve got shit going on they dont even realize is transmisogyny
I think part of the reason a lot of cis women are transmisogynistic has to do with the fact that radical feminism has been absorbed so much into mainstream culture, it’s becoming more and more common for it to be considered baseline feminism for a lot of cis women. And cis women who have never even met or talked to a trans woman, decide that trans women don’t fit into their very narrow view of what a woman is. As a result they not only end up being transmisogynistic but generally misogynistic by reducing womanhood to a rigid, bio-essentialist or gender essentialist definition.
On the flip side, radical feminism is also the cause of the assumption that trans men are predisposed to misogyny because radical feminism defines men as an oppressor class across the board, and assumes that anyone with a man brain will absorb misogynistic mindsets and act misogynistically by virtue of being a man. Which completely falls apart when you think about marginalized men, cultural gender identities and multigendered. people for more than two seconds.
I actually think it’s so funny that the way a hormonal IUD works is that it just lies to your uterus and fools it into believing it’s pregnant. but instead of a fetus there’s just a little plastic doodad in there. I’m pregnant and it’s The Contraption.
my dumbass uterus: “man this thing has been cooking for like 5 years I bet it’s gonna be the most awesome baby of all time”
You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.
Of course it’s going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn’t quite right.
A bit of searching turned up the origin of the “fact”.
Alright, so it’s someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).
Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)
And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)
And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.
At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.
An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be…
Oh.
The Narmer palette. It’s the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)
So where is this “angry catfish”?
It’s not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.
It’s… Narmer. It’s Narmer himself.
Narmer’s name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as “painful catfish”, “striking catfish”, or, yes, “angry catfish” or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means “Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar”.
So.
Where does this leave us?
It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh’s name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.
In short, “the electric eel is called angry catfish” factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).
References
Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.
Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.
Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.
Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail’s tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.
I’d call this net zero information except I learned quite a lot. Except what an electric eel was called before electricity was discovered.
I already posted this in previous reblogs, but here it is again! In Tupi the electric eel is called puraké, poraké, poroquê, poraquê, puraquê, or simply purá. Puraké also means deception or disguise. In Yanomami the electric eel is õrãmisiwë, shenini, or yahetipa. Sometimes the metaphor wakë rë yëre ha is used to refer to it (“the place where fire burns”). And there are others, certainly.
References
Lizot, J. (2004). Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmi. Vicariato Apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho.
Navarro, E. (2007). Dicionário Tupi Antigo A Língua Indígena Clássica Do Brasil. Global Editora.
hey so uh the consuls asked me to talk to you about your divination techniques and uh. no yeah i get that you’ve been a great asset and successfully predicted the favor of the gods over the proposal to construct a new aqueduct. that was great, you’re great. just uh. well we were wondering if maybe you could speed it up a little bit next time- yes i know the omens can’t be rushed. but you did take like 30 minutes to read the entrails? and uh. to be perfectly honest we were all a little creeped out by the way you kept saying things like “oh that’s a SLIPPERY one” and “come to papa little kidney.” no no we’re not asking you to switch over to augury, you’re a great haruspex, really. if you could just not dig around in the entrails with a look of unbridled glee on your face quite as much that would be great. thanks.
to me the absolutely funniest part of cunk on earth is the fact that every single scientist without fail says “not as far as i’m aware of” instead of “no” whenever she asks them the most insane question possible.
i dont know how much of that show is scripted but i think their reactions are genuine (?) and like. that’s what scientists are really like. it’s hilarious. all my uni professors do the same thing, they word every negative response as a “well sounds wrong to me but idk bro maybe i just haven’t read about it yet so. whatever”.
if there is one thing we hate it’s definitive answers.
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to me the absolutely funniest part of cunk on earth is the fact that every single scientist without fail says “not as far as i’m aware of” instead of “no” whenever she asks them the most insane question possible.
i dont know how much of that show is scripted but i think their reactions are genuine (?) and like. that’s what scientists are really like. it’s hilarious. all my uni professors do the same thing, they word every negative response as a “well sounds wrong to me but idk bro maybe i just haven’t read about it yet so. whatever”.
if there is one thing we hate it’s definitive answers.
"if there is one thing we hate it’s definitive answers" well i think it depends really
the people who follow me are so cute by default. I don’t know how but everyone who has followed so far has been downright gorgeous. and then I get really nervous because cute people are looking at my posts
every once in a while i remember i can draw anything i want and go nuts and bolts and bananas for a while . you should do this too . get weird with it too
I was recently in one of Chicago’s more historic neighborhoods and I happened to notice that one of the museum-homes had paving brick outside with the word “Purington” on it, so I gave it a search in an idle moment and found the strange and compelling world of brick fandom. Technically most of the sites are people who salvage and resell historic brick and paving stone, but there’s a certain whiff of hyperfixation within this particular commercial niche.
Imagine paying for ninety acres of land with bricks. Imagine accepting ninety acres of land’s worth of bricks. I mean it makes sense in the era, why bother with cash when bricks will do, but like. Damn.
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There’s something insanely compelling about the idea of rocking up to a freight car to start unloading bricks for the day and they’re still faintly warm. I’m not sure if it’s compelling like fresh warm bread or compelling like some kind of weird eldritch horror.
clean your room or drink a glass of water please if you don’t do at least one of these things I’ll explode and die but then I’ll recover and then explode and die again and this cycle will repeat forever until you save me
I feel like people are missing the Very Important reference picture and that’s just criminal. Clearly if you look at the dog that inspired the piece, you would understand the inherent validity of the voters’ choice.
Thank you for that addition but I assure you we all already understood the the validity of the voters choice
I’m surprised that this post doesn’t contain a link to turn off all of these settings (maybe another version of this post does, who knows)
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols and this will take you to a page which states what information Google is currently tracking. Each section has a blue slider next to it. Click it and it will come up with a confirmation box, scroll through it and select “pause” and you should be good to go.
I would go to this link regularly to make sure the sliders haven’t reset, too.
My google takeout was 50 gigabytes, and only 15 of those were my google photos and google drive
“tumblr’s the only social media without algorithms!” “you can still be anonymous on tumblr!” “tumblr’s so nice because you don’t have to show your face!” WRONG tumblr is special because you can have 3000 followers and still get an average of seven likes a post. i’m doing stand up comedy at a packed venue and one person is laughing
I go into a fugue state when DND planning I swear to god. I opened my laptop and I was creating a propoganda homework task for me to fake complete and then fake mark. So I could give it to my players as worldbuilding. What
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