RemembertheApollo

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Assuming it perforates the intestine - big infection from fecal matter getting into the abdominal cavity. It's called peritonitis, and AFAIK it's pretty much fatal if untreated. Severe abdominal pain as the infection spreads, all the vomiting and diarrhea cleans you out, and then the infection starts to shut your intestines and the rest of your organs fail while you go into sepsis and die. It's not fast, either. It can take several days.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

They don't always have to fire a gun. Choking people to death is just as effective. Sitting on them. Tazeing them repeatedly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Driving unaware posts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot? Trichinosis has almost been eliminated in pork. An old study looking for a particular parasite found little to none depending on the product. Here is another study showing very low incidence of parasites in meat products, but also includes fresh produce in the study which had higher rates than some meats.

So I disagree that "A lot" is correct.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

That is a lovely story.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (4 children)

If the news could get their collective heads out of their asses and stop validating the right wing freakshow by giving them tons of airtime, then yes, students could also potentially sway the election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Xitter"?

Reads like "chitter", sounds creepy enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

President Felonius Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you're right. I messed up. I read it as the rights of the LGBTQ were enforced by restricting others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1944 was how long ago? That's how long it took for a jewish person to sound just like a rabid Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's always the super-rich assholes killing Civilization. They just keep leeching up all the money while crushing anyone who disagrees with them. Eventually the disparity is so huge you wind up with Haiti or some other authoritarian country run by absentee kleptocrats funneling all the money offshore while bleeding every last penny from the impoverished masses.

Fuck this clueless twat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably the 90's in the US. For context I'm an '80s kid.

The dust from deregulation had mostly settled, healthcare hadn't skyrocketed, education and homes were still mostly affordable. Union busting and offshoring had settled down a little. Bankruptcies crushing retirements, too. You thought that the traditional paths of career, maybe getting married, and buying a house were still on the table. Politics were pretty stable and it was probably the last time you could make the argument that "both sides" were kinda the same. We were kinda coasting after the close of the Cold War...sure there were some skirmishes, but nothing huge. The were the "good old days" where shit was just going OK for the most part (please don't pedantically point out what was wrong with society, no period is perfect, it's just that the '90s had a few less bumps in the road). The internet was becoming a more widespread thing, technology was advancing rapidly. You could still save the Earth with a little recycling, Climate Change wasn't obviously having effects as veiwed by the average person.

Followed by the '00s where we got hammered really fast with dot-com bust, 9/11, recession after recession, decades of war, politics shifting hard right, rapidly rising costs thanks to speculation and corporate mergers...it's been pretty unsettled for quite a while and for those entering the workforce now it's rough.

Yeah...the '90s. Things were still looking up until TSHTF in '00s and after.

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