YSK: Blankets with smallpox isn't real. It's literally made up history. At no point did the genocide of native Americans happen due to being purposely given blankets riddled with smallpox. It happened due to them being exterminated piecemeal by the US Government and invaders. It's another piece of history whitewashed because of a historical ear worm with ALMOST zero truth. Native deaths came from the smallpox doing it's own thing while the US Government did the rest. There weren't explorers handing them out trying to kill natives, the government didn't have some sinister plot with blankets with smallpox, even if people were trying to kill natives with blankets riddled with smallpox, it wouldn't have worked... It's bullshit. Researchers and historians firmly believe it cannot really be passed on that way. Smallpox is a super fragile virus, it dies quickly outside of the body. You cannot give people blankets and contract smallpox from it the same way you can't contract herpes sitting on a toilet seat or AIDS from kissing someone with it.
If this were reddit you'd see it pinned on my profile. Alas, that's deleted so I'm going to try to post something similar here so I can cite it. Unfortunately a mod more recently deleted my last info dump when random people inevitably try to ad hominem so I'm doing it here again.
=
Sauce regarding the 1 'verified' instance where a US Officer tried to give natives 2 blankets and a handkerchief at Fort Pitt. Historians believe the effectiveness to be almost entirely made up because you cannot give someone smallpox with blankets. Smallpox had already run rampant in the native population.*:
E: For clarity and conciseness since people were having issues somehow with me sourcing the 1 instance but somehow saying I wasn't including the 1 instance... that didn't work... because you can't give someone smallpox with blankets. Not only was it not even rare, there was only 1, verified, instance... which did not work. The colloquial use and thought of natives somehow being sneakily given smallpox through blankets regularly is a straight up lie. It sounds just plausible enough for people to share it but it has ZERO basis in reality. It doesn't work. And only 1 scumbag US Officer in a war against natives was ever confirmed to have tried it.
Do certain medications which are are strong as some and worse than many illegal disqualify someone from owning a firearm? Wasn't there pretty wide claims about Trump popping pills which would disqualify him from owning a firearm anyway?
The three women were members of the Church of Scientology, as is Masterson. All three women said they were initially hesitant to speak to law enforcement because they said church teachings discouraged reporting to police. The women eventually left the church....
I don't know about you guys, but if a great friend and coworker I knew to be an upstanding person got accused of raping people I didn't know, I'd be with my friend all the way.
When it comes out they actually did the thing? You condemn what they did.
This isn't some weird 'gotcha'. This is people who like to scrutinize people who watch the Kardashians essentially doing the same thing on the internet lol.
Having your trust and integrity betrayed is one of the most human and humbling moments possible. One which anybody who's had more than two friends or a family in their life has ALREADY gone through.
What a pile of low life tabloid shitmongery.
Don't be a fucking hypocrite. Do you want people to change their opinions with new information or not?
People were asking for the full version so here it is. Plus, it deserves it's own video.SONG NAME: Harlem Shake - Baauer*ALL COPYRIGHTS go to Baauer or whoev...
I was reading a book on social life of the upper-middle class and new rich of the American 1920s and realized so many things we now do proudly were considered socially taboo back then. This was especially the case for clothing, makeup, women in certain public spaces, etc. What do you think will be different in the 2120s? Or...
I have a hard time seeing a proper utopia driven society penalizing these. Everyone should be able to fuck. Everyone should be able to put whatever they want in their bodies too. Dicks or drugs, doesn't matter.
Regarding leaving behind biohazard... You'd be surprised that the vast majority of first responders aren't trained for it and are liable if they try. Yes, it's kinda crazy and varies heavily by state.
First responders of any kind aren't trained for the cordiality or technical aspects of cleaning up biohazard scenes. It's very common. They're trained for patient care and that's it. They leave messes behind. They won't wash blood off your sidewalk. It's like walking into a personal nightmare for most people. Trained EMTs and paramedics are supposed to keep their PPE bagged and taken out with them, but if things get hectic, which is why they're there in the first place, stuff gets overlooked. Someone below already mentioned that it would've gotten shoved away to make room and it just gets forgot since it's not visible anymore
The fact of the matter is that they're there to triage and get them to the hospital, not tidy up after attempting to save someone's life.
The situation is macabre but it's a common one. A lot of people have felt that same weird surprise going back to where there loved one was to just find it a mess. There's no laws about them needing to clean. It's not the first time it's been brought up though.
If you're in the right state of mind you can call the nonemergency county line and ask if they have cleanup services for first responder scenes... the vast majority don't though. Those that do usually take a day or more to get there.
9/10 times it's family doing all of it.
I work pretty closely with just about every type of first responder in my line of work just to qualify this a bit... I've had to deal with this same issue in my personal life and professional. It's the same just about everywhere from what I know.
See the title. It's one of the few things that is preventing me from being able to browse super efficiently. Unfortunately a lot of my scrolling is going through the same stuff over and over....
Trump campaign backtracks claim that he bought a Glock handgun in South Carolina after it became clear that would be illegal (www.businessinsider.com)
I brought you into this world... (64.media.tumblr.com)
https://pizzacakecomic.com/
Realistic goals - Obama's post Denny's visit.
Realistic goals - Obama's post Denny's visit. (i.imgur.com)
Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yiQXPOO1Yo
I found some clips of those surgeons in the UK sexually assaulting coworkers (www.youtube.com)
From Scrubs episode 123, My HeroRequested by: knifewrenchowns
Cat Furniture (64.media.tumblr.com)
https://pizzacakecomic.com/
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis apologize over letters of support for Danny Masterson (abcnews.go.com)
The three women were members of the Church of Scientology, as is Masterson. All three women said they were initially hesitant to speak to law enforcement because they said church teachings discouraged reporting to police. The women eventually left the church....
I miss Messed Up Bible Stories. (64.media.tumblr.com)
www.pizzacakecomic.com
How difficult would it be for a video game to allow you to use multiple monitor layouts in their native resolutions?
I'm playing Armored Core 6 and thinking how I want a 100 button Steel Battalion controller with all 3 of my monitors to have different huds....
Is there a KBin wiki or general userguide?
Every spoiler tag variant I'd ever tried didn't work. Google was fruitless. No wiki/helpguide on the sidebar. Would be nice.
Anon has places he needs to be (lemmy.ml)
Capitalist Pigs (64.media.tumblr.com)
https://pizzacakecomic.com/
65 Days til Halloween! (64.media.tumblr.com)
https://pizzacakecomic.com/
There's a moderator reward program being rolled out at Reddit?
Looks like the previous thread got deleted by a mod....
Picnic (64.media.tumblr.com)
A post from Pizza Cake Comic
DO THE HARLEM SHAKE (ORIGINAL) - [Feb 2, 2013] (www.youtube.com)
People were asking for the full version so here it is. Plus, it deserves it's own video.SONG NAME: Harlem Shake - Baauer*ALL COPYRIGHTS go to Baauer or whoev...
What social taboos that exist today do you think will not be around in 100 years?
I was reading a book on social life of the upper-middle class and new rich of the American 1920s and realized so many things we now do proudly were considered socially taboo back then. This was especially the case for clothing, makeup, women in certain public spaces, etc. What do you think will be different in the 2120s? Or...
Meow (64.media.tumblr.com)
PizzaCakeComic
Stranger Danger - Pizza Cake Comic (64.media.tumblr.com)
My dad just died a few minutes ago, and the paramedics left a mess hidden under his bed.
My father just died in his sleep. He had passed by the time the paramedics arrived....
Origin story (64.media.tumblr.com)
Is there a way to hide posts if you've already upvoted or downvoted something?
See the title. It's one of the few things that is preventing me from being able to browse super efficiently. Unfortunately a lot of my scrolling is going through the same stuff over and over....
Threads by PizzaCakeComic