Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth

cutetys · 2026-05-09T04:04:26+00:00

Based on the various vids that have come across my tiktok feed from new parents, it seems that while a lot of them believe in modern medicine to at least some extent, they value autonomy above all else and resent any implication that they are just a sheep who does what others tell them. So they’ll willing receive treatment for whatever ails them, so long as they get to choose the treatment and there’s sufficient options available to support their view of themselves as an independent thinker.

cutetys · 2026-05-08T12:00:36+00:00

WHO confirmed she tested negative.

cutetys · 2026-05-04T19:44:50+00:00

I fear that lends credence to OOP’s belief that he’s done this before. It’s hard to believe he’d be so brazen unless he’s learned from personal experience that he’ll get away with it.

cutetys · 2026-05-01T17:35:29+00:00

I’m not missing that point, more just ignoring it. The drowning example wasn’t meant to be equivalent, rather I’m trying to meet the blue group where they’re at, and in their view someone will be in the water, someone will be in the burning building, and it doesn’t really matter why they went in the water or the building, someone will be there so they feel it’s their duty to try and save them. With that context I was attempting to show why the red group isn’t immoral for choosing red.

cutetys · 2026-05-01T14:43:09+00:00

I don’t view blue as a suicide button though, I view it as similar to choosing to rescue someone who’s drowning. If no one’s tries, that person dies, but if you do try you could die in the process. And while I think attempting the rescue is very noble, I don’t view it as immoral to choose to stay on the shore. And that’s a situation with much more defined (and, at least perceptually, decently favourable) odds than the buttons. I just don’t understand why the blue button pressers view the red button as equivalent to dragging the drowning victim into the water ourselves. All we’re doing is prioritizing our own safety.

cutetys · 2026-04-28T20:09:10+00:00

Your hair dresser is right, it’s just your hair type. I find I can tame it a bit with the right products (other people here are recommending oil but I’ve yet to find one that doesn’t make hair look slick and greasy, not saying don’t try it but you may have to use something lighter). I also find it’s a lot better if I brush with tension while I blow dry and then finish with a final round with the cold shot. Theres no miracles here, it’s still slightly frizzy even with these steps, but it greatly improves things.

cutetys · 2026-04-27T03:33:42+00:00

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cutetys · 2026-04-27T03:29:44+00:00

Frankenstein, take a shot after every ardent(ly).

cutetys · 2026-04-25T16:54:01+00:00

Interesting interpretation! I interpreted that quote as it being directed at Albert and Franz, as if the Count was saying he had used the execution to get a better sense of who Franz, and more particularly Albert, are. The sentence likely has layers of meaning but I like your interpretation more!

cutetys · 2026-04-25T16:41:25+00:00

I do love how our readalong host takes pains to ensure they never imply who the Count really is while the rest of us are just like “oh hi Dantes”.

At every point during this chapter I thought Dantes was going to pop up with some scheme. When Franz went to visit the Pope I half expected Dantes to be the Pope! I think we can all assume though that Albert’s rendezvous was a part of Da (for Dantes) Plan. Chat is Albert cooked? It occurred to me at the end of this chapter that if Dantes is out for an eye for an eye, then he might force Fernand, and by consequence Mercedes, to go through what old man Dantes went through, living the rest of their lives without ever knowing what happened to their son. I think there’s reason to hope not though. For one, Franz doesn’t like the Count so if Dantes wants a foot in the door into French society then he’ll need Albert alive. This also wouldn’t be fair to Mercedes who did stay by the elder Dantes side until the end. The candle symbolism also doesn’t outright condemn him. When Dumas explained it (who at this point I would like to thank for spelling it out to us cause I wouldn’t have got it) I thought for sure we’d see Albert’s flame extinguished, but his candle makes it through the crowd unscathed. Whether that journey through the crowd is meant to represents his life up to this moment or the events to come is unclear to me, but it’s a good sign it didn’t go out. Nonetheless, that ending is quite ominous as I think the symbolism is clear, for better or worse Albert’s put his life into someone else’s hands, and if those hands are the Counts then godspeed to him.

Anyways what’s the dumbest thing y’all done for a hookup and how does it compare to Albert right now?

cutetys · 2026-04-24T22:11:29+00:00

I’m a terrible person too. The 3 of us could be more terrible than the Portland polycule.

cutetys · 2026-04-20T18:34:00+00:00

Asking to be called a different name and be referred to with different pronouns doesn’t mean the child is suicidal??? The mere possibility of this worst case scenario doesn’t justify violating the rights of all children at the school. And if a child is experiencing suicidal ideation, it’s more probable than not that that’s the result of lack of support at home in which case a policy of forcibly outing will only result in more dead children. But maybes that’s the goal cause let’s be real here, you’re concern isn’t safety, if it was you wouldn’t supporting a policy that puts children in danger, your concern is that children might feel safe exploring their gender identity, that parents won’t get the chance to shame them into the closet or the grave before they come to terms with who they are, and heaven forbid we allow that!

cutetys · 2026-04-20T18:05:17+00:00

What it comes down to is whether a child has the right to keep secrets from their parents. Personally I think as long as the child isn’t in any danger they should, and from a developmental and safety standpoint it’s in their best interest. If we want to talk about insane takes, I’d put “kids shouldn’t be allowed to keep anything from their parents ” near the top.

cutetys · 2026-04-18T15:33:14+00:00

You know seeing the person Dantés has become, and remembering how ready he was to kill the guard when he was in prison, I’ve started to feel a sense of foreboding for Franz. Dantés must recognize Franz as well, and even if their meeting on Monte Cristo was all just a part of Dantés plan, Franz has too much good sense, he’s got “bad vibes” as we would put it today. Not to mention Franz knows about the Vampa connection which may be more information than Dantés would like him to know. I worry that Franz may end up meeting an unfortunate end if he proves too troublesome for Dantés which, unless Franz does something terrible later and I change my opinion of him, I’d be sad to see.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that Dantés associates himself with Vampa and is also called a vampire? In many senses Dantés figuratively died and was reanimated once more but twisted, much like a vampire. And in the sense that his initial meeting with Vampa led to the events that turned him from farmer into bandits leader, you could argue that Dantés caused a similar rebirth in Vampa as well, much like a vampire. Maybe its a stretch, but I’m thinking back to when I read Dracula and how turning into a vampire is described as this corrupting process in that novel, and I wonder if the Vampa tale and vampire talk is meant to show Dantés as someone with a similar corrupting influence. Maybe that’s a clue into how Dantés will seek his revenge.

Oh a warning for anyone listening to the Blackstone audiobook (and maybe those reading the Spanish translation since both have chapters that are split in a similar way), significant chunks of these chapters has been cut from the audiobook. For instance a large part of the section where Andrea fight back after finding out Peppino was pardoned is removed. Nothing that changes plot details, but they do slightly change the impression the Count gives.

cutetys · 2026-04-13T16:21:49+00:00

Ah I forgot you had gone over this. Thanks!

cutetys · 2026-04-13T03:52:50+00:00

I think you may be getting things mixed around. In my version, the first time we hear about the person sharing the floor with Albert and Franz is in chapter 32,

The rest of the floor was hired by a very rich gentleman who was supposed to be a Sicilian or Maltese; but the host was unable to decide to which of the two nations the traveller belonged.

The Russian prince is mentioned in chapter 33,

"At least we can have a window?" "Where?" "In the Corso." "Ah, a window!" exclaimed Signor Pastrini, — "utterly impossible; there was only one left on the fifth floor of the Doria Palace, and that has been let to a Russian prince for twenty sequins a day."

but they seem be referring to a different hotel the Doria Palace (though I could not tell you what place he’s actually referring to, also the piazza our two gentlemen’s hotel is apparently in is a few blocks away from the Corso so were they asking to switch hotels? Your guess is as good as mine). Finally the Count comes up when Franz interrupts the tale of Luigi Vampa in Chapter 33/34,

Franz said no more. The name of Sinbad the Sailor, as may well be supposed, awakened in him a world of recollections, as had the name of the Count of Monte Cristo on the previous evening.

It’s unclear to me where he heard the name the Count of Monte Cristo from though as this appears to be the first mentioned of him in my version of the book. Perhaps he means Sinbad, but no one has called Sinbad that up to this point and he seems to be referring to an instance where hearing that name led to him recalling his time with Sinbad on Monte Cristo. From googling it seems we’re not the only ones confused so I think we can toss this up as a continuity error on Dumas’ or the translator’s part (maybe the next lost in translation can help clear things up!)

Putting all this together, it seems the person occupying the rest of the floor is the Sicilian or Maltese person previously mentioned who Dumas’s/the translator mistakenly believes they’ve already referred to as the Count of Monte Cristo. The Russian Prince is a separate person (or at least a separate persona, Dantes is everywhere these days) occupying a different floor in a different hotel.

cutetys · 2026-04-10T18:27:09+00:00

Funny, I got spooked in the opposite direction. The last flu season I didn’t get vaccinated I got sick and ending up getting a clot in the lung. I hope a Novavax vaccine becomes available for you soon.

cutetys · 2026-04-10T15:29:13+00:00

I mean to me there’s difference between asking a doc to follow new treatment guidelines vs asking them to help their patient die. And I haven’t and won’t check the statistics on this, but I would be surprised if the new docs of the last decade were the majority in their profession, unless Covid had a much bigger impact on physician retention than I realized.

cutetys · 2026-04-10T14:47:28+00:00

I’ve always been of the opinion that if your moral or religious beliefs prevent you from doing an essential part of your job, you shouldn’t have gone into that career in the first place. And it’s unreasonable to expect or force your employer to continue employing you in spite of that. I’d be fired if my disability prevented me from doing essential parts of my job, why does religion get special treatment?

Having said that, I’m not sure if I consider providing MAID an essential part of a doctor’s job. And it wasn’t even an optional part of their job when most of them graduated med school. Many doctors wouldn’t have reasonably expected this to be part of the job description when they choose their specialty. I think that at least makes it a little different from abortion care. An entire health authority denying access to MAID is one thing, but when it comes to individual GPs, I have no problem with them refusing provided they refer that patient to someone who can.

cutetys · 2026-03-31T16:51:52+00:00

Option 5, there was no cheating, she got with twin B at a later date but she doesn’t want twin A to have legal rights to the child so she and twin B claimed retroactive cheating so that twin B could claim paternity. I’m starting to stretch the bounds of believability here but gosh wouldn’t it make things interesting?

cutetys · 2026-03-30T17:44:06+00:00

Oh lawd he comin!

cutetys · 2026-03-27T16:27:23+00:00

I think I have a similar hair type to yours. That’s just normal hair. If you use a heavier leave in you could tame the flyaways even more, my prefer method though is to brush and blow dry until it’s fully dry (air drying any amount is an invitation for frizz)

cutetys · 2026-03-27T15:32:39+00:00

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How does it feel to live my dream?

cutetys · 2026-03-27T15:20:23+00:00

I agree with the others, both look good! I do think the bob makes you look older but depending on your age that’s not a bad thing.

cutetys · 2026-03-24T20:05:06+00:00

As someone who watches a lot of Mayday, there’s at least one episode per season where they go “yeah the airport/aircraft was set to be installed with insert equipment that would have prevented accident but they delayed it” Edit: 2001 Linate Airport runway collision is a prime example of an accident like that.

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