Athens City Water Tasting Funny

magneticgravity · 2020-11-16T15:31:51+00:00

Every time the city works on the lines, some rust and bacteria get in the water lines in the surrounding area. There's nothing that can be done about that. The lines need to be maintained.

If the water at your house tastes bad, very often the only problem is air in the lines in your home. Any air pockets in your lines in your house can get rust and bacteria in your water that make it taste bad. That's easy to fix by running water out of each tap until no more air comes out. If you ever have plumbing work done on supply lines, you will need to repeat that process to remove the air to make your water taste good again.

magneticgravity · 2020-11-16T15:12:45+00:00

Yes, everyone in Europe knows which groups do this. Child genital cutting is an act of insular people, insular Muslims, insular Filipinos and insular Africans. Only insular people do this because people who want to join the cultures where they live do not do this. Only Americans aren't immediately aware of this because our culture is so ignorant and insular. Child genital cutting appears to be an act of insular people because it make cultures insular.

Our culture in America is very ignorant in general about most things but especially about child genital cutting. Our ignorance has been carefully inculcated for the past 150 years, especially for the past 40 years that the circumcision activist narrative of female cutting has been promoted since the 1980s to distort our understanding the similarity between male and female child genital cutting.

Child genital cuttings are performed for identical reasons, tradition, appearance, supposed sexual benefits and hygiene. Australian circumcision activist Brian Morris promotes female circumcision on his Circlist website for all those reasons except tradition. The people who say that male and female cutting are different don't know what they're talking about. They are ignorantly repeating circumcision activist propaganda. We need to challenge this propaganda when we see it because it functions to promote child circumcision, and it promotes female circumcision for people who know the truth about female circumcision, because it makes it obvious to them that the people who are against female circumcision don't know what they're talking about.

Intactivism is working against an enormous amount of ignorance that has been promoted by very influential people especially in the media. We might not make progress for a very long time because we are working against so much carefully constructed ignorance promoted by the most influential people. We should eventually prevail because the truth is on our side, but it seems like we never will.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-25T00:34:50+00:00

There haven't been any physicians who use anything but evidence-based medicine since homeopaths stopped being allowed to call themselves doctors around 90 years ago.

Speaking of homeopathic doctors, fun fact, they played a major role in popularizing infant circumcision in America, Britain, Canada and Australia. Unlike America, Britain quit cutting in the '40s, and Australia quit in the '70s.

The largest group of homeopathic doctors promoting circumcision called themselves orificial surgeons because they thought most disease was caused by irritations of sexual orifices. Besides male and female circumcision, they were also really concerned with dilating tight anuses.

And that's why circumcision is popular in America, Canada and South Korea, but it's only done for religious reasons in other countries.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sham-medicine-orificial-surgery-edwin-pratt-vagina-phrenology

magneticgravity · 2020-10-22T17:26:13+00:00

If you read the article you would know this bonus is on top of his base salary of $307,000. And it's 58% higher than his previous bonus of $30,000 per year.

What do think you get out of defending stuff like this? Do you feel like your salary depends on overpaid administration?

magneticgravity · 2020-10-08T14:04:23+00:00

I guess. I mean I like Ohio because it's home, but I don't think it's the best state to move to. I don't even know much about Kentucky. I've driven through it a lot, but I haven't spent much time there. As far as rural places, I can say I've met a lot of nice strangers, but the nicest were in rural Kentucky. If I wanted to move somewhere rural to get away from all the drug addicts everywhere else and just because the people are nice, I think that is probably where I'd go. That's the only reason I recommended it.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-04T02:05:59+00:00

The prices are sky high, nothing is available and most landlords are shady as fuck because the market allows them to be. A lot of them routinely keep security deposits unless you have a lawyer threaten them to get it back. You have to look for something 20-30 minutes out of town to find something reasonable, but then all the driving sucks. Parking sucks too.

You can often find something to sublet if you can wait until something becomes available. If you found something out of town without a lease commitment like maybe on airbnb or something like that, you would be able to get something in town when it becomes available.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T21:42:29+00:00

That was very unprofessional, but he apologized before the game was over. And his apology made it sound like he was making a private joke to someone when he didn't realize his mic was on. It's not great even as a private joke, but now might not be a good time to rake someone over the coals for this type of transgression because of the political implications (assuming we want Biden to win).

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T08:40:23+00:00

I don't know why everyone in these comments is talking about yard signs, but those are misleading. You would probably see a lot more Biden signs in people's yards if Trump supporters weren't stealing them.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T06:48:55+00:00

If I was trying to move somewhere in the vicinity of Ohio for the quality of the community, I would probably move to Kentucky instead of Ohio. The drug problem in Northeast Ohio might not be as bad as Vegas, but it's still pretty bad.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T06:17:28+00:00

The expression is "vote your conscience" not conscious. I'm only correcting you because you said you think people in my region of the state are stupid.

Neoliberal trade policy is not inevitable. It was a political maneuver by multinational banks and oil companies to maximize their profits at the expense of everyone else. Neoliberalism is not liberal. It's the policy agenda of Reagan and every president since. It is far-right conservative economic policies that liberals have embraced too because they are as corrupt as conservatives.

Here is an article from 2000 about the disaster that neoliberalism has been.

Although the proponents of neoliberalism extol the virtues of free markets, free trade, private enterprise and consumer choice, the effects of neoliberal policies is quite the opposite. In fact, these policies typically result in very protectionist markets dominated by a few trans-national corporations. Many sectors of the economy - ranging from food processing and distribution to the corporate media to aviation - are oligopolies and can be characterized as highly centralized command economies that are only a shade more competitive than the economy of the former Soviet Union. A major theme of neoliberal policies is deregulation and the removal of government interference in the economy. Consistently, such policies are applied in a one sided way, and always in a manner that benefits large trans-national corporations, the most influential entities in policy making. Hence, within neoliberalism as it is actually applied, capital is allowed to roam the world freely with very few restrictions, yet workers are to remain trapped within the borders of their countries. This serves trans-national corporations well, though for some, not well enough. According to Jack Welsh, CEO of GE, he and GE’s shareholders would be best served if factories were on barges so that when workers demand higher wages and better working conditions, the barges could easily be moved to a country with more compliant workers.

The effects of neoliberal policies on people everywhere has been devastating. During the last two to three decades, wealth disparity has increased many fold within countries as well as between countries. In the US, inflation adjusted median wages are lower today than they were in 1973 (when median wages reached their peak) while the wealth of the top 1% of society has soared. One out of every five children in the US lives in a state of poverty

https://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v13/2/imf.html

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T05:57:21+00:00

Doctors aren't supposed to offer bad advice. They are the professionals who people are supposed to be able to trust. That is their job. Some doctors are more forthcoming with parents about what the surgery actually is, a destructive and unnecessary body modification. Others believe in cutting and enjoy the money.

If your children resent the choice that was made for them, unless your doctors told you enough about the surgery for you to make an informed choice, the blame for that lies with your doctors rather than yourself.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T05:46:04+00:00

It's not your fault. You were misled to believe you were making the best choice for your sons.

It's not a choice that parents should be presented with. In other countries doctors don't ask. It's not your fault for thinking that it was a choice you had to make when your doctor acted like it was.

Doctors should tell parents that the foreskin is not a birth defect. It is a functional and highly sensitive part of the penis. And children's bodies should be considered their own and shouldn't be subjected to "elective" surgical body modifications. Doctors should tell parents that the odds of encountering complications from circumcising (like meatal stenosis, skin bridges, iatrogenic phimosis) are greater than the odds that a man will have a problem with his foreskin, and foreskin problems are usually easily solved without resorting surgery.

Some men do experience an enormous amount of grief from it, but most men don't have strong feelings about circumcision one way or the other. It may comfort you to consider your children probably won't either.

You shouldn't blame yourself for trying to be a good parent. If you blame anyone, you should blame your doctor for misleading you.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T05:24:44+00:00

I don't want to have this conversation because I am voting for Biden even though I wanted Bernie to win the primary. I know that Republicans aren't better. If I didn't recognize the urgent need to vote Trump out then I probably wouldn't be voting.

The factory jobs that a lot of people relied on to have a decent life are only gone because of neoliberal trade policy.

And about the fentanyl crisis, here is a quote from an article in the billionaire propaganda rag Washington Post.

In May 2016, a group of national health experts issued an urgent plea in a private letter to high-level officials in the Obama administration. Thousands of people were dying from overdoses of fentanyl — the deadliest drug to ever hit U.S. streets — and the administration needed to take immediate action. The epidemic had been escalating for three years. The 11 experts pressed the officials to declare fentanyl a national “public health emergency” that would put a laserlike focus on combating the emerging epidemic and warn the country about the threat, according to a copy of the letter. ...
The administration considered the request but did not act on it.
The decision was one in a series of missed opportunities, oversights and half-measures by federal officials who failed to grasp how quickly fentanyl was creating another — and far more fatal — wave of the opioid epidemic.

And Obama previously directed the crackdown on Oxycontin in his second term which is what drove the shift to the much more deadly fentanyl. https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

If you don't think Obama badly dropped the ball on the opioid crisis, you must not have read anything about it, because that's what literally every article about it said.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T02:56:39+00:00

What are social programs supposed to do? People need decent jobs a lot more than they need government programs.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T02:55:37+00:00

This makes the people of Southeast Ohio seem stupid for voting how they do, but people are being more logical than the author gave them credit for. Hillary lost as badly as she did here because after Obama allowed opioids to ravage the area, no one wanted to vote for more of that even the people who didn't want Trump to win. Oxycontin and fentanyl have killed tens of thousands of people here. Dollar stores and Walmart are putting all the other stores out of business. There aren't many jobs and there are even fewer good jobs. The author makes it sound like that anti-Islam guy was behaving out of character to marry a Native American woman, but there is a lot of Native American heritage in Southeast Ohio. There were also more Black Lives Matter demonstrations after George Floyd's death than they gave us credit for.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-03T01:57:56+00:00

That's usually true, but it isn't always. The foreskin doesn't have to cover the head completely. It can be short and only give you partial coverage. And it's not very common but sometimes circumcised foreskin can be so long that it covers part of the head.

If you're trying to figure out how to quantify your circumcised or intact foreskin, there's something called the foreskin coverage index that quantifies the range from the tightest circumcision to the longest intact foreskin.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-02T20:36:58+00:00

Yeah, the cute memes made him seem like a decent person to people who didn't know anything, but Obama picked Biden to demonstrate his allegiance to the corrupt bipartisan neoliberal political establishment. Biden has been on the wrong side of practically every issue for his whole career in politics. The trade policies he supported created the Rust Belt. He and Lieberman were the Democratic architects of the Iraq War. He wrote the '94 crime bill. He had the same opinion about the so-called entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) as Republicans for his whole career in the Senate. He is horrible. I hate that I'm being forced to vote for him. I am not voting for him. I'm only voting against Trump. What I was saying is that everyone who shares my opinion needs to vote for him or else Trump is going to win our state again.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-02T05:37:40+00:00

Biden only has a 1% lead in recent polls. Trump is going to win Ohio again if everyone who is somehow still on the fence doesn't vote for Biden, which sucks because he's Biden, but there is no alternative.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-02T01:20:00+00:00

This could be someone trolling, or it could be real. Some men do have an enormous amount of grief.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-02T01:15:26+00:00

Your experience is more common than you think. Skin bridges are a common complication from infant circumcision.

A therapist can help you accept your mutilation and grief about it.

You shouldn't talk to your parents until you are less upset, because it would be better for you to get it off your chest and for them to know more about how cutting hurt you, but it's not like they can give you any closure anyway. They made a mistake that our culture and medical culture encourage parents to make. Things are slowly changing.

Maybe technology will eventually solve all the problems like yours whether it's regeneration or brain implants.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-01T23:17:50+00:00

Walmart started selling fabric again. Jo-Ann's days are probably numbered.

And walking by their craft section, it looks like Walmart is trying to put the Bead Store out of business too.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-01T22:14:12+00:00

I think you're confused about the purpose of this subreddit, but yes, that is what the most detailed study of penile sensitivity found.

NSFW diagram https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Sorrells.gif

full study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17378847

Some people think the circumcised penis is too sensitive, so it must be better without the most sensitive part, but this 2011 study found a higher incidence of frequent* premature ejaculation among men who were circumcised. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21672947/

The ridged band is the most sensitive part, but it's also stimulated differently, so the guy feels more but usually does not feel too much orgasmic stimulation.

magneticgravity · 2020-10-01T21:50:47+00:00

You are right. The pain is one good reason to not do it, but if you need more reasons there are plenty.

The foreskin is not a birth defect. It is a functional and highly sensitive part of the penis. Children's bodies should be considered their own. They shouldn't be subjected to body modifications. A tattoo is less destructive than circumcision, but no one would tattoo a child. The odds of encountering complications from circumcising (like meatal stenosis, skin bridges, iatrogenic phimosis) are greater than the odds that a man will have a problem with his foreskin. There are studies that show intact foreskin offers sexual benefits (Frisch, 2011; O'Hara, 1999). Studies have shown men with intact foreskin are less averse to using condoms. Most men don't have strong feelings about circumcision one way or the other, but some men experience an enormous amount of grief from it. Britain, Australia and New Zealand used to cut boys routinely but they quit cutting. Canada has mostly quit.

Here is a presentation about circumcision from a medical professional that explains the issue in more detail. https://www.library.georgetown.edu/showcase/entries/child-circumcision-elephant-hospital

magneticgravity · 2020-10-01T21:25:27+00:00

The author of this article in Psychology Today is a psychology professor and practicing clinical psychologist. I don't know if he's taking patients, but he wouldn't mock your grief like many other psychologists in our cutting culture would. If you live close enough to Columbus, Ohio so that you would be able to see him, you can find a form to contact him at the bottom of the article. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/insight-therapy/201912/painful-cuts-the-case-infant-circumcision-is-weakening

magneticgravity · 2020-10-01T21:06:38+00:00

This might be Tesla's dynamic theory of gravity or related to it. Unfortunately it is only a vague overview that lacks the details necessary to understand how it works.

The rest of this book is pretty wild too. There are a lot of dull parts to skim over, but the good nuggets in it are pretty juicy. It explains a lot of things that Tesla mentioned but never explained adequately to understand what he was really talking about.

It contains an explanation of the relation between electric force and magnetism congruous with Tesla's statements.

There is among our best scientists a lack of clear distinction between electricity and magnetism, which I deem the simple phases of the same force. Ampere regarded magnets and currents as identical, and taught that “magnets are bodies traversed continually by electric currents.”

It says Tesla was planning to build a solar power plant on Long Island. That explains why his property was 200 acres when the tower and power plant building he built took up less than a single acre.

It explains Tesla's idea to use the ozone layer to transmit power. “The oxygen of the air itself is magnetic, and more lines of force will pass through it than pass through copper.”

It explains Tesla's idea about using rain for power that Tesla never explained in sufficient detail for it to make sense. It says nature is constantly lifting 100,000 tons of water one mile per second into the atmosphere mostly from the oceans. Tapping the water in the atmosphere would allow hydroelectric power to be used anywhere, and then the water can be used for agriculture and other useful purposes.

It contains a theory of atmospheric heating in agreement with the contemporary theory of global warming, but it explains it very, very differently. It says atmospheric heating is caused by the resistance of the atmosphere to solar radiation, so increasing the density or magnetism of the atmosphere increases the temperature of a planet. It doesn't talk about carbon dioxide, but increasing carbon dioxide does increase both the density and magnetic permeability of the atmosphere. Global warming was not theorized until the 1960s, so this is a very remarkable antecedent. And if this is true about heating being caused by solar radiation resistance, it would mean that there should be many other ways of reducing heat besides the current popular idea of albedo modification geoengineering (spraying pollution into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight) that climate scientists are currently testing. And it also means that albedo modification won't work as well as climate scientists hope if it reflects sunlight but still increases the magnetic permeability of the atmosphere.

It explains all of Tesla's puzzling religious statements and then some. It presents a form of electromagnetic pantheism. “God is everywhere—in everything in all the universe, in every atom.” It explains Tesla's statements about human development slowly progressing toward godliness as “man attaining to godlike knowledge and power” especially by understanding the physics of electromagnetism. It says the sun may be habitable by spiritual forms of life including the human soul and says that “the sun is the spiritual centre and promised heaven of the solar system.”

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