Cedar_Wax_Wing

Music waits like buried treasure

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Seems like the right time to re-post:

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https://t.co/fwVf1oJwPx

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@jimbojonestown or at the listening station in the record store (if they had one)

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

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@_SatanWatch I don’t disagree but the Lost Coast and in particular the ancient Redwood forest (Jedediah Smith) in more remote Northern California has some of the most blessed and magical energy I’ve ever encountered.

(Crescent City is cursed tho.)

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@_SatanWatch @JeffWellsRigInt Netanyahu: I’m not gonna fucking debate you, Jerry!

Trump: Da heck do ya mean??

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@TonySeruga Thanks, Claude.

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@C2_Cooper Gambling is a helluva drug

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@LegionHoops Fox is throwing the game - bookmark this

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@ChoochSkookum well in the 2024 election the Democrat incumbent was funding a genocide turns out he was mentally unfit so the party chose an unelected lady to run who supported the genocide she lost and the Republican started funding the genocide

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@SurfThrash @Look_its_Rhonda Be sure to spread it on a crusty loaf of bread or at least a cracker

its like the butter of cheese

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@Look_its_Rhonda Brie is amazing it’s on every cheese plate I’ve ever ordered but yeah that’s a shitty cheese plate right there

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@carterhax_ @PonsukeTheSilly This is nsfw Im sitting at my desk crying laughing biting wad of Kleenex tryin to stop

“as loud as throat wound allows” noooooooo

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@Brink_Thinker Yes this is awesome we should have more experiences like this but it ain’t cheap.

btw i did a similar program called Bay to Sea in Northern Californian. We had counselors but one day we woke up and they were gone. We handled things then caught up that night, it was cool

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@goddek This has to be satire, right? Right guys? This is must be a bit.

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@hoeberian @harryhew I love CCR, and I don’t think it’s necessarily a fundamental flaw, but it’s true: they don‘t have much mystique. The lyrics aren’t cryptic and they‘re not full of intrigue and unanswered questions.

I saw Sleater-Kinney play Fortunate Son and it fuckin jammed

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@SurfThrash goddamn this is awesome, one of your best posts ever thank you

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@AlchemyAmerican In this model, where we see “0% of true reality” we are still somehow able to “prove” what true reality is.

sure

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@shagbark_hick @ted_plank I reached heretofore unknown levels of anxiety and panicked in the night regularly for my first year or two of fatherhood. The panics have stopped, the anxiety is still high but less than it was.

Hang in there

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@bridgietherease if you will it, it is no dream

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@AxelFoIey @NBACobwebs yes it was a 3 on 1 fast break and uncle Cliffy had a fairly uncontested lay-up he rose up and for reasons only he knows decided to do a no-look drop off pass to Kersey who was not expecting it and fumbled it out of bounds 😫