BANGARANG! The Lost Boys of Hook reunite for the first time to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary and pay tribute to their leader, the late Robin Williams
“I earned more money than I knew what to do with, and I didn’t want to forget my roots. So I paid back the people who helped me and my family.” He’s also giving elderly and low income people three free meals a day.
Past a certain point, extra money doesn’t really benefit you, so give it those that would benefit. Quit letting people hoard ludicrous amounts of money out of vanity when others need it so much more.
Someone call CPS. This woman is clearly too dumb to raise kids.
It’s always sad when kids have to pay for their parent’s mistakes
“Tell me I did the right thing“ bitch I’d like to tell you something with my fucking fists your baby is dying and your dumbass wants somebody to comfort you by lying and saying that denying him basic medicine was the right thing to do you fucking stupid shit for brains bitch I hope your kids get taken away.
In the 1970s we didn’t have modern vaccines, and although the pertussis vaccine was safe, it wasn’t as reliable as the one we have now. Although I was vaccinated, the vaccine didn’t provide me with effective protection. This means I can pretty much tell you first hand what it can mean to be unvaccinated during an outbreak. What it can mean is a potentially fatal illness with long term implications for those who survive.
In the winter of 1978/79 I nearly died of pertussis, and was left with long-term damage that saw me back and forth to the hospital well into the 1980s. After three months of illness, I developed congested lungs which required a similar physiotherapy regime to cystic fibrosis, although I am eternally grateful that for me this only lasted another month. I was left with asthma and permanently reduced lung capacity, a lifelong vulnerability to respiratory infections, and a perpetual fear of getting that sick again. It may also be an underlying reason for the chronic illness I live with now. Pertussis is not just a cough – it’s potentially fatal, and today we can largely mitigate the risk with a safe and effective vaccine. Anyone who would choose not to do something that would avoid that happening to their child needs to seriously reconsider their life choices.
People who are anti-vax are always like “Oh I want my kid to develop natural immunity blah-blah, what did they do before vaccines blah, blah” should talk to the nurse how gave my son’s first vaccines.
She was relieved that I was very much in favor of it happening and told me this:
She worked under an older pediatrician when she first became a nurse. He was so thrilled with vaccines. Why? Because he spent the greater part of his career hopelessly watching babies and young children die. He recounted to her staying up long nights countless times, completely helpless to do anything but watch these young lives end and often horribly.
“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness.
but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg
but he’s still able to move and do things perfectly
He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled
It should also be noted that Ed:
-had to undergo very painful and lengthy surgery to get automail
-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of.
-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)
-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working
-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned
-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail
– it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.
-it requires really frequent maintenance or it will break down, as shown by how when he first moved out he forgot to do that and it…broke down.
-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).
-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)
So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with! And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm).
Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.
Asking if someone is really disabled because they have prosthetics is like asking if someone is really diabetic because they take insulin.
In comics, Daredevil is blind, I’m pretty sure Hawkeye is deaf, and after her run in with the Joker in the Killing Joke, Barbara Gordon uses a wheelchair. She stopped being Batgirl but became the Oracle.
The Paradox Machine 