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Solice Kirsk posted:Isn't this one of the things those sov citizens that took over that nature reserve gift shop doing? Cross Draw McGraw LaVoy Finicum! Yes, his main income was apparently taking in foster kids. By all accounts he treated them well, but likely used them as free labor on his ranch.
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AnonSpore posted:It's unnerving how terrible they were at covering their tracks considering how smug they were about being super smart Though not based directly on the facts of the case, the 1948 Hitchcock film Rope is inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case, with the general theme of two pretentious Nietzche-loving rich kids deciding to get away with murder. It's a near film to watch too for one of its conceits: it was filmed to look like it was all shot on one single take from one single camera, so when they had to change reels they'd just briefly pan to something inanimate so it would look the same when they turned the camera back on. Fun film to watch after reading the wiki on the L&L murder.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Though not based directly on the facts of the case, the 1948 Hitchcock film Rope is inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case, with the general theme of two pretentious Nietzche-loving rich kids deciding to get away with murder. Interesting! I'll have to track it down to see how it compares to the real life incident. Minor disclaimer that nobody really cares about, but just to be clear: most of this is copy pasted from wikipedia and I didn't write 99.99.999% of this. Anything in "quotation marks" is from wikipedia. Also there's rape and murder via the links so fair warning. "Joji Obara Joji Obara is a Korean-Japanese man who has been convicted of committing multiple rapes in Japan. Most notoriously, he was tried for raping and murdering Australian national Carita Ridgway in 1992 and British national Lucie Blackman in 2000." And what a hosed up jerk he was! Check this poo poo out! "His collection of pornographic videos, 4,000 to 5,000 of which were recovered by police, led police to believe that Obara may have raped anywhere from 150 to 400 women. ... Police found over 200 sex videos showing Obara molesting women in this manner, sometimes wearing a face mask, and they reported that his extensive journals made reference to "conquer play", a euphemism describing his sexual assaults on women who he wrote were "only good for sex" and on whom he sought revenge, "revenge on the world" drugging them with chloroform." I found out about this guy via Lucie Blackman, who does not get her own wiki article. "Lucie Blackman was an English woman from Sevenoaks, Kent who worked as a hostess in Roppongi in Minato, Tokyo. Blackman had previously worked as a flight attendant for British Airways and had come to Japan to see the world and earn money to pay off her debts. At the time of her disappearance, she had been working as a hostess at Casablanca, a night club in Roppongi,[9] later called Greengrass. She was 21 years old at the time of her death." Basically Blackman went on a paid date was a customer from her workplace, and was never seen again. Well, until they found her body. "On February 9, 2001, Blackman's dismembered body was found, buried in a shallow grave under a bathtub in a seaside cave at Miura, Kanagawa, about 30 miles south of Tokyo, just a few hundred metres from Obara's apartment. The body had been cut into eight pieces. Her head had been shaved and encased in concrete. The body was too decomposed to discover cause of death." And her dad was kinda of questionable morals but eh, ok. I guess trying to figure out what happened to your child is costly. "Tim Blackman, Lucie Blackman's father, accepted Ł450,000 in mimaikin (condolence money) from a friend of Joji Obara's. Blackman's other family members were opposed to accepting the money" Anyways, Obara was charged with rape of multiple woman, and murder. He was initially acquited for Blackman's murder, but jailed for other rapes and the murder of Carita Ridgeway. A later appeal trial brought forth evidence that was enough to convict Obara of Blackman's rape and murder. Keith Hunter Jesperson was a real gently caress. He's a "Canadian-American serial killer who murdered at least eight women in the United States during the early 1990s. He was known as the "Happy Face Killer" because he drew smiley faces on his many letters to the media and prosecutors. Many of his victims were prostitutes and transients who had no connection to him. ... After the body of his first victim, Taunja Bennett, was found, media attention surrounded Laverne Pavlinac, a woman who falsely confessed to having killed Bennett with the help of her abusive boyfriend, John Sosnovske. Jesperson was upset that he was not getting any media attention. He first drew a smiley face on a bathroom wall (hundreds of miles away from the scene of the crime), on which he anonymously confessed to killing Bennett. When that did not elicit a response, he began writing letters to the media and prosecutors. His last victim was his long-time girlfriend, a crime that ultimately led to his capture. While Jesperson has claimed to have killed as many as 160 people, only eight murders have been confirmed." Keith was a gently caress from the very start, mind you. A natural born gently caress, if you will. Other than torturing and killing animals, he wanted to try killing others at a real young age too. "He was friends with a boy named Martin, and the two would often get into trouble together. Jesperson claimed he was punished many times for things Martin had done and blamed on Jesperson. This led Jesperson to attack Martin, violently beating him until his father pulled him away. He later claimed his intention was to kill the boy. Approximately a year later, Jesperson was swimming in a lake when another boy held him under water until he blacked out. Some time later, at a public pool, Jesperson attempted to drown the boy, holding his head under water until the lifeguard pulled him away." The wikipedia article goes into more depth of his life, his murder/rape victims, and how pissy he got when Laverne Pavlinac stole his thunder about murdering one of his victims. Oh and by the way he has a kid. A daughter. "Moore noticed her father was different when she was in elementary school. Their house bordered an apple orchard, and her dad killed stray cats and gophers that wandered nearby. One day she watched, horrified, as he hung stray kittens from the family's clothesline. She ran to get her mother, and when they returned, the kittens lay on the ground dead. He had watched and laughed as the kittens clawed each other to escape, then he killed them." Lastly... "Colleen Stan, an American woman, was kidnapped and held as a sex slave by Cameron and Janice Hooker in Red Bluff, California for over seven years between 1977 and 1984. At the trial of her abductor, Stan's experience was described as unparalleled in FBI history." Content warnings for: rape / sexual assaults, brainwashing, torture, abuse, kidnapping and everything that goes along with the above. It's bad enough that it gets it's own content warning. You can read about it here, I'm not going to copy paste it all from wikipedia because it'd just be a wall of spoilers. The Kidnapping of Colleen Stan. I'm gunna go look at puppies and kitties now. Honestly at this point I would welcome derails of hipster fire building code art violations and pallet stairs. Stairs made of pallets?! You're not protected at all!! [please don't actually bring that up again I'm just joking]
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Clarence Darrow gave one of his great speeches at the end of the trial of Leopold and Loeb, basically saying "These children are awful, but they are children, and the death penalty sucks." You couldn't try that nowadays.quote:I do not know how much salvage there is in these two boys. I hate to say it in their presence, but what is there to look forward to? I do not know but what your Honor would be merciful to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful if you tied a rope around their necks and let them die; merciful to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful to those who would be left behind. To spend the balance of their days in prison is mighty little to look forward to, if anything. Is it anything? They may have the hope that as the years roll around they might be released. I do not know. I do not know. I will be honest with this court as I have tried to be from the beginning. I know that these boys are not fit to be at large. I believe they will not be until they pass through the next stage of life, at forty-five or fifty. Whether they will then, I cannot tell. I am sure of this; that I will not be here to help them. So far as I am concerned, it is over.
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value-brand cereal posted:On February 9, 2001, Blackman's dismembered body was found, buried in a shallow grave under a bathtub in a seaside cave at Miura, Kanagawa Do all seaside caves in Japan have bathtubs in them, or only this one?
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Re: The Joji Obara case If you want some unnerving reading I recommend People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:has anyone posted the oracle of trophonios? it's terrifying. Lives underground, loves sweet things, whispers secrets. Sounds like a gentle creature.
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Cacafuego posted:Do all seaside caves in Japan have bathtubs in them, or only this one? I'm imagining just the worst Cialis commercial ever.
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Encephalitus Lethargica was a mystery illness that sprung up around the same time as Spanish flu and is suuuuper freaky. It basically puts you in a semi-catatonic state for the rest of your life - where you just lie and around and become miserable as the world passes you by. But with kids it's effects are completely random: Just read this creepy article on it: https://vanwinkles.com/history-of-sleepy-sickness-encephalitis-lethargica quote:"By the time Rosie pulled out her other eye — calmly, with a steady hand, as neat and clean as any surgeon with a scalpel — the collective shock of hospital staff had long since worn off. She’d already committed so many acts of self-harm that caregivers had grown numb to the sight of blood creeping along the bleached white sheets of her hospital bed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNVtUlroZc quote:"The neurologist and author Oliver Sacks came across a small colony of these patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx in the 1960s. Some projected their awareness by responding to music or catching a ball that was thrown to them; outside stimulus could provoke a reaction, but nothing could be initiated.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Encephalitus Lethargica was a mystery illness that sprung up around the same time as Spanish flu and is suuuuper freaky. It basically puts you in a semi-catatonic state for the rest of your life - where you just lie and around and become miserable as the world passes you by. But with kids it's effects are completely random: Anyone interested in this kind of stuff should check out Awakenings by Oliver Sacks. Less eye-gouging, more weirdly frozen people and what happens when you try to wake them up with Levodopa
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genetic_knockout posted:Anyone interested in this kind of stuff should check out Awakenings by Oliver Sacks. Less eye-gouging, more weirdly frozen people and what happens when you try to wake them up with Levodopa I'd also recommend "The Case of the Frozen Addicts" by neurologist J. William Langston (if you can find it). It's the story of how a bunch of junkies with a mysterious case of sudden onset Parkinson's disease became a huge part of treatment research. Basically, a group of addicts in California all ended up with Parkinsons after a batch of MPPP tainted with MPTP found its way into their hands. The MPTP metabolized in their brain to MPP+, a neurotoxin that selectively destroys the dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra area of the brain resulting in sudden onset Parkinson's. They ended up being a huge help for research into various treatments, with some of them even receiving experimental stem cell treatments that essentially cured them. Unfortunately, since the treatment requires stem cells that have reached an accelerated point in their development (requiring them to be harvested from aborted fetuses) it's somewhat controversial in it's use. The unnerving aspect (to me, anyway) was the part where these people ended up frozen with some of them not being found for days, since the whole 'being frozen and nobody coming to help' is one of those things that terrifies me despite my lack of IV drug use. Even without drug abuse there's poo poo like Guillain–Barré and Locked-In syndrome to lay awake at night worrying about.
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Before we finish talking about fires, we have to at least make mention of the big  It was a night in early December (so summertime down there) and the big cathedral downtown had a full-house for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, when a candle or oil lamp ignited one of the many veils they'd draped all over the place for decoration. People started to flee the building, but some of the huge doors only opened inward, and had been closed to make more room for the standing crowd. The men's and women's section were separated by an iron grating, and for whatever reason a lot of the men made it out okay from their side, though many ended up rushing back in trying to help in the rescue. The fact that women wore huge hoop skirts back then is cited as a possible contributing factor, though I'd imagine they were also more likely to have small children they were trying to take with them, and they might have just had a worse door layout on their side. Overall, between 2,000 and 3,000 people died, it was such a mess there was no accurate way to take account of the bodies. Santiago only had around 100,000 people at the time, so that's several *percent* of the population taken out in one swoop in one burning church. And since people here enjoy macabre grimacing: quote:The priests retreated into the sacristy, and some of the men made their escape by following them. The priests were gathering together the valuables of the church to save them, and they closed the door to the sacristy so they could do this in peace. No one escaped through the sacristy after the door was closed. The priests then left the scene, all unharmed, with what valuables they were able to save from the blaze.[2]
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the future is WOW posted:I'd also recommend "The Case of the Frozen Addicts" by neurologist J. William Langston (if you can find it). It's the story of how a bunch of junkies with a mysterious case of sudden onset Parkinson's disease became a huge part of treatment research. Basically, a group of addicts in California all ended up with Parkinsons after a batch of MPPP tainted with MPTP found its way into their hands. The MPTP metabolized in their brain to MPP+, a neurotoxin that selectively destroys the dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra area of the brain resulting in sudden onset Parkinson's. They ended up being a huge help for research into various treatments, with some of them even receiving experimental stem cell treatments that essentially cured them. Unfortunately, since the treatment requires stem cells that have reached an accelerated point in their development (requiring them to be harvested from aborted fetuses) it's somewhat controversial in it's use. Yeah, it's weird how dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway are prone to just loving up in strange, permanent and horrifying ways. People sometimes get a permanent movement disorder called Tardive dyskinesia from antipsychotics and Phenergan. The one that always creeped me out the most is tardive akathisia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia quote:Akathisia may range in intensity from a sense of disquiet or anxiety, to excruciating discomfort, particularly in the knees. Patients typically pace for hours because the pressure on the knees reduces the discomfort somewhat; once their knees and legs become fatigued and they are unable to continue pacing, they sit or lie down, although this does not relieve the akathisia. At high doses or with potent drugs such as haloperidol (Haldol) or chlorpromazine (Thorazine/Largactil), the feeling can last all day from awakening to sleep. When misdiagnosis occurs in antipsychotic neuroleptic-induced akathisia, more antipsychotic neuroleptics may be prescribed, potentially worsening the symptoms.[5] High-functioning patients have described the feeling as a sense of inner tension and torment or chemical torture. A term many sufferers use is the feeling like they want to "peel off their own skin." It feels like an agitated depression. This is problematic for many patients and doctors because many don't realize this is a drug-induced state; they simply write off the symptoms as a worsening of their mental illness or condition. The treatment for many doctors, then, is to raise the dose of the akathisia-causing medication. When the patient's condition gets even worse, they prescribe anti-anxiety medication, which are usually ineffective in mitigating the anxiety caused by akathisia, since the anxiety produced by the condition is generated in a different part of the brain than regular anxiety. Many patients show very little outer movement, and the akathisia affects the sufferer inside, causing feelings of despair, agitation, intense panic and worry, an augur of disaster that feels completely real, and in some cases, the person actually has a physical sensation of pain in the solar plexus area of the body that they claim feels hot to the touch, a burning ache that is unbearable. Neuro-psychologist Dr. Dennis Staker had drug-induced akathisia for two days. His description of his experience was this: "It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy." Many patients describe symptoms of neuropathic pain akin to fibromyalgia and restless legs syndrome.[6] In Han et al. (2013), the authors describe restless legs syndrome's relation to akathisia, "Some researchers regard RLS as a 'focal akathisia' [in the legs]."[7] Although these side effects disappear quickly and remarkably when the medication is stopped, tardive, or late-persisting akathisia may go on long after the offending drug is discontinued, sometimes for a period of years. Healy, et al. (2006), described the following regarding akathisia: tension, insomnia, a sense of discomfort, motor restlessness, and marked anxiety and panic. Increased labile affect can result, such as weepiness.[8] I've been posting a thread in TCC about antique pharmaceutical ads and the one thing I've noticed when I've looked up old drugs is that every single psych med from the mid 20th century (with the exception of methylphenidate) has an utterly unacceptable side effect profile. Howard Dully is another example of ...questionable mid-20th century medicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully quote:Dully was born on November 30, 1948, in Oakland, California, the eldest son of Rodney and June Louise Pierce Dully. Following the death of his mother from cancer in 1954, Dully's father married single mother Shirley Lucille Hardin in 1955.(John Wesley Hardin family)
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At the risk of returning this thread to "goons talk about boring poo poo that happens to them," I get p bad akathisia once or thrice a year, and Staker's right about it. Indica or high-CBD weed's the only thing that's ever allowed me to ignore it, and even then it's not complete relief. there's this warning/prodromal/early sensation i get in my calves that's a lot like a trail of ants that relents as soon as i move the leg; after 2 or 3 of those within a couple of minutes i know clear out some pacing space and call out of work tomorrow, i ain't sleeping tonight ChickenOfTomorrow has a new favorite as of 08:33 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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value-brand cereal posted:I know CPS and foster care are overloaded with work and such, but how does seven children manage to get adopted out into this kind of house? All at once, and afterwards CPS(?) assumes they're fine? I've read a bit of the ask/tell foster thread and it seems really tricky to jump through all the proper hoops and make sure a home is child ready. I hope they'll be alright, and not Genie the feral child-ed. Alternately - not so vile but still a bit unnerving - if you're a certain type of evangelical Christian mommy, you can adopt a dozen or so severely disabled kids from around the world in order to "save" them by bringing them "home" and filling them with Jesus, and you will consider this money and the work of caring for them to be something like a full-time job - one that almost inevitably will crush your spirit and destroy your marriage through sheer exhaustion. GOMI has a good (if long) thread on the topic: http://gomiblog.com/forums/fundie-blogging/christian-blogger-parents-who-adopt-from-foreign-countries/ ETA: As a bonus, if you're the first type of horrible person, you'll find that it can be pretty easy to get away with abusing kids if they're nonverbal, or developmentally delayed in such a way that they have a hard time communicating with strangers. ETA again: I have an autistic son and these stories fill me with an extra special kind of rage. pookel has a new favorite as of 17:57 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Clarence Darrow gave one of his great speeches at the end of the trial of Leopold and Loeb, basically saying "These children are awful, but they are children, and the death penalty sucks." You couldn't try that nowadays. Also this: quote:This terrible crime was inherent in his organism, and it came from some ancestor... Is any blame attached because somebody took Nietzsche's philosophy seriously and fashioned his life upon it?... It is hardly fair to hang a 19-year-old boy for the philosophy that was taught him at the university. Try that with a black defendant: "This criminal act isn't his responsibility, it's inherent in his genetic code. And it's in all that rap music he listens to." I mean, in this case Darrow's argument swayed the jury and that's his job, but goddamn is that some execrable philosophy.
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Phanatic posted:Try that with a black defendant: "This criminal act isn't his responsibility, it's inherent in his genetic code. And it's in all that rap music he listens to." I mean, in this case Darrow's argument swayed the jury and that's his job, but goddamn is that some execrable philosophy. You're still right that this wouldn't have flown for somebody who wasn't an upper-class white kid.
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Cross-posting from Schadenfreude:Warm und Fuzzy posted:Can you believe it's been 5 years since people swam with a dead body for 2 days in Fall River? The whole thing was apparently just an absolute morass of bad decision-making, people in jobs they had no business doing, and egregious health and safety violations in the name of saving a little time and money. The Herald News has a retrospective, five years later: http://www.heraldnews.com/news/20160624/five-years-later-why-behind-marie-josephs-death-in-cloudy-fall-river-pool-remains-mystery quote:The last moments of Marie Joseph's life were peaceful and unnoticed. quote:There was no vacuum at the pool when crews arrived in early June, so the bottom, covered with leaves, sludge and litter, was never cleaned. Workers added 240,000 gallons of clean water to the dirt and hoped the filters would clean it. And, as always, people being lovely about accountability: quote:[District Attorney Sam] Sutter was one of a half-dozen people in his office who worked on the DA's report. They all wanted to make sure some good came from Marie Joseph's death, Sutter said. SneezeOfTheDecade has a new favorite as of 19:10 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Hey we had one of those in Seattle.quote:Pavan Dhanireddy remembers frantically peering into the swimming pool at the Quality Inn & Suites Seattle Center on June 30 as firefighters searched for his friend Tesfaye Girma Deboch. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/murky-water-hindered-search-for-man-who-died-in-hotel-pool/ At least this poor guy didn't stay down long enough to start decomposing tho.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:At the risk of returning this thread to "goons talk about boring poo poo that happens to them," I get p bad akathisia once or thrice a year, and Staker's right about it. Indica or high-CBD weed's the only thing that's ever allowed me to ignore it, and even then it's not complete relief. Migraine with deferred symptoms, perhaps?
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dobbymoodge posted:Migraine with deferred symptoms, perhaps? Nah, akathisia and RLS are their own thing, pretty well associated with a dopamine pathway related to movement. Migraines are horrible, but they're still way easier to deal with than full-body akathisia.
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the future is WOW posted:I'd also recommend "The Case of the Frozen Addicts" by neurologist J. William Langston (if you can find it). It's the story of how a bunch of junkies with a mysterious case of sudden onset Parkinson's disease became a huge part of treatment research. Basically, a group of addicts in California all ended up with Parkinsons after a batch of MPPP tainted with MPTP found its way into their hands. The MPTP metabolized in their brain to MPP+, a neurotoxin that selectively destroys the dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra area of the brain resulting in sudden onset Parkinson's. They ended up being a huge help for research into various treatments, with some of them even receiving experimental stem cell treatments that essentially cured them. Unfortunately, since the treatment requires stem cells that have reached an accelerated point in their development (requiring them to be harvested from aborted fetuses) it's somewhat controversial in it's use. Thanks for posting this! I remember reading about the sudden onset Parkinson's from tainted drugs years ago, and it's always fascinated me. Basal ganglia dysfunction is a hell of a thing. E: you too, Vladimir Poutine! Imo neurology posts best posts genetic_knockout has a new favorite as of 03:03 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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genetic_knockout posted:Thanks for posting this! I remember reading about the sudden onset Parkinson's from tainted drugs years ago, and it's always fascinated me. Basal ganglia dysfunction is a hell of a thing. I remember reading this is what happened to Michael J Fox too, as his circle of friends at that time almost all came down with it.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Yeah, it's weird how dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway are prone to just loving up in strange, permanent and horrifying ways. People sometimes get a permanent movement disorder called Tardive dyskinesia from antipsychotics and Phenergan. It's only brought up briefly in Love and Mercy, but part of what saved Brian Wilson was that his tardive dyskinesia symptoms were spotted by a Beach Boys fans/counselor named Peter Reum. Reum was able to use connections to convince his family of its seriousness, eventually freeing Wilson from Eugene Landy's care.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:At the risk of returning this thread to "goons talk about boring poo poo that happens to them," I get p bad akathisia once or thrice a year, and Staker's right about it. Indica or high-CBD weed's the only thing that's ever allowed me to ignore it, and even then it's not complete relief. I'm not sure how goons feel about massage and associated benefits but I do neuromuscular therapy and have a client with Akathisia and it seems to help to do general maintenance sessions with them. He's described it as I'm basically punishing his muscles' restlessness with my thumbs. It's mostly deep fascia work but especially when I go into his ITB or the body of the scapula for a while he feels relief for at least a few days. I'd say it's worth looking into if you can find a massage therapist who isn't a total fraud
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Akathisia is a very common part of opiate withdrawals, it's one of the things that make withdrawals a living hell and opiates so difficult to quit. But to just randomly experience that out of nowhere and through no fault of your own, god I can't even imagine that. My sincere condolences to ChickenOfTomorrow and anyone else who has to experience that kind of hell on earth.
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Dec 9, 2016 19:43
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Can someone please link the OSHA thread? I can't find it and now I know I've got to read it
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Dec 9, 2016 20:45
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Xibanya posted:Can someone please link the OSHA thread? I can't find it and now I know I've got to read it http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3763899
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republicant posted:Akathisia is a very common part of opiate withdrawals, it's one of the things that make withdrawals a living hell and opiates so difficult to quit. But to just randomly experience that out of nowhere and through no fault of your own, god I can't even imagine that. My sincere condolences to ChickenOfTomorrow and anyone else who has to experience that kind of hell on earth. What's even worse is that people on old school antipsychotics can have it all the time, rather than just an episode lasting a few days, and it can persist for years after discontinuation.
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Dec 9, 2016 23:54
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The Thorazine shuffle and the Prolactin stomp. 
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Dec 10, 2016 03:53
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Clarence Darrow gave one of his great speeches at the end of the trial of Leopold and Loeb, basically saying "These children are awful, but they are children, and the death penalty sucks." You couldn't try that nowadays. This is often the terrifying through-line when it comes to the death penalty. The police or people involved swear by everything that there was a confession and that the accused is guilty. Like with the Willingham trial that was mentioned a while back - Texas went through some hoops to save face and not have the evidence revisited. You could call the guy scum of the earth (he did beat his wife by everyone's accounts) but the evidence essentially proves that no crime was even committed. But the prosecutor, governor, lead police investigator and fire investigator - even some of the people in town - all just stubbornly stuck with "he got what he deserved." Truth or not.
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Dec 10, 2016 23:35
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This could be unnerving or no, depending on the balance of your opinions between environmentalism and animal rights. Clipperton Island is about 700 miles southwest of Mexico, out in the Pacific, and belongs to France. The island had a population of feral pigs to provide meat for people dropping in, but one ornithologist took exception to this, and embarked on a successful one-man pig extermination program with a shotgun: quote:It was visited by ornithologist Ken Stager of the Los Angeles County Museum in 1958. Appalled at the depredations visited by feral pigs upon the island's brown booby and masked booby colonies (reduced to 500 and 150 birds, respectively), Stager procured a shotgun and killed all 58 pigs. By 2003, the booby colonies had 25,000 brown boobies and 112,000 masked boobies, the world's second-largest brown booby colony and its largest masked booby colony.[11] As a slightly humorous addendum, only four years later nine fisherman got stuck on Clipperton after their boat sank, and were probably pretty annoyed to find a bunch of pig skeletons on the island yet no pork for a castaway. Fortunately they survived for the 23 days it took for a US Navy ship to rescue them.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:This could be unnerving or no, depending on the balance of your opinions between environmentalism and animal rights. That guy is a serious hero for taking action like that. Invasive animals and plants can really devastate ecosystems.
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