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I have weird intrusive thoughts about being a whale or dolphin and getting rabies and slowly going insane from hydrophobia. Logically I know it can't happen, and so far as I know rabies has yet to spread to marine mammals. Rabid Manatees tearing up Florida
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Arsenic Lupin posted:At this point, we have large populations of multiple wild animals that can carry rabies, which is why we're ruthless about it. The CDC's list is "raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes." (and of course domesticated animals!) "at least 7 out of 10 Americans who die from rabies in the US were infected by bats. " While that's a big number keep in mind that generally only something like 2-3 people in the united states die a year from rabies. Also every mammal can carry rabies, even whales. Transmission could be dog>seal/sea lion> whale or dolphin
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Sep 23, 2023 00:08
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well dang, that's a bad thought rabid whales
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StillFullyTerrible posted:well dang, that's a bad thought and they called them Killer before...
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StillFullyTerrible posted:well dang, that's a bad thought why do you think free willy jumped? rabid hydrophobia.
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Sep 23, 2023 00:24
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The story of Keiko who played Free Willy is pretty unnerving. The movie I soirée a campaign to free him. He completely failed to integrate with wild orcas, kept returning to humans for food and companionship, and eventually died of malnourishment and pneumonia.
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StillFullyTerrible posted:Rabies does exist in the UK, but it's rare. Most of the animals it's endemic to don't live there, but it can still be spread. Of course it *can* be spread, we're not magically immune. But rabies is not generally present in the UK. From the government website: quote:n the UK, rabies has been eliminated from terrestrial animal populations. The last rabid terrestrial animal in the UK was a puppy in quarantine which had been imported from Sri Lanka and found to be rabid in 2008. Which to be fair means you can still get rabies from bats here, though I think the last human case was in 1902, so. Been a while.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Agghhhhh was there ever a follow up to that reddit post? I don't think so :/ But the account was eventually deleted. I dm'd the user a year or two after he made the post to ask if he was okay, and he didn't answer.
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HopperUK posted:Of course it *can* be spread, we're not magically immune. But rabies is not generally present in the UK. From the government website: This says that a bat worker in Scotland got rabies and died in 2002. Did a lot of googling last year when a bat got into my holiday rental's bedroom.
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Sep 23, 2023 14:35
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It almost feels like the humane thing to do with a person that has been exposed to a lot of radiation is to humanely end their life before the suffering gets worse.
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Alterian posted:It almost feels like the humane thing to do with a person that has been exposed to a lot of radiation is to humanely end their life before the suffering gets worse. all part of God's great plan
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StillFullyTerrible posted:well dang, that's a bad thought It's been a joke between my wife and I for years that a rabid whale will be the breakthrough for anti-gravity technology. A whale with hydrophobia would just hover over the water by way of locomotion.
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Alterian posted:It almost feels like the humane thing to do with a person that has been exposed to a lot of radiation is to humanely end their life before the suffering gets worse. Guy at a reprocessing plant in Japan violated procedures and took 17 sieverts whole-body. He was insensate, his leukocytes were so mutated that his body was recognizing them as non-self and auto-immuning itself. The photos are horrific, his skin had basically melted off. And every time his heart stopped the doctors would revive him because that’s what his family wanted. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TOAC_web.pdf (That’s a preliminary report, no photos of that guy.)
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Sep 26, 2023 16:45
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yeah the doctors caught a lot of flak for not just letting him die but from what I've read neither the guy or his family truly understood that he had no chance and wanted them to keep him going
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I think here doctors can overrule family wishes in cases like that. At least I hope so. gently caress.
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If that is Hisashi Ouichi you're talking about, he repeatedly begged for death and they refused to help him because science. He didn't want to stay alive and his family didn't want him to, but the government wanted to study him. I have a feeling the same would happen in the US except you know, someone would argue for the sanctity of life and whatnot. E: now that I'm looking at newer articles, the country is claiming the family was trying to keep him alive and they could do nothing about it. After previous articles right after the fact, I find that kinda suspect. And really even if the family kept him alive, shouldn't his word have mattered more? That's loving awful and just evil of them if it's true. Special place in hell and whatnot. I guess it's all hosed. Scathach has a new favorite as of 20:38 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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Inceltown posted:Trapped for days in an upside down toilet 100 feet below the surface of the water while you listen to your colleagues die is not how you want your job on the tugboat to go Oh hey, cool. That video has always stuck with me. It's nice to see he's doing well. If that article is old and there are unpleasant updates, please no one tells me.
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Scathach posted:If that is Hisashi Ouichi you're talking about, he repeatedly begged for death and they refused to help him because science. He didn't want to stay alive and his family didn't want him to, but the government wanted to study him. I believe the biggest problem in Ouchi's case was that they had never dealt with a situation such as his before, and they really didn't have long-standing protocol in place to work with. And you simply cannot just stand by to let a patient die. Especially since Ouchi was in very good condition when he was originally admitted. Just a friendly guy with some minor-looking burns. Hard for his family and the workers caring for him to understand that he was already dead, until he began to deteriorate. Admittedly! I might get schooled by another goon here. It's been a few years since I last read A Slow Death, (which I do recommend), but it didn't feel like there was a ton of "yeah let's torture this guy for science" going on in the background, at least not to the salacious levels you'd assume from most retellings of the story online. Just a very bad very deadly situation from the get-go, no winners, least of all Ouchi.
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Oct 5, 2023 21:21
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More like Hisashi Ouch! EDIT: Sorry I thought this was GBS
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Oct 5, 2023 22:12
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I love that his name is Ouchi e:fb
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Oct 5, 2023 22:13
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Lmao yes that gets pointed out a lot, but thankfully it's pronounced like "oh-e-chee" and this poor guy is not actually Mr. Ouchie.
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Wainwright posted:Lmao yes that gets pointed out a lot, but thankfully it's pronounced like "oh-e-chee" and this poor guy is not actually Mr. Ouchie. I know, but it's fun to pretend reality aligns with Nominative determinism. Bring some comedy to the tragedy.
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If people would just transcribe the Japanese long “o” sound properly using “ō” instead of “ou” we wouldn’t have any problems with people constantly barreling into the thread going HURRRR HIS NAME IS LITERALLY OUCHIE DO U GET IT LOL. 
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Comrade Koba posted:If people would just transcribe the Japanese long “o” sound properly using “ō” instead of “ou” we wouldn’t have any problems with people constantly barreling into the thread going HURRRR HIS NAME IS LITERALLY OUCHIE DO U GET IT LOL. Hepburn is not incorrect it’s a commonly accepted standard
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Grassy Knowles posted:Hepburn is not incorrect it’s a commonly accepted standard The standard is bad
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*runs into thread at top speed* HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-- oh
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very risky blowjob posted:*runs into thread at top speed* HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-- ō
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Grassy Knowles posted:Hepburn is not incorrect it’s a commonly accepted standard Oh, did you learn that in Toukyou? 
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It is always a struggle for me, who grew up learning Japanese but live in the US, to know whether to be a nerd and pronounce Japanese words correctly or to just suffer through pronouncing things the Americanized way.
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remigious posted:It is always a struggle for me, who grew up learning Japanese but live in the US, to know whether to be a nerd and pronounce Japanese words correctly or to just suffer through pronouncing things the Americanized way. Generally people don't really care, so long as they know what you're talking about you're not one of those people who jumps at correcting them for not pronouncing something natively. "It's not 'cruh-saunt' it's 'kwah-sahn'.  "
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Just gotta say poo poo the way you say it and let others get worked up if they feel like doing that instead of communicating with you
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My spouse used to be a barista, and was annoyed with all the people who thought it was very important to say KWAH SAH in Ye Proper French.
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Halloween Jack posted:My spouse used to be a barista, and was annoyed with all the people who thought it was very important to say KWAH SAH in Ye Proper French. People would get mad at my French ex for saying French words the right way, not correcting others at all, just saying kwahsah etc
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You can't just say kwasah, you have to make it the loudest word in the sentence and make that KW as guttural as you can. I almost forgot. I never get tired of telling people about the time I met a white goth kid who decided to rename himself Akuma, which he pronounced Uh-KOO-muh. Halloween Jack has a new favorite as of 14:39 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Halloween Jack posted:You can't just say kwasah, you have to make it the loudest word in the sentence and make that KW as guttural as you can. Akuma matata
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Halloween Jack posted:You can't just say kwasah, you have to make it the loudest word in the sentence and make that KW as guttural as you can. That kid sounds cool as hell
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I bought a comic once and the guy behind the till enthusiastically told me how Manga is actually pronounced Mang-wah. Bless him,he was just trying to be nice.
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I have an Irish name that a certain proportion of people mispronounce in a way I really dislike. It doesn't really matter with acquaintances or customers but my drat grandma used to get it wrong and it drove me batty.
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HopperUK posted:I have an Irish name that a certain proportion of people mispronounce in a way I really dislike. It doesn't really matter with acquaintances or customers but my drat grandma used to get it wrong and it drove me batty. I've got some really good Irish friends I've known since I was a kid and all but one of them have very Irish names and it's always fun watching people try to both spell or pronounce the names.
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