CrieDeCoeur

CrieDeCoeur t1_j6lfpet wrote

Reply to Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975

Anyone surprised by this should also look up Chinese money laundering via real estate, how we were so very late in shutting down the Huawei 5G deal, and so on. Trudeau has only very recently started to openly admonish the CCP, but that’s only because it’s been politically expedient for him to do so. Yes, other countries are entwined with the CCP but at least they’ve been actively extricating / divorcing themselves from those partnerships. Canada? Not as much and not nearly as quick.

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CrieDeCoeur t1_j69oyvb wrote

Reply to comment by Mynamethisisnot in TIL cholera was reintroduced to Haiti after a century by UN peacekeepers responding to the 2010 earthquake. The resulting outbreak was the worst on record, killing 10,000 and infecting 820,000. by theworkinglad

Hydration + electrolyte therapy are, I think, pretty much the only things that will help. Cholera is a bacteria, not a virus, and can’t be treated with meds. So the idea is to keep a patient hydrated enough to ride out the infection (which lasts about a week) before it kills them. You wouldn’t be able to drink enough fluids fast enough to stay ahead of the violent diarrhea, so IV would be critical.

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CrieDeCoeur t1_j67c8ae wrote

Reply to TIL cholera was reintroduced to Haiti after a century by UN peacekeepers responding to the 2010 earthquake. The resulting outbreak was the worst on record, killing 10,000 and infecting 820,000. by theworkinglad

Cholera is one nasty and horrifyingly efficient disease. It basically causes all of the water and electrolytes to just empty out of your cells…through your ass. Up to 20 liters (~5 gallons) of diarrhea per day, which equates to 40 pounds of body weight.

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CrieDeCoeur t1_j20vodz wrote

Reply to comment by ReviewNecessary6521 in TIL that elements of the ancient Mesopotamian religion (first formed in the 6th millennium BC) may have survived until the early 20th century. The Shamsīyah, a sect of sun-worshippers, persisted in southeastern Turkey (sometimes outwardly adopting Christian customs) until the early 1900s. by RexSueciae

I mean, isn’t that the premise of Raised By Wolves? Or would have been if those fucktards at HBO / Warner hadn’t have axed their most streamed series?

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CrieDeCoeur t1_ivgsq40 wrote

Reply to comment by RetroMetroShow in TIL In 1971, the Guinness World Records listed Clara as the "Most Indefatigable Cruise Passenger". For 14 years, she lived on RMS Caronia, which cost her $396 in daily fare. Without accounting for inflation, Cunard Line received $4 million from her in tickets. by thenerdknuckle

My parents know a boomer couple that does professional housesitting / petsitting for 8 months of the year, followed by 4 months of uninterrupted cruises. They've been doing this for about 5 years total now and live the life of Riley despite having no fixed address.

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CrieDeCoeur t1_ivbnrgl wrote

Reply to comment by enderandrew42 in TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity. by DasherPack

Penthouse mag too, iirc. Then Hustler arrived on the scene and it was all about the wanking from there on out.

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