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A scheme by which schools who educate children in the 8 - 11 year range are provided with specialised "disability" devices.
There's a wheelchair; a pair of vision-limiting goggles; special hearing aids that reduce and distort sound; a "false" hand; and an "oxygen" mask that only limits breathing a
bit, but requires the wearer to carry a cylinder round all the time.
Every Monday, there is a random draw; one or two of the kids will be required to experience a disability for the entire school week. They will be reliant on their friends (if any) to assist them, and may be excluded from some activities.
This should instill an appreciation of the difficulties experienced by those of a genuine disability, and discourage "mean" behavior towards this week's 'victim(s)', because next week it might be them in the wheelchair...
Alcohol and vitamins
https://www.intecho...holic-liver-disease
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 14 2017]
Crisis Inducer
http://hitchhikers....wiki/Crisis_Inducer
[hippo, May 15 2017]
Teen pregnancy simulation in school
http://apps.npr.org...and-journal-prompts
For the next ~2 weeks, you will care for and protect an egg baby and keep a journal where you can reflect on the impact of teenage pregnancy on your and your family’s lives. [farble, May 16 2017]
New research shows role-playing disability promotes distress, discomfort and disinterest
https://www.science...04/170411151019.htm
[JesusHChrist, May 16 2017]
[link]
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While at Ford, we did this as engineers for a vehicle design
accessibility program. Weighted suits with restricted
motion, blurry yellow goggles, cotton in the ears, etc. |
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I'm not certain how you'd model mental health issues.
Perhaps some weird trippy drugs? |
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//Perhaps some weird trippy drugs?// |
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Actually, I think modern pharmacology is more than capable
of that. Amphetamines for anxiety, serotonin antagonist for
depression. Selective vitamin B depletion for schizophrenia. |
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//instill an appreciation of the difficulties experienced by those of a genuine disability// What in the name of coition has gotten into you, Borgboy? |
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//What in the name of coition has gotten into you, Borgboy?// |
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I think the borg are fed up of the likes of Kirk and Picard cutting them up as they trundle around the universe in their big square mobility scooter. |
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I think it's likelier that [8th] has been kidnapped. Two questions for his captors: |
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(1) What have you done with him and
(2) How long can you keep him? |
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(1) Nothing he didn't deserve.
(2) How much are you willing to pay us to do so? |
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I think I am in like with this idea. |
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//in like with// is my new favorite phrase. |
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A cheaper method would be: |
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Put class on bus or ship. Go to the nearest 1/5th settlement. Kick everyone out. |
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Any class that makes it back alive gets to continue their studies. Partly returned classes are sent back to get the stragglers or the bodies. Or left as settlers. |
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I agree, as far as back-monkeys go... nicotine is at least a baboon.
I'd like to think that it's more of a habit thing, like after a meal, or on a break, but the few times I've travelled without packing smokes had me buying cigarettes in other countries which tasted like what-the-hell-am-I-doing?... but I smoked'm anyway. |
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Vile habit, but like most medicinal property plants, very open to abuse.
The natives here made Aspirin from willow trees and used tobacco for many things but prominently as a topical anesthetic for toothache. If you hold a mouthful of tobacco smoke for a few seconds without inhaling then a couple of pulls on a pipe numbs mouth pain. |
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That's neither here nor there though, the damn things should never have been touted as safe, endorsed by doctors, and foisted on our military boys for profit once their fightin days were done. |
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...almost like big business controls legislation or something screwed up like that.
Who friggin knows? |
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More power to you [bigsleep]. |
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Somehow I think this will not discourage the mean kids from
being mean. |
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>Amphetamines for anxiety, serotonin antagonist for
depression. Selective vitamin B depletion for schizophrenia. |
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Coffee for insomnia, chocolate for euphoria, beer for
intoxication, coca cola for stupidity... |
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//Who friggin knows?// Lots of people know, [2fries]. There's just a conspiracy amongst the Illuminati to keep you in the dark. |
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//Are the disabled kids exempt// |
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um... is taking a daily dose multivitamin three times a day for two weeks really a good idea? or am I reading that wrong? |
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Like holy polar bear liver Batman! |
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// How do we decide who gets to "learn appreciation"? // |
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Just like everything else in your society - a biased and highly unfair selection process based on social background, religion, ethnicity, skin colour, accent, height, weight and random violent beatings. |
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You make very good points [limpnotes] |
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- //it supposes a surplus of empathy (in the mentor), while the idea itself supposes lack as the root of the problem. Both cannot be true.// |
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True. I wonder though if it would be more about breaking down barriers.
A week is a long time for a kid. You spend an entire week with someone else outside of your little click and you are going to learn about each other even if one or the other is less than empathic. |
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//What of the kid who goes home to heroin addicted parents everyday?// |
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Yep... or mental and emotional beatings. Can't humanely simulate those disabilities, and they are disabilities aren't they?, just invisible ones. It's kind of hard to give a shit about school when you live in fear. It's like the least of your concerns. |
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That's a tough one.
Not to be intentionally demonstrated for sure... recognised and stopped certainly, but not demonstrated. |
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//How do we decide who gets to "learn appreciation"?// |
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[bigsleep]
// RDA's are typically very conservative and are 'Recommended' for average people. It probably doesn't include alcoholics or smokers. Just getting rid of crap from your lungs and liver takes a great toll in energy and nutrition. // |
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Interesting. I have read that liver disease in alcoholics is caused mainly because alcohol becomes a majority of their daily caloric intake and that the liver needs to turn this alcohol into sugar to process it and that if dietary changes do not occur then the liver does just fine. |
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Of course I can not find that study anymore, here is a link to the closest thing I can find. [link] |
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When I start to feel drag-assed for a few days I pop a multi vitamin and that feeling goes away for a while. Usually every few weeks or so. |
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most people are already mentally/emotianlly
financially, genetically, racially or situationallly
handicapped in some way. |
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Well, then, this scheme can hardly make things any worse, can it ? |
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//Are the disabled kids exempt from this
treatment?// |
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Can you bang your head on a brick wall until your ears bleed ? It's essentially the same thing. |
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This reminds me of the fake injuries and Crisis
Inducer that Lintilla in HHGTTG would use in order to
run faster - on the grounds that if you have to
struggle with a broken leg while escaping from an
unnamed peril you'll be faster than with no peril and
no broken leg. |
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I never thought of it this way before, but I guess teen pregnancy could be considered a temporary disability. Maybe temporary until the kid moves out of the house. |
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// temporary disability // |
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... but self-inflicted. Doesn't count. |
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Not necessarily self-inflicted. A student is randomly chosen, dragged into a closet and given an egg to carry around. |
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No, you fool. It's "Alien: Convenience". It's about the difficulties faced by future travellers in dealing with lavatories designed for non-humans. |
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" A cheaper method would be: |
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Put class on bus or ship. Go to the nearest 1/5th settlement. Kick everyone out. |
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Any class that makes it back alive gets to continue their studies. Partly returned classes are sent back to get the stragglers or the bodies. Or left as settlers.
— popbottle, May 11 2017 " |
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Back in the previous century, '80 or so, my girlfriend's college had an assignment where they blindfolded you, drove you to a rural community and dropped you off. The assignment was to make friends and find a place to spend the night, then get somebody to let you use a phone to call for pickup. |
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Probably couldn't get that one past the insurance folks today ... |
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Reminds me of part of Richard Feynman's fraternity
hazing, where they abandoned the pledges in the
middle of nowhere and told them to find their way
back, described on page 16 of the PDF I have of
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and the first time
the word "lines" is mentioned in the book, for
anybody who has a different electronic edition. For
those without any electronic copy and without a
physical copy with the same page numbering, or who
find it easier to just read something that's already on
this page rather than having to go open a book, I will
include the relevant passage below: |
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// When I became a pledge they had various ways of
hazing. One of the things they did was to take us,
blindfolded, far out into the countryside in the dead
of winter and leave us by a frozen lake about a
hundred feet apart. We were in the middle of
absolutely nowhere—no houses, no nothing—and we
were supposed to find our way back to the fraternity.
We were a little bit scared, because we were young,
and we didn't say much—except for one guy, whose
name was Maurice Meyer: you couldn't stop him from
joking around, making dumb puns, and having this
happy-go-lucky attitude of "Ha, ha, there's nothing to
worry about. Isn't this fun!" |
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We were getting mad at Maurice. He was always
walking a little bit behind and laughing at the whole
situation, while the rest of us didn't know how we
were ever going to get out of this. |
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We came to an intersection not far from the lake--
there were still no houses or anything--and the rest of
us were discussing whether we should go this way or
that way, when Maurice caught up to us and said, "Go
this way." |
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"What the hell do you know, Maurice?" we said,
frustrated. "You're always making these jokes. Why
should we go this way?" |
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"Simple: Look at the telephone lines. Where there's
more wires, it's going toward the central station." |
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This guy, who looked like he wasn't paying attention
to anything, had come up with a terrific idea! We
walked straight into town without making an error. // |
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Does this mean that some poor child has to waddle around
insulting people; wearing tiny hands and an orange head,
being Trump for an
entire week? Sounds a bit extreme to me. |
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Betcha Hillary would jump at the chance. |
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// 3 x multivitamin tablets every day
Take a B and C vitamin hangover cure 2 times a week
Take a vitamin D and calcium supplement 2 times a week.
// |
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There's absorption issues with a whole lot of
micronutrients. Take that vitamin D for example. Ca2+
and Vitamin D depend on magnesium for absorption. So
they're probably just coming straight out the other end.
Particularly because of the 2-3 fold increase in Mg2+
excretion induced by alcohol. |
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// I have read that liver disease in alcoholics is caused
mainly because alcohol becomes a majority of their daily
caloric intake.. // |
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It's a major problem when alcoholics essentially stop
eating. You need a certain intake of, at least, essential
amino acids and fatty acids or the body starts to keep
going, but the body has big reserves, and starts taking
them from the muscles and other tissues. |
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//and that the liver needs to turn this alcohol into sugar
to process it...// |
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The liver makes an awful lot of acetate not sugar, the
liver can't really (well, a bit) make glucose from alcohol
or fat, only protein, so back to muscle for that. Acetate is
not so bad, many tissues can use this as fuel just fine, the
heart for example and because it easily crosses the
blood-brain barrier the brain can supplement its energy
with acetate. When alcoholics STOP drinking there can be
a problem with energy supply in the brain, vitamin B
depletion, a fall in blood acetate concentration, and a
fall in blood glucose caused by a dysfunctional liver that
has very little protein to work with all conspire to cause
a bioenergetic crisis in the brain. Then there's a bunch of
mineral depletion that physicians don't spot, because
they test the blood, and the blood's super tightly
regulated. All the potassium and magnesium is inside
cells. |
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// and that if dietary changes do not occur then the liver
does just fine.// |
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Well, if there's food, the liver has a different problem, a
whole load of acetate (acetylCoA, NADH) to deal with,
the whole system kind of gets backed up with reducing
equivalents, so the liver polymerizes acetate and makes
fat. Some in the now fatty liver, some it pushes into the
blood with its cholesterol chaperones. A neat little
solution to the problem. Except it can't make essential
fats, so the whole fatty acid delivery system needed to
maintain all the membranes and so on is gummed up with
a huge excess of fatty acids the liver CAN make, they
dilute out the essential fats and hang around not being
used much. |
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Same problem with carbohydrate energy glut, all ends up
as acetyl-CoA then fat that doesn't get used. Solvable
with the dnp fat farm of course. |
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You should get a job doing this stuff professionally, [bs]. |
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Very informative. Thanks eh. |
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