hullo from camping! We came out last night because the normal, secular public school district has today off for no particular reason. What are you up to?

Once upon a time, in 2010, Apo posted a merry thread about Sandra Lee drinking some ""lemon-scented funky spunk" by mistake. The thread is still funny, with a Kwaanza cake made with acorns, and some other stuff. Unfortunately most of the links go to videos that have been taken down, though. Later that month, I made a mock-Sandra-Lee video that does still live, somewhere.

Then fourteen years passed and the internet has to take every ordinary comic occurrence and put it on steroids. Which is how I've found myself amidst surreal-batshit cooking instagram videos that I can't even explain to you.

This woman is definitely the most insane of the group. I don't think she's satire, based on the her Youtube channel.

Although this one is competitive in her own right.

Like, these aren't AI, are they? I don't think they are? I just don't understand so many things about how this came together.

A different one. Another one.

This one is extra great because the commentary on top is very funny.

I think the thing I'm most looking forward to is someone deciding to be the group contrarian and arguing that some of these meals are actually fine, stop being such a snob.

Two articles that aren't exactly juxtaposed, but are sort of juxtaposed, dealing with how a society should handle fentanyl, basically.

1. Republicans in Oregon are blaming drug decriminalization for spikes in overdoses that are probably better attributed to fentanyl, and there's legislation maybe coming to start imposing penalties again.

2. Interesting article framed by a personal narrative, the partial solution is prescription heroin under safe monitoring for people with chronic addiction.

This isn't really the point of the article, but I found it interesting:

FENTANYL KILLS. That's what the billboard says. That's all the billboard says--FENTANYL in a cold, light blue, KILLS in stark white against an all-black background. Below is a woman on a gurney, treated with the same dead-blue tones as the script above her......Splashed across the bottom right-hand corner of the billboard are the insignia of several city agencies proudly supporting its message. What is noticeably absent is any reference to a single resource--not a website, not a phone number, not a mention of how someone might stop using fentanyl and thus avoid their impending death.

Don't do drugs, kids!

Since everyone's talking about the bridge and the boat in the other thread, have a frivolous story that I enjoyed: My Life as A Failed Model.

I had no idea:

For years, doctors had been told that concussion patients needed total rest in order to recover. But around the time of Gormally's concussions, which occurred between 2013 and 2016, the science was beginning to indicate the opposite--patients who "cocooned" themselves in a dark room, even for only a few days, consistently took longer to get better than people who stayed engaged with their daily activities.

Since then, study after study has shown that the concussed brain requires active rehabilitation--activities like exercise, reading, and screens--to heal. The most up-to-date Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport, a report prepared by an international panel of experts, recommends "active rehabilitation" and discourages total rest. As with most injuries, the specifics of what that rehabilitation looks like varies from case to case; researchers and specialists have an arsenal of protocols and therapies at their disposal.

You'd think that this would have meant a revolution in how doctors understand and treat concussions. It hasn't. For many patients, not much has changed at all. A report published in 2018 found that more than half of patients with concussions--millions a year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--are still leaving the doctor's office without actionable, evidence-based information or referrals to specialists. Instead of that crucial step, many patients, to their detriment, are still being told to simply cocoon.

I mean, it's hard to get mad at the report from 2018 where physicians hadn't yet incorporated the knowledge from 2016. But now it's 2024. The link is mostly anecdotal about current practices, but idk, I found it interesting.