Every town around me have installed these fucking things, covering every major route. In order to get out of my local area without being tracked I have to drive on some serious hillbilly roads. It’s exhausting.

Oh cool, guess which age group I’m in:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119#fig02

If the lead doesn’t get me, the MS from our parents aggressively shielding us from all sun exposure will!

Huh, found a source from 1683 where a guy named Edward Tyson presented his research on the worm to the Royal Society, and he called it the “joynted worm”. He also refers to it by its Latin name Lumbricus latus which AFAIK just means “flat worm”, and Lumbricus teres Intestinalis which I’m guessing means “round worm of the intestine”.

This is actually a great paper because he’s arguing against spontaneous generation of insects from rotting meat by pointing out that these worms are only found within the bodies of living animals and therefore must be the product of these animals eating eggs or body segments of the worm.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1683.0020

OK, looks like at least as far back as this they were calling it “tape worm”. This just makes me wonder how old “tape” is:

…And the first is, it’s being flat; hence call’d Lumbricus Latus… and by some in English, the Tape-worm. -page 115

Also failure of public works, like a train crash that kills 20 people, means that trains are bad. Clearly this program isn’t working and should be privatized. But 20 people killed daily on the highways, well those people are just idiots. Never mind the structural issues.

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