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Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? - Slashdot

Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? - Slashdot

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Suzanne Koven, a primary-care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, writes in the New Yorker that the FDA has currently approved four drugs that will help patients lose weight but few primary-care physicians will prescribe them. Qsymia and Belviq work by su…

Thin privilege is getting the drugs you need to cure your condition because the doctors think you’ve "tried hard enough”.

I read the rationalization in this article and threw up in my mouth a little.

Challenge #00339: The Thin Man

There are two main Slenderman mythos’ on the internet, both spawned from the same sets of images and data, and later the games.

The First is a monster that lurks in the dark, steals or follows children for unknown purposes that vary from story to story, some more dangerous than others. Some accounts put him at merely feeding on momentary terror, others range through feeding on souls, or blood, or simply creating more slender, faceless creatures

I showed them, yesterday. The

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URGH!

So I just found out that Apple doesn’t like direct links to books sold through Smashwords. If I don’t fix it, they won’t stock my book.

I’ve already fixed it, by the way. And amended a typo that eluded me for like five edits.

I had to remove the links to the individual stories and add a link to my profile, which is apparently A-OK in Apple’s book. Not a big whoop,

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unicorn-ice:

band-a-saurusrex:

5-seconds-of-christmas:

touched-down-there-by-an-angel:

pizzaspacequeen:

houseofdestiel:

zylveons:

therealleovaldez:

OKAY SERIOUS TALK GUYS!

This clown has been seen over the past few weeks around Mansfield, Chesterfield and Doncaster, I haven’t seen a post about it on here and I really want people to know about it.

Okay so first of all besides it being really frickin creepy to begin with (designed to look like pennywise the clown) it has been roaming the streets at night time, it was started out by a

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Challenge #00338: The Return of Wark

Someone has taken a formal invitation to its logical creative interpretation and shown up/put someone else in a literal penguin suit

“I still say the instructions were a little vague,” said Rael.

“You managed tae follow them,” Shayde noted. She was resplendent in an empire-line gown in gold and white. She’d also done something with her hair that made it sparkle.

“Yes, but I know your lexicon. Others are not so advantaged. I had

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Challenge #00337: The real reason why you don't cross your own time stream

“It’s not the whole risk of changing-historical-events/becoming-your-own-dad/killing-your-ancestors thing that aggravates me most about time travel, it’s keeping all the damn tenses and grammar straight - when you try talking about something you already did, but that you did in the future, that will lead to something you’re going to do, that you’ll do in the past - it’s enough to drive a person insane, it is.”

Paul had

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Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice - Slashdot

Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice - Slashdot

sciencehabit writes “Many physicians and parents report that their autistic children have unusually severe gastrointestinal problems, such as chronic constipation or diarrhea. These observations have led some researchers to speculate that an ailing gut contributes to the disorder in some cases, but …

Further evidence for the gut microbe theory of Autism…

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chronicallyvegan: wheeliewifee: i-need-that-seat: bpdpapi-deactivated20150616: A few days ago in a parking lot in Lisbon wheelchair...

chronicallyvegan:

wheeliewifee:

i-need-that-seat:

bpdpapi-deactivated20150616:

A few days ago in a parking lot in Lisbon wheelchair users and volunteers occupied all the available Non-Handicap spaces to make a point to able-bodied motorists what it is like to have “their” parking places unavailable to them.

On every wheelchair various notes were left like: “be right back”, “it only takes a moment”, “I’m get something here”, etc.

Via Mobility Van Videos by EJ Dulina

Reblogged this yesterday from

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Challenge #00336: Vulnerable

“No, Lasagne! My only weakness!”

Rael did his utmost to resist Shayde’s variants of charm. It rarely worked, but he persisted. Often as much as she did.

It had, in fact, reached the point where she arrived with temptation in hand. Usually in a tin box, but this time, she arrived with a thermally insulated parcel.

“I know ye dinnae like the ballet, but I have tae go an’ yer me preferred plus one. And ye

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chaoswolf1982: cankerinahedge: sweetdreamr: le-claire-de-lune: ladysaviours: you know what would be cool? a show about, like, vigilante...

chaoswolf1982:

cankerinahedge:

sweetdreamr:

le-claire-de-lune:

ladysaviours:

you know what would be cool? a show about, like, vigilante Victorian prostitutes hunting down Jack the Ripper.

They never did figure out why he stopped killing.  And most serial killers don’t stop unless they are stopped. I’m just saying.

HOLY CATS I WANT TO WRITE AND DRAW THIS AS A GRAPHIC NOVEL

OMG THE RESEARCH ALONE WOULD BE AWESOME

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THIS IS BRILLIANT.

::starts chant:: Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!

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Challenge #00335: To Be a F.A.I.R.Y

“When you wish upon a star, it’s actually a satellite. Your wish has been recorded and an agent assigned to your case.”

She’d just passed the written test. She knew the rules. When it came to wish granting, they gave the toughest one of the day to the rookies. To see what they could do.

It was all part and parcel of being a F.A.I.R.Y. Facilitating All Invocations, Responding Yesterday.

It was

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Challenge #00334: The first Christmas in Space

Someone has set up a little model nativity scene, and then has to explain to the others “why they are sacrificing that baby to the animals”

The ships’ human had set up a small altar in their assigned space. There was a small pine tree (live) that had been stasis-shipped from Britania. There was assorted sparkly lights, a metallic plastic substance referred to as ‘tinfoil’ and numerous spheroids hung about the little branches.

The saurians who were

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