It’s folklore and was probably first told among people who had only a shaky grasp on anatomy, but a firm grasp on what organs were considered very important in stories. Think about it: The modern zomby is killed by destroying the brain. This fits our common folk knowledge of anatomy much better than the heart. We consider the heart as nothing more than a blood pump and the brain as the centre of what we are. In former times the heart was seen as much more important, dating back to acient Greek lore who thought the brain was just a cooler for our blood.

In this day and age we have conservative and even far-right openly homosexual politicians who actively work on anti-gay policies. So it seems to me that some people never get their heads out of the closet.

You mean Konrad Dippel? As far as I know it’s very much disputed whether Mary Shelly took any inspiration from the folk stories around him.

I can’t remember that he use pickled body parts in the novel. Because that’s basically what happens to bodies used for anatomy training. The way they are prepared they can be stored at room temperature for weeks, just covered with a damp sheet.

Sorry, but I really doubt that this can happen. I also worked in anatomy, I’ve seen and felt what the formaldehyde does to tissue. There’s no way that preserved muscle tissue can react to the stimulation of a pacemaker.

I think the best way to describe is that you still have total control, but infinite courage. So you might do very stupid stuff that you kind of always wanted to do but never dared to.

Well, but that’s exactly how it works, at least until it works without that.

I was talking exclusively about work. For school it’s usually not needed at all, only in cases where the child is going to be absent for a long time - or if the school decides that a child has been sick too often.

Yes, that’s kind of funny since the name of the doctor is on that. But if the employer were to call, you wouldn’t be allowed to tell him anything. Now it has been digitized anyway and I have no idea what information is conveyed on that “digital doctor’s note”.

No, since it’s not allowed where I live. You can’t say whether a someone is your patient or not without a waiver.

Not being allowed to put actual pictures in them. So they went all out with architecture,

We have a terracotta roof that has similar amounts of moss, it’s about 45 years old. Most Eternit roofs are even older, so it’s no wonder there’s moss on it. Plus, many terracotta roofs are glazed and have a much smoother surface.

Well, ethically it depends entirely on the civilization.

Were I live that would be a regular price if you don’t use insurance. But from what you describe, it’s a scam. You need a lab, you need equipment, you need to be certified. However, there’s a lot you can do with POCT nowadays. Point of care testing-devices are basically everything you can do directly without a lab: from test kits to magic boxes that tell you quite a lot with a few ml of blood. But individual POC tests are usually more expensive than lab tests and less accuarte. So I don’t think it would make any sense to run a business with that and trying to compete with hospital labs.

What you describe is why China is a successful and wealthy nation. Not really why it should still be considered socialist. I do not know whether the concessions China made to capitalism where necessary, but they sure were successful in raising the standard of living. However, if they were necessary it means that China wasn’t able to establish socialism in the end. And this is not a critique against the Chinese people. As you say: the world is capitalist. It may just be impossible to establish socialism under the current conditions, whithout a world revolution. That total isolation doesn’t work very can be considered proven by now.

Claiming that I suggested that China is capitalist is also a pretty big straw man. China has a socialist and a capitalist sector. That doesn’t make the country capitalist, but it has lost the basic principles that make socialism: The workers don’t own the means of production in the capitalist sector. You try to talk this away by changing the very definition of socialism.

No matter how well-controlled this sector is, the a large part of the surplus those workers achieve goes into the pockets of capitalists. Even if those workers are as well-paid and well-protected as their counterparts in the socialist sector, the are still alienated from their work. Some of the fruits of their work are funding some rich man’s mega yacht and the betterment of the socialist state. By this, you create two classes of workers - that means giving up on working towards a classless society.

You may say this is a temporary setup raise the standard of living, but concentrated money always creates power and corruption. Enough money will always find some weak-willed individuals to buy power, no matter how draconic the punishment might be. The fact that billionaires have to be put to death shows that this is already happening on a grand scale. There are only two ways this can go, in my opinion: Either China will decide to reintegrate the capitalist sector back into the socialist society or this sector will quickly erode what remains of the socialist society. At this point, the first will not go through without bloodshed.

To me, the question stands whether a country can use “controlled capitalist mechnisms” at all and still stay socialists. Controlled capitalism isn’t socialism. This could be discussed. However, once you allow privately owned international businesses on a grand scale, it is really hard to argue for your position.

It’s the only reply someone can make to such a comment, friend. You suggest that there’s only one opinion on that matter and that everyone who doesn’t accept it isn’t well-read enough. To go any lower you’d have to use swear words.

Just silly. For one person its “too much info”, for another its “not enough”. AI really broke people’s brains. If they actually have to read some things and can’t be given a short summary, they call it “shutting down discussion”.

I would accept this argument if you’d sent me one or two links to well-researched sources that were just very long. But you didn’t do that. What you provided is a mess. Most of the links I read through do not even provide any information about whether or not China can be called socialist. For example the news items about China executing businessmen. Others even contradict the argument of China being a socialist country. Take this link https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/91liw2/comment/e2z3kzu/

It basically says that the Chinese economy is 50% socialist at maximum. This would support my opinion that China is actually transitioning away from socialism by its growing private sector. Having basic workers’ rights does not help this. Some capitalist countries have those too.

So face it: It’s not me being unable to process information. It’s you being unable to provide relevant information. You obviously can’t see the difference between what’s relevant for your argumentation and what is not. And expect others to sort it out.

Also I don’t use AI.

You’re right, you didn’t read even a few of the links, and you’re proving the post correct.

I just wrote:

Whatever I answer now, you can say I haven’t read all of your links.

You obviously didn’t look at even a few of these links either! These links include pages and pages of discussions in several formus, inclunding reddit. There are several hours of youtube videos. There’s paywalled content! There are sites flagged by my virus protection. This not sharing information, this flooding. This is a way of shutting up any kind of disussion.

Chinese people’s analysis, views and opinions on our country its guiding ideology and political system are irrelevant in your eyes? This stinks of western chauvinism. Is it only real socialism when white people agree it is?

It is a bit early for playing the racism card, isn’t it? No, it doesn not matter at this point because it’s self-labeling. The Chinese people have a right to label themselves however they want.

Please define socialism. If a workers state lead by a vanguard party managing the transition out of capitalism and defending revolutionary gains isn’t socialism because contradictions remain then I venture to say no state will ever be socialist.

The most simple definition. A socialist state is one where the workers own the means of production.

Let’s try your own definition: Workes state - China is not led by workers. It has a class system and workers do not own the means of production. It is mainly owned by individuals - those are capitalists. Vanguard party - this is not something a socialist society should have, but merely a perversion that every state trying to be socialist developed. Parties are for democracies, a socialist state does not need parties. managing the transition out of capitalism - it cannot be called transitioning out of capitalism when some individuals gain unimaginable wealth while others don’t. This is a concentration of wealth and exactly the same is happening in “capitalist” countries. China is transitioning out of socialism.

I venture to say no state will ever be socialist.

Bleak, but possible.

Oh “a book”? And what is this magical book that contains all truth about this subject matter?