Is this satire? Please tell me this is satire

[email protected] made some more in-depth comments elsewhere on this post, but in brief, no, none.

The only thing a medicine like this will do is cause brain bleeds and death in the elderly.

Sorry, downvoted for bad science. Amyloids have never been proven to be behind Alzheimer’s, and in fact most modern studies show no correlation.

So? There’s no harm in trying anyways. Why are you so against a small test on the off-chance it could save a friend’s life? It’s not as if you’re being asked to submit a whole kidney for testing or something.

The hell you on about? People do that all the time.

I’m part of a big group now that is in a pool doctors all over the US can check to see if they can find a match for people, because a friend of mine died from leukemia a long time ago. They couldn’t find a match for him, but maybe I can match with someone else someday.

BTW, gonna shamelessly plug NMDP. They do good work.

I see your Manos and raise you the Star Wars Holiday Special.

What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?

Answer: roughly a billion dollars.

Being a million-dollar company means nothing against a company where a million dollars can count as little more than a rounding error.

If you ask, they’ll tell you it’s different for ‘essential services’. It’s the same excuse they use for the farm handouts.

And where in my previous post did I call you stupid?

You speak of mental health days in a derogatory way, as if you find the very idea that people should take care of their mental as well as physical health offensive, for reasons I don’t understand.

I’m saying that your mocking statement about taking days off for such things should in fact be something we do, and something we should find acceptable to do.

I absolutely guarantee you one of those things is not like the others. Period pain can be truly debilitating, especially for a person with endometriosis. It is totally worth time off.

Also, I find your insinuation that women take time off for ‘low mood’ and ‘being irritable’ frequently—as opposed to men—rather sexist and offensive, not to mention not reflective of reality.

However, I do like how you inadvertently stumbled into the idea that we should all have more sick days and mental health should be included in the definition of ‘health’. Taking time off for a mental ‘breather’ should be normalized in our society. I also think higher-mental-stress jobs like 911 dispatcher should get more mental health off-time.

I’ve been to places that don’t take check or cash anymore though.

This one seems a bit better than most—in that they’ve tested it on mice and it seems to work—but there’s still a big gap between mice and humans. Plus we don’t entirely understand the mechanism behind it yet.

I’m always a little skeptical of these claims.

But hey, if we figure out a way to do this in people safely, then cool.

A ‘removed’?

.world is a bit touchy about it because they’re based in a country that considers that ‘violent speech’ and could conceivably shut them down over it. But the admins also don’t like Nazis so they tend to look the other way as long as people aren’t too aggressive about it.

accurate matches up to 95.5% of the time

and they’re more privacy-preserving than visual images

Oh fuck all the way off.

Does it make sense to nitpick how much they’re getting though? The fact that they’re being denied any bonus is shady as fuck.

Nothing sinister at all. It has a long and proven track record. Which you can check out if you don’t want to be low-info anymore. Doctors and dentists support it.

But there’s a subset of people who want us to go back to disease-ridden serfs, because when your teeth are falling out and 3 out of your 5 kids died young from disease and you can barely make rent, you’re too distracted to care what other people are doing.

There’s only pros. It’s proven to prevent cavities in children and adults, much better than brushing alone.

There’s also the sad fact that not every kid is taught to—or sometimes allowed to—brush their teeth.

Because it’s not only about how much I have, it’s about how much you people don’t have!