AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 23 hours ago:
I have a honey pot with one of those that somebody gave me as a gift.
I tried to use it one time to be fancy when I made biscuits, and put it in the middle of the table during dinner. At first people tried to use it, but it was such a fucking pain in the ass, eventually they just stopped trying to be nice about it used a spoon to get the honey bc wtf is the point?
- Comment on Are you sure about that? 2 days ago:
Then there’s this episode where she finally gets physical evidence of the paranormal. So she contacts a bunch of prominent scientists and arranges for them all to come to the autopsy bay, to reveal this invisible man.
She gets so fucking pumped and excited, but then when she pulls out the table his body as gone and she has nothing!
And she just kind of stammers “Well, he is invisible…” then unsuccessfully gropes around for him while they silently judge her and she dies a little inside.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 3 days ago:
It’s not safe to give dogs Tylenol, but if it was I would say you should go ahead and corner the market.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 3 days ago:
Rabies is in my top three fears, maybe even number one.
Same. I went on a road trip one summer a few years ago, and we decided to take a long detour through the Appalachian trail for part of the drive.
We had all the windows down and the sunroof open everywhere else outside of the mountains. Anyway, we were going down this really narrow back road, seeing like 1 or 2 other cars every 45 mins to an hour, and eventually got to a point where we had to drive through a really old tunnel.
My first thought was, what if a bat flies in the car lmao. I demanded we roll up all the windows and shut the sunroof before we go through. My husband made fun of me and said I was being ridiculous. I probably was, but there’s way too many documented cases about people who were out in the wilderness, got a tiny bat scratch, didn’t even realize it or think twice about it, then weeks or months later died a slow horrible death. Even if you spend your last days in a hospital there’s nothing they can do except try to make you comfortable (which seems pretty impossible unless they just place you into a medically induced coma).
I also worked with a girl that grew up in Vietnam and said there were multiple times she got bit by stray dogs and had to get rabies shots when she was a kid. I grew up in the sticks always playing with stray cats and dogs, and never thought twice about it back then. Definitely wouldn’t be taking the risk now.
Anyway, tldr, some people seem to be under the impression a fear of encountering rabies is like a fear of someday encountering quicksand. I’ll take my chances being ridiculous, especially after reading the article and learning we’ve now got a fucking rabies outbreak to worry about on top of everything else in the U.S.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 days ago:
I think it’s that attitude with any neurodivergence or mental health related issue. You know, all the things that
doctors didn’t know about diagnosing“just didn’t exist” in the past.Like we saw the consequences of people struggling through life, not getting a diagnosis, and not understanding why life was so challenging. For example, my dad was dyslexic and my mom very likely had ADHD, but neither was ever diagnosed.
They just struggled constantly through school, had terrible self esteem, and when somebody told them to just give up and choose a different career path they just said ok, guess I’m just not cut out for this.
Then I got both, and my parents were ok with acknowledging the dyslexia bc it was pretty easy to diagnose.
The ADHD was a whole other story, and I was told by my own parents (who used the excuse of being not wanting me to end up like them) and teachers I was just careless and lazy over and over. I started hating school when I was like 8 and barely finished high school. When I got to college by the skin of my teeth, I found stuff that interested me, but I still struggled so much through college and grad school. Then for a very long time I believed the reason everything was so so much harder for me than my peers was bc I was just dumb.
I had to wait until I was in my 30s and had my own real job and insurance to even attempt to seek help get with ADHD, and even then it took a very long time, but I’m so glad I did.
Maybe if we can stop society from devolving, in a few generations we can also stop pretending that acknowledging neurodivergence and mental health in kids means you have to accept some kind of dangerous magical sorcery, instead of just understanding that people often thrive when you allow them to just be themselves, and treat them like individuals with their own individual strengths, weaknesses, and unique skills.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 days ago:
And it’s what makes them so fucking awesome.
No judgment. No bullshit. Just our best friend, here for a good time, but unfortunately not a long time. We could learn a lot from them.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 days ago:
My fellow Americans, your government has let you down. They’ve let us all down. So please allow me to address something they somehow repeatedly fail to address.
I understand your hesitation to trust the American healthcare system. God knows it would be an absolute lie to say your health is always being prioritized before profits. However, this is a fault of the system itself, not the science behind the medicine.
Everyone deserves to be healthy and deserves access to the medical care that they need. I can’t fix a broken system, but I can swear to you on a stack of bibles, vaccines will not give you, your children, or your dog autism. Please vaccinate and help stop the spread of preventable diseases. God bless you and God bless the United States of America. ❤️
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 days ago:
Listen Doc, yesterday I tried to get my dog to drink some whiskey and get on the roof with an aluminum baseball bat during a lightening storm, so we could go Back to the Future, but he just kept running away. Clearly, whatever was in that vaccine you gave him has made him autistic.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 days ago:
I just want to know what they put in the water in America to make everyone fight eachother
It’s a healthy dose of 1:1 lead (Pb) and misinformation. We call it fight water™️
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 5 days ago:
There times when I see obvious disinformation attacking America, and I will immediate stand up for my country and call out the bullshit.
Then I see something like this, and it leaves me feeling like I stood up for a family member being unfairly picked on who in response immediately decided to shit his pants and light a cigarette while filling his car with gas.
- I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐sh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 5 days ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 188 comments
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 1 week ago:
Well tbf, I did read the tweet and immediately upvote in solidarity with her
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 1 week ago:
It’s really sad but also kinda fascinating that there are definitely people who could read this and believe it’s evidence of the downfall of modern society caused by equal rights, instead of realizing that this bitch was just understandably tired and making a humor joke in an attempt to lighten the burden of having to face another day trying to roll the boulder back up the bullshit mountain created by the people who want to take away her (and everyone else’s) rights, dismantle society, and cause it to collapse.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
I’m like 3 episodes in so far and have had a hard time not binging it all at once.
- Comment on Rate my Grandma's setup 1 week ago:
It depends. Does your grandma use uranium glass for backlighting or just plain Jane LEDs?
- Comment on We've done it, boys 2 weeks ago:
“Product hoarding” conflicts with wealth hoarding. The only logical solution is to make less durable products that quickly wear out with frequent use.
That way consumers are forced to spend more and contribute more to the hoarded wealth of individuals who know very well they won’t be able to spend their fortunes before they die. However their desire for more and more wealth to hoard is limitless because it acts as s useless status symbol amongst other wealth hoarders.
When consumers become concerned about skyrocketing cost of living and wealth inequality, the wealth hoarders will remind them they’re lazy and greedy. If they didn’t want to be poor they should have worked harder (like them) or been more careful not to spend all their money on “frivolous purchases.”
However if consumers don’t spend enough money on frivolous purchases, they’re not being smart, they’re “product hoarding.” When consumers don’t have money to spend, but the wealth hoarders continue to churn out shitty products that they know nobody will buy, the economy will collapse.
The wealth hoarders could afford to take the hit. It might even help them understand cause and effect, so they don’t just keep making the same mistakes in the future. They could even use some of their hoarded wealth to get themselves out of the hole they dug by just giving it to the consumers to spend on their own products. But instead, they’re usually just given a bailout because they’re too big to fail.
After all, the economy would collapse without them…
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 weeks ago:
I’m very relieved that he didn’t try to detain and deport Mamdani (after publicly threatening to do so), but I’m also definitely not convinced anything be said was genuine. Especially coming on the heels of vaguely threatening to murder Democrats.
Idk if it was a genuine attempt to ingratiate himself with the left before the Epstein files are released, or some other kind of misdirection. Either way, I think anyone opposed to fascism who can remember further back than a goldfish, should know not to let their guard down.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 weeks ago:
“I can’t figure out what this button does, so I refuse to use it >:(”
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! Ugh, if these miserable, global extremists, sacks of dog shit hate freedom so much, why won’t they all just go build a man made floating island somewhere in the middle of the ocean and leave the rest of the world alone, instead of dragging us all into fucking holy war just to force us to be miserable too?
Answer: A. They aren’t actually capable of creating/building anything on their own, and are completely reliant on exploiting others because they’re a bunch of talentless cocksuckers. B. They thrive on the attention/theatrics of it all and need a captive audience. C. Even if they suddenly woke up to a world where every need was met and everyone was exactly like them, they would be even more miserable nobody was paying attention to them, and still find excuses to go to war with each other. D. All of the above is
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 4 weeks ago:
It’s the size of the box not the fact that there’s no information about the candidates jfc
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 4 weeks ago:
It’s not that they’re less important. These were very important propositions, but normally the election and proposition boxes are the same size.
This was an election where an incumbent candidate from a local political family had already done some things that seemed to undermine getting people to vote in the election
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 4 weeks ago:
I think it says a lot that they keep bothering with this passive aggressive shit. Why bother trying to stack the deck in your favor if you truly didn’t need to worry about how it’s stacked?
Democracy is trapped under the boot of oligarchy and corruption, but I don’t believe it’s quite dead yet. Looks like Duncan won by ~67%
- New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎sh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 1 month ago:
I wonder if people just start using these as an IRL dark humor coping mechanisms? Like you know killing yourself isn’t even a luxury you’re allowed anymore, but every once in a while you just jump bc jumping has become a joke between you and your coworkers?
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 month ago:
- Comment on A roundabout 1 month ago:
It’s like he knew he was supposed to be setting an example but buckled under pressure.
- Comment on It's true... 2 months ago:
“You’re fucking up the curve!”
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 2 months ago:
But what I notice about myself only on reflection, Ann Coulter seemed to recognize and respond to in an instant, like a puma recognizes an injured giselle. For Ann Coulter is a predator. A predator with a hungry asshole.
'The Grapes of Wrath, huh?’
'Yes’ I said, faking composure. ‘It’s fantastic.’
‘It’s a fantastic primer for vacuous proto-Communists everywhere,’ she said dismissively.
‘I don’t know about that…’
She sighed. ‘I don’t have enough ink in my pen to keep a running list of what you don’t know. May I?’
Definitely on point.
Speaking of, she’s been very quiet during Trump 2.0. What’s she up to these days? And does she still return to that farmers market longing for the one who got away?
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 2 months ago:
It’s especially weird given the whole Elon Musk black eye thing a few months ago, and then her dropping this after his vengeance speech at Charlie Kirk’s funeral.
After dropping that other tidbit about him and mayonnaise?? These people are so fucking weird.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I had this really awesome kind of angry and nihilistic history teacher in H.S. who offered an elective course that studied the repeated patterns through history leading up to genocide. It covered Armenia, Rwanda, and the Holocaust.
I don’t know if it was just the fact that we looked at the repeated overlaps between human behavior vs just memorizing historical events, but if more people took a course like Crimes against Humanity maybe they would be able to spot the clear patterns of human behavior that somehow happen over and over again.
push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
Yep, the Holocaust didn’t happen overnight. It’s always starts as a slow slide into genocide, but once it picks up steam it turns into an avalanche. It drives me nuts that people keep pretending we should be entertaining any of this as just normal politics. The reaching across the aisle bullshit was insane a year ago (and really 10 years ago), but at this point it is literally enabling this shit to happen. You’re a collaborator.
