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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I went through my comment history and changed all my comments with 100+ karma to a bunch of nonsense I found on the Internet, mostly from bots posting YouTube comments. It’s mostly English words so it shouldn’t get discarded for being gibberish. But they didn’t make coherent information. I was sad to see some of my posts go away but I don’t want to feed the imitative AI.

    Also did the first 6 pages of my “controversial” comments.

    I know they have backups, but that’s why I didn’t simply delete them. Hopefully these edited versions get into the training set and fuck it up, even if only a little.

    It’s be funny if someone could come up with a “drop table” post that would maybe make it into the set…







  • The answer is “vote” but not just once. Not just for federal elections. Every election, you should be there. Show up to candidate forums and bother your current electeds.

    Every government is like a ship of various size, it takes a while to see the turn even start, let alone have the course actually get corrected. The bigger the government, the harder it can be to get long lasting positive change accomplished. (This isn’t a “small government is better” thing either, it’s just how large organizations work.)

    If you can, run for office. If you can’t, find someone you trust who can and support them. Not just Congress or president or governor. City council, county government, school board, on and on…




  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.worksThank god
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    9 months ago

    At my last visit I made a joke about this and the hygienist said if I had flossed every day for 2 weeks before she would’ve been fooled.

    The dad joke answer would’ve been to tell me that the only way to really fool them is to floss regularly for 6 months before a visit…


  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldHealth "care"
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    9 months ago

    If I thought the people who run for profit hospitals and insurance companies had human souls, I’d say they should be made to do this work so they could maybe see that it shouldn’t be about profit.

    But then I remembered they’re all non-human garbage who should be first up against the wall in the revolution.

    Doctors should be left out of this. It’s not their fault America (and probably some third world countries) allow profit driven medicine.



  • I will legit try to find countries with constitutions and parliaments that I could relocate to to live and work. The American constitutional Republic will be over if Trump becomes President again.

    He’ll certainly start his retribution with the big fish of anti Trump people and organizations, but it won’t take long for it to “trickle down” to everyday people as well.

    I’m lucky enough that it’s feasible for me to find work in my field outside the US. Others aren’t so lucky.


  • The problem honestly is your concept of hormones is incomplete. There are no hormones that only do one thing. They might have a primary function. But they all have secondary and tertiary functions. They all regulate other hormones. Evolution doesn’t do single functions.

    If you knock down a “fight” hormone you’re probably going to mess up the homeostasis of the body in other ways. You can probably “fix” that artificially, but you’ll be constantly chasing the next side effect. Humans are chemical Rube Goldberg machines of infinite order. Disrupt one thing and it all goes out of whack.


  • Wait… do capitalists genuinely think workers derive positive feelings of some sort from the idea that we’re increasing shareholder value?

    I mean, I definitely think in terms of increasing shareholder value, but only because that’s what keeps me employed and sometimes gets me bonuses and raises. I know that if I stop increasing shareholder value long enough I’ll get canned.

    But at no point have I ever looked at the stock price of my multinational, gigantic corporate employer and felt happy or proud or whatever this schmuck must think we (used to? should?) feel.