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[–] Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone 94 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being the model. Alright, you look amazing. Now drop your pants and pretend to take a shit. Yeah thats it, just a hundred more photos in different lighting. Perfect, thats the one we upload to the internet

[–] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I wonder if she lost the feeling in her legs from sitting on the shitter that long for a photoshoot?

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 85 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That science lady’s just pretending. She’s sitting there making breakfast. I can see the glass of orange juice in front of her, and pancake batter in the red bowl. Science is a liar sometimes!

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Probably a picture of a quality control lab in a food factory. They're pretty anal about everything being within spec for safety, product consistency and legal reasons.

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Anal and food quality control are two things I did not want to see in a comment together

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[–] Ragincloo@lemmy.one 8 points 11 months ago

That may or may not be true but there's a good chance there's some dehydrated milk in the lab

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 68 points 11 months ago (13 children)

While I'm here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don't get sick, and don't get other people sick.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Got mine! 10/10 will definitely do again

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[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah.. For people saying COVID is "just the flu", I had a friend who ended up in hospital with COVID.. When I got covid and thought I may have spread it to her (fortunately she got lucky and somehow didn't get it) , she pretty much started prepacking for hospital.

It's still a super serious virus, same as the real flu..

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just went to sign up for my covid shot and it asked me to update my insurance information. I have no fucking answers for them so I stopped filling out the form.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried telling them you don’t have insurance

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

Nope I'm gonna call and tell them today I think they will say its okay and the website is just dumb 😋 thanks by the way

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[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemm.ee 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn't even realize I'm doing anti-vax research as i type this

[–] Bakersfield@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Username checks out.

[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

Odd that the people who question vaccines are the same people who don't question the medicines they put into their mouths when they get sick. Do they know that vaccines and medicines are researched and manufactured in a similar way?

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They probably should question them. Even something as seemingly benign as Paracetamol is not without its issues if used too often, or after alcohol. It can do serious harm. Most medicine can.

Another fun medicine fact. Australia banned the sale of pseudoephedrine from store shelves quite some years ago to try and reduce domestic amphetamine production. Ever since, all of the major pharma brands have sold phenylephrine based cold and flu medicine as a replacement. Our Therapeutic Goods Administration recently found that this preparation is no better than placebo. We're talking about a billion dollar industry that has been knowingly selling snake oil for ten years.

I guess what I'm saying is a healthy dose of skepticism and knowledge seeking should be applied to anything you are putting in your body or exchanging money for. The pharmaceutical industry are not saints. They're just as driven by profit incentives as every other business.

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

They have known since 2009

I don't think it's some conspiracy that they have known and hid it. And at least in the states you can still get the real stuff behind the counter too with ID.

I'm not discrediting anything you said though just adding on.

[–] Chr0nos1@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This ^. There are so many medications out there that either do nothing, or the side effects are worse than what they're treating. Pay attention to what you're taking, and look into everything. The Pharma industry is about money. That's it. Money. They don't care about making you better, they care about what kind of profit they can make off of a new drug. There's not a single pharma company that can be trusted. And this isn't only drugs that they are more worried about making money on, vaccines too. You don't really think the pharma companies came out with a COVID vaccine because it was best for humanity do you? They knew the government would pay whatever they asked for the vaccines, so they pushed them out as fast as they could. Work/doesn't work? Doesn't matter, as long as they made a profit.

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

These people will drink bleach if someone tells them to https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/florida-men-sentenced-to-years-in-prison-for-selling-bleach-as-miracle-cure/

Anti-vaxxers aren't anti-science because that would imply they understand science. They're anti-knowledge and anti-reason which is far more dangerous.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 months ago (6 children)

What great ideas didn’t begin as a thought on the toilet? /s

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

The ones that started in the shower?

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Supposedly Newton's idea of gravity but that story with the apple could just be a cover-up.

[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean. Maybe that's why he was squatting under the tree?

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