JovialMicrobial

That sounds excellent! Thanks so much for helping to get this going for real!

I also edited my original comment to tell folks to use the north pole as a return address so everyone can remain anonymous under Santa.

Honestly I have no idea and just kinda posted that without thinking too far ahead, not even sure if it was a good idea or if it would get any traction. I'm excited that there's at least some interest!

Post it whereever you think people would be interested in participating! Maybe start on lemmy first then branch out once people here seem to be aware of it? Then just see what happens! Hopefully some folks will participate.

I plan on sending some poop drawings this weekend to get the ball rolling. Maybe I'll post a pic of it on lemmy too to spread the word!

It would if there's already a therapeutic medication available(but more research could create a cure, or better therapies).

Usually insurance will deny a medication for these diseases either because the medication currently available is older(no one prescribes that anymore!), or it's too expensive, or it's too new/was developed in another country. For example ireland developed a new medication for narcolepsy, but it's impossible to get in the US, nevermind getting insurance coverage.

I'm on one med that was developed in the 60's and it's the only one that actually works. It's over $300 a month. The other newer one I tried made in the 90's is over $1000 a month and doesn't work as well. Insurance tried to deny coverage for both.

The problem with older meds is there's fewer manufacturers so they can charge whatever they want due to lack of competition. There's little demand, so the few people who need it are charged out the ass for them since insurance will deny deny deny.

Pygmy mammoths would be adorable! Imagine them pulling sleds in the winter with jingle bells and stuff.

Maybe you'll like my interpretation of this image! I believe those women are a coven of witches politely waiting for that guy to finish talking so they can begin their ritual sacrifice to The Morrigan.

That would ideal! Also it'd be good if it didn't accidentally explode like meth labs tend to. Like you said, chemistry isn't easy, but if this thing can work it'd make us far less dependent on greedy insurance companies and corrupt pharma companies.

I like that one a lot more! No censoring to worry about.
I'd really love for this to take off. It's a way to protest that people can participate in without having to disrupt their lives or take time off from work.

This could be very good for people with orphan diseases(diseases that are rare enough that they aren't profitable for private companies to research)

Also, having an orphan disease often results in insurance companies denying coverage for everything because they don't have a policy written up for that specific disease.... so there's no script for the workers to follow. Then your doctor has to argue with them, which can take weeks, in the meantime you have no medication.

Yeah, I'm not mad or anything. I wish I could've cooked up my own meds when insurance denied me life giving meds because they'd never heard of my disorder.

Maybe #shitpostal could work? dunno how any potential sensors would handle that one though. Don't want it getting filtered out or anything

I don't have fb or the youtube app and haven't for years... so I'm not sure what was doing it. I have ublock origin now, so if it's still happening I wouldn't know.

Honestly the thought of them pouring that much money into r&d and launching that spyware just to have us plebs block the end result(ads) does feel kinda good at least.

I feel like we've been gaslighted so bad about this that we were even denying each other's reality.

I knew they had to be doing this so I turned off all mic permissions. One day it pissed me off so much I started keeping my phone off completely unless I needed to use it.

The only good thing that came out of it was I learned about ad blockers. Fine, listen to me since I can't fucking stop you(keeping phone off was inconvenient), but it's futile now and you wasted money since I won't see your stupid fucking ads anymore.

Everyone should send these shitty people drawings of poop. Good ones, bad ones. Whatever your drawing level..... draw a poop, lable it with "poop" if youre not sure theyll get it and send it. That should get across that we collectively think they are shit.

These types of assholes usually have po box for their businesses at the very least. On their website they typically have some sort of mailing address under "contact us."

If we can get inundated with junk mail everyday from shitty businesses advertising I think we can return the favor on this one.

Edit - put the return address from the north pole