iagondiscord

luckytran , 1 month ago to random

"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

Yet, raw milk enthusiasts are undaunted by the heightened risk. The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

iagondiscord , 1 month ago

@luckytran oh my god
I'm all for raw milk in cheeses and such but why would you drink raw milk
ESPECIALLY with bird flu
like, do these people have a death wish

futurebird , 1 month ago to random

Politicians and political commentators whine about young people not buying homes and starting families (not getting married) and then do NOTHING to help the young people (who do exist) who would love to do one or more of these things but can't because it's too damn expensive.

Build housing and coops where young people want to live. Protect their jobs with unions. Make health care not an issue.

Do not make some marriages impossible because you don't like the genders.

Not rocket science.

18+ iagondiscord , 1 month ago

@futurebird yes but you have to understand that they don't want to solve problems, they want to complain

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

“regular people” whoever that is… will never use the crunchy homemade internet if they have the option of slick apps instead. You can’t hire designers, you don’t have an advertising budget, your project with its dreamy cooperative ethos is an anathema to tech media who don’t see the point in mentioning it exists.

“regular people” like pop-ups, and bots, and having their data sold to the highest bidder, they like porn spam, and scammers and discourse so broken it causes mental harm. Right?

iagondiscord , 2 months ago

@futurebird the biggest scam that silicon valley ever pulled is making people think that good design and good function are mutually exclusive

bontchev , 2 months ago to random

Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:

iagondiscord , 2 months ago

@bontchev oh my fuck it's real

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

Pools.

Public pools.

Because you need to undress to swim, because you and your family are there ... in less clothing. They've always been used as cultural flash points by right wingers. Their playbook is so old and there is never anything new.

What if black people... in THE POOL.
What if trans gender in THE POOL.

(Tim Pool, probably also.)

I'm so tired of the same nonsense in a different swimsuit. OMG get new material you absolute HACKS.

18+ iagondiscord , 4 months ago

@futurebird I don't even get this one, if trans people being semi-nude in pools was a problem then wouldn't that be a problem for literally everyone else as well