Chetzemoka

Stamets, I'm so sorry. I hadn't heard. I've lost people under bad circumstances. It's not fair. The world should stop, everything should stop moving and everyone should stop what they're doing and acknowledge the depth of loss and the void left where they used to be. But it doesn't stop moving and that's not fucking right and it's not fucking fair.

Please do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself. Just do what's next. Your only obligation in the world right now is to wake up and breathe. Everything else is bonus points. We'll be here whenever you're ready or even if you never want to talk to any of us again.

I'm so sorry that a good person is gone.

But you can't USE that car legally without a license or insurance. Stop being daft.

One of the most powerful live performances ever recorded:

https://youtu.be/bd7fb5oQhVg?si=MwEHBknrQfvotYdt&t=1m50s

The problem with this is that people disagree about what harms others. Right wing insane people are not living in the same reality that you and I are. They genuinely believe that even seeing a gay person is harmful. They genuinely believe that the existence of gay people is harmful to others.

Because the side effects of obesity and addiction are so much worse. Don't worry too much about thyroid cancer. That one's pretty easy if you're monitoring. Remove thyroid, replace with meds. Lots of people end up on thyroid meds as they age anyway.

The original r/196 subreddit had a rule that if you visited the sub, you were required to post a meme before you left. A lot of people tried to follow the rule, but weren't able to come up with a good post title on such short notice, and started just naming their post after that rule. After some time it became a meme in and of itself to include the word "rule" in your post title somehow

I'm pretty liberal with the upvotes. I like to encourage people to participate and an upvote feels like saying "hey I see you and thanks for sharing." I regularly upvote things I don't like or don't agree with, if they are shared in good faith and contribute to the conversation.

Downvotes are for bigots and misinformation/disinformation/lies.

I think overpopulation is a non-issue because I prefer to follow the data over my own intuition. And the data shows that population is already slowing and will peak without intervention.

And I think it's extraordinarily important to reiterate that point because of the extreme dangers of any attempt at population control to devolve into outright eugenics and genocide.

https://www.pop.org/overpopulation-myth/

The most effective and the only ethical means of population control is a combination of increasing the availability of birth control, providing family planning education, and reducing child mortality. Yes this needs to be part of our climate change solutions, we're doing this, and it's already working.

There are people living in vans scraping by on meager SS who are happy as peaches with their new life right up until some illness or injury lands them in my hospital unit and they have no option for support except our horrific nursing home system.

Don't fetishize poverty.

We have a frequent flyer patient at our hospital who has aphasia, a brain condition which causes nonsense words to come out instead of what the person was intending to say.

We have a NO idea what this person is saying, but his tone of voice and delivery are completely normal even though the content of the words are meaningless. So I can confirm, this guy cracks jokes and is hilarious (he laughs at his own jokes and you can't help but laugh with him.)

The German memes feel similar. I don't understand the words, but the intent is clear enough for me to enjoy seeing them.

I mean. I like seeing merch from my favorite creators and sometimes I buy it. T-shirts are cool. It's easier for me to know what's available if there are thumbnails large enough for me to actually see the product.

And these links appear below the video, they are not intrusive to the watching experience in any way whatsoever. So yeah, I genuinely think this is a huge overreaction.

I pay for premium and not even once have I thought anything other than "oh cool, this channel has merch"

No, the project there referring to is run by 23andme. My whole family participates in the same research because so many of us have Crohn's disease.