rosymind @ rosymind @leminal.space

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Sure, but allowing the cheaters to win is a losing strategy

You can sometimes get a fresh number. I got lucky with mine (keep my junk phone for club-cards and the like)

Tried this a couple of times, but they kept calling my junk phone. I got like 7 or 8 calls the day after Thanksgiving. I block the numbers, but the next number will just be one or two digits different

I keep the junk phone for things like shopping clubs, pharmacy reminders, etc. I have a seperate number for people and trusted sources (though I realize that anyone can be compromised. I'll get a fresh number once that happens again)

Anyway, point is- I dont think they're human scammers. At least not the ones calling me

I was going to say that I think it's worse since they are carnivorous, but then I remembered that dogs eat kibble as well as meat. Wikipedia says that they can consume starch. Some rando dog-food company claims that wheat isn't a filler, but adds vitamins and minerals. Idk about all that (not a dog owner) but I imagine that farmed dogs are probably fed the cheapest, most generic kibble available

So... ?

Interesting question, though. Personally just hoping for lab grown meat to become a thing

I got anxiety just reading that

Yeah, like what are we supposed to do when there are few side-walks, work is 30-1hr away at freeway speeds, and public transit is either dirty, unreliable, or unsafe?

Most of us want to do away with our fossil fuel dependancy- but we need better options.

And before anyone says walk or take a bike, that isn't feasable for everyone

Yeah, our problem is we have 4 cats. Vomit and occational butt-nuggets are a thing, and I don't want that smeared across the foor

The problem is with how wide-spread it is, even if you get rid of it through blood donation you're still going to pick it back up again by eating and drinking. There's no escaping it; what we need is to stop using it, and figure out how to properly remove it from the environment.

It's tough, though, because many daily use items in every industry and household contains them.

For now, the best we can do is avoid items made with them (to the best of our knowledge), filter all our water, avoid food sources known to contain high amounts of it, and spread the word

They're in water, anything that uses that water, and cumulatively collected.

Not that I advocate eating whale, but people who eat whale are very likely to have high PFAs and should limit their consumption

Almost all of us have them in our bodies. They disrupt the immune system, particularly the parts that help remove cancer cells. Cancer of the liver, panceas and I forgot which other... (testicular maybe?) are the most common cancers to get from pfas exposure

Women/birthing people pass their pfas on to their children

"Stay away" with various methods given to understand the meaning of the words (images, signs, numbers, sounds, etc)

Thanks for the giggle :)

Yeah.

I definitely blindly trusted books and articles as a teen. I feel like standards for publications were higher, though. I suppose it depends on sources. I also had the advantage of being the youngest member of my family, with two older brothers who were both interested in science (in one way or another) and I went to private school as a younin' with a gap of terrible public school, and then a decent snooty high (also public). What I mean with all that is that my experiences may not be the norm, and for some people the internet may have opened even more doors

Also, to be fair, I was a gullible teen and young adult as well. I've always questioned things, but I did carry plenty of false beliefs (hell, I probably still do!)

I tend to forget that, sometimes

Same!

Fair. Misinformation spreads like wildfire now

I remember that one! What about how people thought we could only taste certain flavors with specific parts of our tongues.

That one really confused me as a kid

It boggles my mind how younger people think we lived in some kind of dark-age before google.

Not only did books exist, but they could give you an in-depth answer that could be trusted.

And yes, when the internet was made public, I loved being able to find answers more quickly, but I didn't just walk around with empty space between my ears

If anything, I feel like people are more gullible and believe more falsehoods than they did when I was a teen

(That said... there is plenty of information that's been updated, and plenty of stupid shit that went around- like the falsehood that we only have five senses, or that we only use 10% of our brains)

Agreed. I feel the same way. It's like Nihilism is the gateway many of us have to pass through before we can understand our value (and the significance of life and all existence in general)

I wonder if you've come to the same conclusions that I have, or if your thinking branched off into something different.

Either way, we are who we were meant to be :)

... >_>

There are laws against breaking into people's houses, but it still happens. Just because someone proclaims something illegal doesn't mean it just stops happening. That's just not how the world works

Seriously?

What nation goes: "Hey neighbor, you wanna kill a bunch of each other's soldiers and use a bunch of resources and pollute the earth? Maybe we can also kill some innocent babies while bombing hospitals for funsies?"

Wars are usually fought because one nation (or group) wants what the other has. If a side could get exactly what they want, there wouldn't be a war over it.

Wars are about taking: land, people, resources, revenge.

There's nothing consensual about it