Dylan Price

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[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

If you see me tweeting at people in the middle of the night on a specific current events topic, please tell me to go to sleep.

[Taco Bell Quarterly @TBQuarterly]

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply. pass it along and live más comrade

[Rob @robrousseau]

If you're still going around blaming all of society's problems on immigrants or trans teens playing volleyball or whatever, you're just hopeless. A completely pathetic serf who exists to be ruled over by your powerful overlords who view you as less than human

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

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[🔛🔝 @killingherass]

retweet if you actually just fucking hate AI

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@Elzaiiim @GraffBH @MEGAARN_ To be fair, if they boiled the water, it would become much less safe to make music with

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."-Mr. Rogers

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Elon Musk paid $250 million to help Trump win the swing states, then he went to Washington and signed a goverment contract worth twice that amount, and then he dismantled every single agency that was investigating his companies.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

The bizarre thing about people shouting either "IVERMECTIN IS HORSE DEWORMER" or "THE ELITES ARE HIDING THIS FROM US" is that both of those things are just obviously wrong.

We've looked at Ivermectin for a bunch of potential uses and it seems like there is a small chance that, at very high doses, it might help some people with certain cancers, but if it does help (which is unlikely) it probably won't help much. There's one trial recruiting patients to test it in combination with an immunotherapy drug right now.

The thing about ivermectin is that it isn't well-absorbed by mammals. This makes it very useful as an anti-parasitic because worms absorb it readily. So it poisons parasitic worms but not people.

But it is absorbed a bit and at high enough doses, it has a bunch of other effects on the human body, many of them negative.

Early in the pandemic, there were some studies in individual cells (rather than whole bodies) that showed it might help control the virus. When the "health influencer" space glommed onto that, we actually didn't know for sure whether it would be helpful or not. But because it was cheap and available, some people (lots, actually) really did started dosing themselves with veterinary ivermectin. By the time studies on the efficacy were published (which showed it wasn't at all effective) the damage had been done.

And so we ended up with ivermectin (a drug that real people take for real diseases) becoming a culture war signifier, which is FUCKING STUPID.

Now, Mel Gibson has friends who are in remission from cancer after taking ivermectin (and probably also the treatments recommended by their oncologists, as that is almost always how these stories go). And he and Joe Rogan, during their conversation, seem ASTOUNDED that people in cancer research are ignoring it. They seem to think that every elite knows that, if they so much as GLANCE at ivermectin, they're getting fucking fired.

Except that researchers have done tons of studies on whether ivermectin could possibly be useful in cancer treatment because, if it is, that would be really great! People seem to think that pharmaceutical companies are the only ones who do cancer research but actually they mostly just bring drugs to market. Most cancer research is funded by the government or done by universities.

As much as we've looked, it doesn't seem likely that ivermectin is a good cancer drug because, at the doses where it might have an effect on a cancer, it'll have all kinds of other nasty effects on the human body, like damage to the nervous system and brain.

But, despite that, we're looking, because for some people who are dying, it's worth checking to see if it would be useful in combination with other therapies.

Cancers are very hard to treat because cancer cells are very similar to /our/ cells. Trying to kill a parasite is relatively easy because worms are very different from people. Cancer cells are descended from us, they are human cells gone rogue, so it's hard to attack them without attacking the rest of the body. That's the whole reason why it's so much easier to kill parasites than it is to kill cancer cells.

Fenbendazole is an even weirder thing to get all excited about as an "alternative treatment" because we've studied it for cancer treatment because it acts on the microtubules that control cell replication. That's how a lot of chemotherapy drugs work (including one I took), targeting cells that replicate a lot. So fenbendazole's whole thing is that it might have been a good cancer treatment because it would be another option as a toxic cell-killing chemo drug.

But, because fenbendazole is (again) not very well absorbed by mammals, it is (again) a great drug for killing parasites and not a great drug for treating cancers.

I just...I kinda can't believe we are this incapable of just leaving cancer research to cancer researchers. Ivermectin is a medicine for humans. It's not a panacea. At low doses, it basically does nothing because it isn't easily absorbed by humans and, when it is, it hangs out almost entirely with fatty tissues.

It would be amazing if a cheap, well-understood drug were broadly useful in cancer treatment. Ivermectin just /isn't/.

I have a private theory that fenbendazole and ivermectin are so present in these conversations 100% because they are known to cure real diseases (parasitic infections) and they are easy to purchase extremely cheaply because they are available for animals.

That means people can actually take them, which creates both government warnings to NOT TAKE ANIMAL MEDICINES and many stories of people taking the animal medicines and (mostly) being just fine. That's just a tremendous mix for creating discourse and turning it into a culture war thing.

And look, if people are taking ivermectin WHILE taking the treatments their doctor recommends, that's stupid but unlikely to kill anyone.

But the way it was discussed on the JRE, it makes me think some people will ONLY take these medicines, and they will not take their drugs their doctors recommend, and those people will die. And that's fucked.

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@yemurenthusiasm @Ygvjigbh @Solvang84 @grammaire @MilaLovesJoe I'm on your side as far as watching 9/11 live is way worse than watching the Challenger explode live, but you've gotta work on your reading comprehension. 2.5 mil watched it via satellite, AND many more watched it live via cable or listened live via radio

[Non-Ironically T.V.'s B. Dave Walters - EVERYWHERE @BDaveWalters]

Unfortunate, but necessary information

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@_V3C7 @ZorroFantastic0 @Mr_Voodoo_J @DanielLarios83 I could walk into mcdonalds right now and ask for a water cup and they are legally required to give it to me at no cost, aka, free. Water is free because water is a right. We pay for the utility services required to purify and put water in our homes, not the actual water itself

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@hausofdecline @RyanVanCamp

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@fiery_patriot @barsoomism @ImJodyM @Dexerto Free iPhones are given away all the time, yet iPhones only go up in price. Why is that?

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@MorgansStephens @ImJodyM @SimplyElmer @Dexerto Here is a copy of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. I got this for free. Is the original now worthless?

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@the_tweedy Easily my favorite picture of Raven. She kept climbing into the tree her first Christmas and I got this shot from it

[Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su]

oh, ok then thanks @elonmusk, good to know that open hate crime death threats using full throttle racial slurs don’t violate X’s new “free speech” policies 👍

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@TrentonNelson17 @MischiefsYT Larian became what they are now in the process of making BG3. They were a lot smaller when they started making it and grew rapidly to accommodate the size of the game. Their biggest success before BG3 was probably D:OS 2, and even that was considered niche

[Dylan Price @TherapyGP]

@DakotaWillKnow @MischiefsYT As someone who bought it day 1 of early access, it was slightly less than 3 years of early access (almost exactly 34 months). Most companies don't need the crowd funding, but Larian had a dedicated fanbase after D:OS 2 that were willing to wait for a game of similar quality

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Ha'aretz reports that the Israeli military's Operations Directorate operates a Telegram channel called "72 Virgins – Uncensored" that posts sadistic images of Israelis murdering Palestinians, mutilating their bodies: https://t.co/AvlVo0zzEV

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD