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don't follow me.

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@elonmusk Wait until you learn about google and forums

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Now why the hell is this Neil deGrasse Tyson’s profile pic?

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And let’s not forget … stayed on message like a gymnast staying on a balance beam.

[judy hilarious @sagebeatlove_]

Zohran Mamdani ran one of the best campaigns I have ever seen in my life. It’s not enough to be personable and witty on camera. He went out, talked to and touched the people. Walked the streets and got down on the ground level.

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@hasansstache Coming across this as he’s ordering shots

[bug girl @buggirl]

crazy how everything doesn’t have to be horrible and evil but a few dudes were like well yeah it does actually and so it is

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I’m not exactly saying @Wendys developing a snarky social media presence back in 2017 led to the White House reposting AI videos of Trump dumping shit on protestors, but I’m not NOT saying that.

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Quetzalcoatl

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

[Amanda Hu @amandalhu]

Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp

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Love thy neighbor?! Have mercy on the marginlized?! Please keep woke culture out of our churches, this has gone too far.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"Woke bishops" are the new face of the resistance, @JesseBWatters says, after an Episcopal bishop directed left-wing remarks at President Trump during a prayer service the day after his inauguration.

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this weekend my friend pointed out mars in the sky and I immediately started crying from seeing it I need an astrology girly to tell me what this means

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dream collab just dropped

[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.

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sometimes the dichotomy of work vs real life becomes painfully blatant. watching a coworker present non-urgent information to my team today while running on one hour of sleep bc he was worried he might have to evacuate his family in the middle of the night was one of those times.

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folie á quatre

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@zhuphilia Algorithm did beautiful work here

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@DOGE Undocumented immigrants also pay about $100 billion in taxes each year (based on 2022 reports).

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us

[Wild Geerters @steinkobbe]

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health

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the best part about trump’s cabinet picks having no experience in the departments they’re being put up to lead is that they are the exact type to yap about woke culture killing meritocracy without a shred of irony