I wonder what she knows that hasn’t been made public yet. She’s clearly trying to get out in front of something.

When I was a kid, my best friend’s dad liked to cite those verses when we made comments about his receding hairline.

This is the problem. I’m in my mid-40s and I have seen new “good ol’ boys” move into the system as their predecessors die or retire.

The system is self-perpetuating.

Well, we’re not buying the product, so maybe they can extort us into paying to solve a problem instead.

Man, I don’t know your approach, but I have all of the upgrades, I’ve paid off all loans, and I have 18 million bells in the bank.

Starting out in debt kind of sucks, but it’s usually possible to pay off your first mortgage in a week. I wish the real world were even remotely like that.

Yeah, but it’s only a couple of years, starting with nothing but a dilapidated farm, until that farmer becomes a millionaire. I’d take it.

That’s a wise exclusion. I can’t think of anyone in that world who is actually happy.

Probably price increases to offset corporate losses.

I think we’re talking past each other here.

The original post is talking about people with “a systemized non-scientific theory of anatomy and nutrition.”

The comment that we’re responding to says,

Anyone talking about “toxins” and “waste products” as if they’re ‘stuck’ in your body is either very ignorant, or trying to sell you snake oil. Probably both."

The people who blog about “toxins,” as a generalized word without a specific meaning that could reasonably be replaced with “evil ghosts” in a sentence, are not interested in listening to doctors or scientists. They are “health” influencers on par with the current US secretary of Health and Human Services. I specifically called them “MAHA moms” in my previous comment for this reason.

I would hope that all reasonably educated people recognize that there are actual toxic substances that our bodies absorb that are harmful to us. But anyone who is identifying a specific toxin, much less a medically appropriate treatment plan for removing it, is leagues away from the snake-oil peddlers this post is talking about.

If you have not encountered these charlatans, more power to you. They used to be relegated to specific corners of the internet, but they’re becoming more mainstream with help from powerful figures in Washington.

I, unfortunately, had a loved one who followed some of these influencers with deadly effects. It turns out that juice cleanses and energy healing can’t cure cancer.

My parents got divorced in 1981. My mom was raised Pentecostal (the Tammy Faye Bakker kind, not the long skirts kind), and she was intermittently ultra-involved in the church.

During one of those times (in the mid-'90s), she came to the understanding that she could never remarry because the only “biblically acceptable” reason for divorce was unfaithfulness. Since that wasn’t why she and my dad got divorced, dating anyone else would be considered adultery. So she swore off dating.

To be fair, I don’t know if this is something that came from the church or something she came up with on her own. I just remember thinking it was pretty ridiculous.

So whether it’s official church doctrine or not, I do think that the more extreme the church, the more extreme the rules are.

But you’re talking about US policy, so the actual metric is that it shouldn’t go in the food supply unless the benefits to corporations outweigh the costs.

That used to be a problem on Reddit, too. Maybe the current drama will drive more traffic to the Fediverse.

I know we’d like a Good Guy With Money™ to swoop in and rescue various corners of the internet, but I think Sir Paul has other things to do.

But what “cleanse” does anything for those? The MAHA Moms and podcast bros aren’t talking up chelation therapy.

I think the point still stands that anyone selling you a way to rid your body of “toxins” is a charlatan.

Sunset yesterday. I love the way the clouds created stripes across the sky.

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If legacy media treated the Trump administration’s ridiculously unconstitutional antics with the same skepticism as they express about protesters, perhaps he wouldn’t have been elected to a second term.

Let’s not forget the years of literal psychological experiments that Meta conducted on its users to find out exactly what factors led to higher engagement.

This isn’t a simple message board. This is a highly-engineered, personalized content delivery system with the goal of serving as many ads as possible.

Aerodynamics was obviously not a concern in the process of designing a vehicle that has (checks notes) literal corners.

Only 60,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. Not “half a million.”

While the total number of deaths from fire may seem insignificant to you, it is a far greater death rate than major auto manufacturers usually tolerate.

In the 1970s, Ford had to recall the Pinto over 27 deaths out of 1.5 million units sold. That’s 18 deaths per million units.

Cybertrucks are sitting at five known fire deaths per 60,000 units sold. That would be a ratio of 83 deaths per million units.

Wait. You’re saying that The Mirror, noted bastion of low-quality tabloid reporting, has stated something incorrectly?

Shocking.