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TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow is not just a harmless grifter (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she's done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That's before I learned about her promotion of these unproven "vampire facials". Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. A bit skeevy on the face of it. I've often wondered if something like that is why Dick Cheney is still alive. "Bring in the next snackrifice!" Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In the show "Silicon Valley", a satire of it's namesake, there's a billionaire tech ceo (like Google level) who gets weekly blood transfusions from a college student in great health.

If you'd kindly adjust your tinfoil hat, there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there that blood transfusions from healthy young people are a regular "health service" used by the elite.

[–] ultranaut 11 points 8 months ago

That's a real thing, they were making fun of Peter Thiel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There's a non satire versions of this around.