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This whole raw milk thing is truly breaking my remaining faith in humanity. Like I saw how we responded to COVID and everything we’ve done across the past hundred plus years in destroying environments, greed, and selfishness but for some reason this raw milk saga is kinda like the straw that broke the camels back. Just intentionally trying to work against the whole species.
It's worse if you realize how many people have this sociopathic attitude as if they're trying to literally speciate themselves and push their "inferiors" to extinction. Which is what this is, it's a biological arms race, the same kind of shit non-European indigenous people had to deal with due to European settler-colonial activity.
I think it's just the overwhelming stupidity. The covid stuff I can kinda understand because it was a scary and uncertain time. And maybe, to a point, I had kind of just accepted that the antivax "movement" had gained a twisted sort of legitimacy in some people's eyes purely because it has been around so long.
But this... this is just beyond dumb. Dollars to donuts these people have been drinking pasteurized milk their entire lives and never had an issue. Missing vitamins? Take a multivitamin and have more than your body knows what to do with. Want probiotics? Eat yogurt!
I also just read that Louisiana might approve milk for pet consumption and that's just so god damn sad. It's one thing to spew from both ends due to your own stupidity, but quite another to inflict that stupidity on creatures who have no choice but to rely on you for their health and comfort.
Nah don't worry I had listeria 3 times and milk was only one of them. You got to worry about caramel apples and hummus just as much.
Also don't get listeria I had a seizure while vomiting while taking a physics final and got yelled at for it in college. It's just not a fun time.
You got yelled at for having a seizure? WTF?
Yeah and told to finish the test. I also had a professor who let me take a final while bleeding after I was hit by a car on my bike on the way to class.
Both times I did not do particularly well.
I honestly think modern professors just don't care anymore, or expect 19 year olds to be way more mature and competent than they are.
My life was, and is, a train wreck.
I want to watch a biopic on you.
I once got caught up in a game of dodge the cactus that I mistakenly thought was "catch" the cactus and proceeded to try to figure out how to get the needles out of both of my hands face and mouth.
I decided on sprite for the ones in my mouth by gargling it.
I once also made homemade root beer let it ferment to long so it was alcoholic and got a bunch of other kids drunk at school. This barely scratches the surface, and doesn't include the forest fires or all the times hit by trains and boats.
Anyways, yeah a recap of my life would be a wild watch. If you really do have your life flash before your eyes at the end I am gonna need some popcorn for this feature film.
Good god man…. Songs should be written about you and performed during a presentation of a statue in your likeness.
Honestly I really should just be locked away for everyone's, and my own, safety.
I was one of the original patients that spread swine flu in the US in 2009 after a trip to Mexico. I now have vaccines for everything from yellow fever to typhoid cause I thought I might spread it too.
My stories should probably be in a leather bound book of things not to do that people argue whether or not it's allegorical when it says "do not trust the boy who brings back diseased cloth for all his friends"
Edit: same vacation I broke 6 ribs falling off a cruiseship and had to be rescued by the Mexican coast guard actually.
Train wreck.
Professors are burned and jaded so much by students taking advantage of their test taking policies that they fail to see when there should absolutely be an exception. Visible medical emergencies are certainly one of them. They should not only not be professors, they should be fired or arrested for endangering you. It's crazy that sort of thing can just happen, but it's absolutely realistic having been through it.
Hahaha my Japanese instructor in university was not particularly good at his job and when I told him I was planning to drop he told me I shouldn't cause the class would just get easier as it went.
When it was past the drop period he confided in me that he was actually only trained in Chinese but the kanji was about the same so was filling in until the school could find a real Japanese instructor and that he only needed a few more hours for tenure and if I had dropped he wouldn't have had enough students in the class for the hours to count...
I think Universities are broken just from the level of economic and social stress making people just be less involved in their work and more in themselves.
It's easier to keep the mill grinding than to stop and make sure it's working properly.
Don't forget about bird flu!
Natural selection in the picture