ConstipatedWatson

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[–] ConstipatedWatson 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

This is tragic.

While the Wikipedia page lists food poisonings from sea turtles as rare, it still feels like a Russian Roulette kind of meal.

Would you eat something knowing that there is a nonzero chance it might kill you (as in really off you, not just give you a bad night at the bathroom)?

I suppose the answer is a lot of people would, since the article itself mentioned another recent poisoning.

It reminds me of the blowfish which is also lethally poisonous if not handled by someone who's certified to do so.

I suppose everything in life has a risk and I've done my share of reckless things, but rolling the dice on food never appealed to me.

Edit: fixed grammar

[–] ConstipatedWatson 11 points 11 months ago

Well, I would like to think that this will get some more Redditors to become Lemmings, but I don't have high hopes. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a significant migration during the APIcalypse, so I don't see that happening now.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't this posted a couple of months ago?

Still, it's so awesome I upvoted it again!

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 11 months ago

Ah, thank you! I guess I miss the "karma" totals, but I'll get over it. At least I know Eternity keeps rocking and it wasn't a bug!

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 11 months ago

Off topic but related: you guys just broke the whole super hero concept for me. Now I can't go back to reading comics or watching movies ignoring all of these things. I suppose I am happy to be my normal me (though perhaps super strength isn't so bad)!

[–] ConstipatedWatson 4 points 11 months ago

You're right about Sci-Hub because of their Indian lawsuit which is very important to them, but I didn't know that Anna's Archive was a repository of scientific journals. Is it? I know Library Genesis (or LibGen) has a lot of scientific textbooks, but I didn't know it had papers. Does it?

Anyhow, Anna's Archive and LibGen are super awesome too!

[–] ConstipatedWatson 74 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's why we need repositories like the arXiv, the medRxiv and Sci-Hub (aaahr, my pirates!)

[–] ConstipatedWatson 73 points 11 months ago (55 children)

This link has been posted and discussed on Reddit too.

Of course, we shouldn't care about what people on Reddit think (and I noticed this post by chance since I log on there very rarely now), but some users in the thread genuinely ask about joining Lemmy and so I guess it's useful to know about possible obstacles to trying it that they may perceive.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Goddamn it, that's the story of my life post smartphones...

[–] ConstipatedWatson 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So pollution does indeed bind with water and gets carried around. I wonder how well chlorine helps destroy or clean such filth

[–] ConstipatedWatson 1 points 11 months ago

So we're doomed, or rather, I am. Well, theoretically speaking we're all doomed, but it would be pleasant to last as long and healthy as possible

[–] ConstipatedWatson 0 points 11 months ago

I suppose guillotines help in a variety of situations, though I would have not imagined them as an extreme way of filtering the lack of actions by politicians and corporations towards the environment 🤔

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