“Hillbilly” anstatt Bauernjunge oder dem guten, zangendeutschen Hügelfritzchen zu verwenden ruiniert dieses Michmich leider.

Horror story time:

As a child, my cousin liked to play in a small, wooded area close to his garden and one day, a long time ago, he must have had a tick. He didn’t notice it, nobody noticed anything strange and years (10+ years) later he got problems with rheumatic attacks and arthritis. Doctors were stumped as an adolescent shouldn’t present with this. They checked genetic factors which were negative and treated the symptoms. It got worse and worse over the years, many visits to many doctors and specialists, they all had no idea what the cause of his problems were.

2 years ago (he is 38 now), he got a new knee joint and this year, he had to get a hip replacement because the arthritis. On a whim, a doctor did some tests and found that he has long-term Lyme borreliosis, likely from a tick, but never presented with the more common symptoms and had an unusually long onset time for the long-term effects of the untreated disease.

All of his problems could have been prevented with a few doses of antibiotics.

Penicillin saved my leg. Nothing bit me, I just kept scratching a wound because it was itchy.

Yesterday, I was in the local Aldi to get some groceries and the cashier was sick. Coughing constantly, blowing her nose between customers. People complimented her for her strong will and eagerness to go to work despite being sick and found it admirable to act like this, I found it disgusting and was questioning my sanity.

Why is it socially acceptable to spread your bullshit disease everywhere instead of just staying at home and recovering quicker? Humanity learned nothing from covid.

Thank you!

No, it’s not religion that makes people self-centered assholes that like to kill, rape and pillage. Religion is just a handy excuse to hide behind.

However, structured religion does hold back scientific progress by prohibiting to question the status quo.

Without religion, the world would be pretty much the same, but maybe we would get disintegrated by advanced laser tech instead of being shot with a bullet.

Good alternatives? I like their mail client and the possibility for aliases that I can generate and lock once they get spammed with newsletters.

All crypto-currencies are overhyped, almost cult-like trash that do nothing but create problems and waste energy. The whole lot of them, no exceptions and they will all fade away eventually, when the fad moves on.

On the other hand, an AI-written game can’t be worse than the crap AAA titles are.

lol bitcoin

I’ll pass, but thanks for the reminder.

Yeah, not gonna happen. Fact is, Johnny Everyday doesn’t give a shit he’s flooded with ads, tracked on every click and is now forced into exclusivity deals because “somebody has to pay for this stuff and it ain’t me”. Likewise, the people giving the answers don’t care that they literally work for free for some megacorporations. It’s a rotten system and society is to blame.

We are not making a difference here either, not fooling myself into thinking that. I mainly use Lemmy because I can access it with any app I want while sitting on the loo.

It really makes you wonder why we have any work remaining for the rest of us.

Because they are also magnanimous and leave sone of the easy work, that they could of course easily do, for the less gifted to earn their fair share.

How this surprises anyone is beyond me. How can one grow up to be an adult and still believe that megacorporations have a sense of fairness and integrity?

The smart thing to do when you suspect you might have autism is to get a diagnosis by a professional, not to postulate your inkling on the internet.

That would require ChatGPT to know that it’s talking bullshit. It’s not a knowledge database, it’s a digital parrot.

So, you are saying I should ask my representatives to focus more on achieving homelessnesslessness?

If everyone in a town has a house, could you say that town is homelessnessless?

Not really, no. It was more a tongue-in-cheek comment than an actual suggestion.

Nitpicking: the fermentation is done by a fungus, specifically a yeast strain. The fermentation process stops when you introduce oxygen, aka open the fermentation tank, or when the sugar in the wort is depleted. The yeast then just becomes inactive and you can potentially restart the fermentation at home by putting sugar in the beer and sealing it airtight. Most commercial beers remove the yeast through filtering or pasteurizing or both tho, so that would probably only work for craft beer. And it would make the result taste terrible I assume.

Some bacteria do not tolerate alcohol at all and will die from beer, but generally beer is not a disinfectant. Vodka isn’t either by the way, still too low levels of alcohol. But it works better than beer.