• Gorge@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    This reminds me of when I was about 8 years old. I read online that vaccines are bad, and fluoride in the drinking water was part of some evil plot. I told everyone about it and it took about a day for me to realize how wrong I was. I was embarrassed for a while, but every time I see something like this I feel so lucky I developed critical thinking before it was too late.

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      28 days ago

      I wish I hadn’t to be honest with you. I wish I could have carried on relating to my family, ignorant of the problems of this world.

      I miss believing in ghosts. I miss the comfort I got praying as I walked through a dark room. I miss the live music at church a few times a week, the big tent revivals, believing I was seeing actual miracles when faith healers called someone up.

      I miss that short window in life when the only things that I knew related directly to me and my community.

      I don’t miss any of it enough to actually, honestly go back even if I could, but damn.

      I’m just worked up because a stray cat got hit by a car. There’s something wrong with me, I swear haha. Sorry for this.

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    Dogs can pass cancer to each other, due to genetic similarity. A similar occurrence wiped out something like 75% of Tasmanian Devils recently. Seems like a fun misunderstanding of a real phenomenon.

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    28 days ago

    Ah yes, the notorious supervillain Cancer Dog, whose main power is casting ‘pervert cancer’ on his opponents.

    🎶 Cancer Dog, Cancer Dog, leaves you in a pervert cancer fog! 🎶

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    Here’s another theory, these people know exactly how crazy this looks. There’s some kind of secret online community where they share these pics of their own vehicles with each other. Then they find where other people online post their pics and laugh about what the reactions are.

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      28 days ago

      Haha that’s great. What’s your mother’s maiden name just wondering? I love learning strangers family history

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        28 days ago

        My mother’s maiden name was Smith, we had a family dog when I was young, the dogs name was spot, oh, and interestingly the last four of my SSN is 678. Weird right?

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          My favorite movie is ‘From Justin to Kelly.’

          A movie about finding love in an unexpected place …Florida on spring break. It should give them pause.

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      Damn, that was an interesting read before sleep.

      But I still don’t understand. Is it basically a mass of cancerous dog cells that just keep spreading around endlessly, nearly unchanged in the last ten thousand years? If so, can it even be considered a life form? Or a form of life at all?