• @db2
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    511 month ago

    Isn’t dysentery basically when you shit yourself to death?

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      One of several things that can make you shit yourself to death, yes.

      Another fun one is cholera. Which may get a resurgence too, as regulatory capture means that raw or undercooked seafood from the Gulf of Mexico resulting in “very rare” cases might become “just a regular part of living in a modern kakistocracy”

      • @WoodScientist
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        430 days ago

        You mention the Gulf of Mexico. A friend of ours recently has his whole family catch cholera from swimming on the beach in Galveston. They’re fine and all made full recoveries, as it isn’t lethal if properly treated. But yes, in the Year of Our Lord 2024, you can catch literal cholera just by going to the beach in Texas.

    • @marcos
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      Yes, and we know how to treat it (not cure, but we know how to make people not die) since, well, before the times depicted on the game. We have also knew how to avoid most of its infections since… hum, I don’t know that one, but Ancient Rome was full of structures made for that, and functional, so some time before them.

      Still people didn’t use to be able to afford treatment (that is basically drinking large amounts of clean water with salt and sugar, and resting). And it takes a functional government to avoid it.

    • @surewhynotlem
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      311 month ago

      Less than half voted for this.

      As usual, the apathy party won, with 36% of voters not voting.

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        I still can’t believe that I know at least 5 ppl that have voluntarily stated they didn’t vote. I’m convinced they just wouldn’t vote for a woman bc they’re all not (at least publicly) republicans. We’ve still got a long way to go

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          you might be able to look them up on the state’s voter rolls to find about about that last part

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          Better get checked for dysentery. Or cholera. Or CDO (rearranged to be in alphabetical order because it HAS to be) 🤷

      • @Madison420
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        01 month ago

        Yes blame the voters not the system that leads to apathy.

        • @surewhynotlem
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          81 month ago

          Yep. I hold adults accountable for their choices.

  • @enbyecho
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    221 month ago

    I’m rooting for the Polio. Those cute hats and little sticks and you get to ride around at a full gallop and then drink gin & tonics afterward.

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        1 month ago

        That’s a pole. Polio is a porridge-like dish made from maize. Not grits, the other one.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 month ago

          I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of polenta. Polio was a French mathematician from the late 1800s.

      • @enbyecho
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        21 month ago

        You’ve never been to Alabama, have you?

          • @enbyecho
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            330 days ago

            Do they play polio there?

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              230 days ago

              No, but once a year they do that thing where they try to hit a suspended ring with a stick from horseback. Like the training montage of A Knight’s Tale.

              • @enbyecho
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                230 days ago

                Seems like the sort of thing that would leave some people parallelized.

                • @[email protected]
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                  130 days ago

                  It’s not like they just let everyone have a tilt lol. Like polo, people with the proper training do it as a traditional entertaining of the masses 😄

            • @[email protected]
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              130 days ago

              They do, actually. The water variety. Don’t get any of it in your mouth, though. How may get the runs.

    • @WoodScientist
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      430 days ago

      I hope reincarnation turns out to be real, just so RFK can end up as a child with polio.

  • @WoodScientist
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    1130 days ago

    We have a friend whose family recently all got cholera. Not joking, this literally happened this year. They caught it from swimming on the beach in Galveston.

    • @wjrii
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      530 days ago

      I’ve been to Galveston. This tracks.

  • @fulcrummed
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    91 month ago

    It’s cool, I’ve got 4 x yokes and an axle; and I’ve got a good feeling about Odell Lake! Heard some ospreys have been seen about, but I’m not worried.