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- Comment on I'm a sucker for big tree 10 months ago:
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has a big ass tree. Like, a really big ass tree.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 10 months ago:
I didn’t know that about the sequel. That’s pretty cool. I did know about the difference between the book and the movie. I read a similar discussion a few days ago. But your information is new to me.
As someone that contracted Hep C Genotype 2 from IV drug use, and has now been “cured” (meaning I have an undetectable viral load 10+ years later) though technically you are never cured from a virus. I did a brutal regimen of peg interferon and ribavirin for 6 months. The side effects are fucking horrible.
Because of this I have read about Hep C pretty exhaustively. Someone said that Jenny could have caught it from being sexually abused as a child from her father. While plausible, it is an incredibly remote chance. Hep C isn’t in body fluids like HIV. Hep C has to be blood to blood. The chances of transmission with surface blood to surface blood is incredibly remote not impossible, but not probable.
For these reasons and more it bothers me that Hep C is used as her killer in the book. It’s such an unlikely killer, and the main way you get it is through unsavory activities. It seems like the author chose Hep C just as a punishment for her horrible life choices. Almost like Jenny is a yin to Forrest’s yang.
Anyway, I could keep going on about this for more paragraphs, but you may know all this already, and even if you don’t you probably have better things to do with your time.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 10 months ago:
I know it was Hep C, but Hep C usually takes a LOOOOONNGG time to kill ya. Like, at least 20 years. Even then you die of cancer or cirrhosis of the liver. As far back as the 80’s they had interferon which isn’t perfect, but between all the factors she still would have been fairly unlucky to die from Hep C.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 11 months ago:
Rice seasoning and soy sauce.
- Comment on A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks 11 months ago:
I didn’t read the whole article. I just wanted to point out that the article says 450 silos. That’s 450 icbms. Each one of those has several nuclear warheads on it. Also that doesn’t take into account all the other kinds of nukes we have. Like the ones on submarines, and airplanes, and nuclear mortars. Okay, someone feel free to correct me on this but I think we got rid of the nuke mortars.
According to the government. The US has around 3,750 nuclear warheads. If memory serves me correctly that’s enough nukes to destroy life on earth about 37 times over.
I posted most of this comment from memory. Please do your own research as my memory is shit, and feel free to correct me.
- Comment on Mercury Will Devour Your Gold If You Let It 11 months ago:
Absolutely! From what I understand elemental mercury is pretty much harmless. You can swallow it and poop it out. But, if you heat it and breathe the vapors. It is evil stuff.
If you haven’t listened to that S-Town podcast. It’s pretty good. It’s about a guy from Alabama that was believed to have a genius IQ. He was kind of famous amoung people who collected really old clocks. Well, there are these really old clocks that were gilded by painting them with a gold mercury amalgam. Then you burn the mercury off leaving the gold. He even did that service for people.
Anyway, that’s just part of the story, but it’s kind of believed that he was so weird because of mercury.
- Comment on Mercury Will Devour Your Gold If You Let It 11 months ago:
Look, if the mercury eats your gold it’s no biggie. All you have to do is hit the amalgam with a blow torch. It’s hot enough to vaporize the mercury, but not the gold. Besides, a little mercury vapor never hurt anyone.
I feel the need to say this because some people may not know this. The above statement is true except mercury vapor being harmless. Mercury vapor does hurt people. Just listen to the S-Town podcast. It literally makes you insane.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I mean I think that the reasons are just as varied as people themselves. I think a lot of times it’s tradition in the sense that their parents believed it, there parent’s parents believed in it. So, it’s easy to just do what everyone else does.
Then you have, especially in Islamic countries a situation where their religion is everything. From the government, to the judicial system, to the education system, and of course the religion. It’s a way to control to masses. I think it was Hitler that said “He alone that owns the youth gains the future”. Indoctrinate your people early and reinforce it every step of the way.
Then you also have a situation where Muslims pray multiple times a day. Once again this just reinforces the indoctrination, but it also serves as a constant reminder that if you “sin” bad things will happen.
All of these things and more help to cement a tight grip on a population. There is a YouTube channel hosted by an ex-Muslim that I find interesting. The dude is way smarter than I. The channel is called “Apostate Aladdin”. He does a great job of explaining things in easy to digest ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
In what way specifically?
- Comment on Me when my mother hits me for sneaking an early piece of pie 11 months ago:
You know, I personally disagree with you, but I’m pretty sure most of my family would agree with you. So, you may be right.
- Comment on Me when my mother hits me for sneaking an early piece of pie 11 months ago:
I’m just going to let it be known that sweet potato pie is the superior pie. Pumpkin pie is inferior.
Hehehehehehehehe
- Comment on i’m living in a school with gamblers 11 months ago:
Dropkick on my devil. Does that make me the main char, one of the devils, or just a commoner? Because depending on the answer my life will be wildly different, and may require a change of sex, and age.
- Comment on Survey says: You're louder than the bullfrogs. 1 year ago:
That was actually the second crazy thing that happened on that trip. The first happened earlier while it was still light out. I was at a spot where a long country straight away was up above where I was fishing.
I heard a car go by really fast. Then I heard the tires scrr short pause scrrr long pause then scrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr BOOM!!! The boom was so hard and close I felt it in the ground. A few mins go by and a cop car goes by then a fire truck then another fire truck. After a few more mins an ambulance with siren on goes by. A few more minutes later I saw that same ambulance leaving without sirens and not in a hurry.
So, either the driver was completely ok, or…
- Comment on Survey says: You're louder than the bullfrogs. 1 year ago:
This happened to me 2 nights ago. I was fishing for catfish and it was 9pm. The sun went down at like 5. I’m in the woods with a bright headlamp on, and there is an old service road behind me that I’ve never seen anyone drive down before.
So, imagine my surprise when I see 2 headlights coming down the service road. When I realized it was coming towards me I cut off my headlamp. I don’t know if it’s like this everywhere, but in the south everyone I know was taught to always assume people in the woods are up to no good and to be avoided.
Anyway, the truck stops on the hill 30 meters above me. I grabbed my machete in preparation for whatever is about to happen and continue fishing in case they are lost or something. I can hear rap music blaring from the radio. So, I’m pretty sure not a game warden, and about that time I see a second truck coming down the road. It stops behind the first. They get out and talk for a few mins then go in opposite directions.
I was incredibly relieved that nothing happened, but I also went ahead and packed up and left after that.
- Comment on chadigator 1 year ago:
Another fun fact about crocodiles, and alligators is that they actually have the immune systems that conservatives think they have.
But for real, they are trying to make new antibiotics from crocodile and alligator blood.
- Comment on JAPANESE KNOTWEED 1 year ago:
I mean down here we just embrace the kudzu. Ok, that’s not true. Down here if you sit for too long, but not as long as you’d think. The kudzu embraces you.
- Comment on What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change? 1 year ago:
So, I’ve worked nights and I’m not sure. I know that when I worked nights I didn’t know that the clocks changed. I just clocked in when it was my normal time and clocked out when it was my normal time. So, my guess is extra hour and less one hour. But honestly it probably varies.
- Comment on So, something weird happened to my jar of flash cotton. 1 year ago:
Also. What really was crazy to me was how long it was ok until it wasn’t. I had seen it 2 months previous I know, and it was still fluffyish cotton.
- Comment on So, something weird happened to my jar of flash cotton. 1 year ago:
Yeah, it was kind of a knee jerk reaction. Admittedly, not one of my best moments. Disposing of it like that. Like, after that first experience I have seen some videos where more time was taken to wash and neutralize the acid than was put into the recipe I was following. So, that makes since.
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- Comment on i have a question about a quest line. Obviously spoilers. I'd mark NSFW to block the text but i dont see a way to. 1 year ago:
Awesome! Thanks.
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- Comment on You can never be too safe 1 year ago:
Hell yeah! Had myself a Kevlar commode built special just so the missus and I could use a Glock as a poop knife. Things get wild a day or so after fondue night.
- Comment on Contraband Table 1 year ago:
You need to photoshop that. Put some cops in front of the table, and a sign that says some outlandish street value.
- Comment on I don't think this opinion will be contra-versial here 1 year ago:
It is. It definitely isn’t as good as S. But it gets the job done.
- Comment on I don't think this opinion will be contra-versial here 1 year ago:
Well, that honestly probably makes two of us then. Games back then were fucking brutal. They couldn’t rely on flashy videos and graphics. The replayability was in the difficulty and bragging rights (if you finished it). Contra though was one of those games that I always felt was fair.
Anyway, if you ever get the itch, hit me up. I have switch and steam.
- Comment on I don't think this opinion will be contra-versial here 1 year ago:
We should play together some time. We would make the perfect duo. Also, I think I saw that a set of Contras are being sold on Steam. Because a new 2d Contra is being released soon.
- Comment on I don't think this opinion will be contra-versial here 1 year ago:
I didn’t mind the M, but F, and L can fucken suck it.
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post. 1 year ago:
I sent you a private message because I don’t know if the details would break any rules.
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post. 1 year ago:
You want to hear about the absurdity of automod deletions on Reddit? I got a post deleted from illegallifeprotips. For involving revenge or some such nonsense.
All it was, I had discovered an amazing way to stop scam calls, bill collectors, really most anyone from calling you that you don’t want calling you ever again. It works like a dream, and if there is anyone standing next to you it definitely gets a reaction.