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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At least this time the disease will stay confined to the stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Welp time to switch to 100% oat milk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Oat milk is great imo. Planet Oat extra creamy is the best available where I'm at.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (25 children)

I mean… science says it’s dangerous. Reality says it’s dangerous. And soon, for many, entropy will remember that it was dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This will almost certainly cause a rise in neonatal Listeria cases from maternal transmission...which even if the child survives, can leave them with lifelong disability and functional dependency. Through no fault of their own...just their parents.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they die they die. It's a risk I'm willing to take

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Except they're also giving it to their kids, who are far more susceptible to the diseases

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As much as I delight in watching stupid people suffer stupid consequences, the problem here is the same with their anti-mask bullshit - diseases spread. Bird Flu, or something else, could end up being the next COVID pandemic because these fuckwits are gullible as shit. Then they spread those diseases to the most vulnerable people around them, including children. These kinds of people are why I sometimes regret being an artist. If anyone belongs in hell, it's people who hurt kids.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Not trying to be rude, it just genuinely went over my head, what does being an artist have to do with it?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk

Not seeing the problem, here.

Regulators Say It’s Dangerous

…And? We need a little chlorine in our gene pool. If the dumbest and most ignorant segment of America wants to kill themselves, it’s an adult making an adult’s decision. It can only improve society if they do.

My only objection kicks in when kids end up in the cross hairs of that stupidity and ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I guess there's 1 upside to the potential loss of school lunches?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let them. It'll make the election in 4 years a lot easier.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

You've already had your last election.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately this wil presumably only be American conservatives.

Will they die?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The second best outcome is suicide by stupidity.

The best is they stop being stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

stop. don’t. come back…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

help.... police.... murder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

because charlie, they are all a bunch of nitwits

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Why do these fucking morons always want the objectively worst thing? The absolute dumbest thing you can think of and they're all for it. Why is the world like this now? I can't fucking stand it. "Let's get rid of the FDA and OSHA!" Like, what the fuck is this horse shit. This shouldn't be allowed to happen! I'm legitimately losing my sanity more and more each day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

it's because the government wants to fuck of us over duuude !! everything they say we should do opposite!! the government is a giant monolith and every human that works for them magically agrees to the same ideologies which force us to drink raw milk!! because they agreed pasteurized milk is good therefore it is bad !!

that's really all they think

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheese made from unpasteurized milk can be safe, its what happens in most of the world. As long as its done correctly, tested and labeled as such that is fine. The whole point of the cheesemaking process is to encourage the good microbes to outcompete with the bad ones to make the cheese since its a preservative method. Its the drinking of raw milk that is dangerous. So of course that is the part that everyone wants to do and fight about

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheese made from unpasteurized milk can be safe

From what I know of the US food industry, I still wouldn't chance it over there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Unpasteurized cheese will typically be higher end because it's more difficult and slower to make. ( Unpasteurized cheese typically use the natural yeasts and bacterias to ferment so are slower). So as long as it labeled it should be fine

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