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rebeccawatson, to random
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Porch pirates stole my medication so now I have to convince my insurance to give me more. In the spirit of the season, and I say this from the depths of my heart, I truly hope the thief has moderate to severe depression that gradually improves after 4 to 6 weeks of daily usage

rebeccawatson, to random
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I feel like we haven't spent enough time talking about how the new Speaker of the House sends his teenage son weekly reports on whether or not he watched pornography https://skepchick.org/2023/11/the-speaker-of-the-house-sends-his-teen-son-weekly-porn-updates/

gabboman,

@rebeccawatson dear son today I discovered this hot porn actress. I think you might also enjoy it please let me know if you found someone new who I might also enjoy love dad

daviddd,
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@gabboman @rebeccawatson hey dad, I found this new website called e621.net, my new favourite porn actresses are "zonkpunch" and "tabuley", I think you will enjoy love son

rebeccawatson, to random
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Completely bonkers that when I voice support for the rights of Palestinians, dudes say "But you're a woman, they don't want you to have rights." Neither do Republicans but I'm not going to call for Orange County to be nuked, what the fuck?

rebeccawatson, to random
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just saw a medication commercial that listed a side effect of “uncontrollable body odor that may be permanent” and I’m crying

rebeccawatson, to random
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Sabine Hossenfelder tried to use the story of penicillin to prove her thesis that capitalism leads to scientific progress. Here, I quote Ernst Chain, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on penicillin, to prove her wrong. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/

AimeeMaroux,
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@rebeccawatson As someone who has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in her other life I find the notion to use drug development as a win for capitalism extremely bizarre. The profit motive is so harshly at odds with the nature of research, as you demonstrate in your article: low chances of success at the base level means nobody would invest in base research. And there are many rare diseases that aren't researched at all by the pharma industry because the resulting sales would be too small.

rebeccawatson, to random
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men on reddit: “my girlfriend of 8 years recently revealed she bleeds from her vagina once a month. should I leave?”
women: “a guy I’ve known for 60 days says he’s a pedophile. how do I discuss this with him”

rebeccawatson,
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@AimeeMaroux you didn’t have to. I’ve seen the play often enough. contrary to your post I do know what a pedophile is (having dated one) and my joke didn’t need you to rush in to defend ephebophiles

AimeeMaroux,
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@rebeccawatson Oh yikes, I'm so sorry!
I did NOT nor did I mean to defend ephebophiles, I said it doesn't make him any less of a shitty person.

The way I understand the definition of the term, pedophile is explicitely a preference for prepubescent children. Is it wrong? In any case, my point wasn't supposed to be that the guy is not so bad or whatever because it's not pedophilia. It was supposed to be that it's awful in spite of it.

I apologise if I came off as catty or anything ❤️

rebeccawatson, to random
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Here we go again: popular YouTube physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is extremely wrong about something! This time, she argues in favor of capitalism, saying that without it, we wouldn't have scientific progress. The Nobel prize winner she cites begs to disagree. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/

Gothilla,
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@rebeccawatson If she loves capitalism so much, she should go get a regular job and leave us alone.

Rhaedas,
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@rebeccawatson I haven't seen one of her videos since they've been popping on my feed. The titles seemed like clickbait wording to me, and then I started seeing criticism like this, so it seems I'll stick with the physicists I already watch that tend to stay within their field.

rebeccawatson, to random
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can't I get Linux?

rebeccawatson, to random
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I’ll say this for Mastodon: the stalking is a much weirder flavor than Twitter’s.

ikanreed,

@rebeccawatson I love the casual heresy of Adult Baptism without Initiation. The Church is very clear we adults are allowed to send our own selves to Hell.

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