Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
File this under āI saw this now you get toā: https://xcancel.com/bryan_johnson/status/2049687845082910812#m
jfc bryan you are not the guy for this
NB: image is part of the linked tweet
Turns out it might not be possible to win at vaginal microbiomes, which is a totally normal thing to want in the first place. Seems like bryan may have completely misinterpreted a couple of papers on the subject, which honestly doesnāt bode well for the rest of his biology expertise.
Cat Hicks:
She brings references:
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116494716079076018
oh thanks, this is great.
yes now that it is pointed out, very eugenics-y to go around saying āah yes there is one true supreme bacteria, we should culture this bacteria on the human petri dish aka vaginaā
Thereās that company operating in a lawless zone promoted by Slatescott thatās whole pitch is that for teeth. But they could always pivotā¦
Those bacteria better be so supreme they canāt even be killed with regular antibiotics
Soā¦ 1 in a 100? That isnāt that impressive. Iām ignoring the utter weirdness of what he is even talking about, but you expect a billionaire to have at least a better grasp of numbers.
Bryan Johnson also has free unsolicited sex tips for men on twitter including the wonderful combination ācontrol the speed you touch her to the cm per secondā and ātry not to monitor yourself it turns you offā https://xcancel.com/bryan_johnson/status/2022490768099938487#m
edit/ The first point seems to take for granted that penetration is real sex and should be part of every encounter. There is a whole world of delicious possibilities once you realize that intimacy does not have to follow a checklist from teasing to penetration to orgasm.
edit/ not just penetration but vaginal penetration! There are so many delightful things you can hump if you have an open mind.
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ok so just imagine that Iāve sneered at the 100 worst aspects of this already. lol @ this being the fifth point
motherfucker put it first then
This guy introduces himself as the first person who will never die on the conference circuit (because heās super into longevity and anti-aging tech and having young mens blood injected into him and stuff).
Iām not condoning violencr here but ratherā¦ consider that even if you never age, you can still get hit by a bus Bryan!
Well, heās a tech ceo guy, so he doesnāt know that buses or trains exist
A bus? You mean the Megapod?
Train? You mean the PodChain?
wasnāt there a case of some supplements that were contaminated with lead? you know, a sneaky neurotoxin with no antidote whose results only show up months later
long term lead exposure will also do that, and neurotoxic part at least appears to be irreversible. canāt remember how much of it is more of neurodevelopmental thing tho
@fullsquare Lead poisoning was *ubiquitous* in the USA until the late 1970s/early 1980s, due to tetraethyl lead in petrol. Everywhere around the world experienced a sharp drop in violent crime 15-20 years after it was phased out.
But mercury poisoning is more visibly lethal: see also Karen Wetterhahn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen/_Wetterhahn
iām aware, last year iāve been tasked to use a certain process but refused and instead modified it in such a way as to get rid of mercury salt used; it was dissolved in DMF, so (regular nitrile) gloves wonāt even help. worse than that, it took me only 2-3 weeks start to finish to figure it out, meaning that anyone else could do that earlier and handful of people were put at risk for no reason. aggression as a result of lead toxicity is probably a bit more complex story and looks like it might have a developmental part, judging by delay and how kids are more susceptible to lead toxicity in general; meaning that presumably mostly adults wonāt be affected to the same degree. another big nope on my list would be thallium and cadmium compounds, and while iād only use sub-g amount at most, there are places where all of these metals are mined, and at one point are in form of fine dust fortunately these are so obscure that iāve never came across these
Thinking that your favourite lover is the best person ever is natural, but this guy wants to quantify and rank and make it scientific.
This just brings to mind a freshly-minted poly amorous management consultant looking to apply a rank-and-yank to the polycule but needing to find a more objective metric than āI donāt like youā.
Most of us: āshe smells good and the sounds she makes when she gets excited grip something deep inside meā
Tech Bros: āher vaginal microbiome is in the 99th percentile and her Verbal SAT is in the 95th percentileā
Congrats on the bottom surgery youngster joey