• vivadanang@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          are you suggesting tick-born illness has been weaponized by…? what, the soy milk mafia?

          do you have any idea how staggeringly, mind-numbingly stupid that sounds?

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            Not OP, but since it is feasible, it sounds like it would make a decent movie. I’m thinking something like Red Dawn or an eco-terrorist plot.

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          Are… you stoned? I do have to admit I thought about how vegans would love an airborne version. I read too much science fiction.

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          jesus, rage bait really does get engagement, doesn’t it? society really is still not prepared against advertisers using it as a tool against us.

          on this specific platform, you poke a few vegans a certain way, or say you love windows, or how much you need to use chrome, or mention china with any sort of opinion one way or another, and everyone comes out the woodworks. and this comment with -5 is on a nested comment in a post with 84 upvotes at the time of this writing, I believe about 20 more from when I made the original comment

          I notice athiests and the fuckcars community are much more chill and less evangelistic here, though, at least

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      11 months ago

      Tick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.

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      There’s a kind of tick that, once it bites you, causes you to be deathly allergic to red meat from that point forward.

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        11 months ago

        Not always! Last I heard, it can and does wear off. Might take 6-months, might take years. I gather the effect is so rare we don’t have a ton of data.

        But I’m often full of shit! Look it up yourself.

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          You are probably full of shit every day. Until you visit the loo. So don’t hold it against yourself!

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      11 months ago

      For a non-tick response- Prion contamination resulting in Mad Cow Disease. One meal and your brain eventually rots in moldy cheese.

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      Yep, there is, it spreads though tic bites, and once bitten you will allways get sick after eating red meat.