Yeah I’m a real person, the name is just a reference to getting banned on Reddit many times, and then getting banned immediately across several discuss.online communities for hurting a mod’s feelings. I guess if it’s going to happen, might as well ask for it.

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Cake day: September 1st, 2025

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  • I was briefly interested in raw milk in the early 2000s. There was a lot of info floating around about how pasteurization destroyed beneficial bacteria that healthy people could benefit from, to avoid risk to those with compromised immune systems, infants and elderly, etc. The gut microbiome was just starting to be talked about, and we didn’t know much, but people were curious about improving it.

    Fortunately I did a little digging and realized it was a fairly radical and unproven concept, but it’s not just the belief they’re adding something harmful. It’s the belief they’re removing beneficial bacteria that would somehow improve our health.

    Considering how the last 20 years have been full of mostly unproven probiotic and prebiotic marketing insanity, it’s not surprising, it’s the same base concept. But science has been demonized since then, people actively think science and medicine is trying to keep us unhealthy now, and the top levels of government are promoting that bullshit.









  • Starbucks was an amusing rise and fall.

    • Put one on every street-corner, possibly across the street from each other.
    • Run all the other coffee shops out of business
    • Let your stores fail because they can’t sustain themselves
    • Competitors notice this, and move in with drive-through-only stores

    Of course the competitors are small chains and the original shops were indie, but that’s just the free hand of the market fisting some folks without lube