ChatGPT is allowed, but chocolate eggs with toys inside are supposed to be too dangerous? 🤔
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60-year-old man who had a "history of studying nutrition in college" decided to try a health experiment: He would eliminate all chlorine from his diet
Oh well, it started before ChatGPT even had a chance to make it worse.
Bromide sedatives vanished from the US market by 1989, after the Food and Drug Administration banned them
So Robert Fucken Kennedy Jr will be all over this one shortly. Expect more psychosis I guess...
He does consume straight methylene blue from the bottle
Methylene blue is an actual antidote for methemoglobinemia which is a blood disorder in which red blood cells become really bad at releasing oxygen. It's usually caused by a reaction to certain drugs like lidocaine or compounds containing nitrites. It looks like methemoglobinemia can be caused by "poppers" (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).
Here's an article from the Cleveland Clinic that goes into more detail.
The "poppers" thing is probably why RFK Jr takes methylene blue because he likely thinks its a way to prevent HIV. (For which there is now a pre-exposure prophylaxis shot with a nearly 100% success rate and progress on a vaccine....but it's an mRNA vaccine so RFK is trying to kill it.)
"poppers" (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).
Can we just take a moment to recognize that the person in charge of public health for this country thinks poppers cause HIV?
I just.... I just don't know what to say anymore.
If you need to get your heart rate and blood pressure up without doing actual exercise, check out the Behind the Bastards episodes on RFK Jr.
Yeah, I don't think I will lol. I'm aware of a handful of the insane things he's done, and I'd rather not make myself suicidal right in time for the weekend
Holy shit, I did not know there was a HIV vaccine.
It was just announced in Nature a week ago. It's extremely recent news. (Of note, the article talks about how it is successful in instigating a strong immune response, but that doesn't always translate to immunity.)
Well, it's a step up from no HIV vaccine.
The pre-exposure prophylaxis shot is also pretty amazing. The initial clinical trials in Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrated a 0% HIV infection rate for people receiving the shot every 6 months as directed.
We’re too stupid as a race to survive…
I mean, we have a pretty significant portion of the populace being told almost on the daily that the sooner that they stop breathing, the sooner they get to join the cosmic orgy.
If things like this keep happening that problem might solve itself.
Can we just skip to the point where LLMs are just a bunch of preapproved answers and legal warnings? Maybe we could then hire experts to answer some of the questions? Organize it like some sort of a message board. Let people search previous questions. Wait...
An early AI was once asked, "Bob has a headache. What should Bob do?" And the AI replied, "Bob should cut off his own head."
The point being: AIs will give you logical solutions to your problems but they won't always give you practical ones.
That's a misconception how LLMs work. It is how SF-authors imagined AI would work.
LLMs won't give you logical solutions to your problems — they'll give you the essence of the data they were fed with that are statistically likely to be associated with the words you used to prompt them. And since they are usually trained on the enshittified internet, well, you get what you paid for.
Just wait until AI "partners" are a thing. Person: Honey, can you cook for me? AI: Sure thing. [proceeds to add highly toxic ingredients into the food]
I already suffer from psychosis
To be fair, I've already done something similar. In the aughts, thinking Miskatonic U's Library restricted vault can't harm me: I'm already crazy. Then thanks to Bush Administration efforts to consolidate power and persecute minorities, I went and studied the Holocaust, and the process within the German Reich that brought it forth.
And that figures into my current psychotic break, as of November 2024.
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