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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Isn't dysentery basically when you shit yourself to death?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

Too much of a good thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One of several things that can make you shit yourself to death, yes.

Another fun one is cholera. Which may get a resurgence too, as regulatory capture means that raw or undercooked seafood from the Gulf of Mexico resulting in "very rare" cases might become "just a regular part of living in a modern kakistocracy"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You mention the Gulf of Mexico. A friend of ours recently has his whole family catch cholera from swimming on the beach in Galveston. They're fine and all made full recoveries, as it isn't lethal if properly treated. But yes, in the Year of Our Lord 2024, you can catch literal cholera just by going to the beach in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

yeah it's about as much fun as it sounds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, and we know how to treat it (not cure, but we know how to make people not die) since, well, before the times depicted on the game. We have also knew how to avoid most of its infections since... hum, I don't know that one, but Ancient Rome was full of structures made for that, and functional, so some time before them.

Still people didn't use to be able to afford treatment (that is basically drinking large amounts of clean water with salt and sugar, and resting). And it takes a functional government to avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Good thing I'm vaccinated, have no kids, and have become a paranoid shut-in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

a paranoid shut-in.

This is the way. All the bad things are outside.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I know, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We have a friend whose family recently all got cholera. Not joking, this literally happened this year. They caught it from swimming on the beach in Galveston.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I’ve been to Galveston. This tracks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm rooting for the Polio. Those cute hats and little sticks and you get to ride around at a full gallop and then drink gin & tonics afterward.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's polo. Polio is that thing used for fishing. Not a net, the other one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's a pole. Polio is a porridge-like dish made from maize. Not grits, the other one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of polenta. Polio was a French mathematician from the late 1800s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You've never been to Alabama, have you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

True. You've never been to South Jutland, have you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, but once a year they do that thing where they try to hit a suspended ring with a stick from horseback. Like the training montage of A Knight's Tale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems like the sort of thing that would leave some people parallelized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's not like they just let everyone have a tilt lol. Like polo, people with the proper training do it as a traditional entertaining of the masses 😄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

They do, actually. The water variety. Don’t get any of it in your mouth, though. How may get the runs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I hope reincarnation turns out to be real, just so RFK can end up as a child with polio.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Less than half voted for this.

As usual, the apathy party won, with 36% of voters not voting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I still can’t believe that I know at least 5 ppl that have voluntarily stated they didn’t vote. I’m convinced they just wouldn’t vote for a woman bc they’re all not (at least publicly) republicans. We’ve still got a long way to go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

you might be able to look them up on the state's voter rolls to find about about that last part

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I was taking a shit that day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Better get checked for dysentery. Or cholera. Or CDO (rearranged to be in alphabetical order because it HAS to be) 🤷

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes blame the voters not the system that leads to apathy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Yep. I hold adults accountable for their choices.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Make brain worms great again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Too glad I'm not an American lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Smallpox was definitely one of the things that made America great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Iron lungs? That's a great way to keep Pennsylvania.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s cool, I’ve got 4 x yokes and an axle; and I’ve got a good feeling about Odell Lake! Heard some ospreys have been seen about, but I’m not worried.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Feel free to ford any rivers you come across. That never ends poorly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Tery did nothing wrong