You may find a brief respite from the toxicity of a given social network elsewhere, but it will eventually find you, particularly if you invite controversy. Because the fundamental issue is like Soylent Green: made of people.
Widely Used Diabetes Drug Can Cause Flesh-Eating Genital Infection [bloombergquint.com]
Sounds like a good reason to use diet to improve your diabetes and avoid getting on drugs in the first place.
Meanwhile MiniMe has returned home for a couple days. He doesn't start classes until Tuesday and needs to pick up a few things.
@larand if people think they are going to avoid assholes by going to a different social network, I have a bridge to sell them ?
The same thing will happen to Leo Laporte, I suspect, who apparently left most social media but is on micro.blog and Mastodon.
So much for a few weeks off the road. Looks like I have a date with Orange County next week.
@matigo I’d like to think the people involved are trying to do the right thing. The problem is: it’s so easy to be convinced to do the wrong thing. Especially when it’s profitable.
New blood-pressure guidelines pay off — for drug companies [seattletimes.com]
This is an article from 2005. Makes me wonder if my blood pressure is actually just fine considering big pharma worked to lower the guidelines.
Thai Buddhist monks' health suffering from sugary drinks [amp.abc.net.au]
It’s like I’ve been saying: calories count, but what you eat and when matter so much more.
@matigo The sideloading is thru the iCloud file system. Need to see if I can find a way to an mp3 from an arbitrary URL there.