MystikIncarnate

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I came up with an analogy for vaccines that I'm thinking might actually penetrate the think skulls of some of these motherfuckers. If you agree, please feel free to use it... It goes like this:

When soldiers are preparing for their life in the service, what do they do? Stand around with their thumbs in their asses waiting for an enemy to attack? No. They train. They train day and night. They train until they have all of the maneuvers and tactics burned into their brains.

They use guns and tanks to defend.

So for defense, most would agree that the soldiers doing the fighting need two main things: training and equipment.

This is the same for your immune system. The equipment that your body needs to mount a good defence comes in the form of vitamins, minerals, and most importantly, calories to keep everything operating as good as it can.

Vaccines are the other side of that equation. They're the training regimen for your immune system. It's the practice run before going into a live-fire situation.

Vaccines, in and of themselves, can't do shit to stop you from getting an infection, or a disease. That's not what vaccines do. They only train the soldiers of your immune system to recognize and effectively attack the enemy. Without them, your immune system soldiers will take longer to react to a threat because it will simply take longer to recognise it and attack/eliminate it.

That's it.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Tipping, specifically in the original context of restaurants, I will still do, simply because the government needs to change the minimum wage so that servers are included. They're currently a protected group that is allowed to be paid far less than minimum wage, and they are supposed to make up the difference in tips.

In every other context, wow me and I'll tip you, otherwise, don't expect shit.

If you did your job as you are expected to do, then I don't see why I need to tip.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The first handful of episodes, you could tell that spiner was trying to figure out how to play data. There's something just ... Off about his portrayal of the Android.... It's hard to describe.

But, to be blunt, there were a lot of things that were "off" about season 1.....

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

I used to do this unintentionally while working in a call center. We dealt with a lot of folks from the south who had similar accents. I'm Canadian, eh?

My coworkers used to say that when I'd show up to work, I was (my name), and by the time I be left, I was farmer (my name).

I honestly didn't intend to do it. I'm just so used to mirroring the people around me.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Data is a mimic. Got it.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

The inky blacks of my terminal window match both my apparel and my soul.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jokes on you. I use Ubuntu with no GUI.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Democracy doesn't get any wins anymore. That part of the voyage is over.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does it matter which one is first?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Who is to say that the narrator isn't Morgan Freeman?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

So does massive doses of radiation.....

So we could just.... Idk, expose people to radiation by way of some airborne delivery system that you could drop from a plane a safe distance away.... Kind of like a bomb, but radioactive... An atom bomb, if you will.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Narrator: it is.

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