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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Not that anyone cares but here’s how my mind works, sometimes.

    When you mentioned death cults, I of course thought of Jonestown. Then I jumped to Flavor Aid and wondered if it was still being sold and what was the effect on sales after the massacre.

    Then, I wondered if you could buy stock in the company that makes Flavor Aid but found out that they are a privately held company.

    Then, I wondered if the poisoned drink was ever called Jones Juice.

    Then, I remembered that Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels had characters that died at Jonestown and another character was a survivor.

    Then, because of all this crap going on in the country, I thought about MAGA saying that Tales of the City was actually supposed to be Tales of the Tittie but the gays had corrupted Maupin and recuited him.

    And I wonder why I have insomnia.

    I’m going to try to sleep now.

















  • From The Lancet:

    The MMR vaccine is highly effective with 93% protection after one dose and 97% after a second. MMR is a live attenuated vaccine and is not recommended for pregnant people, very young children, and immunocompromised individuals, and thus, these groups are at particular risk. Measles causes pneumonia in 1 of 20 cases, encephalitis in 0·5–1 per 1000, and is fatal in 1–3 per 1000. By contrast, adverse events after vaccination are usually mild and self-limiting; 1 per 3000–4000 vaccinated children develop febrile seizures, 1 in 40 000 develop immune thrombocytopenic purpura, and three cases of inclusion body encephalitis have been reported after vaccination. Overall, the rate of serious adverse events after vaccination is substantially lower than after infection. Furthermore, measles infection leads to broad immune amnesia—that is, diminished immune responses to other pathogens. The virus can directly infect memory B and T cells, and studies in children 2 months after measles infection have found that 11–73% of the preexisting antibody repertoire vanished.



  • It’s the 14th Amendment. If SCOTUS tries to find some bullshit reason it doesn’t mean what it clearly says, then we can freely ignore anything they say.

    Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.