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Thank you kind sir and/or madame for providing a great deal more education on the human skull trade than I had ever intended to pursue!

Not knowing just adds spice!

Anyway… how can you ethically source a skull and then sell it on the open market?

You pay an intern in your marketing department to write “ethically sourced” on all your customer facing surfaces.

It seems men are worthless in a lot of people’s eyes

That’s just a simple truth of the world that all men have to learn: Strangers have no reason to care about you unless you have something valuable to offer them. It might sound harsh at first, but you learn the wisdom of it as you grow, as it also frees you from obligations to people you can’t necessarily trust, which is critical when your social role is to protect those closest to you. It imparts upon the man a fundamental sense of urgency to live and let live as much as possible, and to pursue positive personality traits so that one can benefit from their relationship with their neighbours.

I’ve never seen anyone hate men just because they’re male

I’ve almost never actually seen it, but it’s BAD when it does appear. Had one boss tell me straight to my face that I was going to be useless because I was a man. She did all sorts of really petty stuff, like removing the clock from the break room and chewing me out for being ~30 seconds late coming back from break. Lost that job in less than a week when she literally lied to the manager that I never showed up for a shift. I could have easily fought and won for the job back, but I just didn’t care at all and spent my effort on more fruitful things.

nobody could know

Nice try…

And then once you start to understand the ways that ideas are corrupted by hacks, you can start to see the same sort of behaviour even when it has an official stamp of approval from an ostensibly legitimate organization. Take the ‘cybersecurity’ grift, for example, in which technical wizards pretend that they can definitively secure your vital computer systems, even with an always-on Internet connection, if you give them enough money.

Some birds are exceptional mimics, so maybe someone there was playing with a groan tube and the bird was literally copying it?

The whole environment needs to be as clean as humans are capable of making it, utilizing the most advanced technology available, so every nanometer of the machine is in immaculate condition.

everyone else has been very thoughtful and engaging

Really? You’ve been picking fights with everyone in this thread?

What exactly did you expect, picking an argument with someone in this thread of all places?

That’s a very wise choice not to go to the mat on this, because it’s simply the truth that this novel genetic treatment has never passed the ordinary testing regimes for such products, which very few products ever pass because we simply do not know the lion’s share of what there is to know about how genetics impact our body’s function.

If you want to ignore the potential risks that’s fine. At the very least, whether you’re safe or not, we’ll get some valuable scientific data from you.

There is absolutely still strong reason for concern. Even without looking into any of the documentation regarding negative effects that we’ve got now, it’s simply not possible to claim that we know everything we need to know about it already. Not by a long shot. Simply the ordinary testing regimes that these sorts of products are supposed to undergo are extremely long themselves.

I’ve just learned not to give a shit if people want to whip themselves into a frenzy so they can feel the rush of being on the “winning” team by parroting whatever their go-to social conditioning coordinator told them in today’s podcast.

As someone actually trained to perform genetic therapy, it was incredible how many people wanted to correct me about my safety concerns regarding the covid shot.

Makes you wonder about all those really poorly drawn animals from the middle ages.

Because the only way most people interact with vegans is through activists using it as a bludgeon to project hate towards them.

The point being, it wasn’t ever fully clear what sort of place you were visiting up front.

Probably, but that used to be just all of reddit… and the rest of the Internet with it.

Had a dude get his dick cut off

Ah, takes me back to the days of the early Internet, where you couldn’t really be sure if you were going to get that video of a cute kitten playing with a butterfly or… that.