PbSO4 [comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Prophylactic use of antibiotics is still use of antibiotics, even if it’s being used for stimulation of toll like receptors. The bacteria don’t care if you’re trying to kill them or not. Benign organisms can still develop resistance to an agent and pass it off to hostile ones.

    Now, resistance to this particular agent is not uncommon, so it’s not catastrophically harmful to use it for that purpose. Other antibiotics see use for purposes other than killing or suppressing the growth of bacteria as well (erythromycin for gastric motility, for example). I’m curious about the actual degree of benefit this measure confers in a human sample population, and am generally not a fan of putting petrolatum-based products where I can inhale them as I’m paranoid about accidentally giving myself lipoid pneumonia.










  • Most masculinity is performative anyway.

    Isn’t that kind of the point? Masculinity and femininity are two groups of performances and signifiers that are collaboratively and continuously defined and redefined by the groups that perform them. There is no “true” or “essential” masculinity or feminity, only the ones we assert and perpetuate.



  • Military regulations often allow for a great deal of command discretion. Consequently outcomes can vary from person to person.

    If you are a junior enlisted member trying to get out of the military, please take this message to heart. You may not have been in a situation to learn this lesson before. I’ve known a member who used a CBD product and turned themselves in voluntarily who got an honorable discharge, and I’ve known members who got unfavorable discharge characterizations for the same. Command discretion is extremely broad.