JovialMicrobial

It's harder to tell with all the filters that exist now...which makes people look like they had cosmetic surgery.

Anyone with education in facial anatomy can usually tell though. Parts of the face just look "off" with certain procedures.

For example cheek fillers/implants are very obvious to me. Brow lifts too. They dont line up with the curve of the upper eye socket naturally. Again, filters can mimic this effect, so with this young woman its indeterminate. Not that it really matters, it's her body, her choice.

But the point is some of us can tell, but it doesn't mean we should judgemental about it.

That sounds excellent! Thanks so much for helping to get this going for real!

I also edited my original comment to tell folks to use the north pole as a return address so everyone can remain anonymous under Santa.

Isn't that what all salt is? When they put stuff like that on a product like salt it starts to lose meaning and is clearly a marketing gimmick aimed at health conscious people.

I'm not okay with taking advantage of people who want to be healthy. As with everything marketing its about stretching the truth to outright lying and it seriously needs to be more regulated so words like organic actually mean something to consumers and we know what we're buying. If they want to lable salt as organic, it should say "uses organic cornstarch as an anti-caking agent." The cornstarch is organic, not the salt itself because it can't be.

Honestly I have no idea and just kinda posted that without thinking too far ahead, not even sure if it was a good idea or if it would get any traction. I'm excited that there's at least some interest!

Post it whereever you think people would be interested in participating! Maybe start on lemmy first then branch out once people here seem to be aware of it? Then just see what happens! Hopefully some folks will participate.

I plan on sending some poop drawings this weekend to get the ball rolling. Maybe I'll post a pic of it on lemmy too to spread the word!

It would if there's already a therapeutic medication available(but more research could create a cure, or better therapies).

Usually insurance will deny a medication for these diseases either because the medication currently available is older(no one prescribes that anymore!), or it's too expensive, or it's too new/was developed in another country. For example ireland developed a new medication for narcolepsy, but it's impossible to get in the US, nevermind getting insurance coverage.

I'm on one med that was developed in the 60's and it's the only one that actually works. It's over $300 a month. The other newer one I tried made in the 90's is over $1000 a month and doesn't work as well. Insurance tried to deny coverage for both.

The problem with older meds is there's fewer manufacturers so they can charge whatever they want due to lack of competition. There's little demand, so the few people who need it are charged out the ass for them since insurance will deny deny deny.

Thanks for the info! I found it super confusing the way the packaging advertised the product.

I'm also a bit cynical when it comes to "health" food so I assumed it was some bullshit marketing ploy. Good to know it's an actual thing this time.

At least it doesn't say organic.... since salt is an inorganic compound and that'd be straight up silly.

What I'm wondering is does this salt have extra filler or is it made of something else that tastes salty without being actual salt? How does one make it have 50% less sodium without selling a smaller size container? Marketing is fucking ridiculous sometimes. Just say what's in it!

Pygmy mammoths would be adorable! Imagine them pulling sleds in the winter with jingle bells and stuff.

Maybe you'll like my interpretation of this image! I believe those women are a coven of witches politely waiting for that guy to finish talking so they can begin their ritual sacrifice to The Morrigan.

That would ideal! Also it'd be good if it didn't accidentally explode like meth labs tend to. Like you said, chemistry isn't easy, but if this thing can work it'd make us far less dependent on greedy insurance companies and corrupt pharma companies.

I like that one a lot more! No censoring to worry about.
I'd really love for this to take off. It's a way to protest that people can participate in without having to disrupt their lives or take time off from work.

This could be very good for people with orphan diseases(diseases that are rare enough that they aren't profitable for private companies to research)

Also, having an orphan disease often results in insurance companies denying coverage for everything because they don't have a policy written up for that specific disease.... so there's no script for the workers to follow. Then your doctor has to argue with them, which can take weeks, in the meantime you have no medication.

Yeah, I'm not mad or anything. I wish I could've cooked up my own meds when insurance denied me life giving meds because they'd never heard of my disorder.