Woke ticks are out to turn the US South into soyboys

(did I do that right?)

  • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    At this point I think I’m immune to ticks. I work outside in the woods often and my coworkers get tons of ticks. I rarely get them maybe once or twice a whole year and they are barely hanging on. My coworkers take a lot more precautions than I do, but still get way more than me. It’s weird.

    Anyway more red meat for me I guess

    • remon@ani.social
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      6 days ago

      Ha same here.

      The first notable occurrence was when I was around 9 and and we were hiking in the woods. My brother and me we both in shorts and t-shirts and running around together. When we got home my mum found a tick on him and after some more searching she removed 14 ticks from my brother. So she called me in immediately after that, but even after stripping me down naked and thoroughly searching I had 0 ticks.

      And that kind of scenario has repeated over and over. Had a BBQ with some friends under a tree. Multiple people reported having ticks the next day. Not me.

      Still haven’t had one … ever.

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    7 days ago

    Genuinely feels like the next generation is learning how to take the threat of ticks seriously.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Friends of ours have a dog with those issues. He can only eat fish and chicken. No bone for doggy! Most dog treats are off the list, too.

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    I hope for a vaccine that can kill these bastards, or at least the parasites inside them. Plus an expanded Wall of Flesh.

    Beef is love, beef is life.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      This isn’t caused by a parasite, its caused by the tick injecting alpha-gal that it picked up from other mammals in large enough amounts that it triggers the immune system to create antibodies for it. But yeah, I’d be fine with exterminating ticks.

      • viking@infosec.pub
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        And people still ask why the blahaj instances get banned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • viking@infosec.pub
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            7 days ago

            Oh I love cows, especially medium rare with a side of creamy mashed potatoes and green pepper sauce.

            So no, it’s not that, it’s the vegan proselytizing and general attitude.

        • horse@feddit.org
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          7 days ago

          How fragile are you that you find a comment like that offensive?

          • viking@infosec.pub
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            7 days ago

            Not at all. I just don’t care for the ‘holier than though’ crowd.

            • horse@feddit.org
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              6 days ago

              Okay, but there’s a difference between not caring for them and silencing them through censorship. I don’t care for comments about eating meat, but I can handle having to read them anyway.

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                6 days ago

                Blocking the instance silences their communities, not the people commenting elswhere.

                All the communities hosted on their instance are managed by and for crybabies.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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        I assume you are talking about the Wall of Flesh. It is a project to release sterile screwflys into the neck of Panama, and have them outcompete viable mating partners. The screwfly eats the living flesh of livestock, pets, and people, and was one of the worst vermin in North America. Unfortunately, the Wall of Flesh has been weakening in the last decade or so.

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    7 days ago

    Good news! You don’t have to wrestle with the ethics of eating animals anymore! (Your immune system will make the decision for you)

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    7 days ago

    i already don’t buy meat and I’m shit scared of this allergy mainly because carageenan is a fantastic sustainable thickener and gelatin alternative

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      Pretty sure I’m allergic to carageenan. It’s in chocolate milk and whenever I drink that it becomes difficult for me to breath

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        barring an allergy to dairy, cocoa solids, or cacao butter, that’s definitely a likely culprit

        it’s probably not hard to find chocolate syrup without carageenan (Hershey’s doesn’t have it for example) but I’m not surprised commercial premixed chocolate milk has it as a stabilizer, since chocolate syrup has this annoying habit of settling out at the bottom of milk

      • Wahots@pawb.social
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        You definitely shouldn’t be drinking that if your throat is swelling, carry Benadryl in your wallet in case you do. You should probably get an allergy test too…

    • spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It certainly does its job effectively, but I would be cautious with it considering it might be pretty bad for the gut or at least exacerbate stuff like IBD: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38892712/

      2 darkly amusing related articles you can find from that one: the first one can be summarized as asking the question “how has no one looked into the safety of this yet?” And the second one years later asking “how has there still not been anyone looking into the safety of this yet?”

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        it’s definitely not an easily digestible substance, lol. I imagine some Beano could help in many cases

        I just assumed carageenan was considered benign since people have been eating seaweed forever, but now that I think about it, there could be other stuff in the seaweed that prevents the carageenan from causing issues (even if it’s just the added mass reducing its concentration).

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    My father got lymes disease (not the red meat version) and that scared me so bad as a kid I’m always extra vigilant against the nasty little creatures and now I gotta be even more so? Damn.

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    “Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US

    HAH

    and globally

    fuck