We need a bone cracked club shirt too lol

You should ask if maybe it’s best to do a round or two anyway as a preventative measure of they think it’s possible for it to hang around after the surgery. Better than waiting around for it to get worse, and while chemo is shitty 2 rounds max should be extremely tolerable.

Only thing though, is that if you do plan on having kids at any point in the future, you should look into reproductive freezing before starting chemo; especially if you’re already in your late 20s or beyond. They don’t necessarily tell you that - I luckily found out that’s important the night before my first chemo was planned.

Then again, you might also be in the USA where that might not be an affordable option.

Don’t know if it helps, but having had cancer, it’s not the worst thing out there.

I’d rank years of dialysis higher, for example.

Death of a loved one too, easily.

With the cancer, you either know you’ll die fast and even get an estimate. But other stuff just slowly kills you and robs you of years of opportunity you can never get back, and you don’t know if you might die next month, next week, or next year.

Getting a chance to know you’re dying is a luxury, by few realize it. Heck even the foresight of it the possibility is. But the long term stuff? The slow, unsure deaths? That’s… Well, like I said, I don’t know if it helps, but I’ll say it could be much, much, much worse. Consider you’ll have time to prepare at least. It’s not much, it’s still a shit situation. Don’t know if you had the chemo yet and yeah, that’s pretty shit. But maybe realizing you have preparation time and a pretty black and white outcome can raise that 0 to a 1 or 2.

That pool seems to be shrinking rapidly these days…

I’m sorry y’all… I’m the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭

They’re just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don’t know about now

You don’t remember much from what you read about Spam did you.

Spam was developed for the US Army during WW2

I’m going to just stop you right there.

I don’t understand how someone can go on a fucking tirade so ignorantly wrong these days when SEARCH ENGINES AND WIKIPEDIA EXIST. It takes less than a giving damn minute to fucking check yourself damn it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

Spam literally existed before WW2.

PS: what you make is still not spam, nor will have the consistency of spam, although it will be similarish. I’ve cured my own meats too, except without the phosphates or nitrates, because I had dialysis.

Obviously nobody was making regulation Coca-Cola, but the dividing line is getting a lot less clear already. Why is a distillate of some cursed local herb fine, but fresh-squeezed cochineal dye not?

That question is called moving the goal posts. We were talking about soda, not something else.

I actually have emusifiers in my kitchen, and I didn’t have to buy them anywhere weird.

That you bought an ingredient produced via industrial processes doesn’t negate that the ingredient was made with industrial processes. It’s not really a “traditional home cooked meal” if you’re still using something that requires extensive machinery or chemical processes to create - even if you didn’t create them in your kitchen.

Your argument on using the additives in your kitchen as a point that it’s not ultra processed anymore is equivalent to me buying chemistry supply and making some paracetamol and saying it’s not a pharmaceutical drug but more akin to a herbal remedy because I made it myself.

Just stopping to point out that’s not food, you aren’t supposed to swallow it. It’s about equally as close to candy as to a teething ring.

And yet it’s sold in the candy section and has calories via sugar. Weird that this is the one you were able to easily identify as ultra processed.

Traditional home cooked soda? You mean like the Native Americans did with pine needles before the settlers showed up?

No, because that was entirely different. You might as well say beer and everclear are the same thing. Or tea and coffee.

Spam is just jellied mince,

It’s not. That’s why the knock offs and alternatives tend to taste off as well - that’s what they make. Because jellied mince is easier to make.

Candy is mostly just cooked sugar

I didn’t say all candies. Obviously a honey ball isn’t the same as bubblegum.

Concoctions involving naturally occurring carbonated spring water were/are definitely a thing.

And none of them were really what we would call “soda”. Heck the closest to that would be modern root beer. But considering the lack of other “medicinal” herbs, they definitely don’t count.

Have been around as long as sugar, which is longer than industrialisation.

A lot of candies, not all of them. Certain candies have emulsifiers and other ingredients that didn’t exist historically, so you couldn’t get that texture or such. And a lot of modern chewing gum is plastic, so I think I don’t have to explain why that’s not possible in the kitchen.

Not sure about spam, but isn’t that just canned ham?

I actually read a book all about Spam once that they had in my school library, because I thought it was funny they had such a book. The name purportedly comes from the parts used: shoulder of pork and ham. It was therefore considered fancier than just ham.

But to make it, you’re not just canning the meats. You also need those preservatives for one thing - they’re part of the taste. I’m not sure celery powder would work as a substitute like it does for ham and bacon though.

Well I guess soda is safe to classify then.

Don’t know why traditional home cooked sodas.

Guess Spam too. You can’t really really get that text or taste by making it at home.

Hmmm definitely a lot of candies too.

What’s funny is your experience is similar to mine except my family was Hispanic and living in the USA. I went to work with my mom or dad s lot too, both before and after school, even up to my preteens.

We didn’t boil the tap but we didn’t really drink it either - it smelled weird (later testing showed it had some heavy metals and other hazardous chemicals - likely from the nearby refineries) - instead we went to this water well thing where we would out 5 gallon jugs of water (like the one in water coolers) and got water they’re for drinking.

We did get the internet sooner, at least I suppose. But for awhile my experience with the internet were those “free trial” discs the companies gave because internet was (and I hear still is) expensive.

I originally marked it because there was just too much raw pure Linux power exuded from the video.

I forgot for a moment Epilepsy existed in my daze.

I added the written epilepsy warning after 😅

Some of us here think it’s no coincidence the move was considered just as a right wing government happens to be in power. Especially since there was no significant cost savings from the proposed move.

It was already unpopular, but the USA going full Putin now has the average Finn also seeing it as suspicious, instead of just the left wing.

But how does one switch from Lemmy to Piefed?

I think it depends on whether you work on actual defense systems rather than assault systems.

Anti missile systems for example.

Yes but also no.

As in, it is based on Debian, but it’s kinda like how a zebra is a horse

If you have issues with mint, try something based on Debian or Fedora rather than Ubuntu like Mint is.

For Fedora I recommend Bazzite if you do gaming and nothing too technical. Flatpaks make it easy to find and install software without messing things up. Otherwise Fedora Kiinoite.

For Debian I recommend Debian itself really. Also runs very well on much older machinery.

The lack of actual communists y’all follow.

I’m looking into switching to Raccoon, which someone recommended

Thanks! I downloaded Racoon and will try it out soon