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Cake day: February 24th, 2025

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  • If you won’t engage with political institutions like a job, a family, or even a group of friends, what exactly separates you from the animals? You need to participate in some form of society if you want to be recognised as human. Even if that society is something as simple as an internet forum like Lemmy. If you’re not even capable of speaking to other people (or signing, or using a tts device like Stephen Hawking), then you’re not really a person. And speaking to other people is political.





  • That’s what happens when you don’t nuke your pits and privates with soap every day. You develop healthy bacteria colonies that don’t stink, and which compete with the stinky bacteria for resources. Water and friction is enough for daily washing. Soap is for every couple of days. Except for your hands, wash your hands with soap every day.


  • I hate the way deodorant smells, and I know that may sound oxymoronic, but I guess that’s false advertising for you. I’ve met plenty of clean, well-groomed men, really classy fellas, who stunk to me because they wore deodorant. No insult on them, I just don’t personally like it.

    I make an effort to use the appropriate amount of soap so as to cultivate inoffensive bacteria in my sweaty areas while killing off the stinky ones. The mammalian body is designed to be an ecosystem for bacteria. Scientists have raised germ-free mice in labs by keeping them away from other mice and feeding them formula instead of milk, and that’s not natural. When they’re introduced to other mice, they catch whatever those mice have. Some mice have nice germs, some nice have nasty ones. There are no mice outside of labs who have no germs.

    Most people use too much soap and basically nuke their privates every day. Then they act shocked when the stinky bacteria recolonise that free real estate faster than the nice ones. So they nuke again, and the whole cycle starts anew. Water and friction are enough for everyday, and use soap every couple of days or when things get nasty. Not too much, just enough to restore the equilibrium. Do that, and you won’t be getting foul enough on a daily basis to need deodorant.



  • DARVO is a serious tactic used by serious abusers to ruin the lives of their victims. I don’t think this shitshow of a thread nor the efficacy of top-level’s shitheaddery are serious enough to warrant such a serious word. I think when the word DARVO is used, everyone should sit down and think very carefully about the evidence being presented. It shouldn’t be used as a small part of a larger rant. It should be one of those words that stops a conversation in its tracks, like a safeword.