I remember being sick, when swallowing and even talking caused an extreme pain, and fantasising about drowning, I'd shower the inside of my mouth just to wash away the foul feeling of dryness.

A girl has to eat, but fuck...

Scientists? Didn't every critically thinking person know?

Take my upvote for your ingenuity OP. Eat a bag of dicks for playing with us like that.

It's not a deterrent, it's a business expense. I bet it's even tax deductible.

Whaa? You crazy man? Surely that's no possible...

Well enough to save up for their own pyramid?

Sometimes I travel through a city that has them and everytime when a train zooms by I wonder why are there so many cars on the freeway.

If you put down the thesaurus and actually think about things you will perhaps start to understand. I grew up in former Czechoslovakia until my adulthood under the rule of the communist party until we overthrew them in 1989. The effects of that time are still with me. The human nature that came to light during communist rule would make your hair stand on end. All in pursuit of ideology. You can't comprehend what you're advocating for further than some utopian theory you read.

I've grown up under a communist government in a socialist republic. So while I have no degree in Marxism-Leninism, I can assure you that all of my schooling was infused with it. Same goes for most of popular culture. I don't despise communism, as is often the case with people like me, the idea is noble, if utopian. The ideology, like all ideologies, is scary for its intolerance and disregard of human nature. I will therefore gatekeep any pure ideolog, just to save my own faith in humanity.

I typed in "what countries in Africa start with k" and got Kenya. When I tried your search term I got your result also. Weird.

Same here. Not because I'm a pirate, but because lemmy.world has been trigger happy with blocking instances /communities. I did not leave reddit to be a part of even bigger shit show. So here's hoping the fediverse works out.