It activates the same chemicals in your brain as cocaine! not-built-for-this

Well, yeah, there are only three[1] a few neurotransmitters. That’s not saying much.

You know what else activates those chemicals? Practically everything. When scientists breed “knockout” mice without dopamine, the mice just stand there until they die of thirst, because there is no reward for… living.

It contains more germs than a toilet seat! NOOOOO

Germs like moist surfaces. We don’t want germs on our toilets, which is why we make them out of porcelain, which is hard, dry, non-porous, and easy to clean.

If it had more germs than your colon, then I would be concerned.


  1. @Neuromancer49@midwest.social corrected me ↩︎

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    The history of mathematics and later physics is insane because you have some very complicated thing being discovered in 1500 when nobody knew about boiling the water before drinking it else death because Pasteur is from the late 1800

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      i do think they knew about boiling water, but mainly they’ve had beer which preserves without sealed off containers; and modern surgery (with accompanying sterilization) was invented due to mass armies, i think?

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        The doctor who realized washing their hands between surgeries was a good idea probably got to watch television

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          Seems wiki (at least) attributes it to lister in 1860s roughly, so might have dodged tv, but probably caught radio (died in 1912)

          (Could have been a podcaster bro, can’t know that)