• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    I like to imagine this person taking the time to individually affix each of these letters to their Chevy Silverado

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      That’s the most beautiful part. This took time and effort.

      Someone shopped for the letters they needed, for this. Maybe they made a second trip to the store when they ran out of “A”.

      Maybe they got the first message on there, and looked at it later and thought, “I need to be doing more to prevent dog butt cancer from spreading.” And so they added more to the message.

      Edit: And this comment of mine will probably be on display in a museum in 100 years, beside a caption explaining that I later died of entirely preventable dog butt cancer…

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    This reminds me of working at KMart whenever the “tin foil hat” people would come in and ask if we had devices to “stop the government from hacking my TV”.

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        Tbf, they don’t have to “hack” if they have backdoor access, or simply buy your data (and then they don’t even need a warrant!)

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          I was using “hack” very loosely here but basically what I meant was backdoor and everything else Snowden warned us about.

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    Thanks for the warning I guess? If only they’d used some of those letters to name their peer-reviewed sciet source for that information

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        Setting aside cancer dog, 95% of the time when I see this lettering on a vehicle I know it’s probably mental illness.

        The other 5% is probably the best plumber in town

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        Entirely seriously:

        I once dated a person with diagnosed schizophrenia.

        Obviously I cannot diagnose someone from their truck alone, but my first thought here is that this person is convinced their dog is being fucked with by their ‘handlers’ or ‘gang stalkers’, who have magic nonsense technology and tens of millions of dollars dedicated to fuck with him and his dog in particular, capable of using some kind of DEW to project thoughts and memories and voices into their had, beam cancer at their dog, etc.

        … Or, that is my own CPTSD from having had a fairly longterm relationship with a schizophrenic talking.

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          I think it’s a poorly worded theory that dogs with colon cancer lick their buts and then lick you, giving you colon cancer.

          Possibly they heard about the Tasmanian devils with cancer on their faces that spread by biting each other. Or possibly they know about HPV and cervical cancer and extrapolated from there.

          It’s hard to say, but if they’ve had colon cancer and it’s been traumatic, I can understand wanting to get a message out. If you don’t have the education to do it other ways, mailbox letters on your truck probably make sense.

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    Ah yes, the notorious supervillain Cancer Dog, whose main pet is casting ‘pervert cancer’ on his opponents.

    🎶 Cancer Dog, Cancer Dog, leaves you in a pervert cancer fog! 🎶

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    This reminds me of when I was about 8 years old. I read online that vaccines are bad, and fluoride in the drinking water was part of some evil plot. I told everyone about it and it took about a day for me to realize how wrong I was. I was embarrassed for a while, but every time I see something like this I feel so lucky I developed critical thinking before it was too late.

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      I wish I hadn’t to be honest with you. I wish I could have carried on relating to my family, ignorant of the problems of this world.

      I miss believing in ghosts. I miss the comfort I got praying as I walked through a dark room. I miss the live music at church a few times a week, the big tent revivals, believing I was seeing actual miracles when faith healers called someone up.

      I miss that short window in life when the only things that I knew related directly to me and my community.

      I don’t miss any of it enough to actually, honestly go back even if I could, but damn.

      I’m just worked up because a stray cat got hit by a car. There’s something wrong with me, I swear haha. Sorry for this.

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      There must be some kind of logic here. Wrong as it may be. Like he loved his wife but he hated her dog. Then the wife died of colon cancer, and he blames that they let the dog in the house after it was out sniffing other dog butts.

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      Damn, that was an interesting read before sleep.

      But I still don’t understand. Is it basically a mass of cancerous dog cells that just keep spreading around endlessly, nearly unchanged in the last ten thousand years? If so, can it even be considered a life form? Or a form of life at all?

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        The cancer cells are genetic clones of some dog’s cancer from 11000 years ago. Yes, they’re alive similarly to how your and my cells are alive. The cells themselves live, die and reproduce asexually. I’d say they constitute life forms, but I’m no biologist.

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          I mean… there is an argument to be made that… genetically… hell, cladistically, the cancer is a dog. It’s just… a very special one?

          This absolutely stretches our understanding of what is a dog and maybe even what is a life form. Maybe we should start looking even at viruses as forms of life. In the end the only distinguishing factor might be if it has inheritable properties which are subject to evolution

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      “Proceedings from the Dog Turd”, Elsevier, annual subscription cost: several arms and legs

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        All you need to get published is a Silverado, some stickers, and someone with a first grade understanding of the English language. The review in this case comes after the publication.