For the profile page thing, im pretty sure thats due to the “hide read posts” option. Lemmy a few updates ago fixed it so profiles are exempt from this options effects but enabling it and looking at my profile on piefed has significantly less posts than when I disable it and look at my profile.

Haven’t been able to figure out the upvote thing tho…

I have no issues with doing research studies about the mental health of people in close proximity of pain.

My issue with it is mostly due to the lack of research on the people actually in pain. That study is good but it feels backhanded when the women with endo themselves are being left out of a lot of that study funding.

I considered posting this to !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world instead but im far more than mildly pissed about this whole thing.

It was confirmed to be a joke in the replies.

If this happened in the fediverse it would immediately become one of the highest rated posts on lemmy.

Im just like Walter white but im nonbinary so I cant get cancer

They/Them

This joke is the entire basis of a movie

So uhh… you single?

Im a hard-core yapper so if thats too wordy then we probably wouldnt work anyway.

I wanted to make it young enough that the OC would be obviously terrible but recent enough that thinking about what was popular at the time wouldnt involve too much research.

So far only 1 person has replied and they said they would make an Elden Ring character…

Elden Ring didnt exist in 2014…

We arent going to make it…

Based on the article it looks like it wasn’t even actually being used for magic reasons anymore.

Wang explained that he originally installed the chip to use in magic routines, but quickly discovered that scanning other people’s phones against his hand “really doesn’t come off super mysterious,” especially since many devices have their RFID readers disabled by default.

Switching to his own phone removed the spectacle entirely, leaving the gimmick without much practical use.

Later:

Wang said he rewrote the chip several times to repurpose it. First, it held a Bitcoin address, which he said never came up in conversation, and later changed it to a link to a meme hosted on Imgur.

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