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This post starts with a jumpscare
Haha, yeah phags is barely a contraction as is ignoring it's unfortunate homophone. You're saving one letter not typing phages.
More likely it was a typo
I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
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Re: I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
#52Getting paid $4,000 to participate in a trial that could potentially save thousands of lives for a disease is incredible. But even better that it's a somewhat neglected disease that doesn't often occur in the western world. Sounds like the experiment was a success and I am hopefully/excited to see this rolled out!
I had a friend who participated in such a trial and ended up with long term liver injury.
It's not money for nothing and it's a bigger choice than people credit.
Re: I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
#53"My friend Ozy said that Infinite Jest was a really good book for reading in a dysentery ward."
I made the mistake of trying to read Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey when I had covid last. I never finished it, and when I try to read it now it reminds too much of how awful I felt.
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I was left wondering if anyone has ever finished “Infinite Jest.”
Well I have not had dysentery but I have read "Infinite Jest" and had no trouble finishing it. It's an amazing book and particularly so for someone like me who was obsessed with "Hamlet" as a teen. That said it's a serious modern novel and while it contains a lot of very funny parts it's also at times difficult. If you like David Foster Wallace his other two novels "Broom of the system" and "The Pale King" are also g…
Consider the Lobster is amazing: https://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
Re: I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
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>oh you sweet summer child Is the condescension really necessary? Also, the phrase is really overused at this point.
The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive. It's usually intended as somewhat lighthearted, but it comes across as smug and pandering, and extremely condescending, like you said.
> The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive
I feel you're severely overreacting. If everyone would act that way, this community would definitely be much a worse place. Kant's Imperative and all that.
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The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive. It's usually intended as somewhat lighthearted, but it comes across as smug and pandering, and extremely condescending, like you said.
> The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive I feel you're severely overreacting. If everyone would act that way, this community would definitely be much a worse place. Kant's Imperative and all that.
I disagree firmly. The phrase embodies a sense of superiority and "knowing better" than those it's directed at which is directly contrary to the Guidelines of HN.
Re: I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
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> The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive I feel you're severely overreacting. If everyone would act that way, this community would definitely be much a worse place. Kant's Imperative and all that.
I disagree firmly. The phrase embodies a sense of superiority and "knowing better" than those it's directed at which is directly contrary to the Guidelines of HN.
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