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Popoto said:
Who tells you that TCM doesn't ever test their shit, or that everything we do is 100% proven? The medical community certainly doesn't. That's why acupuncture has crawled its way into conventional physiotherapy and we have scandals like the thalidomide or breast cancer implants or the air humidifier plastic lung.

It is also why hospitals offer water births when it is uh, probably dangerous, we think? Lol no one actually tests this shit.

You are conflating homeopathy and naturopathy with TCM, and TCM compounded medicine are actually extremely potent. Your kind of arrogance cost lives during the Fen-Phen scandal.

Fen-Phen is a herb named "ma huang" in TCM, by the way. The scary chemical compound name of "phentermine" got coined when Pfizer pretended to discover something thats been around for centuries, and if you see its wikipedia article, the fact that this was a TCM herb has been fucking memory-holed.

Saying "real medicine" uses purely artificial compounds is some next level bullshit like "we don't grow coca plants or poppies". We do, ok?

There is not a lot of difference in "real medicine" and the "TCM bullshit." "Real medicine" has been cross pollinated with "TCM bullshit" for quite a while now, and you may have taken TCM therapies yourself, you just don't know it because it is repackaged like TENs.

It's nice that you have such faith in conventional biomedicine. In reality, a lot of medicine, particularly in psychiatry and pain management, is bullshit.
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Fuck off Chang, your penis won't work again no matter how many rhinos you kill.
 
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scathefire said:
Why are you so defensive of Traditional Chinese Medicine? Do you have a habit of snorting ground-up northern white rhinoceros horns or something?
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I personally think TCM is bullshit.

Criticisms of TCM posted on this thread (that TCM is placebo, TCM singlehandedly drives animal extinction/ animal cruelty, TCM isn't tested or proven while western medicine is) is also fucking bullshit.

If calling out bullshit means I must be a defender of TCM, that is a new level of retardation.

"Ground up rhino horns" endangering rhinos is also bullshit, and the article specifically points out that popularizing such bullshit actually work against rhino conservation efforts and encourages trafficking.
 
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To get us back on track after the 50 Cent Poster derailed us, has anybody ever seriously read the "Did you know?" section Sure, a decent chunk of it might be interesting trivia, but there's always one or two spergy bits in there.

Take today's:
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Why is there this random editorial on Pokemon Legends, and the last bit about We Wear the Mask is from some unknown author who could be pulling shit from their ass. Even in the article, it's poorly explained how it "undoubtedly" would have gotten him killed, they just quote the guy who wrote that without qualification or support.
 
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Popoto said:
I personally think TCM is bullshit.

Criticisms of TCM posted on this thread (that TCM is placebo, TCM singlehandedly drives animal extinction/ animal cruelty, TCM isn't tested or proven while western medicine is) is also fucking bullshit.

If calling out bullshit means I must be a defender of TCM, that is a new level of retardation.

"Ground up rhino horns" endangering rhinos is also bullshit, and the article specifically points out that popularizing such bullshit actually work against rhino conservation efforts and encourages trafficking.
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I would somewhat agree that both systems deserve criticisms for their own brand of harmful shenanigans, but the way you've worded your posts makes it sound like you're actually defending TCM and sucking Pooh's yellow wingwang.

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To get us back on track after the 50 Cent Poster derailed us, has anybody ever seriously read the "Did you know?" section Sure, a decent chunk of it might be interesting trivia, but there's always one or two spergy bits in there.

Take today's:
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Why is there this random editorial on Pokemon Legends, and the last bit about We Wear the Mask is from some unknown author who could be pulling shit from their ass. Even in the article, it's poorly explained how it "undoubtedly" would have gotten him killed, they just quote the guy who wrote that without qualification or support.
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Wikipedia is all about adding crap by unknown authors or some rando college professor whose only achievement was making an "inspirational/philosophical/political speech" 2 months ago or doing a survey no one's ever heard of. Also the bit about pokemon is just plain cringe, as well as the fact that Nintendo fanboys will call anything that's a wild open world a BOTW knock off these days even if its from a related studio, much like how kids would go around claiming every Youtuber was copying PewDiePie.
 
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There's a fun game I started playing where I look up a modern event or person who won't really have much relevance in the grand scheme of things and I compare them to a historical person, event, state, or whatever else that had much more of an impact on history to see which article is longer.

Last week when I played the game, I found out that the Wikipedia page for PewDiePie is roughly as long as the one for Charlemagne and is around 4000 words longer than the one on Gaius Julius Caesar.
Today I felt particularly inspired to look up Gamergate and since I played The Last Roman campaign in Total War Attila yesterday I looked up the Gothic Wars of 535-554 to compare their lengths, Gamergate's article was longer by around 3000 words.

Play the game yourself and please share any interesting results!
 
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Pretty Boy Extremism said:
There's a fun game I started playing where I look up a modern event or person who won't really have much relevance in the grand scheme of things and I compare them to a historical person, event, state, or whatever else that had much more of an impact on history to see which article is longer.

Last week when I played the game, I found out that the Wikipedia page for PewDiePie is roughly as long as the one for Charlemagne and is around 4000 words longer than the one on Gaius Julius Caesar.
Today I felt particularly inspired to look up Gamergate and since I played The Last Roman campaign in Total War Attila yesterday I looked up the Gothic Wars of 535-554 to compare their lengths, Gamergate's article was longer by around 3000 words.

Play the game yourself and please share any interesting results!
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The only way to fix this is to pull a Bill & Ted and bring back a bunch of historical figures and force them to stream Warzone or Fortnite.
 
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So Wikipedia is now banning people for simply questioning pronouns... with the questioned pronoun in question being "tree". The "free-thinking" site everyone.
The Wikipedia page for actor Keiynan Lonsdale became a battlefield in the fight over “preferred pronouns” due to a Twitter thread noting Lonsdale once suggested “tree” as his preferred pronoun. Despite doubts about Lonsdale’s sincerity, editors repeatedly changed the male pronouns on his article to “tree” this past week until an editor sought a compromise by removing pronouns entirely. One editor who criticized the move and denigrated the idea of “tree” as a pronoun was banned for a week.

Disputes over LGBT issues on Wikipedia have continuously moved towards greater restrictions on the speech of editors with the recently approved “code of conduct” specifically requiring the use of “preferred pronouns” on Wikipedia and affiliated sites.
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The absolute state of that shithole.

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Keiynan Lonsdale: Revision history - Wikipedia

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Correcting to trees preferred pronouns being tree/treeself.
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he/him pronouns are not "male pronouns"
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hi so tree uses tree/treeself pronouns and transphobes were changing it to he/him could we officially get it changed to trees correct pronouns thanks
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Unsurprisingly, everyone's favorite fedora cat girl is the one behind most of the editing and discussing of this article:

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Geez she's fucking everywhere now.
 
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Pretty Boy Extremism said:
There's a fun game I started playing where I look up a modern event or person who won't really have much relevance in the grand scheme of things and I compare them to a historical person, event, state, or whatever else that had much more of an impact on history to see which article is longer.

Last week when I played the game, I found out that the Wikipedia page for PewDiePie is roughly as long as the one for Charlemagne and is around 4000 words longer than the one on Gaius Julius Caesar.
Today I felt particularly inspired to look up Gamergate and since I played The Last Roman campaign in Total War Attila yesterday I looked up the Gothic Wars of 535-554 to compare their lengths, Gamergate's article was longer by around 3000 words.

Play the game yourself and please share any interesting results!
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The article on the Bible is 8,131 words long.
The article on the Harry Potter series is 11,546 words long.

Color me surprised.
 
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J. K. Rowling's article is only 800 words shorter than Heinrich Himmler's.

Not exactly the game but still amusing:
George Washington 17,364
Donald Trump 19,213
(two more US presidents for comparison: George H. W. Bush - 12,110 words. Barrack Hussein Obama II - 15,436 words)
(although this probably says more about society than about wikipedia itself)
 
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J. K. Rowling's article is only 800 words shorter than Heinrich Himmler's.

Not exactly the game but still amusing:
George Washington 17,364
Donald Trump 19,213
(two more US presidents for comparison: George H. W. Bush - 12,110 words. Barrack Hussein Obama II - 15,436 words)
(although this probably says more about society than about wikipedia itself)
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