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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's just the brain worm talking.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

It could also be the mercury poisoning or the batshit insanity.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the brain worm starved to death.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Actually the real answer, iirc, is that his brain was too toxic for it to survive. I'm not even kidding!! :-P (he ate so much fish that he gave it mercury poisoning)

Then he used that to claim that he had a mental disability that was so bad that he should not have to pay money to his wife after the divorce.

Now his campaign says that despite the brain worms, he totally doesn't have a disability.

This man is amazing - he is literally all things, to all people, at all times (at least in his own worm-addled mind, that is!:-P).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How long do you have to cook fish to cook off the mercury?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cooking doesn't help any. I wondered if washing would... but also no. Or trimming, but again no. Basically you just need to avoid it.

https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/fdaepa-2004-advice-what-you-need-know-about-mercury-fish-and-shellfish says you can:

eat up to 6 ounces (one average meal) per week of fish you catch from local waters, but don't consume any other fish during that week.

It's got a ton of good advice - which types of fish are okay, which are less so, deeper answers to timing and many other questions too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

he ate so much raw fish that he gave it mercury poisoning

So why did you write raw fish there and not just fish?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

are you flirting with me?

'cause im so turned on right now by your words...:-P

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That’s why it smells like a warm turtle tank in here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have a question about your link.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ImgBB? Right now image upload is down for literature.cafe, so I went with what’s easiest (no forced account).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some instances blocked ImgBB because it was being used to spread child porn a while back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Ahh, I see. How unfortunate, because it’s an easy file uploading for mobile devices. Any alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Instance level content filter?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I wonder if he got it from undercooked bear...