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Shackles2Garlands wrote

This does not surprise me. I have a friend whose son had severe food allergies as a child and teen. He could not eat anything with dairy, and is still wildly allergic to nuts and shellfish. I remember the first Thanksgiving they had after he finally received a diagnosis was a challenge for her. She had to not only exclude everything from eggs to dairy to I think even certain grains, she had to buy expensive food to assure there was no cross contamination.

The biggest worry was keeping up his vaccinations, because egg is used as some sort of component with some vaccines. I don't know the exact details. I just remember her getting upset because some asshole political cartoonist made a comic where he basically said parents saying they don't want their kids vaccinated are the same parents who want special treatment if their kid has a food allergy.

I remember telling off the cartoonist on Twatter at the time. Didn't do any good except made me feel just slightly better.

But anyway, yeah, this doesn't surprise me. With any luck they will be able to develope the vaccine without having to mix it with any known food allergy culprits

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Rambler OP wrote

I'm glad to see going to the clearnet on the tor browser shows the ".onion available" button.

Glad to hear it. It's a pretty neat feature where you can insert the onion service location in the header.

Nifty little feature for anyone hosting a site that is available on both the clearnet and TOR: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/onion-location/

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Rambler wrote

Well what I like about the voting system is it's democratic in theory (though there isn't anything stopping you from creating dozens of accounts, realistically) and because it's a decent gauge of what content belongs and doesn't like someone else pointed out.

I'm more likely to look at a link or read something that has hundreds of upvotes on reddit, for example, than I would if it only had 3. And that's a psychological thing that I'm sure sites like reddit are gaming, because it tricks you into thinking, "Wow, this must be good". I guess on our end, you'll just have to trust that we won't game it.

One of the features I love most about our voting system is it's reminiscent of the earlier days of reddit where you see both the upvote and down vote totals. This feature has been removed from reddit since probably 2010-2012 or so. I know Ruqqus has this feature in place and I think Voat may as well. I always thought it was good for perspective of what the actual community using the website though, and that removing them was a step in the wrong direction.

Anyway, do you know why I've called this place RAMBLE yet?

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