My roommate found a large dog on our front porch tonight. He turned his car around, aimed the headlights at it, then came up to the front of porch and took a picture of it to text me, BLOCKING ITS ONLY EXIT ROUTE.

I open the front door to see the shaking, scared dog ready to freak the fuck out and the roommate is getting out of his car to try and pet the cornered animal. I waved him off and kept the doors closed so it could feel safe and get away.

The more attention the dog got, the more violently it trembled. And my roommate just wants to pet the doggie.

My point is there are a lot of incredibly stupid people out there. Their stupidity will eventually kill them. It just hasn’t done so yet.

Nor how they can scrape together $11,000. But then again, some of the dumbest people around are billionaires and their special skill is “being shitty to others” so maybe it’s believeable enough.

I know a Trump cultist who never learned to chew and swallow steak. He’s almost died choking on it multiple times.

He still eats it regularly. Sometimes by himself.

Honestly, fear of death/aging/illness is an EXTREMELY powerful motivator. With a deep enough fear, you'll override a lot of things like rationality. At some point, especially with a parent or loved one or yourself suffering from an incurable illness, especially a terminal illness, there's a good chance you'll try shotgunning solutions because it feels better than doing nothing.

The FDA were far from amused.

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/tesla-biohealing-inc-658010-08102023

Basically the medical fraudsters who have been praying on Desperate people for decades latched on to the conspiracy movement because it was a very large mass of very credulous people