wobblegong

Thinkin' about animals....

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*tiny furry cheeps*


I need to make another sidechost to abandon all my heavyweight posts onto1 but that means I have to name it. fuck. shit. damnit. naming boss too stronk. hlep.


  1. Apparently my internal definition is that it's not heavyweight content until we're touching topics where I am at all times nervously aware that if I am insufficiently careful I may vanish ten miles up my own ass. Philosophy is dangerous. Anything that makes me think "hrm you probably need a bit of certain kinds of intelligence to keep up– FUCK I SAID THE I-WORD" is more dangerous.2 Also one of my hobby interests ever since I was a little larva was epidemics and nobody wants to get surprised by COVID study links on the funnee creacher shitchost feed but I want to talk about the Wisconsin Pooper SO BAD. PLEASE. PLEASE LET ME DISCUSS THAT.
  2. I am old enough to be aware in painful detail that "intelligence" is a junk word and also fake. Unfortunately I am not yet old enough to have figured out a solution to "sometimes I link what I thought were very clear and easy to follow essays to one of my friends and they reluctantly admit they didn't get it" and I will continue to pose like a pissed off statue about it. Rrr.

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in reply to @wobblegong's post:

I can give you the tl;dr here as long as "discussing that COVID exists" isn't a dealbreaker (if it's a dealbreaker now is the time to bail!)

(Bonus note: as best anyone can tell you CANNOT catch COVID from waste matter, there has been a non-trivial amount of checking but wastewaster, while gross, does not seem to be any danger in this regard.)

Ok. So someone figured out by like Apr 2020 how to test wastewater for COVID– lots of places have been doing it since. Semi-recently, the people in charge of it somewhere in Wisconsin noticed a very weird but persistent anomaly: most of their COVID testing yields were the expected Flavor Of The Month variant, but they were getting a weird blip of one specific strain that hadn't been circulating in Wisconsin for months. They did so much sleuthing and eventually followed it upstream to find out that in a watershed covering thousands/millions, the entire payload of this one anomalous strain was coming from a single building that only gets used by a small number of the same people. The study was halted there for ethics reasons but yeah basically it looks like one single human being is shitting out so much of this one strain of COVID that it moved the needle for the entire watershed.

I need to go check up on it because the people involved, as I said, halted the study there but openly said they immediately started working on how to navigate the ethics issues for Study... 2! because whoever the Wisconsin Pooper is, they are of IMMENSE scientific interest. (And could possibly use some medical attention.)

Finding out you don't have IBS when a guy in flannel shows up and very politely presents you with a phonebook of medical consent forms

Obviously I have no idea how it actually works but. yea. That is presumably at least a little exciting)