Against the warning in the episode, and my better judgement, I googled "high meat."

Jesus Christ, do not google high meat
honey, May 09, 2024, 07:58:14 pm

I always thought the point of high meat was that it had beneficial microbes, not that it actually got you high. This reminds me of that SA story where the guy got his wife on a high meat diet and said it cured all her ailments through the power of decay.

I believe this is what that guy meant by snakes being a symbol of healing


Adam Bozarth, May 10, 2024, 10:29:29 am

Oh boy this is where I get to "umm, actually" and say that the caduceus is actually the symbol representing Hermes, and as an extension, commerce and travel. In the US due to a mistake some military officer made over a hundred years ago it became associated with medicine instead of the rod of Asclepius.



The rod of Asclepius being the symbol of Asclepius, Apollo's son who was the god of medicine and healing. Still true about the snakes being related to healing, but I don't think the ancient Greeks swallowed venomous snakes whole
A Meat, May 10, 2024, 01:49:22 pm

A (healing) Meat

I believe this is what that guy meant by snakes being a symbol of healing


Adam Bozarth, May 10, 2024, 10:29:29 am

Oh boy this is where I get to "umm, actually" and say that the caduceus is actually the symbol representing Hermes, and as an extension, commerce and travel. In the US due to a mistake some military officer made over a hundred years ago it became associated with medicine instead of the rod of Asclepius.



The rod of Asclepius being the symbol of Asclepius, Apollo's son who was the god of medicine and healing. Still true about the snakes being related to healing, but I don't think the ancient Greeks swallowed venomous snakes whole

They should do an MLB MTG crossover like how magic the gathering did those lord of the rings and fallout things, only like with Shohei Otani or A-Rod

The thing this episode reminded me of, weirdly enough, was a piece by a lady who'd done the tradwife thing and was explaining how she'd browse through lifestyle posts by tradwives who would give terrible advice. It was the same sort of failure loop—her husband sucked, she went online to find out what to do, the answer was "keep loving him and eventually he'll change", so clearly she wasn't loving him enough. After all, it worked for all the other tradwives! (Who were engaging in their own self-delusion via posting just like her.)

There's something about a fad lifestyle that's so outwardly unpleasant and bad that it's completely inaccessible. It can't be proven wrong, because there's no way to do it that's right, and thus everyone assumes they're just missing the secret ingredient that makes it work, or that it'll all fix itself if they can just push through this.

Also, I couldn't help but notice how much shorter the timelines in posts were for this episode compared to Carne Idiota.