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Means has argued that CGM [continuous glucose monitors] is the “most powerful technology for generating the data and awareness to rectify our Bad Energy crisis in the Western world.”

##What The Fuck?

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[–] Sherad@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I am not religious, but how in the ever-loving jesus-christing tap-dancing fuck do any right-wing Christians not feel that this is Revelations type shit?? Mark of the beast much? Trump already fits the antichrist label, too.

It would be funny but for the fact that these senile con men are ostensibly in charge of running a country...

Also, I suppose asking American Christians to read their own books is asking a lot.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago

American Christians are christians as a lifestyle brand. Anything the Bible actually says is second to what the Bible can be used to justify. If you have a pastor who quotes the Bible to justify hating LGBT people or doing domestic violence to a partner, or dropping bombs on other christians who happen to be born in another country, then you can be definition not be in the wrong, as your actions are sanctioned by God.

[–] AmbientDread@midwest.social 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't this the same clown car contingent that thought the Covid vaccine was a cover to inject a secret microchip into everyone so Bill Gates could track us?

[–] Demifriend@hexbear.net 63 points 1 day ago
[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

vaccines

no

fluoride in water

no

5g mobile towers

no

5g and wifi enabled overheating device, tracking your movement, heart rate, blood oxygen while consistently reporting your location and recording all surrounding noise and conversations, implanted directly onto your wrist

omg yes

fucking cookers, i swear to god guts-rage

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what are you referring to as a cooker?

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

it's australian slang for right-wing antivax/sovcit/jewish space laser/seed oil/5G conspiracy theorists who remain extremely outwardly vocal when their community is tiny. overseas, i guess it's like Q true believers who dug in deep when COVID hit

possibly derived from "being cooked in the head" or earlier references to homecooking meth. apparently coined by australian poster Tom Tanuki in its current context

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes, i know, "pointing out the hypocrisy" does nothing but i just cannot handle how fucking dumb these people are

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes, i know, "pointing out the hypocrisy" does nothing but i just cannot handle how fucking dumb these people are

Fr I know it's pointless but I like to do it anyway to vent

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Venting and getting a sympathetic word and seeing other people vent and agreeing with them is the closest thing we have to a consensus reality in the face of these know-nothing "health" advocates I swear to christ

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, track my vitals, you'll see I'm as healthy as a house cat and stay at home just as much as one

Pay no attention to the person leaving the house, the tracker shows I am clearly in there

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We are very concerned that you have spent the last 18 hours motionless by a sunny window and you appear to have a fever that is consistently over 101 degrees.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I asked around the department if that is a legitimate thing and they just sort of stared at me and blinked, so carry on.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Health insurance salivating as they look at car insurance companies charging higher rates for people that let monitoring devices track their driving and wondering how they can get in on the action.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My shitty health insurance company keeps pestering me to use their wearable. Hell naw badeline-disgust

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Your chemo therapy has unfortunately been declined as we have records you haven't been getting your steps in."

[–] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My initial reaction was 'that's not half bad (particularly for those already at risk)' but then I realised that your health insurance system will abuse this.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago

Yeah on its face that's not the worst idea but insurance companies are absolutely just looking for avenues where they can justify declining claims because a gadget recorded you eat too much sodium.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

I swear I heard about something like this a few years ago. My memory is way too vague on it to overpower Google's enshittified search at the moment but I think it was in one of the Virginias and involved teachers (maybe?) getting cheaper insurance premiums if they went to an approved gym.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

Literally the CHUD conspiracy about vaccines having tracking chips

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The fuck is a "wearable"? A wearable what?

[–] AmbientDread@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

A wire up the keister 😳

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

Like a smart watch that tracks your vitals but even the ones that just record your movement/steps aren't very accurate.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

We need to end corpo-speak.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Pantaloons" shrek-blob

^hehehe^

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You want to make Americans healthier and you could either take on the agricultural industrial complex, surburbia, and the lack of third places, or you could just buy more devices and juice the stocks of some electronics manufacturer. I know what I'd pick

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean by third places?

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Spaces outside of home and work/school you can socialize or even just exist, without the expectation you will purchase anything.

Libraries, parks, playgrounds, places like this. Where you can go and sit on a bench without being arrested for loitering.

A pizza place with attached jungle gym for kids, a bar or beer garden, restaurant, mall, would all be examples of a place you can socialize but are expected and/or required to spend money.

[–] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure the easiest way to make people healthier is universal health care.

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[–] DeathCubeK@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

No can do on giving you back your medicaid, best I can do is a smartwatch.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

sicko-intrigued I didn't know Bad Dragon was one of his sponsors. Totally NSFW Horni

[–] shallot@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Oh wow they even have one for crackers

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[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

"sporting a wearable" sounds like a euphemism

if anybody needs to get low-jacked with a device that generates constant biometric data for society to study and develop a strategy to stop, it's this guy and his hitchhiker.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

RFK advertising smart watches makes me actively not want to own one

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Government issued tracking devices woudl be cool in a government that wasn't evil.

[–] Monstertruckenjoyer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Zero chance it doesn't get abused at some point by some body lol. Barring star trek future, no thanks

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think even in star trek they don't just track people. All those episodes where someone sneaks off or gets kidnapped wouldn't work if their badge was an always-on tracking device

Yeah it's consensual tracking, they turn it on or off. It's a beacon

[–] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

that certainly would be a way to get Zoomers to buy-in

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Jeez us fookin ...

The "G" in CGM stands for glucose and ONLY measures blood sugar, you brainwormed idiot!

fedposting Someone please stalin-gun-1 this fucking fool!

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

watch them make every american buy a smartwatch out of their own pocket from whichever company paid trump the most money

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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

CGM are a godsend, it sucks they're fairly expensive. I was paying $85 a month for two meters. That's no insurance. Finger pricking is still the cheapest option. Maybe use federal authority to bring down prices? Nah, let's back a single company and pump them full of subsidies so venture capital can snatch them up and turn their product to shit.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Ok...worm stuff aside, maybe he had some kind of mental breakdown or something and thinks he is the anti-christ? And this is some kind of "mark of the beast" thing he is trying to do? That's the only way I can make sense of this, that he thinks he is to bring about the apocalypse and has resigned himself to the role.

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