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Easiest way to determine whether some health fad is dangerous snake oil: search for it on Twitter and determine the overrepresentation of blue checks. Every cha
by jeffbee 2y ago
Easiest way to determine whether some health fad is dangerous snake oil: search for it on Twitter and determine the overrepresentation of blue checks. Every character at the end of a screen name that comes from a Unicode "symbol" block counts as ten blue checks. The presence of "/dd" counts as 100 blue checks. Simple, effective metric.
- astura 2y ago>The presence of "/dd" counts as 100 blue checks. Sorry, I don't understand Twitter lingo and Google doesn't return anything - What does /dd mean?
- jeffbee 2y agoIt is associated with Bryan Johnson's book "Don't Die". The author advocates daily electrocution of your penis, among other moronic ideas. He has a bazillion followers among the petty VC crowd.
- adamsb6 2y agoThis was so shocking that I went to look it up, and discovered that there's a bit of a telephone game here. It's "shockwave therapy" that isn't eletric. It uses acoustics to cause microscopic damage, and which Johnson rates as a 9/10 on the pain scale, "at the tip."
- jeffbee 2y agoMy mistake for assuming there was only one way for a quack to "shock" a body part.
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