• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    62 years ago

    If the cancer cell gets enough resources, it promises to make all cells benefit eventually. very-intelligent

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    My favourite thing is when very wealthy people say that they worked hard, as if the rest of us are just sitting at home all day.

    • Zagorath
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      192 years ago

      That reminds me of this post I saw yesterday:

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      Some people have a hard time recognizing privilege, saying “I work hard. I don’t get things handed to me.” I understand that. Here’s how I respond: privilege isn’t bonus points for you and your team. It’s unfair penalties the other team gets that you don’t.

      Privilege isn’t the presence of perks and benefits. It’s the absence of obstacles and barriers. That’s a lot harder to notice. If you have a hard time recognizing your privileges, focus on what you don’t have to go through. Let that fuel your empathy and action.

  • andrew
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    62 years ago

    If you think about it, brain cells clearly think they’re superior to the rest. Bossing everyone around and doing their darndest to keep cancer from snuffing out their precious consciousness.

    But take my point with a grain of salt because it’s coming from my own wily brain cells and they’re always up to something.

  • darcy
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    22 years ago

    this is funny because it can work in the reverse. a capitalist body where the cancer cells are seen as communist/anarchist activists. going against status quo is not inheritely cancerous obviously

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      12 years ago

      I mean you’d have to swap the cell superiority/equality talk around, and then it starts to sound strangely fascist.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      That’s… Just not true. People have benign carcinomas all the time and we don’t consider them to “have cancer.” It’s a bit of a sliding scale but to have cancer generally implies some sort of malignancy or at least the threat of future malignancy.