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[Frumple]

... just saw the strangest advertisement. Medical one, gave a list of symptoms, y'know, the usual.

The odd part was that it claimed that 250 million Americans are infected. Now, usually that would mean just the USA (which would mean that roughly 80% of the country is infected with... whatever it was.), but even if it included all the Americas, that's still an infection rate a little over 1 in 4.

Ad didn't say what what the disease was, and there was no way in hell I was going to click on a link spouting a factoid like that, but I... I'm kinda' curious what it was, now. Is... is there anything out there that actually has that level of dispersion? Is this like that old factoid that something like 200% (or 120%? Something like that.) of the USA has a mental illness?

[Xantalos]

Toxoplasmosis?

[LordSlowpoke]

... just saw the strangest advertisement. Medical one, gave a list of symptoms, y'know, the usual.

The odd part was that it claimed that 250 million Americans are infected. Now, usually that would mean just the USA (which would mean that roughly 80% of the country is infected with... whatever it was.), but even if it included all the Americas, that's still an infection rate a little over 1 in 4.

Ad didn't say what what the disease was, and there was no way in hell I was going to click on a link spouting a factoid like that, but I... I'm kinda' curious what it was, now. Is... is there anything out there that actually has that level of dispersion? Is this like that old factoid that something like 200% (or 120%? Something like that.) of the USA has a mental illness?

one in four having a mental illness would actually be fine if they didn't take a specific one

fuck the attitude people have towards mental illness, it's an illness unto itself

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Herpes Simplex Types 1 and 2 would fit the bill, though only about 50% of Americans are infected.

[tahujdt]

... just saw the strangest advertisement. Medical one, gave a list of symptoms, y'know, the usual.

The odd part was that it claimed that 250 million Americans are infected. Now, usually that would mean just the USA (which would mean that roughly 80% of the country is infected with... whatever it was.), but even if it included all the Americas, that's still an infection rate a little over 1 in 4.

Ad didn't say what what the disease was, and there was no way in hell I was going to click on a link spouting a factoid like that, but I... I'm kinda' curious what it was, now. Is... is there anything out there that actually has that level of dispersion? Is this like that old factoid that something like 200% (or 120%? Something like that.) of the USA has a mental illness?

Saw that one.

Saying that 200% of the USA has a mental illness is like a sign that says "Free IQ Test: 5 Dollars".

[Vorthon]

The symptopms listed in the one with the '250 million Americans infected' statistic seem to be symptoms of plain ol' stress, so, whatever. :u

[AlleeCat]

Did you know you could be infected with stress?

[Bauglir]

There are 313.9 million Americans, and 6,820.1 million Americans who don't know it yet, apparently?

[shibdib]

People still giving toady money make me go wtf...

[Xantalos]

People still giving toady money make me go wtf...

Why?

[shibdib]

People still giving toady money make me go wtf...

Why?

It's coming up on 2 years since the last update lol

[Owlbread]

You obviously don't remember 2009 and the agony of waiting for the shift to DF2010 from 40d. This just happens periodically.

[Elephant Parade]

People still giving toady money make me go wtf...

Why?

It's coming up on 2 years since the last update lol

That doesn't mean he's not working on it.

[Bauglir]

That tends to mean it's just going to be a preposterously large update. You never saw DF2010, I take it? Trust me, burrowing into a cavern for the first time was a tremendous "yes this was worth the wait". In fact, just to spite you, I'm going to give Toady more money tomorrow.

[MagmaMcFry]

People still giving toady money make me go wtf...

Why?

It's coming up on 2 years since the last update lol

We don't give Toady money because he updates. We give Toady money so he can update without having to do annoying stuff like have a paid job or something.