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jaxnscotch t1_ja3w11u wrote

This is great!

I don't think they meant it in a bad way, but "cure" implies lactose intolerance is an illness. In reality, people who can digest lactose are in the minority, world wide.

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px403 t1_ja4ci9i wrote

Ice cream makes my tummy hurt. If the treatment he built was commercialized, I would buy the shit out of it. The kind of hacking that I do tends to wreck shit though, so I'm not quite at the point where I'd inject anything that I made myself.

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AwesomeDragon97 t1_ja56hqq wrote

Digesting lactose is a highly advantageous trait, so lacking it is a genetic disorder. I have met many people who are lactose intolerant and wish that they could digest lactose, but I have never met one person who wished they were lactose intolerant. The inability to produce certain amino acids is also a genetic disorder, and the entire population has it.

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Ambiwlans t1_ja4419p wrote

Still an illness You could probably define the lack of ability to fly as an illness.

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effinofinus t1_ja4cuj9 wrote

Could I preorder the cure for this please?

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ShidaPenns t1_ja4wr3x wrote

You can pre-order mine, unfortunately my cure is a cannon.

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