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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't laugh, but I do feel like I might've.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But did you Live and Love?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

When you're playing D&D but your unbalanced die is looking too much like candy

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I still have a half-joke conspiracy theory that the information that placebos work even if you know they're placebos is in itself benevolent misinformation to induce a real placebo effect about placebos you know are placebos.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel dizzy after reading that.

[–] Asweet 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you’re probably not in the control group

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Plot twist: They are in the control group, and are experiencing a nocebo effect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

🐈‍⬛🔃

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

This meme is a paradox. It's is and also isn't a placebo. Schrodinger's meme?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Your mind makes it real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I remember a product from years ago with the phrase "Genuine Placebo Effect" on the label. Wish I could remember what it was.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I hear a friend with weed is better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Seems like getting even more attention, potentially thanks to Shrödinger effects

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Because the defining quality of a Placebo is how much of anything it receives

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] yardy_sardley 2 points 10 months ago

Rauschenberg's white painting was the OG placebo meme.