I'm a nurse. We are completely rational, evidence-based, science oriented.
Also, had a patient on our critical care unit overnight waiting on a pacemaker, heart rate in the 30s with frequent pauses where it just didn't beat at all. Hospital doctor comes in to check on patient (who was already sent down to get the pacer) and notices the vial of atropine taped to the patient's door jamb.
Hospital doctor asks me about it, and with a straight face complete sincerity, I reply, "To ward off evil spirits."
The witchy ways endure.
Oh I hadn't even thought of that. I have two accounts because when I started using Boost for Lemmy, my home instance wasn't supported, so I signed up for startrek.website.
My old account would appear to be an inactive user in the numbers, which is not really accurate. But also it means that bump in users that happened during the reddit exodus was partially driven by duplicate sign ups.