Yeah, especially with glandular squelchy bits. Sometimes they can be nonmalignant and still secrete hormones inappropriately. Others don't, and are otherwise harmless when benign and not large. Apparently adrenal adenomas are pretty common, and often discovered by total chance, when non-malignant and not composed of secretory tissue releasing too much cortisol, or the horrid sounding phaeochromocytomas, which pour massive amounts of adrenaline into one's system, turning people into strung out nervous (or aggressive when startled if already disposed to it in any degree potentially), heart-racing, trembling fucked up sleepless wrecks with blood pressure you could use to launch torpedoes with.
Goddamn, I'd hate to have a phaeochromocytoma.
And Ren-seriously?!?
You kidding me? damn hun...do you actually realize what many cameras and phones add in terms of exif data, and even GPS coordinates?
For me, that is WAY too intrusive to be permissible. Could literally, actually tie me to the region of meatspace the photos were taken, and if it were something sensitive, then lead people to my doorstep. I'm not having anybody, unofficial or worse, from some pack of porkers, or some gits with a three letter acryonym know where the pictures were taken, what they were taken with, when they were taken, the camera settings used, and getting my door booted in because of it.
It's basic OpSec, to scrub pictures for metadata. Plenty free tools to do so available online for different file formats, and for removing data like that embedded in .jpg, .gif, .pdf, and a host of other formats. It's not something useful to a lot of people to have in there, and IMO only detrimental to privacy
and to my ability to sleep soundly at daybreak when the sun comes up and I go to sofa. Err..well I'd have said 'bed' but...no, it's a sofa. With an eye-shade mask on over a dark clean T-shirt top that I stick my head in the reverse direction down inside it through the neck hole and then double it up, and pull down my sleep mask over the top, leaving my eyes/head wrapped up in nice darkness to sleep at day, with just my nose sticking out and my mouth.
As for metadata, free tools downloadable as well as hosted online that one can just use without DLing anything but the finished file, cleansed and assigned a temporary name until you see fit to rename it as you want it, both for cleaning such filthy, squealing, nasty hidden mouths before they can shout into the ears of people that ought not to be hearing such information, and indeed to look through the metadata yourself, and even alter it to suit one's whims as per whatever purpose one may have to do such a thing.
I strip EVERYTHING I upload here, or on chem forums, or anywhere else, with the exception of pointing a forum to the likes of a snarky cat picture joke hosted elsewhere online. If I've taken it myself, I've burned the hidden data out of it first. I have good reason to, as well as liking my privacy to remain my own, and for what I share, to be what I knowingly decide I am going to share, without anything hidden and giving out my home address for example.
And as a chemist, well, there are so many chemical reagents, that although not illegal to possess, the filth would LOVE to know who DOES possess them. 2kg of red phosphorus? got that, just as one example, well, minus the portions I've used for any experiments or syntheses, but still plenty of it, AFAIK it isn't actually illegal to own red phosphorus, but it's very popular with the methamphetamine cook (and not chemist) crowd, who use it in the Nagai reduction of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to meth in conjunction with iodine in elemental form. I happen to have a fair size tub of iodine in the reagent fridge (it's fairly volatile so it gets to live in the chemical fridge so it doesn't go and sublime away, or diffuse through the plastic of the container it arrived in when purchased).
Doesn't mean I'm using that red phosphorus and that iodine to cook up loads of cold medicine extracts, but you bet, either one, although ESPECIALLY the phossy, would get attention I don't want to lead back to my doorstep if someone were to decide to look and if there was GPS satellite tracking information encoded into a picture showing it. Because pork have a major hard-on for red phosphorus just because of such things.
Not that it's the only way to make meth (not in a million years), or even to reduce pseudoephedrine or ephedrine to meth, but it is one way, using the Nagai reduction, and it's a well known route, known and loved by millions of safety match book striker pad-hoarding-and-extracting tweakers in the US, probably plenty in the UK, aus, and all over the show.
And besides, it's a general principle, I do not wish my home address, marked down in GPS coordinates, to be tied in to online usernames, much less so my various reagents can be ogled by dumb bastards pointing and screaming 'HERESY! BURN THE WARLOCK!', from some inquisition type chemophobic tool.
And even if I weren't a chemist, why would I wish to allow the inclusion of such data as could literally, put me in a given place at a given time performing a given action, of ANY kind? it's just not on, IMO. Tagging that sort of thing in to metadata. It makes me sick, the very principle of it is abhorrent to me. As it should be to all who care about their own personal right to decide who they tell what about themselves.
Metadata, all that exif tagging and with many models, especially phone cameras and newer digicams, it is monstrous, GPS, exif crap, oh hell no!
So, every picture or other file, is examined forensically, by me, before somebody less benign and less inclined to guard my privacy jealously, can have a forensics team do so. And scrubbed cleaner than the pope's own arse ring after a constipated rabbit dropping turd.
