Ah, you’re also an ecofash doomer anti-natalist, that’s why you’re defending this guy.

The context of this thread is healthcare for children.

Only in a social framework that rewards greed. “Human nature” is almost impossible to understand because it can’t be studied with a control group.

Blah blah ecofascist doomerism. We can live harmonically with nature and have for most of our history. Our current consumerist society isn’t compatible with sustainable and responsible practices but that isn’t a forgone conclusion or intrinsic to human behavior. That’s not to say that we aren’t on a bad path, we absolutely are and a great many organisms are going extinct because of us, but ascribing a moral value to our very existence is the wrong move.

It’s not a compromise it’s the cost of a functioning society. Measles. Smallpox. Polio. Whooping cough. There are extremely real costs to “personal choice” in the face of disease. Those costs are quite often passed on to children. Rickets. Fetal alcohol syndrome. I don’t think parents should be free to make harmful choices for their offspring.

Faith is the compromise. I wish that every single adult had the education, interest, and wherewithal to make ethical and well-informed decisions about themself and their dependents but that’s not the world we live in.

It’s less the pay and more the conditions. There isn’t really a wage that would justify making aomeone work like that.

Nah, I’m perfectly ok with “forced medication” when the societal benefit vastly outweighs the side effects. Mandatory vaccination, nutritionally supplemented food for children to aid in development, minor things like fluoride that reduce healthcare costs and promote long-term health, bring it on.

Giving credence to unsupported “skepticism” undermines the necessary faith in public infrastructure. Faith is a careful word choice here. I don’t expect the average person to really understand the benefits and chemistry and p-values, as much as I’d like them to. Some things just need doing because you trust the authority saying so. (And right now there are precious few American authorities worthy of trust.)

Vitamin C supplements are mostly bullshit anyway. Almost nobody needs them.

I hate that “social media” is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. “Social networking site” is great, straightforward and descriptive. But “social media” encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for “traditional media” which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!

All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I’m too young to be this mad about it.

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I’d happily have a phone half an inch thicker if it meant a folding or sliding physical keyboard for my large hands.

Yeah people misunderstand Trump’s business history. It doesn’t matter how many casinos he bankrupted, Trump profited. He’s a vampire like a private equity firm, leaving a trail of dead husks behind him.

Weed has never once made me feel creative. Slight euphoria, sluggishness, loss of short-term memory, and if I get too high intensely and uncomfortably aware of sensory input so I have to go lay down in the dark and try not to think about the weight of my skin. I don’t get any of the fun brain stuff people talk about.

And they’re reluctant to sell it to you unless you’re obviously sick. I don’t want to go to the store when I’m sick, I want to prepare ahead of time so I can stay home and rest!

The day I can’t avoid advertisements is the day I drop the service. You want my money? Provide a product that isn’t trying to wring me and my data dry.

Video is expensive to host, I get that. I’d happily give a few bucks a month (which is way more than my ad views would be worth) but their asking price is laughable.

I don’t know why anyone would willingly default to the algorithm, I set my bookmark direct to the subscription page.

I’d have to hold me phone so close to my face I can’t comfortably focus on it to match the relative size of my computer monitor, and it’s not a big monitor. Why would I settle for the jumbotron from the cheap seats when I can sit front row?

That glass roof is a hard sell for me. The truck I currently drive has a sunroof with no cover and I need to wear a hat just to drive comfortably on a sunny day. I never need to see straight up while driving.

I don’t want more apps, I want to return to monke early 2000s web forums.

Hahahaha.

We invaded it during the Spanish-American war to “liberate” Cuba (remove competing colonial power from our neighborhood) and set up a permanent Naval base there “for their protection.” We then pushed them into an infinite contract for two thousand dollars a year. That price has since gone up: as of 1974 we have been giving then FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, a pittance that the post-revolutionary government of Cuba refuses out of principle.

It is stolen. Human Rights Violation Land isn’t the only purpose, it’s also to punish Cuba for ever daring to defy us.

Fuck. This. Country.