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I do not wish to be part of these people’s personal growth journeys.

Eh, unsure if you're just trying to be glib, but the flying car problem is about people seeing them in movies and then complaining about it not being a real thing yet (and no, not helicopters). They don't know what is involved in making it real, hence the complaints.

I worked as remote help desk for a hospital right before the pandemic. Right after we got everyone setup for work from home, they laid off everyone. Admins said no one, by which they meant other admins, were in the building anymore. So why did we need IT? Same stupid energy.

What you get in any place and time where the rich are no longer taxed. Happened in ancient Rome.

Stop using Nazi words against Nazis.

A lot of the crackpot healthcare stuff comes from quite a powerful and wealthy 'alternate health' sector that has big interests in selling lies and distortions. They grew on the back of some valid critiques of mainstream healthcare, but also the staggering expense of the US system pushes that way.

It’s wild how humans qua culture run this cycle roughly every century, despite story after parable after myth about it. We are just effortlessly good at enabling leadership pyramids, built on the backs of those who had to clean up the last, which inevitably crumble as they necessarily self-corrupt.

Because they don’t understand just HOW MANY bad things did NOT happen because of those institutions and the dedicated personnel who work there.

This is why. “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.” - Sherlock Holmes via Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In other news what do we have to do to get Jason Cox here? Easily one of my favorites from the old site.

Not dissimilar!

You put it perfectly.

That's why the exteriors of most old brick buildings have a facade of either natural stone (usually a hard stone like marble or granite) or expensive glazed brick. The facades aren't structural, so they only have to be mortared on their rear face and not their bottoms to be water resistant.

Ooh la la.

I was born in 1971 and knew a polio survivor growing up (she was dating my older cousin.) Lovely woman, walked with the help of 2 canes.

My dad, 1920-2015, contracted polio as a toddler. In late life post-polio syndrome rendered ineffective many of his adaptations to the disabilities caused by the early bout. The MAGA GOP & their enablers are a racist, sexist, xenophobic, eugenicist, LGBTQIA-hating death cult. We must stop them.

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Libertarians, I believe.

In many cases, if you scratch a frothing, bullets'n'beans collapsenik, you'll find a comfortably disappointed person who's just bored with their job.

Yup.

They hate that it requires them to put in real effort, continously, and rein in their worst impulses

Yes Yes and Yes

Queer dance parties will not only continue after the fall, but will be more popular than ever.

I read a take about libertarians (but it apply to many other political families) "They are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand"

There is a lot to agree with here, but people are terrified of neurodivergence and unfortunately the science that notes no connection is playing catchup to the fairy tale that “vaccines cause autism” etc.

I keep thinking of a news story about the people bringing polio vaccine to Afghanistan at the risk of their own lives. The locals were murdering them. They persisted. One day they were confronted by one of their persecutors begging them to vaccinate his young son who had contracted the disease.

Someone tell Yarvin.

I need to start writing

The masque of the red death.

Weak men thinking they are strong men is the Dunning/Kruger boss level

I fucking hate needles, but I keep up with my vaccinations because I know the diseases they protect us against are worse. Other people can damn well do this, too.

My favorite response to those kind of statements is "true, but they also lived to the ripe old age of 'died in childbirth.'"