*that isn't personally losing their house

They tend to only care when it hits them

Going to school in Ohio, we never even learned "communism bad because once a bunch of people in a communist country starved"

We simply learned "communism bad" and that was that.

Never directly stated, of course, just constantly informed that the "governments of the world needed to stop its spread" and anything bad that boomers didn't like was called "communism" so it basically just became synonymous with "bad"

Crazy how the capitalists in charge of things and who had a huge capitalist financial incentive to say " anything other than capitalism is bad" would do such a thing... Real "we've tried nothing to help you and we're all out of ideas" energy.

I love how when I point out it's owned by a nazi, people rush in to defend their use of twitter and most usually it's some form of "it's the best for what it is/it has a huge user base" and me responding with a picture of musk doing the ol' Hitler Salute saying "okay but you're supporting this guy, and if you sit at a table with 10 nazis..." usually results in being blocked, people simply ignoring me, or saying something dismissive.

I lost my grandmother and my sister is currently in treatment, both my parents are showing symptoms but don't have money for Healthcare and refuse to go into medical debt. I myself am sitting on top of a handful of symptoms I'm willfully ignoring hoping they'll go away.

It is a heartwarming post.

Just seems like a weird place to be negative.

go fuck a duck

Poor duck....

Infinite realities means infinite possibilities, so somewhere in the multiverse there's a starfleet absolutely filled with cock monsters.

The question is, do they seek out new life for exploration?

Or is it for cocks...

It's been so great the last 10 years saying "this is what will be happening because the neo-nazis are taking over" and everyone telling me I'm overreacting, I'm being hyperbolic, I'm exaggerating or my favorite "you're just being dramatic"

Remember, THERE'S NO WAY they'd overturn Roe v Wade.

Well depending on your diet, that square could have been fertilizer, so I'd say it was considerably more valuable than any claims made by ICE.

Don't undersell your own shit.

Any time my wife has been given the run around by doctors, I usually ask for her to schedule another appointment so I can be there, and I demand the doctors put notes, make something on the record that they SPECIFICALLY ARE DENYING TESTING and the reason behind it before I will leave.

So far it's worked every time to get them to just do the goddamn test, take the fucking scan, or do some simple blood work.

Doctors like that are more afraid of malpractice suits than they are of killing a patient over negligence.

The first time it happened was because she had cholecystitis and the doctor was insisting she was too young to have any issues with it, but I was older and had already had my gallbladder removed over it several years before. So I knew the signs, I knew the feeling, and I had doctors from the same hospital ignore my symptoms. Once the demand for notes to be recorded, suddenly everyone is all for doing a simple scan and what do you know, her gallbladder is filled with sludge and stones, neither of which should be there, and it's swelling. A week later it was out, but they wanted to wait 6 months "to wait and see if you're still having discomfort"

To anyone who has never had gallstones, it's like someone is taking a glowing hot knife and stabbing you from just above the stomach toward your spine. It's "discomfort" the way giving birth is "mild pain"

Demand tests and demand records of test denials. Fear of lawsuits and losing licenses goes a lot further than "you're a doctor who is supposed to help people get better" to some.

You're not missing anything.. There's a cognitive disconnect between "weed is legal now" and their brains.

They do the thing they want, which is prioritize stopping minorities and anyone they feel is a target, and then if they smell weed.... Well* now they aren't allowed to legally brutalize someone. They have to actually find a real probable cause.

That's what the "work is much harder now" means. Whether they say it out loud or not.

They stated they didn't break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn't seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by "leeches" and put out for download by "seeders"

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you're not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don't seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you're called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn't seed.

So they're stating "we didn't break the law, we're just leeches!"

If the options are "I die, my pets die, my entire family dies, a slow painful climate and pollution-driven death"

Vs

"these 20 companies get permanently shut down, their resources reallocated, their infrastructure dismantled and repurposed, their employees find new jobs potentially repurposong said industry, and executives get locked in solitary for the rest of their lives"

I know which I'd pick.

And if it's legal to use lethal force when defending one's life and one's family, then it's legal to use lethal force to defend one's life and family

Companies can die without a single real human being hurt.