Right? Communists: foil trafficking ring. This joker: blames them for trafficking.

Tbf, I work closely with this population and would prefer the money be funneled into public housing that doesn’t evict people for using, and things like that, rather than just handed to people who have no framework to use it and possibly unstable executive function. For one thing, the resources tend to go much further. For another, many of my patients are put in danger by sudden cash windfalls.

However I’d still prefer them to get a wad of cash to the current solution, which is “kick them out of anywhere you find them and hope they eventually just vanish”

I mean, it’s only a difficult problem if you consider helping ninety people improve their lives at the cost of spending taxpayer money to support ten people’s bad habits to be difficult. The real issue here is the number of people (conservative and liberal “centrist” alike) who consider it more important to uphold their personal view of morality than it is to help our fellow humans.

Give them money? But some of them might do the bad thing, so obviously no.

The far right is seriously outnumbered. Encouraging people to apathy helps them, because most people who get involved are their enemies.

Gout never went away.

I’m loving joplin

A pill that treats solid tumours would be an enormous boon to humanity. You’re letting really tired cynicism get in the way of basic logic. This argument would mean that insulin wasn’t a breakthrough, because it didn’t cure diabetes.

For profit pharmaceuticals is indeed a huge issue, but it’s one that is entirely separate from whether or not a given medical treatment is good or not.

Listen that bear was no angel

I’m sure there will be accountability aaaaaaaaany minute now. For any of the people that got us here. Aaaany minute. Yep.

I think specifically the concept of transgender is fairly modern, and probably shouldn’t be applied to someone from such a different culture. It’s definitely possible they would have been the equivalent to what we call trans, and that’d be cool AF, but there’s no way to differentiate whether or not this was a genetically female person who identified with a different gender role, or if it’s evidence that being a warrior was an acceptable role for anyone regardless of gender.

Either way it’s awesome.

Nah, I’m talking about everything. Tons of people still ride bikes for transport and don’t identify as cyclists, or don’t really care whether their phone is an android or iPhone. A large majority of people don’t identify with little details of their lives like that, but when you go online into a specific topic there’s a much higher chance of running into people who feel really strongly about it, because they’re drawn to the topic and are participating in a subset of people who already tend to be really passionate about nerdy shit.

One Elon musk can feed a family for a year.

One farm fertilized with musk mulch can feed a city block!

That’s unfortunate if true, since there’s no evidence isoflavones have any significant cross reactivity in humans.

However I’m a doctor and haven’t ever seen this advice, so I’m skeptical it’s “not uncommon”.

I don’t see how that original comment was any different from the dickweeds that think rolling coal is a great way to troll the libs. “Doing this thing is bad for everybody and we should stop” --> “oh yeah I’m gonna do it even more and brag about it” is intensely obnoxious behaviour.

Go ahead and eat your burger or whatever. Sure, there are bigger targets to make. But bragging about it in a thread about how it’s harmful is top shelf assholery.

It’s mostly an internet thing, especially a Reddit thing. I don’t think it’s as much a widespread culture as all that if you talk to folks who aren’t terminally online.

To me the role of the “fake” stuff isn’t to replace it as staples in my diet but to let me have some old comforts once in a while, or at least something to fill the gap. When you’ve been veg for a few years a fake chicken finger can do a decent job of scratching the itch for something like that, even if you know it’s not the same

At least for me. Mileage varies depending on what you like about the original

Speaking as someone who is plant based, it’s a false dichotomy anyway. It’s not “go vegan or eat lots of meat”. People who don’t share the vegan philosophy could just eat very little meat and make a huge difference to the planet, just like how I bike or walk to work but once in a while I drive.

It’s a good one.

Wimbledon also got tons of attention.

The number of idiots insisting protests be easy to ignore seems to be gradually dropping, so I think things are working pretty okay.

Also about giving other angry and worried people a nidus to work around. It’s too easy to feel angry and alone,. protests show that you’re not alone and.others are taking action.

Sitting back and politely listening to warnings has done less than nothing

Wouldn’t work for most of my use cases but a good point nonetheless