Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said on "CBS Mornings" Monday the need for another dose depends on your age and vaccination history.

"There is a very specific group that does have to worry about their immunity from vaccination. People born after 1957 but vaccinated before 1968 — that group is unlikely to have robust immunity from infection," she said, because "at that point in time, they were using less effective vaccines."

I mean that's what you want when it comes to nuclear weapons. Right? Either be the first to know or the last to know. I guess some people would prefer to die in the flash than live and struggle through an apocalypse.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

You'd think that the supposedly fiscally conservative and free market loving party would be thrilled that they've found a way to let the market pay for road maintenance.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is just the next logical step towards locking the NSFW communities behind a paywall. But, I don't think it's for the revenue, mostly. It's an essential step in tidying up their image and dealing with the regulations around internet censorship and linking real identities to users. They'll make way more money off of marketing to and marketing data of a fully identified userbase. They've already profiled them, linking those profiles to real people will just multiply the value of those profiles. Reddit is Facebooking themselves, selling out their users to turn community into a product. I guess since nobody google searches anymore, and Google did the same thing, we could also call it Googling themselves.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Add bread crumbs. Saved you a click.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that's economics not politics.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

It's ironic that the conservatives pushing for this frame it as 'working class Americans paying off Ivy League debt', give then context of the current administration firing en mass federal employees with fucking masters degrees working for peanuts.

They keep trying to convince the poor and uneducated that the class war is between them and the college educated. The real class war is between those that have to work to live and those living off of everyone else's work.

Moreover, Biden's student debt relief wasn't even really a benefiting former students all that much since it was debt they largely couldn't pay off anyway (obviously), it was really a bailout to the banks issuing predatory loans to a captive market of young people without any money, assets, or any financial education, but with decades of their lives to toil away paying interest forever.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People are generally worse at doing arithmetic in their heads after accepting calculators.

Where did you get this idea from? Your teachers? Parents? It's absolutely false. Sure lazy people are generally bad at skills they don't both practicing themselves, like arithmetic and critical thinking. Those of us that actually use arithmetic and calculators regularly, from retail cashiers to engineers, know that it's easy to not recognize a wrong answer without ingrained basic arithmetic skills. So much so that one could argue that you should only be using a calculator if you can already roughly intuit the answer a d use the calculator to make precise answers more quickly.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you want pink eye? Because that's how you get pink eye.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 40 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

In spirit I totally agree with you, but that kind of strategy just doesn't work anymore. Boycotting Apple is relatively easy. Boycotting Disney is a little harder, unless you're already a pirate, but not impossible. Then there's companies like Nestle, arguably worse than any of them. Companies like Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi are so diversified, with so many subsidiaries and shell companies spread the world over. It is damn near impossible for the average person to boycott Nestle in any meaningful way.

Network graph of major subsidiaries or global food and drug corporations.

Go ahead and try to boycott just one or two of the corporations in this image. Boycotts may still impact specific brands at a local level, but they have become pretty ineffective against corporations.

All of the boycotts in the world can't beat the apathy rotting away the foundation of democracy. Boycott one company or brand and another will step in to fill the political void. Apathy keeps young voters out of the voting booths in local elections. These companies have a vested interest in convincing you that your vote doesn't matter and that government regulation is ineffective. It's a lie to keep you apathetic and disinterested in politics because your vote is the only part of the system they can't directly influence.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 26 points 2 weeks ago

This is just one of the many reasons that the argument the right keeps repeating about all manner of privacy invasions and infringements of rights and due process that "the good ones have nothing to fear" is complete and utter bullshit.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reading is about more than reciting facts and quoting sources. Sure, you can read, but you have utterly failed to comprehend the context or the article or the actual substance of my comments.

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