pancake

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[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I wouldn't consider it an ideological thing, but more of a strategic decision by Xi et al.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

No, the vagina is topologically a hole, as the uterus with the Fallopian tubes has two direct openings into the abdominal cavity (another objectionable "design" choice).

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

My bad, the downvotes got me confused.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Many people are targeted around the world for their beliefs. That includes activists, journalists and other people who "haven't done anything wrong".

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I guess we could make one using newer FHE-RAM techniques and some edge case handling.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool! Is that your own conlang?

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

We can't know how medicine would be practiced under socialism, but we do know that our bodies would be the same. Cancer wouldn't be any different. Maybe there would be less cases of lung cancer, and maybe treatments would be less expensive or would be found earlier. Maybe we'd find the cure for all types of cancer simultaneously. But the limitations imposed by the nature of disease itself wouldn't change.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Capitalism always favors non-curative treatments over curative ones, and makes newer curative treatments extremely expensive (e.g. CAR-T cell therapies or genetic treatments).

But, as other users rightly point out, there are millions of ways our bodies can misbehave. Even something like "cancer" is just an array of several hundred diseases, wherein even each of them is not homogeneous across all cases. Cancer survival slowly goes up over the years as specific variants of it are tackled, but that wouldn't be different under socialism, at most just faster (Cuba has made some great contributions to cancer research) or more accessible.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 month ago

I should say this to people who claim "capitalism" has nothing to do with capital and is nowadays just a synonym of freedom.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dancing in occupied territory.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago

I like this perspective of yours. I may as well expand the range of activities of mine I call hobbies.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Linux (windows at work tho).

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