porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 5 days ago:
Yeah, so it can possibly go wrong, instead of being guaranteed to go wrong.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 1 week ago:
The thing about the slow way is that it’s too readily reversible, and since the existing order allows the wealthy who would lose under such policies to consolidate power quite easily, those changes can be undone much more easily than they can be made.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
So clearly you haven’t been to the dentist in Germany, or even read that very article you posted. Yes your 6-monthly checkup is covered, that’s great. But the subsidy for fillings in molars, for example, only covers amalgam fillings. Dentists don’t actually do those anymore, so you have to pay more than 100€ “extra” to get a resin one. The majority of other situations are similar to that. In the end, even though the rule says that medically necessary things are supposed to be covered, in practice they really aren’t.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
fresh tomatoes: 10€/kg
wtf, do you live in like Svalbard or something? They are 2-4€ per kilo in the summer and 4-6€ in the winter in most places on the continent for normal truss tomatoes. I live in a country with very expensive food but basic Spanish tomatoes are 2€ right now in the cheaper supermarkets.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Dental treatments are paid
Nonsense. Dental treatments are slightly subsidised, but even with the subsidy are more expensive than paying outright in cash in France. They are only covered if you’re, like, gonna die from a tooth infection or something, and then they’ll remove it but not do anything about the missing tooth. The subsidy doesn’t even cover simple fillings, which still cost more than 100€ even for shitty resin ones. Why do you think everyone goes to Poland or Turkey when they need real dental care?
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 week ago:
It’s obviously not a strict one-to-one relationship but I do think more intelligent people are on average slightly less racist.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
You have clearly been misled by propaganda. There is no broad disagreement about these issues. If there is debate about “how much climate change is caused by human activity” it is regarding the third nine after the decimal point of the percentage figure, which might be debated fiercely but makes no difference at all to the overall message.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
No, not in the cases of vaccines or climate change. The incredibly overwhelming majority of scientists are on the plainly correct side of both of those, they don’t have to be geniuses for that, just somewhat educated.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
Feels to me like they are related, rugged individualism is much easier to sell to people who feel this way.
- Comment on Ascend 3 weeks ago:
I want to write something here about the best conference catering ever, but it would probably dox me, so I won’t.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 weeks ago:
No, the theory of electromagnetism and by extension physics in general is knowing how it works. How to use it is engineering, a different set of knowledge which we also have some of.
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 3 weeks ago:
They are not bigger than big dogs, they aren’t always in packs, and they’re skittish yeah but not usually that aggressive. This story could well be fake but it’s perfectly plausible.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but between nothing and the axioms of the standard model we end up with a fairly comprehensive description which can predict how different kinds of magnets behave in a wide variety of situations.
- Comment on Al is coming for your backup plan as well 3 weeks ago:
I doubt anyone who’s going to give up women to fuck robots would have been procreating anyway
Uh, do your wife’s friend and her loser husband have kids?
- Comment on Motherfucker trying to 100% life 3 weeks ago:
It’s not even doing that, all the things in this picture are things which are widely admired by society.
- Comment on Motherfucker trying to 100% life 3 weeks ago:
bro you posted this pic glazing him, some introspection could be good here
- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 4 weeks ago:
Israel is not invading America lol. The president isn’t the boss of America, the oligarchs are, and they’re perfectly fine with their friends spying on the government for them.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
China is strategically investing and they don’t care about Africa, only China
Yes, sure, it’s not altruistic. But there’s a huge difference between non-violent trade relationships which benefit one party more, and also benefit the other party, just less, and purposefully ensuring that an entire continent is in a constant state of civil war and desperate poverty so you can extract the maximum amount of resources through slavery. China’s foreign policy is absolutely for its own benefit but they’re taking a “rising tide lifts all boats” approach there and while there are some specific things which are fair to criticise it’s way better than what other major powers are doing.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 4 weeks ago:
Not being able to read it is technically illiteracy in that specific context, sure.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 4 weeks ago:
Pot, kettle, etc. I never claimed to have perfect grammar or punctuation. Your own comment could do with some revision if you think it’s so important.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 4 weeks ago:
As a millennial who didn’t stop using the internet in 2015 I have no problem reading this. I don’t write like that because it’s not what I’m used to, but it’s fine, it’s social media not a professional presentation, chill.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 4 weeks ago:
What kind of things does the overhead go to?
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 4 weeks ago:
You would find yourself in all kinds of legal disputes, permits not getting approved because the wife of the owner of the expensive corporate facility is on the city council, anonymous “stories” about your facility being told to the media, etc.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
No lol, there’s a momentum component to that equation which is just conveniently 0 for massive objects at rest, photons don’t have a rest reference frame and are governed by E=pc.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
They have momentum, not mass, in relativistic physics you need something more complex than p=mv to describe momentum.
- Comment on Alpha AF 5 weeks ago:
allegedly
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
If I’m allowed to post thoughts on the internet then why are you yelling at me?
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
My point is not about it maybe being false, I just don’t think that many people are helpful even if it is real, I think they will make the situation worse, they will not be able to make sensible decisions. I’m not talking about chaos in the street, but in coordination of law enforcement. At Uvalde, many police officers did show up, and they simply didn’t do their jobs. Among many issues with the response, they couldn’t make up their minds about who was in charge, that’s a problem with many people from many departments all showing up to an incident at once.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t disagree that they should go check it out with enough people but that’s, what, 40+ officers? To an incident supposedly involving two people? What are they all supposed to do? It’s just chaos and I don’t think they are helping the situation.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
Completely reasonable response to that kind of a threat, if that is what the call was.
I think twenty cars is still too many