Modern_medicine_isnt
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- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 3 days ago:
I grow weary of all the attempted comparisons between streaming and cable. Even if it cost the same (streaming is still cheaper), you don’t have to call a tech to fix the dvr, which will wipe all your recordings… or pay per tv you own, rather than the number you are actually using. Of and you can watch it when you aren’t even home. Streaming is sooo many 1000’s % better than cable in soo many ways. Is it enshitifing, he’ll yeah. But still way better.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 week ago:
That this occurred to someone is just more proof that groceries cost too much.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
1 the amount of beef I eat is not a major contributer to the problem. No matter how hard I try. The actual major contributors what to distract people by telling them that they can make the difference. They can’t. 2 I don’t like plants… 3 the way the grow plants for food is also terrible for earth
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 3 weeks ago:
I would say sort of. They could do it, but the result wouldn’t survive very long. Probably not even to birth.
- Comment on How is the US able to instantly stop an attack from Iran but powerless when Israel attacks hospitals? 5 weeks ago:
I think you know exactly why.
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 1 month ago:
Well, you can’t know until it happens. And even then it will mutate like covid did, so it could keep changing. And what it does in other animals doesn’t map to what it will do in humans most likely. Worst case scenario would be a long incubation time, followed by a long symptom free contagious period, followed by a very short sick time before death. But death isn’t all that advantageous for the virus.
- Comment on What would happen if all of humanity don't need to work any more ? 1 month ago:
Yes money would be gone. That would have to precede not needing to work.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
Yeah, it really is everywhere. I am constantly telling my daughter that it isn’t normal. I personally don’t play those types of games either. I am more satisfactory, portal and such type games. I only know about them because my kids play and I pay attention to what they play. I am only a year or so away from having to explain how fake porn is. I don’t know if the schools discuss that or not, but they probably should given how easy it is to access, and how many parents don’t want to talk about it.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
It really was just a joke. But at the same time it doesn’t have to be about being horny or climaxing. Aside from any teenagers present most of us don’t get a hard on just from seeing a pretty girl. It can still be more pleasing for us to look at a pretty girl (if that is what we prefer) without getting horny.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
I’ve always thought we should have two types of vote. Agree/disagree and something about quality. I like to see opinions I don’t agree with. It is valuable info and makes things less of an ech chamber. But the internet is the internet.
Happy holidays to you to.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
Totally agree. Viva la dirt does some great and hilarious videos about female armor in games. And some games really go overboard. I just found that it wasn’t as one dimensional as I originally thought.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
I’m was right there with you a few years ago. My daughter plays, and I was sure to point out how it was catering to male fantasy and all that. But then I took her to some conventions she asked to go to. Do you know what I saw. More women then men.
And there was a space of computers that people could stop and play genshin and the like. Again more women then men. And the women were all playing genshin while the guys were playing games with more zoomed out interactions. It turns out that women are a big part of the reason for the intricate costumes on female characters and such. I still don’t know what really to make of it all, but I do know my first impression of a game just objectifying women for male pleasure is not accurate. And don’t get me started on the female cosplayers at these conventions. - Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
I don’t play these games, but my kids do. And I am thinking (as a man), why wouldn’t I want my character to be a hot girl. If I an going to spend hundreds of hours staring at an ass, I would rather it be a hot girl ass.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
My buddy is a teacher in a poor district. He joins a golf league every year. Plays weekly at least when the weather is decent. My uncle plays weekly. Several guys on my softball team play. Not one of them has a million dollars. I play every few years or so. With no equipment meant it runs me $30 to $50 depending on where it is. Would be less if I owned clubs, or had a membership… haven’t played since the pandemic, so I am sure the price has increased, but plenty of people spend more on drinks for one weekend.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
The vast majority of golfers are regular people. Teachers, and people who do shift work have free time during the normal workday are some. Retires from all sorts of jobs are the rest of the majority. Most golf courses aren’t as fancy as you see on tv, and they don’t actually cost that much to play on. Wall street bailouts would never be caught dead on the average golf course.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
sure we need food. But the way we water it is one of the more inefficient ways possible. But it is inexpensive. They could use almost 80% less water than they do. If you are worried about water use, start there. ag.umass.edu/vegetable/…/irrigation-drip#:~:text=….
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
Nice job adding nothing to the discussion. Go back to reddit, they miss you.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
That is an absurdly massive golf club. Nowhere near average.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
yes in the desert they do. But most courses aren’t in the desert. Plenty used to only water the greens in the middle of the summer in the northeast where I grew up. People usualy picture only the high end golf courses. Most are not that. Some used to just shut down for a while if it got too dry rather than water.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
it’s really not in a large part of the country. In a desert sure. But even there they take measures like using recycled water and not pottable water and such. And of course agriculture makes every other water use pale in comparison.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 6 months ago:
Golf is boring to watch. But for most players it is a social game. It’s like going to a bar with a few friends, but getting a little exercise. And they don’t do a ton of leveling. Costs too much, and using the land the way it is, is what makes a course unique and interesting.
That said, it would be easy to find a sport that destroys more natural land. Ever see a football, baseball or soccer stadium… including all the parking. Then realize how many baseball fields their are in america (or soccer fields in other countries). They are several times the number of golf courses, and they all need more parking each than one golf course.
- Comment on Don't forget to tip your gas station 6 months ago:
Tipping is not customary in those states. Source: I live in one, and grew up by the border with the other.
Bonus fact, we can now pump our own gas in oregon… though they still have to have some pumps where you can’t. I don’t want to call those full service cause they aren’t, they call them mini service. Full service cleans your windows and such as well apparently. - Comment on Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains science 6 months ago:
He’s an entertainer who happens to be good at science. Saw him in person at a show. He is clearly rather full of himself, but that is to ge expected in most public figures.
- Comment on What happens when people die with metal on or on them? 6 months ago:
The real question is why does anyone care if a comment on a comment gets down voted. This isn’t reddit where they track your karma. So who cares. Probably 30% of comments here are “why are people downvoting you” and comments like “i love all the blahblah haters commenting here, people are so fucked up” which by the time anyone reads it, the haters have been long since drowned out by the rational people. Sad waste.
- Comment on See?! 7 months ago:
Nah, the picture baited me. Lol
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 7 months ago:
So why can’t we name it America’s day. We just need to stop using people names for shit.
- Comment on Making a button to do this is apparently far too difficult 7 months ago:
technically, it actually is a little hard. But also, the product owner who decides what buttons get made has to justify the value it adds to his/her superiors. And they to thier bosses… And anyone along that line of decision makers can kill it because they care more about money than people. And they don’t even have to actually decide to kill it, just create an environment where the people below know they should be focusing on top value things only.
- Comment on What is the attraction to kids? 7 months ago:
My assumption on the attraction thing is that there are many things that cause attraction. Guys generally go for younger women. Well what do younger women have, tighter bodies, firmer breasts, more fit, healthier looking hair and skin, more defined hips… but as we all know many guys specialize in being attracted to a few of these things. Well, children usualy have healthy skin and hair… so if a guy is attracted to just the attributes that don’t require puberty, I can imagine that attraction wise he might not feel such a difference. Now mix that in with wanting to feel superior and some of the other things like that and kids start to fit well. Now add in a high libido and low self control. Disaster. Take the same guy and add in an attraction to big boobs and he is close to average cause kids don’t have those.
Basically, it only takes a few missing screws. As for women. Teenage boys have a lot of sexual energy and passion. I can imagine that being attractive. Plus there is of course the taboo of it that appeals to women just like any other kink. Put them in a space where they aren’t getting thier needs met by men, and give them access to boy. Disaster again. In the end, the diversity of humans means there will always be someone into anything you can imagine. - Comment on The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric 7 months ago:
heres my question. What do they use for a wood 2x4 in metric countries? And does the size actually match the name (unlike the US).