Humans are animals that navigate life through the lens of emotions with logic being something that we have to work towards - so you may be closer to the truth than you think.

Yep. Lost a good and very smart friend to the anti vax conspiracies and maybe others by now.

I’ve also had to really pay attention and tell myself that I live in a liberal bubble and need to balance that bias against what is truth.

So there has to be a new department - headed by TWO different people that’s going to be dealing with efficiency in the government?

This has to be the dumbest timeline

Yes death is inevitable but you do have the opportunity to guide how you are going to die, to a degree.

Treating your body like a garbage dump will give you a long slow miserable death as you age as the garbage destroys your body. Eating more healthy can lessen that effect.

Its crazy to me as to how many people will use a “comedian” as one of their sources for healthcare information.

I mean if I wanted advice on how to be a shitty comedian then I would ask Maher for advice because he is a pro at that. But I ain’t taking his advice or even his opinion for my healthcare.

As others have said this purchase didn’t really fuck up his overall lifestyle.

Yet when the topic of raising taxes on these people comes up they all freak out, like if they have to pay an extra 20% on their wealth they will be living on the streets.

This is an argument that is used all the time in politics and business when a (partial) solution to a big problem is presented.

“Well there may be unintended consequences to this solution so we can’t do anything until every single potential problem that may arise sometime in the future is completely worked through and solved.”

I mean if you are going into space then that is probably the way to do things but trying to solve childhood hunger? Yea you got time to fix the problems as they arise.

If you’re the editor of “The Onion” what do you publish when this is reality?

This sounds like the start of immigration reform. The big problem with that is, if there is immigration reform how do the politicians scare people into voting for them?

There is this toxic idea in national politics that if you fix a big problem you are undercutting your strategy for reelection because you don’t have a scare tactic.

Results are boring, fear drives engagement.

Yep. I think “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy is probably the closest to what a post-apocalyptic world would look like and that shit is bleak.

The few wealthy people I’ve met, not billionaires but $100+ millionaires, seem to have a limited skill set. They have “people” to do the work. I’ve always wondered how they would fair in a post-apocalyptic world?

Personally I’d rather have those people that can MacGuyver a solution out of rubber bands and mud.

All this to say that ol’ Zuck should probably hire some good ol’ boys/girls to do his work for him or he’s screwed.

to buy a tool you know you already own but you can’t find right now

That’s how I find the first tool.

It’s like a sacrifice of my time and money to the tool gods to show how invested I am in dealing with this problem on my own. They reward me with giving me back my old “lost” tool.

I wish what you said was true, But I think he knows exactly what a dictator is and craves the power that they have.

Yes. Corporate welfare is good for the country, human welfare is bad. /s

They of course use these 2% to justify vilifying the rest though.

This is the method that is used to justify cutting welfare benefits for poor people.

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Not taking away from the doctor and their experience and knowledge but fuck do nurses get the short end of the stick.

They do 95% of the work and rarely get the credit (or pay) they deserve.

Hey @ElCanut@jlai.lu You’re a great person!

pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect such chronic conditions [obesity and diabetes]

I would think there are multi billions of dollars to be made in solving these two conditions.

For bulling other people - but when the threats are focused on them “it’s unbecoming of a representative.”