berrytopylus

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[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

The government literally had/has a program to give out cheap smart phones, tablets and laptops to poor people during Covid.

The idea of this technology being inaccessible to those in poverty is like 20 years out of date.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 84 points 2 years ago (63 children)

I was told landlords did a lot of work to earn their money? If he's clearly well enough to do such intense labor like owning property then he must be in good mental condition.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This sub is probably mostly cops and maybe some law students.

From what I remember almost all of the moderation team are cops yeah.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Grocery prices are higher than ever sure but the amount of ridiculous comments I see of people saying "I went to the store and bought a little meat on sale, some peanut butter and bread and spent over 100 bucks" is just funny.

Unless you live in rural Alaska, I refuse to believe that anyone is paying so much for such little food

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The funniest thing to me is the people who are like "It's against the law to be in the left lane if you're not passing!" because dudes, it's also against the law to be speeding yet you're doing that.

You can't really sit there and start getting angry about traffic violations when you're in the middle of one.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As he explained it, paxlovid has its own side-effects, there isn't a limitless supply of it, and if you're young and healthy and vaccinated already you're not going to see a meaningful reduction in symptoms

Pretty much all of medicine is a balance between risk and reward. This can actually be an issue sometimes with things like screenings or whatever where we pick up things that aren't actually an issue (even if they're scary) and are unlikely to pose a threat by the end of a person's natural life and then put them through an onslaught of medical intervention that hurts their QOL way more than the actual problem was likely to ever do for them.

That's not to say that screening and treating minor issues is bad or anything, just that we need caution to avoid causing unnecessary harm.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

From what I'm aware of, Paxlovid isn't approved under the FDA normally but rather under emergency authorization which means some pretty big limitations on how it can be prescribed.

Now it's an absurdity that they haven't fast tracked the approval process but that's the main issue at least.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh you're a "free thinker"? Name your top three independent thoughts

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why do hungry people have a higher likelihood of murdering each other?

I imagine the argument is that they're murdering each other over the remaining scraps of food. Which doesn't seem entirely untrue considering how many wars have historically been fought over farmland and resources.

That being said the idea of most people turning into murderers doesnt seem to fit too well into what happened during actual famines.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think it's particularly unreasonable to conclude that any decent approach to the first will also include the second. That shit is literally designed to be addictive, even the best teachers are gonna struggle to compete.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's especially concerning when it extends to global/political issues (this is why I said this might be controversial). Reading a quick Wikipedia summary and/or article can go a long way

One of my favorite examples of people getting things embarrassingly wrong is the "Taiwan is not part of China" crowd. Both sides historically disagree with this. Taiwan being a part of China is not some point that has been in dispute until very recently.

The disagreement has historically been over which is the "rightful government". Sure sentiments in Taiwan have been changing but even this year there was a former Taiwanese president saying this explicitly

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/we-are-all-chinese-former-taiwan-president-says-while-visiting-china-2023-03-28/

Any of the dumbass Americans who proudly declare "Taiwan is not and never has been a part of China" can be easily dismissed.

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