you start with the most obvious wins, and then use them as precedent to win the other cases faster
it’s shit, but courts are generally pretty slow… you want it to be as obvious as possible
they mentioned nothing about prisons… they said we hold people responsible. the way we punish is beside the point
the point is that if someone does something bad because they’re the product of a poor environment, we still consider them responsible for their actions
i’m actually super surprised australia makes the cut… AND is about 10% of the USA with like 7% of the population… our power grid is fucking disgusting for carbon (although i guess we’re only just above the USA in per capita emissions too so that makes sense i suppose)
tell us you cherry picked data and literally any other scale is horrifyingly bad for your argument without telling us that you cherry picked data and literally any other scale is horrifyingly bad for your argument
… right?
they HAD to cut it don’t you know?
because BIDEN was such a bad economic manager they just didn’t have the money!
no the economy wasn’t doing well! the price of eggs!
bird flu epidemic due to lax regulations? NO it was BIDEN
global cost of living crisis that wasn’t isolated to the USA? pft if biden wasn’t horrible he’d have fixed it for us because the USA is better than everyone else
comb through the social media and medical records of teens looking for any indications of anything they don't like, and flagging them as potentially autistic?
anything woke must be autism
woke mind virus etc
Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places
it literally doesn’t matter if this is the correct interpretation… the fact that it’s possible is the problem. it should be completely impossible
imminent collapse is a fairly common theme among anything we’ve learned to engineer fairly well… if a bridge isn’t in imminent danger of collapse under its theoretical maximum loading, it used too much material and was thus over-built which means fewer bridges for people
if an economy isn’t in imminent danger of collapse then it’s resources aren’t being used efficiently and that means fewer luxuries - and bridges - for people
seems like that might reduce pretty damn fast very soon
i can make a much cheaper, less complex, and perfectly accurate version of this that automatically sorts waste based on its final destination: it’s just a trash can and it all goes to the dump because recycling isn’t profitable :(
in australia we had alpha and numeric divided and then a few years ago we switched to just alphanumeric everywhere… the font used is made to be machine readable - an I and a 1 look very different; it’s a non-issue
natural dyes still exist (which doesn’t imply they’re necessarily healthier; just that if banning artificial dyes that doesn’t mean there will be no food colouring)… afaik australia has much stricter regulation around some of this, and tbh you can barely tell the difference… some products are slightly less vibrant, but honestly if you’re not directly comparing them you don’t even notice
population decline is incredibly problematic… demographic crises can literally lead to the collapse of a society in a slow enough manner that it’s kinda difficult for people to see coming unless they know what to look for
i’d highly recommend the recent kurzgesagt video about south korea
and don’t even START on the DIJON mustard
loyalty is resigning in disgrace and taking all the blame not only for your own fuck ups but also the kings so they can start fresh
the list is just so fucking long
can we just try and name the most qualified, agree that they’re unqualified, label the rest as more than unqualified and call it a day?
the vaccine is very effective, and also that’s HPV
a full STI screen is for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhoea
blood test - for syphilis, HIV throat swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea anal swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea urine - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea
afaik they sometimes tack on general biochemistry (sodium, potassium, etc) to the blood test, as well as some other things like mycoplasma genitalium but these are not standard 3-monthly tests
afaik it’s very rare to test for HSV at all, for various reasons
i’m sorry that you’ve had that experience and i don’t mean to diminish what you’re don’t through, but it’s also very important to note that this is far from the normal for the very large majority of people
fear doesn’t help sexual health… all sex comes with risks, and unprotected sex comes with significantly increased risk but the reality is by and large this is not what HSV looks like without other factors effecting it
downplaying risks is bad, but equally bad is people thinking a condition is worse than it is. this leads to more risky behaviour, because if they get the “scary” thing and it’s not as bad as they expect, they can take risky behaviour because they discount all their other education
it also only reinforces stigmas. this is particularly common with HIV-positive people: these days, if you have an undetectable viral load (if you take your daily medications) you can not pass on HIV… however the stigma remains, and people still often choose to not have sex with someone with an undetectable HIV infection (again, undetectable IS UNTRANSMITTABLE)
muddying the waters is very bad at scale
calm, unbiased information is what is required for public health. individual anecdotes about worst case scenarios do not serve to make people’s lives better
have you tried buying them not from a pharmacy? it’s easy af and not even expensive… the wealthiest man in the world, or even mr “gave up 7 figures in silicon valley” can get whatever they like