If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend becoming an organ donor. Even if you can’t be a living donor, a deceased donor can save up to 8 lives & enhance many more lives.
It is life changing for those who need it.
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The deliberate inability of people to understand — on the day of SpaceX’s IPO no less — that Musk doesn’t actually have $1 trillion in cash to be grabbed by the revenuers and redistributors is kind of amazing.
People don't want to hear it, but he's right. If you confiscated Jeff Bezos' entire net worth, you could run the government for about a week. He's a convenient villain for politicians who won't admit that their expensive proposals require heavy taxes on the middle class.
Insurance companies are sin-eaters for every other pathology in America's healthcare system.
There are a LOT of broken parts of the US healthcare system, and it's remarkable how much blame insurance gets relatively to literally anything else.
Your daily reminder that populism is structurally incapable of solving problems.
The populist lens is to see a problem and immediately find a group to blame.
But real problems have vast, distributed causes and solutions... none of which can be reduced to a single villain.
This is why populists almost always fail at solving problems, which, in turn, generates more populist backlash.
It's a vicious cycle that destroys societies.
There's something missing from the Hasan Piker discourse. Hasan's fans and critics often overlook the most troubling fact about him.
The core problem with Hasan Piker is that, on a fundamental level, he doesn't believe in liberal democracy.
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That's Glenn Dubin. Those are his own kids. This whole thing is becoming an insane moral panic along the lines of the Satanic child abuse panic, recovered memory, campus rape hysteria, and all of that.
Epstein was a predator, and people who kept in contact with him showed terrible judgment. Some of them may be criminals, too. But the idea that every person who ever swapped emails with him is equally guilty is insane.
Unvaccinated transplant patients have a much higher risk of death. Hospitals prioritize survival.
Your ‘beliefs’ don’t change biology. The immune system doesn’t care about politics.