i love the hunger games so deeply because the people who started the revolution were those very endeared by art and nature. it kinda tells the story of how empathy and art are essential to critical thinking, learning and freedom in a current world where ai and fascism take over
i personally love pasteurization and vaccines. i love modern medicine. i love the world that allowed my mom to have children that all lived to adulthood. i love how we eradicated polio and measles and fucking hpv
I’m genuinely starting to understand why scientists become mad. No one ever listens to them and they’re always right. The only time people choose to listen to them is when they need them to fix their mistakes.
As a general rule, when some ostensible health elixir claims to either:
☣️ Remove unspecified toxins
⬆️ Boost your immune system
📜 Be based on "ancient" knowledge
⚕️ Be a secret doctors hide
..it is almost certainly quackery, & useless or even dangerous snake-oil
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@walidgellad Anecdotes are useful to the extent they reflect the larger truth. An anecdote of a relatively common condition is useful. An anecdote of a rare condition may mislead more than it clarifies. I don’t feel this is complicate.
Having not gotten covid yet feels like I've been hiding in the back of a 2+ year long middle school dodgeball game and the front lines have been THINNED
@ConnConnection And the schedule!! The number of times I’ve wasted time on an application only to find out it’s 12 hour night shifts on some sort of weird rotating schedule I’d never do is ridiculous