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Lophostemon, in Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? | Aeon Essays

Because all other langauges are inferior.

Miauu, (edited ) in 'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health

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  • Lmaydev, (edited )

    Wearing masks isn’t really an issue. It’s standard in many countries during winter and they have much better flu numbers.

    Natural immunity wears off with COVID and it mutates rapidly enough that we’ll keep needing boosters most likely.

    Also the regular flu is fucking awful and we put a lot of effort every year into keeping to low.

    Reverendender, in 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
    shalafi, in How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger

    This is amazing. Still absorbing it and keeping it bookmarked until I’ve had a chance to put it in practice.

    spacecowboy, in How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger

    Sounds a bit like stoicism.

    BearOfaTime, in What Really Happened to JFK?

    It’s so odd so many people still believe the Warren Commission when another commission about 1973 ruled there were at least two shooters, one in front on the grassy knoll.

    The first doctors to treat him documented an entrance wound at his trachea.

    LittleLordFauntleroy, in Ghosts on the Glacier

    Haunting. Unfortunately I think this is one mystery we will never solve. Mountain climbing tragedies like this are fascinating - the Dyatlov Pass Incident is a particularly good one.

    bloopernova, in The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County
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    “why are these teenagers so stressed?!?” The article said.

    Maybe because they have very few opportunities for a happy, prosperous, rewarding life?

    And of course the Republicans use the deaths as a talking point.

    niktemadur,

    …so they can tighten the screws even further, making lives even less happy, less prosperous, less rewarding. All they ever do is dig deeper into the mudpit they drag everyone down into.

    Chakravanti,

    Fentanyl deaths occur ONLY because drugs are illegal. ONLY

    CADmonkey,

    Most anything negative about drugs is because they are illegal. Fentanyl would be almost unheard of outside the silly war on drugs.

    Chakravanti,

    Yup. Precisely.

    Chakravanti, (edited )

    Let’s be real. The FAULT of %99 of drug deaths is explicitly the DEA & Prohibition.

    BilboBargains, in The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County

    At what point are we going to accept that prohibition and abstinence has failed? We need to legalise all drugs and teach our children harm reduction. Removing the profit motive for ever more compact and potent drugs is the only way we’re going to make a dent in this problem. We banned opium and got heroin, we banned heroin and got fentanyl, we banned fentanyl and now watching the morgues fill up while the cartels invent the next monstrously potent chemical.

    treadful, in The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
    @treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

    Niche writer beef is pretty entertaining.

    CADmonkey, in Not One Tree: Stopping Cop City

    A good read, thanks for posting it.

    ickplant,
    @ickplant@lemmy.world avatar

    You’re welcome!

    WetBeardHairs, in Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

    Uhg… here I was expecting the rise of Nazism again over the next couple of decades. But I guess a black friday is in store before that. Guess I’ll invest in gold or something…

    Blaze, in Please be dying, but not too quickly: a clinical trial story
    @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Thanks!

    I_Has_A_Hat, in Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

    Says he stepped away in 2018. Interesting to note that’s about when conspiracy forums took a hard turn right and went from “everyone is secretly out to get you” to “liberals are evil and the only uncorrupt bright spot in this world is conservatism and our lord, Donald J Trump.”

    I guess the party just wasn’t as fun anymore after everyone stopped talking about aliens and started talking about things like The Storm™️. This isn’t a story of someone breaking free from Qanon or the Cult of Donald. This is an OG conspiracy theorist who saw his spaces get taken over by this new wave of partisan conspiracies and went “yikes, you guys are crazy! I’m getting out of here!”

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