Why would I try again considering all you’ve done is misrepresent what I, and others, have said. Yes, in your fantasy world, what I’ve said is incorrect. But that’s just your fantasy world, not the real one. The only one ignoring anything here is you.
Holy shit, you came back to write this? lol Amazing. And, no, I don’t feel stupid because nothing that is happening now has changed anything about what I was talking about a year ago. The fact that you think it does just reveals how much you lack in critical thinking skills.
That doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
I agree. And I think that non-vacuum isn’t that our health system is whack, but that we just went through a traumatizing time as a society that left people very fearful and looking for answers. It’s a convenient and easy one that the conmen are more than happy to advantage of for their personal gain.
I guess I see our positions as very different. . .you attribute it to people trying to avoid our healthcare system, I see it as people just looking for something to blame for how crappy shit was during the pandemic; our healthcare system has been shit for a long time, but the rise to prominence of this anti-vaccine movement happened during the pandemic. I don’t think the timing is coincidental.
But I appreciate the cordial response.
People have opposed vaccines since they were first introduced. I find your explanation just trying to force it into the current discussion around health insurance.
I would argue that it’s primarily because some people can’t fathom that the world is a chaotic place and shit just happens without sinister forces making it happen. Its exactly why the devil is such a popular theme in Christianity, because they need some evil force acting behind the scenes to justify the fact that absolutely terrible things happen while also believing in some supremely powerful and benevolent God.
With the pandemic, and people losing their shit because they were in lock down, the idea that this evil force was making it happen and fucking with them really took hold…and that made the “freedom” from it, a vaccine, a very good target for people pushing their conspiracy theories that this was a good way to push some sinister agenda…and with the amount of fear at the time, people were susceptible. Once you’ve opened the door for vaccines being a vehicle for sinister agenda, that just opens the door for questioning previous vaccines as well.
Explain in some detail as to how this is connected.
Is this for real?
Can you show me a state that has no zoning laws, or something similar, that is also having an issue with housing prices?
I’m far from a “the free market solves all!” Type of person, but this is more likely due to government intervention, with zoning laws that restrict the density that can be built in certain areas, rather than a problem with the the free market run amok.
Like it’s insane that nearly 40% of the land in San Fran is zoned for single family. This is government doing, not the free market.
We need more housing to alleviate the problem. But what we also need is a mindset shift of the everyday person that they aren’t getting a 3k sqft house on an acre of land.
Maybe other than getting shit-faced and coming home at 8am, everything you describe has been something humans have been dealing with forever. We can make it work again.
I also totally agree with you, I don’t want to go back. . . I just understand that I have to pay for that privilege. lol
Multigenerational homes, or living with a bunch of people, was the norm until less than a hundred years ago. It was only a brief period of time of immense economic and technological growth that we saw people living independently in large numbers. We’re just watching a regression back to the mean. And I don’t know how we avoid it with a growing population, and not everyone wanting or willing to live in a city.
Funny. I have a buddy who bought his around the same time as I did. I remember talking about it. I saw him a month or so ago and he was still using his. He’s got a ton of money (well paid, no kids) and in tech so I figured he would have at least upgraded, but he said there was no need.
Although I just looked it up and they have bad reliability ratings, which is surprising to me based on how good mine has been with decent usage.
I’ve been extremely happy with my windows surface book, which I got over a decade ago, still use regularly, and I can even still develop on it without a huge headache. I think visual studio is the best ide I’ve used. Vscode has replaced pretty much every other basic text editing tool I use (windows based, at least). I’m not a big fan of windows adding more and and tracking shit to the os, but I can’t remember the last time ive had a bsod, and even then I was fighting with hardware problems.
They definitely have their crap and shit that drives me nuts, and like all the big companies they are trying to slurp up as much data as they can get, which is enough reason for many people to move away, but this idea that they “suck at everything” is just circle jerking.
It’s click bait. Using exponents are not as eye catching.
This is truly lowest of the low type of scum behavior.
I get being upset about it. But, ffs, get some perspective.
Be careful judging because there will be plenty of people here who will think “anyone still playing the game is an idiot.”
“When rioters broke in to destroy these ideals, this desk stands firm, so too must the principles of equality, justice, and freedom that it represents”
You’re in too deep to admit you’re wrong now, but rtfa. If this doesn’t come off as dripping with sarcasm from top to bottom, you need to come up for air.
It was a campaign stunt to poke fun at Harris and to make him appear more “one of the regular joes.” If you think that making it look like he could get a job at McDonald’s after his presidency would somehow prove to voters he is fit for the office… Dear God political analysis is not for you.
Where on reddit was as bad as .ml? Other than maybe the Donald or conservative?
Yup, that’s exactly right. On Lemmy you don’t even have to log out, blocking someone simply means you can’t see their posts. If you don’t want a harasser or stalker to see something, and you post it publicly, you’re an idiot.
And this is the way it should be… You shouldn’t be able to silence someone from responding to stuff you say publicly by blocking them.
Yes, and when I said so, at least I made a point afterward. I guess even you are smart enough to realize when you’ve been so thoroughly beat.