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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Roe V. Wade OVERTURNED
« on: June 25, 2022, 12:03:17 AM »
I’ve never really followed the Roe V Wade thing so can someone inform me why a woman can’t just use birth control? Like not that I don’t support abortion but people seem to act like they have to have a child every time the egg is fertilized.
birth control isnt accessible to everyone for one, and abortion is also medically necessary in some cases like ectopic pregnancies. also they're coming for birth control too, so i wouldn't hedge your bets on that as a solution to the problem. but the overarching theme is just that it shouldn't be the business of the state whether or not someone has a child (or what reasons they have for wanting one or not), and enforcement of laws criminalizing abortion in practice requires investigation of miscarriages and dire invasions of privacy that have far-reaching consequences beyond just abortion

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Off Topic / Re: [GSF]Ghost passed away last year
« on: June 24, 2022, 11:47:05 PM »
damn :(

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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: June 06, 2022, 05:50:39 PM »
or rooster

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So it's not okay to crank it to Jotaro? Well til.
just his pt3 design, in pt4 and later hes a big boy

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to be fair if i just went through all that i'd probably be perfectly happy deleting my alchemy too

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Off Topic / Re: what is everyone's job/career here
« on: May 29, 2022, 12:11:48 AM »
currently a part-time graduate research assistant working on software, about to transition into being a full-time software engineer at a consulting group. for the record i referenced my modding years in my interviews : - ]
somehow modding funny online legos for 7-8 years paid off, cus otherwise i wouldn't have ended up with any of the skills and friends i have now. gonna miss this place when it goes offline January 18 2024 8:12 AM

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Elon Musk is now voting Republican.

Way past cool!
love how elon made a huge show of this like "Ohhhhh """""now""""" that im republican the WHOLE WORLd is gonna be out to get me...! stay tuned folx..." and then just a few days later it comes out that he's a love pest. Wonder what he was trying to get ahead of

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https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2022%2F02%2F14%2Fwhy-Annoying Orange-is-once-again-claiming-that-he-was-spied-upon-2016%2F

some additional context to the story suggests it is maybe not the watergate-esque wiretapping scandal that Annoying Orange and his media buds think it is, but it is kinda funny to see a former president and probable 2024 candidate talk about executing his opponents. wild world but is anyone really surprised

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Is that what we should do? Perpetually spend money into this clear money pit?
Shouldn't we be searching for an actual solution?
if your assertion is that All Covid Science has ceased since the invention of a few vaccines then i would ask that you substantiate that assertion

if you don't mean to assert that, you need to be more clear about what you actually mean. are you upset about science, or do you actually have a more nuanced concern about something like the mass media response to covid? cus i can agree that historically mass media does a comically horrendous job at interpreting and relaying scientific information to the general public, and in particular with covid i find the temptation of many people and media outlets to paint unvaccinated people dying in hospitals as evil/stupid rather than just misinformed and misled to be reprehensible

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The science is never settled was my point. Meaning the conversation surrounding what is and isn't good practice, what should or shouldn't be used, and what should or shouldn't be enforced
must be allowed to continue, or it's not science.

It's scientology.
i don't really agree with the spirit of what you're saying; it is absolutely possible for scientific knowledge to settle into a reliable consensus. science is, unlike what anti-science conspiratorial preachers would tell you, not constantly in a flux where all knowledge is a toss-up. in the case of covid certainly there's going to be a lot of research to be done for the next few decades, but i think my point still stands that the most important thing at the outset of the pandemic was to get any effective treatments out the and widely available. i think you are doing a disservice to yourself by entertaining the temptation to attribute political and sociological phenomenon surrounding covid to Science and not to the numerous complicated forces involved in responding to a pandemic. ultimately if your complaint is that better treatments aren't coming to shelves faster, or that covid cases are worse than they've ever been despite having supposedly effective prevention widely available, your beef probably more closely lies with a government that lacks the political will to fight covid with the same vigor as it did from the start and instead apparently feels satisfied placing the onus on Individual Responsibility™ (as usual) to fight the pandemic  through vaccines

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a reality where the entire world held off on treating covid until the "Science Was Settled" is one where millions more people have to die or become irreparably damaged from a disease whose risk we know can be preemptively diminished or eliminated with a quickly-developed vaccine.

there are better ways to treat covid that we don't have yet, but the existing vaccines have saved lives and it's honestly absurd to imply that the reasonable thing to do was to ignore the possibility of developing and distributing them. so what if it turns out you might need a booster? if we make better preventative treatments in the future that doesnt mean all the time we bought with the mrna vaccines was wasted

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If we can get an accurate count of non-citizens then we can also accurately target and deport non-citizens.
ya youre probably right. state/federal govt has a wealth of information it could do things with but it doesnt, such as for taxes where they already have the info but for some reason feel like shredding forests outsourcing the job of... something? to every taxpayer. i actually do not know what work we're filling in for the govt when we file taxes. but i bet costs a lot of money to run nationwide deportation squads, and then you get a bunch of annoying people that are put off by the federal agents shoving the nice family down the street into vans and shipping them across the ocean. thats probably not so good for elections, but the lifehack is that if you run as a democrat the media wont make a big deal out of it

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Off Topic / Re: Who here has played a year's worth of Blockland
« on: November 27, 2021, 02:22:10 AM »
best record i have is here https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=247503.msg7132589#msg7132589 and my 283 hours on steam

seeing as this thread happened to take place right after blockland launched on steam, anyone that archived their time in this thread can basically just add their steam time and get a pretty accurate count (assuming the vast majority of the time you spent on BL before steam was with RTB installed and you only used steam after lol)

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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: November 26, 2021, 03:11:22 PM »
Yo wtf pomp art in haachama video (0:13) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCRB01W3VeY

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Off Topic / Re: why do people not want masks?
« on: October 26, 2021, 12:17:04 PM »
I don't think masks are bad but I do think forcing people to wear them goes against human rights. If someone wants to wear a mask for their own protection that's fine, but they shouldn't shame someone else for their decision not to (happens all too often) just like the person not wearing the mask shouldn't shame the ones who decide to wear one.
for what it's worth, anecdotally i hear far more often from friends and others about people calling out mask-wearers in public for an excuse to shout about their, uh, personal research, but it probably depends a lot on where you are i guess

also yeah obviously mask mandates are a loss of a type of freedom, but there are lot of mundane cases where we give up that type of freedom. i'm required to wear glasses when i drive even if i were confident i could navigate without them, i'm required to wear a seatbelt, and i'd probably get kicked out of most stores if i showed up shirtless. it inhibits my personal freedom to take on the risk of bringing harm to myself, but it protects other people so i'm not allowed to do them. having mask mandates as a temporary means of curbing the spread of an uncontrolled pandemic made sense in that respect. it's cool that they're normalized now, cus i just wear one at this point if i don't feel like showin my face or if i think i might be sick with anything

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Off Topic / Re: college is not hitting for me
« on: October 26, 2021, 11:28:55 AM »
if you're early enough to change your major and you hate your major-related classes then that might be a good sign to follow your gut. could just be stuffty professors though

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