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Comment by croisillon | Hacker News Reader

hard to pinpoint, it's not the traditional AI voice but feels very weird indeed, maybe dumbed down to not give AI telltales? the paragraph mentioning Magic Johnson is somewhere between a kid's recounting and name-dropping for the sake of it

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You're probably not old enough to remember when Magic Johnson was diagnosed with AIDS. I was in college and I remember the moment when I heard like a flashbulb memory. I was in my dorm cafeteria near the windows eating dinner with my friends. It was an extremely significant event because AIDS was a huge deal at the time and the fact someone like Magic Johnson got it was utterly shocking. Everyone thought the same thing, that he was going to die soon. There was even a controversy later on about him playing basketball where he could get a cut and potentially pass it along to others. The fact he was still alive after many years and then his HIV count went down to zero is a miracle of modern science.

We live in age of miracles. It's too bad a seeming majority in this country lives in fear of them.

South Park made a parody about that where the cure is injecting literal money into his veins. I don’t know if you’re aware, but most Americans don’t have access to these kind of things. If anything, it’s simply demoralizing to know your loved ones get to die and the billionaires and their families get to live.

And why is that the case in America? You'd think that something as simple as Medicaid for all (I'd say Medicare but that's clearly socialism and we can't have that!) would be simple. But it's not and I doubt it's ever going to change here.

So in the meantime, in this glorious land of temporarily embarrassed billionaires, who vote to perpetuate a system that is killing them (hand in hand with their own choices) I'd prefer people to have access to the miracles if they can find a way to afford them over taking them away because most people can't.

I used to be a lot more progressive. The re-election of Voldemore took care of that. American needs an intervention. But chin up, I guess, now that we have gutted federally funded STEM, the pipeline of miracles here will soon run dry. I guess that takes care of your concern.

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