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Even? What did you expect when you are under the control of a psychotic, socialist, incompetent megalomaniac? Have you not been paying attention?

Imagine how incapable of reason a society must be to be skeptical that altering the bodies natural hormone production may have long term, undesirable and unintended consequences...

Dr. Sarah Hill does a great job espousing the actual research showing conclusively the negative affects of the pill on women, particularly those under 21, where the damage could be permanent

But what's a little science in the face of the massive propaganda machine that is the US pharmaceutical industry

It wouldn't be as big of a deal if we didn't passively allow cooperations to completely centralize the internet over the last 2 decades.

The real answer would probably be to take all those billions of wireless devices and create a robust and uncensorable mesh. There are some places where hackers have already done it, but imagine if it were global.

I stopped reading at the oxymoron: "credible, mainstream sources"

Actually that's a statement of faith. There is plenty of bad science out there that could/should be more effectively ignored if not for the religious like faith in anything that ends up in a scientific journal.

Ironically enough, the peer review process itself is also not an empirically derived system either, it's another act of faith to assume it actually works well (hint, hint, it doesn't).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an enemy of science, but it's sad and honestly pathetic to see people suspend all reason and logic en masse in the name of so called "science" when the majority of people don't even know what that is, or just how rare it is for an individual to place the pursuit of truth above self interest.

Mhm, and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the laws that punish men into oblivion, and deprive them of their own children if they dare to divorce huh?

Unless of course you have a spotless record, your ex is verifiably insane and you are one of maybe 5-10% that can actually afford to double your household expenses for the next decade, then maybe you'll get 50/50, which still puts your kids at a disadvantage.

Probably because actual dialogue would eventually lead us to the inevitable inconsistencies inherent, even foundational to the cause.

The only defense, then, is to shut down dissent at all costs.

So why do teeth experts have the final say on whether we put heavy metal, nuclear waste products in our tap water?

Perhaps the concern isn't the 2% dental improvement, maybe that's just a red herring. Perhaps an actual toxicological study would be more appropriate.

I know that some water sources have naturally occurring fluoride, which is often used as an excuse or ad hoc justification for it's efficacy, but that's just fuzzy, wishful thinking.

Also the fluoride they put in the water is not derived naturally, but instead is largely the result of nuclear waste byproducts that, if they didn't put in the water, they'd have to pay to dispose of safety, so let's not forget the massive conflict of interest in studies like this to find any excuse to keep up the status quo.

The act of avoiding the cost of safe and responsible cleanup by simply injecting a small amount of poison into the food or water supply is fairly common practice, and if regulatory agencies had any actual interest in public or environmental health, that'd likely be one of the first things to legislate on.

So yeah, nice try, but no thanks.

It's not a scam, the banks are. That's what it's for and its purpose, to counteract the corruption of centralized banking cartels. The wild west was a bit unruly too, but it wasn't a fucking scam.

It's must be serendipitous that the article just above this in my feed is about an AI banning someone for life from advertising on Meta because the AI thought they were trafficking animals for advertising python courses.

And my guess is, absolutely nothing will be done, accountability wise, in either case.

This endlessly parroted argument argument is so tired and lazy already. How big do these companies have to get before you turn your brain back on?

I thought CDEs were a pretty cool idea years ago until I discovered Nix and specifically "nix shells".

Call me old school but if I can run my tooling locally I typically prefer that in most cases, and Nix does a stellar job of tracking everything deterministically, so sharing amongst the team works great too.

So much so I think replit actually uses it under the hood for some of their environments iirc.

I've seen CoC touted as a singular good destroy at least two communities by now, so you may not realize that your "social reformist" getup is your own personal obsession with your own personal politics, but it's plain to see for the rest of us

I trust local communities more than state officials any day, yes. Nothing is perfect but if you legitimately think the government is functioning well at this point, I don't expect to convince you so yeah. To each his own.

Well, if you are talking about the United States and the supposed Supreme Law of the Land that nobody seems to be too well educated on nowadays, actually it is the job of local militia to defend and enforce civil order

You can not have a free society without a populace taking responsibility for their own. There is a reason the slogan "freedom isn't free", was a big thing in America til just a generation or two ago. The second you start delegating things like safety to the gov you've lost.

Just look at modern America, a giant portion of folks cannot survive without gov assistance now, and look where that got us. How can you oppose a corrupt gov if you cannot even survive without it?

Unless you are so brainwashed (as many still are) that you think that the total lack of privacy and agency in modern America is both good, and somehow fitting to the intent of the Constitution as written.

As if verifying that we are all using Google's browser somehow makes us safer. Because they are such perfect coders over there. The level of arrogance at these big tech firms is astounding, and irritating.

Who would have that that treating people like human beings would improve their humanity