Wooster

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[–] Wooster@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

You’re not wrong, but I honestly wonder what the baseline of that would be if America didn’t have this issue, and how much worse it is now because of us.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The way it was explained to me, or at least the way that made me really comprehend the underlying why… is that this is a direct and foreseeable consequence of our for-profit medical system and the systemic abuse of trust it’s bloomed.

Say, for instance, you suddenly feel ill.

You have to avoid calling an ambulance because the ride alone with bankrupt you.

So you learn to mistrust emergency responders.

You se the doctor and learn your ailment is uncovered.

So you learn to mistrust medical insurance.

You go to the pharmacy and your medication costs almost as much as your beaten down used car. And to boot, it’s full of ingredients you can’t even spell. Who knows what it does?

So you mistrust medicine.

But hey, there’s this Organic all natural snake oil, it’s only $10. You take this placebo, and hey (by complete coincidence) You feel better, and more importantly, you’re not bankrupt!

So the masses have been taught, at every stage of medical care, that ‘the system’ causes more harm than good. So now you’re subconsciously looking for any reason to reject it.

Enter Trump and the Pandemic.

The man didn’t just light the oil spill that was the American distrust of the medical system, he took an industrial flamethrower to it.

It’s easy, and even justified, to blame Trump for the embarrassing and deadly rejection of modern medicine we’re afflicted with, but it wouldn’t have gained traction in the first place if capitalism hadn’t gotten so beyond out of control.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

In this specific case, FF3/6 is the same game. 6 was the third game to be localized in English, so on the SNES it was sold as FF3.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh Tactics is such an underrated masterpiece. I really hope we get that rumored remaster soon. 3/6 is also amazing, super easy, but so well designed.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

What a world we live in, where “most affordable” and $70,000 dollars can be used in the same sentence.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

It still burns that Prodigy was barely included in the tribute to Trek animation.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got the book too! Did you have any luck de-dacting the Rubber Ducky Room pages?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 53 points 2 years ago (54 children)

Article mentions nothing with regards to holding corporations accountable nor any plan or threat of action on the president’s part.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Say you did a study that discovered that folks who actively run are statistically unlikely to have respiratory issues. How much of that is because being physically active acts as a kind of preventative maintenance vs how much of that is a kind of self culling, where folks with respiratory issues are unlikely to seek exercise.

The end result is ultimately the same, but the mechanics behind why are different.

Is the wolves’ natural cancer resistance just kicking into over drive, or is natural selection happening?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The researchers discovered that Chernobyl wolves are exposed to upwards of 11.28 millirem of radiation every day for their entire lives - which is more than six times the legal safety limit for a human.

Ms Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals' genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The very last thing you need is for Trump to become a martyr.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What defenses does Lemmy have?

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