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jpreston2005

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    TIL that almost every year since 2015, Idaho children have died of treatable conditions. Their parents refuse medical care. It's legal in Idaho, the state just lets it happen.

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  • The babies that died are horrific, but what really got me was:

    Maicy was 16 years old but the size of a third grader: 62 pounds and just shy of 4 feet tall. She had suffered from a constellation of ailments: stomach irritation, severe anemia, erratic menstrual periods, a blocked artery, thickened aorta and thinning hair. An autopsy after she died on New Year’s Day 2019 traced it all back to a benign, treatable pituitary tumor.

    She was 16. She should have been chasing boys and living life and enjoying herself and doing all the stuff teenagers do. Instead she watched her peers do this, while her stilted ruined body slowly killed her from the inside. For years she watched herself become something utterly wrong and transformed. That poor fucking girl. A benign, easily treatable pituitary tumor. One easy surgery, and she would have lived a long, healthy life. Instead her parents watched her die and did nothing for years.

    They should be in fucking jail.

    I wonder if they would go to the hospital for bullet wounds? Has someone tested this theory?

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    TIL that almost every year since 2015, Idaho children have died of treatable conditions. Their parents refuse medical care. It's legal in Idaho, the state just lets it happen.

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  • Except they aren't taking themselves out of the gene pool

    Kangas lost his own wife and their last child during labor 23 years ago. Three of his 65 grandchildren also have died.

    65 fucking grandchildren.

    Out of the 65, they allowed 3 to be ritualistically sacrificed to their own idiocy. They allowed them to suffer horrifically and die in pain. doing nothing.

    I wonder if Kangas would go to the hospital to treat a bullet wound? perhaps we should test this theory

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • Every single study of UBI has proved you wrong.

    You're just repeating the racist lies that conservatives brought against "welfare queens" when we introduced welfare and SNAP.

  • Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman

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  • I'll believe in consequences for american fascists when I start seeing them

  • Time really does fly, so what 'I feel old' moment have you come to realize based on how long it's been?

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  • If it makes you feel any better, I'm 40 and I still feel like I'm barely out of my twenties

  • Time really does fly, so what 'I feel old' moment have you come to realize based on how long it's been?

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  • I referred to "Shin Godzilla" as "That newer Godzilla movie."

    It came out 10 years ago.

  • Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman

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  • Public pressure doesn't seem to mean anything to the people in power anymore. Who cares if you're deeply unpopular if you can ride off into the sunset with millions (or billions) in stolen wealth?

  • Trump DOJ Colludes With Texas to Harbor Fugitive ICE Agent

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  • ICE agent Christian Castro. Castro, who is jailed in Brownsville, is charged with allegedly shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through the front door of a home in Minneapolis in January during Operation Metro Surge then lying about it.

    The Trump DOJ blocked Minnesota from participating in the ultimately aborted federal investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and for months withheld from state investigators and prosecutors the evidence it had initially collected after those shootings.

    the Trump DOJ has threatened criminal prosecution of the victims of a road-rage-style incident in which ICE agent Gregory Morgan, Jr. allegedly brandished his service weapon at a random driver while passing him on the right shoulder. As a result, the victims have taken the Fifth rather that testify, forcing Minnesota prosecutors to seek immunity for their testimony — immunity that the Trump DOJ has refused to give.

    Just some real fascist shit. Threatening victims, denying justice, terrorizing people that didn't vote for him.

    The guillotine and hanging is too quick, I say a good hot tar and feathering, followed by public humiliation and slowly rotting to death in a jail cell is called for.

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    Susan Collins voted for a supreme court justice who overturned Roe v. Wade. She is not happy when people ask her about it.

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  • Says she supports Roe V. Wade

    Helps usher in a supreme court that overturns Roe v. Wade

    “I do not regret that vote,” she told reporters in Portland in June. She went even further after an event at a fire station in Randolph, Maine, this month.

    “I would vote for him again, yes,” she said

    Stupid fucking bitch

    In the end, they say, her vote came down to a simple calculation: She believed Judge Kavanaugh when he said he would respect precedent, which she interpreted to mean that he would leave Roe v. Wade largely intact. And she did not believe Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who said he sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.

    I say again, stupid fucking bitch.

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • Ah, I think AI is shite, and most people reliably hate it. It's just a new fad that will be sectioned off for tiny use-cases in the future, I don't think it will reliably be able to do anyones job at scale

  • What's the thing you're most hypocritical about?

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  • Same. Though I have greatly reduced how much meat I eat. Now it's basically down to just turkey or chicken, an occasional burger/steak. But mostly I get my protein from beans these days.

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • New tools used to replace workers happens throughout the course of human history, I don't think we will ever see robots replace humans successfully enough to really dent the workforce, they'll just go to other industries.

    Though the one industry whose collapse could spur the entire UBI system, is long-haul truckers. That may happen, but again, I think they'll just go into other off-shoot industries, and the change in workforce won't be so dramatic that it's one day they're all on the road with jobs, and the next day they're all out of work. You'll need truckers with experience to actually park the things for loading/un-loading, and nobody is going to trust an AI or robot with piloting that much freight all by itself. they'll want a human behind the wheel, ready to take over.

    The industry we should be driving people towards is computer chip manufacturing.

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  • UBI replaces all of those

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • If we replaced all of our current welfare systems with a simple UBI, it would save us money. In terms of running the system, and simplifying taxes. Don't need to take 5 different taxes out of your paycheck, just one. Earn over a certain amount? You don't get it. The majority of people won't, because they'll be earning enough to pay in but not collect. This would have to be done alongside universal healthcare, as tying healthcare to employment wouldn't work much anymore, which would also save us a massive amount of money.

    The result of which, is an absolute explosion of creative genius and new businesses. People no longer hindered by the threat of starving in the street, or losing their healthcare, would finally be able to start that business they always wanted to. They'd be able to create their long-overdue masterpiece. Literature, art, new inventions. There's a guy out there right now that, if given the space and a bit of assistance, could create the first prototype of a warp drive. There's someone else who has a pretty good idea about how to cure dementia, and halt the aging process.

    Just imagine the possibilities of actually investing in our people, and in our society, instead of handing all of our money to billionaires, and letting those evil mentally handicapped fuckwits steer the course of humanity straight into a climate change-driven mass-extinction event.

    Just Imagine.

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  • You're forgetting to factor in all the people that won't receive it because they already earn enough. A majority of people won't get anything at all. Replacing all of our current welfare systems with a simple UBI would save us money. It's just that the billionaires are under the impression that it would stop people from working harder for a better life, which is also something they think about our current welfare system, and has never been true.

  • What's something that Reddit has, that you wished Lemmy had too

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  • An active stopdrinking subreddit, and more active Sports sections.

  • Do you ever reminisce about an old phone you had in the past?

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  • I could text so quickly with that thing, sometimes even without looking down. it was beautiful.

  • Mortified

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  • ohhh because a "new moon" is a moon in it's first phase, where it's directly between the sun and the earth, making it "invisible." I get it!

  • I stopped eating junk food several years ago. I just learned pizza tacos exist. Somebody tell me they aren't as good as they look, please.

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