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@ArchetypeTheory @avidseries @MattWalshBlog Yeah, that's not true man. Hospitals and governments aren't perfect, no system run by humans is. But if you think we'd be better off without them, I urge you to visit a place where you can see what that's like first hand and get a perspective check

@AwldSossige @avidseries @MattWalshBlog Hospitals kill the most people per year per ACCIDENTS AND NEGLIGENCE than anything else. 80 percent of what they do is bullshit.

The "social conservatives" were right about everything. We have been right about everything for decades. Literally everything. We told you that if you tolerate euthanasia even for the terminally ill, even for the "extreme cases," very soon it will be used to put down anyone the state deems inconvenient or burdensome. And that is exactly what has happened, just as we said it would.

@DashRip41585648 @avidseries @MattWalshBlog The end of pointless suffering

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog i/o, what's your reasoning? Why is it a worthy cause?

@Antiquitee @avidseries @MattWalshBlog There have been some edge cases that resemble what you describe. But the vast majority of MAID recipients are old and suffering from terminal conditions. I agree that we shouldn't approve MAID for psychological conditions. But that doesn't mean the whole idea is invalid.

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog Why can’t you (and Matt) argue for actual psychological therapy that is humane and helps people recover from tragedies? They are out there but instead now young people in the psych field are arguing for assisted suicide. 🙃

@dumdumdjinn @avidseries @MattWalshBlog On the contrary, we tend to treat our livestock better. We understand that for a dog, horse or pig, letting them suffer a "natural" end to an untreatable condition is pointlessly cruel.

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog death has always been more or less "assisted". your alleged "cause" is just another social engineering scheme for giving the state the means to treat it's constituents as cattle. you liberals really love a prod and a leash.

Yes, and those ways are often unreliable, painful and leave a mess for someone, usually a family member, to discover. In Canada, more ppl, given the option of MAID rather than suffer a terminal condition to its natural end, take it. I'd do it, so would everyone I've ever asked, wouldn't you?

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog It's the 5th leading cause of death now in Canada. There has been mission creep. If people wish to kill themselves there are many ways without the state becoming involved.

Yes, it is reducible to superstition. And it's also inconsistently applied to a comical degree. 1 dodgy MAID case in Canada or Spain? Freak out. 200+ kids bombed in a pointless oil war? Shit happens 300k deaths due to disease and malnutrition attributed to reckless DOGE cuts? Not our problem.

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog Everyone suffers. From your worldview, if "assisted death" can be done painlessly, why not put everyone out of their misery? Isn't the idea that human life is sacred at all, reducible to mere superstition?

@ArchetypeTheory @avidseries @MattWalshBlog If you live in the modern world, where hospitals and governments perform acts that your ancestors would consider miraculous so consistently that their rare blunders make the news, maybe you need a perspective check.

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog You might want to first address how people can be manipulated, coerced and this practice be gamed... When has the government and hospitals started doing something because it actually benefited the person?

@LevattW @R1b11BK1P4 @kroketrendang That's ridiculous. Americans and anglo Cdns on avg are almost indistinguishable. There are some regional aberrations, but generally it's the same language, same accent, same pop culture and cuisine Very similar politics, the difference is in how those politics are distributed

@R1b11BK1P4 @kroketrendang Canadian's are basically European and not that similar... However Russian's and American's have a certain bluntness to both of them.

Groups that have high similarity but are really insecure about it: - Jews and Arabs - Indians and Pakistanis - Moroccans and Algerians - British and Irish - Koreans and Japanese - Greeks and Turks - Thai and Laotians - Vietnamese and Cambodians - Indonesians and Malaysians

Kids did enjoy them, sure. But that was the problem, they were very "kidsy" movies, cartoonish and silly, great for kids. Compare that to ESB, which had enough spectacle to please the kids, but also had more mature aspects that they could grow to appreciate, that's why it has more staying power

I understand why Gen X and other adults didn’t like these movies, but they’ve been seething for over 25 years at the fact that kids back then genuinely did enjoy them. They have problems for sure and some people overstate the case for the prequels, but it’s long time to move on.

@BenjaminDEKR There's no problem here. If you want the nerdy details, read the book, it's all there. They would not have been able to include them in a movie with an under 3hr runtime and if they tried, it likely would have been boring to a layman audience.

A big problem with Project Hail Mary: the science and engineering is so dumbed-down that it's borderline comical. Problems get solved almost magically, with no process or iteration. He meets alien life, shows it a clock, and five minutes later is having conversations. (His laptop magically translated the language, I guess.) Grace is charming (unbelievably so) but isn't shown as a good scientist. He's shown as a fantastically-lucky scientist. The Big Bang Theory had a similar problem, pretending to be a show for smart, techy people but mostly just winking at it. In other words it's pop science when the world desperately needs hard engineering to be celebrated. Still a good movie, but not nearly the classic it could and should have been.

There are only two genders. Everything else is pedestrian gender non-conformity.

This is such a stupid hill to die on. Whilst it's true that people can't change their sex, it's like saying "there's no such thing as Christians" because god doesn't exist. It's perfectly reasonable to understand "transgender" to mean someone who believes/claims they are the opposite sex. And getting into spats over this with gender critical people is utterly mental.

@wil_da_beast630 @WokeRightLs Regard right has good mouth flow. Woke right isn't specific enough to young men Alt right seems dated I'll go with plain ol' fascist Sometimes it's good to stick with the classics, and the shoe certainly fits guys like Nick Fuentes, that's the type we're talking about, right?

Let's settle it forever. Which term do you prefer? Vote with good humor wherever on the spectrum (of politics) you fall, lad(ie)s. We want a blunt descriptor for the edgy but annoying young man's right.

Woke Right - or Dissident Right or whatever - is a much better label than "Retard Right." I don't want to have a 30 minute conversation about "ableism" every time I name the right-side opps in a newspaper interview.

@RealDianeYap Outside of song lyrics, Valentine's Day cards or other such expressions of romantic hyperbole, I've never seen a man claim that anyone, other than dogs, love unconditionally. And even dogs have their limits.

Women are not loved unconditionally as some men claim. Simple thought experiment: what happens if she never wants sex anymore? It’s more correct to say that women are loved when they allow themselves to be used as orifices. Sometimes, not even then.

@DeivonDrago @HistoryBoomer Me too sometimes. But only when I find it insultingly dumb or lazy. Most SF has to flub the science a bit for the sake of the story. It's fine as long as they're clever about it

@AwldSossige @HistoryBoomer Yes - I think I get that dynamic. That works for me too. It's the cases where a book/movie/episode has a major technical hole among otherwise reasonably accurate stuff that really gets to me.

I’m mediocre at math but I still like his books. His characters are a bit two dimensional but he tells a good story. Sometimes you can just enjoy stuff!

@jess_ann_pin Humans are. But as for the rest of the animal kingdom, I don't know. I don't know if the apparent relationship between menopause and matrilineal social structure is casual or correlational. I didn't think your initial assertion was wrong, it just seemed a bit too simplistic.

@AwldSossige Okay well why aren’t any animals with menopause patrilineal

No animal species with menopause is patrilineal. Menopause evolves because animals ate matrilineal. The whole point is so grandmas invest in grandchildren. That means our default must be matrilineal.

As a singular explanation you're probably right. But that's my issue with your grandma hypothesis, to my admittedly non expert eyes, the evolution of menopause is likely much more multi factorial than you imply. Yes, grandmas increase survival chances. But also, human pregnancy is riskier, infants are more vulnerable and take much longer to mature compared to most other mammals, and it seems to me that these factors would create much more direct evolutionary benefit to shortening the female fertility window.

@AwldSossige If risky pregnancy with age alone caused menopause, many more other animals would have menopause, but they don’t. So that’s a bad explanation.

@DeivonDrago @HistoryBoomer It's all about the sweet spot. If the author gets the science mostly right, he/she earns nerd cred. But the inaccuracies are like Easter eggs for those with the knowledge to spot them. Author gets respect and reader gets smug satisfaction for noticing the errors. Everyone wins.

@AwldSossige @HistoryBoomer Maybe. I've never felt that way. I have to suspend disbelief when I watch or read sci-fi.

@DeivonDrago @HistoryBoomer I don't think that's true for most SF fans, they appreciate technical realism, but part of the pleasure is in nit picking the inaccuracies.

@HistoryBoomer The biggest problem with Project HM is that if you think about the thermodynamics involved near the star - nothing makes sense. So.. not understanding the specifics probably increases your enjoyment.

@HistoryBoomer He's describing almost all hard SF. It's a genre that appeals to ppl who enjoy technical realism, detail and problem solving, mostly men. Romances tend to appeal to women, but I don't see anyone describing Austen or Gabaldon as "not real novelists". This guy is obnoxious.