Yeah lets bring back polio why the fuck not

So it sounds like you do have an opinion…? How can you say that you don’t have an opinion “on the political side” of things, and the in the next sentence give your opinion? Just… what?

Why would they need to defend it? They already won.

I think you will find out in a month or two what they mean by “now.” Give it a year and there will be no question.

Shit has been bad, yes, but if you think this will just be more of the same, then you are in for a rude awakening.

For me it’s the thought of people I don’t know very well (if at all) going through and/or breaking my shit.

I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is, but this photo is 100% from North America (I was going to say US, but it could be Canada).

Yeah, as someone who is known for bailing on things for mental health reasons, it doesn’t mean they don’t care about you…

Sorry people are misinterpreting and misconstruing your comment and making you out to be some sort of evil antivaxxer.

Reading comprehension, even in a place like this where most people are relatively educated, has completely gone down the shitter.

I just skimmed their comment, and it was clear to me from the first couple sentences that this person isn’t anti-vax…

Is this how we unwittingly start a new simulation within this simulation?

You are correct, but the rest of their comment is sadly true.

Fuck Steve Huffman

I’m kind of surprised by the reaction you’re getting here as I had the same exact question (you can see that I posted it before seeing yours).

Knowing that the person has some background in biology helps, but that was not clear in the initial comment. And even still, I lean toward believing the actual professionals who have studied this exact thing for years over some random person on an internet forum.

Do you have credentials in this field, or are you just kind of guessing? Because, no offense, but I’m skeptical of random people on internet forums contradicting literal scientists.

Sure. Why not. Add it to the pile.

Why would that make this nothing? Please, show your work.

I didn’t know anything about this place, but being Alberta I had assumed that this would be a negative portrayal of government.

I was pleasantly surprised:

In 2021, Medicine Hat became the first city in Canada to achieve “functional zero” chronic homelessness, defined as three consecutive months where three or fewer individuals experienced chronic homelessness. They were able to achieve this due to their adoption of a Housing First policy to combat homelessness beginning in 2009.[13]

The entire nation of Finland is another great example of the government essentially eliminating homelessness (and in the process, creating super affordable public housing that isn’t garbage).

You do realize that it is in legal speak for the exact reason you’re saying that it shouldn’t be, right? There are people who study law their entire lives, and it’s literally their job to argue about how these words are interpreted. They’re not for you and I to easily parse. If they were, they’d be way more broken and filled with even more stupid loopholes.

Almost as if this is something that we’ve honed over thousands of years of experience with human behavior and not just completely arbitrary.

If you weren’t aware, there is a reason that politicians lobby to have big prisons put in their state/district: The census counts the inmates as citizens of the district to be included when making decisions about appropriating funds, but (in most states) they do not get a vote.

So you ostensibly get thousands of people who count toward your population for appropriations purposes, but you don’t need to even bother trying to woo as voters.

Because police exist to protect capital, not people.

Oh right I had forgotten that was a thing.