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What part of our society is equitable tho?

I can't wait until crispr files get pirated and spread across the web. A few hundreds bucks in lab equipment to grow a culture, spin a centrifuge and bam! Remember, take your modified DNA milkshake with food.

But beyond crispr, 3d printing DNA, if not already possible, has got to be around the corner. The files might be huge, but it's just another 3 shades and a toner, we know how to do that.

And regardless how sweet that'd be, Id still be pissed off if it hypothetically came with a forced subscription. Will I need to hack those to remove the telemetry as well? cuz let me tell ya, I'm getting really good at that. Lots of practice lately. Defense catches up, all im saying.

Park and Ride mass transit in. It's the only compromise that can be made, really. No cars beyond allowing registered work vans/trucks and emergency vehicles.

One way or the other it's inevitable. We either voluntarily (sic) shut down inner cities to any traffic other than the aforementioned due to obvious reasons, or, if AI can ever actually drive us, than we go all iRobot where humans just physically can't keep up with the speeds and the windows blacken out.

This should surprise no one by now.

My only surprise is that this kind of scenario came up so fast. I expected years of matricide before all the right spines aligned.

Roe was passed in the courtroom on privacy - which another future court can still make a solid case for - but it was sold to the people as protecting women. Abortion is going to happen, that's the hard truth. How many women, and girls, have to needlessly die? That's just future mothers being removed from the field. Population goes down when abortion is outlawed, because girls will travel, or take it into their own hands. There isn't some mythical white baby boom. There is, however, a marked decline in crime starting ~20 years after Roe was passed. Cuz all the unwanted children weren't born and raised being reminded that they're unwanted their whole life.

I'm not a fan of abortion as elective birth control, but I can acknowledge when my opinions would make terrible policy. The "irresponsible" women who couldn't stick to a pill a day, or re-up on her implant appropriately, if she can't handle that, do we want her to raise children?

That's rhetorical. The answer doesn't matter. It's the implied reasoning that's the point.

In my humble opinion, Paxton can't leave this planet fast enough, Texas needs to go blue, and Republicans can prattle on and on on Fox news until they become a meme, the face of white fragility.

What did it work to accomplish? I don't recall any nuclear bombs being dropped on any cities post 1945...

Duck and cover was shitty ineffective social programming to placate yet keep the gen pop scared and nodding instead of the leaders of the world acting like fucking adults.

It's an example of politicians failing, of leaders incapable or unwilling to compromise and imagine any solution where they are a single color in a painting and not the whole painting.

Ah, so really we need to make life less miserable for the wealthy, that'll solve the problem. Got it.

Joking aside; yr not wrong, unfortunately.

Maybe he's born with it

Maybe it's Maybelline

A moving target drops your chances of being hit by 90%.

1 in 10 shots hit a moving target, in general.

In comparison to the shareholders who own the hospitals?

Yes, yes they are, it's not even close.

Thanks! I like lemmy! It reminds me of old reddit. Like 2010 reddit. Done right it feels like individual forums all within the same building. Done wrong, well, feels like reddit now. Or Facebook. Saccharine and sterile, emotionless money grab. As inviting as a room with drop ceilings and flickering fluorescent lighting, all the intuitive ambiance of chemotherapy.

So if that was meant as a knock, I don't see how.

Social Stockholm Syndrome, venerating their suffering as if ones capacity to suffer is something that should be respected and strengthened like a muscle.

....all while disregarding the dystopic culture that fostered the "growth".

I got in an argument with a pair of my brothers over student loan relief. All 3 of us have paid our student loans back the same way, by living an austere life with 2 jobs for at least a decade. My older brother, the most conservative "progress is a slow march" brother, was absolutely against it. He paid his off, others can too, or at least he should get his money back then, if everyone's just being let off the hook. I disagreed with him, as I usually do but I approach problems different than he does. He looks at the immediate, how it affects him and figures what's fair - and there's nothing wrong with that per se.

I look at the solution and try to identify the markers, or steps, necessary to get there. Then I weigh the steps against the desired solution to determine what is viable. I work backwards from the solution.

My younger brother and I share the same mind on student loans; forgive them, every outstanding balance and end the paygating of knowledge in general - because those holding the keys to the gates didn't come up with the contents theyre guarding, they themselves are stewards, not owners.

I don't care that I was able to pay off my loans, it's more important that we move past the paygating - which is really power projection - than any benefit I myself might be able to gain.

Moving ahead, either personally or socially will at times require looking ahead more than looking at now or the path preceding. I think this kind of insight is crucial to any leadership, large or small, union or otherwise.

I'm if the opinion that if we must make a choice to act together in a group, then let's figure out and establish our best practices, ensure the appropriate smart people are involved and do whatever with the soft (not-monetized) values we want fostered, ie with compassion, patience, understanding, offering respect and integrity, not demanding obedience before giving them. A society that doesn't work from those values will lose those values. And that's pervasive, from your HOA meetings to town hall, from loading dock smoke breaks to union halls. All the way to fancy granite buildings.

Buddy, that's every job where someone earns a paycheck.

If someone pays you a paycheck, you are labor. If you depend on that paycheck, they are capital, you are the proletariat.

We've been in the midst of a capital strike for 4 decades now, rebranded as neoliberalism, where capital only reinvests capital if it absolutely must, and then just the minimum. Every personal passion, every altruistic drive, or careers that give a sense of meaning will that same meaning held hostage and weaponized to silent dissent.

Complacency is complicity. The rallying cries have been handed down thru all of history

As long as one free man is jailed .... First they came for ....

Society, writ large, is a partnership. Highly specialized fields of study only exist because the cost to bring them in existence can be spread out amongst the bottom of the pyramid. If you're worked hard, learned hard and lucky enough you might be able to be at the top of it.

But you're just a part of the machine, not the driver or designer of it. The proper attitude at heights is gratitude and humility, being honored to have the chance to follow your passions, because how many below you, for whatever reason, had theirs compromised, stolen or confiscated. The brain outside the body isn't even worth its caloric density.

I'm proud you're fighting back and I'll stand in a protest line with you - even if that means state violence, and it often does. The police are mercenaries for the wealthy, whom you're at odds with, that means the police are not your allies here (some random cool sheriff notwithstanding).

We are all people here. We all have value independent of what capitalism rewards. No one is inherently better than anyone else. We are all just trying to live and be decent people. Don't forget that.