A little less so when the main consequence 1/20 people face is something like dry eyes.

Yeap after years of getting my scripts filled at CVS or Walgreens, I recently started getting them filled at the hospital i work at. Man, having a decent pharmacist makes a huge difference. The first round of scripts I had filled one of the pharmacists called asking if I needed a specific version of any of my scripts. They ended up switching my thyroid medication that was costing me a ton every month because for some reason my doc had accidentally selected a gel coating.

If we just allowed Medicare to negotiate pricing with pharmaceutical companies like every other nation with a tax funded medical program we wouldn’t have any of these problems.

drunk indian was killed’ and the excuse was often just a brawl, accident, unfortunate event caused by alcohol abuse.

That’s still a big thing down here.

Indian sections’ in them where native people are booked to keep them relegated and controlled, even if you are a clean cut Native person with a family and children.

Ahh Canada, everyone’s friendly neighbor until you get talking about indigenous people.

That’s what the parents suspected as well.

I used to provide rural healthcare to the tribal nations here in Oklahoma. I was always blown away to hear just how many of my patients had lost loved ones to violence, and how many of the murders went unsolved.

I had a patient whose son was a tribal advocate who was protesting a case in Colorado and went missing. Their other son went up to get the police to do their jobs and ended up being murdered, both cases unsolved.

The endemic violence towards the native people of America has not stopped and has continued since before the founding of this country.

Yeah… I don’t really think anyone really cares about anyone’s education anymore, at least not past your first employer.

I have to spend a lot of time teaching people in their residencies at my job, and where they went school doesn’t really bring anything to the table. In fact, a lot of the people who went to fancy private medical schools were either overwhelmed by having to talk to our impoverished patient population, or didn’t ever develop healthy ways to mitigate interpersonal conflict.

According to what other people posted, my argument seems to be correct. The benefits of extra rotation does not overcome the negative effects of adding additional weight and drag.

"According to the British War Office, the stielhandgranate had a throwing distance of up to 27m while standing, compared to the 35m distance of the more modern and still used M67. Which weighs 30% less and take up 75% less space lengthwise. Even the Mk2( classic pineapple design) reached 30m despite weghing the same as the German one, because it was denser and more aerodynamic.

EDIT: For anyone curious, the ideal shape among those used and weight for distance and accuray is apparently round and ~300g. Reaching a distance of (38.6±6.5 m) and an accuracy of of (6.9±3.9 m).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2005.06.008"

Eh, the extra momentum probably doesn’t overcome the extra weight and drag created by the handle. People are comparing it to an atlatl, but you’re throwing an aerodynamic object with the atlatl, not the atlatl along with the spear.

More than likely the biggest reason is just logistics, extra weight, extra space, additional steps in fabrication.

It’s the difference between protecting people and protecting capital. For those of you who don’t remember times immediately after 9/11, one of the biggest drivers of the security theater we still have today was the airline industry.

Airports were dead for months after 9/11, things were dire enough that the airlines and the government basically created the TSA as a marketing stunt. Covid just proves it was never about safety, it’s just about protecting the means of capitalization.

Tbh, I think the vaccinations came out about 6 months too soon. If covid had gotten to the point where it was seriously threatening the capital class at a systemic level I think things would have been better in the long run. At very least there would be less geriatric assholes in control of Congress.

The mistake is assuming that Orban was ever anything but a populist. Orban never really changed, what changed was the state of populism in central Europe.

Basically, in the 90’s liberal reform was popularized following the implosion of the Soviet Union. However, there was a conservative backlash following the “shock therapy” doctrine the IMF took when reforming the former Soviet block.

Conservative backlash in this case being styled after late Soviet socialism. Which was conservative in social mores, and in nationalist intent, but left leaning in economically. The older more impoverished population wanted to go back to the days before the collapse and before the implementation of shock therapy.

Orban has almost always riden the sentiment of populism whether that be liberalism or the sentiment of the Soviet era. The lone time he abandoned populism was in the early 00’s where he tried to align himself with the middle class, which cost him the election. Since then he has doubled down on his populist agenda.

That is the problem with transitioning your government into a war time economy, once it starts sustaining itself it’s nearly impossible to decouple from without initiating a huge recession.

It’s the reason Putin is treating peace negotiations as a joke, there is no economic incentive for peace. Most foreign capital left Russia after the war in Georgia in 08, and the rest left or were gobbled up by the state after the war in Ukraine.

If the Russian government doesn’t sustain a war in Ukraine or start another war relatively soon their economy will soon spiral out of control. The Guns vs Butter model is still a bitch to deal with, and Russia as a nation throughout history seems to be incapable of learning that particular lesson.

The problem is that this is how fascism ferments, it’s not about planning, it’s about taking action. So what if it doesn’t pass through the courts? For trump and his supporters that’s just evidence that the courts are against him. That the courts are not equipped to deal with today’s problems. That we don’t need courts, we just need to give someone enough power to get the job done.

We can’t stand up to Trump, but we can stand up to this kid telling us to do our jobs.

There needs to be an age and income bracket limit for people in government service, these rich geriatric fucks are going to get us all killed.

Yeap, for a long time liberal and conservative politicians utilized putting POC in jail as a middle ground for policy. It’s basically the mortar of third way politics, popularized by the Clinton’s in the US. Their "super predators " policy was instrumental in breaking the gridlock in Congress in the 90s, and basically responsible for current Democrats willingness to capitulate to the GOP at the drop of a dime. Adopting Third way politics is basically opening an express lane to fascism.

There is a lot of propaganda about North Korea, mainly spread by hardliners in the South. I think a lot of older South Koreans have a bit of a chip on their shoulders from the days when the tables were turned.

Back when the Soviets were bankrolling the North and the South was led by a military dictatorship, the North was objectively a better place to live. A lot of older South Koreans like my parent’s generation were raised on propaganda from the government, and a lot of them have a hard time letting go of it.

Which is bad, because there no real reason to make the situation in the north any more dire than it truly is. Their population is isolated from their families in the South, have cycles of severe food insecurity, and are at risk of inhumane punishment from a dynastic family that treat the country like a toy.

Not specific enough. Going by typical evil genie rules you’d be born in 47’, but be a poc in like Alabama or Oklahoma. Just in time to get drafted to fight in Vietnam and then have to fight for civil rights at home.

ml is pretty trans rights, because their mods are hexbear alt

Hexbear has had its fair share of issues with sexism and objectification of trans women. There was a pretty big upset a while ago where people spoke up about being harassed, the community’s reaction to it was pretty shitty.

Yeah… It’s almost like ethno-states are an inherently immoral and dangerous concept.

I feel for Jewish people who do not support the state of Israel, it must be ostracizing and exhausting to fight against the majority of their own people who constantly try to conflate ethnicity with nationalism.

Yeap, same thing with “find my dream house” shows in America. I think the major difference is that instead of the people being in their 40s, it’s usually people in their 20’s. The source of the funding is ultimately the same, rich parents. The likely difference is between trust fund kids in the US and just people whose parents have finally taken their much awaited dirt naps in the UK.

I think rich parents are basically a prerequisite to owning a home for anyone under 40 nowadays. I’m one of the only people in my friend group of people in their late 30s who owns a home, and that was due to what I consider a minor miracle.

I was lucky and bought an abandoned house from the bank for 30k after the last recession, and that was only possible because I got a loan I probably shouldn’t have qualified for through USAA. So, still a bit of nepotism, but because my dad was in the service, not because he was wealthy.

I mean, this has basically been a constant since the advent of capitalism. There’s a reason why a “Company” has things like a “Chief Executive Officer”, some of the very first corporations were literally mercenary groups who organized their hierarchical structures off of the military.

Kinda why I think an-caps and libertarians are idiotic. Like how do you think corporations aren’t capable of invalidating your rights? They’re literally structured from militaristic organizations…