Intellectual property, for me, is the thief of joy.

Don’t worry, M$ has our backs. Wow.

It would likely be something every person in America should have right now.

Almost makes you think these award shows are complete bullsh**.

Wait I already thought that!

I don’t quit books for fear that quitting will become a habit outside of reading…

If an unvaccinated person actually does catch measles, I agree, death by measles is more likely in that case. Otherwise no and not by a longshot.

Which I think is what people here probably find frustrating…. if we could just think like a herd we could get the benefits of eradication. I get that.

Not something else, but something more likely, to kill them.

I am not ignorant of vaccines, just choosing to see a larger context of greater threats that others minimize because… benefits (car go zoom, car good!)

Agency to accept or not accept risk is something we all defend in most arenas.

I looked above and couldn’t locate where I suggested benefits there. I suggested that the moral outrage over this manner of dying was weirdly selective.

Sorry to hear.

We never get to hear the perspective of the dead on these benefits, only the lucky living.

They are not the same, no, but they are two different ways to die. It seems we are quite forgiving when we die because of technology (cars, nothing to see here) and not forgiving when we die in spite of it (declining a vaccine).

Cars “hit different” when one hits your child, and law fails you.

Not to ruin the echo chamber, but do our parental decisions to allow children to ride in automobiles (in which they stand a far greater chance of dying than if unvaccinated for measles) expose us to this same harsh criticism?

Ignoring the data? We’re all implicated.

Descend from your high horses.

Absolutely

As a software developer, I have to use it because the productivity expectations have changed in its wake. AI enables me to deliver code faster (not necessarily better but, guess which one Capitalism prefers?)

It’s all relative though, isn’t it? Aren’t most people on this thread more affluent than the average Earth human? And despite some charitable giving, how many among us are willing to sacrifice our extra to join the lowly average?

Pun appreciated

To secure a bank, do not add another door….

A nurse's statement about United Health Care (sorry about Twitter post, but I felt this one was important).